News Round-Up
9 May 2024
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The Magistrates Association has issued a new woke style guide, advising staff and volunteers to steer clear of terms like 'policemen' and 'chairmen'.
Scout leaders are giving out EDI badges to eight new staff as part of a massive woke recruitment drive.
The Free Speech Union is on alert after a hospital trust issues a 'woke handbook', banning sympathy for female workers uneasy about sharing toilets with biological males.
Durham University is encouraging academics to 'decolonise' degree courses by providing them with a 'woke toolkit' aimed at removing non-inclusive content from lessons.
The once-great journal Science has published an op-ed on "systemic racism", which claims that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action (a blatantly racist policy) is tantamount to ignoring racism.
The percentage of young Americans experiencing mental health problems is on the rise, with the rise being concentrated among white liberal women. It looks like left-wing politics is causing mental health problems.
Protests, cancel culture and perpetual rage – Western activism mirrors Maoist ideas, revealing ties to China's Cultural Revolution. Are we headed for a dystopian, surveilled, woke technocracy?
In a recent survey, the average "very liberal" respondent guessed that 38% of Hispanic Americans prefer the term "Latinx". Yet according to surveys of Hispanic Americans themselves, the correct figure's less than 5%.
Two academics analysed prehistoric burial sites and found that some men were buried with female-typical objects and vice versa. They conclude that there was a "non-binary minority" in pre-historic Europe.
Parents in Oakland are struggling to feel much sympathy for striking teachers. They're not striking for better pay and conditions, but to advance the causes of reparations and environmental justice.
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