Political Correctness

[57Brave]

For those that knelt this past year during the anthem I would say most of them care about not being told what they can or can't do. It really became an issue after Trump, who is perceived to be a racist among other things, said players that do it should be fired, etc. Then you saw it widespread across the league. At that point I believe it was more against Trump and not about the targeting of black people by white cops.

And 'they' is simply referring to the two groups you mentioned.

Taking those that knelt at their word they were protesting police brutality.
After Trump it became, to a degree, about him calling them SOB's
At the time there was one player. Who in the beginning, did it without fan fare

It was about targeting black people. By police and Trump.
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JAW used the term "bandwagoners"
I would emphatically consider Jerry Jones a "bandwagoner" but is that who JAW meant ?
If so, why not just say so


The kids in BLM = "bandwagoners"
????

[sturg33]

https://www.westernjournal.com/confi...ting-liberals/

Everybody knows what's happening but those on the left don't care because it's helping them. We live in a sad state where things like this are accepted.

As long as it's conservatives that are targeted, you won't hear a peep from our leftists on this site

[sturg33]

A whopping 86 percent of college presidents said “perception of liberal political bias” on campus is among several factors “most responsible for declining public support,” Inside Higher Ed reported, citing a survey it recently conducted with Gallup.

The outlet added that “the damage is likely greatest among Republican voters, as recent polls have shown that group is most likely to have lost more faith in higher education.”

What else did the survey find?
Indeed, the survey found that over 75 percent of college presidents said they’re concerned about Republicans’ increasing skepticism, despite 71 percent who disagreed that “Republican doubts about higher education are justified.”
In response to the statement “classrooms on my campus are as welcoming to conservative students as they are to liberal students,” 62 percent of college presidents strongly agreed (30 percent) or agreed (32 percent), the survey found.
In contrast, 16 percent of respondents disagreed with the statement and 22 percent were neutral.
As to the notion that colleges are “intolerant of conservative views,” 49 percent of college presidents disagreed while a third (32 percent) agreed.

[sturg33]

A teacher in California was placed on paid administrative leave after questioning the politics behind the National School Walkout in a discussion with her students, KOVR-TV reported Wednesday night.

What happened?
Julianne Benzel, a history teacher at Rocklin High School in Rocklin, California, said she wanted to open up a dialogue in her class last Thursday and Friday about the politics of organized protests.

Benzel wanted to discuss with her students the question of whether it’s appropriate for a school to support gun violence protests if it wouldn’t support other types of protests. But she said she never discouraged the students from taking part in the planned walkout.

“And so I just kind of used the example, which I know it’s really controversial, but I know it was the best example I thought of at the time — a group of students nationwide, or even locally, decided ‘I want to walk out of school for 17 minutes’ and go in the quad area and protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration?” Benzel asked.

She said the administration didn’t talk to her about her lecture last week.

What was the student reaction?
Benzel said none of her students reacted negatively to her discussions, and they seemed to agree that there should not be a double standard for protests. One of her students, Nick Wade, even decided not to participate in the walkout as a result.

“I feel like if we were to go to school and say something like I want to walk out maybe for abortion rights, then you know they probably wouldn’t let us because that’s more of a conservative push,” Wade told KOVR. “But someone wants to say let’s walk out for gun control then the school’s going to go with it because it’s more of a popular view.”

What was the school’s statement?
A Rocklin High School spokesperson issued a statement: “A Rocklin High School teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave due to several complaints from parents and students involving the teacher’s communications regarding today’s student-led civic engagement activities.”

What’s next?
Benzel said she has retained legal counsel and will meet with Rocklin High School administrators this week.

[thethe]

As long as it's conservatives that are targeted, you won't hear a peep from our leftists on this site

The facts are out there. It's not a debate anymore. The left is doing everything possible to trample on the rights of those that disagree with them.

[sturg33]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/youtube...sla=y&mod=e2tw

The lawsuit, filed by Arne Wilberg, a white male who worked at Google for nine years, including four years as a recruiter at YouTube, alleges the division of Alphabet Inc.’s Google set quotas for hiring minorities. Last spring, YouTube recruiters were allegedly instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and to “purge entirely” the applications of people who didn’t fit those categories, the lawsuit claims

Not a single leftist on this board commented on this.

[Jaw]

What was the school’s statement?
A Rocklin High School spokesperson issued a statement: “A Rocklin High School teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave due to several complaints from parents and students involving the teacher’s communications regarding today’s student-led civic engagement activities.”

