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Bleeding Cool reader Andreas Decker writes "I wanted to buy some single issues of Marvel's "Master of Kung Fu" by Doug Moench and Gene Day as the third Epic Collection of the series never materialized. I had them for some time on my wishlist, after the self-destruction of Comixology now on my Amazon Wishlist. Imagine my surprise that they are no longer avaiable. I also looked Marvel up, but the whole series the 1974 1983 edition only is no longer listed there. Amazon also doesn't sell the two Epic Collections and most of the digitalized Deadly Hands of Kung Fu any longer. (Which also vanished from the Marvel site, btw) Can you confirm this? Marvel can sell what they want, of course, but isn't this taking Political Correctness a bit too far? Again? Or is the digital edition just taken from distribution to get another embarrassing apology on page 1 because the past is a foreign country? Moench, Gulacy, Zeck, Day and all the other artists and writers deserved better than this nonsense. Sad."

He is not the only one to have noticed this. Indeed it seems almost all of the Master Of Kung Fu comics from the Doug Moench era that introduced and starred the character of Shang-Chi era have been digitally deleted from Marvel's website, Amazon's ComiXology and Marvel Unlimited. You can see them listed here, but most of them resolve to a 404 unknown page, such as his very first appearance.

This includes comics such as What If? #16 and the Giant-Size Spider-Man issue #2 that starred the character. Or the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu magazine issues, which also featured the character only #19-#23 and #25-#30 remain, as do the modern-day revivals of both titles for Marvel Legacy and Secret Wars.

Is this all because of the portrayal of East Asian characters in a fashion that is colloquially called "of its time"? No, no it is not. It is because Shang-Chi was created as the son of the trademarked and licensed from the estate of Sax Rohmer character Fu Manchu. There are also appearances of those Rohmer characters such as Fu Manchu's daughter Fah Lo Suee and adversaries Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie. And any mention of that fact, has to be excised as Marvel appears not to have renewed their license with the estate this year. And as result, Marvel cannot sell them anymore. If you have your copies, they won't suddenly disappear from your library. But if you haven't you are out of luck.

But to remove them from the Marvel.com website entirely? Must be one of those Jedi mindwipes that currently Marvel Comics does have the rights to.

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Jimmy Carr, one of the biggest comedians in the world, is returning to Australia for a headline tour in February 2023 and its set to be the biggest comedy tour to ever arrive on our shores.

With more shows added and selling fast, the 8 Out of 10 Cats legend will kick off his Terribly Funny tour in February 2023, and visit 26 venues around the country including Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo before finishing in Gold Coast on May 5 2023.

Stay up to date with whats happening in and around Melbournehere.

Playing in excess of 75+ epic shows in these venues around the country, Jimmy Carrs all-new stand-up show Terribly Funny contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But theyre just jokes they are not the terrible things. Jokes are little lies. Nothing more than wonderful, funny, joyful tricks, constructed from language.

Catering to an adult paying audience whove got a good idea whats in store, audiences can expect that nothing will be off the table here.

Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo. Now youve been warned, enjoy the laughs.

Jimmy Carrhas been a comedian for over a decade and a half. Hes performed10 sell-out tours, playing over2500 showsto more than2.5 million people. Hes won theBritish Comedy AwardforBest Live Stand-Up Tourand been nominated for thePerrier Award.His most recent stand-up comedy special was the most streamed onNetflixin the UK in 2021.

TheTerribly Funnytour kicked off in May 2019 and will visit every corner of the UK and Ireland before heading off to Australia and New Zealand.

Friday, February 17th SOLD OUTHamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC

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Tuesday, February 21st SOLD OUTHamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC

Wednesday, February 15thCivic Hall, Ballarat, VIC

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Thursday, February 16thUlumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, VIC

Thursday, February 23rdUlumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, VIC

Sunday, March 5th SOLD OUTCosta Hall, Geelong, VIC

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Jimmy Carr's 'Terribly Funny' tour to be the biggest comedy tour to ever hit Australia - Beat Magazine

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak said police need to be more focused on crimes that matter to voters as they addressed Tory members in the wake of a shooting of a nine-year-old girl in Liverpool.

