When touting “diversity”, obviously colleges highlight “Students of Color” and exclude White students. Oh, and apparently Asian students are not “diverse” enough and have to sit with the White kids in the uncool/non-diverse section of the statistics.
We're at the point in the discourse when colleges have created the highly scientific and totally legitimate racial category of "Students of Color, minus Asian" pic.twitter.com/3Nzgs6Iszt
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) November 10, 2021
News of the Week for Nov. 21st, 2021
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
To demonstrate that there are things we ought to be thankful for and perhaps we can be thankful once again for, here is William F. Buckley, Jr. chatting with then Presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan (and Thomas Plate) about what might be, which is an interesting comparison with what actually was.
The state of North Dakota has not only introduced, but passed into law, legislation that explicitly bans the teaching of Critical Race Theory, by name, as fact.
The law reads, in full (bold and underline in original):
A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 15.1-21 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory in public schools; and to provide an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
SECTION 1. A new section to chapter 15.1-21 of the North Dakota Century Code is created and enacted as follows:
Curriculum – Critical race theory – Prohibited.
Each school district and public school shall ensure instruction of its curriculum is factual, objective, and aligned to the kindergarten through grade twelve state content standards. A school district or public school may not include instruction relating to critical race theory in any portion of the district’s required curriculum under sections 15.1 – 21 – 01 or 15.1 – 21 – 02, or any other curriculum offered by the district or school. For purposes of this section, “critical race theory” means the theory that racism is not merely the product of learned individual bias or prejudice, but that racism is systemically embedded in American society and the American legal system to facilitate racial inequality. The superintendent of public instruction may adopt rules to govern this section.
SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act becomes effective upon its filing with the secretary of state
A challenge to this law would entail the courts hashing out exactly what Critical Race Theory is. On one hand, it would allow people such as James Lindsay to fully and accurately explain this evil. On the other hand, it would give an opportunity for idiot politicians and talking heads to rant incoherently and allow mainstream media to lie about it.
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: Woke medicine is crazy!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Nothing says modern medical psychology like protecting students from “psychic suffering”!
“Last month, Middlebury College hired Alberto Soto to serve as its Director of Counseling. In an interview Soto told The Middlebury Campus that ‘source of all our psychic suffering,’ are ‘whiteness, heteronormativity,’ and ‘patriarchal systems’.
“‘The body and mind cannot be healed solely by self-care and focusing on surviving,’ Soto told the student newspaper. ‘At some point we must address and identify the source of all our psychic suffering, which is whiteness, heteronormativity, patriarchal systems, etc.’
“Soto earned his PhD in psychology at Brigham Young University, a conservative, Mormon institution.”
When a child “comes out” as transgender, everyone is supposed to believe that child without question, with even parents being punished for daring to disagree. This is because being “transgender” is “who they are” and forcing them to be something they don’t believe themselves to be is evil… just as long as they stay “transgender”.
Notice how many of these same people who say you must believe a child’s self-declared “gender identity” are aghast and bemused when a child changes their mind and comes out as cis-gender?
Don’t like private banks? Neither does Biden’s Treasury nominee Saule Omarova who wants all private bank accounts to become direct deposit accounts controlled by the Federal Reserve!
Proposal by Biden’s Treasury nominee Saule Omarova:
"There will be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the fed" pic.twitter.com/ojQviX74Bz
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) November 12, 2021
If you thought what happened in Loudoun, Virginia was bad, at least they didn’t suspend the victim of rape for daring to report the rape despite the perpetrator admitting his crime to the police!
A 15 year old student at @CharMeckSchools was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a male student. The police investigated and filed charges against him.
When they reported it to the school, the school SUSPENDED THE VICTIM for “filing a false report”. Insane. pic.twitter.com/hlgleu3QLy— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) November 4, 2021
Ah, Canada! The land where state monopoly healthcare is geared towards slaughter. The land where climate heretics are rooted out and punished. Now these two facets have combined in a Canadian way: A doctor in British Columbia is diagnosing patients as suffering from “climate change”. The following missive from famed physician barber Theodoric of York in support of this new policy is presented.
Theodoric of York, Climate Scientist
You know, medicine is not an exact science, but we are learning all the time. Why, just fifty years ago, they thought diseases like diabetes and heart failure is caused by unhealthy dieting and lack of exercise. But nowadays we know that people are suffering from an an angry Gaia due to an imbalance of nature, perhaps caused by a lack of wind and solar farms. I am thrilled that more and more medical professionals are coming around to realize the truth, such as Doctor Merritt:
“Climate change enters the ER: For the first time in his 10 years as a physician, the ER doctor picked up his patient’s chart and penned in the words ‘climate change.’ ‘If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just gonna keep falling further and further behind,’ he told Glacier Media when asked why he did it. At the same time, Merritt says he hoped another family physician would read the chart, and one day, consider drawing a straighter line between their patients’ health and climate change.
“… The response was immediate. Roughly 40 doctors and nurses at the small hospital — all busy trying to manage a pandemic and their regular professional lives — came together under the banner Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health. … Starting Thursday at noon, Lau says the non-partisan group is calling on the provincial government to, among other things, declare an ‘ecological emergency’ and end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. ‘A lot of us were really shook by this summer, by the heat dome and the wildfires that are just escalating every year,’ she says. ‘This is about moving forward in a way that saves lives.’”
If only more professional practitioners of bloodletting, leeches, and climatology acknowledged modern science and treated the problem, a disgruntled goddess of the Earth, and not the symptoms like “disease”.
Silicone Valley doesn’t have a monopoly on wokeness in computers. Redmond has gotten into the game and gone full out in support for wokeness: Microsoft is now pushing proper pronouns and appologetics for “native stolen land”, amongst other things.
In addition to declaring their pronouns, bugmen are now greeting each other by stating their ethnicity and hairstyle pic.twitter.com/EvtNv0pKD0
— Lomez (@L0m3z) November 4, 2021
It gets worse:
But that’s just the company’s internal culture, right? No way this effects you, right?
That whole event started like, what I can only describe as, a religious event.. pic.twitter.com/jcnTUUNLiE
— Prof. Corn Pop (@profcornpop) November 4, 2021
I was flagged for using the word "actress" instead of "actor." Not gender-neutral enough, apparently. As you can see, I turned it off. The wokesters' ideology is being propagated by the very software people use, forced on them whether they like it or not. pic.twitter.com/rPH63fvk6w
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) November 4, 2021
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