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Pennsylvania lawmakers are introducing a new bill to ban schools from teaching the controversial critical race theory. The bill’s author told NTD what he finds problematic with the theory.
DeSantis Vows to Oppose Republican School Board Members Who Support "Critical Race Theory"
BY GQ PAN June 7, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the weekend vowed to turn the Republican political apparatus of his state against school board candidates who support teaching Critical Race Theory.
“We’re not going to support any Republican candidate for school board who supports Critical Race Theory in all 67 counties or who supports mandatory masking of schoolchildren,” DeSantis told Fox News host Dan Bongino. ...
“Local elections matter. We are going to get the Florida political apparatus involved so we can make sure there’s not a single school board member who supports Critical Race Theory,” DeSantis added.
The governor’s comments come as the State Board of Education is scheduled to meet on June 10 and weigh a proposal that would ban teaching the founding of the United States as anything “other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.” ...
If passed, the proposed education rule would make Florida one of the handful of states that prohibit the teaching of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which portrays the United States as an inherently racist nation founded on slavery. The Pulitzer Prize-winning project consists of a collection of essays that argue, among many other controversial claims, that the primary reason for the American Revolution was to preserve slavery, and that slavery was the primary driver of American capitalism during the 19th century.
“Next week, I have my Commissioner of Education going to the Board of Education, banning any departure from accurate history and following our standards,” DeSantis told Bongino. “This is something we’ve got to stay on the forefront of.”
Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who proposed the rule, calls the effort to push back against indoctrination in public school classrooms a “constant, vigilant fight.”
“We’re passing a rule this coming month that says, for the 185,000 teachers, you can’t indoctrinate students on stuff that’s not based on our standards,” Corcoran said at a May 14 event on the Hillsdale, Michigan, campus of Hillsdale College. “But you have to police them on a daily basis. It’s 185,000 teachers in a classroom with anywhere from 18 to 25 kids.”
Judge Orders Virginia School to Reinstate Teacher Who Refused to Use Transgender Pronouns
BY MARK TAPSCOTT June 8, 2021
A Virginia state court judge on Tuesday directed Loudoun County School System officials to withdraw their suspension and other disciplinary measures against a teacher who declined to use students’ preferred pronouns.
Elementary school teacher Byron Tanner Cross was suspended May 27 after briefly speaking against a proposal to require teachers in the Northern Virginia public school system to address students by their preferred pronouns, rather than only by those indicating male and female gender.
Cross was also barred from being on the grounds of any of the school system’s facilities without prior permission and to be available on request to discuss the official investigation of whether his comments were disruptive.
Represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an Arizona-based public interest law firm that specializes in civil and religious liberties litigation, Cross asked the Virginia Circuit Court for the County of Loudoun on June 1 to force the school system to withdraw its disciplinary actions via a Temporary Restraining Order while the case proceeds.
Cross claimed the suspension and related penalties were retaliation for his comments, which were protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
Judge James E. Plowman of Virginia’s Twentieth Judicial Circuit, agreed, saying “here, it is clear the plaintiff was speaking as a citizen, not in his official capacity. His speech was not conducted at his usual place of employment, occurred during non-working hours and at a forum where public comment was invited. ...
Plowman agreed that the weight of the evidence suggests Cross is likely to prevail, as well as that he suffered “irreparable harm” in the violation of his First Amendment rights, and that he was suspended “due to his speech, barred from further speech, and similarly situated employees have been chilled from speech because of Defendants’ actions.”
As a result, the judge ruled that “the plaintiff’s request for a temporary injunction against the defendants is hereby granted. Defendants shall immediately reinstate the plaintiff to his position as it was prior to the issuance of his suspension and remove the ban that was placed upon him from all buildings and grounds of Loudoun County Public Schools.”
Unless an out-of-court settlement is reached between the parties, the case will be heard later this year.
Mike Farris, ADF’s president, hailed the decision, saying in a statement Tuesday that, “nobody should be punished for expressing concern about a proposed government policy, especially when the government invites comment on that policy. For that reason, we are pleased at the court’s decision to halt Loudoun County Public Schools’ retaliation against Tanner Cross while his lawsuit continues.”
Farris, himself a long-time resident of Loudoun County and former president of Patrick Henry College located there, added that, “educators are just like everybody else — they have ideas and opinions that they should be free to express. Advocating for solutions they believe in should not cost them their jobs.
“School officials singled out his speech, offered in his private capacity at a public meeting, as ‘disruptive’ and then suspended him for speaking his mind. That’s neither legal nor constitutional. Dozens of other teachers have shared their beliefs on various policies without retaliation; Tanner deserves to be treated with the same respect.”
The ADF has won a dozen decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years, including the landmark Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in 2018 that upheld decorator Jack Phillips’ right to decline to include messages on cakes that violate his religious convictions.
