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Museum To Remove Dr. Seuss Mural After Authors Brand It “Racist”…


Lame.
Via Breitbart:

A museum dedicated to Dr. Seuss in Springfield, Massachusetts, said it would remove a mural depicting a Chinese character featured in one of his books after three authors claimed the image was a “jarring racial stereotype.”
The three authors who claimed that the image reinforces racial stereotypes said they would boycott the museum’s first-ever Children’s Literature Festival, which was slated for October 14 before organizers canceled the event, Fox News reports.
The mural contains illustrations from Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
Authors Mike Curato, Mo Willems, and Lisa Yee signed a letter that said the illustrations portray “deeply hurtful” racial stereotypes about the Chinese. The complaint posted to Twitter reads:
We recently learned that a key component of this institution honoring Dr. Seuss features a mural depicting a scene from his first book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,’ and within the selected art is a jarring racial stereotype of a Chinese man, who is depicted with chopsticks, a pointed hat, and slanted slit eyes. We find this caricature of ‘the Chinaman’ deeply hurtful, and we have concerns about children’s exposure to it.
When the museum offered to remove the mural, the authors said they would stop their boycott and attend the event.
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The woman who calls Trump Hitler and defends Harvey Wienstien now calls herself a WASP

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BBC Gives Transgender Model Platform to Assert ‘White Race is Violent’

National broadcaster a willing mouthpiece for racist rant

Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com - October 13, 2017 699 Comments






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Transgender model Munroe Bergdorf was given a platform by Britain’s national broadcaster the BBC to assert that the white race is “violent”.

Bergdorf was recently in the headlines for launching a racist tirade against white people, forcing L’Oreal to end its relationship with her.

Doubling down on her hatred, Bergdorf repeated the same sentiments on BBC This Week, remarking, “The uncomfortable truth is that the white race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on earth.”

"The uncomfortable truth is that the white race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on earth" @MunroeBergdorf in #bbctw film pic.twitter.com/TePO0S1RhX
— BBC This Week (@bbcthisweek) October 12, 2017

She went on to assert that the UK, which allows over 300,000 net immigrants to enter the country every year, was a “deeply racist society” and had “built its success on the enslavement of non-white people.”

Bergdorf then claims that people are born racist and that it is “inherited” and “passed down through privilege”.

Absent from her argument is the fact that the British were the first in the world to end slavery, a practice that still takes place in numerous countries around the globe – none of which are white.

Some people responded to the video by urging others to report it to regulator Ofcom and even the police.

"Rather than draping themselves in the flag, British sport stars should take a knee" – @kehinde_andrews #viewsnight pic.twitter.com/ZFyGwEGkiY
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) October 12, 2017

In another clip that aired on BBC Newsnight, Kehinde Andrews, the Chair of ‘Organisation of Black Unity’ called for British sports stars to kneel for the national anthem because “racism is so ingrained that it is part of the DNA of the nation.”

Admitting that British police rarely kill anyone, Andrews proceeded to complain that black people were not getting enough welfare and adequate housing because of “the British Empire” and its “genocide, slavery and colonialism”.

Both speakers are seemingly unaware of the irony of them complaining about being “oppressed” while simultaneously being given a platform on a taxpayer-funded national broadcaster to whine about how oppressed they are.

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Girl, 17, 'suffers three separate sex attacks' on way home from night out

CCTV images of two suspects sought by police over the assaults in Tower Hamlets Credit: Metropolitan Police

• Telegraph Reporters

13 October 2017 • 8:39am A 17-year-old girl is believed to have been sexually assaulted on three separate occasions as she walked home from a night out.
It is believed she was repeatedly attacked over the course of an hour after she became separated from her friends following a visit to a club in Tower Hamlets, east London.
Police said her ordeal started shortly before midnight on Friday September 29 when she was picked up on camera being carried by a man in Cambridge Heath Road.
The pair are then seen appearing to go into a doorway in the same road, after which the man, who was wearing dark clothing, is not seen again on camera.
Items of the top half of the girl's clothing were subsequently found nearby.
Shortly after midnight, another CCTV camera picks up the girl stumbling down Mint Street, being followed by a different, bearded male, on a racing bicycle.
CCTV released by police of suspect after sex assaults






Officers said the man followed the teenager along Mint Street, into Three Colts Lane, and then as she heads in the direction of Bethnal Green Overground station.
When the next camera picks her up, the man has approached her and they have reached Corfield Street.





