Cancel Culture
An academic researcher with a background in communication, political science and American studies — but no science or medical background — played a key advisory role in the Biden administration, federal agencies, social media platforms and Ivy League institutions as they sought to censor content that ran counter to the government’s COVID-19 narrative.
In documents publicized last week as part of the ongoing release of the “Twitter Files,” investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker revealed that Claire Wardle, Ph.D., a professor of the practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University, advised the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which operates under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
In November 2020, just two days after Pfizer-BioNTech released data from their COVID-19 Phase 3 clinical trials, Wardle also drafted a report on “problematic and damaging” narratives concerning “individual liberty arguments” relating to the COVID-19 vaccines.
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Read MorePresident Joe Biden’s administration forced Social Security Administration (SSA) employees to complete a “mandatory” training that lectured employees on respecting their coworkers’ “sexual orientation,” and “gender identity,” The Sentinel reported.
The LGBTQ+ training warned that using preferred pronouns is compulsory and threatened investigations for those deemed noncompliant, according to audio recordings obtained by the Sentinel.
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Read MorePopular video game streamer Nickmercs returned to streaming for the first time since his player bundle was removed from the Call of Duty store after he dared to suggest that LGBT content and Pride Month promotion be kept out of schools and away from children. Despite the efforts of LGBT advocates and leftists to cancel the streaming star, he returned to overwhelming support from his audience.
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Read MoreJoe Lycett backs out of award ceremony over fossil fuel links
Exclusive: Comedian among stars who publicly withdrew from British LGBT Awards after climate campaigners warned of sponsorship deals with oil giants
Damien Gayle
@damiengayle
Tue 20 Jun 2023 18.14 BST
Joe Lycett has pulled out of the British LGBT Awards after climate campaigners said they would protest outside over its sponsorship deals with Shell and BP.
The comedian, who was nominated for his “shredding” of £10,000 in protest at David Beckham’s ambassadorship for the Qatar World Cup, joins a host of other stars who have publicly withdrawn from the event over its fossil fuel links.
The awards ceremony honours queer and LGBT celebrities, role models and organisations. But nominees began pulling out after campaigners warned them it had become an exercise in corporate “pinkwashing” for oil and gas companies.
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Read MoreI’m more and more convinced we’re drowning in a wave of madness, akin to the witchcraft lunacy which terrorised European and American societies for centuries.
Where did it start? It was a mistake to pay any attention to the ‘Gender Theory’ argument (actually a command), that sex is biological but gender is fluid. The two terms were – until the madness broke – synonymous. One was regularly asked ‘Sex?’ on forms, to which some wags replied ‘Yes, please’.
Apologies for restating the basics: your sex is fixed at birth; its social and cultural manifestation is often called gender. You can superficially alter the latter – in terms of presentation – but the former is immutable. A tiny number of individuals (about 0.02%) are born neither XX (female) nor XY (male). This doesn’t constitute a third sex.
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Read MoreInside the seedy world of book censorship with Tony Lyons, founder of Skyhorse Publishing.
He tells us about efforts to silence Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and books on other topics you want to read about.
Listen to this podcast by clicking the arrow in the player below. Or listen on iTunes or your favorite podcast distributor under “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast” and “Full Measure After Hours.”
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Read MoreShe was a young leftist who believed republicans were all “bad people,” but following the election of Donald Trump in 2016 Ashley Smith would bail the progressivist ship and wash up a new person on right-leaning shores. She became an influencer on social media, sharing her freshly-discovered conservative viewpoints with marked accuracy and wit. Today, Smith, 31, produces short, punchy clips, about her fascinating, yet gut-wrenching, exodus from the left toward having “a much more well-rounded view of the realities of the world.”
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Read Moreurgeons in Auckland, New Zealand, are expressing discomfort with a new policy that requires them to consider the ethnicity of their patients as a factor when scheduling surgeries.
Specifically, Maori and Pacific Islander patients are given priority consideration to compensate for historic inequality in access to health care.
Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, a national public health agency established in July 2022 to consolidate numerous regional health boards, introduced an “Equity Adjustor Score” that sets five factors to be considered in surgery priority lists.
The five factors are clinical priority, time already spent on wait lists, if the patient lives in a geographically isolated area, economic deprivation, and ethnicity. The highest scores for ethnicity are given to Maori and Pacific Island (or “Pasifika”) peoples.
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Read MoreThe teacher suggested that the pupils ‘go to a different school’
A Church of England school teacher told a student she was “despicable” after she challenged another classmate who identifies as a cat.
The 13-year-old girl and her friend were rebuked by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex on Friday.
The argument spiralled following a class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.
One student allegedly asked a fellow classmate: “How can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?”, which sparked the heated chaos.
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Read MorePlastering The Pursuit of Love with trigger warnings is patronising and absurd.
Now they’re coming for Nancy Mitford. Her novel, The Pursuit of Love, is the latest literary classic to raise the hackles of the modern publishing industry. New editions of the novel, published by Penguin, will carry a trigger warning, alerting unsuspecting readers that it contains ‘prejudices that were commonplace in British society’. Such prejudices, the new preface patronisingly tells us, were ‘wrong then’ and are ‘wrong today’.
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