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If you don’t remember “Car Talk,” it was a radio show that lasted more than three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, and then the hosts dispensed advice — whether it was about car maintenance or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of a show that actually addresses people’s problems in real life, based on knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at every conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR’s
operation. Infamously, NPR’s executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn’t a “real story.” He said it was a “distraction.” And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him. American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, “How Journalism Can Save Itself and Democracy.”

It’s harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become. They aren’t simply bumbling propagandists. They’re also incredibly self-satisfied and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save American democracy. And they think that, in order to do that, they need to control what kinds of information you can see. It’s not that they thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was “unvetted” or “Russian disinformation” or whatever the excuse was. They always knew it was factually accurate. But just because something is factually accurate, in NPR’s eyes, doesn’t make it true. According to NPR, truth is subjective; whatever’s most expedient politically for them is what’s true.

For a long time now, this position — which really amounts to nihilism — was unstated at NPR, at least publicly. But now it’s explicit, thanks to a new
CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently took over at NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is objective. She
also doesn’t believe it’s worth trying to find out what the truth may be.
This is an extraordinary position for the chief executive of a publicly
funded news organization to have, but it’s what Katherine Maher believes.

This is a speech of hers that’s been making the rounds this week. It’s from back when she was running Wikimedia, which is mainly known for Wikipedia. Watch:

https://youtu.be/WWEiwvNwsGM

This is what passes for good public speaking these days. But she speaks in a robotic, sing-songy voice that makes it sound like she’s a kindergarten teacher lecturing a bunch of 5-year-olds. She has the tone of someone who believes firmly in the superiority of her own intellect, even though what she’s saying is so abjectly stupid.

She says truth is subjective, and that everyone in the room has his or her
own “truth.” But here’s the problem. Truth exists because reality exists. Either something is a part of reality or it isn’t. To deny objective truth is to deny reality. And you can’t even deny reality without asserting a reality
— the reality that there is no reality. So the relativistic view is not only false, but so false as to be incomprehensible if you think about it for more than two seconds.

Maher’s remarks are the same idiot relativism that you can hear from any freshman philosophy student, but she goes to great pains to make her take
seem nuanced and innovative. She talks in circles and ends back at “there are many different truths.” She says this even after acknowledging that the truth exists. Again, those are two contradictory ideas, but that doesn’t bother Maher for a second. Like most of our overeducated elite class, she’s
incapable of speaking without a parade of cliches while making tedious and absurd ideas sound far more complex than they really are.

Also according to Maher, we have “glorious chronicles to the human experience in many different cultures” because we have “many different truths.” But that’s not what these “glorious chronicles” show us. Instead, they show us that the truth is objective and eternal. Different cultures and people across time have had different ways of perceiving the truth — talking about it, accessing it, embracing it, or rejecting it, yes. But the truth remains the same. That is what makes the study of history, and different cultures through history, so fascinating. It is precisely because all of these different
people across time and space lived in the same reality, and yet had wildly different ways of existing in it, and responding to it.

Katherine Maher doesn’t seem to understand this, or at least she pretends not to. She repeats her theory of truth at every possible opportunity. Here’s
some more footage from a conference two years ago. Maher begins by explaining that Galileo was prosecuted for saying that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun, which is a basically accurate if wildly oversimplified retelling of that historical episode — although it doesn’t prove what Maher seems to think it does. Then she makes an incredible statement. Watch:

https://youtu.be/dP5g369_nvs

“The truth, by definition, is malleable,” says Maher. Really? By whose definition exactly? You can make the case that postmodernists thinkers and their precursors — like Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Rousseau — might agree with that statement. But you won’t hear many traditional thinkers (prior to, say, Heidegger) saying that the truth is “malleable.” So why should we adopt the postmodern belief and not the traditional one? There has to be some
reason to side with one school of thought and not another.

