On Monday, a California-based male feminist published an apology to women on behalf of men. 
Entitled &#8220;Letter to the Divine Feminine From the Wounded Masculine,&#8221; Adam Rubin frames women as oppressed relative to and by men across human history and into the present.
Read the letter below:
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LETTER TO THE DIVINE FEMININE,
FROM THE WOUNDED MASCULINE
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I know that words can never heal the wounds we have created.
But on behalf of men everywhere, I want to say I&#8217;m sorry.
So incredibly sorry.
For everything.
The harassment.
The abuse.
The rape.
I can&#8217;t even begin to imagine the pain we have inflicted upon you.
Centuries of oppression.
Pain passed down thru generations.
Your voices silenced.
Your bodies shamed.
Your hearts assaulted.
All of pain and all of the wounds we have created, have come from our own.
The Wounded Masculine.
If you close your eyes, you will see it.
Thousands of little boys, with thousands of hurting hearts.
Staring out into the darkness, afraid.
Hurting, without being able to voice our pain. Crying, without being able to show our tears.
Asked to stand strong and toughen up.
So we bottle up our anger.
Store our confusion.
Repress our emotions.
And these little boys, lost and confused, are raised with this conditioning.
And with no space to share and process their pain, they hold it in.
Stored on a cellular level, and wanting to be expressed.
But it&#8217;s not.
So it remains stuck, and it builds up within.
And as fear-based emotions stew within, they mold into fear-based actions.
Anger.
Abuse.
Violence.
And eventually, they are released in a rage of fury upon the women of the world.
And this deafening silence is passed down from fathers to sons, one generation after another.
But it stops here.
It&#8217;s time for us as men to put an end to the oppression, and provide the divine feminine with the pure unconditional love that she deserves.
The only way we stop inflicting these wounds, is to heal our own.
And as the Wounded Masculine heals, the Divine Masculine steps forward.
Out of the shadows, and into his light.
It&#8217;s time for us to heal that which has been hidden.
To nurture that which has been neglected.
To speak that which has been shamed.
Calling forward all men to acknowledge the pain and hurt which has moved them to hurt others, and inviting them to step into a space where we share and express and heal this pain.
A safe space, where we truly listen and lead with love over fear.
So we can finally replace all the anger and abuse and violence it&#8217;s been causing, and transmute it back into our only truth:
Love.
And as we heal our own pain and come back to love, we finally provide the space for the divine feminine to heal the wounds we have inflicted upon her.
As we heal together, we rise together.
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Rubin&#8217;s feminist letter includes a selfie in which he holds his hand over his chest, standing before an &#8220;I&#8217;M SORRY&#8221; inscription on the sand of a beach.
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Rubin&#8217;s Facebook profile contains a plethora of feminist messaging, including a video titled Meditation for the Divine Feminine + Healing the Wounded Masculine in which he describes the #MeToo hashtag campaign as &#8220;important.&#8221; Watch it below.
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This Is The Most Insane Facebook Post By A Male Feminist You Will Ever Read

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&#8220;What is the difference between a socialist and a Democrat on taxes?&#8221; asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during Wednesday&#8217;s CNN-hosted <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/bernie-sanders-ted-cruz-tax-reform-debate/index.html">town hall debate</a> in Washington, D.C.
Sanders could not or would not answer the question; &#8220;I don&#8217;t know the answer to that,&#8221; said the self-described &#8220;democratic socialist&#8221; senator from Vermont.
Sanders heralded &#8220;Denmark, and Sweden, and Norway, and Finland,&#8221; falsely framing the Scandinavian countries as having a &#8220;higher standard of living&#8221; than America.
America&#8217;s &#8220;free enterprise system,&#8221; said Cruz, has been history&#8217;s greatest generator of prosperity, adding, &#8220;Bernie likes to glorify socialism, but if you look at the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever seen, it&#8217;s the American free enterprise system. There&#8217;s a reason millions of people risk their lives to come here.&#8221;
Socialist government policies, said Cruz, stultify economic development and exacerbate poverty.
At no point in the debate did Cruz describe Sanders as a communist or neo-Marxist. The Texas senator also neglected to specify &#8220;class warfare&#8221; as Sanders&#8217; political tactic in appealing to jealousy and covetousness.
Watch part of the Cruz-Sanders exchange below.
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In both January and March of 2016, MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews asked Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/2375/clinton-asked-about-difference-between-democrats-robert-kraychik">a similar question</a>. Both times, Clinton could not or would not answer the question.
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Neo-Marxism is the Democrat Party&#8217;s foundational ideology; pushing a refacing of the classically Marxist class struggle paradigm in which assorted arbitrarily-defined groups &#8212; some as oppressors and others as oppressed &#8212; are framed as competing against one another in a zero-sum competition for wealth and power.
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Cruz Stomps Sanders: ‘What’s The Difference Between A Socialist And A Democrat?’

