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How to fight super-racist "critical race theory"


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2021 Apr 25, 9:45am   3,813 views  202 comments

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https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-fight-critical-race-theory

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it—and of those who have, many don’t understand it. This must change. We need to know what it is so we can know how to fight it.

To explain critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. ...

Its supporters deploy a series of euphemisms to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, critical race theorists explicitly reject equality...

UCLA law professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth, and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others deemed insufficiently “antiracist.”

One practical result of the creation of such a department would be the overthrow of capitalism, since, according to Kendi, “In order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist.” In other words, identity is the means; Marxism is the end.

An equity-based form of government would mean the end not only of private property but also of individual rights, equality under the law, federalism, and freedom of speech. These would be replaced by race-based redistribution of wealth, group-based rights, active discrimination, and omnipotent bureaucratic authority. Historically, the accusation of “anti-Americanism” has been overused. But in this case, it’s not a matter of interpretation: critical race theory prescribes a revolutionary program that would overturn the principles of the Declaration and destroy the remaining structure of the Constitution. ...

In Cupertino, California, an elementary school forced first-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities and rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” ...

There are three parts to a successful strategy to defeat the forces of critical race theory: governmental action, grassroots mobilization, and an appeal to principle. ...

We already see examples of governmental action. Last year, one of my reports led President Trump to issue an executive order banning critical race theory–based training programs in the federal government. President Biden rescinded this order on his first day in office...

I have organized a coalition of attorneys to file lawsuits against schools and government agencies that impose critical race theory–based programs on grounds of the First Amendment (which protects citizens from compelled speech), the Fourteenth Amendment (which provides equal protection under the law), and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race). ...

On the grassroots level, a multiracial and bipartisan coalition is emerging to fight critical race theory. Parents are mobilizing against racially divisive curricula in public schools and employees are increasingly speaking out against Orwellian reeducation in the workplace. When they see what is happening, Americans are naturally outraged that critical race theory promotes three ideas—race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation—that violate the basic principles of equality and justice. Anecdotally, many Chinese-Americans have told me that, having survived the Cultural Revolution in their former country, they refuse to let the same thing happen here. ...

In terms of principles, we need to employ our own moral language rather than allow ourselves to be confined by the categories of critical race theory. For example, we often find ourselves debating “diversity.” Diversity as most of us understand it is generally good, all things being equal, but it is of secondary value. We should be talking about and aiming at excellence, a common standard that challenges people of all backgrounds to achieve their potential. On the scale of desirable ends, excellence beats diversity every time. ...

Similarly, in addition to pointing out the dishonesty of the historical narrative on which critical race theory is predicated, we must promote the true story of America—a story that is honest about injustices in American history, but that places them in the context of our nation’s high ideals and the progress we have made toward realizing them. Genuine American history is rich with stories of achievements and sacrifices that will move the hearts of Americans, in stark contrast to the grim and pessimistic narrative pressed by critical race theorists.

Above all, we must have courage, the fundamental virtue required in our time: courage to stand and speak the truth, courage to withstand epithets, courage to face the mob, and courage to shrug off the scorn of elites. When enough of us overcome the fear that currently prevents so many from speaking out, the hold of critical race theory will begin to slip. And courage begets courage. It’s easy to stop a lone dissenter; it’s much harder to stop 10, 20, 100, 1,000, 1 million, or more who stand up together for the principles of America. Truth and justice are on our side. If we can muster the courage, we will win.

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41   Onvacation   2021 May 12, 12:45pm  

MOM DELIVERS SCORCHING TAKEDOWN OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
42   Patrick   2021 May 12, 5:21pm  

CRT is more racist than the KKK.
43   komputodo   2021 May 12, 9:58pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
Don't buy CCP anything if you can.

But I only have 4 - 60 inch screens in the house...I need another one for my patio.
44   Patrick   2021 May 12, 10:09pm  

There should be a "Made in America" version of Amazon, where everything is made in America.
46   WillPowers   2021 May 13, 3:24pm  

Ignore it and hope it goes away. Even people on the left don't believe this nonsense.
47   AmericanKulak   2021 May 13, 3:32pm  

Hoax it, more and more.

