Delingpole: The Entire Cultural Establishment Has Surrendered to the Radical Left

Here — keep a sick bag handy as you watch — are some Hollywood celebrities putting their special actor voices on to tell us how ashamed they are of being white.

Do you ever want to see another movie involving any of these grovelling slimeballs ever again?

Here is a white British comic called Leigh Francis tearfully apologising for having once impersonated black characters for comedic effect in an old TV show called Bo’ Selecta:

Francis has since developed a successful TV career as a crazy character called Keith Lemon, who just doesn’t give a fook about anything — he swears, he’s wild, he’s fearless, he’s completely unpredictable and oh-so-wacky…

But how is Francis going to maintain that particular comedy persona now that we know that underneath he is a cowardly, politically correct, blubbing cry-baby who in fact really does care what a bunch of race-baiting, commie thugs think, and is so scared of losing his very well-paid job on mainstream TV that he’s prepared to grovel and humiliate himself in order to keep it?

Here is one of the BBC’s best-paid stars Gary Lineker — he gets £1.75 million a year for commenting on football — showing how very much down he is with the whole Black Lives Matter thing:

We could go on and on like this — listing all the movie stars and TV presenters and bestselling authors and radio show hosts and journalists and editors and pop stars and other celebrities who’ve spent the last few days kowtowing to the Red Guard of Black Lives Matter.

But it would be depressing and quite unnecessary because — barring the odd exception such as Ricky Gervais — the list would have to include pretty much everyone in the mainstream entertainment industry.

They’ve all surrendered to the radical left because a) in many cases they share its politics anyway, and b) if they didn’t do so their careers would now be toast.

You only have to consider what happened to Nigel Farage at London’s LBC radio. Here was a presenter whom the radio station had expressly recruited because they wanted someone outspoken, politically incorrect, and on the right.

And what did LBC sack him for? Essentially for being outspoken, politically incorrect, and on the right.

The speed with which all this has happened has been astonishing. Barely a month ago it would not have occurred to almost anyone that Gone With The Wind was desperately in need of being memory-holed: now it’s all but banned.

Ditto, Little Britain — probably the most wildly successful British comedy series of the Noughties, which made household names of its stars David Walliams and Matt Lucas, with catchphrases — “computer says no”, “the only gay in the village”, “No but, yeah but, no” — that almost everyone in the country could quote.

Now, it has been airbrushed from history. Fifteen years ago it was ubiquitous to the point of total cultural dominance. Today, purged from the libraries of both Netflix and the BBC, it might almost never have existed.

But were we, the general viewing public, ever consulted on any of this?

Of course not. This is a consequence not of popular demand but of cultural entryism and cowardice.

It has been going on for years, just like the Marxist Antonio Gramsci wanted when he called for a “Long March Through the Institutions”: little by little Hollywood, TV land, publishing, the media industry, music, sport — every branch of the entertainment industry, every aspect of popular culture has been suborned by left-wing activists who have infiltrated the system and corrupted it for their own political ends.

All of these industries used to have a degree of diversity of thought, some admittedly more than others. But now there is none in any of them: they all swing radical left, they all pay homage to the identity politics pieties of the Social Justice movement, they all brutally enforced conformity on #MeToo, and now they’re doing the same with Black Lives Matter. For some time now, no one has been able to reach senior levels in these industries without having all the politically correct views. The only difference now is that we have reached the point where even the talent are expected to be on board with the identity politics programme.

What this means is that the left has achieved near-total victory in the Culture Wars.

Some of us have been warning for years that this was coming. But more often than not we were dismissed as conspiracy theorists or alt-right cranks or just too obsessed with trivia of little relevance to the cultural mainstream.

I remember, a few years back, thinking what a rich seam of material I would be able to mine once mainstream newspapers like the Daily Mail started getting interested in the culture wars. All those lucrative articles one would be able to write, explaining the significance of GamerGate and ComicsGate — about how, sure, it might seem on the surface like these stories were niche and about odd, geeky people, but how in fact they were the bellwether for the Great Reckoning to come.

But the newspapers and magazines were never much interested — not even the conservative ones representing the people most likely to be appalled by and to suffer from what was happening to their culture.

What do we now?

I agree with a lot of the points made by John Nolte in his piece Your Handy-Dandy Survival Guide To Life Under Social Justice Mob Rule:

The fascist mob is going to declare certain toys, books, movies, and television shows “problematic,” and these corporations, that are either cowardly or infested with social justice warriors, are going to disappear these things. “Problematic” books, movies, and TV shows will vanish off proverbial store shelves — physical and digital.

Another possibility is that they will be mutilated by censors. “Problematic” scenes, moments, characters, and words will be removed.

This is no longer a right-wing, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. It’s actually happening now.

