Posted on 10/24/2019 9:05:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Back in June, Scott reported on the embarrassment on live TV of feminist celebrity author Naomi Wolf (“Death Recorded Live“), in which it was revealed that her forthcoming book Outrages, which alleged that 19th century Britain executed homosexuals on a prodigious scale, was based on a misunderstanding of a legal term so simple that an undergraduate should have spotted it. I wrote separately at the same time that “I suspect the book will be canceled entirely, or at least pulped in its current form and rewritten for low-profile release next year.”
The book had already been published in Britain at the time of her TV takedown, but today Wolf’s American publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has canceled the American edition entirely.
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Algore 1.0 wanted to upgrade to Algore 2.0 — Master Alpha.
ECSO identifies man who took his own life while live streaming:
https://weartv.com/news/local/ecso-identifies-man-who-took-his-own-life-while-live-streaming
Here it is:
Did the Victorians execute dozens of men for sodomy?…[O]ld people across Britain choked on their cocoa as Wolf plugged her book Outrages on BBC Radio. Wolf, having visited the archives of the Old Bailey, London’s chief court, claims to have discovered “several dozen executions” of gay men in Victorian Britain, and has written a book about how awful the Victorians were.The truth, host and historian Matthew Sweet explained to Wolf in an excruciating interview, is the opposite. The verdict “Death recorded,” which Wolf takes as proof of execution, was created in 1823 to allow judges to abstain pronouncing a death sentence. Worse, one of the men that Wolf describes as an “executed” victim of Victorian homophobia was prosecuted, and not executed, for raping a child.
This concern with facts is a historical artifact of dead white slaveholders.
Today’s superwomen need not be concerned with such things!
I wish the article had mentioned what Wolf’s key misunderstanding WAS. There’s a lot of lousy journalism going on these days.
A lot of written history is absolute garbage.
Recall Michael Bellesiles and his book about gun control in early America (”Arming America”). He just made stuff up. When called on it, he basically said that he lost his notes, or something.
He was even going to grow cornrows, and change his name to Chakra Can.
Of course the American release was cancelled entirely.
The error was like complaining how many felons were subject to undue sentences on the understanding that “time served” really meant the convicted had been incarcerated for all legally applicable jail time - when instead it practically means “little/no time actually imprisoned”.
I guess she had never heard of Oscar Wilde.
well worth listening to the actual radio clip (7 minutes) in which an interviewer actually asks a left wing celebrity a difficult question, and not only that did some research beforehand:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07b881f
That gruesome kiss at the convention sealed his fate on that count.
Of course women born since then, have no context.
(Oscar Wilde's) trial ended with the jury unable to reach a verdict. Three weeks later, Wilde was retried. This time, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and received two years of hard labor, "the maximum sentence allowed for the crime."Wouldn't it have been much more logical for Wolf to find out the maximum sentence allowed for the crime?
Gore ingesting Tipper’s face at the 2000 Demvention is cringeworthy to this day, as is Naomi Wolf’s assertion that burkas free Muslim women from “the oppression of the male gaze”.
Went to NW’s Wikipedia page; she is still nuttier than a fruitcake, so much so that even `third wave’ feminists can’t stand her.
Some people just don’t think.
Either that or they don’t have the ability to see how their actions will look to others.
In some instances, clearly both.
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