(Historical note: one of the retaliations that occurred during the Protestant Reformation was Roman Catholics asking children to recite the Our Father [or Lord’s Prayer]. If they did so in anything other than Latin, their parents were immediately “put to the question” for heresy.)

Jerry Pournelle on Military Virtue

“For despite the silly sayings about violence never settling anything, history IS changed on the battlefield: ask the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, the Continental Congress, the Carthaginians, the Israelis, the Confederate States of America, Pompey and Caesar and Richard III and Harold of Wessex, Don Juan of Austria and Aetius the last Roman.”

And, it’s not just a racial issue. Fundamentalist progressives have shown themselves very capable of treating minorities awfully if they don’t accept the Progressive doctrine. And, then, blaming the minority as “racist” – because they haven’t figured out the right talisman words for that situation, yet.

Thanks to the diligent efforts of Ms. Sarah L. Kaufman at WaPo, even the seemingly happy and innocuous Nutcracker has been deconstructed. (Think of her analysis as the 1619 Project looks at ballet.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/25/nutcracker-history-russian-imperialism/

Watch — or even listen to — the Nutcracker and you are supporting Putin, and this cannot be allowed. Indeed, we must now add Tchaikovsky (formerly a tragic victim, with high standing on the left) to the list of unpersons such as Abraham Lincoln and even Dr. King, whose names must never again be spoken. Thus the Great Reset is perfected, and peace, harmony, and equity brought to the world. (Just ask the comrades — well, except for those who are currently protesting — in China.)

The larger message, lest the dimmer animals fail to understand what is to be done, is that this year, there should be no performances of this terrible, pro-Putin piece of Czarist agitprop in places like New York, San Francisco, or in any other properly woke blue space.
Take your family to a Christmas-themed Drag Queen show instead.

The irony, as one of the sources for this piece hints at, is that Ms. Kaufman and her friends are just as much in thrall to today’s woke clerisy as Tchaikovsky was to the Czar:

“What it is to have a master when you’re a servant and you’re supported by the czar, and royalty always has to be celebrated. The choreographers do know who’s paying the bills.”

And so do Ms. Kaufman and her colleagues at WaPo.

Yes indeed. Force works, and sooner or later our side will understand that, especially if it becomes (as the article concludes) a matter of survival.

Let’s be blunt: they get a pass because they are willing to stack up bodies and everyone knows it. Pronouns and policies aren’t real effective as armor.

Andi: Thank you as always. Fixed.

Minor edit in last sentence of paragraph after first quote: “ designed to choose”

My brother lives in a nursing home and one (more then one actually) of the old people screams the most insulting words at everyone. But even the black nurses give her the same care as anyone else. I asked about it and they just smiled and said she doesn’t even know what she is saying most of time. Everyone gets the same care.

I would remove their accreditation as a learning facility if they are and stop the state from paying them.

Personal Knowledge, from helping a friend which took Political Pull (State & Federal) to be over ridden …..