Augmented Reality Gets Too Real

Once upon a time, gods and angels came unto the people in the night and had their way with them.  Later, demonic succubi and incubi were the culprits.  More recently, sinister alien Reptilians and butt-probing Greys did the deed.  Today, these strange hauntings have adapted to the shifting zeitgeist, and a woman in Moscow claims to have been raped by a Pokemon.

German Man May Be Prosecuted For Insulting Racist Murderer

Munich resident Thomas Salbey is facing possible charges for calling Ali Sonboly, the Munich shooter, a wanker.  Charges could include "insults to the detriment of the dead," not inclusive of the nine people Sonboly killed.

Gender Disparity in Sentencing Benefits Transsexual

Caitlyn Jenner may keep the gold medal she earned in the men's decathlon, but Gina Owen will not be held accountable for her sexual crimes as a man, because "she was literally a different person when she committed these offences."

Germany Still Waiting For Economic Miracle

So far, the hope that the importation of a million untrained and illiterate Third Worlders would produce a wirtschaftswunder (on par with the German people's recovery from the Second World War) has not yet come to pass.

Counter-Terrorism Officials Mystified

With four attacks in southern Germany coming shortly after the mass murder of 84 people in Nice, counter-terrorism officials are struggling to detect a common thread. Is there a single, defining feature to these attacks that could offer clues on how to prevent more of them from happening?

The Robot Butler Did It!

The good news is that the near future is going to see some rapid, revolutionary changes that could dramatically enhance our lives. The bad news is that the technologies pitched to “become successful and transformative” in the next decade or so are extremely vulnerable to all sorts of back-door, front-door, and side-door compromises.

The Increasingly Problematic Coneheads of Peru

The two-thousand-year-old elongated skulls of Paracas, Peru have been proven by DNA testing to belong to aliens--they're European.

Farming Discovered By Separate Groups

A new analysis suggests that the rudiments of agriculture were developed independently by two different cultures in the Middle East, eventually merged, and spread from there, rather than a single diffusion from the southern Levant.

"A good manner in the village"

In Malawi it is believed that a forty-something man with HIV being paid to have sex with 12-year-olds is an important cleansing to avoid the infection of the community by the girls' irresponsible ways.

British Doctors See Over 100 Cases of FGM Every Week

Although it is not a British tradition, Britain has had a law against female genital mutilation for over thirty years.  Nevertheless, health authorities recorded over 5,700 cases in just one year.  The parents and their children do not perceive this as abuse, and curiously, neither does the law, as no convictions have been brought.

Fatality of greatness.

The sufferings of genius and their value.

Racial and Religious Abuse Increasing Among Small Children

A three-year-old Mancunian has been questioned by police for a possible hate crime after causing "harassment, alarm, or distress" to his victim.

Jewish Boy Deplores White Privilege

Now I realize that it’s quite possible to find 14-year old White boys who, having endured a standard American education, would deplore their White privilege — that they are “ethnomasochists” as John Derbyshire would have it. But it also seems to me that it’s more likely that such sentiments would come from a Jewish boy raised in the home of left-wing Jewish activists.

Muslims Reject Man's Best Friend

Leaflets are being distributed in Manchester requesting that the British people live up to their multicultural values by keeping dogs out of the public space.  Muslims do not like canines, because dogs are impure and chase away angels.  The Brits must "learn to understand and respect" Muslim culture, or else Muslims won't feel safe, welcomed, and accepted in the UK.

Augmented Reality Breeds Dysfunction

Players of the first big "augmented reality" game, Pokémon Go, have crashed a car, fallen off a cliff, and hopped a fence in the middle of the night to catch a digital nothing beside a tiger enclosure.  In the process, they have been forced to accidentally get exercise (much to their chagrin), while also blissfully signing away their data to government, law enforcement, and private parties.

Inspiration again.

Belief in inspiration.

Playing with life.

The Lone Gunman of Dallas

Randomly killing cops in the street serves no strategic purpose for any genuine civil rights, activist or political group, which implies that the people who actually committed these killings are agents provocateur who killed a few cops in service to their agenda to further erode the few freedoms and liberties left in the US, incite a race war, and usher in an increasingly oppressive police state. Hillary Clinton is also undoubtedly very grateful that the events in Dallas 'coincidentally' sidelined the news that she committed a federal offense and should therefore be ineligible to run for president.

Humans In China Before Humans Left Africa

“There is overwhelming evidence from fossil records that China was populated with humans before the arrival of African settlers,” Liu said. “They don’t live in one or two small areas, but thriving, almost everywhere.”

Humanity Got High After The Fall

Some of the most recent studies included in the database suggest that the herb entered the archaeological record of Japan and Eastern Europe at almost exactly the same time, between about 11,500 and 10,200 years ago.

Art makes the thinker's heart heavy.

Cop-Killing Cartoon Kosher

Facebook has decided that an image of a masked man slitting the throat of a police officer with the message "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" does not at all violate their Community Standards.

Art of the ugly soul.

The Status Quo as Moral Compass

If what we’re claiming is correct, changes in how people explain what’s typical should change how they think about right and wrong. When people have access to more information about how the world works, it might be easier for them to imagine the world being different. In particular, if people are given explanations they may not have considered initially, they may be less likely to assume “what is” equals “what ought to be.”

Hillary Too Dumb To Do Wrong

The Democratic presidential nominee acted carelessly and recklessly in her treatment of classified information, but certainly not criminally.  You see, she was perhaps not "sophisticated enough to understand" that "(C)" means "Classified."  So there you have it.  She looks forward to your vote.

How metre beautifies.

Amor fati

NORAD Tracks a UFO Almost Every Day

"The Canadian documents…indicate the Canadian government has been and remains vitally concerned about the unauthorised incursion of unidentified flying objects within Canadian airspace."

Animation of art.

Poets as alleviators of life.

Blacks Not Systematically Murdered By Police

This does not mean that the police never unjustly kill Black people or that any particular anecdote is false. But it does mean that we can not infer from any anecdote the sort of generalized narratives which BLM types are prone to pushing.

Attorney General and BLM Plan "Summer of Chaos"

"You know I can’t stand those white allies, but yo right this is the best to use them. They hang on every word you say and will do whatever is asked. I just hate all that kiss ass they try to do. Like that changes who they are."

