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Well, now, I was saying, before being so rudely interrupted, that Humza Yousaf should step down as Scotland's First Minister, in the wake of his odious Hate Crime legislation coming into law. J. K. Rowling had just challenged police to arrest her for offending trans-Nazis by calling them men. They didn't. Arrest her. But he did.

Step down. Good riddance! Most edifying and gratifying! Not necessarily a victory against Woke-Fascism, though: the Government survived a no-confidence vote, and the police have become the Thought Police after being flooded with complaints about hate speech from triggered snowflakes. Over 7000, mainly anonymous, in the first week. Snowflakes Anonymous.

We can be sure we dodged a bullet here with the demise of Jacinda Jackboot and her odious hate speech laws. But we cannot be complacent. She hideously lingers, as an Internet Nazi, courtesy of Christopher Luxon, who must be made to revoke that diabolical appointment. Where are you on that, Peters and Seymour?!

It has been salutary during the period we were off air to ponder anew the state of affairs we confront, and how we got to it. We are seeing a cultural revolution not unlike that of Mao's China in the ‘60s where hysterical hypnotised youngsters rampaged against everything civilised. 

Sophy Roberts writes in The Lost Pianos of Siberia, “I learned that Mao Zedong's widow, who was fond of piano music, didn't quite manage to save the instrument from its unpalatable Western reputation.

“During China's Cultural Revolution… the piano was likened to a coffin, in which notes rattled about like the bones of the bourgeoisie… In 1966, Mao's Red Guards smashed instruments to pieces, raided music schools and locked keyboards shut. Their campaign of terror drove soloists to suicide.”

Today's hissy fitters pull down statues, vandalise paintings, and, in the case of Woke professors, decry Western musical notation, often called “sheet music,” as racist. I quote from The Telegraph of March 27, 2021:

Musical notation has been branded “colonialist” by Oxford professors hoping to reform their courses to focus less on white European culture.

Academics are deconstructing the university's music offering after facing pressure to “decolonise” the curriculum following the Black Lives Matter protests.

The Telegraph has seen proposals for changes to undergraduate courses, in which some staff question the current curriculum's “complicity in white supremacy”.

Documents reveal that faculty members, who decide on courses that form the music degree, have proposed reforms to address this “white hegemony”, including rethinking the study of musical notation because it is a “colonialist representational system”.

Academics have also proposed that musical skills such as learning to play the keyboard or conducting orchestras should no longer be compulsory because the repertoire “structurally centres white European music” which causes “students of colour great distress”.

Oh what bollocks it all is!

This, you may recall, was mirrored by the New Zealand School of Music announcing it had embraced Only Black Lives Matter and was seeking to “de-centre Whiteness” in its curriculum. 

Academia is the epicentre of evil in our time. How it came to be so is very usefully traced by Chris Rufo in his new book, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. 

It's a story too long to be told in its entirety here, but I'll quote a little from the Preface of the book to give you its flavour:

I have seen the hideous face of revolution. My first encounter was in Seattle, Washington, where I began my career as a political journalist. When I started reporting on the city's homelessness crisis, Seattle's left-wing activists engaged in a relentless pressure campaign against my family, targeting our reputations, attempting to get my wife fired, publishing threats with our home addresses, and putting up menacing posters around my oldest son's elementary school. Their objective was simple: silence, marginalise and suppress – all, somehow, in the name of tolerance and an open society. At the time, I thought of myself as a moderate. But that experience opened my eyes to the real nature of left-wing politics. It radicalised me. A few years later, when my reporting shifted to Critical Race Theory, I discovered the same dynamic at a national scale: American institutions were playing the same cynical game, marshalling the forces of guilt, shame and scapegoating in order to enforce a left-wing political orthodoxy. Government agencies were teaching that “all white people” are racist. Public schools were separating children into “oppressor” and “oppressed.” Fortune 100 corporations were pushing the idea that the United States was a “white supremacy system.”

This garbage, ladies and gentlemen, is what is being spewed to you from Academia via the Woke-Fascist media and taken by mindless indoctrinated zombie-thugs to the streets, egged on by the nightly fake news, whose credibility is shot.

One Nitwit News, Newsdump, along with Stuffed and all the rest… it would be good riddance to them and their Woke advocacy in lieu of journalism, their militant renunciation of objectivity and their smug, self-righteous dogmatism. 

Paul Goldsmith: don't you dare bail them out with taxpayer money. They're already awash in it, and they hold the taxpayer in utter contempt… They don't even allow comment on their articles and items. Let Woke-Fascist Media rest in peace. Please, dear ladies of RCR, let us see again those banners in the sky, RIP, Woke Media. If the Woke Media think they have something of value to offer, let them do what Reality Check Radio just did! 

They are what they call us: fringe. They're not mainstream commonsense; they are infantile temper-tantrum lunatics who squawk with the voices of two-year-olds who will tell you men can get pregnant and throw a hissy fit if you disagree. They tell you that Maori myths are science. They claim a fake vaccine whose side-effects include death is “safe and effective.” They include the Pfizer Pflatform who call us “nutters” and “cookers.” They include the traitors who say we mustn't upset the unleashers of the Wuhan virus because those unleashers are our biggest trading partner. 

Real journalists might wonder and investigate if anyone here is being paid off by Communist China, Pfizer, Iran and other Dark Money… Real academics would report honestly on what is happening in Academia. Like this one: Cornell University Law Professor William Jacobson.

That's where we are, ladies and gentlemen. These contemporary Red Guards are funded by Soros (the most evil man on the planet), Bill Gates, the Rockefellers. Quoting now from Politico:

President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing from philanthropists pushing hard for his reelection.

The donors include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: Gates, Soros, Rockefeller and Pritzker, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.)

Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist.

And so it goes… Aided and abetted by the real pandemic of our time: cowardice.  Oscar Wilde's words were never more true:

 Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions. Their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

But I want to end on a note of triumph. Academia is being seen to be as ridiculous as it is vile. Fake Intelligentsia. Mainstream fake media, the print and broadcast arms of Labour and the psycho shoplifters' party, are going down, and taking their Woke-Fascism with them.

We are back. Thanks to you. Voluntary subscribers, who value life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, who believe in live and let live, free speech, in the spirit of “I disagree with what you say but defend to the death your right to say it,” and have shown willing to put your money where your convictions are. You are magnificent. 

We haven't yet won, by any stretch of the imagination, but we're starting to win. No better way to celebrate our cultural counter-revolution than with the stirring conclusion to Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony! In good old racist, colonial sheet music!