California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts | September 17, 2021
Cancel culture hits hardest at nation’s highest-ranked colleges
California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts | September 17, 2021
Over the past six years, one of the worst places to be, in terms of getting targeted, punished or canceled for what you say, has been on campus at an elite American college.
Over the past six years, one of the worst places to be, in terms of getting targeted, punished or canceled for what you say, has been on campus at an elite American college.
A recent survey by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found since 2015, Stanford University has had the most incidents of scholars being targeted by “triggered” complainants, with 18 reported on the school’s California campus, twice as many as reported at Harvard, UCLA and Georgetown.
All told, the Ivy League accounted for half of the six worst campuses for scholar targeting, as the University of Pennsylvania and Yale ranked next on the list, according to FIRE’s tally of more than 400 targeting incidents that have occurred since 2015… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | August 31, 2021
Watch: CRT Is Coming for Our Kids
District of Columbia | August 31, 2021
In a video for Protect Our Kids, Marc Little, an attorney and the executive director for Cure America Action, Inc., tells the truth about “critical race theory” (CRT).
CRT isn’t just a faddish theory invented by American leftists. Little said it’s “much more ominous than most people think. It’s a worldview, an orthodoxy that threatens the underpinnings of western civilization. CRT advances the same old tread-worn goal of Marxism, but with new labels.”
Different words, same meanings. “Oppressor” and “oppressed” have replaced “bourgeoisie” and “proletariat.”
In CRT, slavery no longer controls our bodies, Little said, but it still controls our minds. The theory “demands that we hold on to slavery, no matter the form, so that we may remain in bondage.”… (Excerpts from Black Community News)
District of Columbia | August 23, 2021
Census, Fed Data on Minorities Challenge Critical Race Theory Narratives of White Suppression
District of Columbia | August 23, 2021
Black wealth rose significantly over the last ten years, while neighborhood segregation declined, data shows.
Minorities have increased their mobility and financial standing over the last decade, according to federal data that challenges some of the narratives of the so-called Critical Race Theory spreading through schools and media.
While the Federal Reserve reports that “the typical white family has eight times the wealth of the typical black family and five times the wealth of the typical Hispanic family” it also acknowledges that African-American and Hispanic families have made significant gains.
While income inequality exists among racial and ethnic groups, the Brookings Institute points out in several reports that black and Hispanic households have made statistically significant economic progress, especially in the years prior to pandemic-related shutdowns in 2020.
An analysis by the Federal Reserve, for instance, found wealth for African Americans and Hispanic Americans grew far faster during the Trump years than for whites… (Excerpts from the Virginia Star)
District of Columbia | August 23, 2021
Biden and Critical Race Theory—How To Fight Back Amid Admin’s Confusing Mixed Signals
District of Columbia | August 23, 2021
Judging from the flurry of headlines about racial discrimination and teaching history in schools, you could easily forget that school was out for the summer. But some students have already returned, and the rest will be back at their desks before you know it. So will the grownups settle the issue before all of them are back in class?
Not likely.
Consider what White House press secretary Jen Psaki said when asked what President Biden thinks about educators using critical race theory—a philosophy that, ironically, pushes racially discriminatory ideas—is appropriate in K-12 lessons: “There is not just racism and slavery in our history … children should learn not just the good, but also the challenging in our history.”
Psaki’s response is confusing because just weeks earlier, the U.S. Department of Education recommended that teachers use reading material from the New York Times’ 1619 Project—which, the Times says, “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.”
So after the Education Department told teachers that racism and slavery should be “at the very center of our national narrative,” the White House press secretary said there is more than “racism and slavery in our history.” (After the agency received some 35,000 comments to its announcement recommending the 1619 Project, the office retreated from this position. We can safely assume not all the comments were positive.)… (Excerpts from the Heritage Foundation)