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Bowing Down: Ex-Federal Official Wants “Every Business in America” to Pledge That 2020 Election Was “Accurate”

By Selwyn Duke

What’s next? Asking people to, à la the Roman Empire, acknowledge the leader as a god? We could thus wonder with news that a former Department of Justice prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, is mounting a campaign to compel “every business in America” to take a pledge stating that the “2020 presidential election was free and fair, and produced accurate, reliable results.”

Yes, and “boys” claiming girlhood have always been girls — and we’ve “always been at war with Eastasia.”

As for Kirschner’s “1984 is an instruction manual” endeavor,” any “American business refusing to take this pledge, regardless of their own personal beliefs, will presumably be subjected to the cancel mob"....

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If it’s Whites Attacking Asians, Most of Those Whites Look Awfully Non-white

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve already learned from critical-race-theory hustler Glenn Singleton that high-achieving Asian-descent Americans can be, you might say, honorary white people. We’ve also heard from wokesters that demanding the right math answer in school is “white supremacy” and that 2+2 can equal five. So, I don’t know, maybe it’s all relative. Maybe there really is a spate of anti-Asian “hate crimes,” even though the data say otherwise. And perhaps most of these crimes really are committed by white people, even though if so, they’re white people who looked mighty non-white.

Leftists are obviously beside themselves after last Tuesday’s Georgia massage parlor massacre, not over the fact that a deranged young man sought to eliminate sexual temptation by shooting nine innocent people, killing eight, but that he wasn’t yelling “White power!” while doing it.

So liberal media and politicians are, like a child, stamping their collective foot and trying to pound the square peg of white supremacy into the round hole of reality. Yet while they spin the narrative that whites are targeting and attacking Asian-descent Americans because, in part, President Trump dared call the China virus the “China virus,” the facts tell a different story.

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Judicial Supremacy to Judicial Lunacy? A Judge Challenges the Supreme Court’s Supreme Folly

By Selwyn Duke

“Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820. “They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.” While this is true, one Judge Laurence Silberman may be an exception.

Silberman, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, emerged from relative obscurity recently when he penned a dissent in the case of Tah v. Global Witness Publishing, Inc. In this case, which Involved defamation, Silberman went far beyond disagreeing with how the majority applied a 1964 “landmark” Supreme Court opinion, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. He also challenged the very “notion of Supreme Court infallibility,” as one commentator put it.

In a nutshell, the ’64 opinion held that succeeding in a defamation claim required a plaintiff to prove not just that statements made publicly were false and damaging, but that they were motivated by malice (read more about the case here and here.) As a result, public officials basically stopped suing the media because, unlike in Britain, it’s now notoriously difficult to win a defamation case in the United States.

Silberman finds that troubling. But what bothers him even more is that, as he pointed out, “Justice Thomas has already persuasively demonstrated that New York Times was a policy-driven decision masquerading as constitutional law. As with the rest of the opinion, the actual malice requirement was simply cut from whole cloth.”  

Unfortunately, this isn’t uncommon. For the SCOTUS has long been, it appears, buying cloth in bulk.

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San Fran School Board VP: Asians Guilty of White Supremacist Thinking; Use It to Get Ahead

By Selwyn Duke

My, she ought to talk to the Chinese. We just learned that Beijing has an uncomplimentary name for white “woke” liberals: baizuo. Now a prime example of the species is learning that “woke” is no joke:

San Francisco School Board Vice President Alison Collins is being condemned by other wokesters for having said that Americans of Asian descent “use White supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’”

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The Chinese Have a Name for “Woke” White Libs — and They’re Laughing at Us

By Selwyn Duke

The Chinese know that “woke” white liberals are destroying America, and they’re laughing — and licking their chops. They even have a name for such people: baizuo. Beijing has their number, too.

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Father JAILED for Not Addressing His Daughter as a Boy

By Selwyn Duke

“You fundamentally can’t change sex,” said ex-“transsexual” Alan Finch in 2004. “Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists.” Yet a judge in Canada apparently not only thinks she knows better, but is trying to force a father to facilitate his 14-year-old daughter’s “gender transition.”

In fact, the judge has just had him arrested for refusing to address his girl using masculine pronouns.

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Fox News: Monopoly getting 'long overdue' socially conscious makeover, Hasbro says

"Community chest cards might penalize players for forgetting to recycle"

Tell me this doesn't sound like satire. Fox writes:

The board game “Monopoly” will be the next classic entertainment brand to receive a socially conscious makeover, publisher Hasbro announced this week.

Hasbro will change all 16 of Monopoly’s “community chest” cards to remove outdated concepts. The company said the classic versions of the cards, which included prompts referencing beauty contests and holiday funds, were “long overdue for a refresh.”

New community chest cards will focus on topics that emphasize “community.” Hasbro asked the public to vote on potential replacements, with rewards for in-game actions such as rescuing a puppy or shopping local among the options. Other cards would penalize players for forgetting to recycle or blasting music too late at night.

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My Recent Appearance on the Fred Holland Podcast

Hypocrisy, Inconsistency. Does it seem like everything is just upside down? On this episode of the Fred Holland Podcast, contributor Selwyn Duke for The New American says the Left has only one principle: the power principle, making any tactic that brings power acceptable. 

Gov DeSantis: Critical Race Theory Breeds HATE and Won’t be Taught in Florida Classrooms

By Selwyn Duke

It’s bad enough denying children proper nutrition, but pumping them with poison is truly inexcusable. The same is true of what we feed their minds, and this is why Florida governor Ron DeSantis is prohibiting toxic critical-race theory (CRT) from being taught in his state’s classrooms.

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Twitter Suspends Me for Criticizing Cardi B

By Selwyn Duke

Politicians such as Maxine Waters can praise and encourage BLM/Antifa violence via Twitter, and they still have access. Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamanei can send anti-Jewish and anti-Israel tweets, and he’s still on the platform. But dare criticize rapper Cardi B over her depraved 2021 Grammy Awards “performance” featuring her song, “WAP,” which itself would have been censored pre-Sexual Devolution, and that’s a suspension for you.

That’s what happened to me, anyway — ironically, while I was crafting a magazine essay on cancel culture. So, hey, sort of like a researcher in the midst of a set of experiments who then finds out he’s going to be one of the test subjects, Twitter gave me some very timely and personal material a day before my article deadline.