Little girl trying to push back the Canadian cops
A truly wonderfuil picture for lovers of liberty from goverment dictatorship. Pretty Boy Trudeau is disgusting
Reason or belief – fact or fiction?
The Leftist establishment does not like reality so are trying to get us to ignore it
A British doctor who was dismissed from his government employment for not referring to a transgender, six-foot-tall, bearded man as ‘madam’ has taken his unfair dismissal to that nation’s High Court. While the grounds of his appeal – that the department’s requirement ‘coerced and threatened’ his Christian beliefs – is interesting enough, there is a more important question that immediately comes to mind.
When witnesses are called upon to give evidence they are asked to swear to the truth about their evidence and that truth needs to be related to objects, to what can be objectively verified. In a very practical way, a court would probably allow a transgender woman to describe himself as a woman while advising a jury to disregard that person’s belief while alerting them to the objective equivalence of a transgender woman and a man. In other words, the jury would be alerted to the difference between a person’s belief and a fact.
That would be a very practical approach. A jury might even be advised to decide whether the person was objectively a man or a woman. The problem is, however, that it is completely at odds with both what is taught in our schools and universities and the rules they have drafted to apply to these circumstances where belief is a substitute for fact.
Where once a man was a human being with observable male genitals and a female was a human being with observable female genitals, that has now been cast aside. It is now taught that a man is anyone who feels they are a man and a woman is anyone who feels they are a woman. The need to identify the relevant sexual organs has been dismissed.
With that teaching as a premise, there is no objective truth at all, something that Friedrich Nietzsche anticipated in 1890. While ‘truth’ depends on more than just a coincidence of sense perception and ideas, that coincidence is necessary as the objective support of speech. Our words need there to be an object to which they refer in order that the inferences upon which truth depends have a direct link to the objects of the senses.
If the truth depends only on our beliefs, it is logically true for a white man to believe that he is black, brown, red, yellow, green – or whatever colour he chooses. By the same logic, a man born in New Guinea might believe he is an Australian citizen. What do we do when a person announces that he is no longer a human being, but some other animal? Already, a Bristol university has invented a word to describe a person (only one so far) who identifies as a cat.
Each of these beliefs in relation to identity not only denies that an objective truth is possible but denies that an objective truth is knowable to human reason. It asserts that every evaluation is the product of a subjective feeling and is the foundational premise of modern social sciences. Paradoxically, it even denies the truth of natural science since every scientific experiment commences with an evaluation. Nietzsche pointed this out as well but he had already sped off in a different direction and we know where Nietzsche’s teaching led the world.
It is time, before it is too late, to tell the truth about these relativist topics even as we find laws and rules being drafted to force people to say only what is approved. The only way to know the truth about what is woke and what is not is to rely on reason to resurrect nature as our standard. Reason is the last line of defence against the madness that currently infects so much that was once just common sense.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/02/reason-or-belief-fact-or-fiction/
*************************************************Morgan Stanley goes racist
An advocacy group is pressing financial giant Morgan Stanley to end an internship program open only to gay students and select minorities.
The Project on Fair Representation on Tuesday sent a letter to Morgan Stanley and Princeton University warning that identity-based criteria for the bank’s 2022 Freshman Enhancement Program violate federal nondiscrimination laws. The internship is open only to "Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or LGBTQ+ freshman undergraduate student[s]," according to Morgan Stanley’s website. Princeton has allegedly encouraged its students to apply for the program, according to the letter.
"Morgan Stanley and Princeton are leading institutions in our culture," the letter reads. "What you do matters not only because it affects the individuals involved, but also because you set an influential example for others. Pandering to activists with ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ initiatives like this internship program is actively harming and racializing our already divided country."
The program keeps with the uptick in race-based benefits in recent years. Following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, gig economy behemoths like Uber and Postmates waived delivery fees for black-owned restaurants. And public health agencies have encouraged providers to prioritize certain minority groups when distributing scarce COVID-19 therapeutics.
Morgan Stanley’s program appears to use race and sexual orientation in a wooden fashion. While a holistic review that considered race and sex among numerous other factors might survive a legal challenge, the bank’s website and outside materials that describe the program explicitly state that candidates must be gay, black, Hispanic, or Native American to apply.
Based on Morgan Stanley’s description, it appears that white and Asian applicants who are heterosexual are categorically ineligible for the program. Tuesday’s letter notes that federal law prohibits all forms of race discrimination in employment and contracting. Morgan Stanley declined to comment.
Lawyers for the Project on Fair Representation said in Tuesday’s letter that the program’s existence indicates a "broader dysfunction" at both Morgan Stanley and Princeton. A sound legal review would never authorize discrimination based on race or sexual orientation, they argued.
"It is difficult to understand how these programs passed internal legal review in light of the clear statutory prohibitions discussed above," the letter reads.
The letter is addressed to Eric Grossman, Morgan Stanley’s chief legal officer, and Ramona Romero, general counsel at Princeton.
The Freshman Enhancement Program is billed as a four-week program to help rising sophomores better understand Morgan Stanley’s operations. Interns are placed with one of four divisions—global capital markets, investment banking, wealth management, or sales, trading, and research—for both virtual and in-person training and networking.
A Washington Free Beacon review found that elite universities besides Princeton encouraged their students to pursue the program.
Harvard’s office of career services encouraged students to apply to the program. Guidance on Harvard’s website notes that the program is only open to gay and minority freshmen. Bates College’s Center for Purposeful Work flagged the program in a seven-page diversity internship handout that appears to be from the 2018 academic year, and highlighted the identity-based application restrictions.