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Playboy&#8217;s November centerfold will be a &#8220;transgender playmate,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/playboys-novemberdecember-2017-collectors-edition-300538640.html">PR Newswire</a>, describing French model Ines Rau as a &#8220;Parisian bombshell&#8221;:
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November Playmate: Parisian bombshell and high-fashion model Ines Rau returns to the pages of the magazine (previously featured in Playboy&#8217;s May 2014 A-Z issue) and makes history as Playboy&#8217;s first transgender Playmate with a pictorial and centerfold, photographed by Derek Kettela.
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&#8220;You should just be who you are&#8221;, <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/irl/playboy-ines-rau/">she said</a> in an interview in the magazine&#8217;s new issue.
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I lived a long time without saying I was transgender. Then I was like, you know, you should just be who you are. It&#8217;s a salvation to speak the truth about yourself, whether it&#8217;s your gender, sexuality, whatever.
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Rau <a href="https://www.facebook.com/playboy/posts/10155271115764086">describes herself</a> as an &#8220;advocate&#8221; for honest self-identification:
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I&#8217;m an advocate for anyone who is scared to be who they really are because they fear being judged or rejected.
They should be empowered by their differences and not be who society tells them to be.
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Given that standard poses for playmates include the &#8220;full frontal,&#8221; it is unclear how Rau will be depicted in her forthcoming photo shoot. Early promotional photos show her in heels and in lingerie.
Rau&#8217;s Instagram profile features the following image:
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Rau appeared in Playboy in 2014, but not as a centerfold.
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Playboy Introduces First Trangender Playmate, Ines Rau

Hugh Hefner

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President Donald Trump and the Russian state are jointly fragmenting American society with &#8220;Marxist strategies,&#8221; argues Cass Sustein in a <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-19/russia-is-using-marxist-strategies-and-so-is-trump">Thursday-published column</a> at Bloomberg.
&#8220;Russia Is Using Marxist Strategies, and So Is Trump,&#8221; reads Sustein&#8217;s headline, with the subheadline: &#8220;Moscow&#8217;s meddling in the U.S. election was aimed at stoking social tensions. Sound familiar?&#8221;
Portraying the narrative of Russian propaganda as &#8220;[helping] elect Donald Trump,&#8221; Sustein ignores the close similarities between the conventional anti-Americanism of Russian state propaganda and neo-Marxist narratives ubiquitous across the left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media landscape:
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Karl Marx and his followers argued that revolutionaries should disrupt capitalist societies by &#8220;heightening the contradictions.&#8221; Russia used a version of that Marxist idea in its efforts to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign. It should come as no surprise that the most powerful nation from the former Soviet Union, whose leaders were schooled in the Marxist tradition, is borrowing directly from that tradition in its efforts today.
What is more surprising, and far more important for American politics, is that President Donald Trump is drawn to a similar strategy.
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Framing Russian propaganda as a powerful shaper of American political attitudes, Sustein offers no commentary on the political impact of neo-Marxist messaging pushed by CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times (NYT), The Washington Post, or similar news media outlets. Sustein points to a NYT article as evidence of Russia&#8217;s supposedly significant impact on shaping American political attitudes via its propaganda:
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During the 2016 campaign, Russians did something very much like that, not to produce a revolution, but to deepen and intensify social divisions (and to help elect Donald Trump). Mimicking American voices, they used Facebook to energize and inflame a diverse assortment of political groups: gay rights supporters, African-American activists, Texas secessionists and opponents of immigration. (&#8220;America is at risk and we need to protect our country now more than ever, liberal hogwash aside.&#8221;)
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Neo-Marxism is the ideological foundation of the Democrat Party and broader left; portraying American society as a battleground upon which oppressed groups struggle against their privileged oppressors. Sustein, however, accuses Trump of advancing and benefiting from such political narratives.
Trump&#8217;s engagement in cultural battles fought across the left-right divide is framed as &#8220;[intensifying] social divisions&#8221; by Sustein, implicitly casting acquiescence from a Republican president to left-wing political agitation as a preferable path toward increasing national unity.
At no point in his op-ed does Sustein articulate the values or ideals around which Americans should coalesce in pursuit of e pluribus unum.
Sustein&#8217;s wife, Samantha Power, shared her husband&#8217;s article via Twitter.
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Really important &amp; enlightening <a href="https://twitter.com/CassSunstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CassSunstein</a> piece on Trump&#8217;s Marxist ways of sowing division among us <a href="https://t.co/l3YEglvc3p">https://t.co/l3YEglvc3p</a>
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Power is fully invested in the &#8220;Russian election hacking&#8221; narrative, framing the defeat of Hillary Clinton as a function of Americans being fooled by foreign propaganda.
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My <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> essay on a threat to American democracy that is more serious than ever before <a href="https://t.co/H7oVLjYvYh">https://t.co/H7oVLjYvYh</a>
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Cass Sustein and Samantha Power attend the 2017 Time 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. 

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IRONY: Cass Sustein Says Trump’s Using Marxism To Divide America

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Samantha Power

Vladimir Putin

In a debate in which his opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) referred to the Koch brothers twelve times, Sen. Ted. Cruz (R-TX) wrecked Democrats&#8217; attempts to &#8220;scaremonger&#8221; about the dangers of big money in politics. 
Political funding for Democrats and the broader left eclipses that for Republicans and the broader right, said Cruz on Wednesday during a CNN-hosted <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1710/18/se.01.html">town hall debate</a> in Washington, D.C.
Cruz noted that the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/">largest political donors</a> primarily fund Democrats:
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You know, there&#8217;s a pattern you see of Democrats, which is they try to scaremonger. And so their latest villain is the Koch brothers, and they say this money and politics is what it&#8217;s all about. 
But, you know, John Adams said facts are stubborn things. Here are some facts. You look at 2014. In 2014, of the top 20 groups that gave money to politics, I guess listening to Bernie they were all Republican, no? That&#8217;s not the case. Sixteen of the top 20 gave primarily to Democrats. 
The top six, ActBlue, Tom Steyer, the Carpenters and Joiners Union, the City of New York, the Democratic Governors Association, the NEA, gave almost exclusively to Democrats. Where did these mysterious Koch brothers fall on the list? Number 59.
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Cruz did not describe the operational budgets of news media outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, or BuzzFeed as broadly funding Democrat and left-wing political agitation. 
Democrats received more direct funding than Republicans in 2016, via <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/parties/index.php?cmte=&amp;cycle=2016">Open Secrets</a>:

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Sanders pushed a Marxist narrative, framing Cruz and Republicans as defenders of the &#8220;1%&#8221; in the context of class warfare with &#8220;working families.&#8221;
Sanders referred to the Koch brothers twelve times in deriding &#8220;tax breaks for billionaires&#8221; and &#8220;the rich,&#8221; while defending the &#8220;estate tax.&#8221;
Cruz described Sanders and fellow neo-Marxist traveler Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MS) as &#8220;the heart of the Democratic Party.&#8221;
Watch some of Cruz&#8217;s comments below.

