Thousands of Doreens are still running our institutions. They will keep winning Pulitzer Prizes and MacArthur genius grants. Claudine Gay and Ibram Kendi are their role models.
The wall came down, the CCCP dissolved, China accepted capitalism as an economic operating system; and yet, deep within the bowel’s of Harvard, and all of the lessor western universities, Marx lives, thrives as “Theory”, and mates with racism, sexism, islamism, and the democrat party to spawn BLM, CRT, ESG, Trans-PRIDE, NGOs, Globalism, and Climate Change!
An amusing and classic shot from the NR article though right on the money:
"Our campuses turn young people into cultural hemophiliacs who, if someone bumps into them on the sidewalk, are likely to rupture a blood vessel and bleed out."
08/23/25: In the spirit of amiable conversation, I venture to say that what the National Review would have done on at any given date since 2015 (other than committing suicide with its Never-Trumpism) would be impossible for me to handicap.
There's one thing that I do know about NR: It lost its readers that at one time had loved columnists like Florence King.
Highly recommended: "STET, Damnit! The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002, The Complete, Unabridged Collection," Florence King [1936-2016], National Review Books (2003 hardcover):
Her sense of humor is a riot ---- She wrote about the elder Bush, running for election in his own right in 1992 (paraphrased): "His problem is that he reminds millions of women of their first husbands."
The book's technicals (ink density, paper quality, type size, etc.) are superb; and the price is quite inexpensive.
More King Wit:
"Bob Dole's habit of referring to himself in the third person is having such a disconcerting effect on the primaries... the camera pans over Russell, Kansas, following the candidate through his formative years ...
"To his mother: 'Bob Dole's hungry.'
"To his father: 'Can Bob Dole have a quarter?'
"To his teachers: 'Bob Dole didn't do it.'
"To nice girls: 'Would you like to go to the pictures with Bob Dole?'
"To bad girls: 'If you did it with all those other guys, how come you won't do it with Bob Dole?' "
--- "Above all, I avoid lesbians. It's impossible to enjoy a martini when someone keeps saying, 'I'm tired of being invisible' " (p. 43).
--- "The first story I sold was called, 'I Committed Adultery in a Diabetic Coma.' I think of it every time a Woman's Health Special Supplement falls out of the newspaper" (p. 65).
08/20/25: You're quite welcome. I still mourn Kyle Smith's move to the National Review (which I won't send a penny too after all their Never Trump tantrums).
His previous employer, the NY No-Sense-Of-Humor Post, has never been the same (not even close). On the other hand, almost all comedic writers "follow the arc" --- from Go to Funny to I Want To Be Significant (Boring & Annoying).
Maybe I was spared the sad spectacle of seeing Kyle Smith turn into the 1940's Frank Sullivan (brilliant only a decade earlier).
08/20/25: Well said. Of all of the American Cultural Revolution (copied intact from China) events, the creation of the multi-racial KKK Woke legions between 2000-2020 included the corruption of the New Yorker magazine, which has mutated into a monstrosity.
Two mile-markers on the road to their moral demise:
One, their cartoons ceased being funny (last funny: occasionally, in the 1990s).
Two: Their expensive, defective software that was supposed to feature every issue of the magazine from 1925 to about 2000. Retailed for about $100 (big bucks back then and still a notable sum today). It never worked properly and TNY simply ignored the issue as if the whole thing never happened.
08/21/25: The magazine from 1925 to about 1995 often had great articles written by superb writers (e.g., A.J. Liebling). The magazine that you see today is a zombie, the print version of the hollowed-out, cannibalized The Simpsons (TV cartoon series, which died @ 2003, but is still on the air today, watched only by millions of Homer Simpsons).
Trump will work tirelessly until every mention of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregationist South is wiped from our collective memories! The poor downtrodden white man will be raised to his unquestioned throne of dominance! 🤣🤣🤣
Ironically that’s what our current neo racist hysteria does. It erases the very real struggle of those times and replaces it with its own brand of oppression.
Same is true of Vogue, another Condé Nast publication. I canceled my 40 year long subscription after they failed, for the 1st time in my lifetime (I’m 66) to feature Melanie Trump (oh, the irony). Prior to that they had always featured First Ladies regardless of political party. I had, for a few years prior been noticing a steady stream of not so subtle anti-conservative and anti-white hate but was hoping it would pass and get back to the main point of the publication- a monthly look at the fantasy of high fashion sprinkled with a bit of culture and travel. No more. Hilariously, they regularly send me requests to nenew my subscription. At 1st I responded with a letter explaining if they would only get back to thier previous non-partisan coverage of women’s fashion I would be happy to. Now, sadly, the pleas are trashed. Another great institution ruined by blatant “socially acceptable” racism.