Some time later, the camera picks up the man leaving the area and walking away.
The girl, whose clothing appears dishevelled, emerges shortly afterwards and goes further down Corfield Street.
Just minutes later, at around 12.45am, detectives believe the victim suffered a third attack, possibly involving two or three men.
The CCTV captures a third, different man walking down Corfield Street and joining two other figures under some trees. He appears to bend down towards a spot on the kerb in between some parked cars.
Detectives believe it was at this point that the victim was sexually assaulted.
Video from Met Police shows another suspect






A short time later, a member of the public spotted the teenager lying on the ground in Corfield Street in a state of distress and called 999.
Detectives believe it is possible that she was drugged and are in the process of carrying out toxicology tests.
Detective Inspector Suzanne Jordan, from the Metropolitan Police's child abuse and sexual offences command, said: "This is a horrific multiple sexual assault on an young female who was simply making her way home after a night out.
"We would like to thank the members of the public who intervened to help her and possibly prevented her ordeal from continuing even further.





"We believe two of the three were very serious sexual assaults indeed, and are determined to catch the persons responsible for these hideous crimes."
Police have released images of two men wanted in connection with the assaults.

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White Nationalism Is Destroying the West

By SASHA POLAKOW-SURANSKY OCT. 12, 2017


Credit JooHee Yoon On July 14, 2016, as French families strolled along Nice’s seafront promenade, a Tunisian man driving a large truck rammed into a crowd, killing 86 people. A month later, the mayor of nearby Cannes declared that “burkinis” — a catchall term for modest swimwear favored by many religious women — would be banned from the city’s beaches; a municipal official called the bathing suits “ostentatious clothing” expressing an “allegiance to terrorist movements that are at war with us.”
One of the law’s first victims was a third-generation Frenchwoman who was ordered by the police to strip off her veil while onlookers shouted, “Go back to your country.” Still, many French politicians and intellectuals rushed to defend the ban. The former president Nicolas Sarkozy called modest swimwear “a provocation”; Alain Finkielkraut, a prominent philosopher, argued that “the burkini is a flag.” But what they presented as a defense of secular liberal values was in fact an attack on them — a law, masquerading as neutral, had explicitly targeted one religious group.
When rapid immigration and terrorist attacks occur simultaneously — and the terrorists belong to the same ethnic or religious group as the new immigrants — the combination of fear and xenophobia can be dangerous and destructive. In much of Europe, fear of jihadists (who pose a genuine security threat) and animosity toward refugees (who generally do not) have been conflated in a way that allows far-right populists to seize on Islamic State attacks as a pretext to shut the doors to desperate refugees, many of whom are themselves fleeing the Islamic State, and to engage in blatant discrimination against Muslim fellow citizens.
But this isn’t happening only in European countries. In recent years, anti-immigration rhetoric and nativist policies have become the new normal in liberal democracies from Europe to the United States. Legitimate debates about immigration policy and preventing extremism have been eclipsed by an obsessive focus on Muslims that paints them as an immutable civilizational enemy that is fundamentally incompatible with Western democratic values.
Yet despite the breathless warnings of impending Islamic conquest sounded by alarmist writers and pandering politicians, the risk of Islamization of the West has been greatly exaggerated. Islamists are not on the verge of seizing power in any advanced Western democracy or even winning significant political influence at the polls.