In any event, if truth is merely “malleable” — if there’s no knowable, essential structure to it — then definitions themselves are just language games. There’s no significance to any of it. It’s just a power struggle. When you get down to it, that’s really what Maher is saying. She’s asserting that “the truth” is “malleable” as an act of political will because she doesn’t believe in any objectively true definitions. She keeps saying, over and over again, the words “the truth,” only to make it clear that she has no idea what that is.

And from that very shaky foundation, Maher starts to derive some very shaky corollaries. At one point, Maher implies that people don’t trust the media anymore not because the media lied to them, but because people have different mistaken “truths” that they’re clinging to. Watch:

https://youtu.be/IqICz5BBR5A

It’s another revealing statement that Maher makes without any justification. She’s implying that democracies aren’t (or can’t be) xenophobic or nationalist. But the Greeks were both. Greek democracies were very much “xenophobic” — if that’s how you want to put it — and nationalist in nature. There’s no doubt about that. So why is democracy the goal here? Is that even her goal?

Really, her only given justification for thinking our traditional conception of truth is inadequate, and needs to be reworked, is that the “truth” we have now is the product of a history which is also political. “History is written by victors” is one of the many cliches she invokes throughout her speeches. And she says that excludes various potential sources of knowledge like “indigenous” perspectives and practices, or women with their “emotional intelligence.”

But that’s not incompatible with the reality that “the truth” is real, is universal, and many aspects of it have been uniquely uncovered by Western thought, science, and technology. Even if you bought into Maher’s talking points about a “plurality of perspectives” being better than “one alone” for getting at “the truth,” the fact remains that it took 2,000 years of Western, Eurocentric, supposedly white supremacist, heteronormative, misogynist
history for us to reach the point at which these minor tail-end improvements she’s suggesting could be made.

It took 2,000 years of history to create the civilization that Maher is now critiquing. And if she thinks this new approach will cause some kind of “scientific revolution,” it won’t. The more likely outcome is that it will destroy the civilization that was built over thousands of years. That is the point after all. And this is the essence of what we call wokeness. The Left likes to put conservatives on the spot by demanding a definition of “woke.” Well, here it is — the rejection of truth as a category. That’s what wokeness is, when boiled down to its most fundamental parts.

As for Maher, it’s tempting to dismiss all of this footage as the ramblings
of a single woman who has no idea what she’s talking about. But it’s a bit more significant than that. Maher was selected to lead NPR, after an
allegedly careful vetting process. There’s no way that NPR didn’t scrutinize her beliefs, which Maher has expressed many times over the last few years in public social media posts and numerous speeches.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from this woman. There are really too many to mention, but suffice it to say, she’s
like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal woman talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word “folx,” with the “x” at the end. She says “Latinx.” She called Donald Trump a racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote that she once dreamed
of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating “nuts and baklava.” She expresses her happiness when she logs into the public WiFi at a COVID clinic and the password is “HeSheThey,” recognizing the lived experience of
nonbinary patients. She calls the Internet “sexist.”

At one point, she apologized for using the phrase “people who identify as women,” because it’s a form of “trans-erasure.” She writes about the importance of “transit justice” and vegetarian Thanksgiving, and rants about the “male gaze” and “late-stage capitalism,” even as she drew a salary of $800,000 a year. There are many more examples; Chris Rufo’s feed has categorized many of them.

To burnish her intellectual credentials even further, Maher even sat on a panel with Lizzo at a Ted conference where tickets cost more than $10,000.
The name of Lizzos’ talk was, “The Black history of twerking — and how it taught me self-love.”

But Maher doesn’t need lessons on self-love, she has that covered. What she’s looking for now is power.

In a video posted by the Atlantic Council and unearthed by Rufo, Maher explains that the First Amendment — which you’d think journalists would support, since it’s the one thing keeping journalists out of prison — is not
a sacred constitutional principle. Instead, she says, it’s a “challenge” to
be overcome. Watch:

https://youtu.be/MGpZJt5uU2s

The only people who view the First Amendment as a “challenge” are government censors who want to shut down any dissent by force. And now that she’s
running a state-funded media outlet, that’s exactly what Maher is. She’s a state-funded censor.

