In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Though not so much these days, the South stood apart, for good or ill, half a century ago. Let us look back upon how Southern literature so influenced beyond mere borders as William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed with Eudora Welty, Jerry Ward, Dan Hise, Gordon Weaver, and Walker Percy in the discussion of The Southern Imagination.
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: Four Legs Good; Two Legs Bad.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
President Biden is pushing for “equity” in school discipline, which means that some kids who shouldn’t be punished will, and some who should won’t.
“As National Youth Justice Action Month is marked in October, the Biden administration is again voicing allegations of racial disparity in juvenile misconduct prosecution, with a September 30 proclamation decrying such bias.
“The statement underscores the Biden administration’s dubious portrayal of racial disparities in school discipline and has led education watchdogs to question — and debunk — the narrative.
“Biden’s proclamation stated it is ‘imperative that we root out racial inequities.”
Can’t debate as well as a White student? Don’t worry, you don’t have to blame a crappy education when you can just not allow Whitey to debate!
“Student-run debate organizations at Northeastern University and Boston College co-hosted the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s (APDA) ‘inaugural BIPOC tournament’ and explicitly prohibited white students from competing.
“The BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color,) only tournament included teams from multiple universities including the University of Chicago.
“As The Chicago Thinker reported this past semester, The University of Chicago informed students the BIPOC debate was only open to anyone who ‘does not identify as white.’”
If the stick doesn’t work, spread wokeness with a woke carrot!
“A public Tennessee university is offering professors financial incentives for “infusing” social justice into their classes.
“The University of Memphis told faculty they could collect a $3,000 stipend for redesigning their curricula to align with the university’s commitment to ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice,’ according to an email sent to all faculty obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The offer is part of the university’s ‘Eradicating Systemic Racism and Promoting Social Justice Initiative.’
“Interested faculty are asked to submit a copy of syllabi to be reworked as well as a 500-word ‘narrative’ on their ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy’ and how the new lessons will “address disparities” in their subject area.”
TTFN.
Critical Race Theory and Critical Gender Theory are intersectional in opposition to the Kyriarchy, and blames the existence of two and only two genders on “systems of oppression”. Being Critical Theories, they require praxis—that is, proactive measures to effect change—and that praxis is the indoctrination of children to make a nouveau “Red Guard” whose sole purpose is not to be educated but to be the foot soldier in the woke quest to dismantle those “systems”… that is, our society.
Christopher Rufo has yet again uncovered primary documentation of these indocrinators in their own words.
NEW: The Michigan Department of Education instructed public school teachers how to facilitate child sexual transitions and recommended that teachers keep a child's "chosen name and pronouns" a secret from parents, even if the child is suicidal.
It's all on video. 🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 14, 2022
The training program follows the basic narrative of radical gender theory: the presenters claim the West has created a false notion that “gender is binary” in order to oppress racial and sexual minorities. In response, teachers should work to “dismantle systems of oppression.” pic.twitter.com/weNqAmcokn
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 14, 2022
More and more people are noticing that the latest woke craze didn’t just suddenly sprout out of the ground ex nihilo, but were carefully planted as seeds long before.
Corollary is that if some con in 2005 had said that SSM would lead to child sex changes, everyone, including in his own camp, would have thought him nuts.
— PEG (@pegobry) September 18, 2022
Some people have been warning about this for decades. I though, over ten years ago, that “transgenderism” had already taken root, even though not yet sprouted, much in the same way same sex marriage was way back in the ’90s.
Real question is “what’s next”?
To answer that question just look to academia—not so much the current indoctrination of undergrads—but the graduate, post-graduate, and professorial musings from fields such as those that include the word “studies” in the title. Not everything there will make it out, but any sign of what you see there moving outside those narrow academic confines or being validated by people outside it, must be uprooted before it has a chance to take too firm a hold.
What the Left does is change what is perceived as “normal”, not through direct assault, but by undermining the reasons & mores and replacing them with reasons & mores that are most consistent with the “new normal”. They hollow out all the underlying mores, values, and beliefs while leaving the “old normal” as an empty shell… until they rebuild something new. People don’t notice because they were distracted or simply not pay proper attention to all the warning signs.
That way, when they do act overtly, people accept the “new normal” because it is more consistent with the new mores, values, and beliefs that had been snuck in sub rosa—and anyone who wants the “old normal” will be seen as the crazy ones.
News of the Week for Sept. 18th, 2022
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Elections and politics have always been an exercise in selling wise ideas at best, and carnival barking at worst. This was also the case over half-a-century ago, as explored by William F. Buckley, Jr. and guest Joe McGinnis who explored the selling of the president back in 1968.
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.
focus this time: So Sayeth Justin Trudeau: KILL THEM KILL THEM ALL.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Do you know how you run a socialized health system that doesn’t drain a country’s entire treasury? Easy! Just kill all the people who might need long term medical help!
“The horror stories from Canada about pressure for “assisted suicide” choices on the disabled and those with profoundly-chronic illness rarely make news in American media outlets. That makes this report from the Associated Press eye-popping indeed. Disability advocates in Canada have leveled accusations that Canada’s nationalized health-care system has used the legalized assisted-suicide system as a vehicle for euthanasia and cost savings”
< !--more-->Are you a soldier suffering from PTSD? Congratulations if you are Canadian, because now you can be euthanized for free!!1!
“A Canadian armed forces veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was offered medical assistance in dying by an employee of Veterans Affairs Canada.