Imagine if everybody used the Postmodernism Generator and submitted "articles" to Journals?
https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

After editing them slightly for some references to various feminists like Andrea Dworkin or Kate Millett.

They'd either be forced to adopt some kind of objective measure to detect their own bullshit, or apply some standards, which would then give their assertions some solidity, allowing it to be therefore refutable as well as forcing them to create objective standards they claim don't exist or are oppressive.

Accelerationism.

Interesting take on literal Mass hysteria and the forgotten link between Hysteric and "Ovaries"
https://avoiceformen.com/featured/mass-hysteria-madness-and-feminism/
48   Patrick   2021 May 13, 7:34pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
Imagine if everybody used the Postmodernism Generator and submitted "articles" to Journals?
https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/


Lol, this is great!

So https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ just has bullshit auto-generated leftist academic papers?

I suppose it's pretty easy because there is no real content, just word salad to put off anyone who wants to criticize it. How can you criticize what you can't understand? And how can you understand something which is nonsense?
49   Patrick   2021 May 13, 7:36pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
Hoax it, more and more.


I like it as a strategy.

Feed them their own bullshit until they give up on bullshit.
50   AmericanKulak   2021 May 13, 7:48pm  

Patrick says

So https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ just has bullshit auto-generated leftist academic papers?

I suppose it's pretty easy because there is no real content, just word salad to put off anyone who wants to criticize it. How can you criticize what you can't understand? And how can you understand something which is nonsense?


Exactly. And you can always claim to be a genius so genius, you can't be understood.

Paglia calls it "the best philosophy for the Middlebrow". They aren't dumb, but they know they aren't geniuses, but want to be hailed for their intellect, so they learn the world salad lingo.
51   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 May 13, 8:17pm  

WillPowers says
Ignore it and hope it goes away. Even people on the left don't believe this nonsense.


Ignoring lgbt crap just got them to run cancel culture on everyone. People didn’t speak up for 4 years, and now leftist nazis running around cancelling people for wrong think.

Not speaking up means only one idea is allowed. And that’s what America has become. Totalitarian regime.
53   Patrick   2021 May 15, 10:24am  

That sounds exactly right to me.

Divide us with stupid race and "gender" crap in order to keep the half trillion dollars (literally) of annual Chinese imports flowing in for short term profit, crushing US manufacturing jobs.

Bonus: the wages for the shit jobs that remain can be crushed with tens of millions of illegals!
54   RC2006   2021 May 15, 11:35am  

Just walk away from public schools in lib cities. Let them wither and die under the weight of non productive batshit crazy non taxpaying base.
56   Patrick   2021 May 16, 1:30pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/space-force-officer-relieved-after-denouncing-marxism-critical-race-theory-in-military_3817370.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Capt. Matthew Lohmeier, 460th Operations Group Block 10 chief of training, stands in the Standardized Space Trainer on Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., on July 22, 2015. (Darren Scott/U.S. Air Force)
POLITICS
Space Force Officer Relieved After Denouncing Marxism, Critical Race Theory in Military
BY JACK PHILLIPS May 16, 2021
A U.S. Space Force commanding officer was removed from his post after publishing a book that warned of the spread of Marxism and critical race theory in the military.


Do not forget this. Whoever removed him should be remembered and endlessly shamed for his/her betrayal of America and basic humanity.
57   AmericanKulak   2021 May 16, 9:04pm  

Revenge is his.


58   Patrick   2021 May 16, 9:09pm  

Surprised that Amazon hasn't censored that book as it has with other "problematic" writers.
59   Patrick   2021 May 17, 5:16pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/american-airlines-investigating-pilot-who-opposes-school-districts-critical-race-theory-plan_3818459.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

American Airlines Investigating Pilot Who Opposes School District’s Critical Race Theory Plan
BY GQ PAN May 17, 2021
American Airlines says it’s investigating a Texas-based pilot who spoke against an effort by his local school district to implement elements of critical race theory.


OK, the message American Airlines is sending is to avoid flying with them. Noted.
60   Patrick   2021 May 17, 5:23pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
Revenge is his.




Yes, seems to be true!

