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It’s the biggest crime—and cover-up—in British history. And most people, at least until recently, haven’t even heard of it.
Thousands of young girls, mostly children, were systematically groomed and raped by immigrant gangs across the UK over a period of decades. Police turned the girls away. Detectives were discouraged from investigating. Politicians and prosecutors did their best to sweep it under the rug. Journalists skipped the biggest story of their lives. A culture of silence enveloped the United Kingdom. Why?
Today, we talk to two women who spoke out years ago about what was happening while nearly everyone looked the other way: the British feminist and author Julie Bindel, and the author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Both took tremendous risks in highlighting the story while the legacy press largely looked away. Bindel is the author, most recently, of Feminism for Women and writes a popular Substack column. Hirsi Ali, a Free Press contributor, is the author of numerous books on radical islam, including Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, which helped bring attention to the grooming gangs scandal in 2021.
Julie and Ayaan explain today what happened, how these rapes and murders were covered up in the name of preserving “social harmony,” how it’s still happening, why Elon Musk is suddenly tweeting furiously about it and how Britain’s ruling class is being forced to reckon with a scandal it had, until recently, successfully ignored.
It’s a story about “tolerance” run amok, and how a civilized country can convince itself to accept the most uncivilized crimes imaginable.
I think we all need a plan for organizing how we live life. I’m completely down with Stoicism. Have a Happy New Year Everyone!
The Stoic philosophy, originating from ancient Greece, emphasizes living in accordance with nature and reason. Here are seven key values or principles central to Stoicism:
Wisdom (Sophia): Stoics place a high value on wisdom, which includes understanding the nature of the world, ourselves, and the rational principles governing life. Wisdom helps in making sound judgments and living virtuously.
Courage (Andreia): This involves moral and physical courage to face dangers, difficulties, and uncertainties with fortitude. Stoicism teaches to confront fears and to act despite them, not to be reckless but to be brave in pursuit of what is right.
Justice (Dikaiosyne): Stoics believe in treating everyone with fairness and respect, living in accordance with societal laws and ethical norms. Justice here extends to all human interactions, advocating for equality, honesty, and integrity.
Temperance (Sophrosyne): Also known as self-control or moderation, this value encourages restraint in desires and appetites. It’s about achieving balance in life, avoiding excess, and maintaining discipline over one’s actions.
Acceptance of Fate (Amor Fati): Stoics advocate for loving or at least accepting one’s fate, understanding that some things are beyond our control. This acceptance helps in living without resentment or frustration over what cannot be changed.
Living in Accordance with Nature (Homologia tei Phusei): This principle suggests living in harmony with the natural world and human nature, which includes rational behavior. It’s about recognizing and fulfilling one’s role in the cosmos.
Mindfulness and Reflection (Prosoche): Stoicism encourages constant awareness of one’s thoughts and actions, often through daily reflection or meditation. This mindfulness helps in aligning one’s life with Stoic virtues and in making ongoing improvements to character.
These values guide Stoics towards a life of virtue, which they consider the only true good, and help in achieving inner tranquility (apatheia) and a life of purpose. Remember, Stoicism isn’t just about enduring hardship but about thriving through wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.
Our institutions have strayed so far from their mandates of providing reliable information to the public. The road back will be difficult to navigate, but we must do so to repair and save our Western societies.
“There is an epidemic of white police officers killing unarmed black men, we must block the puberty of children born in the wrong bodies to prevent them from killing themselves, the Russians control Trump through a sex blackmail operation, the Covid vaccine prevents infection, millions or billions will die from starvation and harsh weather from climate change, there’s no way a Covid virus could have escaped from a lab, mass migration improves societies with no trade-offs, it’s best for addicts if we give them hard drugs to use in special sites downtown, we need the government to fight misinformation online in order to save democracy, Biden is sharper than ever, Kamala is 100% prepared to be president, and anyone who disagrees is racist, sexist, and/or fascist.
While many Americans are increasingly and at least partially aware that all of the above are lies, we are still a long way from coming to grips with their enormity, their monstrous consequences, and the totalitarian ways in which the mainstream news media, many employers, and governments demanded that we believe them. Current and former heads of state, our most-trusted journalists, and full professors at Ivy League universities created and propagated those Big Lies, repeatedly, for years, even after they had been thoroughly debunked, sometimes within days or hours of them being made, by people who ruling elites then sought to bankrupt, shame, and ostracize.
There has not yet been a proper accounting of the very many abuses of power, including the Big Lies, by elected officials, the media, and other governing elites during the Woke Reign of Terror (2013 – 2024). That accounting will need not only to thoroughly debunk all of the major lies, it will also need to explore why elites created and perpetuated them, why so many people believed them, why they lasted for so long, and what can be learned from them, both separately and how they worked together as a whole, constituting the worldview of the people who run Western societies and nations. Historians, sociologists, psychologists and many others will, for centuries, study the Work Reign of Terror as a uniquely irrational and self-destructive period in America’s history. Hopefully, something good, including wisdom, courage, and improved self-governance, will come out of those studies and reflections.”
There are positive stories of people overcoming this toxic ideology. Let’s try and have more of these moments – the ones where we don’t destroy children’s futures in the name of the gender religion.
Observe one of the thought termination cliches of many progressives. They argue for ‘inclusivity’ but when faced with disagreement, the meaning of the term shifts to mean ‘inclusive of thoughts that only match my own”.
As often the case, the progressive individuals assumes that they have to moral high ground and can pejoratively label the person disagreeing with them – thus relieving them of the duty to charitably assess the argument put forth.
You don’t have to argue against bigots and ‘phobes’ of any stripe. Thus, no thought is required, only a false sense of moral superiority.
This is why need definitions that comport with reality. Sex is binary and immutable, your strong gender feels will never *ever* change that. If Lyft wanted to actually safely serve their female clientele they wouldn’t let delusional men onto the female driver list.
We all know that being woke requires you hand in your critical thinking card, because the ideology is circular and not internally consistent. But then there are those who through some strange series of events somehow think that being woke simply means becoming aware of injustice and its a good thing. This is an example of what the activists mean by being ‘woke’.
Being woke mean judging people inherently as members of superficial identity groups, then slotting them into a rubegoldberg-esque rubric of power/oppression ratings,and then judging their claim as to where they fall on this bullshit ‘matrix of oppression’. The more oppression factors you have been deemed to have the more troothiness your claim is.
Watch what happens though when you inadvertently break a trip wire and your ‘oppressed privilege rating’ isn’t high enough for the claim you make.
Man claiming to be a woman: NO PROBLEM.
WHITE Man claiming to be a woman and COLONIZING A JAPANESE name: ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS.
Utterly ridiculous.
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