Kulturkampf

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[HaughtyFrank]

I'm just glad the owner has vowed to share the wealth these amazing jokes will create with the writers

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[HaughtyFrank]

If you haven't seen the big "man or bear" debate, congratulations on still having the brain cells that I lost being exposed to it.

The gist is that online women have decided they would rather be trapped in the woods with a bear than a random man.

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These women are not opressed they're having a grand old time covered up playing basketball segregated from the men.

[HaughtyFrank]

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So, when they were listing battlefield surgery materials and HIV tests as most needed, nobody thought to include canned food and cooking equipment as something they might need? 

Fucking privileged retards that can't survive without Uber Eats and their parents' Latino maids.

Like I said, starve them out and it'll be over in less than a week.

[HaughtyFrank]

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Everything continues being totally normal, we've just reached the "North Korea is good actually" phase

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Why did it cut off I wanted to know more about the blessings Juche is bringing.

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They're going after the guy who made fun of "Lizzo".
Finally they can play the victim card again.

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[Nintex]

Well the peaceful protests have reached Amsterdam, the mayor is denied entry and the local Hamas chapter is beating up counter protestors in front of the police.

[HaughtyFrank]

Well the peaceful protests have reached Amsterdam, the mayor is denied entry and the local Hamas chapter is beating up counter protestors in front of the police.

Cop seems overly unfazed by people getting besten with sticks and baseball bats

Don't need to use Google translate to understand this one

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[Nintex]

The city is run by the Greens and Communists, so if the police wants to do anything they need approval from the top and while they may say they disapprove in public, I have absolutely no doubt they are privately masturbating to these scenes on repeat.

[Rendle]

If you're in a tent and people on their way to school can hear you jerking it that to me feels public

[HaughtyFrank]

Defacing WW1 memorial because... reasons?

[Potato]

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/female-directors-add-no-financial-value-study-20240505-p5fp0d

A study by the Australian National University has found that the gender of directors appointed to company boards had no impact on the financial performance of those businesses.

The authors of the report, Nicholas Bayly, Robert Breunig and Chris Wokker from ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy, analysed the relationship between female directors and the financial and share price performance of 1,721 directors at 2,483 firms between 2000 and 2016.

The research looked at financial performance using five different measures including return on assets; return on equity; and Tobin’s Q (the market value of a company divided by the cost of replacing its assets) and found statistically insignificant results for the vast majority of measures.

“Taken together, the evidence is very strong the gender of board appointees does not impact firm financial performance,” the research paper concludes.

Professor Breunig said the results should be seen as a positive for gender advocates because they showed no negative consequence of appointing female directors. Almost 20,000 male non-executive directors were appointed in the reference period.

But gender advocates including chairman of the 30% Club, Nicola Wakefield Evans, have disputed the findings, underlining the data only examines up until 2016 at which point there was a substantial increase in the representation of females on boards.

One possibility is that board members have no effect on firm performance, whether male or female, they said.

Another possibility is that boards have an effect on firm performance but there is no differential impact of female board members.

The researchers said that more gender-diverse boards could bring other benefits including improved staff happiness and wellbeing.

If board positions have no impact on firm financial performance, and these are controlled by ‘old boy networks’ then breaking them up with targets and quotas could also be welfare-enhancing, the authors conclude.

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https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/female-directors-add-no-financial-value-study-20240505-p5fp0d

If board positions have no impact on firm financial performance, and these are controlled by ‘old boy networks’ then breaking them up with targets and quotas could also be welfare-enhancing, the authors conclude.

Well, no. Because networks have welfare values. Only if you assume that the "old boy networks" have no value can you come to this conclusion. Breaking those up may have value and may be better than not but breaking up any networks have costs. It would depend entirely on the company. If I rephrased "old boy networks" as "industry veterans and experts" your thinking about the importance of changing the board for people not in that network will differ.

In fact, the only reason anyone would need this study is if they assumed females have inherent value just in being females. Which is sexist. Nice going telling on yourselves dummies.

