Teacher Goes Ballistic on School Board
Sunday, March 14, 2021
PENTAGON MAY REVERSE GENDER-NEUTRAL PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST FOR US ARMY SOLDIERS.
PENTAGON MAY REVERSE GENDER-NEUTRAL PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST FOR US ARMY SOLDIERS.
A new test has been scoring men and women on the same basis — but more than half of women are failing.
the pipelines that are in the North American continent. Keystone XL - What's Really Going On
This is a interesting map of the pipelines that are in the North American continent. So if stopping the Keystone XL pipeline was about climate change why are the pipelines that are on this map still able to operate and supply oil. There is more to the store than we will know!
Marine Corps Comes After Fox’s Tucker Carlson
Marine Corps Account Says It ‘Messed Up’ in Response to Fox’s Carlson
A U.S. Marine Corps unit’s Twitter account says it “messed up” in its comments while responding to Fox News host Tucker Carlson as part of a debate over his commentary about social justice initiatives in the U.S. Armed Forces.
The official account for the II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group used a pejorative on social media in responding to Carlson’s recent statements on how the military should be focused more on adversaries and less on culture issues.
The Marines shared a picture of a female soldier carrying a male one and tagged Carlson, writing that the photo showed “what it looks like in today’s armed forces.”
“Get right before you get left, boomer,” the account said, using a word widely considered a pejorative term.
After intense pushback for using an official military account to slam a private citizen, the Marines unit wrote in tweets: “We are human and we messed up. What was intended as a tweet in support of our female Marines and sisters serving in uniform was clearly not aligned with our standard practices or an appropriate representation of the Marine Corps. We will do better and serve the people.
“We can do better and we will collectively take a knee, review our procedures and get back in the fight. Our focus is to train, fight and win and we have a hard time doing that without your support.”
The Department of Defense inspector general didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.
The situation was the latest development in an ongoing clash between Carlson and the military, with some of the force’s highest officials lambasting the Fox News host for his views.
Carlson on March 9 on his show played comments from President Joe Biden, who has made elevating women in the military a priority in recent weeks.
In remarks on International Women’s Day the day prior at the White House, Biden highlighted how he’d nominated two women for four-star command positions in the armed forces. The nominations will underscore to young women just beginning their careers in the military that “no door will be closed to them,” Biden said.
Military leaders realize “there’s much, much more work to be done to ensure that women’s leadership is recognized and we have more diverse leaders” and that “all women feel safe and respected in our military,” Biden said. “Some of it is relatively straightforward work where we’re making good progress designing body armor that fits women properly; tailoring combat uniforms for women; creating maternity flight suits; updating—updating requirements for their hairstyles.”
After playing the clip, Carlson told viewers: “So we’ve got new hairstyles and maternity flight suits. Pregnant women are going to fight our wars. It’s a mockery of the U.S. Military. While China’s military becomes more masculine as it’s assembled the world’s largest navy, our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine, whatever feminine means anymore since men and women no longer exist. The bottom line is, it’s out of control, and the Pentagon is going along with this.”
The segment drew criticism from Pentagon press secretary John Kirby, who told reporters that “the diversity of our military is one of our greatest strengths.”
“We are better and more effective not only when we represent the American people—all the American people—but also, when we have the moral courage to include other perspectives and ideas into our decision-making; perspectives that, as the secretary himself noted Monday, are based on lived experience. It’s that experience, and the professionalism and commitment of our people, that has always been our decisive advantage,” he said, adding that the U.S. armed forces need to work on making the military more inclusive.
“We pledge to do better, and we will. What we absolutely won’t do is take personnel advice from a talk show host or the Chinese military. Now maybe those folks feel like they have something to prove; that’s on them. We know we’re the greatest military in the world today, and even for all the things we need to improve, we know exactly why that’s so.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “shares the revulsion of so many others to what Mr. Carlson said in his opening statement,” according to the press secretary.
In addition, the Space Force Command’s senior enlisted leader, Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sgt. Scott Stalker, said in a video while in uniform that Carlson’s opinion is “based on zero days of service in the armed forces.” Army Sgt. Major Michael Grinston was among other officers criticizing Carlson.
Carlson on March 11 said the Pentagon had effectively “declare[d] war on a domestic news operation.”
He also amped up his critique of what he described as the military’s focus on identity politics, noting that Biden recently announced the Pentagon would pay for gender reassignment surgery for active-duty personnel.
“How do sex changes in the military make this country safer? That’s not a trick question. It’s not another volley in the culture war. It’s the only question that matters—literally, the only question that matters. But no one bothered to ask it, probably because no one can remember why the U.S. military exists,” Carlson said.
