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Pepperdine University, a Christian liberal arts college located in southern California, is the latest institution of higher education to join in the trashing of Christopher Columbus.

Pepperdines president, Andrew Benton, bowed to the wishes of a minority of the student population when he announced January 30 that a statue of Columbus Columbus on the Malibu campus would be removed and sent to Pepperdines Florence, Italy, campus. Benton explained his decision by saying stories of conquest and the art associated therewith are painful reminders of loss and human tragedy. The statue was removed last month.

The statue had been donated to the university in 1992 upon the 500th anniversary of Columbus discovery of the New World by Columbus 500 Congress. No doubt the group mistakenly believed that Pepperdine, with its reputation as a conservative Christian college, would appreciate the man responsible for first bringing the Christian faith to the New World.

Speaking publicly about the decision, Benton defended the statues removal. I did not expect it to be popular. I didnt do it to be popular. I did it because I believed it was the right thing to do.

A small group of vocal students demanded the statues removal from the schools amphitheater, calling it a celebration of genocide and racial oppression.

In an official statement, the university argued that Bentons decision recognizes the importance of compromise in creating a campus culture of unity and inclusiveness.

Kaitlyn Pfingston, a graduate student spoke against the statues removal at a recent campus meeting on the subject, and particularly took issue with Benton calling it a compromise, saying, Thats a concession. Its not a compromise. Where is there any kind of compromise? Hes either removing [the statue] or hes not.

Pfingston also took issue with the assertion that Columbus was an instigator of genocide, and said that Bentons action supports that false impression. By [Benton] conceding [he] is effectively saying that those claims are accurate. And what that actually does is prevent other students who have the same opinion as me from speaking out because they dont want to be labeled bigoted or indifferent to human suffering or indifferent to indigenous populations.

Jens Cole, a junior at Pepperdine, dismissed the argument that most students were either indifferent to Bentons action, or actually opposed it. I think you have to pay respect to the people who were siding toward it being offensive and inappropriate.

Really? What would Cole think about offending those who see Columbus as a symbol of the good of Western Civilization? Why are their feelings and views not as important as those who wanted the statue removed?

Hannah Fleming, another student at Pepperdine, illustrates why the Left will never be satisfied, and will always find something else to be offended about. While she admitted that most people are indifferent, Fleming, who said she grew up on an Indian reservation, even opposed the decision to send the statue to Italy, arguing that removing [the statue] but still having it associated with the university is a little bit controversial.

The denigration of Christopher Columbus by secular progressive universities is unfortunate enough, but for a Christian university to jump on the trash Western Civilization bandwagon is particularly disturbing. The college is associated with the very conservative churches of Christ in the United States, and was founded in 1937 in south central Los Angeles by George Pepperdine, and moved to Malibu after some radicals in the 1960s threatened to burn down the campus. Pepperdine had earned his fortune with the Western Auto Supply company, begun with an investment of only $5. When he founded the college, he said he had two major objectives. First, we want to provide first-class, fully accredited academic training in the liberal arts.

Secondly, we are especially dedicated to a greater goal (emphasis added) that of building in the student a Christ-like life, a love for the church, and a passion for the souls of mankind. (Emphasis added.)

Ironically, this was the very goal shared by the man that the present president of Pepperdine has decided to trash Christopher Columbus.

While depicted in modern popular culture as a man motivated primarily for gold and spices, this was only a part of his larger motivation. It was his desire to find enough wealth to finance a crusade to free the Holy Land from Islamic domination and conquer the Holy Sepulcher [Christs empty tomb]; for this I urged Your Highnesses, Columbus told King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, to spend all the profitsfrom this enterprise on the conquest of Jerusalem. (Emphasis added.)

The Muslims had conquered Constantinople in 1453, completing their multigenerational conquest of the Christian world in the East, including the Byzantine Empire and the lands where Jesus had lived, died, and risen from the dead. Columbus, after careful study of the Old and New Testaments, along with some readings in the works of the historian Flavius Josephus, and the noted church father Augustine, had concluded that the city of Jerusalem needed to be in Christian hands before the Lord would return.

