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Re: WSJ: If you must talk about race, be gracious
« Reply #800 on: December 29, 2020, 06:03:00 AM »
"racism still exists but it is no longer systemic"

 - You are not allowed to say that in much of America.
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WSJ: Woodson
« Reply #801 on: January 18, 2021, 08:46:25 AM »
Woodson in the WSJ. This is some quality writing IMHO:
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The civil-rights movement, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , helped deliver America from the historic sins of slavery and Jim Crow by forcing the nation to confront the full humanity of its black citizens. King’s words and actions glorified America by transfiguring its racial wound and revealing its redemptive promise.

Yet today many black leaders have lost sight of King altogether and are aiding and abetting the crucifixion of their own people. Rather than hope, they see despair; rather than the Easter Sunday of true liberation, they offer the bleak Good Friday of never-ending misery.
The history of black American responses to slavery and Jim Crow generally followed three paths. They were hotly debated, but all emphasized human agency, sought liberation, and rejected despair.

First, there were the recolonization or “back to Africa” movements championed by the likes of Marcus Garvey. These movements sought an exit from America.

Second, there were the insurrectionists of the 19th century, who believed that black Americans should engage in armed rebellion or vocal opposition so that they might find a home in this country. Here lie Nat Turner and, later, W.E.B. Du Bois. They wanted to have their resistant voice heard in America.

Third, there were accommodationist movements of the sort undertaken by Booker T. Washington, who thought that loyalty to America was the best course.

Exit, voice, loyalty—however different these strategies were, each supposed that human agency mattered, that oppression wasn’t destiny. That is why, even amid great struggle, black Americans responded by building their own institutions and businesses. Great universities, medical schools, hotels, restaurants, movie companies and even a flight school sprung up. All of this was self-financed—and made possible by two-parent families, churches and other cultural institutions that provided shelter against the outside storm of racism.
In the 20th century, that same creative conflict between these three schools of thought reappeared. Debaters included the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panther Party and the Republic of New Africa, which sought to establish a separate black state within our borders as an exit strategy.

King offered an inspiring combination of the strategies of loyalty and voice. In 1960, when students in Greensboro, N.C., became frustrated with the slow pace of legal action favored by Thurgood Marshall, King was sent to discourage them from engaging in civil disobedience. The students told King to lead, follow or get out of the way. They were determined to liberate themselves. They understood the difficulties and were undeterred by the obstacles. Like King, they were willing to persevere toward justice even when it was inconvenient, and to suffer the consequences of their actions. Hope, not hopelessness, animated all that they did.

King paid a heavy personal price for his hope that America was redeemable. Twice his home was bombed; once, his wife and daughter were nearly killed. Surrounded by hundreds of angry, armed black men after that bombing, he discouraged retaliatory violence. He was assaulted several times, and jailed as well, but he remained steadfast in his commitment to nonviolence. He united black Americans behind the proposition that racism is evil in itself, not simply because white people visited it upon blacks, and that all must unite to combat evil. He warned us about the self-destructive path of violence, not only for blacks but for the whole nation.

One of the original arguments to justify slavery was that blacks were morally inferior and thus incapable of self-government. John C. Calhoun famously asserted: “There is no instance of any civilized colored race of any shade being found equal to the establishment and maintenance of free government.” Black efforts at self-liberation in the 19th and 20th centuries were based on the opposite assumption.
Today many black leaders defer to angry white progressives who make the same arguments about blacks’ lack of moral agency, reject the country’s founding principles, and seek to undermine its institutions. For months, the radical left has been exploiting the country’s genuine concern for fairness to keep blacks in a constant state of agitation, anger and grievance, urging them toward behavior that lives down to the slanderous stereotypes of white supremacists. The leaders of these movements insist that every inequity suffered by blacks is caused by institutional and structural racism, that they have no power to liberate themselves, and that they will remain oppressed until white people change. Even to raise the issue of what role self-determination plays for blacks earns you the label of “racist.”

Civil-rights organizations and their leadership, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus, need to wake up before it’s too late. A faction of black leaders has been silent about, or complicit in, the takeover of the civil-rights movement by the radical left. The effect of this is not to glorify black achievement but to crucify low-income blacks, who are represented in national media outlets by their worst-behaved members, and bear the brunt of the attacks by the woke radical left on the cities where they live.

“Justice” for black America cannot be achieved by framing it solely through the distorted lens of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others in fatal police encounters. For every unarmed black American killed by the police, hundreds are killed in neighborhood homicides.

Those who call for the defunding of police departments, such as leaders of the official Black Lives Matter organization, are silent about this inconvenient truth. They have a narrative and cannot let the facts get in the way. Their story is that the whole of American history is stained and the whole of America must be overthrown. When citizens declare that they support Black Lives Matter, do they share its opposition to the nuclear family, its objective of abolishing the police, and its view that the Christian cross is a symbol of white supremacy? These positions of the organization—language that has largely been scrubbed from its website—in no way improve the lives of black Americans. They give up on black America and encourage its needless suffering.

Like all Americans, blacks have triumphed over their circumstances only when they have adopted bourgeois virtues such as hard work, respect for learning, self-discipline, faith and personal responsibility. In the 19th century, Frederick Douglass found reading to be the key to his own personal liberation amid slavery, and he understood that whites deliberately withheld literacy from blacks precisely because it was so valuable. Bourgeois values drove blacks to build the powerful religious, fraternal, and other voluntary associations that helped them thrive in the worst days of Jim Crow and cultivated the essential virtues in the next generation.