Yes, I had subscribed to Vogue and Harper's Bazaar for decades, and cut the cord a couple of years ago because the "inclusivity" excluded good taste. The "fashions" -- black women in underwear, fur coats, and brass knuckles? The pages have been thinning and this is what's aspirational now? Harper's has been sending me free issues. It seems to be slowly returning to sanity, but not quite enough to convince me to return. Still a lot of underwear and black this, black that.
There has always been "representation," regardless of the narrative. Post 60s there were black models -- and they were classy. Now it's ghetto with the tattoos and such, which is a bad sales model, since the most likely demographic for print fashion is BOOMERS.
That worked out really well for Budweiser in the "Dylan Mulvaney debacle" ...
It still astounds me that Kamala Harris once gushed over how Dylan had been "living authentically as a woman" -- when "she" replaces "her" testicles with ovaries is when I might agree "she" was doing so.
A crime against reason, logic, and biology that I doubt the Democrats will ever live down.
Even then, it would have to be transplanted ovaries, from some other woman, as XY cells cannot perform meiosis into eggs. And, with immune suppressants necessary, it even questionable if they could be ethically utilized.
Agreed. Though the comment was something of a thought experiment, a reductio ad absurdum to underline the impossibility of any human actually changing sex.
It was just something to illustrate the bedrock, defining, and essential difference between human males and human females -- I expect there are thousands of other anisogamous species which don't have anything that looks, even remotely, anything like ovaries and testicles yet still have sexes, have the ability to produce either large gametes or small ones.
In addition to which, even if some transwoman had some ovaries transplanted, the ova really wouldn't be "hers" so "she" still wouldn't qualify as a female, as a producer of ova.
But you might like this tweet by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright which more or less makes the same point:
CW: What if I woke up and my reproductive anatomy had somehow inexplicably [magically?] changed from a functional penis and testes to a functional vagina and ovaries? Would I cease to be male? 100% YES! I would absolutely now be a female.
Though he's still a bit clueless that, technically speaking, the ovaries and testicles have to be functional for a person, any organism in fact, to qualify as female or male, respectively. Otherwise they're sexless. My elaboration on the theme:
"These CAIS 'Girls' are Males; So saith Colin Wright, so let it be done ..."
08/20/25: (Apropos Vogue magazine, what follows first saw daylight in May 2025. Three months later, this prediction is on track.)
"... how Democrats have launched 20+ projects related to creators after their election loss."
Judging by what we've seen when DOGE stripped away the curtains --- that the Dems 2021-24 were LOOTING tax pay funds that ended up in their own pockets --- the same exact thing will now happen with Democrats tossing money at "creators."
They'll steal so much of it --- this time, stealing from themselves --- that these projects will simply be bubbles that pop and vanish into thin air.
Their creative bankruptcy will feature Our Hero, the decrepit Brice Springsteen falling down on stage.
Their "youth movement" will be drafting World War I vets (see the oft-excellent BBC comedy series, "Dad's Army," for a preview of Chuck Schumer's crack troops).
Handing out awards to the cadaverous Anna Wintour, a one-time influential publisher whose depleted corporation today is lucky to sell 25% of the magazines they were publishing in the 1980's.
Graydon Carter and his stable of Model T Fords (ex-Vanity Fair writers) are now flailing helplessly on their Air Mail (Air Malice!) website, catering to the festering resentments of the surviving Manhattan 60s hippies, Jimmy Carter '70s yahoos, and, of course, the spring chickens, the 90s suburban Clintonistas, stewing in their own bile (vintage 2016).
Hopeless. Brought to you by the people who hired David Hogg.
Great point. This is a geriatric ruling class trying desperately to keep their claws on cultural power. But it’s all over but the dirge. The kids have moved on. He’ll, even the middle aged have moved by now.
08/21/25: The Conde Nast apple cart got shoved off the road and off the cliff when free-spending SI Newhouse passed away. The survivors have since that time been engaged in corporate cannibalism.
Definitely more towards how a certain race or demographic that has been oppressed forever only now is being given the opportunity to have a voice in cooking, literature, story telling, etc.
Did you live during the last decades of the 20th century? At all? We had lots of black faces without a big deal being made. Some of us idealists wanted everyone to be part of the human race, not categorized by color.
Well, that's the point, isn't it? While I notice the color of someone's skin, I'm way more interested in knowing them rather than that person point out what their outward color is. I live in a part of the country where my race is not & has not been the majority for at least 20 years. I'm more inclined to be around other people who are curious & have a zest for life, rather than those people who are always pointing out how they're victims. Much more interesting that way. If I go to the West Coast, I'm more likely to meet & interact w/ those people who have settled on that part of the country, if the South, another. Just be real, courteous & curious. Tell me a story.
08/20/25: That wants to be "oppressed" forever. Free ticket to ride. Add to the above categories sincerely offering financial and pharmaceutical advice in TV commercials.
I tried for years to let UNC-TV understand why I would no longer contribute. We were faithful for decades but the slant was far too blatant long before Pres Trump announced his first run.
