Archive for March, 2021
Attacks Upon Free Speech
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship – it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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IF I CAN’T HAVE IT THEN NO ONE CAN EITHER
THE PROTESTERS VERBALLY ASSAULT THESE YOUNG CHEERLEADERS BECAUSE AS PROTESTERS, THEY WANT THE FAMILY STRUCTURE OF THOSE YOUNG LADIES’ HOMES TO BE DEMOLISHED AS ARE THE PROTESTER’S HOME LIVES AND SINCE THE PROTESTERS ARE TOO STUPID TO MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR THEMSELVES, THEN NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO HAVE IT. PERIOD!
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DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!
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DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!
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Teachers unions are systemically racist and here’s why
Teachers unions are systemically racist.
Don’t get mad at me for saying it; I don’t make the rules of woke terminology. But under the sweeping definition of “systemic racism” the liberal Left has embraced, teachers unions’ incessant fight to keep schools closed most certainly qualifies.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson defines systemic racism as “systems and structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantages African Americans.” A writer at liberal news outlet Vox said systemic racism is a term “used to talk about all of the policies and practices entrenched in established institutions that harm certain racial groups and help others.”
More broadly, professor Ibram X. Kendi, a celebrated left-wing thinker, argued that racism exists wherever racial disparities do: “When I see racial disparities, I see racism.”
Conservatives don’t and shouldn’t necessarily accept this definition. But it’s entirely fair to hold liberal groups — teachers unions donate huge sums almost exclusively to Democrats — to their own standards. So, let’s apply this definition of “systemic racism” to the teachers unions’ fight to avoid opening schools and maintain failed “distance learning” schemes.
First and foremost, let’s be clear that there’s no scientific or safety-based justification for keeping schools closed. Some countries, such as Denmark, never closed their schools, and the fearmongers’ predicted COVID-19 hot spots never materialized.
And even the liberal-leaning Washington Post reported that “in-person schooling has not been associated with substantial transmission in the wider community. Multiple studies found transmission rates inside schools are similar to, or lower than, levels in the community when mitigation steps are in place.”
International research and domestic real-world studies have similarly shown that there’s no special COVID-19 risk associated with in-person schooling. If anything, it’s far safer than many forms of “essential” in-person gathering we have allowed to take place.
The teachers unions are simply fighting to not have to do their job. Why? Frankly, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that they have political and selfish motives.
A major Los Angeles teachers union demanded socialist healthcare, defunding the police, a wealth tax, and a ban on charter schools that compete with traditional public education before they would return to work. A North Carolina teachers union also demanded “Medicare for all” and more welfare for illegal immigrants before reopening schools. And a San Francisco teachers union even demanded the installation of new toilet lids before returning to work. (This demand had no basis in recommendations from public health authorities.)
These are just a few examples, but there’s concrete evidence proving that politics, not science, is what’s behind school closures. A comprehensive data analysis found that school closures correlated strongly with union strength, but not with actual COVID-19 prevalence and death statistics.
Suffice it to say the teachers unions’ push to keep schools closed is fundamentally unjustified. And it’s wreaking havoc on an entire generation of students, and especially minority students.
It’s easy to see why.
A significant racial wealth gap persists in this country, and white families are more likely to have parents with white-collar, remote jobs or parents who can afford child care and assistance with their child’s remote schooling. This has meant more minority children slipping through the cracks during the “distance learning” experiment teachers unions have forced us into.
The Census Bureau said that nearly twice as many black and Hispanic students have had no access to live teaching as white students. And a McKinsey analysis found that due to the losses from school closures, “Students of color could be six to 12 months behind, compared with four to eight months for white students.” McKinsey also estimated that white students will, on average, earn $1,348 less annually over their lifetimes due to school closures, but for black students, it will be $2,186 a year.
The data are overwhelmingly clear on this front: School closures have hit minority students and families disproportionately hard. And schools have only remained closed because of the pernicious influence of teachers unions prioritizing their own interests over those of students.
Using liberal definitions, it’s entirely fair to say that teachers unions are perpetuating systemic racism, making them systemically racist organizations. No, this doesn’t mean individual teachers or individual union members are bigoted. It doesn’t even necessitate any actual racist intent on the teachers unions’ behalf.
But it’s indisputable that the teachers unions’ obstinate fight to keep schools closed is hurting minority students at a widely disproportionate rate. And by the Left’s own terms, there’s only one word for that: racism.
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CNN’s Biased ‘Facts First’ Can’t Get Its Facts Straight About HR 1 or Pence
The so-called “mainstream” media, including CNN, is apoplectic over former Vice President Mike Pence’s recent commentary in The Daily Signal in which he says that “election integrity is a national imperative.” Apparently, they disagree, and don’t like that he points out the serious problems with HR 1, which just passed the House of Representatives, that would “trample the First Amendment” and “increase opportunities for fraud.”
Pence is absolutely correct in that assessment. CNN published its supposed refutation by claiming that he got his facts wrong about what HR 1 does. But they are the ones who are wrong—and some of their claims border on the absurd.
