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Colleges only getting worse by 'manifesting authoritarianism' with 'word policing', professor warns​

Cornell Law Professor William A. Jacobson warned that colleges and universities are "manifesting authoritarianism" by removing "problematic" words and firing staff that don't abide by left-wing ideologies.

Jacobson said he believes the increase in stories about word-banning on college campuses is a manifestation of what is referred to as "repressive tolerance," wherein tolerance serves to preserve a repressive society by neutralizing opposition to impose forms of authoritarianism.

"They monitor your language, they get you to use language that only they approve, and once you've done that with somebody, once you've done that with a campus, that's enormous control," he told Fox News Digital.

There are numerous examples of colleges attempting to change the language of faculty and students, according to Jacobson. He pointed to the implementation of author Ibram Kendi's antiracism agenda in staff training sessions as one of the more recent examples.

The concept of "antiracism" has embedded itself in the diversity, equity, and inclusion departments and programs now widely implemented in colleges across the country.

One of the more recent instances comes from Northern Illinois University (NIU), which is planning on hosting several sessions for faculty and instructors that tackle topics like "White fatigue" and "antiracism" at the end of January.

Several other workshops from the university include "The Act of Decolonizing: Examining Classroom Spaces and Curricula Through a Lens of Justice" and "When Did Immigrants Become Illegal."

Jacobson said the removal of the words "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant" from the college curriculum and its perceived negative connotations among faculty and students is a perfect example of how university debates have been skewed and truncated.

He said that administrators and faculty who advocate for open borders do not want the words "illegal" or "illegality" applied to people who illegally cross the border.

Jacobson also claimed that the people engaged in word banning on campuses come almost entirely from the left, utilizing speech control as a "power play."

"They don't really care about the origins of these words. They don't really care about the history. It's just a way of imposing their political viewpoint on everybody," he said.

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Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist​

The Research Council of Norway is spending over $1.2 million USD on a project that is dedicated to discovering how the country has contributed to the spread of “whiteness” globally, through colonialism and through paint.

The research project, “How Norway Made the World Whiter (NorWhite),” hosted by the University of Bergen, describes “whiteness” as “one of today's key societal and political concerns.

“Within and beyond academia worldwide, actions of revolt and regret seek to cope with our racial past. In the pivotal works in whiteness studies within art and architecture history, whiteness is understood as cultural and visual structures of privilege,” the project, principally led by Associate Professor Ingrid Halland, opens. Her website boasts of a 12 million kroner funding grant from the government.

According to the project's webpage, the aim is to address “a distinctively different battleground for politics of whiteness in art and architecture.”

The researchers went on to say that there are two sides to whiteness: systemic racism, and its “materialization” in society as an aesthetic.

“Two core premises underpin the project: Whiteness is not only a cultural and societal condition tied to skin color, privileges, and systematic exclusion, but materialize everywhere around us. Second, one cannot understand this materialization without understanding the societal, technological and aesthetic conditions of the color itself,” the project reads.

“Although Norway is not a conventional colonial power, this project will show how the country has played a globally leading role in establishing white as a superior color,” the brief continues, without explaining what an “unconventional colonial power” might be.

The state-funded project went on to describe how Norwegian chemists revolutionized white paint in 1916, developing a form with far better coverage and opacity than was previously used. Thus, many notable buildings around the country were painted bright white.

But, the achievements of the nation's scientists aren't necessarily positive to Halland and the other researchers.

“By weaving together historical, critical, aesthetic, and artistic methods with public engagement and outreach, NorWhite reveals a complex and challenging story of how a local Norwegian innovation came to have planetary consequences,” they continued.

They went on to spell out a clear objective: find out how Norway “made the world whiter.”

“The overall objective of NorWhite is to critically and visually investigate the cultural and aesthetic preconditions of a complex and unexplored part of Norwegian technology and innovation history that has—as this project claims—made the world whiter.”

