Episode 122: Enjoy Your Death Trap, Ladies!

Katie gets deceived by the Daily Kos, a leftist coffee shop suffers an expected fate, and Jesse explains how Buddhists ruined summer camp for everyone.

Links:

Rebekah’s sneakily-worded post on the Daily Kos:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/2/2101940/-Rebekah-makes-national-headlines-in-Whistleblower-win-joins-Crist-Fried-in-Orlando-in-major-speech

Mina’s World shuts down:

minasworld4you

A post shared by Mina’s World (@minasworld4you)

Libs of TikTok weighs in on the Mina’s Cafe situation:

Queer-owned business shut down by employees for not being woke enough

Doc Marie’s website (WARNING: pointless)

https://docmaries.com/

Hidden Villa:

https://www.hiddenvilla.org/about-us/

Hidden Villa’s Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/hiddenvilla

Hidden Villa’s swastika statement:

https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/letter-to-the-community-6-8-22-1654978228.pdf

How the world loved the swastika - until Hitler stole it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

Here, have some Jewish swastikas:

https://www.tod.org.il/en/blog-holocaust-day

The swastikas that started it all (note left-facing orientation):

The Palo Alto Online article explaining the situation:

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/06/13/hate-symbol-or-buddhist-emblem-hidden-villa-cancels-summer-camps-for-1000-kids-after-staffers-resign-over-swastika-tiles

Los Altos Town Crier article:

https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/updated-hidden-villa-cancels-all-camps-after-key-staff-quit-citing-structural-racism/article_a0c7129a-e788-11ec-a721-d3ca305b4938.html

“What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation”:

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Facebook comment highlights:

https://imgur.com/a/DzBvawm

The Tweet that broke the news to Twitter:

BarbraLou @BarbraLou

@angrybklynmom A local, well-loved summer camp here on the SF area also canceled all sessions at the last minute due to ‘staffing issues’. They later explained the exact problem to parents in this illuminating email:

Noah Smith weighs in:

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is exactly the stuff Ryan Grim talked about in his Intercept article. It's killing progressive effectiveness along every possible dimension. And ironically, the anti-woke folks warned us and we did nothing.

Wesley Yang @wesyang

Bizarre struggle sessions over esoteric transgressions of socjus dogma are no longer confined to progressive nonprofits and political campaigns, they are injuring the lives of children as institutions with long histories break from within https://t.co/p6NZieNhIj

Wes Yang chimes in:

Wesley Yang @wesyang

Bizarre struggle sessions over esoteric transgressions of socjus dogma are no longer confined to progressive nonprofits and political campaigns, they are injuring the lives of children as institutions with long histories break from within

BarbraLou @BarbraLou

@angrybklynmom A local, well-loved summer camp here on the SF area also canceled all sessions at the last minute due to ‘staffing issues’. They later explained the exact problem to parents in this illuminating email: https://t.co/xBqDBNdsj2

Ryan Grim’s take:

Ryan Grim @ryangrim

Camp for 900 kids canceled because

BarbraLou @BarbraLou

@angrybklynmom A local, well-loved summer camp here on the SF area also canceled all sessions at the last minute due to ‘staffing issues’. They later explained the exact problem to parents in this illuminating email: https://t.co/xBqDBNdsj2

The title:

Image: Women dance together at WildRose, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. WildRose, which opened in 1984, is the only remaining lesbian bar in Seattle. (Genna Martin, seattlepi.com) (Photo by GENNA MARTIN/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)"