Is Joe Biden a Nazi? I only ask because he’s doing a lot of the same things that the previous incumbent of the White House did, and that guy was always being called a Nazi.
Author: Blazingcatfur
Teens sue exclusive Catholic high school for $20M over ‘blackface’ acne mask allegations
Two teens who were booted from an exclusive California Catholic school over a “blackface” photo are suing the school for $20 million — claiming they were actually wearing acne treatment masks.
The former students, identified only as H.H. and A.H., accuse St. Francis High School in Mountain View of overreacting to the “innocent” selfie and “scapegoating” the teens amid racial tensions in the wake of George Floyd’s police custody death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Hope they win big.
There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math
I naively believed that STEM would be spared from the ideological takeover. I was wrong, says Princeton professor Sergiu Klainerman.
In my position as a professor of mathematics at Princeton, I have witnessed the decline of universities and cultural institutions as they have embraced political ideology at the expense of rigorous scholarship. Until recently — this past summer, really — I had naively thought that the STEM disciplines would be spared from this ideological takeover.
I was wrong. Attempts to “deconstruct” mathematics, deny its objectivity, accuse it of racial bias, and infuse it with political ideology have become more and more common — perhaps, even, at your child’s elementary school.
‘Shocked, astonished, horrified’: WE’s alleged dubious fundraising methods could have negative impact on other charities
OTTAWA – “Horrifying” stories of WE Charity’s alleged plaque-swapping and other dubious practices has prompted calls for investigations by the RCMP, the Canada Revenue Agency and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Charity experts fear that the allegations will make Canadians less likely to open their wallets to other charities, already dealing with a downturn due to the pandemic.
Michigan professor sparks outrage after saying university’s policies are racist
A Michigan professor has sparked a firestorm after demanding an apology for his university’s new anti-racism policies — insisting that he has been “systematically discriminated against for 40 years” as a white man.
Jeffrey Burl used Michigan Technological University headed notepaper for his two-page diatribe in January against a series of strict resolutions that damned college- and society-wide “anti-Blackness and systemic racism.”
A New Crime Wave—and What to Do About It
New York City rejected the policing lessons that led to its success, and violence is surging.
For two decades, many New Yorkers had assured themselves that a return to the crime and squalor of the early 1990s was unlikely. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who presided over a 62 percent drop in major felonies from 1994 through 2001, proved that violence was not an urban inevitability. His successor, Michael Bloomberg, drove crime down further, through the 2008 recession and beyond. Both mayors set a benchmark for what was possible, preemptively discrediting any future mayor’s excuse that crime was beyond his capacity to overcome.
The Equality Act Is Really the Inequality Act.
A world where the government gets to decide what gender and sexuality mean for the rest of us—what could possibly go wrong?
We live in an increasingly Orwellian world. Although it has become both a truism and a cliché to invoke the words and spirit of George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 to describe the political (un)reality around us, it’s fair to say that, had Eric Arthur Blair had not thought of it first, the Western Civilization has more or less invented an Orwellian world by this point.
Will Black Lives Matter Foundation’s Donation Surge Fuel Anti-Semitism?
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement generated headlines last week when it issued a report announcing it raised $90 million in 2020.
While the general slogan and cause may attract support from a wide swath of the American public – polling last fall showed about 50 percent favorability – the group’s leadership harbors some extreme viewpoints, especially when it comes to Israel.
I say count on it.
The return of American anti-anti-Islamism
Biden’s recalibration of Saudi Arabian ties betokens disaster for the US and the west
America’s former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has denounced as a “reckless” move and “political stunt” the Biden administration’s release at the weekend of a declassified report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence implicating the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, in the killing of the Saudi writer, Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
If States Don’t Roll Back Lockdowns, Americans Will Increase Their Civil Disobedience
We’re just a couple months into the year and 2021 is already looking better than 2020. COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all falling as multiple vaccines are approved and being administered. The distribution system is not perfect, and improvements are needed, but in general, the news is good and hopeful. Americans are looking forward to getting vaccinated and getting back into the regular swing of life.
Ontario MPP Randy Hillier’s Twitter account temporarily suspended
Rural Ontario politician Randy Hillier is no stranger to controversy.
For much of the pandemic, the Lanark–Frontenac–Kingston MPP has taken to social media to voice his displeasure with the province’s handling of COVID-19,, questioning the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns.
Near the end of December, a Kingston-area physician penned a letter to Hillier disputing his COVID-19 claims.
School issues apology for ‘out of context’ flier promoting only white performers at Black History Month event
Ohio’s Oberlin Conservatory of Music apologized after sparking outrage with a flier promoting a Black History Month event that, puzzlingly, highlighted only white performers.
Professor called ‘racist’ for arguing race isn’t the sole explanation for poverty … Accused of disseminating facts in university setting.
Over the past month, Lehigh University has taken actions to downgrade a video it had originally posted in late January by one of its professors on poverty and race after students on social media denounced the video as supporting racist thought.
Lehigh’s College of Business had asked Frank Gunter, professor of economics at Lehigh, to create a brief video from his recent op-ed “Three Myths About Poverty.” They posted his video on Jan. 28 as part of a series of videos directed at advising the new Biden administration on policy issues.
Ontario’s long-term care minister was ‘ahead’ of top public health doctor on COVID-19, commission reveals
Ontario’s long-term care minister was aware of the dangers the novel coronavirus posed to the sector long before it was declared a global pandemic, a newly released transcript from the province’s commission on the matter reveals.
The transcript of the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission’s interview with Merrilee Fullerton and her deputy shows the pair advocated for stronger measures than what the government was willing to put in place, earlier than they were willing to act.