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/space-force-officers-book-on-marxism-in-the-military-reaches-no-1-on-amazon-after-hes-relieved_3818517.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Space Force Officer’s Book on Marxism in the Military Reaches No. 1 on Amazon After He’s Relieved
BY JACK PHILLIPS May 17, 2021

A U.S. Space Force officer’s self-published book positing that Marxist ideology and Critical Race Theory is being spread throughout the military reached the top of Amazon’s bestseller list on Sunday after it was learned that he was relieved of his command.
61   Patrick   2021 May 18, 5:05pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/relieved-space-force-officer-im-being-misportrayed_3820377.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Relieved Space Force Officer: ‘I’m Being Misportrayed’
Lt. Col. Lohmeier Said He's Received 'Thousands' of Supportive Messages
BY SAMUEL ALLEGRI May 18, 2021

A U.S. Space Force lieutenant colonel who was relieved of his command “due to a loss of trust,” said that he is being “misportrayed” on the internet with respect to some of his remarks about communism on a podcast earlier this month.
62   Patrick   2021 May 18, 10:10pm  

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-05-18/two-ways-push-back-against-cultural-revolution

Two ways to push back against the Cultural Revolution
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BY TDB
TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2021 - 12:11
by Simon Black via Sovereign Man

Fourteen year old Gao Yuan was attending a boarding school in China when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966. And that’s when his life changed forever.

Even though the communists had won the Chinese Civil War and been in total power since 1945, Chairman Mao still believed that there was too much capitalist influence in China.

So he decided to completely rewrite literature, history, and the entire education system.

School instruction switched from teaching math and science, to activism.

Students like Gao Yuan were encouraged to find and punish “revisionists” who sought to undermine the revolution’s progress, including their own parents and teachers.

One teacher fell under suspicion because, even though he routinely spoke of China’s natural beauty, he didn’t ever praise Chairman Mao.

Other teachers were denounced for wearing western clothes or engaging in bourgeois activities— like drinking wine or buying an expensive radio.

Gao Yuan liked his teachers and hesitated to participate. But he was even more afraid of being labeled an evil revisionist himself. So he joined the mob and began accusing teachers and parents.

The assistant headmaster committed suicide when accused of revisionism. Gao Yuan found his body, and even though he had liked him, Gao assumed the suicide proved the man must have been guilty of thought crime.

Another teacher died under mysterious circumstances. Soon the rest of the faculty fled, and the school fell under the control of the students.

That’s when the situation really turned bizarre.

Factions quickly formed like rival gangs, and the students turned against one other. Each group accused the other of failure to live up to the full revolutionary spirit, finding micro-transgressions everywhere.

Students were killed— one suffocated after have had a sock stuffed in his mouth. Another was tortured to death. One girl committed suicide rather than be captured by a rival student group. Several children died in an accidental explosion while attempting to make bombs.

This was NOT an isolated incident; as the Cultural Revolution spread, similar incidents occurred across China in government offices, factories, schools, and the military.

Gao Yuan eventually fled the school, only to find that his father had been “canceled” by local students for caring too much about farming and economics, and not enough about party politics. He lost a prominent position in county government.

When Gao Yuan finally returned to his school months later, he found the campus destroyed— shattered windows, unmarked graves, bombed out buildings, and utter chaos.

Years later he recounted his experience in a book called Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution.

Now the US is entering its own Cultural Revolution. While any rational person can see many forms of discrimination that still exist, we are being force fed a narrative that White Supremacy is at the core of everything.

It has become so ridiculous that, according to one California state math education group, saying 2+2=4 perpetuates white supremacy.

The only way to fix it is for “anti-racists” to identify and punish the oppressors, i.e. people who believe that 2+2=4.

This is among the many lessons that now dominate school curiccula in many districts in the Land of the Free.

Kids are being taught Critical Race Theory, and a brand new history based on the New York Times’s 1619 Project.

Books that have been at the cornerstone of literature classes for more than a century are now being cancelled. Math and science are blasted as racist and transphobic.

Students at an elite private school in Manhattan called Grace Church High School now dedicate hours each week to “anti-racism” instruction.

