Amid the current hysteria of toppling statues and renaming things, we keep mindlessly expanding the cancel culture.
We are now seeing efforts to ban classics of Western and American literature. These hallowed texts are suddenly being declared racist or sexist by preening moralists.
Or, as one Massachusetts high-school teacher recently boasted on social media, “Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”
Proud?
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“The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah is arguing gender reveal parties are “very outdated” and shouldn’t be celebrated until a child can choose his or her gender identity.
Source: www.faithwire.com
"The problem with gender reveal parties is that parents don’t know the gender until the child grows up and decides," so says Trevor Noah.
Hmmm. This dude wants to tell parents that they should let their kids decide what gender they want to be? With this type of thinking, then shouldn’t we also make race a child’s choice? Parents should let children decide if they are black or white, or Asian or Mexican, when they FEEL it is right. If gender is on a "choice" now, as he and others like to argue, then shouldn’t race and skin color be a choice? Time to decolonize all words and meaning!!!
So true. Too much
PC stuffcancel culture out there these days. If the food sucks….it sucks.
“Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern has been axed from prime time on the Travel Channel amid the controversy over his assertion that Chinese food in the Midwest is being served in “horses - - t restaurants.”
Source: www.foxnews.com
Are Andrew Zimmern’s TV shows at risk?
Some reports say that Andrew Zimmern may lose his TV shows because of what he said about Chinese restaurants in the American midwest.
So what? Some Chinese food places are bad. Just like any restaurants out there, there are some good and some bad. Andrew Zimmern has traveled the world and had Chinese food of some form in China. He probably knows better than anyone that the Chinese food in the midwest is underwhelming. He can still state his opinion, even if you disagree. He apologized and that is good enough.
I have been to some Chinese restaurants that where the food was fried, covered in corn syrup…
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This meme is self-explanatory but never less becoming more relevant for in 2020.
Neo is more interesting than you realized. Last year, Keanu Reeves, once one of the world’s biggest movie stars, released Man of Tai Chi, his directorial debut. It’s a hard, unpretentious, generally frill-free martial-arts movie about an underground fighting ring, and it was released direct-to-VOD in America. And this is a fight movie: Practically every plot development comes from someone kicking or choking someone else. He filmed it in Hong Kong and mainland China, with most of the dialog in Mandarin and Cantonese; the star of the movie is Tiger Chen, a stunt guy Reeves met when filming The Matrix. (Here, he plays a character named Tiger Chen.) The famous director, meanwhile, cast himself as the villain, the evil, rich foreigner who controls the shady underground fighting ring and kills fighters when they refuse to kill each other. And as it turns out, Ted Theodore Logan makes a hell of a fight movie.
If you still think of Keanu Reeves as an in-over-his-head surfer dude who ruined some big movies in the ’90s, you first of all owe it to yourself to watch John Wick, the hard and cheap and nasty revenge thriller that came out this year, and belongs right up there with The Raid 2: Berendal and The Guest on the list of 2014’s best action movies. A lot of that is thanks to Reeves, specifically how good he is in the movie’s fight scenes: He’ll launch himself across a room, grab a faceless assassin in an arm bar, and then shoot him in the head. It’s glorious. ButJohn Wick didn’t come out of nowhere. If you were paying attention, Man of Tai Chi was right there, proving Reeves’ devotion to the cheap, simple, ass-kicking action movie. In a weird way, he might be one of the genre’s greatest champions right now. It’s not like, say, Brad Pitt is putting himself out there and trying to make badass B-movies right now.
Reeves, of course, has always had a strong action-movie pedigree. He was in Point Break andSpeed, after all. And while the Matrix sequels got ridiculous fast, the original was a genre-reshaping classic that affected the way filmmakers approached the genre for years. Reeves gets credit, too, for learning to do fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping’s ridiculous kung fu moves, devoting himself completely to the process. He paid attention on that set, too. He took note of what those stuntmen were doing. John Wick director Chad Stahelski was one of the stunt guys on The Matrix, just like Tiger Chen. So The Matrix is still having a ripple effect—not because people are still trying to shoot bullet-time scenes, but because it was responsible for introducing your man to some bad motherfuckers.
