Crypto Anarchism and Civil Society – The Technology is the Revolution.[
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: bitcoin.com
Author: Wendy McElroy
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The latest article for bitcoin.com is available: Crypto Anarchism and Civil Society – The Technology is the Revolution. For the next month or so, I will be analyzing anarchist theory. I hope to see you in the commentary section.

Excerpt: The simplicity of anarchism is stunning: live and let live. Do not use force against those who also pursue their own lives. Most people are anarchists in how they conduct daily life with family, associates, and strangers. Whether or not law enforcement is present, most people behave peacefully, and being violent never occurs to them. It is not a police presence that makes people wake their children for breakfast or greet their neighbors on the sidewalk. Legislation does not persuade them not to murder strangers. Civil society does. It manifests the natural harmony of interests between human beings as they interact and separate to pursue their own self-interests.

Insulting Prophet Muhammad not free speech, ECtHR rules
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Sabah
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Thursday that an Austrian woman's criminal conviction and fine for her statements accusing the Prophet Muhammad of pedophilia did not breach her right to free speech. The decision by a seven-judge panel came as an Austrian national identified as E.S. by the court, had held seminars on Islam in 2008 and 2009 for the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) where she discussed the prophet's marriage to his wife Aisha, a child at the time, and implied that he was a pedophile. An Austrian court convicted her of disparaging religious doctrines in 2011 and fined her 480 euros (548 dollars), a judgment that was upheld on two appeals.

Forced Sterilizations in Peru — Paid for by US Taxpayers
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Mises Institute
In countries under heavy US influence or occupation, the US government has a habit of pushing political programs that would be too unpopular to implement in the United States. In recent months, mainstream media outlets have been highlighting the rarely-mentioned forced sterilizations that took place during the Alberto Fujimori years. Part of the renewed interest is due to the fact that Fujimori, who is 79-years-old, and back in prison after a failed attempt at a pardon, now faces charges for his part in the sterilization program. The program is said to have lead to the forced sterilization of over 200,000 women in the late 1990s.

Exposing California's Feminist Corporate Coup
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Mises Institute
The California Legislature’s 2017-2018 session just ended with an ocean of new laws inflicted upon its citizens. It’s actually difficult to discover how many new laws were passed. There were about 2,100 bills passed and signed by the Governor, but many of them were bills supporting things like National Arbor Day or the Ritchie Valens Memorial Highway or Cinco de Mayo Week or Persian New Year. If you look up the legislative agenda there are about 50 pages of passed bills with 50 items on each page, of which about 7 pages of bills were vetoed by Governor Brown. I can’t tell you how many of them are “real” laws, but in the last session there were about 900 new laws . My guess is that there were more than 900 this session.

Constitutional Right to Home-School?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
[Ed: An interesting opinion from a Georgia Court of Appeals chief judge Stephen Dillard.] Last week, Judge Stephen Dillard, chief judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals (and, back in the day, blogger Feddie at Southern Appeal), wrote an interesting concurring opinion (Borgers v. Borgers) forcefully defending such a right. I personally think that defining the scope of parental rights is a complicated matter, and while I support the right to homeschool on policy grounds, I'm not positive that it should be recognized as a constitutional right; but the opinion struck me as very interesting, and I thought I'd pass it along.

How a teen boy reacted to girl’s embarrassing situation on bus
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Honey Nine
"My daughter started her period on the bus ride home today," the mum wrote. "And a boy a year older than her that she doesn't really know pulled her aside and whispered in her ear that she had a stain on the back of her pants and gave her his sweater to tie around her waist so she could walk home off the bus." After the sweet gesture and an admission from the girl that she was embarrassed, the boy said, "I have sisters, it's all good."

Megyn Kelly Out At NBC; $69 Million Contract Will Be Paid In Full
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
It appears Megyn Kelly will not be returning to "Today" - not tomorrow, not ever. That's according to a story in the Daily Mail, which confirmed on Thursday afternoon that the former Fox News star has agreed to leave the network after she defended the use of black face in Halloween costumes during a panel discussion on Tuesday, triggering an intense backlash that reverberated across twitter.

