Nothing says “Social Justice” in California than telling little White children that racial segregation and exclusion is legitimate and proper.
A California elementary school reportedly held a race segregated “playdate social” for all students except the white kids.
A parent blasted the school on social media, “we’ll look back and cringe so hard that we tried to beat racism by segregating kids of color from white kids” pic.twitter.com/LhBMCtwSEq
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 28, 2023
A father impregnating his intellectually disabled daughter is a crime, even in Canada. Four to six year in jail is the typical sentence… but not if you are Black, in which case a “more nuanced approach” that results in two years of house arrest is more politically correct.
“Normally, incest would be punished with a jail sentence: two years on the low end, and 14 years maximum. Applying progressive sentencing principles, a majority of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decided late August that the father should only have to serve two years of house arrest (more reasonably, the dissenting judge believed that four years in jail was apt).
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“At trial, the Crown had argued that the father should spend four to six years in jail, based on sentences that had been handed out in similar situations. It lost. On appeal, it argued the same. This was a severe crime, and it was made worse because the father violated his position of trust over his disabled daughter. Worse, he impregnated her, risking genetic harm to the child. (The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service told me Wednesday that it has not yet decided whether it’ll appeal once more to the Supreme Court of Canada.)
“The trial court, and a majority of the appeal court, didn’t buy the Crown’s argument. Why? Because the offender was remorseful and was determined unlikely to re-offend.
“Another reason was that he is Black.
“While the Crown established, using past cases, that a jail sentence of four to six years was normal for this kind of crime, the appeal court dismissed this as merely a guideline. The court also noted that the offenders, in previous cases, were not African Nova Scotians. When deciding whether offenders of such heritage should serve house arrest or jail, the court wrote that “a more nuanced approach” was required. In short, a racial discount was to be applied.
“‘The moral culpability of an African Nova Scotian offender has to be assessed in the context of historic factors and systemic racism, as was done in this case,” wrote the trial judge, with whom the majority of the appeal court agreed. “Sentencing judges should take into account the impact that social and economic deprivation, historical disadvantage, diminished and non-existent opportunities and restricted options may have had on the offender’s moral responsibility.’
“As an African Nova Scotian, the father had been impacted by “historical deprivation, social and economic deprivation as well as diminished and virtually non-existent opportunities.” In sentencing, these broad factors didn’t have to be linked to his crime to be relevant — they just needed to be present.”
News of the Week for October 1st, 2023
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Half a century ago, Africa was still “decolonizing” (give or take the importation Communism). Has Africa achieved the promises of decolonization? Let us look back over half-a-century ago as William F. Buckley, Jr. and Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley discuss the question of Africa and Colonialism.
Until next Friday.
Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Medicinal executioner offers to reprieve.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
The U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) has often overruled parents and forcibly let babies die horrible deaths. Now, even an adult in their right mind can be forced to die by the “vaunted” NHS.
“[A]conscious and capable 19-year-old patient, referred to in legal documents as “ST,” with an apparent terminal disease has been told by a court that she can’t decide to continue life-extending treatment after the hospital sued to be able to move her to palliative care against her will. From the legal ruling involving the National Health Service Trust (my emphasis added):
“‘The Trust’s case is that ST is “actively dying”. It became clear during the course of the oral evidence I heard from Dr A, the consultant leading her care on the ITU, that this assessment does not mean that her death is necessarily imminent. She may have weeks or even months to live. The exact prognosis is uncertain. What is clear from clinical observation is that she has progressive respiratory failure with episodes of acute exacerbation resulting in breathlessness, distress and agitation. The current care plan is based upon the withdrawal of haemodialysis although ventilation will continue.’
“ST is aware of this but wants to keep fighting for her life. Again, from the ruling, by the justice presiding over the case:
“‘Despite all the difficulties which currently confront her, ST is able to communicate reasonably well with her doctors with assistance from her mother and, on occasion, speech therapists. Over the course of the last week she has engaged in two separate capacity assessments. I heard evidence from two consultant psychiatrists whose conclusions in relation to her capacity in both domains are set out in full written reports. . . .
“‘She has been described by those who know and love her as “a fighter”. That is how she sees herself. At the heart of the issues in this case is what ST and her family perceive to be a ray of hope in the form of an experimental nucleoside treatment outside the United Kingdom which might offer her hope of an improved quality of life, albeit a life which is likely to end prematurely in terms of a normal life expectancy. She has told her doctors that she wants to do everything she can to extend her life. She said to Dr C, one of the psychiatrists who visited her last week, “This is my wish. I want to die trying to live. We have to try everything”. [Court’s emphasis] Whilst she recognises that she may not benefit from further treatment, she is resistant to any attempt to move to a regime of palliative care because she wants to stay alive long enough to be able to travel to Canada or North America where there is at least the prospect that she may be accepted as part of a clinical trial. . . .
