Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Boston ‘Electeds of Color Party’ Is Part of the Resegregation of America
The Left have always obsessed about race
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s office sent out an email earlier this week announcing an “Electeds of Color Holiday Party” to the Boston City Council. Seven of the council’s 13 members are white, which apparently meant they weren’t welcome at the party.
Conservative Boston radio host Howie Carr called it the mayor’s “Wu Klux Klan” party.
Wu, who is Asian American, sort of apologized, but more or less defended the event.
The mayor said it was all a misunderstanding. These kinds of parties have been going on for years, apparently.
“There are many events that are private events for all sorts of groups, so we’ve clarified that and look forward to seeing everyone at one of the dozens of opportunities to celebrate the holidays,” Wu told reporters, according to The Associated Press.
Wu, the daughter of immigrants from Taiwan, explained that people of all races could actually attend the festivities after all. How kind of her.
“We had individual conversations with everyone so people understand that it was truly just an honest mistake that went out in typing the email field,” Wu said.
And what exactly was that honest mistake? This wasn’t a typo; the language was clear. Is the mistake that the public found out?
This seems to be part of a pattern for the Boston mayor.
“I’m getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white … I’m talking about snowflakes, snowstorms, snowflakes!” she said at a St. Patrick’s Day prayer breakfast last year.
It hardly needs to be said, but if a white mayor had put out a Christmas party invitation saying something like “A White Christmas for Whites,” the meltdown in response would have triggered a “national conversation.” It would have sparked an endless number of corporate media op-eds about enduring racism in America.
No defense or apology would have sufficed. There would have been calls for resignation and possibly even riots in the city.
But the Boston mayor’s invitation was treated as just an innocent mistake and maybe not even a mistake.
In fact, the Boston mayor and members of the City Council basically doubled down. Was this a joke or actually part of a phenomenon that the Left now supports and approves of?
One councilor actually spoke about the need for segregated public spaces.
“It is not at all divisive, it is creating spaces for people and communities and identities with shared experiences to come together,” said Ruthzee Louijeune, councilor at-large, according to NBC News. “We are still breaking barriers, and it is so important for us to carve out and create that space.”
The Left often insists that the legacy of segregation in America is part of our generally racist legacy as a nation and what makes our history exceptionally bad. Their answer to this, apparently, is more segregation.
Entrepreneur Elon Musk was likely referencing this in a post Friday on X, his social media platform.
“DEI must DIE,” Musk wrote, referring to so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. “The point was to end discrimination, not replace it with different discrimination.”
The woke among us have determined that colorblind institutions and laws are racist. The “only remedy to past discrimination is current discrimination,” as the venerated high priest of anti-racism, Ibram X. Kendi, has said.
So the Left has adopted a form of racialized Marxism that boils people down to race and divides them into oppressor and oppressed groups. They mean to marginalize—they love that word—anyone who fits into one of the “baddie” categories or simply doesn’t get with the program.
Jews are one of the more recent “bad” groups, which is why the Left is willing to let vicious antisemites rage out of control on college campuses.
Marxism has been racialized and repackaged to consume America and the rest of the West.
Segregated spaces have become common on college campuses, where separate graduation ceremonies are conducted for different racial categories. This has been going on for years.
According to a 2019 report from the National Association of Scholars, 125 colleges held segregated graduation ceremonies. This is becoming the norm among our elite.
As with most of the awful societal trends plaguing our nation, what starts on college campuses doesn’t stay on college campuses. Of course, our elites will copy and paste their campus activities onto the government and corporate world.
DEI is the moral rot that has destroyed higher education and seeped into almost all aspects of our society.
Unfortunately, what we’re seeing is the resegregation of America, and it’s certainly not by mistake. Our society has been re-racialized by woke fanatics who now hold sway in our country’s most elite institutions.
Right now, what’s standing in opposition is the good sense of the average American—and maybe some civil rights laws. But how long will those things hold up when DEI has become a kind of established ideological religion in this country?
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This Moms for Liberty Leader Faced Trumped-Up Harassment Charges. Now, She’s Suing
Tyler O'Neil
A Pennsylvania Moms for Liberty leader will file defamation lawsuits to restore her good name after she was falsely accused of harassment in what she calls an orchestrated smear campaign.
Nicole Marie Prussman, chairwoman of the Monroe County, Pennsylvania, chapter of the parental rights group, received a citation for harassment in April, after news reports of the charge came out in March.