The same cannot be said of white nationalists, who today are on the march from Charlottesville, Va., to Dresden, Germany. As an ideology, white nationalism poses a significantly greater threat to Western democracies; its proponents and sympathizers have proved, historically and recently, that they can win a sizable share of the vote — as they did this year in France, Germany and the Netherlands — and even win power, as they have in the United States.
Far-right leaders are correct that immigration creates problems; what they miss is that they are the primary problem. The greatest threat to liberal democracies does not come from immigrants and refugees but from the backlash against them by those on the inside who are exploiting fear of outsiders to chip away at the values and institutions that make our societies liberal.
Anti-Semitic and xenophobic movements did not disappear from Europe after the liberation of Auschwitz, just as white supremacist groups have lurked beneath the surface of American politics ever since the Emancipation Proclamation. What has changed is that these groups have now been stirred from their slumber by savvy politicians seeking to stoke anger toward immigrants, refugees and racial minorities for their own benefit. Leaders from Donald Trump to France’s Marine Le Pen have validated the worldview of these groups, implicitly or explicitly encouraging them to promote their hateful opinions openly. As a result, ideas that were once marginal have now gone mainstream.
The trend is unmistakable. Hungary’s ruling party has plastered anti-Semitic ads on bus stops and billboards; an overtly neo-Nazi movement won 7 percent of the vote in Greece’s 2015 election; Germany’s upstart far-right party, which includes a popular member who criticized Berlin’s Holocaust memorial as “a monument of shame,” won 13 percent in last month’s election.
In France and Denmark, populist leaders have gone to great pains to shed the right’s crudest baggage and rebrand themselves in a way that appeals to Jews, women and gay people by depicting Muslims as the primary threat to all three groups. But their core goal remains the same: to close the borders and expel unwanted foreigners.
Cultural and demographic anxiety about dwindling native populations and rapidly increasing immigrant ones lies at the heart of these parties’ ideologies. In America, Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, worries about the impossibility of restoring “our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” In Europe, the right frets about who’s having the new German or Danish babies and the fact that it’s not white Germans or Danes — a social Darwinist dread popularized by the German writer Thilo Sarrazin, whose best-selling 2010 book, “Germany Abolishes Itself,” warned that barely literate Muslims were poised to replace the supposedly more intelligent German race.
The leader of the Netherlands’ newest far-right party fears that Europe will not exist “as a predominantly white-skinned, Christian or post-Christian, Roman-law-based kind of society” a few decades from now. “If I go to a museum, and I look at these portraits, they are essentially people like me that I can see. In 50 years it won’t be,” he worries.
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France, more than any other country, has been the source of these ideas.
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IN FEBRUARY 2016, French right-wing groups descended on the town of Calais, protesting a huge informal refugee camp there known as the “Jungle.” Members of the German anti-Islam group Pegida (the name is short for the German words for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) came, too. Demonstrators clashed with local policemen, and a decorated French paratrooper marching alongside them was arrested. A van marked with the logo of a medical charity aiding Jungle residents was set on fire one evening, and the group’s volunteers had their tires slashed.
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A few months later, I met the leaders of a local anti-immigration group called Retake Calais. When I asked if they wanted to see the migrants leave town, they lamented that closing the camp — which has since been bulldozed — wouldn’t help. “They’re sending them to all the little villages in France,” one of them told me. “In two years the villages will be dead.”
“It’s the great replacement,” his friend added, echoing the title of a 2010 book by the French writer Renaud Camus, which paints a dark picture of demographic conquest in the West. “They want to replace us.”
As Mr. Camus explains in the book: “You have a people and then, in an instant, in one generation, you have in its place one or several other peoples.” He finds it scandalous that “a veiled woman speaking our language badly, completely ignorant of our culture” is legally considered as French as “an indigenous Frenchman passionate for Romanesque churches, and the verbal and syntactic subtleties of Montaigne and Rousseau.” In Mr. Camus’s eyes, groups like Pegida are heroic. He praises the group as a “liberation front” that is battling “a colonial conquest in progress” where white Europeans are “the colonized indigenous people.”
Ms. Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party, has a similar fear, and she sees birthright citizenship as the vehicle for replacement. Although she doesn’t use the term favored by many Republicans in the United States (“anchor babies”), she insists, as she told me in an interview last May, that “we must stop creating automatic French citizens.”
This argument has a long pedigree. It can be traced back to the Dreyfus Affair, when the virulently anti-Semitic writer Maurice Barrès warned that immigrants wanted to impose their way of life on France and that it would spell the “ruin of our fatherland.” “They are in contradiction to our civilization,” Barrès wrote in 1900. He saw French identity as rooted purely in his bloodline, declaring, “I defend my cemetery.”
Today’s version of the argument is: if you have foreign blood and don’t behave appropriately, then you don’t get a passport.
The notion of a Great Replacement has crossed the Atlantic and found an eager audience among groups who have long espoused similar white supremacist ideas. The Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders warned in 2015 of “masses of young men in their 20s with beards singing ‘Allahu akbar’ across Europe.” He labeled their presence “an invasion that threatens our prosperity, our security, our culture and identity.”
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A year later, Mr. Wilders attended the Republican national convention, where he headlined an L.G.B.T. pro-Trump event along with the anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller and the alt-right wunderkind Milo Yiannopoulos. Before he began his talk in front of a wall featuring photos of barechested men, “Make America Great Again” hats and a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, Mr. Wilders was introduced as “the hope for Western civilization.”
Calais and Charlottesville may be nearly 4,000 miles apart, but the ideas motivating far-right activists in both places are the same. When white nationalists descended on Charlottesville in August, the crowd chanted “Jews will not replace us” and “you will not replace us” before one of its members allegedly killed a woman with his car and others beat a black man; last week, they returned bearing torches and chanting similar slogans.
Just as Mr. Trump has plenty to say about Islamic State attacks but generally has no comment about hate crimes against Indians, blacks and Muslims, the European far-right is quick to denounce any violent act committed by a Muslim but rarely feels compelled to forcefully condemn attacks on mosques or neo-Nazis marching near synagogues on Yom Kippur.
Doing so might alienate their base. Alexander Gauland, a co-leader of the newest party in the German Parliament, is adamant that his Alternative for Germany is “not the parliamentary arm of Pegida,” although he did acknowledge in an interview that “a lot of people who march with Pegida in Dresden are people who could be members, or friends, or voters” for the party. Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Gauland and Ms. Le Pen would never admit to being white nationalists, but they are more than happy to dog-whistle to them and accept their support.
Those who worry that a godless Europe and an immigration-friendly America are no match for Islamic extremists have ignored an even greater threat: white nationalists.
708Comments Their ideology is especially dangerous because they present themselves as natives valiantly defending the homeland. Because they look and sound like most of their co-citizens, they garner sympathy from the majority in ways that Islamists never could. White nationalism is in many ways a mirror image of radical Islamism. Both share a nostalgic obsession with a purist form of identity: for one, a medieval Islamic state; for the other, a white nation unpolluted by immigrant blood.
If the influence of white nationalists continues to grow, they will eventually seek to trample the rights of immigrants and minorities and dismiss courts and constitutions as anti-democratic because they don’t reflect the supposed preferences of “the people.” Their rise threatens to transform countries that we once thought of as icons of liberalism into democracies only in name.