We need to do the equivalent of that final scene in Platoon: now that Charlie has overrun our forward base, all we can do is retreat to our bunkers, call down our artillery on our own positions and hope there will be some of us left at the end of it.

Or rather, to put it less histrionically, we need to recognise that all the cultural institutions we took for granted as purveyors of our entertainment — from Hollywood to the BBC to NASCAR — are at the very least tainted, and at worst probably lost forever.

 

What do we instead? Probably what must of us are doing already.

For example, even though the BBC remains the dominant radio and TV broadcast in Britain, I almost never listen to it or watch it any more because it’s pure woke propaganda.

When I watch TV, it’s almost always foreign language shows with subtitles — eg the Israeli series Fauda – because they tend to be less prone to political correctness than English-language series.

When I get my news, it’s almost never from newspapers because even ones that used to be conservative (at least in theory) have now swung left. Instead, it’s either from unashamedly conservative online outlets like Breitbart or from selected bloggers.

When I want to listen to intelligent, informed commentators talking at length, I no longer do that on any of the TV channels. I do it on independent podcasts, where nobody owes any fealty to the PC values of the cultural mainstream.

The cultural mainstream is over. Sooner or later it is going to pay a terrible price for this — for alienating at least half its potential audience with its nauseating woke values, for wagging its finger at us instead of entertaining us.

But until the backlash comes, our main job as lovers of liberty and independent thought is to hit these cucked industries where it most hurts: by denying them our money. We can survive without them. Unless and until they can be made to realise that they can’t survive without us, then frankly I don’t give a damn if their entire edifice is burned to ashes.

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Wendy’s Donated $500k to Black Causes, Pledged to Amplify ‘Black Voices’

Wendy’s announced earlier this month that it would donate $500,000 to help the black community and promised “to amplify Black voices” on its Twitter account — before being targeted by rioters in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night.

Protests erupted in outrage over the shooting death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was killed in a confrontation with police Friday in the parking lot of a Wendy’s. Brooks allegedly resisted arrest and took an officer’s taser as he fled.

Earlier this month, Wendy’s had backed the Black Lives Matter movement that mobilized after the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wendy’s joined many other corporations in making large donations to organizations and voicing its support for the movement on social media.

Police tried to arrest Brooks after he fell asleep in the Wendy’s drive-thru, and allegedly failed a field sobriety test they administered on their arrival, attempting to flee afterwards.

CNN has backed the Black Lives Matter protests, editorially, but a CNN crew was attacked on Saturday evening outside the Wendy’s as rioters began to torch it.

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Herschel Walker Blasts Joe Biden for Comparing Impact of George Floyd’s Death to MLK Assassination

Ex-NFL Star Herschel Walker blasted Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden for claiming that the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd had a greater impact on the world than the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, was infuriated by Biden’s proclamation.

“Someone inform @JoeBiden not to compare the death of Dr. King and George Floyd,” Walker wrote on Saturday. “He has been in office a very long time, and not once has he tried to change anything for black lives. Look at his voting records!”

Walker was referencing the Wednesday, June 10, round table discussion in Philadelphia where Biden exclaimed Dr. King’s death “did not have the worldwide impact George Floyd’s death did.”

“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said during the event.

“Because just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor’s dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women who were trying to go to church, and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids,” he continued.

Bull Connor was a Democrat and Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama.

“That — all those folks around the country who didn’t have any black populations heard about this, but they didn’t believe it, but they saw it, it was impossible for them to close their eyes,” Biden exclaimed.

“Well, what happened to George Floyd, now you’ve got how many people around the country? Millions of cell phones, it’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this,” the former vice president said. “Look at the millions of people marching around the world.”

Biden’s analysis enraged many Civil Rights activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece Alveda King who accused Biden of “missing the mark.”

“President Trump says that we all bleed the same. We are one nation under God. Uncle Joe, as they call him — many do — is in his basement missing the mark. And he is out of touch with reality,” she said.

She added that comparing both deaths is “stirring the race card up.”

“Both men were raised in godly families. Both men wanted peace,” Dr. Alveda King added. “Martin Luther King Jr.: a righteous preacher. George Floyd, whose family now — his brother Terrence [says,] ‘We want peace.’ His sister Ruby [says,] ‘Let’s bring love back.’”

Dr. Alveda King then accused Biden of “fighting over skin color.”

“You know, we are one race — [the] human race — one blood. We can see you, Uncle Joe. And we’re listening,” she concluded. “But you have the wrong message, Uncle Joe.”

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It’s Going Down, Antifa. Uncle Sam Just Started Delivering Payback for Terror Riots

Too many of the cities have prosecutors who wouldn’t pursue charges so it’s good the feds will.

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The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast to coast following weeks of rioting in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police. As antifa itself would say, “It’s going down.”