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Ted Cruz Wrecks Bernie Sanders: Big Money Loves Democrats

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George Soros

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Leftist students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) shut down a Republican student chapter meeting on Tuesday &#8212; and eventually got themselves arrested.
The leftist agitators repeatedly derided the meeting&#8217;s attendees as &#8220;racist&#8221; and promoting &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221; Via incoherent statement, the leader of the leftwing students derided the campus Republican meeting&#8217;s attendees: 
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These folks are preventing folks from their everyday lives, not just studying, all, everything, safety on campus, whatever it is that they are engaging in, and so I feel like this group should be asked to leave, actually&#8230;
I think if you understand what their ideologies are, and how you feel safety really is, how you feel education, how you feel learning really is, students can&#8217;t be studying when their lives are being f***ing discriminated against, f***ing like, pushed out of the way.
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&#8220;They had a slug with a Trump hat on it,&#8221; added the apparent left-wing leader, presumably describing some slug-like bauble. &#8220;So they agree with Trump and white supremacy,&#8221; she added.
The leftist leader urged what appeared to be a library employee to shut down the meeting:
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Can you step outside of your role, right now, and your job position? You don&#8217;t have to follow the rules, ever. You can do whatever you want, right now. You know that you can do whatever you want, right now. Follow that personal struggle, I know what kind of situation you&#8217;re in. I&#8217;ve had to work for the university before, but follow your heart. Don&#8217;t follow the f***ing rules.
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Another protester derided the meeting&#8217;s participants:
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Your existence is a disturbance. You&#8217;re a disturbance to every marginalized person in this country. Do you understand what a Republican is? Your life is not on the line. It&#8217;s gonna help if these motherf***ers leave, and we don&#8217;t let f***ing racists on this campus. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s gonna help&#8230; You are racists&#8230; Communists aren&#8217;t f***ing racists.
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The activist described &#8220;build a wall&#8221; as a &#8220;racist&#8221; slogan.
The meeting&#8217;s attendees were ultimately asked to leave to end the left-wing disturbance.
Three of the student activists &#8212; two of which are Student Union Assembly officers &#8212; were eventually arrested by police, according to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9986">Campus Reform</a>, which provided some background to the disturbance:
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One of the ringleaders of the protest was student activist Haik Adamian, who posted an announcement in the official UCSC Student Facebook group calling on students to deny the CR group its First Amendment rights.
&#8220;White Supremacist, fascist sympathizing College Republicans are having a meeting at McHenry library, room 0332. Everybody be aware of this violent racist activity happening everyday on this campus!&#8221; he wrote, adding that &#8220;We need a movement of people on this campus that rejects the &#8216;right of assembly,&#8217; or &#8216;right of free speech&#8217; for white supremacists and fascists.&#8221;
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Watch the incident below; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CityonaPhil/videos/1931545607084098/">original video here</a>.

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WATCH: Leftist Students Shut Down Republican Student Meeting In Library

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News media figures are rewarded for hyping false narratives &#8212; such as the &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking">Russian election hacking</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16421/anatomy-news-media-hoax-cnnmsnbc-collusion-montage-robert-kraychik">collusion</a>&#8221; storylines &#8212; with career benefits, said The Intercept&#8217;s frontman Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday during an interview with Fox News Channel&#8217;s Tucker Carlson.
Journalists and reporters hyping &#8220;interference,&#8221; &#8220;hacking&#8221;, and &#8220;collusion&#8221; narratives regarding Russia &#8220;pay no price&#8221; while enjoying &#8220;enormous benefits,&#8221; said Greenwald:
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They get enormous benefits when they publish recklessly. They get applause, applause on social media from their peers; they get zillions of retweets; huge amounts of traffic; they end up on TV. They get applauded across the spectrum because people are so giddy and eager to hear more about this Russia and Trump story, and when their stories get completely debunked, everybody agrees to ignore it. everyone moves on, and they pay no price.
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Government sources &#8212; referred to previously by Greenwald as composing the &#8220;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-war-with-president-elect-using-unverified-claims-as-dems-cheer/">deep state</a>&#8221; &#8212; feeding mostly unverifiable information to news media figures are serving their own political interests in seeking to subvert, suggested Greenwald.
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At the same time, they&#8217;re feeding and pleasing their sources by publishing these stories that their sources want them to publish, and so there are huge amounts of career benefits and reputational benefits and very little cost when they publish stories that end up being debunked because the narrative they&#8217;re serving is a popular one, at least among their peer circles.
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Watch part of Greenwald&#8217;s comments below.
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Greenwald did not comment on widespread left-wing and partisan Democrat attitudes among his peers and colleagues across the news media industry.

