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June 17, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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This Week in Stupid (17⧸06⧸2018)

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	Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 17th of June 2018 and Wio Lad is this week going to be an interesting one.
	But before I get onto the stuff that I'm really looking forward to talking about, it's time for me to don my fedora and do a little bit of maladying in defence of Lindsay Shepard because I'm really not happy with what's being done to her.
	Now if you don't remember Lindsay Shepard, she's the teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University who had the foresight to record the Stalinist SJW Inquisition that she was subjected to just for playing a clip of Jordan Peterson in her classroom.
	After this was all released, Wilfred Laurier exonerated Lindsay Shepard.
	So according to Vice, now we can all move on.
	It turns out nothing was wrong.
	It's okay when two men and a woman from the university faculty make one of their teaching assistants cry because she had a thought of her own and she dared expose her students to another professor who might also have had thoughts of their own.
	It wasn't the fact that this would have carried on ad nauseum if it wasn't for the brave actions of Lindsay and releasing this to the public so we could all see the kind of corrupt way that that university is being run.
	According to Deborah McClatchy, WLU's president, she says, there were numerous errors in judgment made in the handling of the meeting with Miss Lindsay Shepard, the TA in the tutorial in question.
	Well, you say that, but it seems to have not so much been an error in judgment as a deliberate plan in order to keep her in line, to prevent her from spreading Jordan Peterson's dangerous ideas.
	In fact, the meeting should never have happened at all.
	No formal complaint nor informal concern relative to a Laurier policy was registered about the screening of the video.
	Right.
	So what you're saying is Dr. Rambuchana and the other cohorts, comrades, sorry, lied.
	They fucking lied.
	There was no complaint about her class.
	She did not have to be intimidated to tears behind closed doors by the SJW goon squad.
	None of this should have happened, so Lindsay did nothing wrong, and Rambuchana absolutely did.
	But oh, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we endorse free speech, we're totally for free speech, say Wilfred Laurier.
	Laura challenges the idea that free expression and the goals of diversity, equity and inclusion must be at odds with one another.
	Instead, the university embraces the concept of, get this, inclusive freedom, which espouses a commitment to the robust protection of free speech, you know, except for when there isn't a robust protection of free speech, and free speech is the problem, and people's ideas that counteract our own are being shown in a fucking classroom.
	And the assurance that all members, including those who have been marginalized silence or excluded from full participation, have an opportunity to meaningfully engage in free expression, inquiry, and learning.
	Right, so buzzword soup then.
	SJW buzzword soup.
	What more could I have expected?
	Because ultimately, there is no such thing as inclusive freedom in the same way there's no such thing as social justice.
	Freedom and justice are terms that do not need a qualifier.
	If you are creating a qualifier to these terms, you are not engaging with them as we use them.
	They do not mean what everyone else thinks them to mean.
	In fact, you are placing restrictions on them.
	That's the purpose of the qualifier.
	The statement also noted that some challenging cases of free expression will have to be navigated, but it is not the role of the university to censor speech.
	Well, I'm glad we're finally on the same page, Wilfred Lauria.
	To grant the institution such power would set a dangerous precedent.
	Do you know what's also dangerous?
	Is the idea that a gang of social justice inquisitors can sit there and do this without any further oversight?
	No one knew that this was happening, and no one would still know had Lindsay not recorded it and released it.
	What are you doing to prevent ideologues within your power structure from abusing the people below them?
	If institutional censorship were deemed acceptable in one context, there's no guarantee that such restriction would be applied fairly wisely in other contexts, or as power changes hands over time.
	Yes, yes, well done.
	Well done, you can finally make the free speech argument.
	And it must be making Rambuchana's skin positively crawl.
	Rather than restricting free speech, Lauria is committed to an open and inclusive environment that also protects free expression.
	Yeah, good luck with that.
	Because when you say inclusive, you do not mean people have the right to do this.
	You mean we will force people to do this and we will force some people not to do this.