There would have been no civil-rights movement without this. But radical progressives now insist that such virtues are the legacy of white supremacy, colonialist values that reflect the continuing bondage of blacks to oppressive Western culture. The only “authentic” expression of blackness in America, they claim, is the opposite of bourgeois self-restraint and discipline—indulging in the passions of the moment, whether anarchic rioting, insulting teachers or other unsalutary forms of expression. The radical left—disdaining exhortations toward work, family and faith as “respectability politics”—argues that blacks should feel free to indulge their “true” nature, echoing the age-old white-supremacist notion that said nature is violent, lascivious and incapable of self-restraint.

The slave masters’ trick of old was to dissuade blacks from adopting bourgeois values precisely so they could be kept in servitude. Marriage was forbidden and families were split apart.

Douglass observed that slaves were encouraged to indulge in drink and debauchery during the holidays so they would be “led to think that there was little to choose between liberty and slavery. We felt, and very properly too, that we had almost as well be slaves to man as to rum. So, when the holidays ended, we staggered up from the filth of our wallowing, took a long breath, and marched to the field—feeling, upon the whole, rather glad to go, from what our master had deceived us into a belief was freedom, back to the arms of slavery.”

But there were always those who saw through the trick and used the holidays to hunt, make items for sale, visit distant family members, and hire out their own labor. Some of these were even able—eventually—to purchase their freedom.

Tellingly, leftist elites teach their own children the values of working and studying hard even as they encourage behavior among blacks that will make sure they remain uncompetitive but “authentic.” By the time young blacks today discover, as did the slaves of Douglass’s time, that freedom understood as “do whatever you feel like” is no way to build a worthwhile life, it will be too late. The fruits of the civil-rights movement’s hard labor—teaching the young to be so self-disciplined that they were able to resist responding in kind to hatred and abuse from whites—will have been lost.

We must turn away from the present course, which preaches despair rather than hope. Black achievement must be glorified. The crucifixion of black America by the radical left must halt. There is a grander, more fruitful future for us all.

Mr. Woodson, a veteran of the civil-rights movement, is founder and president of the Woodson Center and author, most recently, of “Lessons From the Least of These: The Woodson Principles.” Mr. Mitchell is a Washington Fellow at the Claremont Center for the American Way of Life and author of “American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time.”


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Charles Murray gets bolder yet
« Reply #803 on: March 05, 2021, 11:27:08 AM »
Charles Murray's Brave New Book
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Tuesday of this week marked the four-year anniversary of one of the most shameful episodes in the modern history of the American university. It happened at Middlebury College in Vermont, where political scientist, author, and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was, as The Wall Street Journal put it, "shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually."

Murray was ultimately taken to another location on campus, but not before Allison Stanger, a Middlebury professor who escorted him away, was injured and sent to the hospital. (And we're told students need safe spaces?)

Murray, a libertarian, has been a favorite whipping boy of the Left since the 1994 publication of his book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. As Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, writes, "[The book] has very little to say about race. But it argues that a considerable portion of intelligence — 40 to 80 percent — is heritable; and it also argues that intelligence tests are generally reliable. Those ideas irritate people who have a deep investment in three beliefs: extreme human plasticity; the social origins of inequality; and the possibility of engineering our institutions to create complete social justice."

No wonder the infantile little Maoists at Middlebury got so riled up. Their target, though, whom Power Line's John Hinderaker dubbed "the bravest man in America," has been undeterred.

Murray has a new book coming out on June 15 titled Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America. In it, he takes on the twin leftist cudgels of "white privilege" and "systemic racism," and he does so by exploring what he calls "two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt" — namely, that our nation's major racial and ethnic groups have different rates of violent crime and different means and distributions of cognitive ability.

Why would Murray want to explore such a sensitive topic? Perhaps, as George Mallory once replied when asked why he wanted to climb Everest, "Because it's there."

"America's most precious ideal," says the book's description on Amazon, "is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation."

The lie that must be repudiated, however, is that the U.S. is a nation irredeemably shot through with racism and white privilege. As Hinderaker points out, "As of 2018 Census Bureau data, whites are 17th among ethnic groups in median income, trailing not only just about every Asian minority, including Iranians and Pakistanis, but also African immigrant groups like Nigerian-Americans and Ghanian-Americans. The case for American 'white supremacy' is ludicrously weak, but it may be a capital offense to point that fact out."

It'll be interesting to see whether Jeff Bezos and his fellow book-banners at Amazon have the guts to keep Charles Murray's book listed on their website.

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Re: Charles Murray gets bolder yet
« Reply #804 on: March 05, 2021, 02:48:37 PM »
Funny how math being white supremacy and all, has Indians and Chinese dominating the subject.


Charles Murray's Brave New Book
Douglas Andrews


Tuesday of this week marked the four-year anniversary of one of the most shameful episodes in the modern history of the American university. It happened at Middlebury College in Vermont, where political scientist, author, and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was, as The Wall Street Journal put it, "shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually."