To that end, she no longer believes in transparency. The irony is that, when she was running Wikimedia, Maher kept talking about the importance of showing people everything that’s going on inside the company. Every edit on
Wikipedia, she said, is public for a reason. Disclosure is sometimes “painful,” she said, but it’s necessary.

Transparency is key, she said at the time. But apparently this is one of the malleable “truths” that Katherine Maher has decided to discard. As you’ve probably heard, she just forced out an NPR whistleblower who wrote a damning column in the Free Press about the organization’s corruption and overwhelming bias. She suspended this 25-year veteran of NPR without pay because he
pointed out that the organization is now completely one-sided.

For example, the whistleblower wrote:

Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter
registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered
and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in
editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.

That’s not the kind of transparency that the new NPR CEO appreciates, apparently. She’s happy to talk about how NPR employs too many white men. But she definitely doesn’t want to talk about political bias, or how useless NPR has become. It used to be that NPR at least pretended to be embarrassed about this. In 2011, NPR’s CEO at the time, Vivian Schiller, resigned after a Project Veritas sting exposed what she thought about conservatives in the Tea Party movement. To summarize: she didn’t like them. Schiller had to resign once her views came to light. Back then, NPR believed that the appearance of fairness was at least a little important.

But that was the “Car Talk” era of NPR. Now they believe their CEO can categorically reject the idea that there’s any truth to report on. This is a belief system that’s now in vogue in newsrooms all over the country. It’s a big reason for the rise of transgenderism, COVID hysteria, and all the
media’s lying we had to endure under the previous administration.

This is the belief system that insists that men can become women, because the meaning of the words “men” and “women” are subjective. And it will spell the end of Western civilization unless we reject it. That is, of course, the
point of everything Katherine Maher is saying. In the absence of truth, there is only a struggle for power. And right now — and hopefully not for much longer — it’s people like Katherine Maher who have that power.


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On Apr 19, 2024 at 11:09:05 AM PDT, "Matt Walsh" <daily@mailer.dailywire.com> wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people called

in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, and then the

hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car maintenance or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of a show that actually addresses people's problems in real life, based on knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at every conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them
'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor: wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background context
and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts' it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version, you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults but it is a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how they tell their stories and present the news.

The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's operation. Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn't a "real story". He said it was a "distraction". And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him. American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, "How Journalism

Can Save Itself and Democracy".

It's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become. They aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They’re also incredibly self-satisfied
and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save American democracy and they think that, in order to do that, they need to control what kinds of information you can see. It's not that they thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was unvetted or Russian disinformation or whatever the excuse was. They always knew it was factually accurate but just because something is factually accurate, in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR, truth is subjective; whatever's most expedient politically for them is what's

true.

For a long time now, this position-- which really amounts to nihilism-- was unstated at NPR, at least publicly but now it's explicit, thanks to a new CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently took over at NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is objective. She also doesn't believe it’s worth trying to find out what the truth may be. This is an extraordinary position for the chief executive of a publicly funded news organization to have but it's what Katherine Maher believes.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from this woman. There are really too many to mention but suffice it to say, she's like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal woman talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word "folx" with the
x at the end. She says "latinks". She called Donald Trump a racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating "nuts and baklava". She expresses her happiness when she logs into the public WiFi at a COVID clinic and the password is "HeSheThey", recognizing the lived experience of nonbinary patients. She calls the internet "sexist".

At one point, she apologized for using the phrase "people who identify as women", because it's a form of "trans-erasure". She writes about the importance of transit justice and vegetarian Thanksgiving and rants about the "male gaze" and late-stage capitalism, even as she drew a salary of $800,000 a year.

But that's okay because she doesn't get that $800K from capitalism. She gets
it from the government, which takes it from the citizens at gunpoint. That's how she believe all money should be made.