For example, they assert that Pence is wrong when he said that HR 1 bans voter ID laws. But the bill requires states to allow individuals to vote who sign statements in which they claim they are who they say they are. This federal requirement eviscerates state voter ID laws and, in essence, ban them; states obviously can’t enforce their voter ID requirements if federal law say they have to allow anyone who just signs a form to vote.
CNN’s characterization of the vice president’s claim as “not true” is disingenuous and should earn them a Pinocchio award.
Next, CNN claims that Pence is wrong over his concern that imposing automatic voter registration requirements on the states will lead to noncitizens, i.e., illegal aliens (although CNN follows the politically correct rule of referring to them as “undocumented immigrants”) being registered to vote. But there seems little doubt that will happen, and has already happened in places like California that have implemented automatic voter registration.
The complex sections of HR 1 on automatic voter registration require numerous state and federal agencies to send information on individuals to state election officials so they can be registered. Many state and federal agencies don’t have citizenship data on the individuals they deal with. In fact, most “public secondary schools” and “institution[s] of higher learning” that are included in this automatic voter registration requirement studiously avoid getting citizenship information on their students, especially illegal aliens.
So it is highly likely that they will send information on all of the individuals they deal with, regardless of their citizenship status, to state election officials. Moreover, HR 1 specifically states that no alien can be “prosecuted under any Federal or State law” or “adversely affected in any civil adjudication concerning immigration status or naturalization” due to being automatically registered.
CNN does acknowledge that Pence is correct about felons voting. While admitting that HR 1 would require states to allow what CNN terms “formerly incarcerated persons” to vote “the moment they set foot out of prison,” as the former vice president said, CNN fails to add that this particular provision is blatantly unconstitutional.
The Fourteenth Amendment specifically gives states the right to decide if felons lose their ability to vote and if and when they can get it back. You can’t override a constitutional amendment with a bill passed by Congress.
CNN says that the accuracy of Pence’s assertion that HR 1 “would force states to adopt universal mail-in-ballots” depends on how you “define” that term. Wrong. By forcing states to allow anyone to vote using absentee ballots without an excuse—requiring states to mail an absentee ballot request form to every registered voter—and specifying that states must create a permanent absentee ballot list for any voter that wants to be sent an absentee ballot in all elections, HR 1, in essence, creates a nearly universal mail-in voting system.
CNN’s “fact check” on redistricting is also amusing in what it reveals about the network’s view of government. Pence said in his commentary that “congressional districts would be redrawn by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.” CNN is forced to admit that HR 1 does take the power to redraw political boundaries away from state legislatures and forces states to set up so-called “independent” redistricting commissions. But CNN claims that what “constitutes” an unaccountable bureaucrat is “up for debate.”
Really? State legislators who redraw political boundaries after each census are accountable to the voters who put them in office—and voters can try to vote them out of office if they don’t like how those legislators conduct themselves, including the way they do redistricting. But the members of the commissions required by HR 1 would all be appointed. That means they would be unaccountable to voters who would have no recourse against commissioners whom they view as having drawn unfair, overly partisan, or inequitable political lines in the redistricting process.
That sounds like “unaccountable bureaucrats” to me—and any member of the public with common sense.
Finally, CNN admits that Pence was correct when he said that the bill requires that illegal aliens and citizens be given equal representation in Congress. But it tries to excuse that by saying “this is already the case,” and that President Joe Biden has ordered that the population used for reapportionment include aliens, legal and illegal. This “equal representation” may be true relative to apportionment, but Pence’s comment had nothing to do with apportionment.
What CNN fails to explain is that Pence is talking about redistricting, and it is not currently a requirement under federal law for state legislatures to draw new congressional district lines using total population data that includes aliens. Each state sets its own criteria.
In fact, in the interest of fundamental fairness and equal protection principles, states legislatures should all switch to using citizen population rather than total population when drawing new congressional districts lines. If HR 1 becomes law, they won’t have that option.
Contrary to CNN’s biased, partisan review, Pence assessed HR 1 accurately and succinctly. As he said, it “mandates the most questionable and abuse-prone election rules nationwide” and would “prevent states from implementing new, needed reforms.”
Pence added that we should be working to “restore public confidence in our elections.” He is absolutely right. If it becomes law, HR 1 will do the exact opposite of that.
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THE STRATEGY IS TO ALWAYS RELY ON THE WEAKEST LINK. AND IT WORKS.
A public that is generally ignorant of firearms is a gullible – and pliable – one. That ignorance makes them more susceptible to propaganda aimed at pushing a political agenda – the gradual erosion of gun rights and eventually an overturning of the Second Amendment.
When it comes to supporting the Second Amendment and firearms in general, anti-gun propagandists like The Council on Foreign Relations knows they can’t change the minds of firearms owners. So, they target those wholly ignorant of firearms with a barrage of manipulated data and cherry picked facts.
Get rid of guns, and you get rid of most of the criminal violence, the claim is always made.
That’s a noble notion, but it has no basis in reality. NONE!
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FOR EVERY NEWS HEADLINE OF CHINESE SUPPRESSIONS SHOWN, DAN COUNTERS EACH ONE WITH EQUIVACAL, IF NOT SAME U.S. HEADLINES ABOUT AMERICA.
THINK COMMUNISM ISN’T COMING TO THE U.S.? NO YOU SAY? ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
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