{"id":17405,"date":"2021-01-07T02:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17405"},"modified":"2021-01-07T02:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T09:14:29","slug":"quick-takes-when-some-races-are-more-equal-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/01\/07\/quick-takes-when-some-races-are-more-equal-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 When Some Races Are More Equal Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Racial bias; racial essentialism; racial lives that don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_qBs94M_XFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The thing is, the Left believes that *all* White people are racially biased, along with all &#8220;PoC&#8221; who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/black-campus-activists-demand-pitt-fire-faculty-found-guilty-of-racial-bias-by-committee-of-black-jurors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">don&#8217;t accept the woke narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBlack student activists at the University of Pittsburgh want to crackdown on racial bias at the school by making it easier to fire faculty and staff who are accused of racism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe demand by the students, who call themselves \u2018Black Pitt,\u2019 state that faculty and staff with a complaint of \u2018racial bias or excessive force \u2026 should be terminated and banned from the University campus immediately if found at fault,\u2019 according to a list of demands sent to the university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s more, \u2018During the time of the investigation, the faculty\/staff should be disclosed by name and banned from the University campus until its completion,\u2019 the demand adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe activists have called for the creation of a \u2018People\u2019s Voice Committee,\u2019 which would be made up of black students, faculty, and staff, to adjudicate the claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Old: Four legs good; two legs bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;New: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/stanford-daily-refuses-to-run-college-republicans-op-ed-accuses-it-of-anti-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackness good; Whiteness bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cStanford University\u2019s student-run newspaper, The Stanford Daily, refused to publish an opinion piece written by Stephen Sills, president of the Stanford College Republicans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018We ultimately declined to publish it because it included unsubstantiated and inflammatory claims that advanced a racist narrative, emphasizing violence committed by protestors while ignoring police brutality,\u2019 Stanford Daily Editor-in-Chief Charlie Curnin said in an email to The College Fix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Printing a diversity of opinions,\u2019 they said, \u2018is distinct from giving credence to language that has been used to undermine the credibility and humanity of Black people.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Daily\u2019s opinion editors, Adrian Liu and Claire Dinshaw, took issue with Sills\u2019 claim that \u2018looters and Antifa insurrectionists terrorize Americans.\u2019 They told Sills that \u2018there is scant evidence that Antifa protesters are a significant presence in the current protests.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLiu and Dinshaw also objected to the way Sills framed the piece. They said he neglected to include \u2018the important context that the vast majority of the protests are peaceful.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018This language implies that the terror and looting is a central element of the unrest, which is untrue.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Did they explain whose lives <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> matter?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course not, because we all already <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=15157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">know the answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUniversity of Massachusetts-Lowell Dean of Nursing Leslie Neal-Boylan issued an email on June 2 to the Solomont School of Nursing in light of the recent anti-racism demonstrations across the country, sources told Campus Reform. In the message, Neal-Boylan told students that \u2018everyone&#8217;s life matters.\u2019 Days later, Neal-Boylan was out of a job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe sources shared with Campus Reform the email over which Neal-Boylan was allegedly fired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Dear SSON Community,\u2019 the email provided to Campus Reform begins. \u2018I am writing to express my concern and condemnation of the recent (and past) acts of violence against people of color. Recent events recall a tragic history of racism and bias that continue to thrive in this country. I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE&#8217;S LIFE MATTERS.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018No one should have to live in fear that they will be targeted for how they look or what they believe,\u2019 the provided email continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis sparked controversy among many who received her email. The letter was posted to Twitter by a student who expressed disappointment in the Dean\u2019s \u2018everyone\u2019s life matters\u2019 statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"When Some Races Are More Equal Than Others \"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time:  Racial bias; racial essentialism; racial lives that don\u2019t matter.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Racial bias; racial essentialism; racial lives that don\u2019t matter. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/01\/07\/quick-takes-when-some-races-are-more-equal-than-others\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,29],"tags":[25,24,20,48],"class_list":["post-17405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","category-war-terror","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-occupy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17406,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405\/revisions\/17406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}