Oedipus and Icarus Keep Falling

Computer analysis has suggested that there are six basic emotional arcs used in Western storytelling.  One such simple arc was once described by Kurt Vonnegut as “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole.”  Stories that end in a fall of emotional valence are found to be especially well-received, as well as those that present the various arcs in sequence.  "In particular, the team says the most popular are stories involving two sequential man-in-hole arcs," suggesting pornography has better storytelling than we thought.

Art as necromancer.

George Takei Not Impressed By Story Change in His Honour

In the ongoing march of cultural appropriation, Star Trek's Hikaru Sulu (who was the only character shown to have a daughter in the original timeline, and who made advances on Uhura while space-drunk) is now gay--because writing new characters, and telling characters apart from the actors who played them, is hard.

23andMe Selling Customer's Genetic Data

It's just possible that 23andMe has not been collecting the DNA of 800,000 customers for altruistic genealogical purposes.

The Rape Culture of Lower Expectations

Left Party politician Barbro Sorman from Stockholm believes that not all rapes are created equal.  Rapes committed by foreigners are a lesser offense.  Immigrants should not be held to the same humane standard, because they don't have moral agency.

According to the tweet from her deleted Twitter account, "The Swedish men who rape do it despite the growing gender equality. They make an active choice. It's worse, imo."  She later clarified for Sweden's Free Times, "I’m not saying it’s worse, of course not!"

13% of Americans Would Prefer "President Giant Meteor"

A new poll suggests an apocalyptic firestorm, caused by a giant meteor, might be better than electing Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump--so thinks a portion of respondents larger than the supporters of the Libertarian and Green Party nominees put together.  Support for the nascent Giant Meteor Party comes from all ends of the political spectrum, though with a slightly lower approval rating among moderates.

The artist's sense of truth.

No Racial Bias Here

Van Harten said there wasn’t enough evidence to establish the claim that Crowchief attacked White because of her skin color, despite the fact that the perpetrator, who had never met the victim before the attack, yelled “I hate white people” before throwing a punch.

Medical Marijuana Used As Medicine

The use of prescription drugs in states with medical cannabis laws has gone down across the board.  It's estimated that if every state legalised cannabis, Medicare would save more than $468 million US on pharmaceuticals.  It's possible there would even be savings if they began to cover this so-called "medicine" that many are now taking in lieu of expensive, toxic, patented and FDA-approved drugs.

A Government Leader Is Not A "Person Like Me"

Those who have a college indoctrination, regularly consume mainstream news media, and make a lot of money, have become more trusting of institutions in the eight years since the financial collapse of 2008.  They are the "informed public."  Everyone else, the "mass populations," have certain questions and concerns.  This is corrosive to democracy!  They should have more faith in government, for the good of society.

I Chose To Believe

Hillary Above The Law

The Obama-appointed FBI Director gave a press conference showing that she recklessly handled Top Secret information, engaged in conduct prohibited by law, and lied about it repeatedly to the public. But she won’t be prosecuted or imprisoned for any of that, so Democrats are celebrating. But if there is to be anything positive that can come from this lowly affair, perhaps Democrats might start demanding the same reasonable leniency and prosecutorial restraint for everyone else who isn’t Hillary Clinton.

What is perfect is supposed not to have become.

Radio Tunes Really Are Getting Stupider

In the course of just ten years, the reading skill necessary to understand popular songs in America has dropped a whole grade level, to somewhere between second and third grade.  Between Hip-hop, Rock and Pop, and Country, Country fares the best, with Blake Shelton’s hit "All About Tonight" requiring an incredible 5.8 grade reading level (the song challenges with such utterances as "concoctions" and "Gatorade").  With electronic dance music already degraded to a series of farts and burps, it's only a matter of time before all music will be fully comprehensible to babies and smart dogs.

The Truth Might Encourage Racism

24-year-old Selin Gören, national spokeswoman for the left-wing German youth movement Solid, was ambushed by three men late at night in a playground last January, and forced to perform a sex act.  Gören, who works in Mannheim as a refugee activist, went straight to the police and told them she had been assaulted by German-speakers.  They had in fact been speaking Arabic or Farsi, but conscious of the backlash following Cologne, she didn't want to paint migrants in a negative light.

She was convinced by her boyfriend to return to the police twelve hours later and tell what really happened, after another woman in the area was allegedly raped by refugees.  That accusation was eventually retracted, so it appears that a lying racist bigot bad person got a well-meaning lying leftist to tell the truth about the sort of thing the racist bigots have to make up because it doesn't get reported when it really happens.  Clear?

Religious after-pains.

Swedish Police Fight Sex Attacks With Wristbands

“By wearing these wristbands, young women will be able to make a stand. No one should have to accept sexual molestation. So do not grope. And if you are groped, report it to the police.”

The Gynocratic Nobility

Men, fearful of female disapproval, hid from the discussion or overcompensated, accepting these irrational arguments. All the major movements of the era: civil rights, feminism and immigration, all had the strange consequence of increasing the number of both workers and consumers. Wages began to stagnate and then, in real terms, fall. When interest, debt service and taxes are considered, wages plummeted. That’s not a coincidence. Feminism is a mystification.

Ancient Chinese Pictograms in North America

“Miscategorized and overlooked by modern anthropologists and archaeologists (largely due to the fact that knowledge of ancient styles of Chinese writing are not generally well-known, and the items discussed … reside in difficult and remote locations) these unmistakable Chinese writings conclusively establish as a historical event the early trans-Pacific presence of the Chinese people on the North American continent.”

Psychiatry and Possession

Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist and believe that evil spirits are, however seldom, assailing humans? Most of my scientific colleagues and friends say no, because of their frequent contact with patients who are deluded about demons, their general skepticism of the supernatural, and their commitment to employ only standard, peer-reviewed treatments that do not potentially mislead (a definite risk) or harm vulnerable patients. But careful observation of the evidence presented to me in my career has led me to believe that certain extremely uncommon cases can be explained no other way.

"We didn't halt the parade, we made progress in the parade."

The first sitting prime minister of Canada to participate in the Toronto Pride parade was held up for half an hour by Black Lives Matter protestors demanding a more inclusive space that didn't have any police officers.

Continuance of the religious cult in the heart.