This St Felix situation is the natural evolutionary stage that proceeds from liberal white guilt and groveling that’s gone on in NY for decades. It’s led to counterfeit pseudo intellectualization of people like St Felix and her white enablers both impressed with themselves both contemptuous of each other. It’s sick!
Yes, the woke Left has been raising mediocrities of color (Kendi, Hooks, Coates, etc) to positions of eminence for some decades now... Time for the charade to stop, or at least be subject to ongoing ridicule.
I agree with the your conclusion about saying nothing more, but what do I do about the family member from whom I am estranged after I disagreed vehemently that our dead parents were to blame for my racism because we had been raised in white neighborhoods. An intelligent and highly educated old man who will go to his grave believing this? I can’t help being bitter.
That sort of thing is particularly baffling in the intelligent and highly educated (those of mature age anyway). It sounds to me as though your relative is the one who is bitter, and you on the other hand are rewarded with your untainted regard for your parents.
I too have a family member, who I never associated with the anti-white rhetoric, but constantly goes on about colonialism and how messed up America is. He’s just as white as any of us, yet on the verge of “race-suicide”. I can’t tell if it’s just contempt for the people and church culture around him, or if he was always this way and just kept it to himself. It’s irritating, to see someone so given over to it. My question to him then is.. why live in America?
for your own sake be the bigger person, mend those fences while you and your loved ones are still alive. life is very short, but infinitely more important than political opinions, which have been around since Eve ate a red apple rather than a green one.
I can’t. I’ve tried for years to say let’s agree to disagree but he just can’t stop. Every couple of months he sends a missive which upsets me for days. I finally blocked him and have sadly regained a measure of peace. Maybe one day after Trump is gone.🤞
None of this will change "when Trump is gone". These people will never stop because to them, they are the righteous who will save the world. They are mentally gone.
best wishes, send him a card or note in the snail mail. having a cell phone for reply texting in your hands can invoke a habitual mindset that may not be positive for him.
make him some homemade jam. remind him when you both thought lying on that old car blanket (because only grownups rated a lawn chair) and watching the fireworks on 4th July was the best part of summer. you'll win him back with your graciousness.
Trump broke people permanently. It’s astounding to live through this. The historical parallel is Lincoln, and the comparison still holds. Lincoln was hated with intense and extreme vitriol by the southern ruling class - who started the civil war to hold onto the power they saw slipping away. Few seem to remember that the south had a lock on national politics until some radicals started a new party that refused to extend slavery. The fight was partially over whether the south could expand its territory. The Republicans threatened to curb their power. Fast forward and Lincoln becomes a savior, a secular saint, and the residual hatred gets taken out on former slaves.
Race is merely the bait. ‘Divide et impera,’ divide and rule. A time tested political strategy, aimed at, in this case, racial divide, followed by those who intend to rule the infighters - under the guise of a higher moral position. I have read that ‘we are merely a culmination of our decisions.’ There are cultural groups that have followed our forefathers on paths of family, religion and moral structure - all of whom have succeeded in America. There are other groups that have not. This latter category, tends to yell the loudest, spit vitriol at our foundational values and aspire to parasitic existences, living off the host of the American taxpayer. While I can appreciate how the target of Chris’s article exemplifies these characters, I am saddened that the focus writer’s message exacerbates division. We have seen this movie before, during covid; divide the vaccine camp from those that question it. Divide those who question an election, where billionaires paid for vote counting and handling of record mail in ballots, from those who embraced its outcome. Divide the family between those who believe that parents are the best wards of their children, from those who think government teachers and bureaucrats deserve that role. Divide those who favor open strip clubs and big box stores, from those who choose church and family owned businesses. Divide those who aim to enforce Title IX, protecting women in college sports, from those who think seventeen year old men should undress next to your twelve year old daughter in the locker room and compete against her in sports. Divide those who seek to protect criminal illegal aliens from federally sanctioned laws, from those who seek protecting legal American tax paying citizens from the crime they commit. The game does not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. We should all focus on embracing those who are aimed at our general safety, family security, religious protection, educational exceptionalism, law enforcement, government service of and by the people. The noise made by dividers, should fall on the deaf ears of those focused on positive outcomes. We are captains each, of our own ships and I pray that we steer thoughtfully.
This is an outstanding recap of all the issues that have divided my family within the past 5 years or so. Fortunately we are not entirely alienated but all these issues are off limits for discussion. We wait and pray that God will restore them to sanity. Recently our daughter (a high school teacher in Santa Barbara) commented that DEI is not working out so well in the administration of her school district. Hope springs eternal!
Federalist X made it clear that "the majority" does not necessarily know what is for the common good. Thus, the federal government was designed to protect the people from themselves.
This insane notion that we have a "democracy" and that the presidential election has any meaning is exploited by the Democrats to tear society apart.