Although a magistrate court judge initially found Prussman guilty without a proper fair trial, the case was dismissed on appeal when the state ruled that Prussman’s accuser failed to corroborate her alleged evidence.
Yet the news outlets that reported the charges against Prussman have not reported her acquittal. Now, the Coalition for Liberty, a nonprofit dedicated to combating cancel culture, will represent her in court as she goes on the offensive. The Coalition for Liberty has not clarified which individuals or entities it plans to sue on Prussman’s behalf, but it has vowed to bring litigation against anyone who broke the law in defaming her.
Prussman became the target of “a very organized hit job by a group called Stop Moms for Liberty,” Doug Turpin, president and board chair of Coalition for Liberty, told “The Daily Signal Podcast.” “They planned this. You can even see online how they were getting their members to plot to file harassment charges against Moms for Liberty all across the country. This was a deliberate attempt to cancel Nicole [Prussman] simply because she was speaking out on behalf of children because of inappropriate and highly sexual content.” (The Daily Signal has reached out to Stop Moms for Liberty for comment and this story will be updated to include any response.)
“What they were looking to do was destroy her reputation, destroy her job,” Turpin said of what Prussman faced. “They had people organizing, hitting them with automated bots on her website and filling up the calendar for months and months on end just to deny her the ability to practice her business as a teacher, trying to help parents as a counselor with the issues that the children were having.”
“They just tried to destroy Nicole in every possible way,” he added.
“This started way back last February [2023], when my chapter started to share information about inappropriate texts that were being read in classes and poor performance rates that are sadly across our county,” Prussman herself recalled. “We were looking to inform parents and educate them so that we can begin solving problems, and we began getting a lot of pushback, to the point where we had to change locations and adjust our meeting location and all of that.”
The Moms for Liberty leader recounted receiving a call on a Friday night asking how she was feeling after a news outlet published an article about her. The article inaccurately claimed she had been arrested and charged, “and the first I was hearing about it was that moment reading a link through a text message from a friend,” Prussman said.
Since it was a Friday night, the courts were closed, and Prussman couldn’t get any information until after the weekend.
“No one ever contacted me,” she recalled.
“My charges were equivalent to a speeding ticket, and the worst penalty that could have occurred was a $400 fine,” Prussman explained. Yet, she said, “within a week, that article had spread not only out of my state, but across most of the country, and it took to social media like fire to tissue paper.”
“They actually had the gall to add molestation to the harassment accusation,” she noted.
Wally Zimolong, Prussman’s attorney, explained the situation in an interview last month with The Daily Signal.
“Contrary to some of the reporting, Nicole Prussman was never arrested,” Zimolong told The Daily Signal. “She was issued a ticket.”
“Nicole was charged with a summary offense of harassment, and she appeared before a magisterial district justice,” Zimolong noted. These justices, he said, represent “the lowest rung of the criminal court system in Pennsylvania. Many MDJs are not even lawyers.”
The justice who heard the case fined Prussman, but Zimolong explained that “all summary convictions are appealable to the state court system.”
“We appealed before a regular state trial court judge, and all charges were dismissed against Nicole,” he said. “The commonwealth could not authenticate any of the messages that she allegedly sent.”
Prussman explained that the purported evidence consisted of printed copies of Facebook Messenger communications that looked like a poorly done cut-and-paste job. She noted that her accuser had deleted any of her posts to try to prevent the judge from discovering the false accusations.
Although the judge dismissed the charges against Prussman, the Coalition for Liberty’s president, Turpin, explained that she’ll be heading back to court.
He said the only way to stop cancel culture attacks like the smear campaign against the Moms for Liberty leader is to hold the attackers accountable.
“Because there’s no consequences, the Left has been using this [strategy] to silence Americans, and it’s having a devastating impact,” Turpin argued. “So, the Coalition for Liberty believes that if people are starting to be held to account, and you go after them in a court of law … for defamation, slander, libel, malicious prosecution, anything that they can legally be held to account for, then that will stop cancel culture. That will stop these baseless attacks on people like Nicole all across the country, and we can return to a land where people are having civil and respectful discussions about our differences, not trying to cancel and silence people.”
This smear campaign arguably echoes the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left organization that brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” putting them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
As I wrote in my book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC has leveraged its track record of suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy to develop the “hate map” it uses to smear enemies and raise money. Earlier this year, the SPLC placed Moms for Liberty and other parental rights organizations on the map, branding them “anti-student inclusion antigovernment extremist groups.”