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On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 19, 2024 at 11:09:05 AM PDT, "Matt Walsh" <daily@mailer.dailywire.com> wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than
three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people called

in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, and then the

hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car maintenance or repair or >> whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the NPR that broadcast >> that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of a show that actually
addresses people's problems in real life, based on knowledge of how markets >> and automobiles or anything else actually works, has been unthinkable to the >> management of NPR for some time. Shows that cover the news from an objective >> factual perspective, to the extent possible, are also out of style. Instead, >> for the past decade, NPR has been controlled by activists who have devoted >> themselves to two primary pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at every >> conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse gender
representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The troon
activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them 'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor: wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background context and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts' it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version, you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults but it is a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how they tell their stories and present the news.

The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient for >> the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's
operation. Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed that >> the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn't a "real story". He said it was a
"distraction". And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him. American
University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, "How Journalism

Can Save Itself and Democracy".

It's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become. They >> aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They’re also incredibly self-satisfied
and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save American democracy >> and they think that, in order to do that, they need to control what kinds of >> information you can see. It's not that they thought the Hunter Biden laptop >> story was unvetted or Russian disinformation or whatever the excuse was.
They always knew it was factually accurate but just because something is
factually accurate, in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR, >> truth is subjective; whatever's most expedient politically for them is what's

true.

For a long time now, this position-- which really amounts to nihilism-- was >> unstated at NPR, at least publicly but now it's explicit, thanks to a new
CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently took over at >> NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is objective. She
also doesn't believe it’s worth trying to find out what the truth may be. >> This is an extraordinary position for the chief executive of a publicly
funded news organization to have but it's what Katherine Maher believes.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from this >> woman. There are really too many to mention but suffice it to say, she's
like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal woman
talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word "folx" with the >> x at the end. She says "latinks". She called Donald Trump a racist and cried >> with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote that she once dreamed >> of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating "nuts and baklava". She
expresses her happiness when she logs into the public WiFi at a COVID clinic >> and the password is "HeSheThey", recognizing the lived experience of
nonbinary patients. She calls the internet "sexist".

At one point, she apologized for using the phrase "people who identify as
women", because it's a form of "trans-erasure". She writes about the
importance of transit justice and vegetarian Thanksgiving and rants about
the "male gaze" and late-stage capitalism, even as she drew a salary of
$800,000 a year.

But that's okay because she doesn't get that $800K from capitalism. She gets it from the government, which takes it from the citizens at gunpoint. That's how she believe all money should be made.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...



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In article
<17c7ccf0450197c1$68199$2544727$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com>,
moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 19, 2024 at 11:09:05 AM PDT, "Matt Walsh" <daily@mailer.dailywire.com>
wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than >> three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people
called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars,
and then the hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car maintenance >> or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the
NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of
a show that actually addresses people's problems in real life, based on
knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, >> has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that
cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent
possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has
been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary
pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at
every conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse >> gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them 'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor: wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background
context and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts'
it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version,
you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the
image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults but it is nevertheless a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how
they tell their stories and present the news.

The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient >> for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's
operation. Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed
that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn't a "real story". He said it
was a "distraction". And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him.
American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled,
"How Journalism Can Save Itself and Democracy".

It's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become.
They aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They're also incredibly
self-satisfied and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save
American democracy and they think that, in order to do that, they need
to control what kinds of information you can see. It's not that they
thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was unvetted or Russian
disinformation or whatever the excuse was. They always knew it was
factually accurate but just because something is factually accurate,
in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR, truth is
subjective; whatever's most expedient politically for them is what's
true.

For a long time now, this position-- which really amounts to nihilism-- >> was unstated at NPR, at least publicly but now it's explicit, thanks to
a new CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently
took over at NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is
objective. She also doesn't believe it's worth trying to find out what
the truth may be. This is an extraordinary position for the chief
executive of a publicly funded news organization to have but it's what
Katherine Maher believes.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from >> this woman. There are really too many to mention but suffice it to say,
she's like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal >> woman talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word "folx"
with the x at the end. She says "latinks". She called Donald Trump a
racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote
that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating
"nuts and baklava". She expresses her happiness when she logs into the
public WiFi at a COVID clinic and the password is "HeSheThey",
recognizing the lived experience of nonbinary patients. She calls the
internet "sexist".

