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Category: Culture
August 15, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

600-Year-Old Lawyers’ Society Bans Grace Before Meals to Be ‘More Inclusive’.

The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, one of four Inns of Court to which all English barristers (litigators) must belong, is scrapping its centuries-old tradition of saying grace before meals to be more “inclusive”.

For hundreds of years, judges, lawyers, and law students at the Inn offered the following traditional Christian prayer before meals:

“Lord God, Heavenly Father, bless us and these Thy gifts which we receive from Thy bountiful goodness, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.”

This will now be replaced with a secular alternative, to appease atheists, Muslims, and other non-Christians:

“In this moment of silence, let us give thanks for all that we are about to receive and for the company of this Honourable Society.”

The 15th-century institution was clear that the change is designed to purge the “explicitly Christian” language of the traditional prayer in favor of “a non-Christian ‘thanks’ because of our diverse range of members with a different range of beliefs.”

England remains a nominally Christian country, with the monarch swearing Christian oaths and the established Church of England sending bishops to the Upper House of Parliament – but it is secular in practice, with Christians being arrested for offending homosexuals and Muslims.

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The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, one of four Inns of Court to which all English barristers (litigators) must belong, is scrapping its centuries-old tradition of saying grace before meals to be more "inclusive". show more
foster
August 11, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

Foster Couple Sues After Being Told They Couldn’t Raise Kids Who They Wouldn’t Transgender.

A Christian couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for religious discrimination after they were denied the right to foster a child because they would not respect non-binary pronouns if the child identified as transgender.

Michael and Catherine Burke allege that their application was rejected by the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) after a social worker issued an approval of the application “with conditions, specifically around religion and LGBTQIA++ related issues.”

The social worker asked the couple whether they would have a problem with the foster child being LGBT, whereupon Catherine Burke referred to so-called “gender-affirming care” as chemical castration, suggested taking “the T out of it” and “expressed hesitation” around using they/them pronouns.

However, the couple made it clear that they would respect the child’s wishes, continue to “love [the child] the same,” not subject the child to conversion therapy, and even attend their child’s LGBT wedding.

The couple is suing the DCF on First Amendment grounds, citing five violations. “The Burkes were devastated to learn that they were denied a license to foster or adopt any child in the Massachusetts child welfare system,” stated the couples’ lawyer, Lori Windham.

“They’re asking the court to get rid of that discriminatory denial so that they will not be barred from fostering or adopting children in the future, in Massachusetts or elsewhere,” Windham added.

The U.S. has a “critical shortage” of foster homes, with around 407,000 children in foster care in America.

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A Christian couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for religious discrimination after they were denied the right to foster a child because they would not respect non-binary pronouns if the child identified as transgender. show more
suicide
August 11, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

U.S. Suicides Hit All-Time High.

Suicide rates in the United States reached an all-time high in 2022 and are now more common in America than at any time since the Second World War, according to recently published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Around 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., with older adults between the ages of 45 and 64 seeing the largest increase of 7 percent compared to 2021. Suicides in younger adults between 25 and 44 also grew by 1 percent, representing the second most common cause of death among the age range, up from number four in 2021. White men had especially high rates of suicide in comparison to other demographics, according to the CDC.

The U.S. suicide rate incrementally increased from the early 2000s until 2018, in which levels reached their highest since 1941 – the year of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The rates increased again in 2021 by four percent and then again by 3 percent in 2022.

“I think it’s important to realize we’ve seen these increases for many, many years,” stated Dr. Debra Houry, chief medical officer of the CDC, when announcing the latest statistics, before adding: “There was a slight decline in 2019 and 2020, but really over the past 15 years, we’ve been on this trajectory.”

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Suicide rates in the United States reached an all-time high in 2022 and are now more common in America than at any time since the Second World War, according to recently published data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). show more
August 10, 2023
William Upton
Culture
Media

New Populist Bluegrass Anthem Takes Social Media by Storm.

Oliver Anthony – a musician from Farmville, Virginia – is taking social media by storm with his song entitled “Rich Men North Of Richmond.” A clip of the song and an accompanying video already has over 200,000 views at the time of publication, with its YouTube equivalent at nearly half-a-million after just 24 hours.

The bluegrass anthem is a condemnation of the Washington D.C.’s political establishment and the wealthy men who influence American politics who have left the working class behind. Anthony’s lyrics lament the skyrocketing suicide rate amongst men in America; the struggle of working Americans to make ends meet; and Washington’s penchant for sending money to aid in conflicts overseas before helping those most in need at home”

I’ve been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bullshit pay. So I can sit out here, and waste my life away drive back home, and drown my troubles away. It’s a damn shame, what the world’s gotten to, for people like me and people like you.

Anthony’s chorus makes the song’s political message plenty clear:

These rich men north of Richmond, lord knows they all just wanna have total control. Wanna know what you think wanna know what you do. And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do. Because your dollar ain’t shit. And it’s taxed to no end because of rich men north of Richmond.