At the latest Tory leadership hustings in Birmingham, both candidates said the culture in policing needed reforming.

Ms Truss pledged to introduce police force league tables if she becomes Prime Minister and Mr Sunak vowed not to let political correctness get in the way of tackling crime.

The candidates were asked what they would do to improve law enforcement, after the fatal shooting Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.

Ms Truss said the wanted to see more police on our streets who are focused on the crimes we care about and said she would introduce league tables to monitor regional police performance.

Ms Truss said the culture in needed to change from the top and she also said schools should be opened for longer hours to prevent teenagers from being preyed upon by criminal gangs.

She also pledged to bring back grammar schools to improve education and opportunity for young people.

There is a serious problem in this country with gun crime, theres a serious problem with gangs, theres a serious problem with knife crime, and Im absolutely determined we get a grip on that, she said.

Mr Sunak said the Government must finish putting 20,000 more police officers on the streets.

And he agreed officers need to be focused on the right things and using the best techniques as he argued in favour of Stop and Search tactics.

What is clear is there are things that hold us back from getting to grips with our crime in this country, he said, adding: I wont let political correctness get in the way of keeping us safe.

Mr Sunak said he called his family to speak with his daughter who is the same age as the victim when he first heard about the shooting.

The leadership rivals made a bid to red wall voters to back them to block Labour from winning back seats in the West Midlands.

Ms Truss said she would unleash potential in areas like the West Midlands and accused Sir Keir Starmer of being yet another Labour party politician who doesnt believe in opportunity and doesnt believe in aspiration.

I will help us and I will make sure working with you that we win the next general election and we keep the West Midlands blue, she said.

Mr Sunak compared himself to former Tory PM Margaret Thatcher because she made difficult decisions adding thats the standard I hold myself to.

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Everything old is new again and sitcoms don't really have to die anymore with reboots, relaunches, and revivals. Hulu's upcoming sitcom Reboot takes the revival craze and makes fun of it along the way. Created by Modern Family co-creator, Steven Levitan, Reboot will premiere on Hulu on Tuesday, September 20 with three episodes at launch, with new episodes streaming weekly.

Reboot goes a bit more meta with this as it centers on Hulu rebooting an early 2000's family sitcom, forcing its cast back together for the first time in decades. There are definitely some 30 Rock vibes here, which actually did get a one-shot revival special in the midst of the early months of the pandemic in 2020. Check out the trailer below.

Speaking during the Television Critics Tour, Levitan talked about the biggest thing in the show that he wanted to address and that was the "political correctness" of modern sitcoms and how older stars address the generational shift. He said the show will reflect the time we live in and "more to the point, the times we work in."

"I know a lot of people in comedy think the pendulum has swung too far, being politically correct and woke and all that," Levitan told reporters today at the Television Critics Tour. "We are all so afraid, people are so ready to cancel somebody with one perceived misstep. I find that a fascinating time we are in. We are all trying to manage the 'what can you say, what can't you say, what's wrong with that, how is that offensive.' The whole interesting part is how sacred a writers room needs to be. People need the freedom to explore and say things." It reflects the time we live in and more to the point, the times we work in.

Reboot stars Keegan-Michael Key, Judy Greer, Johnny Knoxville, Paul Reiser, Rachel Bloom, Calum Worthy, and Krista Marie Yu.

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The leading party of the ruling coalition in the State, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), on Friday, created a sensation by claiming to be in touch with 16 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs. JMM Spokesperson, Supriyo Bhattacharya has said that 16 BJP MLAs are in touch with the party.

Reacting strongly to this claim of JMM, BJP state spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo said that there is no political correctness in JMM. He said that forgetting political dignity, JMM has now come down on horse trading.