More than 50 people have been indicted on various charges in La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma.

Keep reading…

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Nickelodeon Suggests SpongeBob SquarePants Is Gay In LGBTQ Pride Month Tweet

In the wild, sea sponges aren’t known to have sexual preferences, but according to a tweet by children’s programming network, Nickelodeon, at least one cartoon sponge might practice an alternative lifestyle.

In a missive marking the beginning of Pride Month, Nickelodeon introduced a rainbow-colored version of their hit cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, showing the anthropomorphic yellow sea creature dressed in his typical outfit of a white shirt and brown pants, but with the addition of a tie printed with the LGBTQ “pride” flag.

“Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month,” the network said in the tweet.

Although the tweet doesn’t explicitly say SpongeBob is gay, the two other “rainbow” character treatments, released alongside SpongeBob, are of queer characters, according to the New York Post: “Korra from ‘The Legend of Korra,’ who is bisexual, and the transgender actor Michael D. Cohen [who plays Schwoz] from ‘Henry Danger.’”

‘Fans have known for a while Korra was gay/bisexual — as it was revealed in the show itself and actually written into the script. Again, not so much with words…but just action,” entertainment news outlet TMZ added. “As for Schwoz, the actor who plays him — Michael D. Cohen — is a transgender man in real life … something that wasn’t revealed until recently. He transitioned decades ago. Now, when it comes to the Krusty Krab fry cook … well, let’s just say folks had their suspicions for a long time now. If you know, you know … we won’t break it down for boomers.”

News of SpongeBob’s sexual orientation is, of course, not exactly news. “Fans of the nautical cartoon, which began airing in 1999, have long-suspected Spongebob to be gay. In one 2002 episode called ‘Rock-a-Bye Bivalve,’ Spongebob and his best friend Patrick parent an abandoned scallop like a married couple,” the New York Post said.

Social media fans of SpongeBob were also quick to point out that the sea sponge is a “queer icon,” especially after an extended run on Broadway.

Of course, SpongeBob’s sexual orientation would be a surprise to his creator, Stephen Hillenburg, who called the cartoon sponge “asexual” in an interview with People Magazine back in the early 2000s, seemingly chastizing viewers for ascribing any type of orientation to a perpetually childlike cartoon character.

“We never intended them to be gay,” Hillenburg said, referring to SpongeBob and his best friend, sea star Patrick. ‘I consider them to be almost asexual. We’re just trying to be funny and this has got nothing to do with the show.” Nickelodeon, which aired SpongeBob SquarePants, reportedly agreed with Hillenburg’s assessment of his characters.

Hillenburg, though, gave the interview in a less woke time. He passed away in 2018 of ALS, leaving the character open to interpretation.

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Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Of The American Revolution in Philadelphia Vandalized

The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier Of The American Revolution in Philadelphia was vandalized earlier this week.

Statues and monuments of historic white men have been destroyed and targeted by criminal rioters across the nation over the past few weeks, with seemingly no repercussions.

Due to the tomb being made from soft limestone, professional conservators had to be brought in to help repair it and remove the spray paint.

“The National Park Service is working to remove this graffiti on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution (at Washington Square) safely. We appreciate the offers to help that we’ve received, and we ask your patience while professional conservators continue this delicate task. Thank you for your encouragement and support,” the Independence National Historical Park wrote on Facebook.

Preservation at Work: The National Park Service is working to remove this graffiti on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier…

Posted by Independence NHP, Edgar Allan Poe NHS & Thaddeus Kosciuszko NM on Friday, June 12, 2020

“The wall of the monument is a very soft and porous limestone that’s susceptible to pitting and discoloration. To clean this stone without damaging it, we’ve tried non-abrasive steam cleaning and a gentle solvent. But, some paint on the wall remains,” the Facebook post added. “A professional stone conservator is now addressing this graffiti. The treatment saturates the painted stone with a mild solvent held in place by poultices (soft masses). After about two weeks, the stone’s appearance should improve.”

It is expected to take over two weeks to remove the damage.

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Judge Tosses Out Jussie Smollett Bid to Have Criminal Charges Dropped

Former Empire star Jussie Smollett’s attempt to have the criminal charges against him dropped were tossed out by a judge in Chicago on Friday. The Judge dismissed the actor’s claim that the fresh charges against him violate his right against double jeopardy.

In February, Smollett was indicted by a special prosecutor on fresh charges of filing false police reports falsely claiming he was the victim of a violent hate crime attack by supporters of President Donald Trump. The indictments were announced months after the original 16 counts of disorderly conduct against him were abruptly dropped in a move that sparked widespread outrage.

