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Three takeaways from the Claudine Gay resignation

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:32:32 +0000

Take #1: The mainstream media is a bigger joke than ever. On Wednesday, the Associated Press headlined “Harvard president’s resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.” Later that day it sort of backtracked, changing the headline to “Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage.” It noted the original…

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School district ousts principal for holding racially exclusive student assembly – but why??

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:33:51 +0000

An elementary school in Florida recently hired a new principal to replace one who was suspended and eventually resigned at the beginning of the school year. The latter, Donelle Evensen, had helped organized a racially exclusive assembly for black fourth and fifth graders to encourage them to raise their state test scores. Evensen is white. Anthony Hines, the now-former fifth-grade facilitator…

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Top business schools push CRT and other progressive ideas, report finds

Jack Applewhite - University of Georgia — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:09:41 +0000

‘CRT and ESG are failed ideologies which politicize and racialize education,’ legal scholar says America’s prestigious business schools regularly push leftist ideologies, including critical race theory and environmental, social, and governance standards, according to a new report. The Legal Insurrection Foundation launched the project through its CriticalRace.org database. It details the CRT…

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Professors lament distrust in ‘expertise,’ blame ‘right-wing agendas’

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:09:32 +0000

‘Expertise is … premised on the understanding that not all opinions are equally valid’ A pair of Arizona State University professors recently penned an op-ed in which they tell college administrators “Enough with the free-speech rhetoric!” How come? Because such “concedes too much to right-wing agendas.” Richard Amesbury (religious studies and philosophy) and Catherine O’Donnell (history)…

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School district’s English as Second Language training zeroes in on … oppression

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:19:20 +0000

A Canadian school district’s training for ESL — English as a Second Language — teachers apparently had little to do with the teaching of The King’s, opting instead to focus on oppression and ways to combat it. The York Region District School Board training session on “anti-oppression agreements” drew content in part from Glenn Singleton (“Courageous Conversations”) and Robin DiAngelo (“White…

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At ‘academic freedom’ forum, Hamline defends firing instructor who showed paintings of Muhammad

Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 04:37:37 +0000

Hamline University recently used a daylong forum on academic freedom to essentially defend its decision to fire an art history instructor who showed her students two paintings of the prophet Muhammad, according to a faculty member who attended the event. The private, Minnesota-based university hosted “Academic Freedom and Cultural Perspectives – Challenges for Higher Ed Today and Tomorrow” on…

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Sorry, progressives — the Supreme Court just ruled that ‘colorblindness’ lives on

Dave Huber - Associate Editor — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:56:31 +0000

‘Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens’ Progressives, most especially in the education realm, consider the philosophy of “colorblindness” — where people are judged on their merits and actions rather than skin color — to be anathema. One of the main reasons, they say, is because it allows (white) people “to distance [themselves] from the racial…

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Student speaks out against ‘Christian privilege’ display at Indiana university

Matthew Giffin - Middle Tennessee State University — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 04:02:00 +0000

Display claimed other religions are ‘disenfranchised, exploited, and victimized’ A Christian student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis recently spoke out about a hallway display constructed by one of his school’s instructors that decried “Christian privilege.” The display “shocked” and “offended” IUPUI student Jacob Stewart, he said. “Some of the examples [the bulletin…

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Critical race theorists attack motives, not arguments

Maggie Kelly - Assistant Editor — Tue, 30 May 2023 04:05:40 +0000

Influential race scholars threaten their own project by assuming their critics have psychological problems Founders of critical race theory such as Richard Delgado and Robin DiAngelo commit the fallacy of appealing to the motives or character of their critics instead of their arguments. “Many of [critical race theory’s] most prominent academics impugn the motives of anyone who disagrees with…

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UT-Austin paid Angela Davis $25,000 for speech bashing capitalism

David Glasser - Florida State University — Mon, 08 May 2023 04:20:36 +0000

UPDATED ‘The real reason slavery was abolished was because it was no longer of service to capitalism,’ Davis said A prominent racial activist was paid $25,000 for her recent keynote address at the University of Texas at Austin. During her speech, Angela Davis bashed capitalism as exploitative and called the murder of Tyre Nichols by black police officers “systemic racism.” Davis…

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