Notably, the project is sponsored by Titania AS and Kronos Titan — the two companies that are credited with the production and popularization of that bright, titanium white.

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[nivek]

Konstantin Kisin is spot on about wokeness...


View: https://youtu.be/-o0bPYPJA9I


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Parents line up to slam woke Michigan school board member for saying 'whiteness is evil' and that white people are more dangerous than WILD ANIMALS​

A Michigan school board member is facing calls to resign after she tweeted 'whiteness is evil' and insisted Caucasian people are more dangerous than wild animals. Kesha Hamilton, inset, wrote a series of inflammatory tweets last month which she has failed to delete. At a school board meeting on Tuesday, parents called for the mother to resign though some came out in support of her. Hamilton, whose ex-husband is white, frequently posts controversial anti-white and anti-police sentiments on her social media profiles. She told the board meeting: ''We have to ask ourselves what are we angered over - the fact that it was said or the fact that it is true?'

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Now Aretha Franklin's song Natural Woman is deemed OFFENSIVE to trans women: Outrage as 'activists' demand song is removed from Spotify and Apple Music​

The song A Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin is being bashed by LGBTQ critics as 'offensive,' with one organization in particular saying the tune helps perpetuate harmful anti-trans stereotypes. Released as a single by the late Queen of Soul back in 1967, the stirring love ballad is now facing scrutiny - despite preaching positive messages in regards to women and femininity in general.

Leading the charge to have the song nixed is the Norway-based Trans Cultural Mindfulness Alliance (TCMA), a group that started formed earlier this year and has since made its presence known with a series of polarizing posts on social media. In the time since, statements made by the organization - which seeks to open a chapter 'in each European country and North America' - have spawned outrage, including its January 20 request to pull Franklin's song from streaming platforms like Spotify & Apple Music.

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[nivek]

Have you seen this @pigfarmer ?...

Madness...

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[pigfarmer]

Have you seen this @pigfarmer ?...

Madness...

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Jesus, no I haven’t. There was one store in Canada somewhere that posted a bunch of that Woke crap. That’s straight from Atlanta and must’ve been sent to the store for a reason. But that one store is the only one to actually publicly post it which is where that pic likely originated.

Here they show the same video over and over about ‘sensitivity’. To hell with that, PF is about to leave the building. All that makes me want to join a dwarf tossing league

 

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Now Aretha Franklin's song Natural Woman is deemed OFFENSIVE to trans women: Outrage as 'activists' demand song is removed from Spotify and Apple Music​

The song A Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin is being bashed by LGBTQ critics as 'offensive,' with one organization in particular saying the tune helps perpetuate harmful anti-trans stereotypes. Released as a single by the late Queen of Soul back in 1967, the stirring love ballad is now facing scrutiny - despite preaching positive messages in regards to women and femininity in general.

Leading the charge to have the song nixed is the Norway-based Trans Cultural Mindfulness Alliance (TCMA), a group that started formed earlier this year and has since made its presence known with a series of polarizing posts on social media. In the time since, statements made by the organization - which seeks to open a chapter 'in each European country and North America' - have spawned outrage, including its January 20 request to pull Franklin's song from streaming platforms like Spotify & Apple Music.

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The message continued, “The song has helped inspire acts of harm against transgender women. TCMA is requesting it is removed from Spotify & Apple Music.”

However, the group has since claimed that their original post was indeed a “satirical” in a message to The Post on Monday afternoon.

The group also updated their Twitter bio to now say “PARODY/SATIRE.”

Aretha Franklin song ‘A Natural Woman’ blasted by fake transgender ‘activists’

One activist group is calling for Aretha Franklin’s hit 1968 song “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” to be removed from both Apple Music and Spotify after they deemed its l…

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Professor argues math education 'limits' queer and students of color​

A Vanderbilt professor delivered a lecture earlier this month at a major mathematician meeting that described college math education as "white" and "cisheteropatriarchal."