“Here’s a reminder: The U.S. military exists to fight and win wars. That’s its only purpose. The U.S. military is not an NGO. It is not a vehicle for achieving ‘equity.’ It’s not a social experiment. It’s definitely not an employment agency.
Nobody has a God-given right to work in the military. No one does, and that includes all of us.”
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Systemic Racism - the Big Lie
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Systemic Racism - the Big Lie
So, why do we say systemic racism, and not just racism? Why systemic?
It's important to understand the words and phrases that so thoroughly penetrate our national discourse, because most people don't.
Systemic racism is not about specific instances of racism. Rather, it is the belief that racism is imbued in our national DNA, in our system. It looks to broad, racial outcomes as evidence. Any disparity in result is a priori proof of systemic racism.
Ibram X. Kendi himself, the man at the very pinnacle of the "Anti-racism" power structure, says, "Racial discrimination is the sole cause of racial disparities in this country."
The sole cause. Nothing else. Not fatherless homes. Not personal choices. Not school quality, or culture, or even luck.
As long as racial groups perform differently, there must be racism. Systemic racism.
If our system is racist, then we must ask, what does our system consist of? The answer to that is institutions, of course. The government, corporations, schools, foundations...
And this is where I have a real problem with the whole thing. But first, let's be clear, there was a time in our country where most of our institutions were racist. You don't even have to go back too far in our history; certainly within my lifetime. (Note: I'm primarily addressing racism against blacks here, because that's what Critical Race Theory and "Anti-racism" deal with. I'm perfectly aware you could make a systemic racism argument today where "white-adjacent" groups are concerned, i.e. Asians and Indian-Americans.)
But matters have changed radically in the last few decades. I am unaware of any institutions that don't give special preferences to blacks. Many significantly so.
Everyone knows this, but it's a truth you can't speak, particularly if you rely on someone else for your paycheck.
Whether you think such preferences are the right thing to do is a discussion for a different day. But it's an unarguable fact that preferences are given.
The government and public schools certainly do.
Universities certainly do. The average SAT scores for black students at places like Harvard is several hundred points lower than other students.
Corporations certainly do. In fact, they are desperate to hire more black candidates, and are often frustrated in their efforts to do so. Same goes for finding board members. The CEO of Wells Fargo, Charles Scharf, got in hot water recently when he said, "The unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from."
Does he have a point, or was he being racist? Blacks are 12% of the population, but they are only 7% of the pool of college graduates. How is Scharf supposed to get to 12%? I suppose he could, but then other banks would be left woefully short in this zero-sum game.
Here's the rub: representation of less than 12% is viewed by the Ibram X. Kendis of the world as case-closed proof of racism. Similarly, if a neighborhood is less than 12% black, it must be because of racism.
No further evidence required.
Remember, this is all about group results, not individuals.
(Aside: that blacks are underrepresented as college grads is worthy of serious discussion, even if it's not something Scharf can solve as CEO of a bank. The problem is that you can't get to the heart of the issue without discussing the absence of black fathers or the failure of teachers unions to actually teach, and those are places you are not allowed to go.)
Systemic racism is the Big Lie because our institutions are not racist. They actually have become the opposite, seeking absolution for past sins.
But we will never get to racial nirvana if we measure everything by groups. Groups will always perform differently, and for many reasons. This is a convenient state of affairs for DEI race hustlers because it means that systemic racism will always exist. The revolution is permanent, and unless you want it to come for you, you'd better shell out for a DEI consultant and get that seal of approval. (For as long as your checks clear, anyway.)
As a conservative, I believe that individuals have rights, not groups. If there are acts of racism against individuals, I want to know about it, because it goes against everything I believe.
But notice I said acts.
If a person is guilty of acts of racism, let's call him out, even prosecute him if laws have been broken.
If an institution is committing acts of racism, same thing. Shame on them, and there are multiple paths for remediation.
We conservatives want to solve problems.
The DEI movement does not. That's why the very definition of racism gets ever-more-nebulous. Now we have "microaggressions" and "unconscious bias," which can be so subtle that neither the victim nor the perpetrator knows they're happening. Then there's "cultural appropriation," of course (without which we wouldn't have the Beatles - just sayin').
There's an endless word salad of new, ever-more-nuanced transgressions. Every day there's something else. Just yesterday, I learned the word misogynoir. (That means bias against black women, in case your Oxford English Dictionary hasn't been updated in the last 24 hours.)
But solving the problem of race means the Great Race Hustle goes away, so true solutions must always be another DEI training session out-of-reach.
Thus, racism is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. It's in a look or a glance, or the food we choose to cook. It's in the Classics, and Twain, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Even poor Dr. Seuss.
Oh, the things you can't do!
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