Specifically, Columbus believed the biblical prophecies would dictate the reconstruction of the Temple first. And Columbus was convinced that his present mission was part of the overall plan of God to see this was accomplished.

Columbus did not set out from Spain to enslave American Indians, since he was ignorant of their very existence. After reading of the travels of the Venetian Marco Polo, Columbus was inspired to reach the Grand Khan, the Mongol ruler of China. The Chinese monarchs had expressed to Polos family some interest in the Christian faith, leading Columbus to hope for the conversion of China, so they could then combine forces and drive the Muslims out of the Holy Land.

In other words, Andrew Benton, president of Pepperdine, a college founded with a passion for the souls of mankind, has removed the statue of the man who shared that passion.

Nationally conservative syndicated talk show host Dennis Prager, who launched a petition (which has garnered over 10,000 signatures) to keep the statue at Pepperdine, said, speaking of Pepperdine, Once regarded as one of the few sensible universities in the country, that appears to be a thing of the past. They have gone Left. They are getting rid of their statue of Christopher Columbus for reasons of diversity. The university presidents letter of explanation is an embarrassing bow down to political correctness.

Benton said that the statue was a painful reminder of loss and human tragedy, but Prager disagreed, saying he believed that Christopher Columbus should be venerated for his brave and heroic expedition. Columbus daring journey to North America led to the creation of the freest and most prosperous nation in human history.

William Fowler, a history professor at Northeastern University, took issue with Bentons comments about Columbus. The issue of genocide is a term [Columbus] would not have understood. To be guilty of genocide [Columbus] would have had to have intent. What evidence do we have of his intent to commit genocide?

On the contrary, Columbus intent was to take the gospel to Asia, and when he first arrived in the islands off the coast of North America, he believed he had reached the outskirts of Asia. No logical person could believe that his intent to was to commit genocide upon the very people he was hoping to convert to Christ, and help European Christians re-take the Holy Land.

Considering that Columbus died in 1506, it is difficult to argue that he was responsible for any genocidal activity which took place after that date. As George Grant wrote in The Last Crusader: The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus, To be sure there were perverse abuses ... but heap all that upon the shoulders of one man a man who unleashed upon the Americans far more good than woe is patently absurd.... Far from being a racist, he proved time after time to be overly enamored with the native populations he encountered.

While the Spanish no doubt were guilty of abuses, they did not commit genocide in the New World. The biggest killer of the indigenous population was not the sword of the conquistadores, but rather smallpox and measles. While Columbus certainly unwittingly made this possible by achieving contact with peoples of the Western Hemisphere, he can hardly be held responsible for it. Nor could other Europeans who followed him, who had no understanding of the transmission of these diseases.

Soon after his contact with the native peoples, Columbus wrote, I believe that they would become good Christians very quickly.

That hardly sounds like a man who wished to commit genocide, nor does it sound like a man that the president of a college founded out of passion for the souls of mankind would want to denigrate.

Steve Byas is a professor of history at Randall University, a liberal arts college in Moore, Oklahoma, associated with the Free Will Baptist denomination. He has written on Columbus and other historical figures he believes have been unfairly treated in modern times in his book Historys Greatest Libels.

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Columbus Statue Removed at Pepperdine Bow to Political Correctness - The New American

By Pete Papaherakles

National Review (NR),considered by many as the flagship of conservative journalism, fired one of its top journalists last week in an effort to comply with the tenets of the cult of political correctness, i.e., cultural communism. The reason for the dismissal was not for something that the journalist wrote for the magazine but for perceived racism expressed in an entirely different media outlet.