“The VAC released a statement last week admitting to an incident ‘where medical assistance in dying was discussed inappropriately’ with the veteran. The department pledged that ‘appropriate administrative action will be taken’ after the veteran expressed outrage at the suggestion, according to a report in Global News.
“According to the report, the veteran called VAC seeking support for PTSD when the employee brought up medical assistance in dying, or euthanasia, unprompted. The veteran was reportedly shocked by the suggestion. His family told Global News that the soldier had been making positive progress in his physical and mental rehabilitation and that he felt betrayed by an agency that is tasked with assisting veterans.”
Can you hear me now? If not, Canada wants you do die!
“Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.
“Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
“His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.”
TTFN.
The magical thinking of the Left includes the magical power of the spoken and written word. Call a man a woman, and if everyone says it and believes it, then it becomes true. But the opposite is also believed: If you deny something a word to describe it, then it ceases to exist, objective reality be damned. This is why the Left are so hell bent on denying the existence of “critical race theory”, “cultural Marxism”, an even the word “woke”. What these words describe exists, even if people don’t have a firm definition, for things that exist and affect people will practically command a word come about to describe them.
Hence, why you are not supposed to say “woke”.
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It isn't "Woke"
It isn't "Critical Race Theory"
It isn't "Socialism"
It isn't "Critical Social Justice"
It isn't "Neo-marxism"
It isn't "Cultural Marxism"
It isn't "political correctness"Why you aren't allowed to give *IT* a name,
A thread 🧵https://t.co/5gVlF1bTSj
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 4, 2022
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We are not allowed to call *it* anything.*It* of course, is wokeness. Now before @BenjaminSWatson (tagging for honesty) says I can't define it, let me go ahead and define it and then explain the game that is being played when we are told that we cannot define "woke."
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) September 4, 2022
Tribalism and “us vs. them” sentiment of the nationalist global ideology seems resurgent these days, but let us not forget the miracle that elevated an individual as more than a tool of the elitists.
There isn’t some false dilemma fallacy of “collective submission” vs. “anarchic libertarian greed”. It is a triumph of the common over subjugation of the many.
Lurie Children’s Hospital has joined in with the transgender craze. Unsurprisingly these days, they invoke intersectionality—that is, the Kyriarchy—by declaring that White people invented the “gender binary” as a tool of systemic oppression. And their way of fighting this “oppressive system” is through “gender affirming gear” and… bondage gear like bed restraints, kink kits, and harnesses.
SCOOP: Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago has created a partnership with local public school districts to promote radical gender theory, “kink,” “BDSM,” artificial penis “packers,” “trans masc pump[s],” and “trans-friendly [sex] toys” for children.
Here's the story.🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
According to a whistleblower, gender activists at Lurie Children’s Hospital and school administrators in at least four Chicago-area public school systems—Districts 75, 120, 181, and 204—have circulated a training document titled “Beyond Binary: Gender in Schools.” pic.twitter.com/kBVn5KZuR9
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
And then comes the “intersectionality”.
The training follows the basic narrative of academic queer theory: white, Western society has created an oppressive gender binary, falsely dividing the world into the categories of man and woman, that has resulted in “transphobia,” “cissexism,” and “systemic discrimination.” pic.twitter.com/VkyVAgBE47
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
The presentation encourages public schools to support “gender diversity” in their districts, automatically “affirm” students who announce sexual transitions, and disrupt the “entrenched norms in western society” in order to create to a more “gender creative” world. pic.twitter.com/OdFuoETxik
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
In a version of the presentation circulated to middle school and high school teachers and staff in District 75 and 120, Lurie Children's Hospital promoted a “Binder Exchange Program” to assist teenage girls in binding their breasts. pic.twitter.com/VWsqU6qT8w
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
In a version of the presentation circulated to middle school and high school teachers and staff in District 75 and 120, Lurie Children's Hospital promoted a “Binder Exchange Program” to assist teenage girls in binding their breasts. pic.twitter.com/VWsqU6qT8w
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
Next, Lurie Children's Hospital promoted a “kid friendly website for gender affirming gear,” which sells items such as artificial penis “packers,” female-to-male “trans masc pump[s],” and “stand to pee devices” for minors. pic.twitter.com/ImU7UBOqCS
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
Next, Lurie Children’s Hospital promoted an “LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens” that sells a range of “dildos,” “vibrators,” “harnesses,” “anal toys,” “trans-friendly toys,” and “kink & BDSM” equipment. The site includes graphic descriptions of sadomasochism and bondage. pic.twitter.com/Kb4yUKWtBZ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
Finally, Lurie Children’s Hospital published a school policy guide, encouraging districts to adopt a “gender-affirming approach” to the curriculum and to allow students sleep in bunks during overnight school trips in accordance with their “gender identity,” rather than their sex. pic.twitter.com/5AuBpFByOT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 31, 2022
The full report can be read here.
Oh, they also tried to cover their tracks when they were uncovered by Christopher Rufo. The internet, though, is forever.
UPDATE: After I reported on the district's radical gender theory training program, administrators at Chicago-area District 181 have wiped the document from their servers.
But it's too late. They can't hide. I always keep receipts: https://t.co/uDJ3hRyAiY pic.twitter.com/XdmQ44pxyj
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 1, 2022
The document can also be viewed here or below:
Gender in Schools – Beyond … by ThePoliticalHat
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