Luis Leyva, assistant professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University, delivered a lecture titled, "Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice," according to the website of Joint Mathematics Meeting.

The lecture consisted of two parts. The first half of the lecture showed findings from Leyva’s research about the "educational experiences of 39 undergraduate queer and trans students of color pursuing STEM majors across historically White and minority-serving universities in the United States."

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Mars shelves M&M spokescandies in latest woke corporate fiasco​

If you are a corporate mascot, you are in danger. Are you current enough? Woke enough? The M&M spokescandies are only the latest to get swallowed up by the left’s dominance of corporate culture.

Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins were all replaced by less interesting, less memorable, corporately generic names. Pearl Milling Company, Ben’s Original (How unoriginal!) Cleveland Guardians and the most generic of all, Washington Commanders. Mia from Land O Lakes butter and her buddy the Frito Bandito were simply sacrificed on the altar of corporate wokemanship. (Woke-personship?)

That’s what happened at Mars. The M&M public relations strategy was to turn a popular family brand woke overnight. The stated goal was, "creating a world where everyone feels they belong and society is inclusive."

That lefty corpspeak didn’t go well, so the media blamed … conservatives. CNBC said Mars dropped the candies "amid right-wing outrage." CNN blamed "a year of conservative backlash to the brand." But Mars admitted its chocolatey spokescandies had been "polarizing."

That didn’t used to be the case and, fair to say, Mars started it. M&Ms finally ditched the woke marketing the company tried to ram down customers’ throats almost a year ago to the day. That campaign was introduced with an unsubtle strategy to address a "Dynamic and Progressive World."

By March, Ad Week was headlining M&M'S Global VP Jane Hwang "on Evolving and Future-Proofing Your Brand." (This is future-proofing, if you consider a corporate version of "The Last of Us" to be where you wanted your brand to end up.)

That innovative campaign saw an update to the look of iconic characters and the introduction of a new purple character. It also included a corporate partnership with bizarre musical performer Lil Nas X, known for sexual videos and marketing his "Satan Shoes," made with a real drop of blood. Mars described him as a "musical superstar." It left out the satanic stuff, of course.

The custom candies featured "images of butterflies, hearts and photos of Lil Nas X." Shockingly, there were no pentagrams and goats’ heads. Someone in marketing slipped up. M&Ms didn’t even team up with the Church of Satan. All that happened under the press release headline: "M&M'S® Partners With Lil Nas X To Bring People Together Through Music, Art And Entertainment."

When the purple M was introduced in September, it had deliberate woke appeal. Ad Week again showed the Mars agenda: "M&M's Introduces a New Mascot All About Inclusivity."

Finally, Mars admitted defeat, its iconic spokescandides mere shells of their former selves. Actress/comedian Maya Rudolph is taking their place and appearing in a new Super Bowl ad.

Even fellow lefties at The Washington Post were skeptical of the whole situation. "Was this the peanut-centered capitulation to the anti-woke crowd that the brand (maybe) wants us to think? Or just another marketing stunt?"

Most likely a bit of both. Mars is trying to make the best of a disastrous campaign driving its customers away. But by picking Rudolph who plays Vice President Kamala Harris on "Saturday Night Live," they are still appeasing the woke audience. They are just hiding it better.

None of this is surprising. Corporate ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) policies are determined to wokeify every corporation that the left hasn’t already conquered. Corporate leftists don’t care if their moves offend the customers. They just have to appease their buddies on the left and in the legacy media, not that they are very different.

The Washington Redskins switch also offended core customers. The cancelation came on top of decades of team incompetence and scandal. It wasn’t even important to Native Americans to change the name, just Washington Post zealots.

And the attacks on Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben were so ridiculous they even generated a "Saturday Night Live" skit that mocked the decision. Ironically, Jemima was played by new M&M spokesperson Rudolph.