On Friday Smollett’s defense attorneys contended that since he had already completed 16 hours of community service and forfeited his $10,000 bond from the original case, he had already served his punishment. However, Cook County Judge James Lin dismissed this argument, ruling that as Smollett’s original case never went to trial, the fine and community service do not cover double jeopardy.

“There was no trial in this case, there was no jury empaneled, no witnesses were sworn, no evidence was heard, no guilty pleas were ever entered … nothing like that ever happened,” said Linn. “You cannot have any criminal penalty, whether it’s jail, probation, conditional discharge … none of that can be ordered on the innocent or presumed innocent or the unadjudicated.”

Linn also pointed out how Judge Michael Toomin had ruled the original case against Smollett was void after determining Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx improperly recused herself from the investigation and had no authority to appoint a top deputy to take over the case for her.

Smollett, who is both black and gay, told authorities he was attacked by two masked men shouting racist and homophobic slurs as they assaulted him, placed a noose around his neck, and poured an unknown chemical on him. However, police investigations of the incident found that in reality, Smollett had paid two men, Ola and Abel Osundairo, $3,500 to stage the attack after he grew “dissatisfied” with his salary from Empire.

Nevertheless, Smollett maintains his innocence and will continue to plead not guilty. His next court date is scheduled for July 17th.

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PORTLAND: Antifa Terrorists Protected by Allied Democrat Politicians Shut Down Traffic For 17th Straight Day, Violently Mob Driver (VIDEO)

Antifa domestic terrorists in Portland have shut down traffic for 17 straight days and as usual, the police are no where to be found.

On Saturday, Antifa rioters violently mobbed a driver on SE Powell Blvd in Portland.

There is no law and order in Portland thanks to Democrat politicians.

These Antifa rioters are protected by the Democrats who are refusing to enforce the law.

WATCH:

Members of Antifa have been terrorizing people in Portland for years as the police stand idly by and do nothing.

Antifa in Portland previously took over directing traffic and harassed elderly motorists.

Portland has one of the largest and most active populations of Antifa members in the United States thanks to Democrat policies.

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George Washington Statue in Chicago Vandalized With KKK Hood, Graffiti: ‘Burn the White House Down’

Vandals in Chicago spray-painted a statue of George Washington overnight with messages in red paint on three sides reading, “Slave Owner!”, “Burn the Whitehouse down” and “God bless AmeriKKKa”, reported Alexis McAdams with WLS-TV, via Twitter. A white KKK hood and cloak were also placed over Washington’s head.

Image via Chicago Park District, details: Location: 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr. Chicago, IL 60637 Within: Washington (George) Park Artist: Daniel Chester French and Edward C. Potter Year Created: 1900 Installed: 1904

“Graffiti covers the more than 100 year old George Washington statue on the Southside. Messages in red spray paint read “Slave Owner” “Burn the Whitehouse down” & “God bless AmeriKKKa” CPD investigating. Some neighbors want the statue to go, others say it’s part of history.”

WMAQ-TV reported on the statue also having a white hood and cloak put on it.

“Vandals spray-painted graffiti and put a white hood on a statue of George Washington in Chicago’s Washington Park neighborhood Sunday morning. Photos from the scene show the statue, which is located in the 5500 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, with spray-painted messages scrawled on its base. Earlier in the day, a white hood and gown, likely intended as a representation of the Ku Klux Klan, had also been seen on the monument.”

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Four Human Smuggling Attempts Thwarted in Texas near Border

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted four human smuggling efforts during a two-hour period on June 9. The interactions led to the arrest of 12 illegal aliens and four suspected human smugglers.

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Brackettville Station in South Texas conducted multiple immigration stops on various roadways in their area of responsibility, according to information obtained from Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials. The immigration stops occurred during the morning of June 9 within a two-hour period.

In four separate stops, agents apprehended 12 illegal aliens and arrested four alleged human smugglers, officials reported. In one incident, the agents arrested the driver, a U.S. citizen, who was traveling with a juvenile passenger and five migrants. In another, agents arrested a driver, also a U.S. citizen, traveling with his infant daughter.

“The vigilance and stalwart dedication of the agents in Brackettville and throughout Del Rio Sector continue to thwart these dangerous and highly unsuccessful attempts to smuggle aliens,” Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Doyle E. Amidon, Jr. said in a written statement “The reckless disregard and growing desperation of these criminal organizations only strengthens our resolve to see such criminal practices put to an end. Simply put, if you try to smuggle in the Del Rio Sector, we are going to stop you.”

Officials did not disclose the nationality of the 12 arrested migrants nor their disposition. In most cases, migrants arrested by Border Patrol agents are returned to Mexico after clearing a medical screening and criminal background check under Title 43 coronavirus protection protocols put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The smugglers all face federal felony charges under 8 USC § 1324 — alien smuggling. If convicted on the charges, each face up to 10 years in federal prison.

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