Murray was ultimately taken to another location on campus, but not before Allison Stanger, a Middlebury professor who escorted him away, was injured and sent to the hospital. (And we're told students need safe spaces?)

Murray, a libertarian, has been a favorite whipping boy of the Left since the 1994 publication of his book, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. As Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, writes, "[The book] has very little to say about race. But it argues that a considerable portion of intelligence — 40 to 80 percent — is heritable; and it also argues that intelligence tests are generally reliable. Those ideas irritate people who have a deep investment in three beliefs: extreme human plasticity; the social origins of inequality; and the possibility of engineering our institutions to create complete social justice."

No wonder the infantile little Maoists at Middlebury got so riled up. Their target, though, whom Power Line's John Hinderaker dubbed "the bravest man in America," has been undeterred.

Murray has a new book coming out on June 15 titled Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America. In it, he takes on the twin leftist cudgels of "white privilege" and "systemic racism," and he does so by exploring what he calls "two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt" — namely, that our nation's major racial and ethnic groups have different rates of violent crime and different means and distributions of cognitive ability.

Why would Murray want to explore such a sensitive topic? Perhaps, as George Mallory once replied when asked why he wanted to climb Everest, "Because it's there."

"America's most precious ideal," says the book's description on Amazon, "is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation."

The lie that must be repudiated, however, is that the U.S. is a nation irredeemably shot through with racism and white privilege. As Hinderaker points out, "As of 2018 Census Bureau data, whites are 17th among ethnic groups in median income, trailing not only just about every Asian minority, including Iranians and Pakistanis, but also African immigrant groups like Nigerian-Americans and Ghanian-Americans. The case for American 'white supremacy' is ludicrously weak, but it may be a capital offense to point that fact out."

It'll be interesting to see whether Jeff Bezos and his fellow book-banners at Amazon have the guts to keep Charles Murray's book listed on their website.

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bell curve
« Reply #805 on: March 05, 2021, 03:36:41 PM »
"Funny how math being white supremacy and all, has Indians and Chinese dominating the subject."

I actually owned the book at one time but only read part of it

the races in terms of intellectual abilities

with extreme overlaps
ranked this was
   Asians  top
   Whites middle
   Blacks  bottom

I know Blacks who are far smarter then me
and Asians who are not

I can't vouch for intelligence but to deny racial differences in sport is just stupid:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1290809-lemaitre-why-it-matters-the-fastest-white-man-on-earth-is-well-white

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Re: bell curve
« Reply #806 on: March 05, 2021, 04:53:10 PM »
https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

"Funny how math being white supremacy and all, has Indians and Chinese dominating the subject."

I actually owned the book at one time but only read part of it

the races in terms of intellectual abilities

with extreme overlaps
ranked this was
   Asians  top
   Whites middle
   Blacks  bottom

I know Blacks who are far smarter then me
and Asians who are not

I can't vouch for intelligence but to deny racial differences in sport is just stupid:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1290809-lemaitre-why-it-matters-the-fastest-white-man-on-earth-is-well-white

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Sen. Cotton trolls Gupta
« Reply #807 on: March 13, 2021, 04:57:23 AM »

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Re: Asking about race should be illegal
« Reply #809 on: May 12, 2021, 06:45:57 AM »
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/11/why-asking-about-race-should-be-illegal/

Right.  First question on a mortgage application is race.  FAFSA student loans, same. First question should be content of your character per MLK.  BLM and 'woke' have taken us 180 degrees in opposite direction, which is all wrong.  Enhanced race awareness is the problem, not the solution. More important than race is whether you pay your bills, show up to work on time, or in tennis, can he or she hit a second serve with spin and accuracy, not color of skin.

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The race question is on every state medical license application

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quote author=ccp
"The race question is on every state medical license application."

Because nothing is more relevant to medical care than race?? 
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Are these graphs about race or about education?



Why are we measuring individuals by group?  Race is one way to group people.  Another might be the education of the parents.  Number of parents in the home.  Curfew time on school nights.  Hours spent on homework.  Nutrition, sugar intake or how many eat a full serving of vegetable with dinner.  But no.  It's ALL about race.

The group we rightly worry about is called underperforming children, not people of color.  Also proven in the graph is that many blacks and Hispanics are doing well.  Interesting that Asians (also not one group) are people of color, people facing hate according to the left, and are out-performing whites.  IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE.

Even if you accept this artificial frame of thinking, an educator's reaction to it should be: 

How can we raise the line for ALL these groups?  Movement toward equalization would happen far better if the emphasis were on all the other factors, not the thing you can't do anything about.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bpr-y9yo0E

This is one scary politician. 

"...Because if you're going to come to this table, all of you who have aspirations of running for office. If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come, because we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don't want to be a black voice. We don't need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don't want to be a queer voice. If you’re worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don't even show up because we need you to represent that voice."

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Well, that was flagrant , , ,

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Well, that was flagrant , , ,

It was revealing.  Gaffe for a Leftist is when they reveal what they really believe.  Stay in your lane, you people of color.  Don't wander off.  Don't have a fresh point of view.  We don't need another viewpoint.  Agree with us of STFU. What could be more demeaning. 

What I think it means is that black conservative have finally hit a nerve, reached critical mass.  The Left can feel it.  They're losing ownership of blacks and minorities, finally.