	We will consider some people a barrier to other people's inclusion.
	And let's be fair, Wilfred Laurier is by far the worst of these universities.
	I mean, at least I've not heard of a story from Wilfred Laurier of teachers specifically telling white male students that they will be listened to last over the brown female ones, purely on the basis that they are brown and female and the other ones are white and male.
	And I've got to say that I am bloody glad that Lindsay Shepard is suing Wilfred Laurier because there have to be consequences for doing this.
	There can't just be, oh, well, we're so sorry, we're so sorry.
	We promise we've got a commitment to free speech, even though up until this fucking point, no one would have believed such a thing.
	So Lindsay Shepard, the teaching assistant who rose to prominence after she was controversially disciplined, is suing the school's diversity and equity office.
	She claims harassment, intentional infliction of nervous shock, negligence, and constructive dismissal.
	The attacks on her have rendered her unemployable in academia, she claims, which I can completely believe because an overwhelming majority of the faculty involved in these universities are afraid of social justice where they do not outright support it.
	And if you want examples of this, you should speak to Professor Peter Bogossian of Portland University, with whom I did the kindly inquisitors talk recently.
	He has been hounded by these people within his university, and they have made his life hell.
	And they would do the same for Lindsay Shepard as well, because these crazies have a grip on the higher education institutions of our countries.
	The statement of the claim, which seeks $3.6 million, was filed Tuesday in Waterloo, Ontario, and as of yet, no statements of defense have been filed.
	Good luck, Lindsay.
	I want you to win this.
	And I want them to realize that actions have consequences.
	They will not just have hegemony of the academy unchallenged.
	And if they do, it will hurt them.
	In addition to Laurier, Shepard's suit names Nathan Rambuchana, the professor of the course for which Shepard's was a teaching assistant, Herbert Pimlett, Master's Program Coordinator, and Adriana Joel, acting manager of gender violence prevention in the diversity and equity office, so SJW Inquisitors.
	It describes them as predators who are bullying Shepard in a disciplinary meeting, a recording of which Shepard released publicly.
	Yes, we all heard it.
	And what she's saying there is an accurate description of what we all heard.
	They are predators who were bullying a young woman on her own because she had the gall to show her students someone who disagrees with social justice.
	And it should come as no surprise to everyone that enrollment at Wilfred Laurier has declined because of this scandal.
	Because people don't want to send their children to university controlled by communist lunatics.
	But it's okay, because the decline at Laurier was intentional, according to the university itself.
	Just like getting sued for $3 million was intentional, I'm fucking sure.
	The number of new students who will start at Wilfred Laurier University this fall is down by 15%, but officials say the decline was intentional.
	We've landed exactly where we want it to be, said the Iraqi Minister of Information.
	It's still an exceptional growth pattern that Laurier is in.
	Even with the decline in undergraduate enrollment this fall, the Waterloo campus has a 15% growth rate over the last four years.
	Yes, and now it has a 15% decline rate.
	Laurier, along with other universities in the province, negotiates enrolment targets with the government and needs to stay within a certain limit.
	It's a very sophisticated and strategic approach to enrolment, Casey said, while fallating their own brain.
	But of course, because Lindsay is doing something positive about an injustice that she suffered, the social justice sympathizers in the media have to go after her character, because they need to provide fire support to their embattled comrades in the academy.
	Entitled or unemployable?
	Which is the real Lindsay Shepard?
	This much about Lindsay Shepard is impressive.
	The size of the bubble of entitlement that surrounds her.
	That's fucking incredible given how the feminist movement thinks that women are entitled.
	Part of their main platform is saying we need women's representation everywhere.
	And when a woman's saying, I'm entitled to this because of the treatment ICE was subjected to, they're like, aha, no, you're not, bitch.
	Maybe you should sit down and let the men work.
	She feels entitled as a 23-year-old with a job in academia, while other masters in arts graduates toil without jobs and in obscurity.
	Couple of points.
