Did you celebrate World Kindness Day 2025 last week? Probably not. You probably only mark genuine annual high days and holy days instead, like Easter Sunday or Epiphany, not completely made-up ones like World Kindness Day or Pride Month. If you have children or grandchildren attending primary school, however, then they may well be much more intimately familiar with the event, as it is being pushed to pre-teens every November 13th with ever increasing force.
The campaign seems to be working, too. In January, Oxford University Press (OUP) declared the very word ‘kindness’ to be its "Children’s Word of the Year", based upon a survey of the nation’s schoolchildren aged 6-14. When I was that age, my suggestion for 'Word of the Year' would have been Nintendo, conkers or Dracula, so does this mean today’s kids have suddenly become more morally advanced for some reason? Not necessarily: the definition of what it means to ‘be kind’ in the first place is really rather subjective.
Cool To Be Kind
The OUP’s survey was evidently somewhat doctored, given that a full 61% of infant respondents named ‘kindness’ as their Word of the Year; further examination reveals the final voting-slips sent out to schools were multiple-choice. Otherwise, kids being kids, the most common spontaneous, unguided, response would inevitably just have been ‘poo’ or ‘bum’, wouldn’t it?
Why was the OUP so keen to have ‘kindness’ selected as the Children’s Word of the Year? OUP employee Andrea Quincy, who
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Gad Saad’s theory of the West’s “suicidal empathy” is spot on. I’m afraid the rot’s gone way too far now but he still keeps telling people that this kind of kindness is killing our societies.
Agree with everything at least 99%, as usual.That said, I found the photo of the bloke planting a tree, which for Steven is a “bizarre Facebook image of a man apparently worshipping a large tree-branch like a pagan”, a bit odd. Going to the FB page in question, I see that the full image shows three people planting a tree, with the man holding the tree needing to hold it over the hole they’ve obviously just dug, keeping it in just the right place by looking down the length of the thing, before dropping it in. I’m very much in favour of roasting virtue-signallers over open fires (metaphorically speaking, naturally), but I think Steven’s reaching a bit in this case.
Kindness begins at home – will they be encouraging kids to help old
ladies across the road and keep local, lonely pensioners company? Or does that not tick the right boxes?
We have ways of making you kind
You will be kind or else
It would be kind to plants to provide them with extra food.
Soft Tyranny does not show up with jackboots and tanks. It turns up offering “protection” , “safety”, “compassion” and “kindness”.
Got to be cruel to be kind. So if we are cruel to the new arrivals perhaps they would kindly f*ck off back to where they came from.
World Madness Day.
What date is that so I can avoid It?
AKA: World Propagada Day…perhaps🤔
Thanks for reminding us that this important day was last Thursday 13th. Fortunately I made my wife a cup of tea in bed that day.
They’ve been messing with, and diluting our society and culture for so long g now I fear civil war is inevitable.
I came this sad conclusion thus morning listening to the latest sceptic podcast.
It’s a mess, and there’s only one way out.