Bhattacharya said that Godda MP Nishikant Dubey is BJP's Bhasmasur and there is anger among BJP MLAs because of them. He said that Dubey, who came from Bihar and did the politics of Deoghar, is fluent in the politics of the State and writing unnecessary things in social media is one of his habits. After the meeting of the Grand Alliance at the Chief Minister's residence, Bhattacharya said that the Government is stable and we are intact. We have the support of 50 people and all the MLAs of JMM, Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal attended the meeting, he added.

Replying to a question he said that we have all sat in the bus and will see you again in the evening. When asked whether the MLAs have been asked to attend the CMO in the morning and evening, he said that attendance is not to be made.

The party Spokesperson said that in today's meeting all the MLAs showed solidarity. Leaders of all parties said that no conspiracy of BJP will be allowed to succeed here. There was no strategy. Strategy is built on the floor. We will meet again. All the MLAs will stay at their respective homes. No one has been given any directions, he added.

When asked whether the MLAs would go to Chhattisgarh, he said, does anyone leave Jharkhand and go to Chhattisgarh? When asked what would be the JMM's strategy on the Governor's decision, Bhattacharya said that let the Governor's decision come first.

Terming Bhattacharyas claim as a mere political stunt, BJP State Spokesperson, Pratul Shahdeo said that history is a witness that BJP MLAs have never broken and will never break. He said that the history of JMM has been of selling and buying and they should first take a look at their history. He said that the BJP had complained about the office of profit against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. After this the Election Commission heard the entire matter and submitted the report to the Governor. Now the Governor's decision is awaited. BJP has never talked about toppling the Government, he added.

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Spain, Portugal and Germany have revived talks on the MidCat gas pipeline project linking the Iberian Peninsula with France, but Paris remains reluctant, calling the projects future into question.

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Interest in the MidCat gas pipeline project linking Spain and France through the Pyrenees has been revived on the back of the gas crisis caused by Russias war in Ukraine.

French and Spanish regulators denied a permit to build the pipeline in 2019 because of lack of necessity and high cost, but Berlin and Lisbon are now pushing to reconsider.

Thegasinterconnector between France and Spain remains aproject of common European interest eligible for EU funding, the European Commission said at the time.

On 11 August, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he regretted that the project was abandoned, saying the additional capacity was dramatically lacking in Europe during this crisis.

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa called the project a priority for the continent and urged France to make its position clear on the matter.

Since then, the French government has not said much. In June, the ecology ministry told EURACTIV France that it had no comment to make on the matter since the issue was brought to the forefront following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

In July, EURACTIV asked the ministry again ahead of a meeting of EU energy ministers but was told the project is not viable.

But Madrid sees it a bit differently. Environment Minister Teresa Ribera told Spanish television (TVE) on 12 August that work on the MidCat project on the Spanish side could be completed in eight to nine months.

To combat the Europe-wide gas shortage, Ribera proposes, at the very least, to prepare for the addition of an extra compressor on the two small gas pipelines that currently link Spain to France.

Construction should only take two or three months and could quickly supply 2 to 2.5% of European gas consumption an estimate corroborated by S&P Global in comments for La Tribune.

On the same day, however, the French energy transition ministry reiterated to Ara what it had said in July: that the project is not worthwhile and would take years to become operational.

Thierry Bros, a Professor at Science Po Paris and a contributor to Natural Gas World, says the pipeline would be pointless from an energy security perspective because it would connect the Catalonian city of Figueres with the commune of Barbaira in Occitania two areas already close to other gas terminals.

What is the point of a pipeline that links two regasification terminals? he told EURACTIV France. For him, the push to revive the pipeline is motivated more by political correctness than energy security.

That is not the view of Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, who said the project would relieve congestion in the ports of northern Europe by allowing the EU to benefit from a logistics platform located south of Lisbon.

However, Bros says the project would mainly benefit Germany and that there is no reason for the French and Spanish to pay for it.

We [Europeans] are not vassals of Berlin, Bros said.

According to the professor, Scholz and the successive governments of former Chancellor Angela Merkel are the only ones to blame for the current energy crisis in Germany, partly due to their closure of nuclear plants.