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Greenwald Explains Why Journalists Hype Hoax Narratives About Russia

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Glenn Greenwald

Tucker Carlson

On Monday, Rush Limbaugh responded to Sen. John McCain&#8217;s (R-AZ) <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/22355/john-mccain-receives-award-mostly-just-democrats-ryan-saavedra">recent criticisms of American nationalism</a> associated with President Donald Trump.
McCain&#8217;s regularly frames the &#8220;America First&#8221; platform pushed by Trump and his supporters as amounting to an American retreat from global leadership, casting the post-WWII international order as worthy of preservation and further expansion. &#8220;America First,&#8221; suggests McCain, is rooted in irrational fears of globalization and bigotry toward foreigners.
Limbaugh described the &#8220;America First&#8221; ethos as rooted in a desire to reassert American global leadership after decades of its diminution by &#8220;the establishment,&#8221; a group which he describes McCain as a &#8220;proud member&#8221; of.
Partial <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/10/17/senator-mccains-establishment-relinquished-americas-leadership-in-the-world/">transcript</a> below.
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This is the problem. What you&#8217;re missing, sir, about this nationalism that you despise is its real intention is to once again assert this leadership of the world, to assert this guiding light and beacon of freedom. Because for way too many recent years people in your club have been buying into the notion that whatever the United States has been doing the last 75 years has been hurting people. The United States is the problem.
The United States is blamed for climate change. What is that? Destroying the planet, no less! United States is blamed for this, it&#8217;s blamed for that. We have to sit here and listen to how socialist and communist worlds and nations are much preferable to ours. What world do we lead? The United Nations exists to fleece the United States, to blame the United States. Barack Obama openly admitted that his purpose was to transform the United States, which means cut it down to size.
It was Barack Obama who started this process of taking America out of the leadership role, and you couldn&#8217;t say enough good things about him, Senator McCain. It was Barack Obama and his two terms &#8212; and everybody he hired to work with him &#8212; who set about to make Iran a nuclear power? How in the world would a United States-led world permit that to happen, for the good of humanity? Senator McCain, with all due respect, you&#8217;ve got this totally backwards.
Your club or members in your club were actively presiding over the decline of the United States as a leader in the world, as a beacon of freedom.
Your definition of open and leading the world is to open our borders and let the disadvantaged race in! Sorry. That&#8217;s not what leadership of the world means. But too many people think leadership of the world meant we need to act on our guilt. We have guilt that we are so wealthier, so richer, so more advanced than most nations on Earth, it isn&#8217;t fair, and so we must let the downtrodden in because we&#8217;ve made them downtrodden.
That&#8217;s what your club has started turning this country into, and that&#8217;s why people are standing up against it. 

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Listen to Limbaugh&#8217;s monologue below, amounting to an open letter to McCain.
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Rush Limbaugh Explains ‘America First’ Nationalism To John McCain

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John McCain

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Whites should not wear hoop earrings, according to a <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/j5ga5x/hoop-earrings-are-my-culture-not-your-trend">Tuesday-published column</a> at VICE.
Ruby Pivet, the column&#8217;s author, describes whites wearing hoop earrings as engaging in &#8220;cultural appropriation,&#8221; framing the fashion accessories as somehow belonging to &#8220;minorities.&#8221;
&#8220;Hoops are worn by minorities as symbols of resistance, and strength,&#8221; writes Pivet, lamenting &#8220;white consumption&#8221; of &#8220;latinx&#8221; culture.
&#8220;I was young when I learned just how comfortable white people are taking from other cultures,&#8221; writes Pivet, sharing an anecdote she claims happened to her in childhood involving a little white girl; she further frames the anecdote as illustrative of a broader pathology among whites:
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Back in primary school, my family went on holidays to the Grampians. An outgoing child, I made friends with another girl my age. like me, she was named after a gemstone. Unlike me, she was skinny with pale white skin. The day her family was set to leave, we played in the pool all afternoon. The earrings given to me by my grandmother were wrapped up securely in my towel. When I got out of the water my friend was gone, and so were the earrings. 
In my mind&#8217;s eye, I picture her clutching them with little care for the significance they held for me. Those earrings were a symbol of my place in the world as a Latinx-Australian, something I still struggle with understanding and navigating. She saw them as something shiny she liked and could simply take.
</blockquote>
Describing herself as a &#8220;person of color,&#8221; Pivet writes emotionally about hoop earrings:
<blockquote>
Having lost my language, the way I dress and accessorize is a way for me to connect with that mixed heritage identity. As for many women of color before me, hoops play a large role in my self preservation and expression.
</blockquote>
Pivet casts non-whites as broadly disadvantaged by widespread racial prejudices directed toward them:
<blockquote>
White girls did not start the &#8220;trend&#8221; of over-sized hoop earrings and yet they&#8217;re the ones being praised for donning the &#8220;edgy&#8221; style. Meanwhile, women of color who wear them face racial stereotypes or the assumption that they&#8217;re participating in a disposable trend.
</blockquote>
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CULTURAL APPROPRIATION: The Latest Fashion Whites Shouldn’t Wear

Cultural Appropriation

Race

Racism

Does the present status of immigration amplify undesirable social fragmentation while dissolving the cultural glue of America? Fox News Channel colleagues Tucker Carlson and Juan Williams discussed the question on Monday.
Immigration over recent decades has wrought unprecedented changes to America&#8217;s demographics, said Carlson, pointing to a <a href="https://cis.org/Report/US-Immigrant-Population-Hit-Record-437-Million-2016">Monday-published study</a> via the Center for Immigration Studies indicating that America is home to 43.7 million immigrants, amounting to 13.5% of the population:
<blockquote>
What&#8217;s the effect on the population [already in America]? You can&#8217;t switch out your population to this degree and not have some kind of social volatility. Why does the average person not get to weigh in on this very often?
</blockquote>
Williams described &#8220;populism&#8221; as &#8220;tribal&#8221; while pointing to exceptional immigrants such as Google co-founder Sergey Brin as evidence of aggregate national economic benefits from the present status of immigration.
Carlson cast contemporary immigration policies as fracturing America on &#8220;basic questions&#8221; regarding American identity:
<blockquote>
We&#8217;re at a moment, and every survey shows it, of total division within our society. People have less in common with each other than they&#8217;ve ever had. We&#8217;re asking basic questions, like what ties us all together? Why are we all in this together? Do you not see any correlation between massive immigration since 1965 and where we are now? The country is much less united, much less willing to agree on basic questions like, is the Bill of Rights worth continuing? That&#8217;s not related to immigration? Of course it is.
</blockquote>
Watch the exchange below.
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Tucker Carlson And Juan Williams Battle Over Immigration