John Derbyshire, a prominent NR contributor, was fired for an article he wrote on April 5 in Takis Magazine, a conservative online journal published by socialite Taki Theodoracopulos. The article titled The Talk: Non-Black Version was written as a response to the Talk that black parents are having with their children in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting, advising them on how to avoid looking or acting in a way that would get them killed by whitesas if that was what got Martin killed.

Derbyshire wrote as if advising his own children how to avoid being hurt or killed by blacks. Like the black parents, Derbyshire points out that there are distinct differences between blacks and whites, something that in itself is considered taboo for whites in todays politically correct culture to mention. Some of the controversial elements of his advice involved warning them to stay out of heavily black neighborhoods, advice against attending events likely to draw lots of blacks and if at a public event that the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

Many of his points are linked to newspaper stories of black-on-white crime, almost always kept out of the national media, and included mostly unknown statistics about the large number of black-on-white crimes. AFP published a special report in the April 16 edition titled The Complexion of Crime in America, which revealed that blacks are 18 times more likely to murder whites than whites are to murder blacks.

NRs editor in chief Rich Lowry called the article appalling, nasty and indefensible. Derbyshire, one of NRs best writers, was summarily sacrificed on the altar of political correctness for saying pretty much the same things AFP has been saying for years.

In a telephone interview with AMERICAN FREE PRESS, Theodoracopulos, who started his journalism career writing for NR in 1967 and routinely features articles by Pat Buchanan and other conservatives, told this reporter that he was appalled with the decision.

They [NR]were in such a hurry to toe the PC [politically correct] line, I dont even think they read the piece, he remarked. They have been completely taken over by the neocons and no longer take positions against Israel or on the race issue. Joe Sobran and others in the past have met similar fates. It just goes to show what a bunch of rats theyve become. What they did to him was especially cruel considering he is undergoing chemotherapy at the time.

The Trayvon Martin shooting has stirred up racial tensions in the U.S., exposing a dangerous double standard in race attitudes. While it is acceptable today for blacks to openly call for the murder of George Zimmermanwho is not white nor black but Hispanic, and was attacked and beaten by Martinwhites are not even allowed to talk to their children about black-on-white crimes for fear of offending the high priests of political correctness.*

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Conservative Rag Bends to Political Correctness - American Free Press

John Howard reckons there are two issues that helped Donald Trump win over American voters, and theyre ones the former prime minister closely identifies with himself,

Political correctness and identity politics were key to Trumps success, Howard told a corporate crowd at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch in Sydney yesterday, Fairfax Newsreported.

Americans, like Australians, are resentful of the avalanche of political correctness, Howard said.

I think political correctness has become a problem in Western societies, weve become far too apologetic about our Western identity and anything thats a sense of some kind of defence of cultural traditionalism or national identity is in many ways frowned upon, Fairfaxreported him as saying.

Meanwhile, the Democrats suffered from an excess of identity politics, he said, apparently a reference to the fact that Hillary Clinton, Trumps presidential election rival, came with a loaded history in politics that was offputting to many voters.

There is nothing new about people who are economically insecure or dispossessed trying to reach out to some sort of new champion, he said.

The Australian reported from the same event that Howard noted Australia was going through a very challenging stage politically, in which a fragmented Senate was making it difficult for prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to push through legislation, as it did for predecessor Tony Abbott.

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Donald Trump electrified crowds. He refused to bow to the Left's totalitarian PC orthodoxy

BombThrowers: The concept of political correctness, or PC, goes back more than a half century. Over time PC has changed America for the worse. It was invented not to expand discussions but to prevent them through peer pressure and intimidation.

The origins and continuing implications of PC were part of a high-profile panel discussion at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C., over this past weekend.

This fascinating panel met on the main stage at CPAC and featured moderator Jan Riordan of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, along with a panel consisting of Fox News contributor and Conservative Review columnist Tom Borelli, U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), College Republican National Committee chairman Alex Smith, and Capital Research Center president Scott Walter. It was a wide-ranging discussion, delving into the history of political correctness, its impact in culture and business, the dumbing down of education, and what the future may hold.