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Oliver Anthony – a musician from Farmville, Virginia – is taking social media by storm with his song entitled "Rich Men North Of Richmond." A clip of the song and an accompanying video already has over 200,000 views at the time of publication, with its YouTube equivalent at nearly half-a-million after just 24 hours. show more
robert e. lee's horse
August 10, 2023
Jake Welch
Culture
News

Robert E. Lee’s HORSE Has Been Cancelled.

Washington and Lee University has removed a plaque honoring General Robert E Lee’s horse, Traveller, as part of the college’s efforts to distance itself from its confederate history and to ensure history is “appropriately interpreted.”

“We have reviewed campus symbols, names and practices, and we are making changes to remove doubt about our separation from the Confederacy and the Lost Cause,” said the university’s board of trustees in a statement discussing the future of the college.

The college – where Lee spent five years as President between 1865 and 1870 – announced after receiving vociferous backlash against the decision that it would be moving the plaque to a museum located in the University Chapel, claiming to be “an educational institution… neither a museum nor an appropriate repository for Confederate artefacts.”

Traveller was ridden by Lee for three years during the American Civil War and is buried on the college’s campus, where students often leave coins and apples to commemorate the animal.

“Until this month, very few people seemed bothered by the horse,” explained one outspoken student at the college, who added: “People like to hear tales about animals because they do no wrong. That is how Traveller has been immortalized in campus history.”

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Washington and Lee University has removed a plaque honoring General Robert E Lee's horse, Traveller, as part of the college's efforts to distance itself from its confederate history and to ensure history is "appropriately interpreted." show more

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harry's razors
August 9, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

‘Harry’s Razors’ Ad Features Trans Activist.

“Socially-minded” razor blades company Harry’s has partnered with a transgender social media influencer to advertise a product line raising money for The Trevor Project, which in turn promotes “pubertal suppression” drugs for minors.

Influencer Luke Wesley Pearson, a biological female who claims to be a man, prominently displays her breast removal surgery scars in the ad, during which she raves about using Harry’s razors to shave the beard she has grown as a result of steroid use.

“I love growing a beard and maintaining it!” she says, describing the experience as “gender-affirming”.

For every Harry’s Pride Shave Set sold, the company donated $5 to The Trevor Project, an activist nonprofit that promotes “pubertal suppression” drugs and “gender-affirming hormone therapy” for minors.

Separately, Harry’s has introduced “equal” parental leave for mothers and fathers, although chief executive Andy Katz-Mayfield describes them as “birthing parents” and “non-birthing parents”.

Katz-Mayfield has boasted that the leave policy “treats birthing and non-birthing parents equally,” because Harry’s is a company that strives “to sort of be socially-minded and not just be about bottom line profits.”

“Birthing parent” and “birthing person” have become increasingly popular terms among the elite as a way to signal the “correct” views on transgenderism.

Major institutions including Britain’s socialized National Health Service (NHS) and the United Nations (UN) have both tried to make “birthing person” the default terminology, to serve the delusion that women who believe themselves to be the opposite sex really are men, and so cannot be “mothers”.

Related terms such as “people with a cervix” and “people with ovaries” have been invented for men who think they are women, so that women’s doctors can work in line with the reality that biological males do not develop women’s cancers and still avoid acknowledging that they cannot be women at all.

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"Socially-minded" razor blades company Harry's has partnered with a transgender social media influencer to advertise a product line raising money for The Trevor Project, which in turn promotes "pubertal suppression" drugs for minors. show more
police
July 22, 2023
Jack Montgomery
Culture
News

Language Police Claim ‘Wealthy Elite’ is Anti-Semitic, and ‘Dark Times’ is Racist.

Language guidance in a new anti-racism report says vested interests benefitting from the status quo should not be referred to as “the wealthy elite” because this can “trigger antisemitism and feed the conspiracy theories of far-right white nationalists.”

The Guide to Talking About Racism by Reframing Race, recommends referring to the “powerful few” as an alternative to “the wealthy elite,” while also taking issue with “white working class” – a term often associated with the Brexit and Donald Trump victories in 2016.

“Talk about the ‘multi-ethnic working class’,” the report’s authors insist, instead.

The report is yet another “woke” drivel-fest funded by left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Lankelly Chase Foundation, and the Barrow Cadbury Trust.

The authors also take aim at words and phrases associating light with goodness and darkness with evil:

“Associating whiteness with purity, cleanliness and goodness and blackness with evil and destruction serve to reinforce
harmful tropes and the constructed racial hierarchy in which Black and Minoritised people are pushed to the bottom.”

“Denigrate” is also recommended for the chopping block, presumably because it comes from the Latin denigratus, meaning “to blacken”. At least one of Reframing Race’s major donors, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, receives millions from the British government.

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Language guidance in a new anti-racism report says vested interests benefitting from the status quo should not be referred to as "the wealthy elite" because this can "trigger antisemitism and feed the conspiracy theories of far-right white nationalists." show more