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Poll: Majority Of White Americans Say Whites Are Discriminated Against In America

55% of white Americans “believe there is discrimination against whites in America today”

Chris Menahan | Information Liberation - October 25, 2017 454 Comments




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A strong majority of white Americans say they believe whites face discrimination in the United States, according to a new poll from NPR.
The poll found 55% of white Americans, “generally speaking,” “believe there is discrimination against whites in America today.”

Asked whether they’ve been “personally discriminated against because they are white,” 19 percent of white Americans said yes when it came to applying for jobs, 13 percent said yes when it came to being paid equally or considered for promotions at work and 11 percent said yes for when it came to applying to college or while at college.
Among white Americans who believe anti-white discrimination exists, 26 percent said the biggest problem with anti-white discrimination is discrimination based on laws and government policies, 61 percent said discrimination based in the prejudice of individual people and 11 percent said both are equally a problem.
Feelings of discrimination were higher among all other races polled:

White people are systemically discriminated against as a matter of law through affirmative action programs at colleges and in the workplace, as well as through loans and government contracts given only to minority-owned businesses. While all minority groups have explicitly race-based advocacy groups which advocate on their own behalf, merely advocating against anti-white discrimination gets one labeled a “nazis” and “white supremacist.”
Though NPR falsely reported that, “data show[s] whites continue to be better off financially … than minority groups,” the reality is Indian-Americans earn the highest incomes in America, Jewish-Americans are second and Asian-Americans are third. A survey in 2013 found European Americans were in seventh.