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Death of the West: Britain Is Now Attacking Its Most Legendary Writer

By Selwyn Duke

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” This remark, made by the mischievous sprite Puck in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was directed at the absurdity of man’s love affairs. And while such folly is timeless, the comment is also relevant to a rather odd love affair perhaps unique to our time.

That is, the West’s affair with an ideology dictating its own culture’s destruction.

Perhaps the latest example of this toxic relationship comes from, ironically, the land that once perhaps did more than any other to spread Western culture: the United Kingdom. And its current effort at grinding itself down is an attack on its greatest writer, Shakespeare himself.

That’s right, it’s not enough that Britain now reportedly has a lower GDP than our poorest state, Mississippi. The country also apparently wants its cultural fortunes to mirror its economic ones.

Was the Toronto Crash DEI Delivered by a Feminism-obsessed Airline?

By Selwyn Duke

“My first wife was ’tarded,” said the low-IQ “Doctor Lexus” while reassuring his patient in the 2006 film Idiocracy. “She’s a pilot now.” A bit later in the movie, a plane is seen crashing in the distance while everyone goes about his business cavalierly, completely inured to such gross incompetence. Now, some may say it’s a bit frivolous opening an article on a serious topic with a popular-culture reference. It’s not, however, any more frivolous than a girl-power commercial produced by the airline involved in last Monday’s Toronto crash. What’s more, the commercial perhaps offers insight into why the mishap occurred. It’s also a commentary on our decaying meritocracy — and brings us closer to “idiocracy.”

The Beast Lives On: DEI Is ALREADY Being Rebranded

By Selwyn Duke

Just two weeks ago I warned, to echo Mark Twain, that rumors of DEI’s death are greatly exaggerated. While “the label ‘DEI’ is new, the product it identifies is more than half a century old,” I stated. … And make no mistake, its predicates are still embedded in our culture.”

For this reason, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) will “live on under a different guise,” I later added. For “it’s as much a symptom as a cause.” This brings us to a headline the New York Post ran just this weekend.

“No ‘death’ for diversity,” it reads: “How DEI is being rebranded — not disbanded.”

Well, that didn’t take long.

In fact, perhaps the social-engineering leviathan deserves credit. It turns out that by the time I’d written my piece, January 21, DEI had already been busy shape-shifting.

Yes, Obama and Biden Dumbed Down Air Traffic Controllers and the FAA

By Selwyn Duke

What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast, licensed pilots and those with extensive air traffic control knowledge aren’t highly scored.” How could this be?

It was the result of “diversity” efforts — what’s now called DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) — instituted under Barack Obama and continued by Joe Biden. It gets worse, though, too.

These Obama-era DEI efforts also created a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) push to hire people who are deaf, blind, and/or have “severe intellectual” and “psychiatric disabilities.”

Yes, Obama and Biden Dumbed Down Air Traffic Controllers and the FAA

By Selwyn Duke

What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast, licensed pilots and those with extensive air traffic control knowledge aren’t highly scored.” How could this be?

It was the result of “diversity” efforts — what’s now called DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) — instituted under Barack Obama and continued by Joe Biden. It gets worse, though, too.

These Obama-era DEI efforts also created a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) push to hire people who are deaf, blind, and/or have “severe intellectual” and “psychiatric disabilities.”

Trump May Kill “DEI” in Name, but It Will Live on Unless….

By Selwyn Duke

President Trump has made clear that he aims to trump Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) schemes. Democrats aim to trump him and keep them alive. And while the president will very likely win the current battle, in the federal political realm, what of the war? Is this just a matter of killing programs?

Or is it really, at bottom, a matter of killing a spirit— an idea?

Starmer: Rape-gang-inquiry Goal “Far Right” Concern. Is Child Sex Abuse a Leftist “Lifestyle Choice” Now?

By Selwyn Duke

Philosopher C.S. Lewis once noted that it’s what slips from our mouths when we’re not thinking that reveals our hearts. This could come to mind with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s claim that those demanding an inquiry into child-abusing rape gangs are jumping “on a bandwagon of the far Right.”

Delivered at a Monday press conference, Starmer’s comments were in response to a firestorm of criticism ignited by entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk had resurrected the rape-gang story via his X social-media platform mere days ago, as I reported this weekend.

The prime minister’s efforts at flipping the script appear to have backfired, however. That is, many critics say that implicit in his remarks is that child sex abuse is just a right-wing concern. History may inform that he’s not all wrong about that, either (more on this later). Also notable here is that this controversy is shaping up to be a classic Establishment/anti-Establishment conflict.

Elon Musk Busts British Muslim Grooming Gang Cover-up Wide Open

By Selwyn Duke

It was a shocking revelation. U.K. authorities ignored a child-trafficking ring — and the beating, terrorizing, and sexual abuse of native British girls — for 16 years. It was for a very troubling reason, too:

The perpetrators were Muslim.

In fact, one whistleblower was actually warned, “You must never [again] refer to Asian [Muslim] men,” and your “awareness of ethnic issues” needs to be raised. Why, she was even forced into “diversity training.”

Mexicans May be Even More Fed Up With Migration Than Trump Is

By Selwyn Duke

“‘We’ve been invaded,’ she said, standing outside a restaurant where she works,” wrote USA Today earlier this month, quoting a fed up woman. “‘I changed my opinion (about them), because I live in a place where we didn’t see any of this. But now everywhere there are people who aren’t from here.’” Was this a MAGA-hatted America-first zealot in Hazleton, Pennsylvania? Springfield, Ohio? Dearborn, Michigan? Portland, Maine? Actually, the lady is a Mexican.

A real Mexican, that is — living in Mexico. And, yes, she’s disgusted with how migrants are changing her community. She’s not alone in her sentiment, either, which could be one reason Mexicans are enthusiastically sending migrant caravans our way. And this is another reason why we should build a wall, strong and tall, and deport them all. (And let the immigrationist lobby bawl.)

NY Times: U of Michigan Blew a Quarter BILLION on DEI — and HURT Students and Staff

By Selwyn Duke

When even The New York Times complains about your leftism, you know that you not only jumped the shark with wokism, but that the shark you jumped is a megalodon. This is the case, too, with a new report on how the University of Michigan squandered megabucks on DEI indoctrination. The result of these programs?

A decade and a quarter “billion dollars later,” the Times writes, “students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.”

Note that much of this is tax money, too. In fact, the University of Michigan (UoM) campus in question, Ann Arbor, received $357 million in state funds last year. (That’s a 5.1-percent increase over 2022.) Given this, is it possible the UoM has too much money on its hands? Should it be defunded?