Immigration

Juan Williams

Political polarization between Republicans and Democrats on &#8220;fundamental political issues [such as] government, race, immigration, national security [and] environmental protection&#8221; have &#8220;reached record levels,&#8221; according to a <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider/">Pew Research Center (PRC) study</a> published on October 5.
<a href="http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/section-1-growing-ideological-consistency/">Record levels</a> of political divisions across partisan lines were recorded during Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, expanding further during Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency.
Differences between political viewpoints across partisan lines are greater than they are across lines of &#8220;gender, race and ethnicity, religious observance or education,&#8221; concludes PRC.
PRC&#8217;s phrasing of its polling statements &#8212; to which poll respondents indicate their degree of agreement or disagreement &#8212; embedded left-wing axioms; &#8220;Government should do more to help the needy,&#8221; &#8220;Racial discrimination is the main reason why black people can&#8217;t get ahead these days,&#8221; and &#8220;immigrants strengthen the country with their hard work and talents.&#8221;
View graphs below depicting widening partisan gulfs on political issues below.
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Over the past six years, Democrats have moved left and Republicans have moved right in their views toward &#8220;government aid to the needy&#8221;:
<blockquote>
While there has been a consistent party gap since 1994 on government aid to the poor, the divisions have never been this large. In 2011, about twice as many Democrats as Republicans said the government should do more for the needy (54% vs. 25%). Today, nearly three times as many Democrats as Republicans say this (71% vs. 24%).
</blockquote>
PRC notes growing partisan division regarding alleged racial discrimination against blacks:
<blockquote>
When the racial discrimination question was first asked in 1994, the partisan difference was 13 points. By 2009, it was only somewhat larger (19 points). But today, the gap in opinions between Republicans and Democrats about racial discrimination and black advancement has increased to 50 points.
</blockquote>
PRC notes a growing partisan divide on views of immigrants:
<blockquote>
There has been a major shift in Democrats&#8217; opinions about immigrants. The share of Democrats who say immigrants strengthen the country has increased from 32% in 1994 to 84% today. By contrast, Republicans are divided in attitudes about immigrants: 42% say they strengthen the country, while 44% view them as a burden. In 1994, 30% of Republicans said immigrants strengthened the country, while 64% said they were a burden.
</blockquote>
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Pew Research: Record-Level Partisan Gaps Over ‘Fundamental Political Issues’

Poll

NBC framed socialism as a tool toward achieving happiness in a Monday-aired segment during its morning show Today.
&#8220;Few have that extra happiness figured out like the Danes,&#8221; said NBC&#8217;s Cynthia McFadden during the segment&#8217;s introduction, proceeding to celebrate Copenhagen&#8217;s widespread use of bicycles.
&#8220;Here, no job is less than any other,&#8221; narrated McFadden prior to a profile of a waste collector. &#8220;Allen Christensen [the profiled waste collector] works just five hours a day, and earns the same as a school teacher.&#8221;
McFadden&#8217;s segment featured National Geographic&#8217;s Dan Buettner, who described Denmark as eschewing positive perceptions of ambition: &#8220;Ambition is not celebrated. No matter what you do, you&#8217;re not better than anybody else.&#8221;
Americans are framed as overworked, with a contrast between the claimed American worker&#8217;s average of 50 hours of weekly work and the claimed 37-hour average in Denmark.
Another profile included a Danish woman alleged to work once per month as a cook for large events.
Redistributive socialistic mandates for &#8220;paid&#8221; maternity leave and &#8220;free&#8221; services are described by Buettner as &#8220;rights&#8221;:
<blockquote>
Every Dane is born with the right to free health care, free education through college, comfortable retirement. They&#8217;re free to pursue a job that meets their passion and their interests.
</blockquote>
McFadden implictly contrasted broad American distrust of centralized power relative to their Danish counterparts: &#8220;The Danes trust their government. They pay enormously high taxes.&#8221;
Watch the Today segment below:
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NBC’s Today: Denmark Proves Socialism Is The Way To Happiness