Cupcakes for Some, Guilt for Others

“Bank Street wants to give kids of color a space to talk about shared experiences,” Wahi explained in a parent handout, “because even in society today, people of color are treated unfairly.”

“In the recent past,” she added, “children of color in our Lower School have been told by well-intentioned peers that their skin looks like the color of poop.”

Forbidden generosity.

Weed Good For Old Minds

A trial of medical cannabis oil on people with symptoms of dementia has shown a significant reduction in delusional and apathetic behaviour, improbably enough.

Lessons From Sacramento

The leadership and ideologues of contemporary industrialized leftist (including anarchist and communist) movements are Jews with a Machiavellian racial motive, as well as rootless cosmopolitan fad-chasing white bourgeoisie, and they feel those whites who do not share their affinity for kale and “Polyamory” are hopelessly inferior, or even a potential threat to their status and privilege.

My Generation, Baby

“Millennials” have become both a media scapegoat for, and a distraction from, widespread economic suffering. Having experienced no economy other than the recession’s false recovery, young Americans have arguably suffered the most. The remedy lies not in judging their lifestyle choices—or worse yet, perpetuating the illusion that they have money to burn—but by acknowledging the new economy for what it is: a structural crisis, one that future generations will share.

Bearded Children Hitting On Canadian Girls

The parent added that the Syrians “have started on the girls in the year below who they are having success with. It’s really ugly, the Canadian boys are very frustrated but are too scared to speak up (they know how dangerous the ‘you’re a racist’ label will be for the rest of their lives).”

Chatbot Overturns 160,000 Parking Tickets

A robot lawyer has successfully appealed 64% of 250,000 parking tickets, resulting in millions of lost revenue for London and New York City.  Next injustice to be fought by artificial intelligence: refugees navigating foreign legal systems.

Boredom Good For Young Minds

“A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.”

What science promises.

Reverence for madness.

Irreligiosity of artists.

Sinlessness of man.

Iceland Elects Historian

The new president of Iceland is neither a career politician nor a businessman.  He's "a scholastic expert on political history, diplomacy and the Iceland constitution," who decided to enter politics after the Panama Papers implicated the Icelandic prime minister in fraud.

Since Iceland jailed its bankers, leaders the world over hope you won't notice that "Iceland is on track to become the first European country that suffered in the financial meltdown to 'surpass its pre-crisis peak of economic output.'"

European Jewish Congress Wants United Europe

I wonder why anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe? Is it because Europeans have finally begun to notice that Jews overwhelmingly support flooding European nations with non-Europeans? Perhaps the best solution to the issue of anti-Semitism would be for Jews in Europe to respect the self-determination and sovereignty of ethnic Europeans – but I think we all know that isn't going to happen.

Story Fabricated to Keep Memories Alive

Joseph Hirt was concerned about ignorance of the truth, so he made up a lie to support the truth.

He wasn't arrested by the Nazis, he didn't escape from Auschwitz under an electric fence, and he didn't meet Jesse Owens, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Dr. Mengele.  He did get a tattoo of Primo Levi's camp number, “in no way an attempt to take on his identity, but in an effort to incorporate his symbol as a way of remembering him”.

As historian Ken Waltzer wrote when Herman Rosenblat was found to have embellished his memoir, "This shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust."  People's susceptibility to lies about the Holocaust proves the necessity of believing in it, obviously.

Historical investigation of the event remains verboten.

Study Shows Nature Heals Trauma

Man creates War.  War creates Trauma.  Nature offers plants, fungi, forests, and rivers for healing the wounded soul of Man.  Man outlaws Nature.

Demolition of the churches.

Blind pupils.

Dangerous game.

Proof by pleasure.

The Peaceful Donald

With increasing frequency over the last few months some of the most thoughtful left and progressive figures have begun to speak favorably of aspects of Trump’s foreign policy. Let us hear from these heretics.

Destiny of Christianity.

Industrial Farming Unsustainable

Better paid farm workers would do more to feed the world than bigger machines and stronger pesticides.  When the current higher yield of industrial farming is weighed against environmental, economic, and social considerations, organic farming comes out as superior in the long run.

Lone-Wolf Islamists Relatively Ineffective

Europeans acting alone are more deadly than Islamists without a support network.  The report making this assertion therefore suggests that “right-wing extremists represent a substantial aspect of the lone actor threat and must not be overlooked,” as if these lone actors are the greater threat, and they do not perceive themselves to be responding to an organised incursion by Islamists who do not act alone.

No More Klöpfer

Four schools in the Binningen district of Basel Canton have dropped pork sausages from their menu, because 5% of parents responding to a survey said they didn't want their children eating them.  There were no questions asked, and there will be no more sausages for the other 95% of students.

Zuckerberg Covers His Webcam

Even experts who don’t cover their cameras think they should. Why doesn’t Matthew Green, an encryption expert at Johns Hopkins University? “Because I’m an idiot,” he told Yadron.

“I have no excuse for not taking this seriously … but at the end of the day, I figure that seeing me naked would be punishment enough.”

Of the prudence of Christianity.

“This is the way it is.”

Another assault of another young person in another rural town has prompted another round of accusations of unfounded hate, phobia, and "white supremacy."

Deutschland Unter Allah

Prominent German architect Joaquim Reinig believes that Hamburg should demolish fifty Christian churches and replace them with the minarets of mosques, so migrants won't be afraid of losing their identity.  Because Jews and Christians are theological brothers of Muslims with many similarities, they should have no fear of this.

China Surpasses America in Computing

A Chinese supercomputer has been named the world's fastest computer for the seventh year in a row – but unlike previous winners, this year's champion uses only Chinese-designed processors, representing a decline of US dominance in the field.

Nosey Faces

Facebook's new head of policy and communication is a longtime senior advisor of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Music Improves Auditory Processing in Children

These initial study results, published recently in the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, provide evidence of the benefits of music education at a time when many schools around the nation have either eliminated or reduced music and arts programs. The study shows music instruction speeds up the maturation of the auditory pathway in the brain and increases its efficiency.

Advantage of being religious.

Virtual Reality and the Holocaust

A "virtual Holocaust survivor" who lived through an extermination camp and a death march will now be educating children by "upsetting the viewer’s sense of comfort." 

The interactive hologram and associated artificial intelligence answers questions with selections from 25 hours of footage of Pinchas Gutter, creating a vivid and convincing testimony intended to "jolt another world into your own." 

