Resistance Is Futile

A prominent awards show for Indigenous music in Canada has been plunged into turmoil after a group of Inuit performers accused a Cree folk singer of cultural appropriation. Several well-known Inuit singers have cut ties with the Indigenous Music awards (IMA), an annual show due to held in Winnipeg on 17 May, over the nomination of Connie LeGrande, who they accuse of improperly using Inuit throat singing.
In recent years, Canada has started to grapple with the issue of cultural appropriation as Indigenous people publicly challenge white artists for the use of Indigenous iconography and stories in their own work. The current row, however, centres on an Indigenous artist, and raises questions over cultural borrowings between separate aboriginal groups.

Tim Worstall is reading the Guardian.

Eaton, of course, was exultant at having claimed Scruton’s scalp.
It’s worth pondering what kind of person publicly exults in his own dishonesty. As if it won’t be found out, within minutes, or when discovered, won’t matter to his readers.
Douglas Murray has more here.

It’s part of an agenda of poisoning the bonds between men as friends – indeed, any close relationship that doesn’t include The State is suspect.
That makes sense for leftists, but I think there was also another motive behind this: They wanted to normalize homosexuality by finding it everywhere. “Look! Your heroes are gay. And you’re gay too!”

Eaton, of course, was exultant at having claimed Scruton’s scalp.
Does Roger Scruton have good grounds for a libel lawsuit under British law?

I am hoping this is parody, otherwise insanity claims another.

The journalist didn’t by himself draw the line of what people are allowed to say. He’s a defender of the narrative, who knew where the line was and herded Scruton out of bounds. The question, as Murray says, is why conservatives have been so cowardly in allowing their enemies to define the limits of speech, so cowardly in never standing up for their own people.
There are no principles about where the line is drawn, except that it turns out to be consistently anti-white. You can discuss whether billionaires have too much influence, but you’d better consult with the SPLC about which billionaires you’re allowed to name. You can discuss the conformity of white Americans but not the conformity of the Chinese. You can slander Christianity but only say good things about Islam.
In a borderless world, we’re no longer encountering foreigners as just vacationers and arms-length trading partners whose dirty laundry we can politely ignore. Since we’re inviting foreigners to make themselves at home in our cities and our institutions, it’s all the more important that we’re informed about the dysfunctions they might bring with them from their home cultures. Instead we’re required to walk on eggshells and navigate ever-more-convoluted taboos about even noticing the foreignness of foreigners, let alone discussing their dark side.

Baby Cthulhu
Bah. Where are the wings? The arms and legs? Just having tentacles doesn’t make something “Cthuluesque”. Sad:-(.

Another day, another struggle session.

http://libguides.blinn.edu/az.php?s=6761
We’re through the looking glass here people!
And Humpty Dumpty takes another scalp.

jabrwok, I’m not sure where the Rachel shown there got her moniker; rather doubtful that she’s going to be anyone’s valentine. Unless maybe she got it from eating too much Valentine’s Day chocolates.

Oh, now I realize what you’re talking about! Yeah, the libguide link was a mistake and had nothing to do with anything hereabouts. Please ignore.

Everybody stare at it, like a spot.
Well, you’re unlikely to gain any value from doing so, but whatever floats your respective boats.:-P

This seems like the sort of art that David looks forward to enjoying on weekends:

For a performance piece called The Trainee, the Finnish artist Pilvi Takala took a job at Deloitte just to stare into space at her empty desk and take the elevator up and down—to the consternation of her “coworkers.”

Be good.
Hey everybody, I’ve got a key to David’s wine vault!

Scruton has responded in his own inimitable style.
Indeed. But I would like to also see another style: a successful and ruinous lawsuit. Those who would destroy us deserve destruction.

“Or at least clean up afterwards.”
Just who on earth do you think we are?….

“When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean in 1492, there were about 60 million people living in the Americas, . . . .
“A century later there were only 6 million native Americans left: a 90% fatality rate. Yet at that time, there were still only about a quarter-million Europeans in the Americas. They clearly couldn’t have killed the other 54 million natives – but their diseases did.”
My commie friend Eric Flint, who almost became a professional historian, thinks this is figure is much too high.
But hey, whatever is best for The Narrative® trumps truth.