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Some delectable Dreherbait to cheer you up
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I have been paying so much attention to the coronavirus and the Pink Bernie news this week that I have shamefully neglected to serve up some Dreherbait hot dish. Hey, I can fix that!

Item: wealthy school for the children of New York liberal elite blows itself up with psychotic wokeness. Miranda Devine has the story:

For some parents, concerns were crystallized when Fieldston students became aware that a YouTube video, “Secrets of the Living Dolls,” featured a new member of the faculty, a self-described “large black man” with a fetish for dressing up as a “sexy white woman” in a lifelike latex mask and breasts.

Looky-looky:

Can’t imagine why folks would not want a freak like that teaching their kids. More:

“I’ve fought for LGBT issues,” says one Fieldston parent, “but this is indicative of the weird things happening around the school which are rooted around intersectionality and an obsession about identity politics and race.”

A school insider says the video “bothers a particular group of parents, but in the hierarchy of problems at the school, I don’t consider this to be a particularly big one.”

Oh, do they ever have other issues. More:

One of the most contentious issues at Fieldston has been the introduction of affinity groups, separating children by race.

The groups “are rooted in a ­sociological model of whiteness that completely disregards the lived Jewish experience and, for a community with an above-average population of second- and third- and even first-generation Jews, that was deeply problematic,” said one insider.

“There are relationships with the school that will never be repaired. It really represented a turning point in the trajectory of the school and uncovered a degree of anti-Semitism that Fieldston [previously] has been immune from.”

A mother says the groups were a “pretext … They take kids of color and make them angry … It is the start of the blame culture. White people are to blame. The poison is far-reaching.”

Fieldston is paralyzed by “wokeness,” the mother says.

You have to read the whole thing to find out how the school reacted when Donald Trump was elected president. Oh, and guess what I learned from the school’s website:

2019–2020 tuition for all grades, Pre-K–12: $52,993

Learning to hate yourself and other people in a politically progressive way, and to be taught by pervs, does not come cheap.

This item is not actually funny in any way — it’s just sick. The Hollywood Reporter writes about a new film that is causing controversy. Excerpts:

Landing under the auspices of the Berlinale’s newly introduced Encounters strand aimed at fostering “aesthetically and structurally daring works,” The Trouble With Being Born, having its world premiere Thursday, could well end up being the most daring — not to mention divisive — film in a festival not known for holding back on provocation.

The second feature from Austrian director Sandra Wollner, the drama — which was already named one of the Berlinale 2020’s weirdest films based on the synopsis alone — begins gently enough, with a young girl lazing by a pool under the summer sun, discussing memories of her mother with her loving father. But as the scenes unravel it becomes clear that all is not as innocent as it first seemed.

Despite a remarkably lifelike appearance, the child — Elli — is actually an android, her memories programmed. And it doesn’t take long to realize that there’s something else to her relationship with this very human, very middle-aged man she calls “Daddy.”

Much of the nocturnal activity is only implied (perhaps leading many to question the depths of their own imagination), but there are moments where there’s absolutely no doubt as to the rather envelope-pushing direction the film is taking.

Read it all. This film is normalizing sex with children.

Speaking of, here’s the third and final item. Take a look at this TikTok video, taken at a “drag brunch” in Toronto earlier this month. The drag queen is Tynomi Banks, the nom de drag of Sheldon McIntosh:

That poor kid. What the hell is wrong with those adults standing around watching this? What kind of men are those, just sitting there? Disgusting, the lot, sexualizing children like this.

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