	She did have a job in academia as a teaching assistant before she was victimized.
	And secondly, yeah, why wouldn't she feel entitled to something that she was earning before this event happened?
	I mean, she was going about things the right way to earn a job in academia.
	If you've earned something, you can legitimately feel entitled to it.
	She feels entitled to being shielded from pushback after belittling her peers and seniors.
	You mean the people who are bullying her?
	The people who are trying to force her in line with their ideological orthodoxy.
	She feels entitled to millions of dollars from a lawsuit, all the while building a national brand.
	You mean she's entitled to just compensation because of the power structures that abused her in her position as a teaching assistant.
	Shepard is the Wilfrid Laurier teaching assistant who, within weeks of finding fame, bashed her school unabashedly, calling it a menstrual institution because professors cancelled classes out of safety concerns over a free speech rally.
	It kind of highlights their commitment to free speech if they will try and get people away from people enjoying and exercising their free speech.
	Shepard is the out-of-control student who created a chill on campus after tweeting a list of professors to avoid to her now considerable following.
	Well, I'm guessing that these professors were big supporters of Ram Buchanan and what he did to Shepard.
	But as the record point out, the vicious attacks on Shepard do speak volumes.
	When masked protesters demonstrated outside the talk Lindsay Shepard organized at Wilfrid Laurier University, they didn't bother discussing why they thought the speaker was inappropriate.
	Instead, they chanted, fuck you, Lindsay.
	Seems kind of misogynistic.
	It is absolutely chilling to see that whenever someone exposes a problem in the system, so many people rush to make personal attacks on the whistleblower instead of questioning the flaws of the institution.
	Well, there aren't any flaws in the institution, from their perspective.
	The institution is implementing social justice exactly as planned, and protecting its hegemonic power and influence over the institution in exactly the way that they desire.
	They want secret meetings in which people are bullied into silence.
	Do you understand?
	They are no different to the way that the socialist and communist regimes of the 20th century operated because they're operating along the same principles.
	They end up using the same methods for the same reasons in order to create, quote-unquote, equality.
	Normal people would wait for the facts to come out in court before judging, but far too many people have brought knives out instead.
	On social media, Shepard has been called a spoiled child.
	She was accused of uttering hate speech and smeared with other names too violent and crude for this newspaper to publish.
	Many people who wrote these things did anonymously on private protected Facebook groups.
	That's cowardly as well as mean.
	In the public sphere, Toronto star columnist Sri Paradakar wrote on Friday, This much about Lindsay Shepard is impressive.
	The size of the bubble of entitlement that surrounds her.
	And Shree then went on to question Shepard's ethics in secretly taping a conversation and releasing it to the media.
	Fuck me!
	Really?
	What are the ethics of reporting on this secret bullying inquisitorial fucking witch hunt?
	Well, how could you broken a sacred trust between your attacker and the victim?
	That was meant to be private.
	You weren't meant to tell the world about this.
	You've violated a fucking sacred covenant, Lindsay!
	We had an agreement!
	We would bully you and you would keep your fucking mouth shut!
	Fucking what is wrong with these people?
	The idea that Lindsay is the person who has done something wrong here is just so far out of the realms of what can be considered to be reasonable.
	These people are absolutely insane.
	And honestly, God fucking speed, Lindsay.
	Nail them.
	Nail them to the fucking wall.
	I didn't even realise that this week was such a positive week for the free speech cause, but this week has been an absolute blinder for the forces who wants to return to something that approaches a rational liberal democracy.
	For example, the complete failure of the Labour Live event.
	So yesterday was the Labour Live event, and what a roaring success it was for the people who like to laugh at Labour.
	The event was due to have various left-wing musicians and bands playing on a stage, while Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Owen Jones gave pro-communist speeches about how capitalism is evil and communism wasn't so bad really.
	Just ignore the body counts.
	Obviously, no one mentioned Venezuela.
