By Andrea Widburg

I’ve learned that, if I apply my natural cynicism and pessimism to anything that originated with leftists, I will almost invariably correctly predict the future. Nevertheless, there’s a small part of me that always hopes that things will get better. Perhaps that’s why I’m reading a lot into three reports on Friday about people pushing back on cancel culture.

The first story involves Piers Morgan, the British commentator. Morgan was unimpressed after listening to Meghan and Harry emote to Oprah. Indeed, not only was he unsympathetic, he was pretty sure that Meghan was lying about her travails and he said so out loud. When he said so during his gig on Good Morning Britain, he ended up storming off the set. He then tweeted out more statements supporting his belief that Meghan and Harry were not being honest.

What happened next was cancel culture on steroids – 41,000 people complained to Good Morning Britain about his daring to challenge Meghan. With that, ITV, the station running Good Morning Britain, terminated Morgan. That termination may have had a little help from – Meghan herself. The fabulously wealthy B-television actress and diva who feels free to badmouth the Queen of England, made a formal complaint to ITV because a TV presenter badmouthed her.

Morgan, to his credit, did not bow down to this cancel culture bullying:

In the face of Morgan’s refusal to do the usual grovel that we’ve come to expect from celebrities on the receiving end of the woke mob’s cancel culture, something amazing happened. While 41,000 may have whined about Morgan, over 220,000 people had petitioned for Morgan to be returned to Good Morning Britain.

Those numbers are an excellent and much-needed reminder that cancel culture is driven by a vocal minority. The majority of people who resent it still have the power to push back.

Another example of a pushback came from a teacher in Loudon, Virginia, the county in which the school district was the first to ban Dr. Seuss thanks to a leftist think tank’s insistence that Seuss is an avatar of racism. Just listen to this brave teacher not only pushing back on the unconstitutionally racist Critical Race Theory being pushed on government employees — which is a form of canceling whites.  I hope you enjoy the way in which she hurls it back at the school board: “You are the face of privilege!”

It remains to be seen whether she gets fired, but I’m betting that, if she does, the Loudon County School District will find itself the focus of anti-cancel culture, anti-Critical Race Theory rage.

By the way, if you want to help push back against Critical Race Theory, here’s a good cause: William Clark is a high school senior in Las Vegas. He is biracial, with the “bi” in his racial being black. His mother, also biracial, is raising him alone. William attends a charter school, where he is the student with the lightest skin. The school, therefore, insisted that he denounce himself as a “privileged” “oppressor.” When he refused, the school gave him a failing grade. Instead of taking caving, he sued. You can see his mother on Tucker Carlson here and donate here to help his legal fund. (I did.)

And there’s one more entrant in the category of people pushing back against cancel culture: Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo has a lot of blood on his hands because he insisted on warehousing COVID infected patients in old age homes long after it became clear that doing so was unnecessary (Trump had made enough hospital beds available) and that it turned old age homes into slaughterhouses. It doesn’t matter why he did it; it’s enough that he knowingly, unnecessarily, and cruelly brought about the premature and lonely deaths of thousands of elderly people – and then lied about it afterward.

However, Democrats are afraid to attack him on this ground because it will expose several other governors to impeachment or criminal prosecution (e.g., Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc.). Because he’s a liability, though, they need him gone – and so they’ve rediscovered what everyone has known forever, which is that, like innumerable powerful, Democrat, feminist politicians, he’s a groper and a lech.

And it’s on those grounds, not on manslaughter and dishonesty grounds, that his fellow Democrats are now demanding he resign. What’s so funny is that Cuomo is refusing to resign and, instead, is attacking…cancel culture:

“I did not do what has been alleged. Period,” he said…. “People know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture and the truth.”

When you stop laughing at Cuomo’s defensive use of a Democrat stock-in-trade, think about the fact that, when leftists start calling out and opposing the cancel culture mob, maybe the end really is near.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/maybe_the_pendulum_is_starting_to_swing_on_cancel_culture.html

22-year-old Mehdi, together with others, committed perhaps the most brutal rape in Sweden in recent times. Among other things, the girl was raped with a gun so that her stomach burst and finally – after a whole night – she lay apathetic in a pool of blood. Mehdi is now sentenced to only 200 hours of community service.

On June 19, 2014, an immigrant gang brought a Swedish young girl to a shop in Järvafältet, a park area surrounded by Husby, Rinkeby and Tensta.

There they held the girl down and began to rape her vaginally and orally. It is unclear exactly how many people were raping her, but according to the girl, there were perhaps five to eight men.

When the girl screamed, one of the men, egged on by the others, shoved a pistol or gun-like object into her mouth.

“If you don’t keep quiet, I will kill you,” he said.

After they had finished the repeated rapes, one of the immigrants pressed the gun into the girl’s stomach, causing her to bleed profusely.

Now you should also be able to enjoy, he declared, according to the verdict.

The victim said afterwards that she felt something in her stomach was “broken” and that she thought she was going to die.

Then one of the rapists, together with another unidentified person, dragged the girl into a car and drove her to a basement room in Ljungplan in Rinkeby, where the violent abuse continued.

Under threat of violence, one man raped the bleeding girl orally, while the other raped her vaginally.