If we can go back to the practice of having the state legislatures appoint the Electors and have them meet to cast votes for president, preferably UNBOUNDED, and do away with elections altogether, then families would not be torn apart.
I'll even accept that the governors just pick names out of a hat and appoint those as the Electors, who no expectations of whom they would vote for.
If we were to do either if those, campaigns, elections and primaries would be meaningless and there would be no need for fund raising. And no endless four year campaign cycles.
Lefties will say, "I have my right to vote", but they have forfeited their mental health for the right to vote. Is it really a fair trade?
nope….neither leaf nor cloth. thong with lotsa bling covered in spandex.
I have come to the opinion from cell phone video shown with news reporting and also their own words, that a category of especially militant black women have been on the rise. it’s as if they feel a sense of urgency to establish theirselves as the dominant demographic of blatantly law-ignoring people. A category of Black Women Outlaws who feel no need to live within the pact of common civility.
It’s compelled me to rethink my ‘threat hierarchy’ to include them as just as dangerous as a man if I found myself/family in a situation where I would “fear for my life”. (IYK,YK)
Yes. BLM was, for blacks, all about enabling and even encouraging race hatred. For the Good White People™ who supported it, its was all about feeling superior to the bad white people who didn't.
This seemed really obvious to me as soon as the demonstrations, riots, and looting began.
Isn’t ironic that the left, and specifically the Democrat Party, that destroyed the black family (and a lot of Hispanic and whites families too) as a result of the “Great Society” plan to keep blacks voting Democrat for 200 years, as Lyndon Johnson famous said, is now blaming all white people for their terrible sins. As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, black poverty fell from 87% to 47% from 1940 to 1960, and even further by 1970. Yet, once welfare incentives kicked in, and black fathers were marginalized, illegitimacy among blacks which stood at 25% in 1965 (Moynihan report), has now risen to 73% nationally and 90% in many large cities. It was the greatest destructive social policy of the 20th century. What we have now is a class of race grifters trying to shift blame from Democrats to white society generally. A segment of this large and persistent black underclass has now made life unlivable for decent black people in our big cities who overwhelmingly are their victims. And the grifter class wants to destroy the entire meritocratic system to make up for what they and the Democrats caused to keep blacks on their plantation of dependency. But many blacks are now waking up. As a former grad student at Brown, I note that this indoctrination mill has now become officially a Social Justice school. Only the great Glenn Loury failed to sign on to this educational insanity.
Maybe these publications will soon go out of business or will be forced to change since usaid and other government agencies are not grifting them $$$$ in subscriptions. They cease to matter as they have no real paying audience or it's small. They are not the culture or narrative anymore.
Please watch Uncle Tom 2 movie, and everything will make so much more sense. The white communist overlord agents promote agitators to create chaos and grievances to divide and make America ripe for communist/socialist revolution. Regular Americans are growing wise to their schemes and are tired of them - hence, the election of Donald Trump. Blexit is real!
Black Americans are leaving the government plantation designed to curry their votes for democratic/socialist/communist governance. Blacks thinking as individuals, not the collective mentality.
Thousands of Doreens are still running our institutions. They will keep winning Pulitzer Prizes and MacArthur genius grants. Claudine Gay and Ibram Kendi are their role models.
Woke is far from dead. Salt the earth. Build new superior institutions. Otherwise the counter cultural revolution will not suceeed against the communist long march: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/counter-cultural-revolution-priorities
The wall came down, the CCCP dissolved, China accepted capitalism as an economic operating system; and yet, deep within the bowel’s of Harvard, and all of the lessor western universities, Marx lives, thrives as “Theory”, and mates with racism, sexism, islamism, and the democrat party to spawn BLM, CRT, ESG, Trans-PRIDE, NGOs, Globalism, and Climate Change!
08/20/25: What follows happened five years ago at the height of the 2000 black / Antifa race riots, and should not be forgotten.
There should be no pay wall (I gained access without a subscription):
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/strunk-and-white-racial-microaggressions-conde-naste-employee-quits/
An amusing and classic shot from the NR article though right on the money:
"Our campuses turn young people into cultural hemophiliacs who, if someone bumps into them on the sidewalk, are likely to rupture a blood vessel and bleed out."
Look at the date when the article was written. Do you think several months later, it would have been denied for publicatio?
08/23/25: In the spirit of amiable conversation, I venture to say that what the National Review would have done on at any given date since 2015 (other than committing suicide with its Never-Trumpism) would be impossible for me to handicap.
There's one thing that I do know about NR: It lost its readers that at one time had loved columnists like Florence King.
Highly recommended: "STET, Damnit! The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002, The Complete, Unabridged Collection," Florence King [1936-2016], National Review Books (2003 hardcover):
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ds=20&kn=STET%2C%20Damnit%21%20The%20Misanthrope%27s%20Corner%2C%201991%20to%202002%20florence%20king&ref_=ds_ac_d_66&sts=t
Her sense of humor is a riot ---- She wrote about the elder Bush, running for election in his own right in 1992 (paraphrased): "His problem is that he reminds millions of women of their first husbands."