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What's going on on Twitter?

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I don't really know if this one is a Kulturkampf thing or just weirdo on Twitter but it's still really funny so I'm posting it separately for your safety.

[HaughtyFrank]

Zadie Smith is now on the chopping block

Published in this Saturday’s New Yorker, Smith’s essay is, at first glance, an unlikely target for the keffiyeh-sporting crowd. She explicitly expresses support for a ceasefire in Gaza, calling it a ‘potential reality and an ethical necessity’. She also celebrates those sons and daughters of privilege currently draped in Palestine flags and encamped on lawns across America’s universities. These protesters are the heirs of the student radicals of the late 1960s and early 1970s, she (wrongly) claims. Apparently, for their willingness to put their own bodies and futures on the line in support of a just cause, ‘they deserve our support and praise’.

But Smith does something else in the essay, too. Something that far too many ‘pro-Palestine’ types refuse to do. She dares to acknowledge the fear felt by many Jewish students right now, faced by hostile mobs calling them ‘Zionists’ and telling them to keep their distance. She also dares to express ‘concern for the dreadful situation of the hostages’ who were taken from Israel seven months ago by Hamas. And she dares to challenge those who minimise the rape of Israeli women during Hamas’s pogrom on 7 October last year.

For this – for gently drawing attention to the anti-Semitic elements of the pro-Palestine campaign, and for expressing sympathy with Israelis as well as Palestinians – she has been monstered by academics, authors and leftists.

Book Workers for a Free Palestine, a group of activists working in publishing, decided on Sunday that Smith’s essay warranted a public denunciation: ‘We profoundly disagree with the positions that Zadie Smith has taken in the New Yorker.’ A books editor at New Left publishers Verso joined in, calling it a ‘really bad essay’, written in ‘bad faith’. Cambridge professor of postcolonial studies Priyamvada Gopal also slammed Smith, denouncing her ‘white elite politics’ and claiming her ‘precious pomposity’ and sense of ‘rightness and superiority’ were all too typical of the ‘gaslighting’ that goes on at Smith’s alma mater, the University of Cambridge. Kettle, meet Professor Gopal.

Some of the reaction has been positively sinister. Author Monisha Rajesh said that she sees Smith ‘every morning on the school run’, and will now wear a ‘keffiyeh and carry a picture of Refaat Al Areer [a Palestinian writer killed during the war] and tell her, “It’s complicated”’. Elsewhere, one widely retweeted comment claimed that the mixed-race Smith uses ‘black aesthetics’, from her ‘head wrap’ to her ‘kente cloth’ earrings, in order to ‘conceal her deeply pedestrian, white, middle-class politics’. Apparently, expressing reservations about aspects of the pro-Palestine protests means that Smith is betraying her ethnic identity.

As nasty and borderline racist as the backlash against Smith has been, it has been revealing, too. Let’s not forget that Smith praised the US student protests and threw her weight behind the ‘ethical imperative’ of a ceasefire in Gaza. In short, she mostly aligned herself with the pro-Palestine activists. But that’s not enough for them. They want more. They want absolute conformity. They want the pro-Palestine catechism reeled off. They want Israel accused of ‘settler colonialism’, and called a ‘Zionist entity’. They want repeated, genocidal talk of ‘From the river to sea, Palestine will be free’.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/05/07/zadie-smith-has-failed-the-palestine-purity-test/

Write post colonial literature for your whole life but express some sympathy for the civilian victims on both sides and now you're not really black anymore

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[HaughtyFrank]

Amsterdam suddenly not fucking around

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[NekoFever]

Amsterdam suddenly not fucking around

Caterpillar can’t keep getting away with it!

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[RetiredSkunk]

So, to be clear, this isn't Russia influence. The 2016 US elections were definitely Russia, but all of this American flag burning, destruction of the west... That's not Russia, right?

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Fucking savages

[Nintex]

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