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Interesting time graph of abolitions around the world, all seems to start with some Americans declaring all men are created equal and their rights come from God.

https://amac.us/the-graph-that-shatters-crt-july-4-1776-set-slavery-on-the-path-to-worldwide-extinction/

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Nice find!

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Interesting time graph of abolitions around the world, all seems to start with some Americans declaring all men are created equal and their rights come from God.

https://amac.us/the-graph-that-shatters-crt-july-4-1776-set-slavery-on-the-path-to-worldwide-extinction/

Still lots of slavery in Africa and the Islamic world. Funny how that avoids mention so often.

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Origin of Critical Race Theory?
« Reply #821 on: July 09, 2021, 11:24:49 AM »
https://babylonbee.com/news/mounting-evidence-indicates-critical-race-theory-escaped-from-a-lab-in-a-college-humanities-department/

Babylon Bee is looking into the possibility that this weapon escaped from a lab on an American college campus.

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Re: Origin of Critical Race Theory?
« Reply #822 on: July 09, 2021, 11:41:13 AM »
Funded by China!


https://babylonbee.com/news/mounting-evidence-indicates-critical-race-theory-escaped-from-a-lab-in-a-college-humanities-department/

Babylon Bee is looking into the possibility that this weapon escaped from a lab on an American college campus.


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White Supremacy is the biggest problem we face?!
« Reply #824 on: July 14, 2021, 05:53:16 AM »
White Supremacy is the biggest problem we face?! 

Even though we can only identify a hundred of them in a nation of 330 million.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/02/20/where-is-all-the-white-supremacy-stuff-bill-oreilly-debunks-dem-claims-with-cold-hard-facts-1032784/

... DoJ data showing that in all of 2019, there were only five federal cases brought against alleged white supremacists. In 2020 there were just five more cases brought against suspected white supremacists.
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The problem is all inside their own head.  They think all conservatives are racist because they don't want to give blacks special treatment.  Conservatives don't recognize the inadequacies that liberals see in blacks, like being unable to do math or show ID.  Conservatives think blacks will do fine by just being given basic levels of educational and economic freedom, like school choice, free markets and limited government.  Those who believe that strongly are dangerous!  More dangerous than Islamic jihad.  More dangerous than Chinese expansionism.  More dangerous to think blacks perfectly capable than to continue policies that bring us 200 shootings per weekend in Chicago.

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Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks
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The Lawyers Cartel pushes for Woke Law Schools
« Reply #828 on: July 16, 2021, 03:10:15 PM »
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Why the Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing for Woke Law Schools
The ABA’s proposed accrediting standards would impose uniformity and call it ‘diversity.’
By John O. McGinnis
July 15, 2021 1:01 pm ET


The American Bar Association is proposing new accrediting standards for law schools that would make them more race-conscious, more politically correct and less intellectually diverse. The proposal should fail on the merits. It’s so bad it should also prompt reconsiderations of the ABA’s role as accreditor of law schools and of the U.S. Supreme Court precedent on racial preferences in law-school admissions.

Having lawyers regulate entrance into their own profession has always been anomalous. The ABA has an abiding interest in making entry more expensive—it decreases competition for its current members. But now the ABA wants to use wokeness to raise operating costs, impose ideological uniformity, and reduce academic freedom. The new standards would require law schools to show continuous “progress” toward diversifying their faculties and student bodies. They would be encouraged to do it on a timetable, as if a school can predict when someone of a particular race who meets often specialized curricular and research needs will show up. The ABA also wants to add new diversity requirements for ethnicity and gender identity.

Notably absent is any requirement that faculty be intellectually diverse. The ABA is content to have professors singing from the same political hymnal so long they create the favored mix of races, genders and sexual preferences. A recent study in the Journal of Legal Studies shows that a hiring focus on many of the ABA’s preferred characteristics makes law faculties even more left-wing than they already are.

The ABA’s total disregard for viewpoint variety undermines the diversity rationale that has been used to justify discrimination in law-school admissions. If adopted, it could finally encourage the Supreme Court to abandon the notion that choosing students by demography advances the life of the mind.

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Many states have laws on the books prohibiting public universities from considering race and sex in hiring and admissions. The new proposal explicitly states that such laws provide no justification for noncompliance with its diversification requirements. The pre-eminent organization of American lawyers is inviting lawlessness.


The standard also would require law schools to create an “inclusive and equitable environment for students, faculty and staff.” Inclusivity and equity are euphemisms that in the current climate almost certainly mean the opposite of what you’d expect them. The ABA’s guidance on how to comply encourages evaluation of “academic outcomes disaggregated” by minority status. At many law schools groups identified by minority status are admitted with different median grades and test scores. Yet these measures are required of all applicants because they predict law-school performance. Thus, assuring “equitable” outcomes would over time likely make grading and other benchmarks less accurate. And it could well upend established methods of instruction. While the Socratic method is inclusive in that everyone gets grilled, some theorists of “inclusivity” complain that aggressive questioning makes some students uncomfortable.

The guidance also would encourage “diversity, equity and inclusion training.” Such training can amount to indoctrination. It is a violation of academic freedom to require faculty to accept value-laden propositions about the ideological concepts of diversity and equity.

