Getting the banned back together

Following on from the post below, I opened Timmys blog this morning and read this:

I think I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries no bitterness but stops just short of pride. It’s proof, he says, that his works on racism, which extend from deep, scholarly histories to a biography of Malcolm X for children, are getting through to the right people – and annoying the right people.

As Tim points out:

The US does not ban books. Therefore this is not true.

Indeed. Those that talk about books being 'banned' in America, are simply pretending that a refusal to engage with their works on the part of more right wing leaning people, means their work is being censored or banned

 

'A is for Activism', is a book that should be kept well away from children and not included in any type of school library. As probably should, and I'm saying this without reading it and just going off experience, Ibram Kendis biography of Malcolm X for children

 

I'm not saying people should not learn about Malcolm X, but it's a heady subject, probably suited towards the more mature reader, and you can guarantee that any biography of the man written by a political activist and targeted at a child audience, will be garbage intended to brainwash, and very far from a truthful and impartial account of Mr X

According to the writers’ advocacy group PEN America, his books have been banned at least 50 times by multiple US school districts during the tumultuous “anti-woke” backlash of the past five years.

Schools do not want his books. To us that just means, schools do not want his books. To them it means, they're banned

My excellent blog, The Moose, must also be banned in America, as to my knowledge, it's contents have never been to taught in any schools accross the whole country

Fascists!

 

The 'anti-woke' backlash is not just about questionable woke propaganda in schools, many books have been 'banned' that promote the trans cult and contain some very graphic details about the many sexual deviants who walk among us, and what they like to get up to in bed (amongst other places)

 

Again, we're told these things are banned when schools refuse to engage with them, but the simple fact is, they're filth and have no business being in schools, and should probably come with an 18 age restriction

Discussing his latest book, Chain of Ideas, 43-year-old Kendi presents another uncompromising binary. “We, as human beings, have two choices in the 21st century: antiracist democracy or racist dictatorship,” he tells me over a video call from his book-lined study at Howard University in Washington DC.

So he's an educator too. Acedemia seems to be rife with these people. I can only think that they have so much trouble convincing normal, well adjusted adults, of their perversions and fantasies, that their only recourse is to target young and developing minds, in an environment away from their parents

 

Having said that, nine million adults recently voted for a Labour government, and more recently, 14,980 adults voted for a Green MP. There may be a woke backlash, schools may be 'banning' woke books and the left clearly need the next generation on their side, but unfortunately, adults are still the problem

“There is almost certainly a likelihood that in 20 years, the better part of Europe, and frankly the world, could be led by racist dictatorships,” he continues. “We’ve gone from monarchy to democracy to dictatorship. We’re literally going backwards. Why? Because we fear people we don’t know.”

Dictatorships come in many forms, but the only dictators I see around me at the moment, are the woke, not the anti-woke. Do as we tell you, believe what we tell you, repeat our mantra, ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears, or you will be persecuted, sacked from your jobs and maybe even sent to prison

But the primary route to enabling antiracist democracy to flourish, he says, is simply improving conditions for people. “Because it is those conditions, and it is people’s own struggles, that are being capitalised on to blame those immigrants, Muslims, Black people, for why those conditions exist. 

The evidence of our eyes and ears tells us that when immigrants arrive in large numbers from a third world country, we become a third world country. We blame those people for why those conditions exist, because they bring those conditions with them

The great replacement theory is a smokescreen for the real causes of poverty and deprivation: neoliberal capitalism and the huge inequalities it has created.

And there it is. This is usually what it comes down to. He's an anti-capitalist. Capitalism has dragged more people out of poverty than any other system ever tried, anywhere

 

Capitalism has created the wealth that the great replacers come here to seek. It also created opportunities to earn or create your own wealth, but why bother doing that when your new host country will just hand it to you?

 

Answers on a postcard... 

Some more letters

Sorry folks. I did promise you some more letters 

Letters from this abomination 

I had forgotton all about it, and that's probably the way you wanted it, but now it's back in my mind, here's another little extract

 

N Is for no. Teaching toddlers to say no. D is for do as your told

And just look at the picture. A small child who doesn't yet know their ABC's, holding a sign saying, 'No justice, no peace'

Talk about starting them young. There can be no other reason for this than indoctrination. But that was made obvious in the last post

 

 

This is my favourite, in a manner of speaking. The trans cult are failing in their mission to get the adult population on board, so their only hope is to get them young

'Trans kids' is a big thing for them. While we call trans a mental illness, they have to pretend they're born that way. Which means trans kids must be a thing, so they have to create some

 

This one baffled me

The first toddlers book I've ever seen, where I've had to Google a word in it. Apparently Zapatista is a hard left nationalist group in Mexico. What that has to do with a childrens book about the alphabet, I've no idea

Of course

 

Here's one final letter for you, before I wrap this madness up for good

 

B

 

Is there a war on?

The following is from the Guardian, but you have to subscribe to read it, and as I don't, there's no link. The text was knicked from Timmys place though

There are urban areas of England where no one lives within a 15-minute walk of nature, government data shows, as ministers scramble to meet their access to nature targets.

I have to ask, and pardon my French, but who actually gives a flying fuck? And what the actual fuck is an 'Access to Nature' target, and why do these morons come up with such things?

While the data shows 80% of people live within walking distance of green or blue spaces such as a river, park or woodland, it also reveals a disparity between rural and poorer urban areas.

