cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/266920

CMT just CANCELLED this music video by Jason Aldean about the Antifa-BLM riots

Mainor shared some of the emails she’d received — riddled with nasty language and racist epithets — in a series of screenshots on Twitter.

Failing the New York State teachers’ exam really paid off — especially for a Queens man who learned this month he’s getting a $2 million windfall over it.

Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased.

Standardized testing, it turned out, proved to be the single most accurate indicator of college performance, including for non-white students.

Judge Morton thought he deserved a second chance.

“This is a double victory for AfriForum over the SAHRC, as our position is that Julius Malema committed clear hate speech in 2016, and that the SAHRC does not have binding powers. Both have now been confirmed by the court,” said Ernst van Zyl, Campaign Officer for Strategy and Content at AfriForum.

The general manager of the Transvaal Agricultrural Union TLU SA, Bennie van Zyl, criticized calls by corrupt South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for a “return to militancy” and “revolution” speaking to the radical ANC Youth League July 2.

Columbia linguist John McWhorter confessed in The New York Times last week that in high school he didn't bother "seeking the academic mountaintop" because, with racial quotas and preferences in place, his grades and test scores "wouldn't affect my future." So eliminating quotas may marginally increase black students' test scores.

The nation has benefited from excellence of various kinds, some more often found in one group, others in others. The National Basketball Association doesn't much "look like America," either, and neither have the creators and performers of great popular music going back far into the American past.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/194311

Legacy admissions help facilitate the flow of upper-class students into universities to maintain the status and wealth of these elite colleges. Wealthy white students—legacy picks—often get accepted over their less privileged counterparts simply because of their familial ties, not their academic merit. Legacy admissions allow Ivy League institutions—which receive federal aid—to deprioritize merit to preserve a steady stream of donations and grow their massive endowments.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/192133

The federal subsidization of programs facilitating the integration of divisive and hateful ideologies in both impressionable youth and technological development presents opportunities for the further erosion of national cohesion and a globally competitive tech sector.

“The most dangerous place for a Black person in America is the Black womb.”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/189946

If this decision is not reversed, things are likely to get far worse (if possible) for conservative, libertarian and contrarian faculty members. Rather than investigate, sanction, or fire faculty for their viewpoints, schools will now simply declare them uncollegial in raising such viewpoints. School or board officials like John Corkins will no longer have to say that dissenting faculty should be “taken to the slaughterhouse” for their anti-diversity views. They can be “culled” on collegiality grounds.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/188677

Dr. Amanda Calhoun, 28, argued in an op-ed for the Boston Globe that body cameras should be worn by health care professionals in order to hold responsible doctors and nurses for racist behavior allegedly displayed towards black patients. Calhoun, who serves as co-Vice Chair of the Diversity Council of the Yale Resident Fellow Senate, “works to alleviate the impact of racism on her patients and society at large,” her website states.

“In an industry where merit and skill must be the most important factors when selecting the top applicants for admission, medical schools have a moral obligation to swiftly comply with the law and remove these discriminatory practices,”

The idea that we should be created trails that are only for minority hikers is an absurd idea. Segregating hiking trails only further divides our country by race and identity, pushing the U.S. away from a united nation that celebrates its diversity.

Do they think:

• black kids don't matter enough to care for
• black men are incapable of caring for their kids
• black women should be forced to financially support their kids on their own?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/171586

Bud Light sales dropped 31% since mid-May after the company partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender social media influencer, in April. Target and Kohl’s brands took a hit over LGBTQ merchandise in June, with Target losing $15 billion in market cap value and Kohl’s losing 20% of its share price.

Cloud didn’t exactly grow up on the mean streets. As a teen, she attended a $10,000 per-year Catholic High School in the leafy, far-western Philadelphia suburbs. She went on to attend the Universities of Maryland and Saint Joseph’s before being drafted in the 2015 WNB Draft. She is reportedly under a 3-year $565,000 contract with the Mystics and makes $190,000. annually, according to SportTrac.

The player has also engaged in constant left-wing activism as a player. 2020, for instance, she took the entire year off from playing basketball to engage in Black Lives Matter activism.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/171395

“We [in Florida] have color blind admissions and that works very well,” he said. “If you finish in the top 10% of your class in high school, you can get into a Florida University and we’ll make sure you have a spot for that, but we’re not divvying up on the basis of race.”

Diversity is indeed important – but not diversity of skin color.

“Yes, they may generate diversity and skin color, but they tend to promote uniformity of thought,” he said. “What about diversity of life experience? Diversity of viewpoints on things?”

“And I think a lot of these organizations that go whole hog with DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion], they end up creating a conformity

The most important aspect of the ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, is the affirmation that the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees to all citizens the equal protection of the law, means that the same law applies in the same way to every person—without regard to race.

The Court rejected the so-called antisubordination view, which holds that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids only laws that hurt minorities, not those that help them—that is, that different treatment under the same law is permissible in light of historical inequities.

They made clear that the law guarantees equality of opportunity, not outcome. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence, addressed this point powerfully. Advocates of the 14th Amendment, he wrote, "explicitly clarified that the equality sought by the law was not one in which all men shall be ‘six feet high’; rather, it strove to ensure that freedmen enjoy ‘equal rights before the law’ such that ‘each man shall have the right to pursue in his own way life, liberty, and happiness.’"

An ABC News/Ipsos poll taken after the most recent Supreme Court rulings found that 52% agree with the court’s striking down of affirmative action.

Next time somebody is lecturing you on Racial Equality, first check these state by state rankings. Usually they should be doing less talking, more listening

Rank* State Score

• 1 Alaska 84.05
• 2 Arizona 79.06
• 3 New Mexico 77.84
• 4 Oregon 77.62
• 5 Washington 75.53
• 6 Hawaii 75.50
• 7 Idaho 75.07
• 8 Vermont 75.05
• 9 Kentucky 75.02
• 10 Maine 75.00
• 11 Florida 74.69
• 12 Texas 74.15
• 13 Colorado 72.93
• 14 New Hampshire 72.51
• 15 Rhode Island 72.19
• 16 Delaware 71.76
• 17 Virginia 71.51
• 18 Maryland 71.21
• 19 Tennessee 71.06
• 20 South Dakota 70.45
• 21 West Virginia 70.41
• 22 Massachusetts 70.29
• 23 Georgia 69.79
• 24 North Carolina 69.24
• 25 Connecticut 69.01
• 26 South Carolina 68.28
• 27 California 68.04
• 28 Oklahoma 67.85
• 29 Missouri 67.84
• 30 Utah 66.30
• 31 Arkansas 65.99
• 32 New Jersey 64.21
• 33 Nevada 64.16
• 34 Alabama 63.58
• 35 Kansas 62.42
• 36 Nebraska 61.80
• 37 Indiana 61.48
• 38 Pennsylvania 59.46
• 39 Ohio 58.66
• 40 New York 58.27
• 41 North Dakota 58.09
• 42 Montana 57.70
• 43 Minnesota 57.18
• 44 Michigan 55.90
• 45 Mississippi 55.19
• 46 Louisiana 53.68
• 47 Wyoming 53.37
• 48 Iowa 52.27
• 49 Wisconsin 48.34
• 50 Illinois 44.82
• 51 District of Columbia 16.47

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/168078

The study ranked each state by metrics that included annual income and homeownership rate, which resulted in the lowest ranking for Illinois.

Straight white men are the ones who are shooting up schools, right?”