the great R. Crumb

Tag: cancel culture

  • Woke just got canceled in prime time

    Routing of the culture police to follow! The biggest news story of the day: Bari Weiss is hiring on to run CBS News.  Reason magazine, libertarian in its politics, summed it up: “Bari Weiss Has Won the War on Wokeness in Media.” It’s that big. Ms. Weiss co-founded an on-line publication called “The Free Press”…

  • Palestinian advocates hurt their cause

    Gaza not starving enough to release hostages. — Babylon Bee Has advocacy for any cause created more ill will than the push for Palestinian statehood? The movement is on some kind of public relations suicide mission. Their martinets keep demonstrating why Palestine should NOT have a state. Latest case in point, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.…

  • Blaska got called a fascist!

    by a good Madison progressive! The day after Election Day 2024. So we’ve got that going for us. Our sin against political correctness was calling Madison’s public school system “Woke.” If it ain’t woke, then it sure is broke. Just try sending a member of a “protected class” to the principal’s office! After November 5,…

  • Is Jon Gruden the next UW-Madison chancellor?

    He might come cheap. What are we thinking? Putting up this Photoshopped image of Jon Gruden as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin’s flagship Madison campus? (He could double as Paul Chryst’s offensive coordinator!) We are sure to be condemned by all Woke-thinking reacting progressives. But we risk no highly compensated sinecure, no political…

  • No restroom for the wicked

    Intimidation trumps persuasion We now know why Chancellor Rebecca Blank caves to the handful of social justice warriors scouring the UW-Madison campus for sources of umbrage. She wants to pee in peace. Because the shock troops of Woke progressivism will follow you into the loo shouting their slogans, then post your humiliation on social media.…

  • Wake up call for the woke racists

    Buy John McWhorter’s book! John McWhorter is but one of many black conservatives who do not get one-tenth the attention of a self-aggrandizer (and tax cheat) like Al Sharpton. But The New York Times is beginning to pay attention. McWhorter is up with a piece headlined “What’s missing from the conversation about systemic racism.” An excerpt…