The Week in Woke

Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP

Your terms are acceptable.

Only a brokebrain AWFUL would think that she has leverage over a conservative by arguing for less sexualization of young girls. Um, you're the Groomers who tell young girls to start giving blowjobs at age 12.

John Podhoretz
@jpodhoretz

The Jill Filipovic tweet about elective surgery is a landmark. It reveals as few things ever have what life inside the left-liberal bubble is like as those inside imagine they understand the non-liberal perspective and think they know how to trip it up, when the opposite is true

This may shock you, but yet another Hate Crime Hoax massively advertised by the left-wing anti-civilization media has proven to be entirely fictitious.

The media will provide no apologies or explanations for once again inciting racial hatred against whites and encouraging mass violence by the left.

T. Becket Adams:

Hate crime hoaxes are nothing new, but during the "woke" overcorrection of the late teens and early 2020s, when Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer, Sports Illustrated put a man on the cover of a swimsuit issue, and everyone pretended to enjoy "Hamilton," they reached heretofore unimaginable heights.

Consider the 2021 incident in Plano, Texas, where a white teenager, Asher Vann, was accused of "torturing" a black classmate, SeMarion Humphrey.

It was a shocking story, full of cruelty and racial animus.

It was also a total fiction.

It was March 2021 when Humphrey's mother, Summer Smith, alleged that Vann shot her son with BBs, slapped him, called him racial slurs, and even forced him to drink urine. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Dallas Morning News were among the first to jump on the story, each eager to report on the supposed indignities suffered by a black teen at the hands of an evidently racist white Texan. A leader of a Black Lives Matter-affiliated group claimed that Humphrey had been "tortured for hours." The NAACP organized marches. Vann was doxxed, and protesters gathered outside his home.

Smith, who described Vann as "evil," made the rounds on the networks. Her attorney, Kim Cole, launched a GiveSendGo campaign "to help with the expenses of therapy and private schooling" for Humphrey. The campaign, featured on Good Morning America, raised an impressive $120,000.

This was five years ago.

On Jan. 22 of this year, a Texas district court judge ordered Smith and Cole to pay $3.2 million in damages to Vann. The decision followed a jury's finding last year that the duo had fabricated the story and "intentionally inflicted severe emotional distress" on the young man.

As for the online donations, Humphrey's mother bogarted them. Of the $120,000 raised, only $1,000 went towards her son's schooling. Much of the rest was spent on luxury items, including "a designer dog, dining and travel, beauty products, liquor, vapes, cell phones, car payments, and rent," according to a Washington Free Beacon review of account statements.

As for Vann, he's now in college and moving on with his life, having spent the past five years weathering death threats and doxxing attempts.

Lastly, as for the media outlets that were so eager to promote the Humphrey hoax, none of them have published follow-up reports mentioning either the 2025 jury decision or the damages awarded by the Texas judge. Vann also told the Free Beacon that none of the news outlets that amplified Smith's allegations ever contacted him for comment. Not even once.

Read the whole thing.

Whatever you do, White Devils, you must always give black people the benefit of the doubt. Of course, black people do not owe you the same benefit of the doubt, Colonizers. You see, you can tell who the "oppressed" and the "oppressors" are, because the "oppressed" have special, state- and culture-enforced privileges, and the "oppressors" have special, state- and culture-enforced disadvantages.

Wait, what?

A woman in leftist-dominated Brazil is facing jail for saying, very controversially, that men cannot be women.

Is there some hope that the nation may return to sanity?

Maybe.

Surprising Revival: Gen Z Men & Highly Educated Lead Return to Religion

By Joel Kotkin & Bheki Mahlobo, RealClearInvestigations

The decline of religion remains a fundamental reality in most Western countries, particularly in Europe, where over 50% of those under age 40 do not identify with any faith. Even in more religious America, some estimate that as many as 100,000 churches will close in the near future. Meanwhile, the ranks of "Nones," those outside religious communities, have grown so large that their numbers rival those of Catholics and evangelical Protestants.

Yet, as we document in a new report for the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy, there are signs that religion is enjoying more than a nascent revival. Data emerging from the 2020s suggest that we are witnessing a complex spiritual restructuring that intersects with economic mobility, demographic resilience, and a profound intellectual realignment.

For the first time in decades, Pew Research notes, in the U.S. at least, Christianity has stopped its nosedive as more people begin to see the efficacy, and the rewards, of religious faith and practice.

This fragile development is especially noteworthy as it exposes growing divides and fault lines in American politics and culture. Drawing on a vast array of longitudinal studies, interviews, and other sources, one startling finding in both America and abroad is that, contrary to past assertions, today the faithful are not poor and ignorant but increasingly from the educated upper middle class.

Even the cognitive elites are experiencing a growing trend to embrace religious activity. Indeed, in a rebuke of the aggressive New Atheism of the early 2000s advanced by thought leaders such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, a counter-movement appears to be growing among scientists, philosophers, and public intellectuals who view religious tradition not as a delusion to be eradicated but as a sustainable civilizational operating system.

As our politics splinter along gender -- with women increasingly forming the base for Democrats and men, for Republicans -- it is men who are leading the return to church. Reversing a 25-year-long trend, men reported higher church attendance than women in 2025. This growing divide may continue to separate men and women, with grave implications at a time when rates of marriage and parenthood are declining.