Scott Walter kicked off the discussion by defining political correctness. Not surprisingly, Walter, whose organization, Capital Research Center (the parent of Bombthrowers), specializes in unmasking organizations of the Left and their funders, gave a succinct explanation:

The real origin of the term goes back to the first half of the twentieth century and the hard Left where they made no bones about itthere is no objective truth, all that matters is what serves the party, so truth will change from day to day. This is what you see in [George] Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, where things go down the memory hole. Then it began seeping into the broader Left in this country and it was probably around the 1980s I think when conservatives began to make fun of political correctness because it was already becoming so ridiculous. But I have friends who, at graduate school in Cornell in the 1980s and at meetings there would be: Oh we cant say that. It wouldnt be politically correct. Now it has become a vicious orthodoxy that is enforced with bullying, so that whatever the political agenda of today is, if you violate it, wham!

In fact it was 1950s large-C Communists who created that phrasepart of the enforcement mechanism for maintaining strict adherence to doctrinaire communism among their membership. That rigid, uniform obedience to Communist ideology is what allows the Communists to stay on message and is what has made their messaging so effective. If you repeat a lie long enough, and get many people repeating it, sooner or later it begins to gain acceptance as legitimateno matter how outlandish.

Just consider transgender bathrooms. A few short years ago, such an idea would have been laughable, had anyone even considered it. But last year Obamas Justice and Education Departments jointly issued a Dear Colleague Letter on Transgender Students imposing bathroom use based on an individuals internal sense of gender on schools nationwide. Thankfully, President Trump recently reversed that official guidance.

Fox News Channels Tucker Carlson debated Zac Petkanas, a senior advisor to the Democratic National Committee who heads DNCs Trump War Room. Petkanas called President Trump a monster for reversing Obamas action. Carlson pressed his guest to offer one example of a scientist who would publicly claim that ones sex is determined by what a person says it is, regardless of their biology. Petkanas claimed he could name thousandsbut never didand insisted that, like global warming, it was settled science. He accused Carlson of embracing right-wing pseudo-science. Carlson then asked him if he could change his race too just by saying so and upped the ante by offering him $1,000 if he could produce one, just one, scientist who says you can determine your sex just by saying so.

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Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

Congressman Rooney was asked how political correctness impacts his work in Congress. He said there were so many egregious instancesImagine this. In recent years, the government decided that you couldnt say the word Islam and terrorist in government manuals, including the government counter-terrorism manual. You cant say Islam and Islamic terrorism in the government manual!

Alex Smith said there were too many [instances of PC] to count on college campuses today She mentioned the maddening case of Dr. Condoleezza Rice being disinvited from speaking at the Rutgers University commencement last year, and how students then entered university administration buildings and destroyed property to make their point. She noted that on college campuses nationwide there is the real lack of intellectual diversity, while the Left trumpets all kinds of other diversity.

Tom Borelli described how PC infects the business world, saying that many business leaders, like Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, are progressives, and use their companies to advance PC ideas, while other companies are intimidated by shareholder activists and boycotts or threats of boycotts. The most recent example he cited was Nordstroms decision to drop Ivanka Trumps footwear line. While Nordstrom denied it, this was believed to be in response to the #GrabYourWallet campaign, which asked people to boycott any company carrying Trump products, refrain from doing business with the Trump family, or boycott businesses whose owners supported Trumps candidacy. He also mentioned how when Under Armors president publicly stated that President Trump would be good for business, Under Armors stock was downgraded, an action hugely important for the investment community. (Editors note: Tina Trent touched upon #GrabYourWallet in a recent Bombthrowers article.)

This is the extent to which the lunacy of political correctness has infected our society today. And it is a very dangerous lunacy. It requires rigid adherence to ideas that go against common sense, decency, and everything we know to be true. Anyone who makes the mistake of questioning the insane PC orthodoxy is targeted for vilification as racist, sexist, homophobic, or fill-in-the-blank-phobic. It is a tactic designed specifically to enforce conformity and destroy opponents, following Lenins admonition to write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us. It is a mark of totalitarian thinking that is in fact the sixth stage, polarization, in The Ten Stages of Genocide.