The expression, "go woke, go broke," doesn’t exactly apply here. People will still eat M&Ms. Mars just foolishly followed in the footsteps of other failed marketers and undermined consumer loyalty for their product. The very icons they spent decades building up got torn down in a few months.

But, hey, it’s woke. And that’s all that matters.

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The word 'the' can be dehumanizing. Well, the AP thinks so.

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Twitter users mock new list of 'dehumanizing' labels to avoid: 'The AP is run by children'

The Associated Press Stylebook Twitter account was ridiculed Thursday after suggesting avoiding use of the word “the” when referring to groups, including "the French."

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The word 'the' can be dehumanizing. Well, the AP thinks so.

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Twitter users mock new list of 'dehumanizing' labels to avoid: 'The AP is run by children'

The Associated Press Stylebook Twitter account was ridiculed Thursday after suggesting avoiding use of the word “the” when referring to groups, including "the French."

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Not sure what's up. Tweet has been deleted. Maybe reconsidering?

 

[pigfarmer]

AP deletes ‘the French' tweet and apologises after it is widely mocked

AP deletes ‘the French' tweet and apologises after it is widely mocked​

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Image caption,
French President Emmanuel Macron pictured at a Franco-German news conference

The Associated Press, the biggest news agency in the United States, has apologised after it was ridiculed for warning journalists against referring to "the French".
The AP stylebook Twitter account had recommended writers avoid using "the" in phrases like "the disabled, the poor and the French".
It said this could be dehumanising.

The French embassy responded by briefly changing its name to the "Embassy of Frenchness in the United States".
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"We just wondered what the alternative to the French would be," Pascal Confavreux, the embassy spokesman, told the New York Times. "I mean, really."
The original AP tweet received more than 20 million views and 18,000 retweets before being deleted.

It was widely mocked on social media.
The writer Sarah Haider joked that there was "nothing as dehumanizing as being considered one of the French" and that a better term was "suffering from Frenchness".
Ian Bremmer, a political scientist, suggested "people experiencing Frenchness" as an alternative.
After it deleted the tweet, the AP stylebook said its reference to French people was "inappropriate" but that it "did not intend to offend".
"Writing French people, French citizens, etc., is good. But "the" terms for any people can sound dehumanising and imply a monolith rather than diverse individuals," it wrote.
"That is why we recommend avoiding general 'the' labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the wealthy, the disabled, the college-educated," it wrote.

For example, a better term than "the poor" was "people with incomes below the poverty line", it added.
Lauren Easton, the vice president of AP corporate communications, told the French daily newspaper Le Monde: "The reference to 'the French' as well as the reference to 'the college educated' is an effort to show that labels shouldn't be used for anyone, whether they are traditionally or stereotypically viewed as positive, negative or neutral."
The AP stylebook is considered one of the best style guides for journalists and other writers, particularly in the US.

 

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NYC forces all city employees to undergo radical critical race theory training​

Mayor Eric Adams' New York City forced all of its employees into a radical critical race theory-inspired training, according to a copy of the training reviewed by Fox News Digital.

The "mandatory" training was sent to all New York City employees with a March 6 deadline. "The training provides all NYC employees with a framework to understand… the importance of racial equity… in the workplace," the email said.

The controversial lens expressed in the training is called critical race theory, which holds that America is and was always structurally racist; CRT adds that the U.S. was designed from its start to systematically oppress minority groups in order to uphold systems of power for the dominant culture or White racial group. CRT also maintains an oppressor versus oppressed lens of society and classifies people into groups based on supposed "privilege."

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Woke Disney sparks outrage with new kids cartoon that claims America was 'built on slavery' - as it pushes reparations and says Lincoln had no desire to liberate the enslaved​

Disney has been slammed for going woke yet again after a new cartoon series features black children rapping about reparations - saying 'slaves built this country'. The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder has sparked outrage by showing the characters discovering that their town was built by slaves and then giving a presentation to their school. As part of the rap, which as been branded 'blatant anti-white propaganda', a white character is seen standing on a stage with a poster that says 'still not atoned'. It is echoing the current situation in California, with a reparations board insisting that every long-term black resident get $5million in reparations.