“‘ST is well aware that she has been offered a very poor prognosis by her doctors. She acknowledges that they have told her that she will die but she does not believe them. She points to her recovery from previous life-threatening episodes whilst she has been a patient at the intensive care unit. She believes she has the resilience and the strength to stay alive for long enough to undergo treatment abroad and she wishes the court to acknowledge her right to make that decision for herself.’
“If patient autonomy is to mean anything, why object? Because even though two psychiatrists told the court that ST has decision-making capacity, the court ruled that she doesn’t because she won’t accept that there is no hope”
Rather than a search for knowledge or where ancient wisdom is kept and learned, academia has degraded into woke propaganda an hagiophraphs of social justice.
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Want to know why Universities are woke?It's because they've been hijacked by "Activist Scholars" who use them to spread woke ideology.
These political activists are using universities as vehicles to indoctrinate students into far left ideology
Here are the receipts:🧵 pic.twitter.com/kKLp2wuH4Q
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023
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Let's get something clear first.The problem is NOT merely that some professors have blind-spots that can be corrected by other professors with different views. That's not what I am talking about here….
Activists Scholars are an entirely different problem.
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023
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It used to be that University professors would try to teach about ideas as evenhandedly as is possible. Of course everyone has biases, but the idea was that professors would at least TRY to put their biases aside and teach the material in a balanced, fair, evenhanded way…— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023
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This is no longer the case."Activist Scholars" think education is ALWAYS political. because we choose what to teach children, and in doing so we are teaching certain values, and that's political.
So, they think choosing to teach kids that 2+2=4 is a political act.
so…
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023
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Because the Scholar activists see their job as a political, in accordance with woke politics they use university classrooms to indoctrinate students into their politicsThis Paper by Kia M. Q. Hall is about activities for training Black Lives Matter activists in the… pic.twitter.com/mtqBssF76e
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023
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You see, the Scholar Activist does not even attempt to teach from neutral ground. They have an ideology, and use their classroom to train students to become activists on behalf of that ideology.Here Deborah Lowry suggests a way to teach that "supports student-activists": pic.twitter.com/13icPB9SX6
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) August 2, 2023
Last year, it was reported that scientists (or as the British like to call them, “Boffins”) created synthetic embryos complete with beating heart and functioning brain. Now, in an article recently published, a new breakthrough has produced the first “complete” embryo model:
“The latest breakthrough, published in the journal Nature, also used stem cells – and the team describes their results as the first ‘complete’ embryo model, one that mimics key cells and structures throughout the first two weeks of development.
“‘This is really a textbook image of a human day-14 embryo, [which] hasn’t been done before,’ said Professor Hanna.
“‘It closely mimics the development of a real human embryo, particularly the emergence of its exquisitely fine architecture.’
“The team used a cocktail of chemicals to ‘coax’ the stem cells into transforming into four key embryonic cells – epiblasts, trophoblasts, hypoblasts and extraembryonic mesoderm cells.”
What makes these “embryo models” different is that they are not legally embryos and not limited to the 14 days cut-off for embryo research.
“In many countries, 14 days is the legal cut-off for normal embryo research.
“However, these ’embryo models’ are not legally seen as embryos and are not governed by the same laws.
“The researchers said this approach could help reveal the causes of many birth defects and types of infertility.
“It could also lead to new ways of growing transplant organs as well as offer a way around experiments that cannot be performed on live embryos, the team added.”
Even though these are just models, the ability to get around these 14-day restriction and even grow fully functional organs means there is a legal pathway to the mass production of genetically engineered catgirls suitable for domestic adoption.
The Nevada Republican Party establishment (“GOPe”) has approved this past weekend a caucus to be held in the evening (right after most people get off work and just want to go home to their families) two days after the state Presidential primary that will involve government ballots sent out to all active Republicans. This will cause confusion and deny countless Nevada Republicans a right to choose their nominee.
That this is all being done by the establishment in order to favor the establishment’s preferred outcome, and hopefully deny disfavored candidates a chance at delegates is clear and obvious, to the point that some campaigns are openly saying it’s rigged, which makes them less likely to pay attention to the state entirely.
Now at a glance, many of you might think that anti-Trump forces are trying to deny Trump any delegates. That’s be true if this post was written or published on “opposite day”. (Spoiler: It isn’t).
No, it is the Trump establishment who are so sure of Trump’s win they they have to change the rules to get Trump the delegates by hook or crook. But at least the Trump establishment is on the side of the common people, right?
Ahahaha!
No.
At a Clark County GOP Central Committee meeting the week before, the person explaining this scheme to the body of the Central Committee openly said that if you don’t have the time to get involved and waste 90 minutes after work on a Thursday evening instead of spending that time having dinner with your family, then you shouldn’t have a say, even if you have been a lifelong Republican who has voted in every primary and general election since you turned of age.
News of the Week for September 24th, 2023
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Monetary policy and controls have been back in the news in recent years with inflation and the national debt. Much of this is ascribed to abandoning the gold standard half-a-century ago. However, even before then, there were monetary crises that lead to said dropping of the gold standard. William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses with Harry Browne and Eliot Janeway ponder the question of how does it look for the dollar?
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