HISTORY lecturers at the University of Liverpool have been advised to “problematise” whiteness and heterosexuality in their seminars.
The advice has been given in guidance on how to “diversify” and “decolonise” the history curriculum, sent this week to academics at Liverpool – a member of the prestigious Russell Group universities.
But last night critics lambasted its recommendations as “ideologically driven” and “divisive”.
The arrest of a black man on a busy Chicago street sparked fury among onlookers after a black woman insisted a white man could not film it because her rights are ‘different’ to his.
The white blogger headed to the scene near North Wells Street on Wednesday afternoon after a police radio scanner tweeted about an off-duty officer being assaulted by a man in a Dodge Charger.
He pulled out his phone after finding three white officers arresting the dreadlocked driver who was not resisting, but found a different subject when a female onlooker demanded he stop filming and accused him of racism.
I am genuinely sorry for the Jewish kids subjected to such hate. However White kids have been smeared as racists in our schools for years simply for having White skin. Anti-white hate is institutionalized in Ontario thanks to our gutless identity politics playing politicians. https://t.co/041XHVBohb
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) June 13, 2024
‘Discrimination’ as BAME two and a half times more likely to be accepted
Non-white applicants to the BBC’s flagship journalism training scheme were almost two and a half times more likely to get in than their white counterparts.
Since 2022, an average of 22.5 per cent of applicants were classed as coming from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME).
However over that same two-year period, BAME individuals made up 41 per cent of participants on the scheme.
The same crap happens in Canada.
Milton Friedman’s first rule for government programs to alleviate poverty was: “If the objective is to alleviate poverty, we should have a program directed at helping the poor … There is every reason to help the poor man who happens to be a farmer, not because he is a farmer, but because he is poor.”
Roses are red, violets are blue… but why are so few flowers ever black? Might it be because gardening itself is an inherently racist pursuit these days? It certainly is in the eyes of some.
During coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show held in late May, BBC Gardener’s World presenter Monty Don and his co-host Joe Swift sounded surprised by the chosen winner of the event’s Best Show Garden award, saying the procedures of judgement had “all become so technical” and a mere exercise in “the boxes… being ticked”, in an increasingly technocratic “procedure that is like passing a driving test”. And which particular boxes were being ticked at Chelsea? PC ones, as usual.
‘Is this legal?’: Elon Musk questions UBC hiring practices
The position is federally funded through the Canada Research Chair program, which a spokesperson for UBC explains “identifies population-based targets for federally designated groups.” Canada’s Human Rights Code specially allows for hiring programs that “target historically underrepresented groups.”
Explaining further, employment lawyer Daniel Lublin told CTV News that the diversity provisions in the hiring process for this position are not only legal – but federally mandated.
“Mr. Musk really has no clue what he’s talking about as it relates to Canadian law. He has no idea whatsoever,” he said.
What an asinine response from that “lawyer”.
Imagine saying that racism is good because the race hucksters made it legal.
Sorta like Apartheid and the Nuremburg laws.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver campus is hiring a new research chair position and explicitly stated the position is not for able-bodied straight white men.
The UBC Faculty of Dentistry is looking to hire an internal applicant for the role of Research Chair in Oral Cancer Research with an emphasis on diagnostics and prevention, and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion).
A group of teens forced a woman to miscarry with a brutal attack after she and her husband dared to stray onto a Chicago street that the youths claimed as their own.
The 41-year-old mother was returning home with her husband from a date night on Friday when they were surrounded by at least 10 young people in the city’s notorious Streeterville neighborhood.
The woman, who gave her name only as Nina, told Fox32 that she was pepper-sprayed in the face, kicked in the stomach and lost a clump of hair as her husband was held back by the mob.
BREAKING: A husband and his pregnant wife were viciously attacked and beaten by a group of 10 teenagers in Chicago. During the attack, the teens were repeatedly yelling "We own these streets."
The wife was struck multiple times in the stomach and later found out she suffered a… pic.twitter.com/FvLsKhlV0T
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 4, 2024
Julian Wood is a 3-year-old kid who graduated preschool last week. He was stabbed to d*ath by Bionca Ellis, an Ohio Government Employee who works in child care. Julian’s mom was also stabbed and is in the hospital.
Here’s the gofundme to help the family with medical and funeral… https://t.co/iUmOcbxMFR pic.twitter.com/KZ3qAAlROD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 5, 2024
The push to form the city of St. George in Louisiana is the latest example of residents from whiter, wealthier enclaves depleting resources from their surrounding communities.
The Louisiana Supreme Court last month cleared a path for the creation of a new city, St. George, after a prolonged legal battle over the feasibility of the city and its implications for tax revenue.
St. George would take almost 100,000 residents away from East Baton Rouge Parish, and critics say it will deplete the parish of the resources from this wealthier, whiter community.
As researchers on racial equity, we have been studying moves like this to create new cities. What we’ve found is that these secessions perpetuate modern-day segregation and limit opportunity for left-behind communities, a form of opportunity hoarding that we call “white fortressing.”
It’s BAD to allow white people nice things. I bet Freeland would fund a Black Fortress.
🚨#WATCH: As chaos and massive fights and brawls unleashed during the Philadelphia Pride celebration
⁰📌#Philadelphia | #Pennsylvania⁰
Watch as hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the center of midtown Philadelphia to celebrate Pride Month and participate in the annual… pic.twitter.com/kE3xYNRpyQ— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 3, 2024
Royal College of Music students can take a course on the “whiteness and racism” of classical music.
The conservatoire offers an elective module titled “Music and Racism”, which aims to address a “Eurocentric” view of musical education and performance.
Students taking the course are taught about critical race theory and the “whiteness” of classical music.
Black scholars criticize white writer’s ‘dehumanizing’ use of blackface to write book on U.S. race relations
A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online.
“Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United States to document how racism persists in American society,” Sam Forster, who is white, posted Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter. “Writing Seven Shoulders was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a journalist.”
The reaction was swift and brutal, with X users expressing anger, amusement and confusion, and telling Forster he should have simply spoken to Black people to understand their experiences.
A new report by the Calgary-based think tank Aristotle Foundation suggests that Canada’s race-based approach to fighting poverty might be flawed, since it is based on an incorrect assumption that race, racial discrimination and poverty are tightly linked.
The paper, “Poverty and Race in Canada: Facts about Race, Discrimination, and the Poor,” analyzed recent Statistics Canada data and also looked at public policy initiatives at both the provincial and federal levels that are designed to fight poverty.
“We want to be proactive and transparent about sharing this good news story about how the city is righting wrongs and furthering reconciliation. If we don’t, there is risk that it will look like we are trying hide this.”
That advice was given in October by Kristin McKinnon, of the city’s communications division, to a group of municipal staff planning to remove the Etobicoke coat of arms and other historic symbols from city property.That advice was given in October by Kristin McKinnon, of the city’s communications division, to a group of municipal staff planning to remove the Etobicoke coat of arms and other historic symbols from city property.