The book's technicals (ink density, paper quality, type size, etc.) are superb; and the price is quite inexpensive.
More King Wit:
"Bob Dole's habit of referring to himself in the third person is having such a disconcerting effect on the primaries... the camera pans over Russell, Kansas, following the candidate through his formative years ...
"To his mother: 'Bob Dole's hungry.'
"To his father: 'Can Bob Dole have a quarter?'
"To his teachers: 'Bob Dole didn't do it.'
"To nice girls: 'Would you like to go to the pictures with Bob Dole?'
"To bad girls: 'If you did it with all those other guys, how come you won't do it with Bob Dole?' "
--- "Above all, I avoid lesbians. It's impossible to enjoy a martini when someone keeps saying, 'I'm tired of being invisible' " (p. 43).
--- "The first story I sold was called, 'I Committed Adultery in a Diabetic Coma.' I think of it every time a Woman's Health Special Supplement falls out of the newspaper" (p. 65).
Be well.
Interesting piece. Thank you, Mr. Reed.
08/20/25: You're quite welcome. I still mourn Kyle Smith's move to the National Review (which I won't send a penny too after all their Never Trump tantrums).
His previous employer, the NY No-Sense-Of-Humor Post, has never been the same (not even close). On the other hand, almost all comedic writers "follow the arc" --- from Go to Funny to I Want To Be Significant (Boring & Annoying).
Maybe I was spared the sad spectacle of seeing Kyle Smith turn into the 1940's Frank Sullivan (brilliant only a decade earlier).
08/20/25: Well said. Of all of the American Cultural Revolution (copied intact from China) events, the creation of the multi-racial KKK Woke legions between 2000-2020 included the corruption of the New Yorker magazine, which has mutated into a monstrosity.
Two mile-markers on the road to their moral demise:
One, their cartoons ceased being funny (last funny: occasionally, in the 1990s).
Two: Their expensive, defective software that was supposed to feature every issue of the magazine from 1925 to about 2000. Retailed for about $100 (big bucks back then and still a notable sum today). It never worked properly and TNY simply ignored the issue as if the whole thing never happened.
What FOOL
paid ANYTHING,
much less $100,
to have their minds polluted???
08/21/25: The magazine from 1925 to about 1995 often had great articles written by superb writers (e.g., A.J. Liebling). The magazine that you see today is a zombie, the print version of the hollowed-out, cannibalized The Simpsons (TV cartoon series, which died @ 2003, but is still on the air today, watched only by millions of Homer Simpsons).
Trump will work tirelessly until every mention of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregationist South is wiped from our collective memories! The poor downtrodden white man will be raised to his unquestioned throne of dominance! 🤣🤣🤣
Ironically that’s what our current neo racist hysteria does. It erases the very real struggle of those times and replaces it with its own brand of oppression.
08/23/25: I wish I'd read this years earlier, which I encountered recently: "The Democrats mandated that 'racism' could be eradicated by MORE racism."
Exactly.
Applicable to Joy Reid, post dismissal, who after crying ‘what I did had value’, spews bigotry when offered the chance…
A truly despicable human being.
08/20/25: Amen. Good riddance to racist rubbish.
Same is true of Vogue, another Condé Nast publication. I canceled my 40 year long subscription after they failed, for the 1st time in my lifetime (I’m 66) to feature Melanie Trump (oh, the irony). Prior to that they had always featured First Ladies regardless of political party. I had, for a few years prior been noticing a steady stream of not so subtle anti-conservative and anti-white hate but was hoping it would pass and get back to the main point of the publication- a monthly look at the fantasy of high fashion sprinkled with a bit of culture and travel. No more. Hilariously, they regularly send me requests to nenew my subscription. At 1st I responded with a letter explaining if they would only get back to thier previous non-partisan coverage of women’s fashion I would be happy to. Now, sadly, the pleas are trashed. Another great institution ruined by blatant “socially acceptable” racism.
Yes, I had subscribed to Vogue and Harper's Bazaar for decades, and cut the cord a couple of years ago because the "inclusivity" excluded good taste. The "fashions" -- black women in underwear, fur coats, and brass knuckles? The pages have been thinning and this is what's aspirational now? Harper's has been sending me free issues. It seems to be slowly returning to sanity, but not quite enough to convince me to return. Still a lot of underwear and black this, black that.
There has always been "representation," regardless of the narrative. Post 60s there were black models -- and they were classy. Now it's ghetto with the tattoos and such, which is a bad sales model, since the most likely demographic for print fashion is BOOMERS.
And the models were women. No trannies.
That worked out really well for Budweiser in the "Dylan Mulvaney debacle" ...