	Also, the absolute state of the event was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
	Here's Owen Jones interviewing his grandmother, otherwise known as Eddie Izzard, who used to be a famous and popular comedian in Britain.
	So leading up to it, the ticket sales hadn't exactly been good.
	So the one-day Labour Live event took place in Tottenham, North London, with musical acts including blah blah blah blah blah and various socialist activists.
	But there are growing concerns that the organisers are struggling to fill the 20,000 capacity White Heartlane Recreation Centre.
	As a result, the Labour Party is starting giving out free tickets to regional party offices, as well as putting on free buses to bring people to the capital, while the United Union had bought up to a thousand tickets.
	Despite this, attendance figures are estimated at around 3,000 people, and fears were growing that the concert will be a big loss maker.
	One Labour MP told City AM that it was embarrassing.
	We were providing all these buses at enormous cost and giving away all these tickets to avoid the appearance of an empty event, but they put far too much stock in Jeremy's ability to draw a crowd and not enough in getting decent acts.
	Had they booked Stormzy, the tickets would have sold themselves.
	The chaos is prompting MPs to demand answers over the cost to the party, but Labour's general secretary, Jenny Formby, said last week, they are sensitive she is not prepared to share them.
	You plebeians don't need to know how badly we are failing.
	Thank you.
	Labour HQ and Jeremy's office have bought into their own hype, the MP added.
	You can't even give these tickets away.
	The danger is that it would be brushed under the carpet.
	There needs to be an internal post-mortem about how this happened, what went wrong, why we didn't see it coming and why the Labour Party was exposed to such significant financial and political risk.
	Another MP said that if money were lost on the tickets, we would have to have an investigation into what went wrong.
	Yet, no one wants socialism.
	That's the problem.
	No one wants socialism.
	It's just there is no better alternative to the fucking Conservative Party and nobody wants them either.
	Let me show you how Labour and the Conservatives are basically the same fucking party at this point because the Conservatives have no moral compass of their own.
	This is Jeremy Corbyn's message to Muslims who have finished celebrating Ramadan.
	As-salamu alaykum.
	I would like to wish Ibabarak to Muslims in the UK and all around the world who are celebrating Eid al-Fita.
	Eid is a wonderful time for Muslims and people of all faiths and indeed of none to celebrate with their friends, family, neighbours and their loved ones.
	During Ramadan, I've had the privilege of joining Niftar's the moment at the end of the day of fasting when people come together to share a meal.
	I had the pleasure of breaking fast not only at my local mosque in Finsbury Park, but also at Al-Manar, an inspirational mosque which is just a mile from Grenfell Tower.
	Worshippers of this mosque were some of the first to respond to the tragic fire in June last year.
	And Al-Manar Mosque continues to play a critical role for the community, including by opening a dedicated Grenfell counselling service.
	This is an example of the teachings of Islam in practice, teachings which are about compassion for our neighbours and reflecting on how we can be more respectful to those around us.
	As we strive to build a better society, these are values which should resonate with all of us.
	Eid Mubarak, to you and your loved ones.
	And this is the same message given by Theresa May.
	It has been said that on Eid al-Fitr, it seems as though all the noise suppressed for a whole month has concentrated itself within one night.
	It is certainly a time for great celebration and joy, as we're seeing in Muslim communities across the country today.
	But of course, the end of the holy month of Ramadan is about more than simply having fun.
	It's a time for Muslims to come together with family, friends and neighbours.
	It's an opportunity for spiritual renewal.
	A chance to help those less fortunate and give thanks for all that is good in your life.
	And it is an opportunity for all of us here in the UK to reflect on and celebrate the incredible contribution to our national life made by Britain's three million Muslims.
	In every corner of the country and every walk of life, British Muslims are making a positive contribution to their communities and their country, playing their part in making this a successful, diverse nation that we can all be proud of.
	So as the Eid outfits are chosen, the presents are wrapped and the sweet treats are prepared, let us all take a moment to give thanks.
	Not just for what is good in our lives, but for the millions of British Muslims who enrich the lives of so many.