In the Soviet Union, defying political orthodoxy was grounds for execution. In the book, Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union, author Robert Robinson recounted his life in the Soviet Union under Stalin. He said that clothing was so poorly manufactured that pant legs differed in length, shoe pairs never matched sizes, and nothing fit properly. It was so bad that a public campaign was launched that made wearing ill-fitting clothes a badge of patriotism. Not only was it dangerous to complain about it, but if you were found to be wearing clothes without defects, you were accused of being disloyal to the regime. In communist states it is dangerous even to think about questioning the prevailing orthodoxy. As the saying goes, Think before you think.

Our nation, on college campuses and elsewhere, is rapidly approaching that point. It is one of the many reasons why candidate Donald Trump electrified crowds. He refused to bow to the Lefts totalitarian PC orthodoxy. In fact he shifted the paradigm, restoring PC to the butt of jokes it deserves to be. That is yet another reason college campuses and the Left nationwide have gone on a lunatic crusade to destroy President Trump and anyone willing to admit they voted for him. They have advanced by manipulating language to bend culture to their despotic will. President Trump now threatens their dominance.

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Is political correctness killing US institutions? - Canada Free Press

Some Americans - including many in the press - will oppose President Trump no matter what he says in his first address before Congress tonight, Bill O'Reilly said in his Talking Points Memo.

O'Reilly said that doesn't really matter, however, because Trump will be judged on how his policies jump-start the economy, fix the immigration problem and keep Americans safe.

He argued that if Trump can follow through with his campaign promises and major policies, then the culture war will begin to go his way.

"Americans are tired of political correctness and left-wing totalitarianism," O'Reilly said. "Most of us have had it with extremism on both sides."

He said that the U.S. remains a bastion of opportunity and common-sense views held by regular folks.

"But that profile has been smothered by big government zealots, ideological fanatics and a media that promotes the P.C. culture," O'Reilly said.

He said that Trump will "trounce his enemies" if his vision brings increased prosperity and security.

"If economic opportunity rises, all the class warfare B.S. will be harder to sell. But in order for that to happen, America needs to be unleashed."

Watch the full Talking Points Memo above, and see O'Reilly weigh in on the "war" between Trump and the press.

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What you do with your own body shouldn't have to be anyone's business but your own. When you start competing in sports, you're making it everyone's business. That's unfair to others, but also to yourself.

By now you've heard the story of Mack Beggs the high school wrestler who was born a female and competed against females to win the Texas state wrestling championship.

Beggs began transitioning to a male in 2015. ATTN reports that The transition hormones are significant because some male hormones have the potential to enhance athletic performance.

MORE: Political correctness on the podium: Transsexuals will be competing against women and men at the Olympics

Dr. Brandon Mines, assistant professor at Emory University's Department of Orthopedics, told CNN that Testosterone and anabolic steroids are in the same family and have the effect of increasing muscle mass and strength gains. He is allowed to take them and compete because they are considered a valid medical purpose.

This so-called 'valid' purpose as well as the fact he wasn't allowed to compete against boys, resulted in Beggs steamrolling the competition. How bad was it? He went 56-0.

The overwhelming dominance is disturbing. It's clear he doesn't belong competing against women. By contrast, MMA 'athlete' Fallon Fox, a male turned female martial artist, annihilated her female opponents.

Is it fair to females that they face off against a girl who is trying to become a man? Is it fair they compete against a woman using what essentially amount to performance enhancing drugs? It's clear that all Beggs wants to do is compete, and I respect that. It's good seeing kids be healthy and in shape, but at the what expense?

Is this really how you want to win? Competing against women when you're a man? Competing while male hormones give you an advantage? To prove what? To cause a big enough disruption so state rules will be changed?