Even in places where religion continues to decline, the remaining faithful are shifting away from more liberal faiths to those hewing closer to traditional values. For many, more orthodox sects provide existential security and create a sustainable sense of community.

As our report makes clear, the budding religious revival taking place in the U.S. reflects a global trend, especially strong in Africa, which is now the most demographically robust place on the planet.

The implications and promise of this trend cannot be overstated. Data show that religious communities function as potent engines of human capital accumulation, risk mitigation, and social capital. These mechanisms effectively propel adherents up the socioeconomic ladder.

Mamdani is threatening to jack up property tax rates by nearly 10%. (9.5%.) Homeowners, including the black ones (note that Mamdani's communist advisor on rent says she wants to punish white property owners, but conceded that black property owners would be acceptable collateral damage) are now attacking Mamdani for this betrayal.

A transgender state rep from Minnesota -- where else would he have come from? -- says that we should not impose age-verification blocks on porn sites because children might find the hardcore deviant porn "educational if they are queer."

A further milestone in queer education:

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

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JUST IN: Sec of War Pete Hegseth confirms the male teacher at Fort Bragg who identifies as a transgender wolf has been FIRED

He allegedly engaged in s*xual inappropriate behavior in class, wore women's clothing, a dog collar, and an animal tail, and told children he turns into a wolf at night while making them howl

Thank you @SecWar!!

Cultural Enrichment Update:

2 illegal alien 'perverts' allegedly sodomized, beat, ripped fingernails off male victim in NC home invasion

Jonathan David Garcia-Larios was previously deported in 2024

EXCLUSIVE: The two men arrested in an atrocious North Carolina home invasion last week have been identified as criminal illegal aliens from Mexico who allegedly terrorized a male victim by sodomizing and beating him and ripping out his fingernails, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News Digital on Thursday.

The overnight ambush, which Pitt County authorities said involved at least three male suspects, occurred in a quiet Greenville suburb last Wednesday.

"Two heinous criminals broke into the victim's home and used a sharp, edged weapon and restrained him against his will," DHS said, citing local outlet Reflector.

"This is a real-life nightmare. Burglarizing, kidnapping, assaulting, and sodomizing, and ripping off the fingernails of an innocent victim are extremely wicked and heinous," Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin added in a statement.

The two undocumented immigrants were identified as 21-year-old Chapel Hill resident Zaid Mayen and 20-year-old Jonathan David Garcia-Larios, a homeless man who was previously deported from the U.S. in 2024. They were arrested last Friday with the assistance of the U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement.

Authorities noted that the suspects entered the U.S. at an unknown date and time.

DHS added that the "two sexual perverts and violent thugs" unleashed a series of horrific attacks despite having no known criminal record in the U.S.

"Zaid Mayen-Esteban and Jonathan David Garcia-Larios should have never been in this country. Prior to this heinous act, these illegal aliens had no criminal record in the U.S," McLaughlin said.

"Under Secretary Noem's leadership we are not waiting for illegal aliens to commit crimes before we target them for arrest and removal. We pray for the continued recovery of this innocent victim."

The unnamed victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment of injuries and "thankfully survived," DHS said.

Fox hails this as an "exclusive" -- but of course it's an exclusive. The leftwing propaganda networks absolutely refuse to report on illegal alien crime.

Oh myyyy:

A black judge cut the sentence of a black defendant in half because... well, because as a "black man," he had experienced oppression.

This particular oppressed black man kidnapped a woman, forced her to suck his dick at gunpoint, then forced her to take money out of her account at an ATM.

But he's a black man, so he gets a free rape here and there. He did rape the woman twice, and she cut his sentence in half, so I assume she's giving him one freebie rape.

Street reparations!

Incredible.

A Louisville judge cut a convicted rapist's prison sentence from 65 years down to 30 years. In response, Metro Council Republicans say they'll be releasing judicial records so voters can know more about these elected judges.

Christopher Thompson was found guilty of kidnapping a woman, sexually assaulting her in a school parking lot, before forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM at gunpoint. After that, he assaulted her again.

Thompson came before Judge Tracy Davis.

"Regardless of what the media thinks, regardless of what anyone thinks, I apply the law," Davis said. "I do not judge people before they walk before me."

Councilwoman Crystal Bast represents the Pleasure Ridge Park neighborhood where Thompson kidnapped the woman, then raped and robbed her at gunpoint.

"And I am beyond pissed that this judge did this," Bast said. "What example does that set?"

In light of the lighter sentence, Metro Council Republican leader Anthony Piagentini says he will publish records of Jefferson County judges on a website.

"We have asked for judicial transparency," Piagentini said. "We're going to be asking questions of the clerk of the court, get the data, and get it out to the voters."

...

Davis, elected to her seat on the bench, had the authority to cut down the sentence. The judge said Thompson never had mental health or anger management treatment.

"Unfortunately, he fell through the cracks," Davis said. "I truly hope that you get what you need while incarcerated."

At his sentencing, Thompson said he didn't commit the crime. LMPD connected him to it through DNA evidence.

Two maddening things:

Even as she's claiming this repeat rapist isn't beyond rehabilitation, he's talking over her saying "I don't care" and "I don't care about the victim, boo hoo."

And the judge also issues a Respecc My Authoritah statement, telling the public that while she may face critics, she is in charge of "the pen" and Almighty She will say what the law is.