UN, France's Burqa Ban Violates Muslim Women's Rights
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Huffington Post
The U.N. Human Rights Committee has declared that France’s ban on full-face Islamic veils, such as the niqab and burqa, is a violation of Muslim women’s rights. The committee, a body of 18 independent experts that monitors how nations implement an international civil rights treaty, said that France has failed to adequately explain why the 2010 law, which has come to be known as a burqa ban, was necessary.

Tasmanian government resists removing gender from birth certificates
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The Tasmanian government is resisting a push to remove gender from birth certificates. The proposal will be put before parliament later this year as a series of amendments introduced by Labor and the Greens to legislation intended to bring Tasmania in line with equal marriage laws that passed the federal parliament in December.

Spartacus gets a pass
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Twitchy
[Ed: LGBTQ Nation wonders if sexual assault accusation v. Booker is right-wing smear. It may well be...] As Twitchy told you the other day when we wrote about this story, no one in the mainstream media would pick it up. And maybe for good reason; there’s about as much proof it’s real as there was the Trump dossier was real — but Buzzfeed News published that in full anyway. In short, an anonymous man set up a Twitter account and linked it to a lengthy Google Doc in which he told of an incident in which Booker, a hero of his, allegedly forced him into a bathroom stall at work, clearly expecting oral sex. Again, we don’t know if it’s true, although the accuser did have a clear recollection of when and where it happened and said he contacted Ronan Farrow, who strung him along and eventually blew him off.

More bad news for Cosby
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Associated Press
A judge on Tuesday rejected Bill Cosby's bid for a new trial or sentencing hearing, leading the comedian's wife, Camille, to again accuse the judge of bias against her husband. The ruling by the same judge that presided over Cosby's trial also led the entertainer's lawyers to file their appeal with the state Superior Court, the next step in trying to reverse his felony sex assault conviction, the AP reports. Cosby is serving a three- to 10-year state prison term after a jury this year found he drugged and molested Andrea Constand in 2004. Camille Cosby continued to issue searing attacks against Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill, as she has done since the first trial ended in a jury deadlock in June 2017. In the latest missive Tuesday, she again said he should have stepped down from the case because his wife has advocated for sex assault victims. O'Neill has heard the argument before and said his wife's work has no bearing on his legal rulings.

Truck artist paints messages to campaign for female literacy
Topic: Individualist Feminism
Source: Pakistan Today
[Ed: i applaud the idea. i am sorry to see that it is a government effort.] Samar Minallah, anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, has recruited truck artists and owners under the Asian Development Project’s Legal Literacy for Women in Punjab initiative to paint women empowerment messages on their trucks. This project is a collaboration between Minallah and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). One of the recruits is Hayat Khan, a truck artist from Islamabad who is painting pictures of school going girls on trucks with empowering messages such as, “forced and child marriages are punishable by law” citing the Punjab Child Marriage Restraint Act of 2015.

#ThemToo
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The City-Journal
During the Great Awakening, evangelical ministers denounced the practice, but it was their female congregants who turned the cause into a Tocquevillian movement: in 1834, they founded the Female Moral Reform Society in New York. Within a few years, the society had 400 chapters, mostly in northeastern and midwestern states. A march on Washington would have been logistically impossible at a time when no one had heard of frequent-flier miles, and strategically useless when all politics was truly local. Instead, the reformers marched on nearby brothels, where they passed out pamphlets and held prayer sessions. In the past, the working girls had suffered most of the blame for illicit sex, but reformers, some also active in abolition groups, tried to change public sentiment by recasting their “wayward” sisters as “white slaves,” held captive by “destroyers.”

Midterms: Sorry Democrats
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: USA Today
[Ed: Voters reject your political correctness for good reason.] So political correctness is overwhelmingly unpopular with the vast majority outside of “woke” social-justice culture of progressive activists, which The Atlantic article tells us make up about 8 percent of the population. But it’s still a problem, because although the woke are a minority, they have a lot of influence in academia and journalism (which they dominate), and in the corporate world, where the demands of activists are usually acceded to, and where HR departments are staffed with sympathizers. Thus we have a large group of Americans — at 80 percent, we could call it a silent supermajority — that feels pushed around by what turns out to be about 8 percent of the population. You’d expect that to be the end of things, as every sensible politician would want to take the side of the 80 percent over the 8 percent. But it’s not that simple.