Still, Spain remains adamant about the MidCat project, saying it could help transport hydrogen in the future.

Bros dismisses the hydrogen argument, saying the technology is still in its infancy and will not mature on time to help Europe face the current energy crisis.

In an interview with broadcaster LCI on Thursday, he derided current talks on developing hydrogen partnerships between Germany and Canada.

Bros prefers the pragmatism French President Emmanuel Macron, who is currently on a friendship visit to Algeria to likely discuss reinforcing gas partnerships with the country.

Other EU countries will closely watch Macrons trip to Algeria. Germany, in particular, would welcome any additional gas supplies.

French President Emmanuel Macrons trip to Algeria will hope to smooth out rocky relations between the two countries, but there is no doubt that it is also an opportunity to secure additional gas supplies amid the ongoing crisis.

[Edited by Frdric Simon/Alice Taylor]

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France keeps blocking MidCat gas interconnection with Spain - EURACTIV

In 2025, a town in the UK will become the first ever Childrens Capital of Culture. Many people will be more than a little shocked to learn that, of all the towns in Britain, the government has chosen Rotherham for the role the south Yorkshire town at the centre of Britains decades-long grooming-gangs scandal. Between 1997 and 2013, an estimated 1,400 girls in Rotherham were sexually abused by gangs of predominantly Pakistani men. All while the local authorities turned a blind eye.

The aim of the Childrens Capital of Culture initiative is to give every young person and child a chance to help shape their towns future. Throughout the year, the town will be packed with music, magic, dance, drama, films and food. There will also be exhibitions and events taking place with the hope that young people in Rotherham will gain access to training and new skills. All of this is set to be paid for with 1.8million from central government, though, as of this weekend, Levelling Up secretary Greg Clark has said he will look again at the funding.

While the young people of Rotherham are certainly more than deserving of the opportunities the festival might bring, there is a danger here. And it was spelled out inadvertently by a local councillor. Back in February, councillor Dave Sheppard reportedly said that Were making improvements that will help change the perception of Rotherham. In other words, it seems the local authority hopes the festival will encourage us to move on from the towns catastrophic failings.

A 2014 report by Alexis Jay into child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham laid out these failings. As is now well known, sexual abuse on an industrial scale went on unchecked in the town for decades.

Largely, this was because the local authority was paralysed by political correctness. Local council employees were nervous to intervene, fearing accusations of racism. Some were afraid to even state the ethnic origins of the perpetrators, despite victims testimony making it clear that the majority were of Asian or Pakistani heritage. Indeed, this fear was compounded by senior managers, who in some cases gave clear direction to junior members of staff not to discuss anyones ethnicity.

Equally, the council made no efforts to engage with the local Pakistani-heritage community to discuss how the grooming-gangs problem could be addressed jointly. The councils only real contact with the Pakistani community was via self-proclaimed community leaders. This left women within the Pakistani community feeling disenfranchised not least as many girls from the Pakistani community had faced similar abuse. In other words, the councils tiptoeing around the grooming-gangs problem also harmed the very community it was hoping to shield from offence.

Failure upon failure by those charged with protecting the most vulnerable allowed the sexual abuse of children to carry on under everyones noses. This will forever be a stain on the local authority. Council leaders put political correctness ahead of protecting children from rape. This moral failure should not be forgotten or erased. This would only do a disservice to victims.

Clearly, if we are ever to tackle the scourge of grooming gangs a problem still ravaging the UK then we need a serious cultural shift. For a start, local authorities need to stop putting political correctness ahead of child protection. They need to stop fearing that they will be accused of racism for wanting to put a stop to an abhorrent crime. They need to listen to the victims of the crime. And they should listen more to the women within Britains Pakistani community, whose own concerns were initially ignored.

Most of all, we should certainly not be rewarding the very local authorities that failed so many children with a multimillion-pound opportunity to cleanse their reputations.