Historical investigation of the event remains verboten.

All-Male Refugee Centre Placed Across From Naturist Club

The nudists claim their starkers way of life - the club near the ancient porcelain manufacturing center of Meissen has been going since 1905 - is being threatened by officials not wanting to offend newcomers.

"I don't know whether it is wise to set up the asylum home here," said Petra Hoffman, 70-year-old club treasurer.

The un-Hellenic in Christianity.

"The precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear"

Here’s who the New York Times blames, in order: Republican politicians, Republican-led state legislatures, Republican governors, Republican federal lawmakers, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, anyone who believes in traditional marriage, anyone who’s ever voted to preserve traditional marriage, and anyone who has ever voted for anyone who believes in or has voted to preserve traditional marriage.

Pitfalls of the New Age

It turns out that cobbling together a syncretic religion from scraps of spirituality, self-help, and wishful thinking does not a perfect person make.

The Penultimate Frontier

Scientists have better data to suggest the absence of intelligent life on the planet Mars than they do in our own oceans.  Even without this tantalising possibility, any possible threats or opportunities down there are a lot closer to us, and so perhaps more pressing to discover than the shape of rocks on dead worlds.  There is now an initiative to rectify this at last by properly mapping the seafloor.

Fighting Radicalisation With Euphemisms

The Department of Homeland Security is requesting $100 million to do away with religiously-charged words like "jihad" and "sharia law" in an effort to deter young people from joining jihad groups hoping to enact sharia law.

Turks Can't Be Germans Too

Almost half of ethnic Turks living in Germany place the demands of their religion above the laws of the land in which they reside.  A third of those surveyed would rather live in the same society as Mohammed--almost a millennium and a half behind the rest of the world.  Nonetheless, a majority express a readiness to integrate, even while considering it impossible.  Germany will just have to change to make it possible.

Academic Apostate Doesn't Hate His Roots

“I could see the same pattern in the many failed left-wing revolutions of Latin America and elsewhere. By combining actual travel with the historical study of socialism and revolution, I succeeded in disabusing myself of the utopian notions that fatally attract people to leftist ideas.”

Christianity and antiquity.

On viewing certain antique sacrificial implements.

Origin of the religious cult.

The twofold struggle against an ill.

Murder by Madman Enthusiastically Politicised

The lone witness to allege that the killer of British MP Jo Cox shouted "Britain First!" before and after the murder is himself a member of the rival British National Party.  Another witness, a Muslim, denies the statement was uttered.  Journalists, politicians, and the pundits of social media proceed with their confidently bigoted denunciation of anyone with any ideas in common with the crazy person.

Flat Earth Debate Heats Up

A 56-year-old Brockville man was so enraged by his son's girlfriend's irrational suggestion that the Earth is flat that he threw a propane cylinder into their campfire.  Police expect to charge the man with mischief, while there are no charges pending for the woman's heresy.

Gardens Unconstitutional

In Miami Shores, "Aesthetics and uniformity are legitimate government purposes."  That's why your front yard must consist of inedible grass, sod, or "living ground cover," but absolutely no vegetables.  The government thinks they're ugly and messy, so you'll pay a fine or be made to dig up your unsightly nutrition!  Shamefully put that garden behind your house where no one will have to see the awful thing.

More Spying Makes US More Safe

Despite the fact that the FBI's awareness of Omar Mateen made no substantive difference to his plans, Hillary Clinton has promised to pressure tech companies to comply with intelligence agencies in an intensified program of domestic surveillance.

Meanwhile, in Israel

Israeli marriage law makes it a two-year prison offence for any Jew marrying outside of the rabbinical authorities in that country, it has emerged after a failed attempt to overturn the rabbinate’s authority in the Israeli parliament.

Closing Borders Will Drive Germans To Incest

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has been quoted as saying, "Isolation is what would ruin us - it would lead us into incest."  The answer is the importation of cultures with a long-standing tradition of cousin marriages.

Dalai Lama Neuters The West

A giggling old man employed as a humanitarian mascot thinks that universal secular ethics and common sense will inevitably defeat regressive imperialistic theology rooted in violence and oppression--so there's nothing to worry about.  The nice man said so.

Your Landlord Needs To See Your Sandwich

Make no mistake: The data will mislead. Among the behaviors that count against your Tenant Assured “credit” percentage — i.e., how confident the company is that you’ll pay rent — are “online retail social logins and frequency of social logins used for leisure activities.” In other words, Tenant Assured draws conclusions about your credit-worthiness based on things such as whether you post about shopping or going out on the weekends.

Terrorist Was Kind Of A Jerk

Omar Mateen was toxic, unhinged, unstable, racist, homophobic, prone to talking about killing people, and employed, prior to killing or injuring over a hundred people in Orlando.  A former co-worker left his job to get away from Mateen, and isn't at all surprised at what happened.  Their employer tolerated the man's offenses because he was Muslim, but don't you dare suggest he took up arms for the same reason.

Enriching Experiences on German Buses

Teen girls in Germany are being sexually assaulted by migrant men on public transit on a daily basis, but they haven't said anything because their elders have told them we mustn't judge.

The Dangerous Unconscious

Migrants Don't Get Breakfast, Destroy Exhibition Hall

Afghan migrants sided with Iranian security staff against the Arab residents of a Düsseldorf conference center.  As a chapter of an ongoing dispute, the Iranians are accused of deliberately not waking up the Arabs in time for their Ramadan breakfast.  In response, citizens of Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Iraq tried to burn the hall to the ground to get away from the Iranians. 

About 30 migrants have been treated for smoke inhalation, and one of the 70 firefighters called to the arson was hospitalised.  There are reports that as many as 280 migrants were evacuated, although there were only 160 residents officially housed there.

Don't Aggravate the Agitators

San Jose police showed admirable restraint by not intervening when those protesting a Trump rally became violent--throwing punches, eggs, drawing blood by swinging a bag of rocks, and stealing and burning hats.  It was good of them to do nothing, because it could have incited more violence.  It could have, but it didn't, when they eventually started making arrests after ninety minutes of violent protest had tuckered out the terrorists.  Donald Trump must take responsibility for this violence, because law enforcement sure won't!