The University of Michigan’s career center promoted an information session about the program set for Jan. 31, according to the university’s website. The materials did not mention the selection criteria. Denison University in Ohio also alerted students to the internship.
Tuesday’s letter also notes that institutions that receive federal dollars are subject to federal nondiscrimination laws like Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on "race, color, or national origin in any program or activity that receives federal funds."
The Project on Fair Representation’s director is Ed Blum, a Texas-based activist behind a landmark lawsuit accusing Harvard of discrimination against Asian students. The group’s lawyer is Boyden Gray, the White House counsel to former president George H.W. Bush, who now leads a litigation boutique involved in conservative causes.
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Drug Use Shuts Down Transit System In Major City
Seattle’s transit system has been rendered useless due to reports of toxic fentanyl and meth smoke, volatile behavior, and dangerous work environments, which have scared off travelers as well as workers, local authorities said.
Active duty officers have been punched, spat on, and threatened while dealing with surging drug smoke from fentanyl and meth. Narcotic smoking complaints surged last summer, surpassing needles and marijuana complaints.
The city plans to release a new Safety, Security, and Fare Enforcement Initiative in February, incorporating surveys and comments from 8,000 people. The initiative is designed to improve the dangerous environment on transit while showing compassion, especially to homeless people.
The plan is “a necessary step on its journey to becoming an anti-racist mobility agency,” according to the King County website.
The Metro Transit Authority (MTA) has been reluctant to use law enforcement against the homeless population following widespread protests triggered by the death of George Floyds.
Unarmed Security personnel monitor the metro but have zero authority to arrest or remove people from public transportation. Seattle police officers do not regularly patrol the transit vehicles and illegal drug use is considered a “lower priority than violent crime,” Seattle Police Detective Patrick Michaud said.
The union representing transit workers endorsed Bruce Harrell who ran as a law and order candidate for Seattle’s mayor. But Harrell has been slow to address the growing crime and drug use in the city. Since the summer of 2021, over six operators had to stop driving mid-shift due to being severely affected by the smoke, while 14 others, reported headaches, dizziness, or irritated breathing.
Users place the drug on a small sheet of aluminum foil, wave a lighter on the underside of the foil to heat the drug, then inhale it using a straw. The smoke carries and many transit vehicles do not have windows that open.
“It smells like burnt peanut butter, mixed with brake fluid,” King County Metro Transit operator Erik Christensen said.
Seattle’s transit use rose roughly 50% in the 2010s, the highest rate of any U.S. city. Roughly 750,000 people used the transit system on a daily basis prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re after the criminal activity, the smoking drugs, the assaults, the deterioration of transit,” Local 587 Vice President Cory Rigtrup said. “The solution is to restore transit, make it welcoming, bring back passengers.
Seattle residents pay the country’s highest transit tax, spending roughly $1,200 yearly per capita. Meanwhile, ridership and fare income fell by over 50% during the pandemic.
“We should not be coming down on a totally punitive side,” Metro General Manager Terry White said. “We should figure out how we serve the community.”
“Hopefully we’ll be putting some things in place, where you’ll see more police on a coach,” White said, adding the city also plans to implement updated outreach programs for the homeless.
Crime has surged in Seattle recently, with shootings increasing by 46% in 2020, according to an annual report by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. A massive gunfight erupted on Feb. 7 in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood with over 40 shots fired.
A group of men kicked and punched a 23-year-old man and left him unconscious on Jan. 25, amid a string of violent assaults and robberies. Police also discovered a man near a city homeless encampment on Jan 20. with a crossbow sticking out of his chest following an altercation.
https://zerohourpatriots.com/contact-high-shuts-down-transit-system-in-major-city/
*****************************************British art gallery's Rex Whistler restaurant will SHUT to diners after gallery's ethics committee ruled the artist's 1926 mural featuring two black slaves is 'offensive'
Tate Britain's Rex Whistler restaurant will close after it was decided a mural featuring two slave boys that the artist painted nearly a century ago is too offensive for modern diners.
The venue, which first opened its doors in 1927 after Mr Whistler completed the works, had been closed since March 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
It emerged at the end of 2020 that its future was uncertain after it was slammed by a group of critics known collectively as 'The White Pube', sparking a review by the Tate's ethics committee.
The review, led by the committee's then-chair Dame Moya Greene, told the gallery board that members were, 'unequivocal in their view that the imagery of the work is offensive'.
On the back of this, the institution today confirmed that the restaurant will not re-open, but the mural - called 'The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats' - will remain.
The room containing the artwork, which was commissioned by the Tate in 1926, will instead be repurposed by a 'contemporary artist' who will create a new display to 'critically engage with the mural's history and content, including its racist imagery'.
Rex Whistler completed the piece aged 23, as a whimsical narrative charting an expedition in search of exotic meats.
The artwork features scenes showing two enslaved black children in chains, while another shows caricatured Chinese characters.
Rex Whistler was one of the most admired artists in book illustration, theatre and film design - and was known for creating a mural for the Tate restaurant.
One of his most famous projects was the mural at the Tate, which was labelled 'the most amusing room in Europe' when it opened in 1927.
'The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats' looks at seven explorers travelling by horse and cart and bicycles to save their people from living on dry biscuits.
The mural depicts the 'enslavement of a black child and the distress of his mother' and later shows the child 'running behind a horse and cart which he is attached to by a chain around his neck'
He died during the Second World War aged 39 on his first day of active service with the Welsh Guards in Normandy, France, in July 1944.
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