In 2012, a terrorist used the SPLC’s map to target the Family Research Council for a mass shooting in Washington, D.C. The SPLC condemned the attack but kept the conservative organization on its map.
Despite a sexual harassment and racial discrimination scandal that prompted the SPLC to fire its co-founder in 2019, and a former employee revealing the SPLC’s “hate” accusations to be a “highly profitable scam,” many on the Left continue to use the SPLC as a political and ideological weapon to silence their opponents.
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UK: Couples getting married will be asked if they want to be called 'husband and wife' under new woke Church guidelines.
It is part of new 'inclusive language' rules published by The Methodist Church, which warns that old-fashioned terminology 'makes assumptions about a family or personal life that is not the reality for many people'.
The guidance also advises preachers to share their pronouns with congregation members 'to create a safe space for people to be themselves.'
According to the guide ministers can 'subconsciously use phrases that may be misinterpreted as us favouring one sex over another.'
Instead they should use 'gender-neutral language', opting for words such as 'folks, teammates, friends, colleagues, or simply people'.
It adds: 'People of different genders may choose to use a gender-neutral title such as Mx'.
In the section titled 'Disabled and Neurodiverse people' the guide states that requesting for people stand 'if they are able' can create a 'normalised expectation that people should stand'.
This may be dangerous for those who are 'pushing themselves physically'.
Explaining the reasons behind the new pamphlet the writers said: 'Speaking, worshipping and writing in an inclusive way is about engaging positively with as many people as possible.
Responding to the guide's controversy, the Methodist Church told The Sun: 'Our guide helps the church hold conversations without inadvertently causing upset.'
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Much to do before we close the gap
Australia's black/white achievement gap will NEVER be closed. Tribal Aboriginals are just too diffeent to adopt a white lifestyle. The nearest that was ever approaced was when missionaries managed the settlements. It has all been downhill since then. Being an old guy (aged 80) I have personally known Aborigines from the pre- and post-missionary eras and the difference is striking
The very low average IQ of Aborigines was rigorously established by McElwain and Kearney with the Queensland Test and IQ is a strong correlate of educational achievement.
In the aftermath of the divisive Voice referendum, advocates for both the Yes and No campaigns spoke about the need to continue to address the very real disadvantages faced by members of the Indigenous community.
It is important that the rejection of the constitutionally enshrined Indigenous advisory body was not seen as Australia turning its back on its first inhabitants, and is not used as an excuse to downgrade the importance of reconciliation.
The rejection of the Voice was more about the initial failure of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to explain his model, and the subsequent failure to convince a wary electorate that such a change should be constitutionally enshrined.
Thankfully, since 2008, Australia has had a mechanism to track efforts to reduce Indigenous disadvantage. The Closing the Gap strategy was introduced by prime minister Kevin Rudd’s government, in conjunction with his national apology for the forced removals of Indigenous children.
In his apology, Mr Rudd spoke of “a future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity”.
When expressed as pure data – life expectancy, education levels, incarceration – the gap was and is staggering. Targets have always been deliberately ambitious and as a result they are often missed.
The latest state government Closing the Gap report reveals we are likely to miss many major targets, but the one that has been met deserves to be celebrated.
Queensland set itself the goal of having 95 per cent of Indigenous children enrolled in preschool education by 2025. That has already been achieved, up from 82.2 per cent in 2016.
Hopefully, this one success will carry through to other targets.
At present, the following targets are on track – the proportion of Indigenous babies born with a healthy birth weight, the number of Indigenous adults in full-time employment, and increasing the total landmass controlled by Indigenous people.
However, the areas where we are lagging are shameful.
Life expectancy still lags behind the broader community – by 7.8 years for males and 6.8 for females.
Incarceration rates for adults are actually increasing, rising to 2047 per 100,000 in 2022 from 1815 per 100,000 in 2019, while the number of young people in detention has only decreased slightly.
Heartbreakingly, suicide rates are also increasing.
And year 12 or equivalent education, as well as tertiary education rates, continue to lag.
There are two things we must remember when dealing with such damning data.
Education is key. Once those targets are being met, others will inevitably follow suit over time.
And secondly, Closing the Gap is just data. It’s only through sensible policies that have the support of the broader community that this shame of Indigenous disadvantage will be erased.
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http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)
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