Speaking of whom, Tiger Chen doesn’t look like much: slight frame, sharp face, goofy hair-flop. And he happens to excel in a martial art that’s only barely considered a martial art. A few times in Man of Tai Chi, other characters remark that tai chi is usually considered ornamental or fitness-based. They don’t also say that it’s the thing your grandma does in the park on Sunday mornings, but the implication is there. In those moments, Chen always says that he wants to prove that there is power in tai chi, and holy shit, does he ever prove it. The style has shown up in martial arts movies before—shout out to Jet Li in Tai Chi Master—but I don’t remember it being this fun to watch. Chen does that swirling, nature-minded thing, and his master keeps warning him to stay in control of his chi, but he uses it to fuck people up. The real joy of this movie is seeing Chen pushed into increasingly desperate circumstances and learning just how lethal he can be.
The story is pretty perfunctory. Chen is a delivery boy who practices tai chi in his spare time and tries to help his master stop developers from buying their temple. Reeves sees him competing on TV, barks the word “innocent” at the screen, and decides to make a big project out of corrupting him, inviting Chen to join the security company that seems to be a front for a lucrative pay-per-view underground-death-fight endeavor. There’s a great scene where a henchman sends the besuited Chen into a big, gray room, with Chen thinking he’s there for an interview or something. All of a sudden, a lady’s voice yells, “Fight!” and there’s a tatted-up Muay Thai fucker in the room, dragging Chen around by his tie.
Chen gets to like fighting, though, and we see him taking on more and more dangerous opponents, on that classic Bloodsport deadliness-elevation trajectory. He fights a tiny Chinese guy who comes off looking like an absolute badass. He fights a huge Russian mercenary who can’t do anything. He fights two guys at once. Near the end, The Raid star Iko Uwais shows up to make a cameo and do a little fighting, and the first time you see his face is a real oh, shitmoment.
As a director, Reeves knows that an Iko Uwais appearance is a big deal for action-movie fans, and he treats that appearance with just the right amount of gravity. He also knows that the fights in his movie are the big draws, and he keeps the focus directly on them. The storyline beats—a cop lady trying to infiltrate the fighting ring, Chen’s progressive estrangement from his master, Chen getting to enjoy his fighting prowess and his money a little too much—are relatively flat, but Reeves motors right through them. (I do like how Chen’s one big ball-out purchase is a new Volkswagen, while we keep seeing Reeves in Lamborghini dealerships.)Yo
Your director also knows how to film a fight. He keeps the cameras steady and the shots long, and he avoids the herky-jerk editing that makes so many action movies incomprehensible. He knows that he’s filming people doing incredible things, and he wants to make sure you see every bit of it. Reeves enlisted the help of fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, another guy he met on the set of The Matrix, and this was a good move: Yuen is the guy who put together the fights inCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill and Drunken Master and about a million other movies. He might be the greatest movie fight choreographer who’s ever lived, and here he’s allowed to cut loose, building the fights in intensity until Chen finally has to fight the big guy himself.
Reeves’s acting job in the movie is mostly pretty good, considering his character is one-note as fuck. There’s an evil-laughter scene that he absolutely cannot sell, and he definitely gets too attached to the phrase “you owe me a life,” but he glowers and threatens well enough, moving with a strange, unearthly precision. And it’s that final fight where he really justifies the whole enterprise. In the movie, Reeves fights Chen only a few minutes after Uwais fights Chen, and it’s somehow still possible to consider Reeves as the movie’s ultimate threat: He towers over the hero, and his limbs are longer, but his movements are absolutely icy and precise, no wasted motion. He seems to enjoy fighting. At this point, I’m pretty well convinced Reeves should only make B-movies where he fights all the time. He’s just impossibly good at it now.
Man of Tai Chi is a relatively small and unambitious movie, but it’s satisfying as all hell—an old story, beautifully told. It has a few great punch-the-air moments, and it’s got some of the best straight-ahead fight scenes I’ve seen in American or Asian action movies in the last few years. Moreover, the mere fact that it exists feels like a minor miracle. Keanu Reeves, fight-movie auteur! Who knew? Who could’ve possibly known?