Sweden Baffled By Too Many Men

In the natural course of things, there are usually slightly more women than men in a given population.  This standard has been established over millions of years of evolution to be about right for the needs of the species.  The country of Sweden has a curious case on their hands, where the natural order of things has been upended, and for some mysterious reason there are more men than women now.  No one knows why.

Cooperation Intensifies to Combat Hate Speech

Leading technology companies, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, have signed a collective pledge to the European Union to scrub any hate speech from their walls within twenty-four hours.  Some kind of definition or understanding of what qualifies as hate speech is presently lacking, but such details will surely be worked out cogently and transparently very soon.

Research Reliably Unreplicable

"Reproducibility is like brushing your teeth"--and 90% of scientists surveyed think there is a slight to significant crisis of oral hygiene in the published scientific literature.  No word on how concerned social scientists and arts professors are about brushing their teeth.

Dalai Lama Defends The West

Tenzin Gyatso, the present incarnation of Avalokiteśvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion, the 14th Dalai Lama, and one of the most popular personages in the world, thinks there are too many refugees in Germany.  He thinks "Germany is Germany," it "cannot become an Arab country," and the moral thing to do would be to admit refugees temporarily, with the ultimate goal of sending them back to rebuild.  This perspective is not in line with the pronouncements of Western political and religious leaders.

Climate Change Spurred De-Urbanisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation has been pushed back at least 2500 years, with evidence of a pre-Harappan civilisation going back a thousand years more--enough time to develop bustling cities with basic amenities, trade, and a written language, and then lose them.

94% of Professors Think Their Work is Above Average

Researchers have determined that overconfidence leads to higher social status.  This is already generally understood at some level, as people who wish to attain higher social status have been shown to be more overconfident.  This is not perceived as narcissism, but as evidence of how beloved is the person.

When this insight gets paired with the Dunning-Kruger effect, which indicates that incompetent people are too incompetent to perceive their own incompetence, and are therefore perhaps overconfident, we find cause for concern in the organisation of human affairs.

Multipolarity is Orthodox

While the Catholic Pope Francis calls walls unchristian and washes the feet of migrants, the Russian Orthodox Church makes the ethical argument for sovereignty in the face of the financial and cultural pressures of transnational elites.

"Emotional Fever" of "Loser Fish" Demonstrates Consciousness

The stress and depression experienced by confined and farmed fish has prompted the first glimmer of awareness in their farmers that our dinner has feelings too.  We can only hope that humanity's farmers will reach the same conclusion.

Minority Silenced

DePaul College Republicans invited Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at their school on the subject of feminism.  At the last minute, the DePaul University administration demanded that the club pay for an expensive security team.  When protestors took to the stage, stole a microphone, and threatened to punch the speaker, administrators ordered the officers to stand down.  The event was eventually cancelled.

Unaccountability and innocence.

"9/11 Was An Inside Job!" Say Saudis

Almost fifteen years after the event, the terrorist attack on the WTC in New York is still being used by all parties as a political weapon in a dangerous war of words.

Confessions of a Straight White Male Cultural Studies Major

~~~

An empty decade ago, I got my degree in Cultural Studies from Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario.  That was the most progressive program at the most progressive school I could find in Canada. 

It was ten years ago that I fled in shame--unable to write what I had to in order to receive my Honours.  Only today am I prepared to say that I couldn't get my Honours then because there was no honour to be found in what I was doing.

~~~

We must back up, to whatever point little Joey first learned the word, “society.”  What a revelation that concept was!  I was sure that things could be so much better, saner, safer, and more peaceful if this amorphous, capricious creature called “society” would only get its act together.  The utterance was always at the ready, deployed by wee Joey as a mild curse.  “Society.”

Clearly individuals were generally decent, but in association I could only see their accumulated error.  Somehow good people added up to a needlessly shit social environment, and in my hazy innocence I imagined that understanding and considering the social and psychological exigencies of our conduct could help cleanse us of this need to waste energy on condemnation and habitual idiocy.  We suffer not because we deserve it, not because we must, but for want of understanding just how much the inertia of past ages still directs us.

Yes, people weren't the problem, it was society.  The terrible disappointment that is humanity was but a mass of waves and murmurations echoing old impulses.  It wasn't something inherent in each faulty person, it was old mistakes handed down and uncorrected.  Our common heritage was our misperception of things.

~~~

I remember the feeling I had in junior high social studies class, when Mr. Houle explained why Canada was better than the United States.  America strove for a melting pot with one standard—he invoked “hotdogs and baseball” and got big laughs, so I know the message stuck—while we enlightened Canucks, in our more refined and elevated moral sense, presented a mosaic of cultures.  We were a place where every colour and creed could belong.  Our identity was all identities.

It should have made me feel full.  It should perhaps have made me feel privileged and proud and overwhelmed with the depth and breadth of the Canadian soul.  Instead it made me feel oddly hollow.

Of course other people from other cultures could bring their assorted foods, dances, and hats, and thereby give me a richer palette with which to colour my life, but what could I bring to another country of my own home, my own culture, my own identity?  We were everything and nothing, yet I knew there was something more in me than snow and maple syrup.

~~~

The school counselor called me down one day to tell me about a special program at the University of New Brunswick.  I got the impression mine was the name from our school she was giving them.

The program was a Bachelor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies.  They operated out of an old Victorian home, where I would be living and working alongside my classmates.  I took the tour, was shown a project they were working on, something about different perspectives on oil drilling, and then we sat down with the dean. 

Eventually he came to that awful, awful question: “Do you have any questions?”  I fished around for a moment, and then stumbled into asking him point-blank what the goals and objectives and principles and philosophy of the program were.  What were they trying to accomplish in the world?

In response, he reached for the brochure and read me the fucking blurb on the back.  It was then that I knew I would not be lead into whatever kind of leadership they were offering.

~~~

My childhood fixation with “society” gradually became more finely tuned and nuanced into a preoccupation with “bullshit.”  Yes, bullshit was the problem now.  If only society would get over its bullshit.

It seemed to me that English, Sociology, Psychology, History, Philosophy and Fine Arts were all too narrowly circumscribed by their own particular brands of bullshit.  What I needed was a degree in Bullshit Studies, but I couldn't find that.

I thought I got close enough when I found the only department of Cultural Studies then existing in the country at Trent.  So I went.