Denmark

Matt Lauer

NBC News

TODAY Show

In a Sunday-aired interview with Hillary Clinton, CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria suggested that the political opinions of &#8220;white women&#8221; in America are primarily motivated by two considerations: race and sex. 
&#8220;You lost the white women vote. Do you think white women in America voted their race over their gender?&#8221; asked Zakaria, framing the demographic group as politically homogenous.
Clinton seemingly accepted Zakaria&#8217;s premise, suggesting that sexual solidarity is not a politically unifying force among women the way that race is among minorities who support Democrats:
<blockquote>
I do think that gender has not become a political mobilizing factor the way that race has, and the way that I think President Obama almost transcended it, and, you know, was able to be elected twice. I think that gender is still a challenge in the political arena.
</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20986/13-things-clinton-blames-her-loss-shes-not-one-robert-kraychik">In September</a>, Clinton likewise described Obama as having cultivated racial solidarity among minorities for political support in a way she could not do among women. She also <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/20971/clinton-sexism-and-misogyny-are-still-endemic-robert-kraychik">broadly indicted America</a> as characterized by &#8220;sexism [against women] and misogyny.&#8221;
Clinton derided American society as hateful of women without objection from Zakaria, portraying her sex as a political liability:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>: &#8220;Sexism and misogyny are endemic in our society&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/MpXh07y3P2">https://t.co/MpXh07y3P2</a> <a href="https://t.co/nVAj5L2n4f">https://t.co/nVAj5L2n4f</a>
&#8212; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/919573523672248320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
</div>
Earlier in the interview, Zakaria described Clinton as a &#8220;pioneer for women&#8217;s rights.&#8221;
Watch:
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Two days before last year&#8217;s presidential election, Zakaria implored his viewers to vote for Clinton while <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10536/zakarias-last-hurrah-trumps-core-can-only-be-robert-kraychik">describing himself as politically balanced</a>: &#8220;I am not a highly partisan person. I have views that are left of center, but others that are conservative.&#8221;
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Zakaria To Hillary: ‘Do You Think White Women In America Voted Their Race Over Their Gender?’

Bill Clinton

Fareed Zakaria

Hillary Clinton

Sexism

Actress Rose McGowan says she was &#8220;blacklisted&#8221; after she was raped by Harvey Weinstein, according to comments she made in January and just recently obtained by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/14/harvey-weinstein-rose-mcgowan-rape-film">The Guardian</a>.
<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/22220/mcgowan-slams-bezos-weinstein-stop-funding-pedos-robert-kraychik">Last Thursday</a>, McGowan claimed that Weinstein raped her in a series of tweets directed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
McGowan never reported the rape to authorities, she says, on the advice of a criminal lawyer who told her &#8220;she was unlikely to win.&#8221; 
&#8220;Also, I didn&#8217;t want his name next to mine in my obituary; his name doesn&#8217;t deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as mine when I&#8217;m dead,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;They threatened [me] with being blacklisted. I was blacklisted after I was raped, because I got raped, because I said something &#8230; but only like internally, you know,&#8221; said McGowan. The Guardian does not specify who threatened or blacklisted McGowan.
Weinstein reached a settlement with McGowan, which the actress described as &#8220;very small,&#8221; in 1997; via <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Media&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=0">The New York Times</a>:
<blockquote>
In 1997, Mr. Weinstein reached a previously undisclosed settlement with Rose McGowan, then a 23-year-old-actress, after an episode in a hotel room during the Sundance Film Festival. The $100,000 settlement was &#8220;not to be construed as an admission&#8221; by Mr. Weinstein, but intended to &#8220;avoid litigation and buy peace,&#8221; according to the legal document, which was reviewed by The Times. 
</blockquote>
&#8220;I had three surgeries on my wrist and elbow,&#8221; said McGowan of medical treatment she needed after Weinstein allegedly raped her.
Victims of sexual assault and rape in the film industry are criticized by the perpetrators, said McGowan:
<blockquote>
They blame the victim, they do all that shit. People are bred to be scared. They are bred to put fear into people and that&#8217;s what they do, they&#8217;re bred to put fear into the publishers and lawyers and they overreach it, and I&#8217;m going to do what I can and come out as hard as I can.
</blockquote>
Allegations of rape and sexual assault against Bill Cosby, said McGowan, were covered up by a network of people.
&#8220;It was a whole cottage industry,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Everyone who worked with him are aiding and abetting a crime. Those are the f&#8212;ers that I&#8217;m going after.&#8221;

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Rose McGowan: Hollywood Blacklisted Me After Weinstein Raped Me

Harvey Weinstein

Hollywood

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Assault

Sexual Harassment

To Kill a Mockingbird has been removed from a Mississippi school district&#8217;s eighth grade syllabus because the novel &#8220;makes people uncomfortable,&#8221; according to a <a href="http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article178572326.html">Thursday-published report</a> in Sun Herald.
Biloxi School Board&#8217;s vice president Kenny Holloway claimed to have received complaints about the American classic:
<blockquote>
There were complaints about it. There is some language in the book that makes people uncomfortable, and we can teach the same lesson with other books. It&#8217;s still in our library. But they&#8217;re going to use another book in the 8th grade course.
</blockquote>
The removal of the book was an administrative decision rather than one prompted by the school board.
Use of the n-word in To Kill a Mockingbird was cited as the cause of the complaints, according to an email sent to Sun Herald from a &#8220;concerned reader&#8221;; the reader added:
<blockquote>
I think it is one of the most disturbing examples of censorship I have ever heard, in that the themes in the story humanize all people regardless of their social status, education level, intellect, and of course, race. It would be difficult to find a time when it was more relevant than in days like these.
</blockquote>
Ubiquitous across America&#8217;s elementary and high schools, the novel&#8217;s themes include the pursuit of racial equality and justice in the face of prejudice. Atticus Finch, the novel&#8217;s protagonist, is an exemplar of integrity.
In 2010, a Florida high school <a href="https://ncacblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/florida-high-school-cancels-production-of-to-kill-a-mockingbird/">cancelled a production</a> of To Kill a Mockingbird because of its use of the n-word.
H/T Reid Nakamura at <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/kill-mockingbird-removed-biloxi-mississippi-school-district-curriculum/">The Wrap</a>.
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School District Removes American Classic Because Of The N-Word

