Fighting Mandatory DEI Support in California

     Universities and colleges have increasingly demanded “diversity statements” to suss out thoughtcriminals, if not outright demanding fealty to the “DEI” agenda.   Some states’ legislatures have fought back, but in California, it is the people who must fight back against their own government.

“A policy that requires scholars seeking a job at UC Santa Cruz to provide a diversity, equity and inclusion statement as part of the application process is unconstitutional, argues a recently filed lawsuit against the University of California system and UCSC leaders.

“The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit on behalf of J.D. Haltigan, a former University of Toronto psychology professor, who argues the university’s DEI statement requirement runs afoul of the First Amendment because it requires Haltigan ‘to express ideas with which he disagrees in order to be eligible for employment.’

“The lawsuit states UC Santa Cruz applicants “must express agreement with specific socio-political ideas, including the view that treating individuals differently based on their race or sex is desirable.’”

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News of the Week (June 5th, 2023)

 

News of the Week for June 5th, 2023


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Transgendering The Fetus

     According to the Left, the pre-born aren’t persons have no rights… except, apparently, the “right” to be genderqueer.

“A professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine who is involved in a LGBTQ+ ‘special interest group’ claimed that parents must start including gender ideology in their families before a baby is born.

“‘This is my favorite topic,’ =Lauren T. Roth, a professor of pediatrics at Einstein and a physician in the division of academic general pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, said. The doctor has specialized knowledge of transgender medical interventions on children diagnosed with dysphoria.

“‘Like, this is a normal thing. And we have to understand that gender is on a spectrum. There’s not just men and women,’ she said. ‘Sometimes [a child’s gender identity] matches the chromosomes or the genitals that they were born with, but sometimes it doesn’t.’”

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Quick Takes – For The Crime Of Misgendering: Prohibited From Teaching; Upersoning Monty Python; Prosecuted For Objecting To A Male Breastfeeding

     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: The systemic privilege of imposing queer totalitarianism.

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Be accused of misgendering someone and lose you job… especially when that job is teaching.

“A Christian teacher has been banned from the profession for ‘misgendering’ a pupil in a case believed to be the first of its kind in the UK.

“Joshua Sutcliffe, 33, was ruled by the Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA) to have failed to treat a pupil with ‘dignity and respect’. He was also found to have failed to protect the pupil’s wellbeing when he did not use the preferred pronouns of a girl who identified as a boy.

“Mr Sutcliffe, a former maths teacher at The Cherwell School, a state secondary in Oxford, admitted he did not use the pupil’s preferred pronouns when he praised a group of pupils during a maths lesson by stating, ‘well done girls’. He claimed that this was not intentional and that he apologised immediately.

“The TRA found it was “more probable than not” that he publicly referred to the transgender pupil using female pronouns on other occasions while working at the school between 2015 and 2018, which Mr Sutcliffe denied.”

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Leviathan’s School Meals

     The state, Leviathan, considers all children to be not the parents’ but Leviathans. One of the ways Leviathan lays claim is in the name of “equity” and “equalization”. Good parents that can and do provide a good childhood for their children are considered monsters because it lays bare the consequences of bad parenting and the consequences thereof.

     Of course any decent society does not blame a child for their own upbringing, which is why it is moral for a society to not blame the child but more importantly provide positive examples to live by and the basic needs and education for such children to achieve beyond the limitations of their birth.

In any immoral society, the insane desire for leveling of opportunities results in punishing people lead socially constructive lives while subsidizing those who don’t.

     Any guess which of those two the Left wishes to support?

     Guess no longer.

“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), along with 15 colleagues in the Senate and 68 in the House of Representatives, today introduced legislation that provides a permanent solution to end child hunger in schools by offering free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to all students, preschool through high school, regardless of income, eliminating all school meal debt, and strengthening local economies by incentivizing local food procurement.

“The Universal School Meals Program Act of 2023 builds on the highly successful universal free school meals program that Congress funded to combat the spike in child and youth hunger brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. While various efforts were made to bolster and extend the program since 2020, it expired in September 2022 leaving nearly 30 million children who rely on free or reduced-price lunch in a state of uncertainty and strain.”

Pictured: School lunches under the dictates of Bernie Sanders, Nomenklatura.

     But while some focus on the increasing Federalization of schools or the price tag attached, the most important goal is to end being able to demonstrate the benefits of good parenting and living a good life (i.e. being able to provide your own child with food) while hiding the negative effects of bad parenting and living a bad life (i.e. needing to put your kid on government handouts). This does nothing but encourage the worst behavior while punishing the best.

     That is how you destroy any good and decent society.

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The Orwellian Erasure Of Women

      Orwell suggested that if you take away any word to describe a concept then people will be unable to think of such a concept. While overly simplistic an understanding of what Orwell was talking about in the novel “1984”, the Left is trying to push this concept further to denying basic biological reality. However, unlike a mere concept or even the idea of a thing, they are trying to erase a biological reality that does not care about word games or what one can or can not conceive of. But still, they will erase the very ability to even talk about the very existence of biological males and biological females.

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Teaching Racial Hate In California

Meanwhile, in a California Ethnic Studies Class…

      Just as soon as you thought students in California were safe from social justice studies, like chanting to Aztec gods, they come out with two “ethnic-studies” curricula that enshrine Critical Race Theory and a pedagogy of praxis.

      First is “Ethnic Studies: World Geography” which presumes a social Marxist style oppressor/oppressed dynamic with the assumption that Europeans who came to America and the indigenous groups were the innocent oppressed… despite the fact that the Aztec and Inca empires were some of the most brutal, murderous, and oppressive empires known to mankind with many native people flocking to the Spaniards as liberators. It also teaches to non-White students that they are oppressed and if they don’t think so they will be taught to be!

“Ethnic Studies: World Geography is a full-year social-studies course for high-school students in the district, and its stated purpose is to study “political and social hegemonies between cultures of power and indigenous groups” as a way to “develop empathy for individuals and groups as well as to challenge established stereotypes and Eurocentric perspectives of disputes between cultures of power and populations.”

“‘Essential questions’ posed to students throughout the course include: ‘How do insecurities in regards [sic] to self-image affect communities of color?’; ‘What role does white privilege play in the disenfranchisement of the perspectives and challenges of communities of color?’; ‘What [are] examples of racism, colorism, or white supremacy in your daily life around Santa Ana?’”

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News of the Week (May 28th, 2023)

 

News of the Week for May 28th, 2023


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Firing Line Friday: The Abscam Controversy

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     Congressional corruption is nothing new, nor are FBI operations to offer money or other rewards for illegal activity as an inducement. Let us look back as William F. Buckley, Jr. and Michael Tigar discuss the Abscam controversy which saw multiple members of Congress convicted of taking bribes in exchange for helping Arabs enter the country.

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