Segregated sessions force white students to attend classes which teach them that objectivity and individualism are features of white supremacy.

They are taught to find and report racial “micro-aggressions” of their teachers and peers— for instance, if someone insists they don’t care about someone’s skin color.

Challenging, questioning, or engaging in discussion about systemic racism is taken as proof that the transgressor is racist.

A former teacher at the school, Paul Rossi, attempted to introduce debate about the topic in a segregated, ‘whites only’ learning session.

He was accused of harassment, and told his failure to accept as gospel the critical race narrative created “dissonance for vulnerable and unformed thinkers” and “neurological disturbance in students’ beings and systems.”

This is what educators honestly believe— that differing opinions and constructive discussion are literally harmful to students’ brains.

Rossi was forced to resign. But it’s not just teachers who are cancelled.

Students are also punished for questioning Critical Race Theory, and they are reprimanded if they don’t speak up in support of it.

Teachers suggested that the school “officially flag” students who remain silent, believe in meritocracy, or suggest that everyone be treated with respect regardless of skin color.

Incredibly, a new government regulation proposed by the US Department of Education last month will prioritize special federal funding to schools which focus on this sort of thought control .

The national media reinforces this dogma. When parents speak out against Critical Race Theory being taught in their children’s schools, the media blasts them as white supremacists.

Recently, 70% of a Texas town voted for school board members vehemently opposed to Critical Race Theory, in a local election where about three times as many voters as usual turned out.

Yet NBC reported it was a “bitterly divided election”. Really? Does a 70% to 30% victory with massive voter turnout sound bitterly divided?

It’s clear based on these (and other) election results that the majority of the population opposes this cultural revolution.

The people who are trying to cancel Western Civilization are just a small, extremely vocal minority. The problem is, they control the media, the big tech companies, the universities, and most of the federal government, so their message seems much more popular than it really is.

This revolution has even spread to the military and intelligence agencies, with everyone from the CIA to US Special Operations Command prioritizing wokeness over national defense.

And of course, dozes of major corporations from Disney to Coca Cola have jumped on the bandwagon too.

History has much to teach us. And the key lesson from China’s cultural revolution is that these movements don’t suddenly disappear.

Now, you might be surprised to hear me say that the strongest way to fight back against this movement is to VOTE.

But I’m not talking about the broken political process.

I’m talking about the vote you make with your money.

If you disagree with a company’s woke politics, stop buying their products. Honestly. If you hate the fact that Disney is ultra-woke, but you’re not willing to give up your Disney+ membership, then you may need to rethink your priorities.

Same goes for Woka Cola, or any other major brand.

There’s also the vote you can make with your feet.

If your state or local government has totally lost its mind, consider moving. You can’t fix your neighbors’ way of thinking, but you can might be able to find greener pastures elsewhere.
64   Ceffer   2021 May 19, 11:43am  

"White brains are a hazard to the dictatorship. Therefore, we will arm and incite the pidgins to overwhelm them!"
65   Patrick   2021 May 19, 10:08pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/asra-nomani-critical-race-theory-indoctrination-in-schools-dehumanizes-asian-families_3819135.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and parent in Fairfax County, Virginia, said she never before experienced the kind of prejudice and discrimination she has encountered over the last year from those pushing critical race theory in her local school district.

In an interview with Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders,” Nomani said she was “horrified” by the months-long “assault on Asian American families” at the county’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, one of the nation’s top-achieving schools, where her son was a senior. ...

“It was racial demographics,” she said. “It was that we didn’t have enough underrepresented minorities, meaning blacks and Hispanics, and we had too many Asians.”


Good, Asians are now allies in the fight against CRT racism and all-around stupidity.
66   Patrick   2021 May 19, 10:10pm  

At least there are still some based judges:

Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Doling Out Grants Based on Race, Gender
BY ZACHARY STIEBER May 19, 2021

A federal judge in Texas this week blocked the Biden administration from prioritizing grants in a COVID-19 restaurant relief program by their race or gender.


https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/judge-blocks-biden-administration-from-doling-out-grants-based-on-race-gender_3822305.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net
67   Tenpoundbass   2021 May 20, 10:11am  

This is just sad...