Judge Orders Virginia School to Reinstate Teacher Who Refused to Use Transgender Pronouns
Parents also lambasted board members over their controversial push for critical race theory. Recently, Loudoun public schools have shifted their curriculum to include rhetoric about systemic racism and bias — Loudoun has paid approximately $500,000 to a racial consulting firm. District employees are also required to undergo racial ‘equity’ training.
‘We will not yield. We will not let you have the souls of our children,’ said Monica Gill, a self-described Christian parent, to the board. ‘We will not let you have our souls.’
Another parent concluded, ‘I will fight to the bitter end…if you teach my children that they are racist just because they’re white,’ according to PBS reporter Amna Nawaz.
Further, the moral code upon which the multiculturalists base their condemnations of Western society is decidedly Western. Though they pretend to reject as illegitimate all thought that originates from a "colonialist" (meaning Western) mindset, they accuse Columbus, John Winthrop, and James Madison of violating moral precepts taught almost exclusively in Western, enlightened thought.
The case against conquest and colonization is built around the principle of private property rights – a Western thought.
The case for reparations is built around the principle of equal justice – a Western thought.
The case against slavery and human trafficking is built around the principle of natural rights – a Western thought.
The case for dismantling patriarchal themes and the subjugation of women is built around the principle of women's liberation – a Western thought.
The case for religious and cultural pluralism is built around the principles of skepticism and tolerance – both Western thoughts.
The case for bodily autonomy and self-determination is built around the principles of individualism and humanism – both Western thoughts.
In other words, in their furious case against Western imperialism and colonialism, the neo-racist activists populating colleges and universities and spearheading the anti-Western cultural movements surrounding us today are embarrassingly forced to intellectually and morally borrow from the very philosophy they are condemning as intellectually and morally inferior.
The British footballers were booed over the weekend by some of their own fans for taking a knee before their match against Romania.
The team virtue-signaled -- I mean, announced their plan to kneel before the game, even though they were booed when they tried this stupid fake activism in their previous match.
America is fighting back: Black mom eviscerates CRT, calls it "racist" garbage that will destroy the nation
Joel Abbott
Jun 11th, 2021 3:17 pm
This black mom in Florida knows exactly what Critical Race Theory is, and she's not buying it for one second.
Watch:
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1403297459992944642
Kill shot:
I don't know about you, but telling my child or any child that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black is racist, and saying that white people are automatically above me, my children or any child is racist as well.
The end of her speech though really hit me in the feels:
Our ancestors, white, black, and others hung, bled, and died right alongside each other to push America towards that more perfect union. If this continues, we will look back and be responsible for the dismantling of the greatest country in the world by reverting to teaching hate and that race is a determining factor on where your destiny lies.
The outcry against CRT is rising across the nation, and the front lines are school board meetings, where parents are calling out this toxic ideology.
This is why the family must be destroyed before any good Marxist revolution can succeed. They did it particularly well in countries like Russia and China, where children were told to rat out their parents and taught that their real "mother" was the government.
What we're seeing here at these meetings is 'Murica fighting back!
Critical Race Theory Opponents Win Board Elections at Nation’s Top High School
Candidates opposed woke curriculum and eliminating merit-based admissions tests
National Parent Group Emerges to Fight ‘Woke’ Education, Says It Harms Children
Petition Calls for Resignation of New Jersey School Board Members After Holiday Names Replaced With Generic ‘Day Off’
The ban on CRT in Florida just passed.
And from CNN to Politfact, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Roger Waters, founding member of Pink Floyd (and probably now considered a terrorist in America due to his anti-government lyrics), announced that he recently turned down a huge offer from Facebook, who wanted to use one of his songs in an advertisement.
The song Facebook, wanted to use (to promote Instagram) was "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2", which boasts the line "we don't need no thought control." And that's absolutely ironic as can be.
The stage for Waters' announcement was gorgeous, as well: he was at an event held in support of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, which was a perfect setting.
They want to use the song to "make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is so that it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general public," Waters mentions during the event.
Here's the video, and below I'll type it out for you incase you're at work or around one of your snowflake liberal friends [also, language warning]:
[This is] a request for the rights to use my song, "Another Brick in the Wall 2" in the making of a film to promote Instagram. So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, right—arrived this morning—with an offer of a huge amount of money. And the answer is [flowerbed] you! No [flowerbedding] way. And I only mention that because this is an insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. So, those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit, in terms of the control of the publishing of my songs I do anyways. So I will not be a party to this [bullbird] Zuckerberg.
So Roger Waters ain't havin' it. Not in the slightest.
And that makes me so incredibly happy because this shows me that not Republicans, not conservatives, but THE PEOPLE... ARE WINNING.
Waters gets slightly more upset toward the end of this vid, and goes on to mention FaceMash, an app created by Zuckerberg before he invented Facebook:
How did this little prick who started off by saying, 'She's pretty, we'll give her a four out of five. She's ugly, we'll give her a one.' How did he get power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world."
