Hanania on How to Drive a Stake into Woke

Hanania on How to Drive a Stake into WokeChristopher Chantrill – I ordered Richard Hanania’s The Origins of Woke back on August 9 when the far-left Huff Post was trying to cancel him for being far-right Richard Hoste twenty years ago.

Hey Broadside Books at HarperCollins! Thanks for not canceling Hanania’s book; we far-right fascists will remember that, after the revolution.

Hanania’s book is a blow-by-blow account of how the whole civil rights/affirmative action/diversity racket works — at the Department of Labor, the EEOC, the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education — and how it makes complete sense that corporate America has signed on to the holy quest for “Justice!” It’s just too hard — and expensive — to push back. Continue reading

Jiggery-Pokery Wokery

Jiggery-Pokery WokeryJ.B. Shurk – I must admit that I have grown fond of this new adjective, woke.  It saves me the time of pointing out how delusional, disingenuous, intolerant, illiterate, and religiously fanatical the woke minions tend to be.

Ultimately, to be woke means both “deceived” and “deceiving,” and for these reasons, it slides nicely into a linguistically fun Scottish phrase, jiggery-pokery, used to describe dishonest behavior.  Taken together, jiggery-pokery wokery is amusing enough to belittle the woke legions’ cult-like comportment and cut it down to size for its mindless silliness. Continue reading

University to pay professors an extra $3,000 to be ‘woke’

woke campusBob Unruh – The University of Memphis has announced that faculty members can get an extra $3,000 if they are “woke” and teach that way.

An announcement by the school explains it wants to be “Infusing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice into Existing Courts/Curriculum” and to that end it is offering grants for professors to “redesign existing courses housed within their departments to better advance the tenets and charge of the university’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice.

The Free Beacon explained that interested faculty are told to “submit a copy of syllabi to be reworked as well as a 500-word ‘narrative’ on their ‘diversity, equity, and inclusions philosophy’ and how the new lessons will ‘address disparities’ in their subject area.” Continue reading

Why The Prince Harry Attack On The First Amendment Should Concern Americans

Prince HarryJonathan Turley – The media went into a frenzy this weekend when the bonny Prince Harry gave a huge Hurrumpf to the First Amendment. On a show appropriately called “the Armchair Expert,” Harry declared the First Amendment “bonkers” and expressed frustration of how it protects the media in its “feeding frenzy” over his life.

Harry’s criticism of the First Amendment can be dismissed as the unfamiliarity of a royal refugee. However, it is actually far more serious than that. Harry and his American wife Meghan Markle have attacked media rights in England and succeeded under the laws of the United Kingdom. They are now joining a growing anti-free speech and free press movement in the United States. Continue reading