~~~

At first it was great.  For the first time in my life I felt intellectually stimulated and challenged.  It was exciting to have my field of view expanded so rapidly. 

It was good to be away from home.  I had a board plan for meals and a thousand mandatory flex dollars for personal pan pizzas, I had thirty hits of pretty good acid I brought from Nova Scotia, and it was now possible for me to get old Doctor Who on my computer.  Genesis of the Daleks.  The Caves of Androzani.  Those were good days.

I made one critical mistake, and that was critical thinking.  I took a course in practical reasoning in the philosophy department, learned logic, and did quite well at it—my highest mark, with a final of 96, if I remember right.

When my second year began, and I was now taking four cultural studies courses instead of one, a terrible sinking feeling appeared in my gut.  I suppressed it as best I could, but I couldn't convince myself I didn't detect a problem. 

I thought I had signed on for the study of culture, but it was increasingly apparent that we were studying it in order to impose our predetermined narrative upon it.  I couldn't help but notice that this narrative was built on assertions more than data.

I got very good at making those assertions.  I realised that I could throw my practical reasoning out the window, as it was irrelevant.  Writing in the proper mode was more performance than reason.  Eloquence, conviction, and slavish devotion to identity politics were all that was needed.

They had lots of good points and perspectives, but my intellectual conscience wouldn't permit me to ignore that the justification for the sanctification of Marx and Freud was never given.  With other names too, we read them to find the ways in which they were right.  Everything was interpretation, but there was only one acceptable interpretation.

We disagreed at our own peril.  With a breathtaking lack of self-awareness, the professor I most respected once castigated us for not speaking up and participating more often, apparently blissfully unaware that she would routinely make fun of anyone who stepped outside her dogma.  I'm almost certain that everyone else in that seminar had the same thought in that moment.

~~~

It wasn't until my third year that I learned about the Sokal hoax.  I think I made the mistake of Googling my education.  Within moments of wondering how the outside world viewed post-modernism, I discovered that a journal of cultural studies had accepted a paper made mostly of meaningless gibberish because the author had included enough buzz words that they liked. 

It was a big scandal and I hadn't heard a peep about it, much less sober discussion about the limitations of our methods.  This was pretty fucking damning, but I was so far into my degree that it seemed there was no turning back--and it still seemed inconceivable that a nascent discipline could be quite so fragmented, incoherent, and misanthropic as cultural studies appeared, so I was sure I was missing something, I just wasn't smart enough.  This was university, after all.  It was grown-up business.  There was no way it could be as fucked as it appeared.

~~~

In my final year, I took two 400-level courses with the intention of getting my Honours.  The only identity Mr. Houle had left me with was being a good student, so that was what I would do.

One of those classes was taught by a young gay man, the other by an old gay man.  Both courses drew heavily from Jacques Lacan, and both professors readily admitted that they didn't understand most of his mystical psychobabble.  This was supposed to be the summit of my learning, but my teachers seemed almost as confused as I was.

When it came time to compose my final papers, I could see all the hoops I was to jump through arrayed before me.  It didn't matter if I understood what I was saying, I just had to repeat some stuff with my own clever spin to make it sound like an elaboration of a proven idea.  I had to adopt a pose and sustain it for however many thousand words, building self-referential loops of nonsense until the mounting absurdity reaches such levels that the mind relents and agrees.

I still believed that we're driven by the unconscious.  I still believed that every cultural artifact encodes layers of meaning.  I still believed that there exist institutionalised injustices, and I still wanted peace and understanding for all people. 

Somehow all this brought me to was a listless self-loathing.  I still didn't know what my culture could possibly stand for, beyond slavery, exploitation, colonialism, patriarchy.  I still didn't know what I could stand for, other than to be an ally for aggrieved classes.

Indeed, when my nervous breakdown came and I e-mailed my teachers that I wouldn't finish the year, I don't think I imagined that the older gay professor appeared most upset to be losing an intelligent, straight, gentile ally who he had invested in.  I hope that's only a vicious projection on my part.  The young gay Jewish professor just seemed confused, while my three straight professors, all of them in the philosophy department, expressed various levels of support and concern. 