Wasiq Wasiq is an academic specialising in law and terrorism. Follow him on Twitter: @WasiqUK

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Ryan Tubridy has revealed when he thinks he'll leave the Late Late Show as he prepares to celebrate his 50th birthday next year.

The Dublin native has been the face of RTE's longest-running show for 13 years after taking over from Pat Kenny in 2009. Ryan admitted he doesn't think he'll be presenting the show for another decade.

Speaking at the RTE Season Launch ahead of the Late Late's return this Friday, Ryan gave an insight into how he views his future with the show.

'Im going to be 50 in May and that is important. That is going to feature in my thought process. This is my 14th year. I did five years on Tubridy Tonight so, yeah, I think I will be keeping an eye on everything in the next number of years.

'It wont be today or tomorrow so Im not going anywhere yet. But I dont see a decade in it... I think when the hunger stops, the game is over. I am still ambitious. The show still matters to me. I have something slightly more to prove to myself as well,' he said.

Ryan hopes that he 'can be a little bit better' on the show this season, despite leading the show through an unprecedented pandemic in recent years.

Reflecting on how the pandemic affected his view of life, Ryan said: 'It gave me pause for thought. I dont want to be running on a treadmill as a much older person at all. I want to enjoy life as much as I do now.

'And when I finish on the Late Late Show I am going to pursue other projects. I play parlour game tricks on myself about what they might be but its all dreamland. I dont want to be older and burned out. I want to be older and excited still.'

The last season of the show saw Ryan caught in the middle of a controversy after quizzing Derry Girls star Jamie Lee-ODonnell about her age. Ryan said he had no regrets over how he asks questions and believes people will slowly move away from extreme political correctness.

He explained: 'Thats the current climate we live in. How long will it last? It will last [until] people get bored. It will last as long as people feel the answers are becoming more sanitised and people can no longer be themselves.

'I think viewers and listeners and readers will eventually say "Enough. We want people to be themselves. Please stop censoring and sanitising".

'I think when you are an interviewer [the question is] can you go to sleep at night knowing that you asked every question fairly, with good reason and without malice and if you can do that you sleep easy. And I sleep easy.'

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Instead were still somehow lumbered with Boris Johnson, a man who, true to his colours, has decided to go on a worldwide sulking tour after being ousted from Downing Street by his own party.

In the last month, Johnson has been holidaying in Slovenia and Greece while the country literally burned at home.

This week, he flew to Ukraine to mark six months since the Russian invasion, telling people struggling with hardship at home to basically get on with it.

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Were paying higher bills Ukraine is paying in blood, the PM commented, continuing to ignore the fact that economists had warned of rising energy bills months before Russia invaded Ukraine. He has declined to announce any further help for households.

Johnson did resurface hours after the announcement on Friday to say help would be coming, though not until September, which suggests it wont be on his watch.

The outgoing PM said: Theres a pipeline of cash coming through over the next few months and through the autumn and the winter.

But that is clearly now going to be augmented, increased, by extra cash that the government is plainly going to be announcing in September.

Now back in the UK, reports suggest that Johnson plans to see out the last week of his premiership working from home at Chequers. If his work this summer has been anything to go by, Johnsons out of office message is probably already on.

While Boris Johnson jetted off on back-to-back holidays, Number 10 insisted that the government was carrying on its hard work with Dominic Raab deputising for the PM.

To their credit, Raab does appear to have been working hard. Not at helping ease the burden of the cost of living, admittedly, but attacking barristers for striking over pay and making plans to erode our human rights.

This week, UN experts wrote to the deputy PM warning that his proposed Bill of Rights to reform UK laws around human rights will undermine the enjoyment of human rights in the UK. Raab responded by saying their criticisms were flawed.

And where was Raab as the price cap was announced this morning? Retweeting support for Rishi Sunaks leadership campaign.

As the Bank of England announced its biggest rise in interest rates for 27 years at the start of this month, Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi was enjoying a holiday abroad with his family where he was, apparently, continuing to work.

Defending his trip away, Zahawi said: For me there is no such thing as a holiday and not working.