American History

Censorship

Education

Judicial Watch claims, in a fundraising email, that the Trump administration&#8217;s Justice Department is obstructing Judicial Watch&#8217;s (JW) pursuit of records pertaining to <a href="http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/loretta-lynch-bill-clinton-meet-privately-in-phoenix">last year&#8217;s tarmac meeting</a> between then Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton.
The Lynch-Clinton meeting took place on June 27, 2016, while Hillary Clinton&#8217;s negligent handling of classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State was, ostensibly, being investigated by the FBI under the stewardship of then-FBI Director James Comey.
JW says talking points, composed by the Obama administration, regarding the Lynch-Clinton meeting were redacted by the current Justice Department under a legal exemption allowing the federal government to withhold deliberative information pursued by citizens via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
JW President Tom Fitton explained the Trump administration&#8217;s de facto protection of the Clintons in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38q8ZkjQHzk">video published on September 29</a>. Partial transcript below.
<blockquote>
[Obama administration talking points regarding the Lynch-Clinton meeting] were blacked out by the Justice Department run by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an appointee of President Trump. Isn&#8217;t that outrageous? &#8230;
If true, it&#8217;s really surprising, and frankly jaw-dropping that the Trump administration is blacking out this key information about that infamous Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting. This information, these talking points, are how they spun the scandal; and we can&#8217;t get access to that under this Trump administration. They&#8217;re making a discretionary call to black out this information.
Frankly, President Trump should directly order the release of these records. &#8230;
We are in August, and the Justice Department is acting as if Hillary Clinton won the election, and acting in a way that continues to protect Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration. &#8230;
The fact that we are in court battling the Trump administration on Clinton scandal information, to me, is just unbelievable.
</blockquote>
&#8220;The FBI is out of control,&#8221; wrote Fitton, following the FBI&#8217;s revelatory discovery of 30 pages of documents (the FBI <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/fbis-oct-21-2016-letter-tarmac/">previously claimed</a> to be unable to locate any such documents) related to the Lynch-Clinton meeting.
Via the FOIA lawsuit, JW is seeking the following:
<ul>
<li>
All FD-302 forms prepared pursuant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s use of a private email server during her tenure.
</li>
<li>
All records of communications between any agent, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding, concerning, or related to the aforementioned investigation. This request includes, but is not limited to, any related communications with any official, employee, or representative of the Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, the Democratic National Committee, and/or the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.
</li>
<li>
All records related to the meeting between Attorney General Lynch and former President Bill Clinton on June 27, 2016.
</li>
</ul>
JW notes the extension of immunity agreements to various Clinton confidantes by the Obama administration:
<blockquote>
The Obama administration extended numerous immunity agreements, including: Clinton&#8217;s former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills; John Bentel, former director of the State Department&#8217;s Office of Information Resources Management; Heather Samuelson, Clinton&#8217;s executive assistant; Brian Pagliano, an IT employee at the State Department who serviced the Clinton non-government server, and an employee at Platt River Networks, the company that maintained it. It is not clear whether Hillary Clinton received some type of immunity.
</blockquote>

Watch Fitton&#8217;s commentary below:

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Judicial Watch: Why Is The Trump DOJ Protecting Clinton?

Cheryl Mills

Department of Justice

James Comey

Jeff Sessions

Judicial Watch

Loretta Lynch

The framers composed the Second Amendment for the purpose of defending against &#8220;foreign militias,&#8221; claimed MSNBC&#8217;s Nicolle Wallace while waxing historical.
Wallace was joined by actress Julianne Moore and John Feinblatt, both of whom belong to &#8220;Everytown for Gun Safety,&#8221; an organization pushing &#8220;gun control&#8221; led by former New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg.
Drawing on New York Times columnist Bret Stephens&#8217; <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/print/conservative-ny-times-columnist-calls-for-repealing-2nd-amendment-after-vegas/">call for repeal</a> of the Second Amendment, Wallace described the Constitution&#8217;s recognition of the right to keep and bear arms as anachronistic and relating to defense against non-existent foreign threats:
<blockquote>
It seems like with this debate we careen from tragedy to tragedy and nothing ever changes. How do you guys stay in the fight? &#8230;
You know, I mentioned to you two that a conservative wrote a piece last week that got a lot of attention about maybe opening up the conversation about the Second Amendment; his name&#8217;s Bret Stephens, and he said the intellectually honest way to have this debate is to say that this isn&#8217;t what was intended; that we are an armed population. 
This was a right to bear arms against foreign militias.
</blockquote>
Watch Wallace&#8217;s historical commentary below:
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H/T Ken Meyer at <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nicolle-wallace-second-amendment-meant-to-fight-foreign-militias-not-create-armed-population/">Mediaite</a>.
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‘FOREIGN MILITIAS’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Tries And Fails To Explain Purpose Of 2nd Amendment

