Juan did a crappy job of it but what can you do?
Posted on 05/04/2025 4:26:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every now and then, a self-published work makes its way from vanity-press oblivion into currency and actual social relevance. Off Course, a 188-page soft-cover read from the keyboard of seasoned newspaper scribe Judy Berkley, is one such gem — or at least should be. It’s a clear, fact-based glimpse inside the toney, insular world of equestrian competition riven by wokeness.
Berkley, a long-time columnist with The Oakland Tribune and a nationally known horsewoman and author, offers her credible, first-person insight into how the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) succumbed to the DIE (or DEI)/CRT metastasis. USEF, which is the nation’s National Governing Body for Olympic horse-related matters, boasts a membership of over 200,000, including some of the wealthiest and most politically influential families and businesses in the nation.
Berkley details how USEF was overcome by speech codes, racial and sex-based preferences, anti-white indoctrination, and the promotion of black and LGBTQ agendas. Berkley’s deft chronicle explains how DIE/CRT “poured forth from academia” following the death of George Floyd, resulting in the “denigration and erasure [of] white history,” as America was deluged with the culture-changing “language of the woke and the pent-up rage of marginalized people.” Berkley welcomes us to the arena of unbridled “microaggressions,” “code shifting,” and “cultural appropriations” as she traces the Marxist roots of DIE/CRT from American universities to the insular world of neatly groomed paddocks, pastures, and barns.
Specifically, Berkley details how USEF, headquartered in Lexington, Ky., absurdly retained the services of a University of Kentucky African American Studies professor as an “external thought leader” (political officer?) to inculcate its membership with the guilt of white privilege via an insidious “Inclusion Playbook.” That “Playbook” includes a “trans inclusion messaging toolkit” that is rife with unapologetic Marxist dogma:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
For quite a while several years ago I used to go out the SC equine park which is open to anyone.
Pretty much everyone was nice and were ok with taking photos and video of the horses and petting them when asking permission.
I got a decent amount of stock footage from there.
Ancient HD format but most of it upscales to 4k nicely and I resubmit the enhanced versions.
They’re wonderful animals!
One of my aunts is a major league horse person and keeps a couple despite her age and being a widow.
I always liked horses and animals in general and they tend to like me. Most of the time I would rather hang around with a dog, cat, or a horse than people these days.
Here is a remastered HD to 4k stock clip of them.
https://stock.adobe.com/video/a-horse-picks-at-another-horse/1313256546
I doubt if this will go over in the cowboy style Western Dressage horse shows. Olympic horse shows, possible.
Not much woke around draft horses either.
Which mag was that?
I think this was the article:
““We Need To Bring Joy, Power, and Queerness Back to Agriculture”
Historically, BIPOC and queer folks have been pushed out of agriculture. At Rise & Root Farm, co-owner Michaela Hayes-Hodge is working hard to change that.”
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/rise-and-root-farm-michaela-hayes-hodge
Ahhh...was thinking it might be Cooks Illustrated....which announced its support of wokism awhile back.
Reminds me of an article I read in a psychology book on sex perversions back in the early 1980s. Wish I could remember the title of the book.
It dealt with a backwoods Arkansas boy whose mom had died when he was born and he was raised by his dad and uncles. No women in his life.
Upon being drafted it was noticed he had no interest in the women so they gave him the test to see if he was homosexual.
First photos of sexy women, no reaction, then photos of men, again no reaction.
They could not figure him out till one physician showed him photos of young heifer cows. Instant reaction!
I actually read this back then at a university library. Again I do not remember the name of the book. I have been called a liar for saying this but I DID read it back then.
I remember things I read when I was 5-6 yrs old. So many things are scrubbed from the internet now or have dropped so far down in time it would take months to come across the article.
Juan did a crappy job of it but what can you do?
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