68   Patrick   2021 May 21, 5:23pm  

Ah, getting cancelled works both ways in Florida now:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/florida-teacher-gets-fired-over-crt-ban-but-parents-still-concerned-over-textbooks_3824057.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

A Duval County teacher has been terminated from classroom instruction for refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter banner from the wall outside her classroom, violating Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in public schools.

“The commissioner referred to censure, firing, and termination in his answer at Hillsdale College,” Cheryl Etters, Interim Director of Communications for the Florida Department of Education (FDOE), told The Epoch Times. “All are recommendations he makes to the Office of Professional Practices Services on an ongoing basis and are well within his power.”

The FDOE’s “Office of Professional Practices Services (PPS) investigates misconduct by educators who hold a Florida Educator Certificate or a valid application for a Florida Educator Certificate.”

“In referring to the Jacksonville case,” Etters clarified to The Epoch Times, “he used ‘terminate’ to indicate the decision to terminate the teacher from classroom instruction. This was done by the district, and the commissioner was in agreement. Obviously, the commissioner possesses significant authority to ensure every child has access to a world-class education free from indoctrination.”

Donofrio is suing (pdf) the Duval County Public School system and High School Regional Superintendent Scott Schneider, claiming her termination for not adhering to the principles outlined in Rule 6A-10.081 of Florida’s Administrative Code violated her right to free speech. She is demanding a jury trial.

According to the principles outlined in the rule, teachers “shall not intentionally expose a student to unnecessary embarrassment or disparagement,” and “shall not harass or discriminate against any student on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, handicapping condition, sexual orientation, or social and family background and shall make reasonable effort to assure that each student is protected from harassment or discrimination.”

“Governor DeSantis has made clear his position on CRT,” Executive Office of the Governor Press Secretary Christina Pushaw explained exclusively to The Epoch Times on Wednesday. “It is divisive, irrational, and has no place in our classrooms. CRT is rooted in Marxism, an anti-American ideology that has caused untold suffering and death everywhere it has been implemented. Moreover, CRT teaches discrimination based on ethnicity and racial background.”

“The governor has zero tolerance for state-sanctioned racism,” Pushaw emphasized, stressing that DeSantis adheres to the same principle expressed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in that he “believes that every child should learn to judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”


That teacher should also be prosecuted for child abuse for teaching them to be hostile on the basis of race alone.

She should be in jail.
69   Patrick   2021 May 22, 9:58am  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/trumps-1776-commission-to-reassmble-tackle-critical-race-theory-in-history-education_3825673.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Trump’s 1776 Commission to Reassemble, Tackle Critical Race Theory in History Education
BY GQ PAN May 21, 2021

Members of the 1776 Commission, which President Joe Biden disbanded on his first day in White House, are reportedly set to meet again with a renewed focus on combating the teaching of U.S. history based on the Marxist critical race theory.

The advisory commission was established by the Trump administration in November 2020 to celebrate and promote the principles enshrined in the nation’s founding documents. It is commonly seen as a response to The New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project, which argues that the United States was founded as, and remains today, a racist nation.

Nearly four months after its dissolution, the commission regained attention when a leading member spoke against a Biden administration’s proposal to prioritize funding education programs that promote the 1619 Project and critical race theory, an ideology rooted in Marxist class struggle but with an emphasis on race, with the goal of dismantling all institutions of American society, which it deems as tools of racial oppression.

“The Proposed Rule should be withdrawn, just as individual states, which actually have the authority over the nation’s K-12 educational system, should oppose race-based pedagogy as part of their curricula and even if attempted to be imposed by the federal government,” Matthew Spalding, the executive director of the 1776 Commission, wrote in a letter to the Education Department.

“On behalf of my fellow Commissioners, I submit and draw your attention to Appendix III of The 1776 Report,” Spalding added. The appendix explains why race-focused narratives like the 1619 Project and critical race theory are “fundamentally incompatible” with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which connects liberty-loving Americans everywhere regardless of their race. ...

“When we start going about dividing people by groups, by social identities, and especially by identities that deal with race, and we’re starting to make those kinds of divisions, all Americans should get very nervous,” said Spalding. “It’s a departure away from the historic grounding of civil rights in America, which is that we all are equal.”