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[pigfarmer]

I guess in all the history editing they never read about what happened the few hours after Richmond fell. Take your time machine, go back to April 3 1865, grab a liberated slave and tell him or her what's in that article and see what reaction you get. An ass kicking would be my guess.

The Civil War was about states right's and there was more than just that one issue in play at the time, conveniently forgotten. Slavery was a house of dry timber and things like the Kansas-Missouri wars were the accelerant. Lincoln's election was the match.

They're referring to the Emancipation Proclamation. Viewed out of context I see why they might say that. But what do I always say - that context is important ? Jesus, somebody please read a book once in a while.

 

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Disney will 'pay the price' for caving to 'radical leftism' to push 'woke propaganda, a Ron DeSantis PAC says in response to cartoon saying US was built on slavery and after Governor took control of kingdom's district​

A group dedicated to getting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis elected president slammed Disney for engaging in 'woke propaganda' with its latest episode of a cartoon featuring black children rapping about reparations.

DeSantis has an ongoing public feud with the Walt Disney Co. centered around its woke agenda and decades of special exemptions.

The Florida legislature on Monday introduced a new bill that would give DeSantis complete control over the board of the powerful Reedy Creek Improvement District and would hold Disney responsible for paying its debt to the state.

Ready for Ron, an independent Political Action Committee, is standing behind DeSantis in his war with Disney and is seeking to hold the child-focused company accountable for pushing 'radical leftism' on children.

The Executive Director wrote in a statement provided to DailyMail.com that Disney executives have gotten used to presenting politics to children without 'repercussions,' but vowed this would come to an end with DeSantis driving the State House in Florida for another term.

'Disney executives broke the deal and they will pay the price. Instead of giving Americans a safe place for children to enjoy content like Marvel and Star Wars, Disney caved to radical Leftism and pushed "woke" propaganda,' Dan Backer, legal counsel at Ready for Ron, said in a statement on the latest Proud Family: Louder and Prouder episode.

'Disney better listen to Ron DeSantis and wise up, getting back to the deal that made the company successful in the first place. Until that happens, DeSantis has every right to expose Disney's woke politics and hold the company accountable,' he added.

Disney has received widespread backlash for going woke after the new cartoon series featured an episode where black children rapped about reparations – saying 'slaves built this country'.

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Biologists: Systemic racism harms birds, mammals, reptiles living in urban areas​

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Redlining drove out woodland creatures from minority neighborhoods, and their absence also makes minority residents mentally and physically ill, biodiversity researchers argue.

Systemic racism, traditionally thought of as strictly a people problem, negatively impacts the furry, feathered and scaly members of our communities as well, according to some biologists.

University of Manitoba biologist Colin Garroway, and Chloé Schmidt, now at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, made the argument in an October 2022 article published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In their article, headlined “Systemic Racism Alters Wildlife Genetic Diversity,” the duo discussed the findings of a recent study they conducted, writing that in the U.S. “systemic racism has had lasting effects on the structure of cities, specifically due to government-mandated redlining policies that produced racially segregated neighborhoods that persist today.”

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Mother demands investigation after school counselor gave her 13-year-old a CHEST BINDER and started calling her by a male name to help her socially transition without her parents' consent​

Amber Lavigne, of Wiscasset, discovered her daughter's chest binder in her room while her eighth-grader was at a school dance. She later learned her daughter's counselor Sam Roy had bought her two binders and told her she didn't have to tell her parents and he wouldn't either. He also reportedly helped her begin socially transitioning at school by referring to her by a male name and with he/him pronouns with her mother's knowledge or consent. She has since pulled her daughter, who she did not name, from Great Salt Bay School and is calling for an investigation into Roy and the school's behavior.

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