Honestly, I don't even think Beggs should be competing against men either. If a woman tried to play hockey, how would men react? Not hit her? How is that fair? The same applies to wrestling or any sport with contact. It's opening a massive problem. No amount of drugs can change the fact you still grew up at a physical disadvantage or advantage. Which is why Fallon Fox is able to destroy her opponents.

It's only a matter of time until someone gets seriously hurt. Whether that person happens to be transgender or someone competing against them when you modify your body, you can't expect the rules to change to accommodate you.

Unless a transgender's dream involves NASCAR or competitive gaming such as StarCraft (see Scarlet), sports are something that should be removed from the equation. Respecting people is fine and encouraged, but when 'respect' results in these results, it's no longer about 'respect'.

Unfortunately, any sort of compromise results in the integrity of the competition also being compromised.

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Enough with the political correctness: transgender individuals shouldn't be allowed to compete in sports - The Rebel

The cast of Moonlight accepts the Academy Award for Best Picture. CREDIT: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight is a critically-acclaimed exploration of black and queer identities. Its at once a coming of age drama, a film about the intersections of race and class, a love story, andabove allthe story of a black man grappling with his sexual orientation over the course of his life. Its hard to summarize all that the movie entails. But according to Fox & Friends Tucker Carlson, its only a winning film because of political correctness.

It was forgone, Carlson said of La La Lands short-lived victory on Sunday night. Moonlight had to win because you knew what the film was about. And thats part of the problem with Hollywood.

Carlson explained that the second you feel a political imperative it destroys your art, calling the celebration of Moonlight overbearing and pompous and boorish.

As the Washington Posts Abby Phillip pointed out, Carlson didnt indicate if hed actually seen the movie, which also won Best Adapted Screenplay and earned Mahershala Ali his own award for Best Supporting Actor. His comments align with the old adage Celebrities should stay out of politics. Hollywood, the argument goes, has one purpose: entertainment. When it wades into political territory, theyve gone too fardoing a job they werent asked to do.

Carlsons statement is patently false. If the honor rewarded political correctnessa euphemism for minorities inclusionperhaps people of color wouldnt have been erased for decades by the Hollywood establishment and LGBTQ people wouldve been celebrated instead of overshadowed by white, cis men who portrayed them onscreen.

Instead, only 32 African Americans, 10 Latinos, and eight openly gay people won Academy Awards as of 2016a small fraction of the 2,900 winners since the first ceremony in 1929. They may have deserved accolades, but non-white and LGBTQ people have been losing for generations.

Underlying Carlsons comments is the notion that artists particularly black artistsshould be quiet. They dont have a right to produce something that pushes boundaries and audiences and then celebrate what theyve created, even though they are historically ignored by the Academy and the entertainment industry writ large. They are arrogant beneficiaries of affirmative action driving the industry.

Whats most troubling about Carlsons argument, though, is the inherent assumption that black and queer experiences arent a standard. To be black and queer is to live on the margins. They are experiences that only exist in the realm of politics, where others try to assert themselves and be heard. They arent mainstream or deserving.

No matter. The cast of Moonlight should bask in their groundbreaking victory. Were basking in the light with them.

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Fox News' Tucker Carlson says 'Moonlight' only won Best Picture because of political correctness - ThinkProgress

The controversy of not enough black people nominated last year hurts the winners this year. It is unfair to all the black actors and actresses, who are nominated, to have a shadow cast over them. Last year, a fake controversy appeared, when there were complaints that not enough black people were nominated for an Oscar. Now, this year's Oscars had a record amount of black people nominated. This was obviously a political correctness response from the left.

Now we will never know if those actors and actresses that won, received an Oscar because they were the best. It is unfair to the great performances by these actors, to have any doubt Loom over their wins or nominations. If left-wing political correctness hadn't reared its head, we would know that these actors won because they are the best. But leave it to the left and political correctness to destroy a special moment.