It still astounds me that Kamala Harris once gushed over how Dylan had been "living authentically as a woman" -- when "she" replaces "her" testicles with ovaries is when I might agree "she" was doing so.
A crime against reason, logic, and biology that I doubt the Democrats will ever live down.
Even then, it would have to be transplanted ovaries, from some other woman, as XY cells cannot perform meiosis into eggs. And, with immune suppressants necessary, it even questionable if they could be ethically utilized.
Agreed. Though the comment was something of a thought experiment, a reductio ad absurdum to underline the impossibility of any human actually changing sex.
It was just something to illustrate the bedrock, defining, and essential difference between human males and human females -- I expect there are thousands of other anisogamous species which don't have anything that looks, even remotely, anything like ovaries and testicles yet still have sexes, have the ability to produce either large gametes or small ones.
In addition to which, even if some transwoman had some ovaries transplanted, the ova really wouldn't be "hers" so "she" still wouldn't qualify as a female, as a producer of ova.
But you might like this tweet by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright which more or less makes the same point:
CW: What if I woke up and my reproductive anatomy had somehow inexplicably [magically?] changed from a functional penis and testes to a functional vagina and ovaries? Would I cease to be male? 100% YES! I would absolutely now be a female.
https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/1240781010800979968
Though he's still a bit clueless that, technically speaking, the ovaries and testicles have to be functional for a person, any organism in fact, to qualify as female or male, respectively. Otherwise they're sexless. My elaboration on the theme:
"These CAIS 'Girls' are Males; So saith Colin Wright, so let it be done ..."
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/these-cais-girls-are-males
ugg. Just cancel them all and don't read them. They will go bankrupt.
Yes...bankruptcy is the answer. Destroy them by destroying their wallets.
They do not know their audience and they over estimated how long it would their readers to become bored silly.
08/20/25: (Apropos Vogue magazine, what follows first saw daylight in May 2025. Three months later, this prediction is on track.)
"... how Democrats have launched 20+ projects related to creators after their election loss."
Judging by what we've seen when DOGE stripped away the curtains --- that the Dems 2021-24 were LOOTING tax pay funds that ended up in their own pockets --- the same exact thing will now happen with Democrats tossing money at "creators."
They'll steal so much of it --- this time, stealing from themselves --- that these projects will simply be bubbles that pop and vanish into thin air.
Their creative bankruptcy will feature Our Hero, the decrepit Brice Springsteen falling down on stage.
Their "youth movement" will be drafting World War I vets (see the oft-excellent BBC comedy series, "Dad's Army," for a preview of Chuck Schumer's crack troops).
Handing out awards to the cadaverous Anna Wintour, a one-time influential publisher whose depleted corporation today is lucky to sell 25% of the magazines they were publishing in the 1980's.
Graydon Carter and his stable of Model T Fords (ex-Vanity Fair writers) are now flailing helplessly on their Air Mail (Air Malice!) website, catering to the festering resentments of the surviving Manhattan 60s hippies, Jimmy Carter '70s yahoos, and, of course, the spring chickens, the 90s suburban Clintonistas, stewing in their own bile (vintage 2016).
Hopeless. Brought to you by the people who hired David Hogg.
Great point. This is a geriatric ruling class trying desperately to keep their claws on cultural power. But it’s all over but the dirge. The kids have moved on. He’ll, even the middle aged have moved by now.
08/21/25: The Conde Nast apple cart got shoved off the road and off the cliff when free-spending SI Newhouse passed away. The survivors have since that time been engaged in corporate cannibalism.
Bon Appétit did the same & I see Food & Wine magazine creeping there.
08/20/25: In which direction?
Definitely more towards how a certain race or demographic that has been oppressed forever only now is being given the opportunity to have a voice in cooking, literature, story telling, etc.
Did you live during the last decades of the 20th century? At all? We had lots of black faces without a big deal being made. Some of us idealists wanted everyone to be part of the human race, not categorized by color.
Well, that's the point, isn't it? While I notice the color of someone's skin, I'm way more interested in knowing them rather than that person point out what their outward color is. I live in a part of the country where my race is not & has not been the majority for at least 20 years. I'm more inclined to be around other people who are curious & have a zest for life, rather than those people who are always pointing out how they're victims. Much more interesting that way. If I go to the West Coast, I'm more likely to meet & interact w/ those people who have settled on that part of the country, if the South, another. Just be real, courteous & curious. Tell me a story.
08/20/25: That wants to be "oppressed" forever. Free ticket to ride. Add to the above categories sincerely offering financial and pharmaceutical advice in TV commercials.
If it comes in the mail, return the empty envelope.Or blank card.
Wintour became a Democrat party operative. Straight up.
I tried for years to let UNC-TV understand why I would no longer contribute. We were faithful for decades but the slant was far too blatant long before Pres Trump announced his first run.
Maybe they didn’t want to feature a mail order bride who made her, uh, bones as an escort? Just spitballin’ here.
Your mom?