Unspoken Homophobia Propelling Transgender Movement in Children
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Quillette
[Ed: I do not know what I think of this article, but I will be thinking of it...interesting.] I grew up as a straight woman in the gay community, at a time when homophobia was rampant in North American society. I witnessed the harassment and ignorance that my friends faced on a daily basis. Most, as a result, hid their sexual orientation from anyone outside of the community, and few were openly out to their families. Although things have definitely improved since then, discrimination against gay people still exists. And as I’ve watched as glowing stories about transgender children have flooded every progressive news outlet over the last few years, every one of them appalls and saddens me. Because the underlying story that the public isn’t privy to is that many of these children would have grown up to be gay, but are instead undergoing a new form of conversion therapy.

Why woke keyboard warriors should respect their elders
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Unherd
The heated debate on the Gender Recognition Act has highlighted the oft-stark division between generations of feminists. Many of the younger women, especially those in universities, appear to have adopted the line that second wave feminists such as myself, who focus on violence against women and an end to sexist stereotyping, are old-hat. It seems a particular group of very young, privileged, ‘intersectional’ women are prepared to throw away the gains us older feminists achieved.

The Emperor’s Woke Clothes
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Tablet Magazine
The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose political correctness. A recent survey of 8,000 Americans reveals that people of all ages, races, and educational levels oppose it by lopsided margins. None of the demographic categories presumed to be aligned with it, or to fall within its protective embrace, actually support it. Three out of 4 black people, 2 out of 3 people with postgraduate degrees, and 78 percent of people under the age of 24 all regard political correctness as a problem. While 79 percent of white people oppose political correctness, it is Asians (82 percent), Hispanics (87 percent), and American Indians (88 percent) who are most likely to be resistant to it. The findings are as encouraging as they are distressing.

Grieving the left
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Posey Parker
So here I am, in 2018, politically homeless....Then along came the big fat elephant in the room, trumpeting in a way that even the profoundly deaf could not ignore, “identity politics” it blew “trans ideology” it screeched. Identity politics had always meant white and female to me, I waxed lyrical about privilege and oppression. I had no idea that this accepted scale of oppressed to privileged would see middle aged middle class white males claim maximum oppression points. These dizzy new heights are how the question “does my eleven year old daughter have the right to be a changing room without seeing a penis?” was met with vitriol and accusations of bigotry and trans phobia. Here are some of the answers: “Speculating about possible eventualities such as ….. (the horror, someone call Paul Dacre!) …the highly unlikely prospect of young girls being confronted by male genitalia in female toilets is both prurient and wholly besides the point. It makes some of the above posts sound less like radicals than Republican Christian evangelicals. I hope we can place the liberation of humanity before our own personal identities. That will require a humility from us all that is sadly absent from much of this thread.”

Why should universities be socially inclusive?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Oxford, Cambridge and other leading institutions are derided as ‘bastions of privilege’, most specifically, ‘white privilege’. Universities are not judged according to what students might learn, or the scholarship undertaken by professors, but by statistics: how many students are black, how many had free school meals, are from a disadvantaged area or went to a state school. Bean-counters insist that universities are held accountable for goals that have nothing whatsoever to do with education or, worse, which actively run counter to teaching and learning.

Marxists against wokeness
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
In the interests of efficiency, I’ll start by asserting — not arguing — some propositions: In their discussions of cultural life and of societal trends, the organs of American educated opinion (the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, et al.); the faculty and students at our elite prep schools, colleges, and universities; and the members of the metropolitan class who read those publications and emerge from those institutions, frequently and increasingly assert, rather than argue, a set of vaguely interlocking propositions and slogans concerning (I’ll spare the scare quotes) white privilege, social justice, systemic racism, diversity, inclusivity, microaggressions, and the intellectual and cultural heritage — irrelevant at best, baneful at worst — of dead white males.