My metaphysics teacher shuffled things around to give me a pass with the work I'd done, so I could still get a degree.  Another phoned me in Nova Scotia, when he read my e-mail too late to make a difference, and earnestly tried to confirm I was sure about dropping the course, as I had written a paper he liked.  Between the philosophy and cultural studies departments, the difference in reaction when I faltered was striking.

~~~

At that time the problem was academic.  It was my own failure, or it was the excesses of my teachers, but it was behind me.  I tried for a few years to catch up on the readings I'd missed in the hopes that something would come together, but I only became more convinced that most of my higher education was best ignored.  I could retain some psychology and semiotics, film theory and the history of ideas, but as an animating ideology cultural studies was impossible.  It told stories of oppression in which I could only play a stock villain or a prostrate ally.  But at least it was only professors who believed that shit.

Now I'm actually worried.  What I thought ten years ago was a radical academic fringe confined to a hippie school and mentally stuck in '68 is now a swarming horde of shrieking cultural Marxists, determined to remake society in accordance with the dictates of their puny feelings.  I just want to convey to the rational men and women, gay and straight, Jew and gentile alike, that from my own lived experience, the ideological underpinnings of the militant social justice movement are every bit as mental as they may appear, and I barely got out alive to tell you so.

By the waterfall.

The Canadian Lückenpresse

If you live in the CBC matrix, you are living in a bubble that will soon be pricked by reality. A reality that even the CBC cannot hold at bay. Your trusted information gatekeepers will not be able to stop the truth from busting through and overwhelming you. The shock will render you bewildered and paralytic. You will not be able to make sense of what has befallen you, much in the way that the establishment media pundits are dumbfounded by Trump's success. How could this happen?

Justice that rewards.

Sweden Invests In Imams

Kista Folk High School in Sweden will be training imams with a government grant in the autumn, in the hopes of counteracting fundamentalist groups.  The program will be open to Shi'ites, but is intended to cater to Sunnis.  There is some debate over whether it will be able to satisfy the needs of all Islamic backgrounds, or if there will even be employment opportunities for the Sunni theology.  Nevertheless, Kista Folkhögskola's rector, Abdulkader Habib, thinks religious authorities being educated in Sweden is a "positive development."

Monoliths and Lighthouses

'Man's actions are always good.'

Judge not.

Elijah Wood and Hollywood

Elijah Wood, himself having avoided being preyed upon by Hollywood moguls, has seen enough, heard enough, and read enough to break ranks and attest to the presence of organised child abuse in the global centre of culture creation.

The innocent element in so-called evil acts.

Pleasure and social instinct.

Pleasure in custom.

Unethical Amnesia

Because of the brain's preference for virtuous memories, unethical actions have a tendency to be poorly remembered, and therefore repeated.  The ego's defense mechanisms encourage dishonesty to discourage psychological distress.  The petty blind spots of individuals thus accumulate, weaving a lying web of dissimulation and deception we like to call society.

Custom and what is in accordance with it.

PM Bumps MP

Justin Trudeau, the proud feminist prime minister who touted his historic gender-balanced cabinet, is now in hot water for elbowing a woman in the House of Commons.

"I am ashamed to be a witness to the person who holds the highest position in our country do such an act," said NDP MP Nikki Ashton. "I want to say that for all of us who witnessed this, this was deeply traumatic, what I will say, if we apply a gendered lens, it is very important that young women in this space feel safe to come here and work here."

The prime minister has repeatedly apologised for accidentally bumping a lady while "manhandling" a man.

"I want to take the opportunity... to be able to express directly to [Brosseau] my apologies for my behaviour and my actions, unreservedly. The fact is in this situation, where I saw... I noticed that the whip opposite was being impeded in his progress, I took it upon myself to go and assist him forward, which I can now see was unadvisable as a course of actions that resulted in physical contact in this House that we can all accept was unacceptable," because it's 2016.

Morality of the mature individual.

Soft and Hard Targets of Scepticism

When people like this get together, they become tribal. They pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart they are compared to those outside the tribe. But belonging to a tribe often makes you dumber.

Belgian Police Warn Against Liking Things

Facebook's helpful new feature allowing users to react with greater nuance has the coincidental effect of providing deeper data on user mental states, allowing algorithms to tailor the selection and placement of advertisements to take advantage of their moods.

The three phases of morality hitherto.

Origin of justice.

On The Unreliability of Witnesses and Scientists

Once the reality of meteorite falls became established, the historian Eusebius Salverte pointed out that scientists' failure to recognise the truth of the matter for so long was borne out of "a predetermination to see nothing, or to deny what we had seen."

Vanity.

Disappearing Migrants Necessitate Better Surveillance

Germany has lost track of 130,000 migrants, so the European Commission must spend £24million on computers to track everyone's faces.  The technology will be ready in four years' time--at which point it will help to bring migration under control, and definitely not be used for any other purpose.

Ebony Dickens Did Not Do Anything

A woman who posted on Facebook that she condoned black people killing white cops, and declared that she herself was plotting to shoot and kill as many as she could the next day (while invoking free speech) intended the statement, "Death to all white cops nationwide" as satire.  Charges of terroristic threats and inciting a riot have been dropped, because she said she's sorry.  She was only a black woman trying to make a point about white privilege, after all.

The Bending of Trending

"Imposing human editorial values" is the job of a team of "news curators" who decide what stories Facebook will display as currently important to users.

Criminals Paid to Move to the Suburbs

The plan is to make the bad part of town move to the good part of town to make it good.  It didn't work in the test case, but that's still the plan.

Luke 18, 14 improved.

The index of scales.

Wickedness is rare.

Refinement of shame.

Sleep of virtue.

Skin of the soul.

Errors of the sufferer and the doer.

Someone Resists Nordic Resistance

Tess Asplund is a brave activist hero, being hailed for the iconic moment when she stood up to hundreds of militant extremist right-wing fascist Nazis, as a single woman with a single defiant gesture: a fist raised in peace.  Unfortunately the Daily Mail was unable to reach any of the hundreds of militant extremist right-wing fascist Nazis for comment.

Russian Firefighting Offer Called "Snide"

In a startlingly vivid expression of slave morality, allegations are being made that Russia's offer to help put out Canada's fires are an attempt to belittle Canada.  While the government deliberates over whether to accept the help, the fire rages on.

Big Solution For Big Problem

Faced with the prospect of having to conserve water, the United Arab Emirates is considering building a mountain to command the rain instead.  Millennia hence, no one will believe the stories.

Political Action Committees Against Caucasians

Two white millennials have been raising money to pressure white men not to run for office, while another PAC dedicated to stopping Donald Trump has unironically tweeted and deleted that they hate white children.

Negative Partisanship Escalates

47% of Trump supporters mostly only back him because they don't want Clinton to win, a worrying 1% more than the percentage of Clinton supporters who mainly support her because they don't want Trump to win.  Everyone may be choosing the lesser of two evils, but Reuters is more bothered by Trump.

Public Given Small Yellow Submarine in Consolation

Some assholes at the U.K.'s National Environment Research Council--who asked for people's suggestions for a publicly-funded ship's name--apparently think the Sir David Attenborough is a better name for a research vessel than Boaty McBoatface, and they'll subvert the will of the people to wage their poncy class war against fun!

Vanity enriches.

Ambition a surrogate for moral feeling.

Honour transferred from the person to the thing.

The ascetic.

Misunderstanding of virtue.

Everyday standard.

Recipients of Aid Offer Aid