At one point, she apologized for using the phrase "people who identify as >> women", because it's a form of "trans-erasure". She writes about the
importance of transit justice and vegetarian Thanksgiving and rants about >> the "male gaze" and late-stage capitalism, even as she drew a salary of
$800,000 a year.

But that's okay because she doesn't get that $800K from capitalism. She gets it from the government, which takes it from the citizens at gunpoint. That's how she believe all money should be made.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...

Weird, 'cause I just posted a YouTube link here this very day in this
very thread to an NPR story that was all about alleged transphobes
'co-opting' dinosaur emojis.

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On 4/19/2024 6:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article
<17c7ccf0450197c1$68199$2544727$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com>,
moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 19, 2024 at 11:09:05 AM PDT, "Matt Walsh"
<daily@mailer.dailywire.com>
wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than >>>> three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people >>>> called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, >>>> and then the hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car maintenance >>>> or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the
NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of >>>> a show that actually addresses people's problems in real life, based on >>>> knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, >>>> has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that >>>> cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent
possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has >>>> been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary >>>> pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at >>>> every conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse >>>> gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure
enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called >>> "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The >>> troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them >>> 'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually
women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women
adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor:
wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their >>> social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background
context and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love
dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts'
it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version,
you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the
image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults >>> but it is nevertheless a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how
they tell their stories and present the news.

The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient >>>> for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's >>>> operation. Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed >>>> that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn't a "real story". He said it >>>> was a "distraction". And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him.
American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, >>>> "How Journalism Can Save Itself and Democracy".

It's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become. >>>> They aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They're also incredibly
self-satisfied and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save >>>> American democracy and they think that, in order to do that, they need >>>> to control what kinds of information you can see. It's not that they
thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was unvetted or Russian
disinformation or whatever the excuse was. They always knew it was
factually accurate but just because something is factually accurate,
in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR, truth is
subjective; whatever's most expedient politically for them is what's
true.

For a long time now, this position-- which really amounts to nihilism-- >>>> was unstated at NPR, at least publicly but now it's explicit, thanks to >>>> a new CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently
took over at NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is >>>> objective. She also doesn't believe it's worth trying to find out what >>>> the truth may be. This is an extraordinary position for the chief
executive of a publicly funded news organization to have but it's what >>>> Katherine Maher believes.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from >>>> this woman. There are really too many to mention but suffice it to say, >>>> she's like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal >>>> woman talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word "folx" >>>> with the x at the end. She says "latinks". She called Donald Trump a
racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote >>>> that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating >>>> "nuts and baklava". She expresses her happiness when she logs into the >>>> public WiFi at a COVID clinic and the password is "HeSheThey",
recognizing the lived experience of nonbinary patients. She calls the
internet "sexist".

At one point, she apologized for using the phrase "people who identify as >>>> women", because it's a form of "trans-erasure". She writes about the
importance of transit justice and vegetarian Thanksgiving and rants about >>>> the "male gaze" and late-stage capitalism, even as she drew a salary of >>>> $800,000 a year.

But that's okay because she doesn't get that $800K from capitalism. She
gets it from the government, which takes it from the citizens at gunpoint. >>> That's how she believe all money should be made.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...

Weird, 'cause I just posted a YouTube link here this very day in this
very thread to an NPR story that was all about alleged transphobes 'co-opting' dinosaur emojis.

I don't doubt that NPR has covered the concepts, at one time or another.
I'm questioning whether they're a consistent hotbed of promotion...



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moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 6:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article
<17c7ccf0450197c1$68199$2544727$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com>,
moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 19, 2024 at 11:09:05 AM PDT, "Matt Walsh"
<daily@mailer.dailywire.com>
wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than >>>>> three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people >>>>> called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, >>>>> and then the hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car maintenance
or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the >>>>> NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of >>>>> a show that actually addresses people's problems in real life, based on >>>>> knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, >>>>> has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that >>>>> cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent
possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has >>>>> been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary >>>>> pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at >>>>> every conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse >>>>> gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure
enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called >>>> "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The >>>> troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them >>>> 'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually >>>> women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women >>>> adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor: >>>> wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their >>>> social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background
context and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love >>>> dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts' >>>> it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version,
you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the
image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults >>>> but it is nevertheless a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how >>>> they tell their stories and present the news.