Cred where fucking cred is here
Two Amazon employees have resigned in recent weeks in protest of the company’s decision to continue selling “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” a book that explores transgenderism in teenage girls.
The employee-led petition calls for the removal of the book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” by Abigail Shrier. In it, Shrier explores what she calls a “trans epidemic” of young girls identifying as transgender. The book is currently listed as the first, second and third bestsellers — for the hardcover, softcover and Kindle editions — in Amazon’s category of “LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies.”
“Irreversible Damage,” by Abigail Shrier.
It’s not a stretch for people who advocate puberty blockers for children to also lie about her book. There is nothing wrong with teens waiting to fully mature before making a life changing decision.
We are watching Fahrenheit 451 lived out in reality now. 451, a book about the evils of censorship and banning books, was banned because. Ray Bradbury was spot on.
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In honor of Pride Month this past June, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a song outlining how they’ll “convert your children.”
This is not about equal rights. They want to hush everyone who believes differently or has different views. That’s not equality at all. They already have equal rights. Now they want super rights. They want to bring their doctrine into public schools and teach it to kids. Kids go to school to learn history, math, science, grammar, etc.? Enough with this bullshit.
Read the full article at: thepostmillennial.com
“This year’s Oscars were the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever seen,” he cracks, through puffs of an e-cigarette. “My business is becoming a big game show. You have actors that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. You have filmmakers that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. We’re all in these little boxes on these streamers. TV, film – it’s all one big clusterf**k of content now.”
These people need to realize that they are not idolized anymore, there are more important things happening in the world. What a breath of fresh air from Stephen Dorff.
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Our military leaders should focus on fighting external threats at this crucial historical juncture, not fighting a domestic culture war.
Corporate media and progressives found a new darling in Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after his congressional testimony last week. Anyone who dared to criticize him was blasted as either unpatriotic or demonstrating “white rage.”
Republicans have criticized the U.S. military for promoting books that advocate for racial divisions — for example, listing Ibram Kendi’s critical race theory gospel, “How to Be an Antiracist,” as reading for sailors in the U.S. Navy. During his testimony, Milley made it clear he didn’t see anything wrong with training the U.S. military in critical race theory.
Milley Defends Racist Indoctrination
“I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin,” he argued. “That doesn’t make me a communist.” Many advocates of critical race theory’s racist teachings have made similar arguments about teaching it in K-12 schools, claiming it is just one of many ideas students are taught.
But the general’s own words quickly betrayed the notion that books about critical race theory are casual reading assignments simply for soldiers’ intellectual curiosity. Referencing the events at the U.S. Capitol in January, he stated: “I want to understand white rage. And I’m white.”
The phrase “white rage” is CRT newspeak, implying that “rage” has a color, and it is exclusively “white.” Emory University professor Carol Anderson coined the term in her 2016 book “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.” She sees “white rage” as “the operational function of white supremacy,” which is embedded in policies that actively “undermine African American achievement and advancement.”
The phrase reflects CRT advocates’ typical but misguided beliefs that the United States hasn’t made much progress in racial healing and racial equality, and that minorities are still hopelessly oppressed by the white majority in today’s America. Many scholars, including black scholars such as Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and Jason Riley, have refuted such beliefs vigorously.
Nevertheless, by using “white rage” in his testimony, Milley indicated he is on board with CRT’s teachings and beliefs. Furthermore, he demands American soldiers be indoctrinated with the same ideology.
“What is wrong,” Milley asked, with “having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?” This assumes that one can understand the United States by accepting accusations against its white citizens as expressions of “rage.” Of course, there is nothing wrong with American soldiers understanding our nation’s true history — not only its faults, but also the progress it has made.
Read the full article at: thefederalist.com
The trouble seems to have started when Stelter noted on air that some YouTube personalities pull in more viewers than cable news networks.
“They were describing it as if they were entitled to viewers. This is because the market has spoken and your show’s f—ing terrible,” Rogan fumed.
Rogan particularly singled out Stelter for failing to ask any pressing questions in a recent interview with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
“How about Brian Stelter talking to the press secretary saying, ‘What are we doing wrong? What are we doing wrong?’ Like, hey motherf–ker, you’re supposed to be a journalist!” Rogan said.
Read the full article at: nypost.com