The ABA also would require that students be educated in “cross-cultural competency.” Again the concept isn’t clear, but its indeterminacy offers a convenient vessel for pouring in propaganda about race and ethnicity. A law school should not be required to teach such a course any more than it should be required to teach courses in relations among the sexes or the sociology of class.

The proposed new standards would undoubtedly provide jobs for diversity bureaucrats and consultants. Thus the cost of legal education would rise, making it less affordable, particularly for those of modest means.

To be sure, some law schools asked the ABA to add the new requirements. But that is what cartels do: require standardized services rather than the product differentiation that encourages competition. Nonprofits, like law schools, also have incentives to indulge in politics as well as price distortion, because their stakeholders substitute ideological satisfactions for the additional profits a corporate cartel could earn. Thus, there is even less reason to have lawyers control the production of lawyers than there is to have milk producers regulate the production of milk. At least farmers don’t have dogmas to impose.

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Thomas Sowell
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Re: POCs minus Asian
« Reply #832 on: November 12, 2021, 06:28:01 AM »
https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/12/university-of-maryland-adds-new-ethnic-category-for-students-of-color-minus-asian/

Just formalizing something that has been a practice for a long time.

Funny how things run by dems end up with detailed racial discriminatory structures.

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Really picking up speed as we head down the slippery slope!
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Re: Race, religion, ethnic origin, LGBT, "discrimination", & discrimination.
« Reply #836 on: December 06, 2021, 07:43:01 AM »
".Derrick Bell, an African American and civil rights lawyer often credited as one of the originators of CRT, held that racial progress only occurred in America when it aligned with the interests of the white population, and doubted whether racial equality would ever be achieved in the country."

yeah right
whites perceived the Civil War was good for them.
yes it was to save the Union but the Union was in peril because of slavery .

and the 1964 civil rights act..........

and I could go on.

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Re: I was told there wasn’t a slippery slope LGBTP
« Reply #838 on: January 18, 2022, 08:46:16 AM »

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So 50 years after the Stonewall riots, this is what Homosexual Incorporated has devolved to? I find it increasingly difficult to feel any sympathy for the poor downtrodden homosexual communities of America that are represented by maniacs who want nothing less than total and complete obeisance to whatever they conjure in their bigoted heads as the next gay rights insanity.

Where is the typical gay couple I hear so much about? I thought all they wanted was to be left alone and treated just like everyone else? What happened to respecting other people's freedoms? Why aren't they writing letters to the editor and protesting and withholding their donations? The silence is deafening!

LGBT Activists Have Been Using Courts To Harass This Christian Baker For Ten Years
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court found Phillips was essentially the victim of government entities prejudiced against Christians and other traditional religions, noting the personal hostility expressed against him by commission members.
“Colorado officials compared Jack’s plea for religious freedom to some of the worst things in American history, such as the Holocaust and slavery,” noted Phillips’s current lawyer, Jacob Warner, in a phone interview. Warner works for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which has defended Phillips pro bono in court. “The Supreme Court didn’t need to reach the free speech issue because of that animosity and that left the door open for other litigation.”

According to court documents, Scardina has sought for many years to harm Phillips due to his religious beliefs and public stand on their behalf. During trial, for example, Scardina said the goal of this suit was to “correct” the “errors of [Phillips’s] thinking.”
Also during the current case, “Scardina promised Phillips that, were this suit dismissed, Scardina would call Phillips the next day, to request another cake and start another lawsuit,” notes Phillips’s most recent court filing (emphasis original). Court document say Scardina has also harassed Phillips by email, calling him a “bigot” and “hypocrite.”


This is the leftist playbook, as anyone who has been paying attention will appreciate. Break down traditional norms...blur the bright lines that constrain a moral society's behavior...destroy objective measures of behavior. Oh, and on the way increase the power of the state to demand specific behaviors that are contrary to established law and antithetical to a free society.
The useful idiots that Lenin identified are in this case the homosexual rights movement. And they are doing fine work! Although I wonder whether they have sufficient historical perspective to understand that homosexual rights are not high up on the list of important things among the hard left that will take advantage of all of their work.

How are gay rights in China? Cuba? Venezuela?

Until that typical gay couple takes the freedoms of others seriously and disavows the overtly political behavior of many of their national organizations, why should I pay any attention to their freedoms?

Am I holding them accountable for the behavior of those who claim to represent them? Damned straight! Just as I hold my relatives accountable for the arrant stupidity of many national Jewish organizations that seemingly work for the destruction of the West, Israel and Judaism.

Is that fair? No, and I don't care. We are long past the time when rational men can have rational political and social disagreements and then simply move on to other things. Forcing a baker to work against his religion and political philosophy is evil. Those who support that coercion -- whether it is active or passive support -- support evil.

This is the fight. There is no other hill. There is no other fight for which we should conserve our ammunition. The West is under siege. Freedom is under siege. American Exceptionalism is under siege.

Can anyone look to the future and see a free America if we do not fight now?

Because I can't.


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Racial discrimination is bad, unless it's targeting whites
« Reply #840 on: January 27, 2022, 01:43:26 PM »

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Update on woman who came into contact with escaped monkeys
« Reply #841 on: January 27, 2022, 05:35:02 PM »
Update on Pennsylvania Woman Who Came Into Contact With Escaped Monkeys
By Jack Phillips January 27, 2022 Updated: January 27, 2022biggersmaller Print
A woman who said she came into contact with escaped monkeys in Pennsylvania several days ago said that she’s not sick.