The commission’s first and last report, commonly referred to as the 1776 Report, was taken down after Biden’s inauguration. It can still be found on the publicly archived Trump White House and Hillsdale College websites.


https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf
70   Patrick   2021 May 22, 10:08am  

https://notthebee.com/article/winning-popular-radio-host-in-boston-quits-live-on-air-after-being-told-he-needs-to-stop-joking-about-demi-lovatos-pronouns-desperate-boss-reaches-out-to-offer-him-his-job-back-and-allow-him-

Winning: Popular radio host quits live after being told he needs to stop joking about Demi Lovato's pronouns. His desperate boss reached out to offer him his job back.

Naturally, I'm very excited to see such a fine bit of a story floating around on the internet. Let's sum this up real quick:

Wednesday morning, Demi Lovato did that thing people talked about for like 12 hours where she changed her pronouns or something like that.
This "news" hit while "Matty In The Morning" was on air, and Matt Seigel, a legend even before this little incident, started joking about it – because it's dumb, and it deserves to be joked about.
His boss chimed in at a certain point and told him not to joke like that because he might offend people.
Matty didn't like that too much, so he started talking about his boss' lecture on the air... and then he got up and left.
71   Patrick   2021 May 22, 10:31am  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/leftist-racial-agitation-damages-and-divides-america_3825144.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Just when you think racial agitators can’t get more outrageous and ridiculous, they do. We see fruits of this evil obsession every single day.

Throughout the pandemic, the media preached that historical racism in the United States disproportionately impacted African Americans. Hollywood bombards us with race-shaming on show after show, using fictional characters to lecture us on the pervasiveness of white supremacy, stirring racial resentment and division in the name of healing. ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that she will grant individual interviews only to journalists of color. She slammed the media for not sufficiently addressing “institutionalized racism” in their organizations, noting that her decision was part of her lifelong battle to fight for diversity and inclusion. She’s evidently oblivious to the self-contradiction of her position.

“I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically,” said Lightfoot. One wonders how Lightfoot and other modern race baiters could stray further from Martin Luther King’s vision of a colorblind society.

Perhaps the most disturbing movement underway in the Left’s crusade to divide us along racial lines is the notorious 1619 Project hatched by activist Nikole Hannah-Jones and writers from The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. With the stated goals of promoting justice and harmony, this initiative distorts history by demonizing America’s founding and founding documents. It claims that America’s real founding occurred in 1619 with the first documented arrival of enslaved Americans to the colony of Virginia, not in 1776, and that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery. American Revolution historian Gordon Wood says he is unaware “of any colonist who said that they wanted independence in order to preserve their slaves.”

America’s most prestigious colleges and universities are indoctrinating their students with this poison, insisting that America is systemically racist and fundamentally white supremacist and requires sweeping structural reform. This toxic propaganda is also being pushed into parts of America’s middle school and high school curricula.

“The overriding lesson” of the project, says The Heritage Foundation’s Arthur Milikh, is that “young people must learn to despise their nation—its Constitution, ideals, economic system, and its Founders. They must resent and reject their past; possess an aggressive, contemptuous, and disobedient attitude toward the present; and strive forcefully to create a triumphant future where the enemies of old are punished, and the innocent finally rule.”

The 1619 Project is closely related to the academic movement known as critical race theory, which began among outlying academics in the 1970s but has now insinuated itself into the mainstream of academic and cultural thought. One of its central premises is that white supremacy is prevalent in America and maintains power through our systemically racist legal system.

The ever-growing acceptance of this insanity is evidenced by its presence in America’s military institutions and the seeming powerlessness of those courageously opposing it. Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at the Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, was relieved from duty because of a “loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead.” Actually, it was because he criticized critical race theory in a public podcast, saying it is very dangerous to our military.

Lohmeier pulled no punches in his comments or in his book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.” “Our diversity, inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we’re receiving in the military … are rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism,” Lohmeier said.

