It took them a while but the social justice warriors have finally tweaked that Dr Seuss books are raaacist. /sarc Six Dr. Seuss books — including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” — will stop being published because of racist and insensitive
Reductio ad absurdum is one of my favourite debating techniques. In a nutshell you disprove your opponent’s argument by showing that if your opponent’s statement were true, it would lead to an absurd conclusion. This technique is not without its kryptonite. And that kryptonite is of course: stupid
As readers and subscribers of The BFD know, lockdowns don’t work. Those who still believe in lockdowns however like to point at Sweden as proof that without them, things would be “so much worse”. This despite New Zealand having no land borders and less population density and thus not
Last week I wrote about Twitter cancelling conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family.” This week its YouTube’s turn. ReclaimTheNet reports. The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.” “YouTube just completely removed the
WND reports on Twitter banning conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family”: It’s not just President Trump and the MyPillow guy Mike Lindell who are facing the wrath of Twitter in recent days. Now, the social-media giant has suspended Focus on the Family, an influential Christian-based family
Now you can not only lose your job for having the “wrong” opinion but for using the “wrong” platform. Reclaim the Net reports: Colleen Oefelein, a former agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, was fired after Twitter users complained that she was using anti-big tech platforms Gab
He’s barely got his Presidential seat warm, and Joe Biden has already cost Americans millions of dollars. From The Guardian: Joe Biden has moved to reinstate the US to the Paris climate agreement just hours after being sworn in as president, as his administration rolls out a cavalcade of
As readers will know, social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have been on a purge of conservative content and users, using “community standards” as the excuse. But in doing so, these social media companies are acting not only discriminatingly, but also in violation of what gives them the ability
Blackrock is a huge American financial company. It’s also very woke and is putting pressure on other US companies to be woke as well. Breitbart reports. The retirement savings and investment accounts of millions of Americans are being used to pressure corporate Americans into adopting the left’s climate
If you’ve been following the US election you will know that Fox News has committed business suicide. Lou Aguilar from The Spectator explains. Trump broke every other news entity even before he took office in 2017. CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest have
The government has announced that it is legalising pill testing services and it is about time. It should have been done last year. In fact, it should have been done the year before that and the year before that. […] Andrew Little announced on Tuesday that time-limited legislation will give
It ain’t easy getting both the Left and the Right to despise you, but Oranga Tamariki boss Grainne Moss has managed to do it. Newshub understands Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis is furious with Oranga Tamariki after it failed to inform him of another damaging story about uplifting Maori
In case you don’t know, Pete Evans is an Australian celebrity chef and judge. He also happens to be one of the latest to be cancelled because of a remark or tweet. The Warehouse will stop selling the work of controversial Australian chef Pete Evans but his books and
Having an absolute mandate comes with a price. This article from RNZ illustrates why. The Labour Party has just swept to the most convincing election victory New Zealand has seen in a generation. But with many of the party’s own preferences now lying dead in the water after failed
Our media may be ignoring it, but there’s other big news coming from the US that is not the US election. The War on Drugs is coming to an end. In the long term, this news may be of more significance than whether Trump or Biden wins. In Oregon
This month the Human Rights Commission released their October report. In it, they called for amongst other things warm and dry homes and fair pay wrapping them up in the concept of “rights”. In response, ACT leader David Seymour and Simon Bridges both took issue with what was said. ACT
