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Bye Bye DEI

Last Friday, newly installed SecDef Pete Hegseth issued guidance to the Department of Defense ending, effectively immediately, the use of official resources to celebrate months tied to racial or gender identities.

The guidance states, in part: “Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the Department’s warfighting mission. Efforts to divide the force – to put one group ahead of another – erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.”

Exactly. Bravo. It’s embarrassing and even outrageous that this commonsense assertion even needs to be stated, but the previous administration’s woke military leadership was focused on addressing the existential threat of purported “white rage” in the ranks.

Hegseth added:

Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month.

He went on to say that service members are still allowed to attend such events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours, and that military installations, units, and offices are still encouraged to “celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos.”

Hegseth concluded, “We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service instead of their immutable characteristics.”

This guidance follows a memo that the highly decorated Army veteran Hegseth issued earlier in the week implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order banning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the military. Now our military can get back to prioritizing lethality over equity.

Blasphemy in the UK

Amid rampant Muslim knife crime and increasingly combative communities of unassimilated Muslims in the UK, The Telegraph reports that a 16-member government council is being planned to advise ministers on tackling – wait for it – Islamophobia.

Dominic Grieve, who chaired the Citizens’ UK Commission on Islam, wrote the foreword to a controversial all-party parliamentary group’s report in 2018 that set out a definition of Islamophobia which was adopted  by the Labour Party as well as other institutions and parties. It defines the Muslim Brotherhood-weaponized concept as “rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.”

Offenses covered under the definition include, but are not limited to:

The definition has been slammed by free speech defenders for amounting to a de facto blasphemy law. Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, warned, “Of course we should tackle anti-Muslim hate wherever it occurs, but this definition is a Trojan horse for a blasphemy law protecting Islam.

“Why do Labour MPs think it is acceptable,” he continued, “to mock Christianity but not Islam? Time and again this Labour Government displays an Orwellian disregard for freedom of speech.”

Paul Stott, co-author of a Policy Exchange report last week on extremism, said, “The Government is giving off worrying vibes – that it is potentially amenable to restrictions on ‘blasphemy’ and that its mind is made up in favour of a definition of Islamophobia. If so, that is terrible news for freedom of speech.”

Terrible indeed. Blasphemy against Islam is already being prosecuted in the UK. Just two days ago a Manchester man was arrested on suspicion of a “racially aggravated public order offence” for burning a copy of the Quran at a city center memorial which commemorates the victims of the ghastly 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Assistant chief constable Stephanie Parker said, “We recognise the right people have for freedom of expression, but when this crosses into intimidation to cause harm or distress we will always look to take action when it is reported to us.”

All it takes in the conquered UK to cause “distress” to Muslims and prompt a home visit from the police, if not an actual arrest, is to tweet anything deemed critical of Islam. The island already lacks the same protections as America’s First Amendment, and under the Islamophile Prime Minister Keir Starmer, it is in imminent danger of being irrevocably Islamized.

Canadian Kink

Reduxx reports that Dustin Hrycun, 45, a Canadian psychologist who worked with vulnerable youth in Calgary, has been charged with possessing and disseminating child pornography through the social media app Kik, which is “notorious for its use in facilitating in child sexual abuse”:

A now-deleted online profile posted to Psychology Today listed Hrycun as a “sex-positive,” kink allied,” “queer allied,” “transgender allied,” and “non-monogamy” expert offering counseling services for teens and adults.

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Hrycun has produced over a dozen bizarre videos of himself writhing to the song “Moonlight Desires” by Lawrence Gowan to advertise his services as a psychologist. The videos are part of a campaign Hrycun created which he calls “non-monotonous Mondays,” but rather than showcasing any professional expertise, they often depict him behaving as though suffering from mental illness. [see pic above]

In one video, Hrycun is dressed in drag and mimes a seductive dance; in another, his face is painted to resemble a tiger and he continuously sprays water on himself as the makeup runs down his chin; in his pinned post, Hrycun is seen bound with a bag over his head, and after he frees himself, what appears to be jets of soda burst in front of his lap.

In all of the videos, Hrycun lipsyncs the lyrics: “You’ve got ways to take hold of my thoughts, overriding my senses… These moonlight desires haunt me, they want me.”

By definition, “kink” and “queer” refer to disordered desires that either flirt with or dive headlong into the unnatural. But they aren’t just about indulging in harmless, private sexual pleasures. There is a moral and even civilizational consequence. To “queer” something, for example, in today’s usage among Left-wing radicals, has a broader and more insidious meaning. As I have written elsewhere,

“queer” doesn’t mean simply “homosexual.” As Logan Lancing and James Lindsey explain in their book The Queering of the American Child, queer theory is a radical ideology that seeks to convince people that nothing – nothing – is normal or natural, that everything including gender and sexuality is a social or political construct imposed upon people by the “dominant” classes. Queer theory’s purpose is not to simply normalize deviant sexual practices and identities but to deconstruct the very concept of normalcy.

And thus it is only one small step further to cross the next boundary and draw children into the orbit of satanic perversion.

The fact that the disturbed counselor Hrycun can openly advertise kink allied,” “queer allied,” and “transgender allied” as professional credentials is indicative of the normalization – even the celebration – in our culture of a dark, subversive drive to destroy our culture. If we are to survive, much less thrive, as a civilization, this godless drive must be extinguished.

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