So yeah, Zuck... if you're gonna try to get someone's song for one of your ads, try looking for someone who doesn't hate techno-fascism with a passion.
Colorado Town Mayor Cancels Pledge of Allegiance at Town Hall, Attendees Recite Anyway
Activists’ attempts to cancel Factorio developer backfire, result in positive reviews for the game
The cancel mob failed.
Attempts from woke activists to “cancel” a game developer have backfired; the game’s popularity has increased and its positive reviews have skyrocketed.
On June 18, one of the developers of Factorio, Michal Kovarik, aka Kovarex, posted a blog as part of the “Friday Facts” series, where he recommended Robert Cecil Martin, aka Uncle Bob, lectures on project management and programming. ...
Some pointed out what they say are Uncle Bob’s controversies, such as his “sexist” and “racist” comments, as a reason Kovarex should not have recommended him. ...
“Take the cancel culture mentality and shove it up your ass,” Kovarex replied. Before moderators deleted the exchange, due to “threats and calls for violence,” Kovarex explained himself in detail, and blasted the users who accused him of being a right-wing bigot. ...
“Why am I right wing bigot again, I hear it again and again, and yet, I didn’t hear any reason for that claim.
“This clearly shows the weird one dimensional world you see. Everyone is either a friend or an enemy, and we need to decide fast!
“All I did is to deny bashing on someones proffessional [sic] work for his political views, I didn’t even know what they are, and somehow, you had to put me on your political axis somewhere, and sicne your political axis is so full of hate, you assume that I hate you or LBGT+ people, or whatever you don’t like about the other side your axis.
“You have to understand, that I’m not from the US, and I’m nowhere on your little axis, I’m not your friend or enemy, I’m just a guy who would like to decouple ideas from people.”
According to Kovarex, people should separate someone’s professional life from their personal and political ideologies.
“I won’t even search him up. You know why? Because I don’t care at all. I don’t care if he cheats on his wife, is a bigot, or pays proper tips in restaurant. These things are simply not relevant.”
“If Stalin had a good writeup on programming, would linking that be dangerous, because some people might read it, start liking HIM, thus start liking communism and the ineviteble mass murder that follows it? Is this how little we trust other individuals when it comes to access to information?
“I personally trust my readers to have the ability to create their own opinions instead of blindly following whatever says the person they like.”
While the redditor did not specifically call for the cancelation of Kovarex, a user in the steam forums did just that, calling on people not to buy the game.
“The main dev is transphobic+ more and got canceled dont buy the game anymore,” the user implored. “the dev is problematic you should not buy their game.”
But the attempts backfired big time. Some in the Steam forum even vowed to buy the game to spite the user.
Coca-Cola Diversity Policy Risks Violating Anti-Discrimination Laws, Shareholders Warn
BY GQ PAN June 20, 2021
A group of Coca-Cola shareholders are warning that the company’s recent diversity policy would actually require contracted law firms to violate anti-discrimination laws.
You had to know that was coming.
Yes, Ted Cruz is a racist because he accused the CRT proponents of being racist!
I have to admit, the suspense was killing me. Nice job setting it up, Kruse. Quite the payoff.
She pointed out that she was able to achieve success and overcome the circumstances of her birth because she believed that hard work mattered and applied herself as such.
“I did not see myself as handicapped because I was black, poor, a woman,” the professor said. “I took advantage of what America offered.”
Among today’s youth, minorities are being “crippled in their minds because they’ve been told by the political left what they can’t do and they are being handicapped,” she warned.
“They’re not even being held to the same standards that people of my generation were held to at colleges and universities. And as a consequence, they do feel inferior. A lot of what is crippling them is what they have been indoctrinated with.”
In her view, the racism coming from the political left is a forced re-segregation, and the lowered standards being pushed out for racial, ethnic minorities are impeding the development of their fullest potential.
Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?’ Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California all but told concerned parents who say the school is injecting critical race theory into two new elective courses on offer to students.
The two courses, ‘Ethnic Literature’ and ‘Ethnic Studies’, were made available to high school students ‘in response to our racial equity plan and community conversations held with students, staff and families’, according to the school district’s Facebook page. Ethnic Literature, a course guide says, seeks to promote ’empathy’ by examining how ‘systems of power in the United States’ have affected various minority groups. Students will also dive deep into their own ‘implicit biases’ and ‘privilege’ and be asked to create an action plan to be ‘agents of change’ in their communities. Ethnic Studies will similarly encourage students to explore how their immutable characteristics, like race, gender, and ethnicity, influence their ‘identity’. It will also teach them how to ‘advocate for social justice...
I guess parents sang the national anthem too loud, because Loudoun County arrested several after a school board meeting was declared an "unlawful assembly"
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