Category: cancel culture

Renaming of Pennsylvania High School Divides the Community

On May 11, the Radnor School District Board in Pennsylvania voted 6-3 in favor of upholding the removal of Radnor High School’s nickname “Raiders” and the accompanying mascot depicting a Native American warrior. The decision resulted from controversy surrounding the rebranding of the nickname and mascot, which have been in place for over 90 years….


Legal Group Led by Stephen Miller Asks Pentagon To Release Records Over Concerns of Politicization in Military

America First Legal (AFL), a group led by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, requested records from the Pentagon as part of efforts to determine whether the department was monitoring and targeting certain service members based on their political ideology. The group on Friday sent a Freedom of Information Act request asking the department to release…


Lawmakers Demand Reinstatement of Space Force Officer Who Was Removed for Denouncing Critical Race Theory

A group of Republican lawmakers on Wednesday sent a letter to the acting secretary of the U.S. Space Force, urging him to immediately reinstate a lieutenant colonel who was relieved of his command after publishing a book that warned of the spread of Marxism and critical race theory (CRT) in the military. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, a…


Applying Lessons of History Helps a Nation to Avoid Past Mistakes: Founder of The Sons of History

A nation should learn from all the good and bad experiences of its ancestors and from other nations’ histories to avoid making the same mistakes that others did, said Dustin Bass, founder of The Sons of History.


Relieved Space Force Officer: ‘I’m Being Misportrayed’

A U.S. Space Force lieutenant colonel who was relieved of his command “due to a loss of trust,” said that he is being “misportrayed” on the internet with respect to some of his remarks about communism on a podcast earlier this month. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was previously in command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron…


Relieved Space Force Commanding Officer: ‘I Condemn All Forms of Extremism’

Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was recently relieved as a U.S. Space Force commanding officer, said he condemns “all forms of extremism” and defended against allegations that he was “politically partisan” when he denounced the spread of Marxism in the military. Lohmeier last week was relieved of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron over “public comments”…


NBC Cancels 2022 Golden Globes After Ethics, Diversity Complaints

LOS ANGELES—NBC said on Monday it will not broadcast Hollywood’s Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 following complaints about ethical lapses and lack of diversity among the group that hands out the annual awards for film and television. The decision came despite a plan approved last week by the small Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which…


Small Businesses in Georgia Facing ‘Old-Fashioned Mafia Shakedown’

In April, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced it was pulling the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft out of Atlanta, Georgia, in retaliation for the passage of S.B. 202 (pdf), an election integrity law that critics say will suppress the votes of minority electors in the state. In the wake of the financial burdens imposed…


The Era of Digital Stonings—Alec Klein on the Dark Side of #MeToo and Cancel Culture [Coming 05/06 6PM ET]

The #MeToo movement exposed long-hidden abuses by powerful individuals in Hollywood and beyond, and brought sexual violence to the forefront of national discussion. But there was also another side of #MeToo, a movement that, at its height, encouraged people to “believe all women”—regardless of the merits of their accusations. Among the accused in the #MeToo…


‘I Found Myself a Pariah’—Alec Klein on the Dark Side of #MeToo and Cancel Culture [Coming 05/06 7PM ET]

The #MeToo movement exposed long-hidden abuses by powerful individuals in Hollywood and beyond, and brought sexual violence to the forefront of national discussion. But there was also another side of #MeToo, a movement that, at its height, encouraged people to “believe all women”—regardless of the merits of their accusations. Among the accused in the #MeToo…