Then one of the rapists, together with another unidentified person, dragged the girl into a car and drove her to a basement room in Ljungplan in Rinkeby, where the violent abuse continued.

Under threat of violence, one man raped the bleeding girl orally, while the other raped her vaginally.

Early in the morning the girl was able to call her father and say that she was bleeding and that she was in a basement somewhere in Rinkeby. The father got into the car and drove around looking for his daughter until he finally found her completely bloody.

I can’t imagine a living person feeling worse than her said the father afterwards.

Three immigrants aged 20 were convicted of aggravated rape of the girl in December 2014.

In the spring of 2020, the police managed to identify another perpetrator, who is now 22 years old and lives in Järfälla, but is from the Arab world. He had defrauded several elderly people out of money and was therefore identified in connection with his arrest by the police. The National Forensic Centre, NFC, then received a DNA match that matched the traces from the six-year-old rape case.

Sperm from Mehdi had been found on the girl’s lips, among other things, but only now could he be identified.

Mehdi was sentenced to one year in prison for aggravated rape by the district court in spring. However, the sentence was appealed to the Court of Appeal, which sent the case back to the district court.

Now the new verdict has been handed down in Solna District Court and this time the sentence will be even lower. The 22-year-old is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for aggravated rape.

Admittedly, the District Court states “that the penalty value for the Act, taking into account the legislation in force at the time of the Act, is a prison sentence of 5 years”. However, it is stated that Mehdi was 15 years old at the time of the crime and more than six years have passed since the incident.

“The situation in this case is not quite normal for a 22-year-old person to be convicted of a crime committed when he or she was 15 years old. This means that there is no room to choose one of the special sanctions for juveniles that are otherwise possible, while the grounds for imprisonment or the alternative punishment for imprisonment will no longer be as strong as if Mehdi were still under 18 years old, ” the court writes.

In summary, “the district court finds that the sanction should be set at a suspended sentence and community service”.

Mehdi was granted Swedish citizenship and therefore cannot be deported under current law.

https://www.friatider.se/gruppvaldtog-flicka-tills-hon-nastan-forblodde-slipper-fangelse

Two citizens are annoyed by the muezzin’s call before Friday prayers at a mosque in Herford. That is why they have started a petition. The men have collected over 14,000 signatures. They are handing this petition over to the mayor today. The aim is to ban the muezzin’s call before Friday prayers. The opponents suspect that the call is a call to a caliphate. According to Islam, a caliphate is an empire led by the successor of the Prophet Mohammed. The DitiB community in Herford defends itself against the accusation. The call to prayer is merely an “aesthetically beautiful invitation to believers”.

https://www.rtl.de/cms/muezzin-ruf-stoert-buerger-in-herford-4720820.html

In 2015, a Syrian man, now 18 years old, made his way to Tyrol with his older brother. Since then, he has only attracted positive attention under the care of the child and youth welfare services in the Hall area. He quickly learned the German language and showed an eagerness to learn. Similar to his brother, who was already on his way to independence. Then one evening in September. With a friend, they wanted to buy some marijuana from a Pakistani. When the trio was already walking along, however, the Syrian, who was charged with attempted murder yesterday, grabbed the Pakistani’s mobile phone and made no effort to return it. The then 17-year-old is said to have laughed at attempts to grab the phone from his pocket.

The statements differ. The Pakistani said that during the argument about the mobile phone, the Syrian suddenly and without warning stabbed him seven times with the knife. Because of the bleeding, the Syrian then fled.

The defendant again claimed that he had acted in self-defence. He gave the jury many reasons for this. The physically superior Pakistani first pulled something shiny out of his trousers and repeatedly hindered the Syrian from fleeing. Finally, he pushed him against the wall with the object in his hand and clenched his fist – only then did he take his little knife in his hand and hit the Pakistani. He did not know anything about the stabbing, nor did he know why the Pakistani had been stabbed in the back – including the one that had opened the victim’s chest and thus caused a life-threatening injury.

Possible end of an offence that for public prosecutor Florian Oberhofer was by no means justified self-defence: “All the variants discussed are of an academic nature – there is none in this case!” Self-defence must be a reaction to a present or imminent attack and still be appropriate. Oberhofer: “As soon as the victim turns his back on you, there is no longer a self-defence situation. But three of the stabs were in the back!” Moreover, according to settled case law, the instrument of self-defence does not exist in the course of a scuffle. Finally, the Pakistani could also have been in self-defence because of his mobile phone – and self-defence against self-defence is also not covered by the law.Legally, it was a tough nut to crack for the jury. Their verdict was differentiated. For example, self-defence had been unjustifiably exceeded with intent to injure. What remained was a case of negligent grievous bodily harm of a juvenile (up to three months imprisonment).Legally, it was a tough nut to crack for the jury. Their verdict was differentiated. For example, self-defence had been unjustifiably exceeded with intent to injure. What remained was a case of negligent grievous bodily harm of a juvenile (up to three months imprisonment). One month’s imprisonment was given. The 18-year-old was thus released yesterday evening. Defence lawyer Renner is now considering compensation for the detention.

https://www.tt.com/artikel/30783995/angeklagter-mordversuch-aber-nur-ein-monat-haft-wegen-koerperverletzung