“Non è giusto”

When is enough enough?

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.

Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: "If only," they love to think, "if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen."
Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical.

~ Enoch Powell Speech to Parliament 1968

“When you endure Marxist provocation, Marxist strategy is always at the same time. It's called the middle level violence. They don't come at you with full blown Bolshevik assault very often. It's middle level of violence they provoke which means if you do them, and do you do like Jean Paul Sartre said in his foreword to ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ by Franz Fanon, the post colonial book, he said the violence was coming. So Europe’s best bet is to give it away so that they don't kill. They’ll murder and take, or maybe you can give it away, give your culture way, give your country away, and they'll let you live. They're coming for you. And this is what Europe needs to learn, that's what he says, in the foreword of “The Wretched of the Earth”. You can read it for yourself, probably in the original French, that I can't read. I think that's the path that Europe has followed. So you can give away that's one side, because they provoke in the middle.

Or you can react or overreact, which sadly Europe has had a rough history with in the last century, with overreactions and if you overreact what will they do? They will weaponize your overreaction for a century, forever, and gain moral authority so that you end up having to give it away later anyway.

So you have to stand firm in your principles, but you have to do so cleverly. You have to understand that you're being provoked, which means you don't react as the provocateur wants you to react, you have to outsmart them, which is not possible unless you know the diagnosis of your problem. It is a Polish proverb: Never attempt to cure what you don't understand.

Woke is Marxism evolved to attack the West. If you don't understand that, you will not act correctly. You will not cure it and it will conquer your countries.”

Dr. James Lindsay - Woke, a culture war against Europe" this conference was organised by the "Identity and Democracy Foundation" https://id-foundation.eu and MEP Tom Vandendriessche at the European Parliament on the 30th of March 2023 (transcript here)

This image brought me close to tears. You will recognise it immediately I imagine as it has become iconic within 24 hours - much as a recent picture of a blond man with a bloody ear and a raised fist in front of a US flag became instantly iconic - a representation of something bigger, more substantial than the act itself.

The woman in the photograph, on her knees and in tears is Angela Carini. She is an Italian boxer who has been competing at championship level since 2019 and represented her country in the 2020 and until yesterday at the 2024 Olympic Games. Yesterday she was punched in the gut by a man pretending to be a woman and was counted out after only 46 seconds in the ring. After the fight, in tears, she exclaimed “Non e giusto.”

It’s not fair.

Her opponent is an Algerian man who goes by the name of Imane Khelif. He is one of two men who claim to be women and who have therefore been permitted to compete against real women by the International Olympic Committee, the posse of pampered erstwhile athletes and functionaries on whose watch the appalling opening ceremony with its cynical, repellent and satanic iconoclasm took place, the other being the Taiwanese Lin Yu-Ting who will compete against Sitora Turdibekova from Usbekistan today. Tomorrow the Algerian Imane Khelif will be allowed to be beat up the Hungarian athlete Anna Hámori also with their blessing. Eventually I suppose the Taiwanese man and the Algerian man will meet in the finals and then one of them will “win” the gold medal and the other the silver, whilst the last woman standing will take home the bronze medal as a consolation prize. Who knows when the first female athlete will be delivered to hospital with a fractured jaw or worse.

Josh Slocum

‘s piece alerted me to the story this morning:

Did you see her or not?

As far as I am aware no-one from the IOC has made any statement or sought to either justify their decision to allow the men - who had both previously been disqualified by the International Boxing Association from competing against women, a decision criticised by the IOC - to box or to apologize for their monstrous decisions. Not Thomas Bach the President of the IOC, not Nicole Hovaertz a swimmer, not Nawal El Moutawakel, a runner and Olympic Gold Medalist, and certainly not Emma Terho, once Finland’s youngest ever Olympic medalist and now Chair of the Olympic Athletes’ Commission . Not a peep.

J.K. Rowling did, of course. She raised her voice on Twitter almost immediately