As thousands of residents of Fort McMurray fear for the loss of their homes and lives to raging wildfires, people of all sorts work to help however they can.  Where some see a human tragedy, others a terrible example of nature's power, some see an opportunity for the advancement of their political agenda, and others praise this effort as much as the charity being reported.

Wolf Cried

When redefining terms and seeking out offenses isn't enough to validate your bigoted expectations of bigotry, consider faking a hate crime.

Earthling Exceptionalism Improbable

The application of new exoplanet data to the Drake equation has added several exclamation marks to the Fermi paradox, the suggestion that we observe a problematic dearth of aliens around.  Either there are other intelligent civilisations already visiting, or we can expect our own civilisation to inevitably collapse very soon.  Possibly both.

Degree of moral inflammability unknown.

Hope.

Execution.

Love and justice.

Morality and success.

Sancta simplicitas of virtue.

Punishable, never punished.

Whither honesty can lead.

The rager.

Value of diminution.

Revelling in revenge.

Revenge and the desire to revenge.

Intellect and morality.

What one can promise.

Military-Industrial Complex Shares With Guitarist

Tom DeLonge, formerly of pop-punk band Blink-182, has written a novel with the help of a professor of Shakespeare, as well as "sources within the aerospace industry and the Department of Defense and NASA" (a statement apparently specifically approved by those sources). 

The premise of Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows is that the government has built alien reproduction vehicles from acquired alien technology.  Curiously, this closely matches the story given in the recent revival of The X-Files.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Fucking Loves Science

‘Science’ here has very little to do with the scientific method itself; it means ontological physicalism, not believing in our Lord Jesus Christ, hating the spectrally stupid, and, more than anything, pretty pictures of nebulae and tree frogs.

Muslims Prize Canadian Freedoms

Canadian Muslims are more proud of being Canadian than non-Muslim Canadians--but young Muslims are more attached to their religious identity than their parents, more likely to value Canada for its multiculturalism and diversity rather than its freedom and democracy, more likely to be pessimistic about discrimination, and more likely to say their faith is more important to them than their nationality.

More female Muslims are wearing the niqab than ten years ago, with the largest growth among young people who have been to university.  In general, Muslims with less education are more likely to wear the niqab, but not in Canada.

Almost twice as many Muslims as non-Muslims think that the father should be the master of the house, and less than half as many think homosexuality should be accepted by society.  89% of Muslims report being satisfied with the direction Canada is going, compared with 56% of non-Muslims.

"Muslim Canadians," itself a discrimination, say they have experienced discrimination more than that reported by the "general population," an apparently undifferentiated mass.  How it could be logically otherwise is unclear.

Morality as the self-division of man.

Victory of knowledge over radical evil.

Casting suspicion on morality on account of faith.

The lie.

Supposed stages of truth.

How appearance becomes being.

The desire to excite pity.

Neighbour Sees Children, Reports Them As Unsupervised

A Winnipeg mother was interrogated by Child and Family Services after an anonymous complaint that her children were seen playing in her backyard.

"All people is going."

Migrants are blocking trucks from leaving Greece for the rest of Europe, because the migrants have been denied that privilege.  Visiting anarchists keep the migrants fed.

Space-Awe For Health

The replicability of the overview effect, whereby seeing the Earth from space induces a life-changing sense of wonder, could lead to virtual reality awe machines.  Alternatively, this may just tell us that those who go to the heavens come back lighter.

Parsing Partisan Psychology

Political discussion among like-minded people polarises political opinion and retroactively alters biases.  Political psychology is so pernicious as to invisibly intensify upon exposure to consensus!

Super-Whitey Is The Wizard Behind The Curtain

A professional education consultant speaking at the 17th annual White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia has suggested that teachers must be activists too, working to overcome the racial supremacist narrative of disciplined hard work leading to individual success.

The white imperial gaze must be deconstructed by transgressing against the normative hetero-patriarchal conceptions of goal orientation and proper English.  The hierarchical power structure of grading emphasizes traits chosen to favor whites!  Students should be assessed not for their individual merits, but rather taught as a class.

Classroom learning and class consciousness must be intimately intertwined, like the hammer and sickle of our mighty banner.

Trust in the Media

Only 12% of the 87% of Americans using Facebook for news have a lot of trust in it.  Nonetheless, many were recently wowed by a short clip of Justin Trudeau reciting smart things in front of some equations.

Benevolence.

Economy of goodness.

Sympathy more painful than suffering.

Twofold prehistory of good and evil.

Cruel men as retarded men.

The order of desirable things and morality.

The unalterable character.

The over-animal.

Dehumanising Ads Are The Problem

The German Justice Minister has announced a proposal to demand that women and men in advertisements cover up their sinful bodies, to attempt to create a "modern gender image" that will be less likely to inspire new Germans to commit sexual assault.

Sticks and Stones and Words

The Halifax Regional School Board continues to deny and obfuscate complications surrounding the integration of refugee children, while feminists and anti-bullying advocates continue their silence.  Parents want support, leftists call them racist--while the school hears, sees, and speaks no evil.

Humans Made Love, Not War

New research suggests that Homo sapiens wiped out the Neanderthals not by brutal warfare and genocide, but by carrying tropical diseases into Ice Age homes.

Homan Square Not On The Level

Chicago's secret interrogation center was so secret that other Chicago police officers knew of less than 4% of the arrests held there.

Muslims Prize British Freedoms

"Oddly, the biggest obstacles we now face in addressing the growth of this nation-within-a-nation are not created by British Muslims themselves. Many of our (distinctly un-diverse) elite political and media classes simply refuse to acknowledge the truth."

"First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin"

Berlin has been "lost" to a criminal underworld of about eight Arab families, who came in the late 1970s, and who have exploited the migrant crisis to swell their ranks.

Student Suspensions Down, Teacher Hospitalisations Up

Since the only conceivable explanation for racial disparities in school discipline is systemic racism in the black hearts of white people, an edict has been issued by the Obama regime: any school found to have a disproportionate number of students of colour suspended or expelled will face lawsuits and funding cuts.

It doesn't matter if the black kids break the rules more often, because they're also more likely to go to jail, and "disparate impact" theory dictates that disciplining disadvantaged children puts them in the school-to-prison pipeline--therefore not punishing them in school now will keep them out of prison later!

Two students gave a business teacher a head wound that required staples, and another choked a science teacher into a coma.  The students were black and the teachers were white, but that teacher bleeding out on the floor has privilege, so it isn't a racist hate crime, just rambunctious children expressing themselves.

In a survey of 830 teachers in Syracuse, one-third say they've been assaulted in the classroom, two-thirds say they fear for their safety, and almost half say they're seriously considering quitting because their schools are not committed to protecting them.

In Colorado, a teacher was fired for calling the police after her thirteen-year-old student promised to kill her.  He had previously punched her in the ribs and broke her thumb, but no matter.

In Minnesota, a teacher complained on Facebook about permissive policies "enabling student misconduct" in the form of a series of assaults against teachers.  Black Lives Matter threatened to shut down the school for this, calling the teacher "a white supremacist."  Two days after meeting with the communist agitators, the school superintendent put the ten-year veteran teacher on administrative leave.

Barack Obama continues to work for racial justice and equality, while 2015 was the most violent year ever in the New York City public school system.