This bold whistleblower, instead of being praised and rewarded for his candor, was punished and silenced. Lohmeier’s firing was ostensibly based on his injection of politics into his job, but he was merely speaking truth. Only in the Left’s world could criticism of the looming presence of Marxism in the institution dedicated to protecting and defending our national security be considered controversial or political. Punishing Lohmeier for his comments also gives aid and comfort to communist China and other American enemies, which consistently disparage the United States as a racist and civil rights-abusing nation.

Don’t be fooled by the Left’s excuses. Leftists will allow no opposition to their extremist positions. Their venomous narrative about our founding is distinctly anti-American and hostile to America’s interests and thus wholly inappropriate and dangerous for the military, which should be focused on defending us, not serving as a laboratory for the Left’s pernicious social experiments.

Major kudos to Lt. Col. Lohmeier for speaking out even at the expense of his own interests. That is true patriotism and a model for the rest of us, who must stand up against this concerted effort to undermine America’s greatness, cohesiveness and racial relations.
72   GNL   2021 May 22, 10:57am  

Patrick says
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/leftist-racial-agitation-damages-and-divides-america_3825144.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Just when you think racial agitators can’t get more outrageous and ridiculous, they do. We see fruits of this evil obsession every single day.

Throughout the pandemic, the media preached that historical racism in the United States disproportionately impacted African Americans. Hollywood bombards us with race-shaming on show after show, using fictional characters to lecture us on the pervasiveness of white supremacy, stirring racial resentment and division in the name of healing. ...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that she w...



We must talk about this incessantly.
73   Patrick   2021 May 22, 2:48pm  

Lawsuits are are a good way to fight woke oppression.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/17-gop-attorneys-general-back-south-dakotas-lawsuit-over-mount-rushmore-july-4-fireworks-cancellation_3826526.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Seventeen Republican attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit brought by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem against the Biden administration over its decision to deny a request to hold a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in July to celebrate Independence Day.

The Biden administration canceled the fireworks display in a decision in March. Herbert Frost, a regional director for the National Park Service, cited the COVID-19 pandemic as a key factor in making his decision
75   Patrick   2021 May 22, 3:50pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/georgia-gov-urges-educators-not-to-teach-critical-race-theorys-dangerous-ideology_3824782.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Georgia Gov. Urges Educators Not to Teach Critical Race Theory’s ‘Dangerous Ideology’
BY ISABEL VAN BRUGEN May 21, 2021

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Thursday wrote a letter to the state Board of Education opposing the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its “dangerous ideology” in public schools.
76   Patrick   2021 May 22, 3:53pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/1619-project-has-no-place-in-south-dakota-kristi-noem-says_3826373.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

‘1619 Project’ Has No Place in South Dakota, Kristi Noem Says
BY TOM OZIMEK May 22, 2021


South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has voiced stern opposition to teaching the “1619 Project” curriculum in the state’s schools.
77   Patrick   2021 May 22, 3:54pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/desantis-on-critical-race-theory-offensive-to-expect-taxpayers-to-pay-to-teach-kids-to-hate-their-country_3826395.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

DeSantis on Critical Race Theory: ‘Offensive’ to Expect Taxpayers to Pay to Teach Kids to ‘Hate Their Country’
BY TOM OZIMEK May 22, 2021

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposes teaching critical race theory in the state’s public schools, calling the ideas pushed by its advocates as “based on false history” and “teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other.”
78   Patrick   2021 May 22, 3:54pm  

So at least the governors of Georgia, South Dakota, and Florida are still sane.
80   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 May 22, 5:14pm  

Patrick says
https://notthebee.com/article/winning-popular-radio-host-in-boston-quits-live-on-air-after-being-told-he-needs-to-stop-joking-about-demi-lovatos-pronouns-desperate-boss-reaches-out-to-offer-him-his-job-back-and-allow-him-

Winning: Popular radio host quits live after being told he needs to stop joking about Demi Lovato's pronouns. His desperate boss reached out to offer him his job back.

Naturally, I'm very excited to see such a fine bit of a story floating around on the internet. Let's sum this up real quick:

Wednesday morning, Demi Lovato did that thing people talked about for like 12 hours where she changed her pronouns or something like that.
This "news" hit while "Matty In The Mornin...


That’s great

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