	Eid Mubarak.
	How did Britain ever get by without Islam?
	But anyway, no sellout.
	Labour Live JazzFest ticket prices slashed by 70% because literally no one was fucking buying them.
	And the funny thing about this is that Jeremy Corbyn got up to give his speech and you can see by the picture there, I mean 3,000 people is not an insignificant crowd, but when the space you've booked is for 20,000 people, you may have overstated your reach somewhat.
	But isn't it funny how anti-Brexit protesters tried to disrupt Jeremy Corbyn's speech to Labour Live Festival?
	Anti-Brexit protesters tried to disrupt Corbyn's speech to the Labour Party Music and Politics Festival in northern London on Saturday.
	A group of 15 demonstrators unfurled a banner demanding the Labour leader stop backing Brexit.
	So here we have some anti-democratic socialist activists.
	Labour is split down the middle on Brexit and Corbyn has rejected demands from his more pro-EU MPs that he attempt to keep the UK in the single market because Jeremy Corbyn understands that if he doesn't back Brexit, he's done.
	He's fucking done.
	Half the country voted for this.
	One of the protesters, Comrade Callum Millibank, said, I support Jeremy Corbyn, but I oppose Labour's damaging position on Brexit.
	I am sickened when I see our leadership sitting on their hands in Parliament when they could have stopped a hard Brexit this week.
	Yeah, but bitch, we want a hard Brexit.
	And let's be honest, right?
	Corbyn wants a hard Brexit too.
	For all, you know, for all his faults, Corbyn has at least one redeeming quality, and that's the fact that he can see the EU as the tyrannical neoliberal institution that it is, and he objects to it as well.
	The reaction to the protest in the crowd was mixed.
	Some congratulated the demonstrators for opposing Brexit.
	However, one of the young men holding the banner was called a Tory cunt.
	Now, this is the best bit about the Labour Party, in my opinion.
	Everyone who isn't with us is a Tory cunt.
	The tickets were initially put on sale for £35, but this was reduced to £10 as the day approached.
	Then many were also given away for free.
	I'm sure that all the people who bought the £35 were just thrilled with this.
	Despite deep misgivings within the party about the event, which was reported to have cost a million pounds, its organisers are already planning next year's festival.
	Ian Lavery, the chairman of the Labour Party, said, there will be a Labour Live next year, and it will be twice as big.
	So here's a picture of one of my favourite slices of Gammon, Owen Jones.
	And if you look to the parts of the picture that are out of focus in the background, you can see an awful lot of green space where there should have been communist sympathisers.
	And I'm sure you're all familiar with Owen Jones, but I want to give you a quick reminder as to exactly who he is and what he thinks is going to happen.
	Socialism is coming.
	Our old social order is collapsing all around us.
	That's right, the old social order is collapsing.
	Are we going to need something radical, Owen?
	Labour now offers, in this country, a radical break from the status quo.
	It offers a clear, radical alternative to the other mainstream parties.
	Nobody can say with a straight face, they're all the same here in Britain.
	And at the same time, it's tapped into the anger that millions of people legitimately feel about a broken social and economic order.
	So radicals then.
	We can call the Labour Party and the people that support them and you personally, radicals.
	Just how radical are you going to be, Owen?
	That's why it's not about tinkering with the society we have.
	It's about replacing the social order altogether.
	The whole fucking social order?
	Jesus Christ, Owen.
	That's insanely radical.
	I can hardly believe just how radical you are.
	The far-right are on the rise in Britain and they're being fuelled by a right-wing media which is radicalising people in this country.
	Oh, is radicalisation bad now, Owen?
	You've just been doing that for years with the Labour Party, proudly proclaiming and peacocking how unbelievably radical the Labour Party is.
	We're going to change the entire social order.
	Oh no, the scary far-right have come along to radically radicalize things in a radical way that I'm not happy with, despite the fact I am a self-proclaimed radical.
