Halloween is coming. As always, one of the spookiest things in American society is bound to accompany this ritual of inversion (defined as an event that allows people to violate social norms): political correctness. On the PC ticket this year, as it is every other, is the idea of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation really entered…
We’ve all recently seen an eyebrow-raising number of yard signs with semantically-overloaded slogans in rainbow font, which are more of an attempt to virtue signal condescendingly and make a public political statement than they are evidence of any actual understanding of the issues advertised. “In this house, we believe; Black lives matter, woman’s rights are…
Hong Kong. What is it, like, a country? A city? An island maybe? Do they speak Chinese or British English? Well, sort of, yes, sort of, and yes. Hong Kong has been tumultuous and roaring since the founding (historical fiction nerds should read Tai-Pan for a rollicking telling of Hong Kong at its origin). The…
No, I’m not talking about multiple protests. The plural reflects the dueling status of a Patriot Rally and a counterprotest organized by literal communists, a protest titled Antifa/BLM soup drive. We may as well remove the aforementioned slash (ideologically, anyway) because BLM and Antifa are pretty much in bed. Though I’d rather not expound on…