I don't know if anyone won because of their skin color, But the fact that I have to even ponder that, is ridiculous. I don't look at someone's skin color, I just look at whether they're deserving or not. But last year and this year, political correctness made skin color an issue for the Oscars. When the left tries to fix something, you can be assured it will end up even worse.

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Political Correctness Hurt the Oscars - WSAU (blog)

Jennifer Saunders can never claim to be politically correct.

It is one of the reasons her show Absolutely Fabulous was so well loved over the years.

But it is also the reason the comedian has ruled out bringing back the much loved characters, Edina and Patsy.

The celeb told Press Association, reported by Mirror in the UK, that people are so politically correct now they couldnt get away anything.

You cant even get away to be a politically incorrect character, because that is seen as being politically incorrect, Jennifer said.

Everyones down on everyone for everything.

Joanna Lumley has also said it was best to leave the show where it is, as the world had gone a bit strange.

Because so much of the world right now is so grim, and hard and fearful, and people so take affront at everything.

The Ab Fab movie released in 2016 had its share of critics; in particular actress Margaret Cho who took offence at a character named Huku Muki, accusing the pair of racism.

The Guardian reported Cho had accused the makers of the movie of yellowface, after casting a white person in an Asian role.

Although they might not be bringing about an Ab Fab revival it hasnt stopped their pair from sharing their humour.

Its not for all tastes, but they have discussed Donald Trump in this recent interview.

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A Virginia town has canceleda visit, organized by its parks-and-rec department, to the The Ark Encounter and Creation Museum after a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The town? Christiansburg, of course. Taking the towns name a little too literally, arent you, folks?

A round of applause,please, for legislation in Virginias General Assembly that would give the Board of Corrections the authority to investigate jailhouse deaths. Even more applause if lawmakers can figure out how to prevent more of those deaths in the first place.

During a stopin Fredericksburg Wednesday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Perriello won us over and lost us again in a single sentence. He said vetoing bills that create gerrymandered legislative districts would be the single most impactful thing I will do as governor. The gerrymandering part sounds swell. But impactful? Thats just disgustful.

We at The News Virginian wonder if use of the word impacthas increased in situations where effect is the more accurate word choice because fewer people know the difference between affect and effect and dont want to be caught using the wrong one. Some say that is indeed the case. We cant be sure, but for the record, affect is the verb, effect is the noun (in the context of our discussion here at least.) One thing affects the other. One thing also has an effect on the other.

Speaking of bureaucratese, we also have a suggestion for Merriam-Webster: Banish the word utilize from the English language. Please. It has got to be the most superfluous word in the English language, perhaps any language. There is no context in which use cannot take the place of utilize. It is a word used almost exclusively by politicians and bureaucrats to make themselves sound smarter or better informed than they really are. The next time you hear someone using the word utilize (or the even worse utilization), consider taking whatever it is theyre saying with a large grain of salt.

Outrage over the possiblerepeal of Obamacarehelps prove an enduring point: A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.

This week an Israeli soldierreceived a prison sentence for unnecessarily shooting a wounded Palestinian attacker in Hebron. Palestinian authorities, on the other hand, often erect monuments to, and otherwise glorify, terrorists who kill Israelis. But go ahead, keep pretending the Middle East could have peace if Israel just gave up some more land.

Sigh.There is no inherent standard of English,is the official policy of the wait for it writing centerat the University of Washington at Tacoma. Standards and rules and things like that are racist, goes the thinking (if you want to call it thinking). So the staffvows toemphasize the importance of rhetorical situations over grammatical correctness in the production of texts. OK. But if its racist to believe some ways of writing are better than others, then there seems to be no point in having a writing center in the first place. Maybe everyone there should just quit.

Stephen Schwartz, U.S. ambassador to Somalia,recentlygavea Make Somalia Great Again ball cap to Somali president Mohamad Abdullahi. We are not making this up.

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