	But yes, Owen, the quote-unquote far-right are rising.
	Who are the far-right, Owen?
	Who are the far-right?
	Oh, they're people who have a problem with Islam.
	People who have a problem with the erosion of freedom in this country.
	Well, what's your opinion on this, Owen?
	How are you going to help these people?
	Why should they vote for the Labour Party?
	Daniel says, it's Islam that's the problem.
	Islam is extreme full stop.
	Daniel, not going to agree with you there.
	And you know what?
	I was just a bit frustrated with you.
	You know, not in an angry way.
	I'm not bitter.
	But, you know, you should listen to the interview with Tio Pabanovs because he's a guy.
	He's been kidnapped by an extremist Islamist fundamentalist group.
	And he's not going, all Muslims are the problem.
	Or Islam is inherently the problem.
	As he pointed out, a billion and some Muslims are living beautiful, happy lives and deriving spiritual comfort and happiness from their religion.
	We have a tiny, tiny minority.
	Yeah, I'm just, you're wrong, basically.
	I'm sorry.
	Sometimes you've got to say it, you know, you've got to be direct and you are, you're not right on this at all.
	And I think the problem is, is if we end up saying Islam is inherently the problem, how are we all going to live together?
	That's a good question, Owen.
	Very good question.
	And I noticed that the images that you were using, the video footage in the background there was of Mecca, was it?
	How many gay people are in Mecca right now?
	What's the situation of gay rights in Mecca?
	In the very heartland of Islam, the very, the very, literally the beating fucking heart of the entire religion?
	How are gay rights there, Owen?
	Because it turns out that British Muslims like Sadiq Khan, who are very progressive, don't represent the majority of the Muslim world.
	They don't really represent a more literalist interpretation of the Quran.
	And just so you know, if the Quran is the unalterable, perfect word of God, and it says that being gay is wrong, you should stone to death or throw them from a high place or whatever it is they're supposed to do, then there are going to be lots of people who take that very literally, which is why homosexuality is not only outlawed in much of the Muslim world, but punishable by death, Owen.
	As a gay man yourself, shouldn't you go and take a trip to one of these countries and proudly announce that you're gay?
	In my country, Islam is tolerant and diverse of alternative lifestyles like my own, where I let men bugger me in the ass.
	How do you all feel about that, my fellow Muslim brothers?
	Go and see if you're well accepted there, Owen.
	You obviously won't be, and you're obviously a coward, and you're obviously a liar.
	And there is obviously just one thing that needs to be done.
	This morning I joined UKIP, the thinking man's political party.
	As a free speech warrior, it made sense to join the only political party in Britain that is actually fighting for freedom of speech.
	I'll be able to turn a younger audience onto UKIP and gain them support among the younger people, as well as some other forms of aid.
	Thanks, Israel.
	So do what I'm doing.
	UKIP need you, and join me in making Britain great again.
	The madman has fucking done it, And to be honest with you, what other options do we have at this point?
	This is fucking important in my opinion.
	So I've decided I'm going to be joining UKIP too.
	By the time that this video is up, I'll be a member of UKIP.
	And I'll leave a link in the description if you want to come with me and Dankulet and join UKIP as well because fuck the way things are going.
	Fuck them.
	I am fucking sick of how my country's being run and something has to be done.
	I don't want to be doing this.
	I've decided that as a Trumpian protest, fuck you to everyone, I'm joining UKIP as well.
	And if you've got a problem with it, you can fucking swivel.
	I mean, every fucking day there's something new like this.
	Drill rap gang banned from making music without police permission illegal first.
	This is obviously unprecedented.
	And it's a massive overreach of the authority of the state.
	I don't give a shit how apparently violent drill rap music is.
	I don't necessarily, I don't give a fuck.
	But I'll tell you what I do give a fuck about is the idea that someone has to ask the police for permission before making music, before recording something.
	Oi mate, do you have a license for that mixtape?
	Get fucked.
	I'm joining UKIP.

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