I never had that in the private sector, not in government. Ask any entrepreneur and they can tell you that.

The same logic, of course, does not apply to civil servants.

As the price cap was announced today, Zahawi was one of few ministers to speak publicly about the situation.

Zahawi told Sky News he is exploring all options to mitigate the impact, and assured the public that more help is on its way, though he couldnt be clear on exactly what help that would be.Probably because hes unlikely to be in the job in a week.

With the real prime minister having checked out long before his notice period is up, lets check in on the frontrunner for the next PM.

If elected, Liz Truss has an enormous challenge ahead as energy bills rocket to unaffordable levels in October. So whats her plan? Well, she cant really say yet.

It isnt right to announce my chancellors plan in August, before I have even won the leadership contest or seen all the analysis being prepared in Whitehall. Under my leadership, we will work flat out to deliver energy affordability and security, Truss wrote in the Daily Mail on Thursday.

The Resolution Foundation decided to look at the effect what little Truss has proposed may have on peoples disposable income. Of the details put forward by Truss, fellow contender to be prime minister Rishi Sunak, and long-term hopeful Keir Starmer, her plans would benefit the richest, not the poor.

It would be hard to count on both hands the number of urgent social crises the new PM will face when they take office in September.

The only problem the contenders should be facing is which issue to grapple with: the NHS? The broken welfare and asylum system? Rampant inequality?

Naturally, Sunak has chosen the most pressing target: scientists during the pandemic, he said at a recent hustings.

On the eve of the energy bill announcement, Sunak tweeted the kind of no nonsense policy decision households had been waiting for: I will never let political correctness stand in the way of keeping you and your family safe.

When he inevitably loses the leadership contest, Im sure we can all look forward to Sunaks appearance as Rishi_5Ghoax_Sunak on Telegram.

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The date for Ofgems price cap announcement had been set for some time, which is, of course, why the minister for energy, Greg Hands, decided to be in New Mexico on the very same day.

Great to visit Los Alamos National Laboratory, here in New Mexico, he tweeted. The UK is having a nuclear renaissance, and that means more cooperation with the USA. Nowhere epitomises nuclear cooperation better than here. Useful discussions on fusion & non-nuclear technologies.

This was shortly followed by a retweeted video of a police officer catching a thief. Since then, Hands has said nothing about the price cap.

Credit where credits due: Kwasi Kwarteng, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy (and tipped to be the next chancellor), appears to be the only government member who has actually taken a meeting in the last two months.

A report in The Times suggested Kwarteng has been in discussions with energy bosses about potentially freezing energy bills at their current levels, though sources close to Kwarteng played down the significance of the meeting.

Did Kwarteng have any words of support for the millions facing destitution over the price cap increase? Dont be silly.

Instead he retweeted a government advertisement for the energy support scheme which was already announced months prior and has been deemed insufficient for helping the poorest through the crisis.

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A former pupil at one of South Africas well-known private schools, St Stithians in Bryanston, argues that by introducing a sweeping raft of policies on race, gender and sexuality, leaders there have driven roughshod over their contractual obligations to parents and pupils. He believes racial and sexual tensions among primary school kids have been inspired by radical and indefensible ideologies, endangering children and undermining the foundations of an otherwise valuable institution. And parents might like to know how much all this is costing them. Racial sensitivity workshops and gender consultants cost money, and legal fees abound for disciplinary proceedings. Anyone plugged into the private school network knows of dozens of disputes, with racial allegations predominating. Ian Macleod says if he was handing over R150,000-plus every year, hed like to know the cost of it all. Sandra Laurence

Ian Macleod believes that racial and sexual tensions among primary school kids have been worsened by radical gender and transformation ideologies. The overwhelming response from the BizNews community seems to second this notion.

Grant Mc Ewan said; None of this should be allowed at schools and brings a lot of confusion to kids. But also the religion in schools is a red herring who right whos wrong causes enormous issues. The same goes for countries and politics freedom of religion must be allowed but must not influence laws in anyway.

