In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
The voice that America ought to present to the world is a long debated question now just as it was forty years ago when William F. Buckley, Jr. asked what is Radio Free Europe up to, with James Lane Buckley and Frank J. Shakespeare.
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: Indoctrinate and then indoctrinate some more.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
You will be forced to regurgitate wokeness at the University of Connecticut, especially after being indoctrination over “Anti-Black Racism”.
“The University of Connecticut (UConn) will officially make its ‘Anti-Black Racism’ (ABR) course mandatory for all undergraduate students as part of the core curriculum’s new social justice requirement.
“Provost Anne D’Alleva announced on May 17 that the requirement will go into effect during the 2024-2025 academic year with a course that will be similar to the one-credit ABR elective that has been offered since 2021.
“‘An education at our university must provide many opportunities to confront the history and current reality of injustice and human rights abuses, and we expect our students to be leaders in creating a more just and equitable world. ABR and the curricular changes that are in development are a powerful point of departure from the status quo,’ D’Alleva stated.
“University Spokesperson Stephanie Reitz told Campus Reform that the course requirement was created by the University Senate, which approved the motion 36-25. ‘The Senate’s discussion includes different perspectives voiced by various members of that body, including faculty and students, so we would refer you to that discussion,’ Reitz stated.
“According to UConn’s website, the fall 2022 version of the course was designed to instruct students about ‘foundational concepts related to Black consciousness, Black resistance, Black resilience, and intersectional solidarity.’”
Pictured: The latest valid gender to drop.
Previously, your humble author invoked Poe’s Law over claims of schoolkids identifying as cats, and that identity being validated. It turns out that reality doesn’t have anything to do with it.
“A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was ‘despicable’ after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.
“The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on ‘life education’ in which they were told they can ‘be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you’.
“The row, which has infuriated parents, was allegedly sparked by one of them asking a fellow pupil: ‘How can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?’
“…
“[T]he heated exchange taken by one of the pupils, in which the teacher starts by saying ‘how dare you – you’ve just really upset someone’ by ‘questioning their identity’.
The pupil responded: ‘If they want to identify as a cat or something then they are genuinely unwell – crazy.’”
Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
Increasingly, many states are standing up against wokeness; North Dakota is joining them. SB 2247 protects students and employees from being “[p]enalized, discriminated against, or receive adverse treatment due to the individual’s refusal to support, believe, endorse, embrace, confess, act upon, or otherwise assent to or oppose a specified concept” or otherwise be “[r]equired to endorse or oppose a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, tenure, promotion, or graduation.” The bill also prohibits mandatory training sessions in wokeness, with the state declining to endorse the following “specified concepts”:
3.”Specified concept” means a concept that:
a. One race or sex is inherently superior or inferior to another race or sex ;
b. An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist,
sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously;
c. An individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of
the individual’s race or sex;
d. An individual’s moral character is determined by the individual’s race or sex;
e. An individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for an action
committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex;
f. An individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or another form of psychological
distress solely because of the individual’s race or sex;
g. A meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist, or designed by a particular race or sex to
oppress another race or sex;
h. This state or the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist;
i. Promotes or advocates the violent overthrow of the United States government ;
j. Promotes division between, or resentment of, a race, sex, religion, creed, nonviolent
political affiliation, social class, or class of people;
k. Ascribes a character trait, value, moral or ethical code, privilege, or belief to a race or
sex, or to an individual because of the individual’s race or sex;
S. B. NO. 2247 – PAGE 2
l. The rule of law does not exist, but instead is a series of power relationships and
struggles among racial or other groups;
m. All Americans are not created equal and are not endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;
n. Governments should deny to any person within the government’s jurisdiction the equal
protection of the law;
o. Includes race or sex stereotyping; or
p. Includes race or sex scapegoating.
A good start, now it’ll just have to be enforced.
The bill can be read here or below:
News of the Week for July 2nd, 2023
Apologies for the lack of posting. Been busy with real life and haven’t had the time to write anything up.
Here are cute kittens to make amends.
News of the Week for June 25th, 2023
Ireland is considering a law that would jail people for expressing “hate speech”.
“Irish citizens who campaign against transgender women being able to use female changing rooms or crisis centres risk jail under an “Orwellian” hate-speech law, critics have claimed.
“The Irish senate last week debated the controversial Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022.
“The bill seeks to expand the range of people protected from hate speech to include those with ‘gender identities’, including transgender or ‘gender other than those of male or female’.
“Supporters of the bill argue that Ireland needs to update its hate-speech protections to match the evolution of society and social media.”
And yes, restricting freedom for what the state of Ireland considers “the common good” is exactly what they are openly saying they are doing.
Ireland’s descent into authoritarianism continues.
This is Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly weaponising the concept of “safety” to justify censorship and other encroachments on freedom of speech.pic.twitter.com/qdD59IDE07
— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) June 15, 2023
No, restricting inalienable human rights does not serve “the common good”.
Expressing wrongthink is now a clear and present danger: A court has cleared a school to censor a student who wore a t-shirt that said “THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS” because expressing something that others don’t agree with violates the later groups right “to be secure and let alone”.
“Plaintiff … is unable to counter Defendants’ showing that enforcement of the Dress Code was undertaken to protect the invasion of the rights of other students to a safe and secure educational environment. School administrators were well within their discretion to conclude that the statement ‘THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS” may communicate that only two gender identities—male and female—are valid, and any others are invalid or nonexistent, and to conclude that students who identify differently, whether they do so openly or not, have a right to attend school without being confronted by messages attacking their identities. As Tinker explained, schools can prohibit speech that is in “collision with the rights of others to be secure and be let alone.’”
This is basically the “stochastic terrorism” argument of harm. That someone who identifies as some made up gender might feel bullied because not every student is at least passively validating their delusions. Of course, if a student wore a t-shirt that said “Gender is a Spectrum”, there is now a school would ban that shirt even if a student who wore that was actively engaging in bullying.
“Some…” after all, “are more equal than others”.
Meanwhile… in a Massachusetts School.
Heck, a child simply saying they don’t want drag queens twerking in front of their face would likely be prohibited speech, because only some students can invoke a right to “feel safe” since anyone deemed to be arguing from a position of systemic privilege can’t feel unsafe, dontchaknow.
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