The second pursuit has been shutting down stories that are inconvenient >>>>> for the politicians who are voting to spend your money to finance NPR's >>>>> operation. Infamously, NPR's executive editor, Terence Samuel, claimed >>>>> that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal wasn't a "real story". He said it >>>>> was a "distraction". And instead of firing Samuel, NPR promoted him. >>>>> American University even invited Samuel to deliver a lecture entitled, >>>>> "How Journalism Can Save Itself and Democracy".

It's harder to think of a better way to summarize what NPR has become. >>>>> They aren't simply bumbling propagandists. They're also incredibly
self-satisfied and narcissistic. They believe that they alone can save >>>>> American democracy and they think that, in order to do that, they need >>>>> to control what kinds of information you can see. It's not that they >>>>> thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was unvetted or Russian
disinformation or whatever the excuse was. They always knew it was
factually accurate but just because something is factually accurate, >>>>> in NPR's eyes, doesn't make it true. According to NPR, truth is
subjective; whatever's most expedient politically for them is what's >>>>> true.

For a long time now, this position-- which really amounts to nihilism-- >>>>> was unstated at NPR, at least publicly but now it's explicit, thanks to >>>>> a new CEO and president by the name of Katherine Maher who recently
took over at NPR. Maher very clearly does not believe that the truth is >>>>> objective. She also doesn't believe it's worth trying to find out what >>>>> the truth may be. This is an extraordinary position for the chief
executive of a publicly funded news organization to have but it's what >>>>> Katherine Maher believes.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo has exposed some of the more deranged posts from >>>>> this woman. There are really too many to mention but suffice it to say, >>>>> she's like a woke AI bot that churns out the least original woke liberal >>>>> woman talking points you can possibly imagine. She uses the word "folx" >>>>> with the x at the end. She says "latinks". She called Donald Trump a >>>>> racist and cried with joy when Biden took office, of course. She wrote >>>>> that she once dreamed of going on a road trip with Kamala Harris eating >>>>> "nuts and baklava". She expresses her happiness when she logs into the >>>>> public WiFi at a COVID clinic and the password is "HeSheThey",
recognizing the lived experience of nonbinary patients. She calls the >>>>> internet "sexist".

At one point, she apologized for using the phrase "people who identify as >>>>> women", because it's a form of "trans-erasure". She writes about the >>>>> importance of transit justice and vegetarian Thanksgiving and rants about >>>>> the "male gaze" and late-stage capitalism, even as she drew a salary of >>>>> $800,000 a year.

But that's okay because she doesn't get that $800K from capitalism. She >>>> gets it from the government, which takes it from the citizens at gunpoint. >>>> That's how she believe all money should be made.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...

Weird, 'cause I just posted a YouTube link here this very day in this
very thread to an NPR story that was all about alleged transphobes
'co-opting' dinosaur emojis.

I don't doubt that NPR has covered the concepts, at one time or another.
I'm questioning whether they're a consistent hotbed of promotion...

Depends on what you consider 'promotion'. Last week they were lauding
Biden's Dept of Education using Title IX to force colleges and universities
to further allow troons into womens' private spaces.

Title IX was literally passed into law in order to protect women. Yet
somehow, Joe Biden has managed to so mangle and distort that law so that
now its chief purpose is to let men invade their bathrooms, locker rooms,
and other private spaces. It's remarkable how idiotic, callous, and
regressive the so-called "progressive" ideology has become. Every
"progressive" victory simply cannibalizes its prior achievements.