Andrew Pienaar said; Seems the right time for alternative education institutions to open their doors go woke go broke is the way these things end. I will immediately pull my children out of any place that imposes this woke crap simply as that, I think most parents would agree time to walk the talk people and put a stop to the BS before it gets going

Robbie Branch said; Foisting woke crap on the pupils after needlessly gagging them in class for 27 months. Physically softened them up for this psychological abuse of twisting, race, gender and sexuality. Degenerate.

Noshitsherlock said; Unreasoned, unproven and unwarranted decisions affecting the lives of young people, with the intent to direct their opinions in a particular direction, are always dangerous. When they are at odds with the life philosophy of the core family unit they are unwise, perilous and should be illegal. Shame on St Stithians, your management should know better?

Herman Hanson said; Well done on taking up the cudgels against this destructive McCarthyism. It is quite widespread amongst privileged schools where the whistleblowers are either aligned to a political party or standard bearers for wokeness. Broad I know but maybe what needs attention is why these minority groupings are entertained by school management.

A Call for Honesty said; I have been following an Australian lawyer who is fighting these matters. He tells of people coming to him with their tragic stories of being pressured into physical mutilation in the name of progressive medicine and ideology. Bullying among kids is to be expected and needs to be firmly dealt with, but this is bullying by adults of children to become like them and is among the worst forms of child abuse.

Let kids be kids

There is a consensus in the BizNews community that primary school children are too young to understand their orientation or gender, and gender issues should only be dealt with once kids have matured.

Rita Du Plessis said; The saddest part is that children are influenced by their parents, teachers and elders and cannot possibly understand sexuality until such time they have reached puberty or are mature enough to make their own decisions!!!! This is child abuse!! The racist issues brought by spoilt rich kids, knowing blatantly well that at a whim they can use it as an easy weapon against any person they have an issue with is running rife in privileged private schools and needs to be stopped in its tracks. The last thing it requires is giving it any relevance! If we are going to teach equality then practise it, stop patronising these little upstarts! I guarantee you it will stop when they know they will not get away with it!

Jean Mary Gray said; The issue here is not peoples actual sexual orientation, it is the making an issue out of it, encouraging kids too young too understand to explore their orientation or gender. To label people as what they are or maybe, before the fact that each person is unique. It is having expensive re programming, counselling and transformation classes. It is the racialisation of things and the over political correctness of things. It is the pressure these young kids are being put under before they are ready. Nobody is saying that there should not be acceptance for different viewpoints, there have always been differences and now we are going from turning them into outcasts to being something that is too emphasised. They should just be people first. Those who just need to be children should not be forced or foisted into decisions way over most of their heads. And certainly not without parents consent.

Mandy44 said; What is most concerning is that these kids (all kids) are being trained for jobs that are fast being automated. Educators (and I include all parents in this) should be much more concerned about preparing a future for children with so many unknowns. I am not seeing much noise about this disruption, schools seem to carry training kids to become doctors and accountants and filling so many, many other current jobs that simply will not exist. Schools focus on nonsense, hoping that no one is noticing how difficult it is going to be for tomorrows adults to make a living and struggle to maintain the sort of lifestyle they grew up with. We have more important things to be concerned about, we need to concentrate on the futures of ALL the children, not the 1% to 2% who will, in all probability have difficult lives because of their chosen (or not chosen) path.

Fight for the inclusion of the marginalised in this world.

Among the majority of our audience rejecting wokeism, there were a few audience members praising St Stithians for being inclusive.

Robert Rutherford said; I would imagine that these Saints policies are driven by the exact thinking behind, or at least closely related to, critical race theory and intersectionality. Because these are both theories that shed light on how systems play a part in marginalising and devaluing certain social groups before others, and how this can be addressed to create a more just society. Thats what this is really about: trying to make space for people. You seem to see this as being at the expense of your Saints status quo, and youre opposed to it. If they keep any secrets from you, its because they know you and people like you will wail about them being woke.

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