Why are you denigrating Melania’s sex work? Look where it got her!!
How’s that room temperature IQ working out for ya?
I'm doing alright.
What's it like being a genius?
You forgot Asians including South Asians. They too come in for abuse and discrimination as "white adjacent."
Unfortunately many young Asians are brainwashed into wokeism.
Some people survive their youth
They're just too darn successful!
The more I see of it, the progressives appear to be nothing more than self-hatred projected onto everything else in the world. Only they are perfect.
it really boils down to that and grift.
This St Felix situation is the natural evolutionary stage that proceeds from liberal white guilt and groveling that’s gone on in NY for decades. It’s led to counterfeit pseudo intellectualization of people like St Felix and her white enablers both impressed with themselves both contemptuous of each other. It’s sick!
Yes, the woke Left has been raising mediocrities of color (Kendi, Hooks, Coates, etc) to positions of eminence for some decades now... Time for the charade to stop, or at least be subject to ongoing ridicule.
Perfect description of the despicable Left who have no conscience.
I agree with the your conclusion about saying nothing more, but what do I do about the family member from whom I am estranged after I disagreed vehemently that our dead parents were to blame for my racism because we had been raised in white neighborhoods. An intelligent and highly educated old man who will go to his grave believing this? I can’t help being bitter.
That sort of thing is particularly baffling in the intelligent and highly educated (those of mature age anyway). It sounds to me as though your relative is the one who is bitter, and you on the other hand are rewarded with your untainted regard for your parents.
I too have a family member, who I never associated with the anti-white rhetoric, but constantly goes on about colonialism and how messed up America is. He’s just as white as any of us, yet on the verge of “race-suicide”. I can’t tell if it’s just contempt for the people and church culture around him, or if he was always this way and just kept it to himself. It’s irritating, to see someone so given over to it. My question to him then is.. why live in America?
I think they learn that in many universities and colleges, maybe even high schools.
Even in elementary schools, public & private.
for your own sake be the bigger person, mend those fences while you and your loved ones are still alive. life is very short, but infinitely more important than political opinions, which have been around since Eve ate a red apple rather than a green one.
I can’t. I’ve tried for years to say let’s agree to disagree but he just can’t stop. Every couple of months he sends a missive which upsets me for days. I finally blocked him and have sadly regained a measure of peace. Maybe one day after Trump is gone.🤞
None of this will change "when Trump is gone". These people will never stop because to them, they are the righteous who will save the world. They are mentally gone.
You may be right but hope springs eternal.
Hope is not a strategy.
best wishes, send him a card or note in the snail mail. having a cell phone for reply texting in your hands can invoke a habitual mindset that may not be positive for him.
make him some homemade jam. remind him when you both thought lying on that old car blanket (because only grownups rated a lawn chair) and watching the fireworks on 4th July was the best part of summer. you'll win him back with your graciousness.
Thank you. You are right of course and I will (just as soon as I get over my completely justified, self righteous anger.;-)).
No. Send him wisdom until HE blocks YOU. Do not allow him to be the bully. Reply in kind with strength and wisdom.
Trump broke people permanently. It’s astounding to live through this. The historical parallel is Lincoln, and the comparison still holds. Lincoln was hated with intense and extreme vitriol by the southern ruling class - who started the civil war to hold onto the power they saw slipping away. Few seem to remember that the south had a lock on national politics until some radicals started a new party that refused to extend slavery. The fight was partially over whether the south could expand its territory. The Republicans threatened to curb their power. Fast forward and Lincoln becomes a savior, a secular saint, and the residual hatred gets taken out on former slaves.
The real diehards will be equally disturbed by any conservative, even moderate Democrats are targeted.
No. Politics is only how we each accommodate other different lives.
If your relatives can not allow others to exist, they should be dead to you, for the benefit of all civilization!
That’s sad. I think most of us share your dilemma &/or our tongues are bleeding endlessly as we try to hold onto all of our family members.
Race is merely the bait. ‘Divide et impera,’ divide and rule. A time tested political strategy, aimed at, in this case, racial divide, followed by those who intend to rule the infighters - under the guise of a higher moral position. I have read that ‘we are merely a culmination of our decisions.’ There are cultural groups that have followed our forefathers on paths of family, religion and moral structure - all of whom have succeeded in America. There are other groups that have not. This latter category, tends to yell the loudest, spit vitriol at our foundational values and aspire to parasitic existences, living off the host of the American taxpayer. While I can appreciate how the target of Chris’s article exemplifies these characters, I am saddened that the focus writer’s message exacerbates division. We have seen this movie before, during covid; divide the vaccine camp from those that question it. Divide those who question an election, where billionaires paid for vote counting and handling of record mail in ballots, from those who embraced its outcome. Divide the family between those who believe that parents are the best wards of their children, from those who think government teachers and bureaucrats deserve that role. Divide those who favor open strip clubs and big box stores, from those who choose church and family owned businesses. Divide those who aim to enforce Title IX, protecting women in college sports, from those who think seventeen year old men should undress next to your twelve year old daughter in the locker room and compete against her in sports. Divide those who seek to protect criminal illegal aliens from federally sanctioned laws, from those who seek protecting legal American tax paying citizens from the crime they commit. The game does not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. We should all focus on embracing those who are aimed at our general safety, family security, religious protection, educational exceptionalism, law enforcement, government service of and by the people. The noise made by dividers, should fall on the deaf ears of those focused on positive outcomes. We are captains each, of our own ships and I pray that we steer thoughtfully.