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never@nothere.com wrote:

On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

"Matt Walsh" <daily@mailer.dailywire.com> wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than >>> three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people
called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, >>> and then the hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car
maintenance or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though,
because the NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. >>> The idea of a show that actually addresses people's problems in real
life, based on knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else >>> actually works, has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some
time. Shows that cover the news from an objective factual perspective,
to the extent possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past
decade, NPR has been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves >>> to two primary pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at
every conceivable opportunity. That's why they run segments on diverse
gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called
"bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The
troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them
'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually
women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women
adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor:
wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their
social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background context >> and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love dinosaurs >> and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts' it is a
transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version, you'd come away
with the belief that the feminists are only using the image to hurt the
troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults >> but it is a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how they tell their >> stories and present the news.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...

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atropos@mac.com wrote:

moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

"Matt Walsh" <daily@mailer.dailywire.com> wrote:

If you don't remember CAR TALK, it was a radio show that lasted more than >> >> three decades on NPR, until it ended in 2012. The idea was that people >> >> called in with practical questions and dilemmas relating to their cars, >> >> and then the hosts dispensed advice-- whether it was about car maintenance
or repair or whatever. The show no longer exists, though, because the
NPR that broadcast that show for 35 years no longer exists. The idea of >> >> a show that actually addresses people's problems in real life, based on >> >> knowledge of how markets and automobiles or anything else actually works, >> >> has been unthinkable to the management of NPR for some time. Shows that >> >> cover the news from an objective factual perspective, to the extent
possible, are also out of style. Instead, for the past decade, NPR has
been controlled by activists who have devoted themselves to two primary >> >> pursuits.

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at >> >> every conceivable opportunity. That’s why they run segments on diverse >> >> gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure
enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called >> > "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The >> > troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them >> > 'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually
women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women
adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor:
wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their >> > social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background
context and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love
dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts'
it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version,
you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the
image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults >> > but it is nevertheless a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how
they tell their stories and present the news.

But that's okay because she doesn't get that $800K from capitalism. She >> > gets it from the government, which takes it from the citizens at gunpoint.
That's how she believe all money should be made.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...

Weird, 'cause I just posted a YouTube link here this very day in this
very thread to an NPR story that was all about alleged transphobes >'co-opting' dinosaur emojis.

That's just moviepig's tell that he has lost the debate.

--
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moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 6:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/19/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

"Matt Walsh" <daily@mailer.dailywire.com> wrote:

The first pursuit is blanketing the airwaves with identity politics at >>>>> every conceivable opportunity. That's why they run segments on diverse >>>>> gender representation in dinosaur emojis for example.

I couldn't believe that was actually true, so I looked it up and sure
enough:

https://youtu.be/Latb4tOUG-0?t=1085

Apparently a bunch of real women in England were offended by being called >>>> "bodies with vaginas" and "birthing people" by government officials. The >>>> troon activists denigrated them as old fashioned and started calling them >>>> 'dinosaurs' for holding the view that dudes in dresses aren't actually >>>> women. So in the tradition of persecuted groups everywhere, these women >>>> adopted the dinosaur epithet and started using it as a badge of honor: >>>> wearing dinosaur costumes at protests and putting the emoji in the their >>>> social media bios.

But the story as presented by NPR presented none of that background
context and only told the story from the perspective of troons who love >>>> dinosaurs and purport to 'own' that emoji and that anyone who 'co-opts' >>>> it is a transphobe and bigot. If you only listened to NPR's version,
you'd come away with the belief that the feminists are only using the
image to hurt the troons' feelings.

I can't believe something this stupid is even an issue among grown adults >>>> but it is nevertheless a prime example of how NPR's politics shape how >>>> they tell their stories and present the news.

I listen to NPR fairly often, but the only place I hear about
transphobes, polygenders, etc. is r.a.tv ...

Weird, 'cause I just posted a YouTube link here this very day in this
very thread to an NPR story that was all about alleged transphobes
'co-opting' dinosaur emojis.

I don't doubt that NPR has covered the concepts, at one time or another.
I'm questioning whether they're a consistent hotbed of promotion...

Backpeddling noted.

--
Let's go Brandon!


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