“I want people to know I am not sick, I found out I was at a birthday party Friday night and people there had COVID-19,” Michelle Fallon told local news outlet the Daily Item. “I was exposed to the monkeys and exposed to people with COVID. It was the worst day of my life.”

Fallon, meanwhile, said she was only taking precautions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health officials.

“I explained what happened and they said I was at very low risk of anything but I went to get checked out anyway because I started to not feel well,” Fallon told the newspaper. “I want people to know I am not sick regardless of what they are reading that has been put out there in the media,” she continued. “I only spoke to a few media outlets but I have been talking to PETA.”

Pennsylvania State Police said on Jan. 21 that a trailer collided with a dump truck causing crates of monkeys to be dumped near Route 54 and Interstate 80 in Danville, Pennsylvania. Three of the animals escaped but were eventually captured and euthanized, officials said.

In a Facebook post and in interviews with local media, Fallon said she came into close contact with the monkeys after believing they were cats. She said she developed pink-eye and other symptoms after coming into close contact with one of the primates.

“I was behind the truck that was in the accident and I saw when the truck veered off the road and saw the incident,” she said.

When approaching the crates that fell from the truck, Fallon recalled, “So I was like ‘well let me make sure these cats are OK’ so I approached a crate and saw the fur and heard a grunting sound. … I was confused about what kind of cats they were until I picked up the green cloth.”

“When I picked up the cloth a monkey popped up and hissed at me,” she added. “I said, ‘oh, my God it’s a monkey’ and I backed away and the driver told me to not go near them because they were not quarantined and he had to get back to Missouri.”

The monkey escape incident is being investigated by the U.S Department of Agriculture, or USDA, following a complaint that was filed by the activist group the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

The Epoch Times has contacted Fallon for comment.

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Ukrainian transgenders
« Reply #842 on: March 23, 2022, 09:00:41 AM »
using their self appointed girl status to get out of the country

probably to traverse the Southern US border (easy to cross that)

and apply to UCLA or Yale for a swim scholarship

 :wink:https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/23/youre-a-guy-go-to-war-fleeing-ukrainian-trans-woman-turned-back-at-border/

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Cognitive dissonance for CRT/Systemic Racist theories?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Americans...
Socioeconomics
Education

Oyekunle Olukotun, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, known as the "father of the multi-core processor"[20][21]

According to Rice University research, Nigerian Americans are the most educated group in the United States.[22][23]

According to the 2008-2012 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, 61.4% of Nigerian Americans aged 25 years or older hold a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 28.5% of the total U.S. population.[24] The Migration Policy Institute reports that 29% of Nigerian Americans have a master's degree, PhD, or an advanced professional degree (compared to 11% of the U.S population overall).[3] Nigerian Americans are also known for their contributions to medicine, science, technology, arts and literature.[25]

Nigerian culture has long emphasized education, placing value on pursuing academic excellence as a means to financial security.[26] Examples of Nigerian Americans in education include Akintunde Akinwande, Oyekunle Olukotun, Jacob Olupona and Dehlia Umunna, professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Harvard University respectively. Recent famous examples include ImeIme Umana, the first Black woman to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review,[27] Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman to become the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO),[28] and Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a homeless child refugee who went on to become a chess prodigy.[29][30][31][32][33] Examples of Nigerian Americans in popular media include Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed in the 2015 film Concussion,[34] and Emmanuel Acho, host of the weekly activist webcast Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.[35]

A large percentage of Black students at highly selective top universities are immigrants or children of immigrants. Harvard University, for example, has estimated that more than one-third of its Black student body consists of recent immigrants or their children, or were of mixed-race parentage.[36] Other top universities, including Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Rice, Duke and Berkeley, report a similar pattern.[37] As a result, there is a question as to whether affirmative action programs adequately reach their original targets: African Americans who are descendants of American slaves and their discriminatory history in the US.[36]

According to the 2021 Open Doors report, the top five U.S. institutions with the largest student population of Nigerian descent (in no particular order) are Texas Southern University, University of Houston, University of Texas at Arlington, University of North Texas, and Houston Community College.[38][39] According to Institute of International Education's 2017 Open Doors report, 11,710 international students from Nigeria studied in the U.S. during the 2016–17 academic year, the 12th highest country of origin and highest of any African country.[40]

Income

In 2018, Nigerian-Americans had a median household income of $68,658 - higher than $61,937 for all overall U.S. households. [41] In 2012, Nigerian-Americans had a poverty rate of 12.8%, lower than the U.S. national average of 14.9% and lower than the total African-American poverty rate of 27.2%.[42][43]

Relations with other black Americans

In 2017, sociologist Onoso Imoagene argued that second generation Nigerian-Americans are forming a distinct "diasporic Nigerian ethnicity" rather than assimilating into the mainstream African-American culture, in contrast to what should have been predicted by segmented assimilation theory.[44] Limited sociological research suggests that Nigerian-Americans may have a more positive opinion of the American police compared to the broader black community.[45] The Marshall Project and Prison Legal News have reported that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice heavily recruits Nigerians to serve as guards in Texas prisons, where a significant proportion of the prisoners are black.[46][47]



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Monkey Pox and Gay Men
« Reply #847 on: August 10, 2022, 05:25:14 AM »
PUBLIC HEALTH

Monkeypox link to sex, gay men divides officials over guidance

BY TOM HOWELL JR. THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Public health officials are grappling with how far to go in advising gay men to alter their sexual behavior as the monkeypox virus spreads mostly through their social networks but is a threat to anyone.