So  in the first paragraph we have '15 minute walk', and in the second, 'within walking distance'. The Government must think it's impossible to walk more than 15 minutes. Within walking distance to me would be an hours walk away. I don't do that often, but I do do it, and I know there are many people out there who would consider even that to be a short stroll

 

The term 'Green Spaces' has been getting on my nerves for quite some time now, so you can imagine how pleased I was to find out that we are now calling rivers and stuff, 'Blue Spaces'. We're governed by idiots. Ridiculous, target driven idiots

The access minister, Sue Hayman, said: “Spending time in nature is so important for our mental and physical wellbeing, and this government is committed to delivering better access to nature for people across the country, no matter where they live.

HOW!? What do they plan to do? Bulldoze roads and run rivers through them? How on Earth do you deliver better access to nature for people who live in urban sprawls, apart from plant a couple of trees on the street corner and put a water fountain in the town centre?

 

And why? So what if some people don't have a tree less than 15 minutes away? Who gives a tiny rats arse? Why do the government need to do something? There may be a disparity between rural and urban areas, but there's a clue in the names; Rural is rural and urban is urban, and that's the way it works

 

And why do we have an 'Access Minister' anyway? Is she our flexible friend?

We have already taken action to improve access to nature by announcing the first of nine national river walks, the Mersey Valley Way and two new national forests.”

She doesn't say where they are planting these forests, or which council estate they will be fifteen minutes walk from

 

So our Government has the following priorities:

Identify a probelm that isn't a problem

Set targets to fix it

Miss the target because they are fucking impossible

Get in a tizwas about it

Forget to send ships to defend our military bases overseas when they get attacked

Call everyone who notices, Far Right

Pay rises all round 

 

Do the puddles in the potholes count as blue spaces? 

Know Your Enemy

I read this over at Tim Worstalls Blog:

The term the politics of hate describes the deliberate use of fear, resentment, and division to win and hold power. It works by persuading people that their problems are caused not by failed policy or unequal power, but by other people, whether they be migrants, minorities, the poor, neighbouring nations, people of another gender or sexual orientation, or anyone else who can be turned into an enemy.

It's a  quote from Richard Murphy, the man man with the economic knowledge of a pigeon. In his usual short, sharp style, Tims short, sharp response is:

Yeah, like the rich, or neoliberals……

True. The left have their own ways of  persuading people their problems are caused by others, most notably, trying to convince us that all our problems are because someone else is a billionaire

 

But we could look a little deeper here 

It works by persuading people that their problems are caused not by failed policy...

Let's take a look at some failed policies:

Migrants: Hundreds of thousands of them coming here illegally, and not even bothering to take our jobs, the bastards, just mooching off our very generous welfare state

Minorities: Trying their very best to put us in the minority. Changing the very fabric of our society until the areas they live in resemble the very shitholes they left, all the while making sure the local folk are no longer welcome there. Not to mention their dogs

Out in the streets blocking traffic, protesting for and waving the flags of their home countries 

The Poor: The term used by the left for people who refuse to work and choose a life of taxpayer handouts, thanks to our very generous welfare system that robs from the productive and gives to the feckless. The real poor are us working stiffs who have to pay for all this with our ever increasing taxes

neighbouring nations: You mean France, sending us all their unwanted invaders? Or the EU?

People of another gender or sexual orientation: Not including men and women, of course. Only the trans cult who want to invade womens spaces and groom the next generation of children to have their bits cut off 

or anyone else who can be turned into an enemy: This is like using 'Etc' when you have used up all your examples

These are all very good examples of policies that have failed miserably

To me, the Government has always been the enemy. The problem is failed Government policies turn other people into the enemy too; usually groups of people who want everything in life for free, for various reasons, or groups of very insignificant people who want to raise thier own profiles by messing with our lives

 

Our politics of hate is simply politics of pointing out what is going wrong and asking that our elected representatives do something about it. Something that will work, rather than just another failed policy like 'tax the rich'

 

Their politics of hate is simply, 'Punish the rich and give us more free stuff' 

 

Of course, I won't comment any of this at Richard Murphys place, as he bans anyone who even slightly disagrees with him, so I was probably PNG'd decades ago 

The left can't sense of humour

 

I say 'The Left' without showing any evidence that this person is left wing, but it's 'Not Always right'. 99.9% of the people who comment on there are left wing. And 99.9% of the people who comment on there have no sense of humour

A is for Activist

We do like to wander round the charity shops in town on a Saturday afternoon, after grabbing a bit of breakfast. There's worst ways to spend your Saturday morning. It's certainly more pleasant that fitting a new letterbox, which I had to do in the afternoon, and was a right ballache

 

I managed to find a couple of good books, but I also found something I didn't expect

 

You know when you hear about a moral panic doing the rounds on Twitter or something, and you think, it can't be that bad?

 

A popular one is how the right wing nazis want to get books banned. The truth behind it is, some people only want the gay and trans porn written for children, to be banned from schools

Well what I found today wasn't quite as bad as that filth, but it's on a par

 

At first I thought it was just a pisstake, but it's not. It's an actual book, written to teach young children the alphabet, in a full on woke, inclusive, diverse, anti-capitalist style

In other words it's pure brainwashing propaganda for toddlers

 

A is for Activist. Advocate. Abolishonist. Ally. Actively answering a call to action. Are you an activist?

And just look at the picture

 

When I was young enough to be reading these books, A was for Apple. I bet it was for you too.

 

The author? Innosanto Nagara. No, I've no idea either, but it does sound about right

 

And on the back cover, it's endorsed by some really famous and respectable people:

 

"Full of wit, beauty and fun. We can think of no better way to learn the alphabet" Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, Author of The Shock Doctrine / Filmmaker

Well I can think of a better way to learn the alphabet. The way we used to before woke started going for the children

 

"We need books for children that use words like Justice, Ally, Freedom and advocate" Rona Renner, Parent Educator. Host of childhood matters radio show

No. We really don't

 

Maybe I'll share some more letters with you in a later blog post. Try to guess what T is for...