PART 23: AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, FOR THOSE FOLLOWING THE ARTIST DE WAHLS, JK ROWLING, STANDING UP TO GENDER IDEALOGUES, MORE FUN FROM THE BABYLON BEE, AND BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY GOES FULL ORWELL SAYS PICNIC AND OTHER WORDS ARE OPPRESSIVE, WARNS STUDENTS

One of our most popular series here at Everything Croton.....and now....More follow-up ARTICLES, VIDEOS....

#1--On June 23rd, Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts put out a carefully worded five-paragraph media statement regarding German-born textile artist Jess de Wahls. “We have apologised to Jess de Wahls for the way we have treated her and do so again publicly now,” read the RA communiqué. “We had no right to judge her views … This betrayed our most important core value—the protection of free speech.”

The controverted speech in question was contained in a 2019 blog post, in which de Wahls wrote that “a woman is an adult human female (not an identity or feeling),” and that trans women are “biological males [who] choose to live as a woman, or believe they actually are women.” These are statements that almost every person knows to be true, but which have become unfashionable to say out loud in highly progressive subcultures. And so, when a handful of people raised a fuss about de Wahls’ work being sold in the RA gift shop, Academy officials not only purged de Wahl from their inventory earlier this month, but peacocked their reasons for doing so...........In backing down from its attempted cancelation of de Wahls, the RA now claims that “[a] plurality of voices, tolerance, and free thinking are at the core of what we stand for and seek to protect.” Whether or not this Road-to-Damascus conversion is sincere, these high-flown words glide over the fact that de Wahls’s views were never remotely “transphobic” to begin with, no matter what standard of “tolerance” one might choose to apply.  

READ MORE AT https://quillette.com/2021/06/24/standing-up-to-the-gender-ideologues-a-quillette-editorial/

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#2 BABYLON BEE SATIRE OF PRESIDENT'S RECENT GUN CONTROL SPEECH:

CORUSCANT—Emperor Sheev Palpatine has made a new push for blaster control in an effort to bring peace to the galaxy.  https://babylonbee.com/news/emperor-palpatine-urges-everyone-to-give-up-their-useless-blasters-as-rebels-would-need-a-death-star-to-topple-the-empire

YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THE SPEECH AT  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/06/about-that-presidential-news-conference.html

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#3 The rule of thumb at this ultra-woke college is, don’t say “rule of thumb.”

Students and faculty at Brandeis University are being urged to stop using words and phrases like “picnic,” “trigger warning” and even “rule of thumb,” because of what a campus counseling service calls their links to violence and power to “reinforce systems of oppression.” MORE AT https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/brandeis-warns-students-not-to-say-picnic-rule-of-thumb/

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PART 22: AT THE REQUEST OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, NY TIMES EATS CROW FOR SMEARING BABYLON BEE, STEWART SCORCHES COLBERT ON COVID ORIGINS, KEVIN HART ON CANCEL CULTURE AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/06/part-22-at-request-of-our-local-authors.html