The World Health Organization chief specifically advised gay men to reduce their number of sexual partners, but other health officials, including the health commissioner in New York City, have warned that abstinence messages don’t work.

The Biden administration is taking a middle road. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in recent days updated its guidance to say anyone — not just gay men — can limit their exposure to monkeypox by limiting sexual partners and avoiding “spaces like back rooms, saunas, sex clubs, or private and public sex parties, where intimate, often anonymous sexual contact with multiple partners occurs.”

The updated CDC page features an illustration of

two men lying together, but its language is broad-based and refers to female body parts, too.

“Every American must do their part to help us beat back monkeypox,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday.

Although recent cases in non-endemic countries are concentrated in men who have sex with men, experts say it is only a matter of time before the virus spreads more widely. Illinois health officials on Friday said an adult at an Illinois day care center tested positive for monkeypox, setting off an effort to figure out whether children were exposed and infected.

“We’re looking for cases in [the LGBTQ] community, so we’re finding them there. But we need to start looking for cases in the broader community,” former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday.

For now, officials estimate that 98% of cases are in men who report having sex with men.

Some experts say messaging is not an either-or debate and the public health community can help gay men who have been hit the hardest by monkeypox without stigmatizing them.

“If we don’t want to repeat the blunders of early days of HIV, then we must focus on gay men — that is where the disease is in [the] USA,” said Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. “Explain why it is there. Expand testing fast to this group. Initiate contact tracing. Promote healthy sex and healthy hygiene practices. Get the damn vaccines into at-risk arms. Stigma is bad — infected is worse.”

He said it would be best for policymakers to link talk of abstinence with messages on safer sex or good hygiene, akin to general sexual education messaging that includes contraception or counseling about pregnancy alongside abstinence.

The U.S. has reported more than 8,900 cases of monkeypox, which is endemic to parts of Africa but started spreading in the U.S., Europe and other non-endemic countries this spring.

Monkeypox is not classified as a sexually transmitted infection and can be spread through other forms of close personal contact.

The virus is related to smallpox and features a rash with painful lesions. A small percentage of cases are fatal, though the CDC hasn’t reported any deaths in the U.S. since cases started to appear.

Other countries, including Brazil and Spain, have reported the first deaths outside of Africa in recent weeks.

Biden administration officials say they are scrambling to distribute Jynneos vaccines to at-risk people to wrangle the virus and avoid bad outcomes.

The White House on Tuesday announced a “dose-sparing” plan that involves injecting one-fifth of a dose into the upper layer of skin rather than deeper. The idea is to spur a decent immune response while getting five times as many doses from a single vial of the vaccine.

Demetre Daskalakis, the deputy monkeypox coordinator for President Biden, said advice about sexual activity is “not a forever thing” but a “for-now thing” as officials develop and distribute vaccines and drugs to try to stop the disease.

“Given the current limited supply of vaccine, consider temporarily changing some behaviors that may increase your risk of being exposed. These temporary changes will help slow the spread of monkeypox until vaccine supply is adequate,” the updated CDC page says.

The White House, meanwhile, said those in at-risk communities should talk to their doctors about curtailing sex while waiting for a vaccine.

“I am not a medical provider,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday. “But I would say talk to your medical provider and get the information that you need so that you are protecting yourself and you know how to move forward.”

Health officials in New York have toured gay bars and taverns to get the word out about monkeypox and vaccines in the hard-hit community. However, New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan has said that trying to police the LBGTQ community’s sex practices is stigmatizing and self-defeating.

“Abstinence as a message doesn’t really work. We know this. It’s not a good public health tool because it’s really about giving people the information to make good choices,” he told CNN last month.

Not everyone agrees with the approach. Don Weiss, an epidemiologist in the city health department, has urged New York leaders to be more forceful in advising men to abstain from anonymous sex.

“We cannot vaccinate our way out of this, nor can we isolate our way out of this. The only way out is to abstain. I know I sound like a bible-thumping preacher, but this is the exposure we need to PREVENT. We don’t have much time to intervene and it may already be too late,” he said in a June email posted online.

Others have taken to social media to point out that members of society were asked to mask up, socially distance and close their businesses during COVID-19, but officials seem unwilling to single out certain behaviors around monkeypox.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said curtailing sex partners is a practical step for gay men, though countries should be careful not to alienate certain communities.

“For men who have sex with men, this includes, for the moment, reducing your number of sexual partners, reconsidering considering sex with new partners, and exchanging contact details with any new partners to enable follow-up if needed,” he said in late July, though added: “The stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus.”

Cameron Bartosiewicz, president of the Youth Pride Association, said the best way to avoid harm or unintended stigma is for officials to focus on providing accurate information and effective guidance to the public so all people can assess their personal risks and act accordingly.

“The current approach by some public health organizations in telling gay men to practice abstinence is only perpetuating stigmatization and providing a false sense of security among non- LGBTQ populations,” he said.


