In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Justifying criminal activity to achieve purported “justice” “by any means necessary” is not a recent invention by #BlackLivesMatter, but has been around for a long time, as William F. Buckley, Jr. examines in a discussion with William Moses Kunstler and his place in the lawyer’s role.
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: Destroying children’s future for Social Justice!!1!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
What easier way it there to achieve “equity” than hiding the fact that the school system is incapable of teaching people of some races as well as others?
“Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.
“School board members discussed the plan called ‘Transformative Education Professional Development & Grading’ at a meeting on May 26, presented by Assistant Superintendent for Student Learning Laurie Fiorenza.
“In an effort to equalize test scores among racial groups, OPRF will order its teachers to exclude from their grading assessments variables it says disproportionally hurt the grades of black students. They can no longer be docked for missing class, misbehaving in school or failing to turn in their assignments, according to the plan.
“‘Traditional grading practices perpetuate inequities and intensify the opportunity gap,’ reads a slide in the PowerPoint deck outlining its rationale and goals.
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“Advocates for so-called ‘equity based’ grading practices, which seek to raise the grade point averages of black students and lower scores of higher-achieving Asian, white and Hispanic ones, say new grading criteria are necessary to further school districts’ mission of DEIJ, or ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice.’
“‘By training teachers to remove the non-academic factors from their grading practices and recognize when personal biases manifest, districts can proactively signal a clear commitment toward DEIJ,’ said Margaret Sullivan, associate director at the Education Advisory Board, which sells consulting services to colleges and universities.
“Sullivan calls grading based on traditional classroom testing and homework performance ‘outdated practices’ and foster ‘unconscious biases.’”
In many states, early voting can be indicative of performance in a general election. In Nevada, however, its a bit more complicated. The short answer as to why is that registration numbers usually tighten up through a statewide primary, and then the Democrats usually end up expanding their registration lead through the Summer and Fall, in large part due to the Culinary Union and the Reid machine. The one big exception to this was in 2014 where the Democrat’s ended up collapsing in the November election in a way not seen in nearly a century. So, with the Democrats nationally doing poorly, the elections of November 2021 showing a double digit shift from Biden’s 2020 vote, and most importantly the Reid machine suffering not only from the Democratic Socialists of America taking control of much of the Democratic party in Nevada but also from the death of Harry Reid himself, what might we gleam from early voting numbers in Nevada so far?
The rise of neo-isolationists, particularly on the “right”, who would cede to world to America’s geo-political enemies under the belief that “nation building at home” can be done free of the wicked world in a “safe space”, needs clear counterpoints raised thereagainst. Sen. Ben Sasse (R – NE), offers such a counterpoint in this Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute’s A Time for Choosing Speaker Series lecture.
Pictured: A Fish in California.
If men can legally be women, then why can’t a bee legally be a fish? A California appeals court rules that yes, yes bees can be fish.
“A California appeals court has ruled that bees are ‘fish’ for purposes of the state’s endangered species act. While “commonly understood” that a fish ‘lives in aquatic environments,’ ‘terrestrial invertebrate[s],’ including bumble bees, qualify legally.”
News of the Week for June 5th, 2022
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
How far is too far when it comes to fighting unconstrained by the law for some greater good? Or is it even actually within the lawful powers of those authorize such actions? In the wake of Watergate, William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses the question of subversion and the law with Roy M. Cohn and W. Mark Felt.
Once upon a time a true American ambassador spoke to a convention in America and said something very true of certain segments of domestic opposition cum agitation: They always blame America first.
Yet again, we see this.
In this case, it stems ( or pseudo-stems) from a post from some group that bastardizes the name of “Mises”, and so blame all ills on America first and foremost.
Oh, the delusions it must take to declare that all ills in the world, yes even the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is due to American, or at least Anglo-American malfeasance, and hope for an “internal” cure to this…
If, in order to defend your extreme isolationist or non-interventionist foreign policy utopia, you literally end up defending Hitler… then maybe your policies aren’t exactly a moral good.
We’ve reached the parts of the horseshoe where paleo-cons (once respectable back in the day) and libertarians (also one respectable back in the day) now wholeheartedly agree that Hitler wasn’t that bad…
They always blame America first and foremost, if not exclusively.
…other people not using “paintself” pronouns is not the problem—the lack or real mental healthcare is.
One of this person’s headmates goes by paint/paintself pronouns. You must make an effort to make paint feel comfortable. pic.twitter.com/8e5XkG6fTF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 27, 2022
News of the Week for May 29th, 2022
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