This is an outstanding recap of all the issues that have divided my family within the past 5 years or so. Fortunately we are not entirely alienated but all these issues are off limits for discussion. We wait and pray that God will restore them to sanity. Recently our daughter (a high school teacher in Santa Barbara) commented that DEI is not working out so well in the administration of her school district. Hope springs eternal!
You daughter is gullible and has been fooled. But perhaps there is hope for her.
Which is why I hate "democracy".
Federalist X made it clear that "the majority" does not necessarily know what is for the common good. Thus, the federal government was designed to protect the people from themselves.
This insane notion that we have a "democracy" and that the presidential election has any meaning is exploited by the Democrats to tear society apart.
If we can go back to the practice of having the state legislatures appoint the Electors and have them meet to cast votes for president, preferably UNBOUNDED, and do away with elections altogether, then families would not be torn apart.
I'll even accept that the governors just pick names out of a hat and appoint those as the Electors, who no expectations of whom they would vote for.
If we were to do either if those, campaigns, elections and primaries would be meaningless and there would be no need for fund raising. And no endless four year campaign cycles.
Lefties will say, "I have my right to vote", but they have forfeited their mental health for the right to vote. Is it really a fair trade?
great comment.
If you publish a book, I will buy it.
Black women- the most hateful and racist while wearing the loin cloth of benevolence and nobility. A joke.
Fig leaf rather than loin cloth.
nope….neither leaf nor cloth. thong with lotsa bling covered in spandex.
I have come to the opinion from cell phone video shown with news reporting and also their own words, that a category of especially militant black women have been on the rise. it’s as if they feel a sense of urgency to establish theirselves as the dominant demographic of blatantly law-ignoring people. A category of Black Women Outlaws who feel no need to live within the pact of common civility.
It’s compelled me to rethink my ‘threat hierarchy’ to include them as just as dangerous as a man if I found myself/family in a situation where I would “fear for my life”. (IYK,YK)
Yes. BLM was, for blacks, all about enabling and even encouraging race hatred. For the Good White People™ who supported it, its was all about feeling superior to the bad white people who didn't.
This seemed really obvious to me as soon as the demonstrations, riots, and looting began.
Isn’t ironic that the left, and specifically the Democrat Party, that destroyed the black family (and a lot of Hispanic and whites families too) as a result of the “Great Society” plan to keep blacks voting Democrat for 200 years, as Lyndon Johnson famous said, is now blaming all white people for their terrible sins. As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, black poverty fell from 87% to 47% from 1940 to 1960, and even further by 1970. Yet, once welfare incentives kicked in, and black fathers were marginalized, illegitimacy among blacks which stood at 25% in 1965 (Moynihan report), has now risen to 73% nationally and 90% in many large cities. It was the greatest destructive social policy of the 20th century. What we have now is a class of race grifters trying to shift blame from Democrats to white society generally. A segment of this large and persistent black underclass has now made life unlivable for decent black people in our big cities who overwhelmingly are their victims. And the grifter class wants to destroy the entire meritocratic system to make up for what they and the Democrats caused to keep blacks on their plantation of dependency. But many blacks are now waking up. As a former grad student at Brown, I note that this indoctrination mill has now become officially a Social Justice school. Only the great Glenn Loury failed to sign on to this educational insanity.
Maybe these publications will soon go out of business or will be forced to change since usaid and other government agencies are not grifting them $$$$ in subscriptions. They cease to matter as they have no real paying audience or it's small. They are not the culture or narrative anymore.
My point exactly
Well said, Mr. Rufo! Doreens are the sisters of Karens - blind to their own biases and thoroughly insufferable in their arrogance.
Please watch Uncle Tom 2 movie, and everything will make so much more sense. The white communist overlord agents promote agitators to create chaos and grievances to divide and make America ripe for communist/socialist revolution. Regular Americans are growing wise to their schemes and are tired of them - hence, the election of Donald Trump. Blexit is real!
what is Blexit?
Black Americans are leaving the government plantation designed to curry their votes for democratic/socialist/communist governance. Blacks thinking as individuals, not the collective mentality.
got it, thanks
“It helped no one except grifters and hustlers who used it to vent their spleens and line their pockets”
It actually hurt those it purports to “help” by diminishing their agency