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WT: Two cases seek to erase race
« Reply #849 on: August 29, 2022, 02:44:35 AM »
Two cases on colleges first steps to erase race

Activist pursues colorblind culture

BY ALEX SWOYER THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Checking a box for race on an application has become as common as providing an email address or a phone number. Edward Blum wants it to stop.

And he thinks he’s got the court case that can begin to do it.

Mr. Blum is president of Students for Fair Admissions, the group that will appear before the Supreme Court this year in two major cases challenging the way race is factored into selecting students at Harvard University and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He hopes the justices will issue a ruling that will reach far beyond the ivy walls of academia.

“This case may end the use of race in college admissions, but hopefully also create a road map for ending these ever-present racial classification boxes that are used in other areas of our lives such as employment and contracting,” he said in an interview with The Washington Times. “These race boxes are the pathways to discrimination.”

It’s an audacious goal, particularly while race is becoming even more entrenched as the defining classification for much of American society in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 in the custody of Minneapolis police officers and the ensuing debate over the centrality of discrimination in American society and history.

The justices will step into that conversation on Oct. 31 when they hear Mr. Blum’s cases, which are among the most anticipated of the upcoming term.

Mr. Blum says the schools’ interest in enrolling more Black and Hispanic students has led to discrimination against Asian and Asian American students, who would comprise a higher percentage of admissions if the schools made decisions only on objective measures such as grades and test scores.

The schools counter that diversity is an important part of a well-rounded education and they should be allowed to consider race as one of multiple factors in admissions.

The universities say they are on firm footing given the Supreme Court’s precedents, including a 2003 case, Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the justices said in a 5-4 decision that race could be

considered as long as it is “narrowly tailored.”

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who wrote the key opinion in that case, put an informal time limit on how long she thought the practice should last. She acknowledged that affirmative action programs clashed with the ideal of a colorblind, merit-based society.

“We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today,” she wrote.

Mr. Blum is bringing his challenge six years before that deadline, but he told The Washington Times that it’s past time to fix a wrongly decided case.

“Students for Fair Admissions has argued that the Grutter opinion was wrong the day it was decided, which includes the 25-year cutoff point for racial classifications and preferences. No amount of time should have been given to any university to treat applicants differently because of their skin color or ethnic heritage,” Mr. Blum said.

This isn’t Mr. Blum’s first attempt to get the high court to rewrite the way the federal government treats race.

In 2013, he went toe-to-toe with the Obama administration and won a ruling scaling back rules implemented under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The decision, Shelby County v. Holder, upended the decades-old system of labeling states as so racist historically that they needed approval from the Justice Department for any changes to voting standards and systems.

Without that ruling, states such as Georgia and Arizona would have had a much tougher time tightening some of their voting procedures after the 2020 elections.

Three years before he took the voting rights case to the high court, Mr. Blum was instrumental in bringing another affirmative action case to the justices, the 2010 Fisher case, in which the high court largely upheld the University of Texas-Austin’s affirmative action policies in a reaffirmation of the principles of the Grutter ruling.

The plaintiff in that case, high school student Abigail Fisher, was White and said she was denied admission to the Texas flagship university because of racial preferences.

Mr. Blum figured he might get a different outcome if he could show that the policies were harming another racial or ethnic minority, so he created three websites looking for plaintiffs of Asian heritage and found them. The legal challenges claim Harvard discriminated against Asian American students with admissions policies that favor other races, while the North Carolina lawsuit says the school’s race-conscious admissions standards violate the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The approach instantly transformed the case from a narrative of “Whites versus minorities” to a more nuanced look at the actual winners and losers in racial preference programs such as the ones at Harvard.

Critics on the left say Mr. Blum is being disingenuous with his challenge and increasing animosity between racial groups as a way to boost his own agenda.

In a 2018 profile, the American Civil Liberties Union called the challenge a “cynical attempt to use members of the Asian-American community” and that Mr. Blum “seeks to pit people of color against one another.”

“If Blum gets his wish, statistical projections show that white applicants will be the primary beneficiaries,” the ACLU said.

In the case now before the justices, the ACLU has filed a brief siding with the schools. The brief says the courts should defer to the universities’ judgments on education matters and the way to build the best student population.

“Racial diversity is essential to their intellectual and pedagogical missions,” the ACLU argued.

Harvard didn’t respond to a request for comment for this article.

UNC, which unlike Harvard is a publicly funded school, responded by pointing to Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz’s comment this summer to a campus news site, The Well, where he defended the university’s approach.

“At Carolina, we have long been recognized for making an affordable, highquality education broadly accessible to the people of North Carolina and beyond,” he said. “Carolina is passionately public, and we’re proud to be one of the few flagship universities to practice need-blind admissions and provide lowdebt, full-need student aid. Our approach to admissions serves the university’s mission and reflects our core values. Every student earns their place at Carolina.”

In both the Harvard and UNC cases, lower courts have sided with the schools.

The Biden administration has weighed in on the side of Harvard and UNC. The Justice Department is urging the high court to maintain the legal precedents allowing race-based affirmative action policies.

“The United States has a vital interest in ensuring that our nation’s institutions of higher education — including the military’s service academies — produce graduates who come from all segments of society and who are prepared to succeed and lead in an increasingly diverse nation,” the federal government wrote in its brief in the case