What’s next?
Benzel said she has retained legal counsel and will meet with Rocklin High School administrators this week.

Gah at the bolded description.

It sounds like she tried to teach her students to actually think and reflect on an issue. If there isn't more to the story she should be commended.

[sturg33]

an update

[sturg33]

Gah at the bolded description.

It sounds like she tried to teach her students to actually think and reflect on an issue. If there isn't more to the story she should be commended.

How would you imagine a student-led walk out supporting pro-life policies going over?

[goldfly]

since this student led walk out was pro life

i would guess it would be exactly like what they did

[Jaw]

How would you imagine a student-led walk out supporting pro-life policies going over?

You and I both know that it would have to be a massive, nationwide protest to even be mentioned in the press at all. If it did get that level of recognition, we would be treated with a handful of interviews of the very least articulate protestors. Then we would hear another student say that it was disrupting her learning environment, followed by an anecdotal story about how abortion rights made a positive impact in her/her mom's/her grandmother's/whoever's life. Maybe a couple of off the cuff "bless their heart" type remarks in commentary from the "news" staff would follow.

[thethe]

Facebook must be broken up. The ability and willingness to censor anything other than leftists sounding boards is disturbing and a direct threat to our republic.

[Julio3000]

Facebook must be broken up. The ability and willingness to censor anything other than leftists sounding boards is disturbing and a direct threat to our republic.

I'm interested to know if you read why they were suspended or if you're relying on Mike Cernovich to tell you.

[thethe]

I'm interested to know if you read why they were suspended or if you're relying on Mike Cernovich to tell you.

Of course I read it. Facebook and Google pick and choose when to enforce their terms and conditions. You know this.

[Julio3000]

Of course I read it. Facebook and Google pick and choose when to enforce their terms and conditions. You know this.

Ok. Can you steer me toward an equivalent case that was decided differently, or is this something I'm just supposed to "know"?

[Jaw]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...sed-worldview/

But what if indeed the pink and blond Warren were found to have 1/32nd or even 1/16th Native American “blood”? Why would that artifact magically make her “Indian,” much less a victim of something or someone, or at least outfitted with a minority cachet?
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In the racist South, some minorities sought to pass to claim white status; in racialist 21st-century America, some whites seek to pass to claim minority status. The common denominator in both cases is the contemporary society’s racial fixations — and the absurdity of needing to claim a particular racial status to gain advantages.
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Progressives are not just trumpeting regional and cultural chauvinism in the manner of the old plantation South. They also echo the antebellum talk of secession and boast about state nullification of federal law — again, based on the premise that a superior coastal culture should not be dragged down by the rest of the morally inferior United States.

California has announced that it is no longer entirely subject to federal law enforcement, much as South Carolina proclaimed before the Civil War. As an attorney and advocate, California has hired former attorney general Eric Holder, who is no longer the steward of federal law. Holder is eager to defend the state’s various nullification efforts. California has become an entire “sanctuary state,” where the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents supposedly have no jurisdiction over illegal aliens currently held in state and local jails.
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The Confederate parallels are often eerily racist as well. The onetime so-called Calexit leader Shankar Singam, in a television appearance, promoted the secession of California from the union. He celebrated the mostly white flight of the middle class from California. Their welcomed departure would make room, he suggested, for an improved wave of immigrants. Singam boasted that, in fact, the United States “should be grateful for us”:

"If everyone in the middle class is leaving, that’s actually a good thing. We need these spots opened up for the new wave of immigrants to come up. It’s what we do."

Singam’s idea of California is ultimately, like the South’s, race-based.

[Julio3000]

Dude struck a wrong note with me by mentioning Shaun King in the same breath with Rachel Dolezal. I was just icked out by that in a way that made taking the rest of the article seriously a bridge too far. The most charitable thing I can think to say is that Victor Davis Hanson's opinions on race aren't particularly compelling to me.

[sturg33]

This kid got a warning for watching a Ben Shapiro video.

"It is for the safety of the students we look into reports like this"

This is the future y'all are building

[sturg33]

A Sienna College professor quit her school's committee on civil discourse because it made her "miserable" to work with conservative students, boasting that she is now free to protest an upcoming conservative event on campus.

[thethe]

I find it amusing that some are still trying to paint this narrative as a conspiracy.