Everytown for Gun Safety

Guns

MSNBC

Nicolle Wallace

Second Amendment

An Apple executive has apologized for comments she made regarding &#8220;diversity&#8221; during a <a href="https://www.oneyoungworld.com/about-us">leftist conference</a> last week in Bogota, Colombia.
Denise Young Smith, <a href="https://www.apple.com/ca/leadership/denise-young-smith/">Apple&#8217;s VP of Inclusion and Diversity</a>, suggested &#8220;diversity&#8221; can exist among people who look alike as part of a panel discussion <a href="https://qz.com/1097425/apples-first-ever-vp-of-diversity-and-inclusion-says-she-focuses-on-everyone-not-just-minorities/">on fighting &#8220;racial injustice</a><a href="http://qz.com/1097425/apples-first-ever-vp-of-diversity-and-inclusion-says-she-focuses-on-everyone-not-just-minorities/">&#8220;</a> during 2017&#8217;s &#8220;One Young World Summit&#8221;:
<blockquote>
And I&#8217;ve often told people a story &#8212; there can be 12 white, blue-eyed blonde men in a room and they are going to be diverse too because they&#8217;re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.
</blockquote>
Smith subsequently apologized to Apple employees via company-wide email for suggesting that diversity of experience and points of view can exist among people who look alike:
<blockquote>
Colleagues,
I have always been proud to work for Apple in large part because of our steadfast commitment to creating an inclusive culture. We are also committed to having the most diverse workforce and our work in this area has never been more important. In fact, I have dedicated my twenty years at Apple to fostering and promoting opportunity and access for women, people of color and the underserved and unheard. 
Last week, while attending a summit in Bogota, I made some comments as part of a conversation on the many factors that contribute to diversity and inclusion. 
I regret the choice of words I used to make this point. I understand why some people took offense. My comments were not representative of how I think about diversity or how Apple sees it. For that, I&#8217;m sorry. 
More importantly, I want to assure you Apple&#8217;s view and our dedication to diversity has not changed. 
Understanding that diversity includes women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and all underrepresented minorities is at the heart of our work to create an environment that is inclusive of everyone. 
Our commitment at Apple to increasing racial and gender diversity is as strong as it&#8217;s ever been. I&#8217;m proud of the progress we&#8217;ve made, but there is much work to be done. I&#8217;m continually reminded of the importance of talking about these issues and learning from each other. 
Best,
Denise
</blockquote>
Smith&#8217;s role at Apple is to &#8220;[lead] a team responsible for improving Apple&#8217;s diversity figures.&#8221; 
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VP of Worldwide Human Resources for Apple Denise Young Smith speaks at the Geneal Session Luncheon for the 44th Annual Legislative Conference at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on September 25, 2014 in Washington, DC.
H/T Matthew Panzarino at <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/apple-diversity-head-denise-young-smith-apologizes-for-controversial-choice-of-words-at-summit/?ncid=rss">TechCrunch</a>.

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Apple’s Vice President Apologizes For ‘Diversity’ Comments

Apple

DeRay Mckesson

Diversity

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Another actress has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual impropriety, alleging that the film mogul offered her an acting role in exchange for a &#8220;threesome&#8221; with his assistant.
Dawn Dunning accused Weinstein of propositioning her with a sexual overture &#8212; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/harvey-weinstein-accusations.html">in 2003</a> when she was 24 years old &#8212; in exchange for an acting role in films he had slated for production.
Dunning made her accusation in an interview with NBC&#8217;s Stephanie Ruhle, describing the scene at a hotel room with Weinstein and his assistant:
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I get to the [hotel] room and he opens the door, and he has an open bathrobe on, and there&#8217;s this coffee table with all these papers, and we had been talking about his next films and, you know, some roles that he had for me in these films, and so he said, &#8220;I have contracts for my next three films, here, and I will sign them today, but I want you to have a threesome with me and my assistant.&#8221;
And so, I laughed. Obviously he must be joking, right? He started yelling at me, so at that point I fled from the room. I was scared at that point because he is a very domineering man; a very large, domineering man; very loud.
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&#8220;It just really turned me off from the whole industry,&#8221; said Dunning, framing her experience with Weinstein as prompting her to exit a potential film career. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t want to be a part of a business that works that way.&#8221;
Dunning suspects The Weinstein Company&#8217;s board as being aware of what she described as a pattern of Weinstein&#8217;s sexual misconduct. Partial transcript below.
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RUHLE: When you learn that The Weinstein Company board says they&#8217;re appalled, they&#8217;re disgusted, they had no idea; do you believe it?
DUNNING: No, I don&#8217;t believe it, and in fact, in all of my dealings with The Weinstein Company, I feel like it was looked at as something that was very accepted and normal.
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Watch Dunning&#8217;s accusation below:

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&#8220;You&#8217;ll never make it in this business,&#8221; said Weinstein to Dunning, according to her allegations to The New York Times.
<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/22139/farrow-nbc-wouldnt-run-my-bombshell-weinstein-robert-kraychik">On Tuesday</a>, NBC&#8217;s Ronan Farrow described NBC executives as unwilling to run a story detailing allegations from various women regarding Weinstein&#8217;s sexual impropriety. He subsequently brought his story to The New Yorker for publication.

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Latest Weinstein Accuser: Wanted A ‘Threesome’ With Me And His Assistant

On Thursday, Rose McGowan accused Amazon&#8217;s CEO Jeff Bezos of &#8220;funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers,&#8221; pointing to the Seattle-headquartered technology firm&#8217;s film and television production operations.
<a href="https://studios.amazon.com/">Amazon Studios</a> produces miniseries and films for its online streaming service.
McGowan published a series of tweets on her Twitter profile claiming to have detailed her experiences with Harvey Weinstein &#8212; in which she accused the film mogul of raping her &#8212; to the head of Amazon Studios:
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1) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffbezos</a> I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over &amp; over I said it. He said it hadn&#8217;t been proven. I said I was the proof.
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918567880865628161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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2) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffbezos</a> I had already sold a script I wrote to your studio, it was in development. When I heard a Weinstein bailout was in the works
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918568856418902016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Amazon Studios pursued a joint project with Weinstein despite her &#8220;forcefully begging&#8221; the film studio not to, claimed McGowan:
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3) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jeffbezos</a> I forcefully begged studio head to do the right thing. I was ignored. Deal was done. Amazon won a dirty Oscar.
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918569889731715072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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4) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffbezos</a> I called my attorney &amp; said I want to get my script back, but before I could, #2 <a href="https://twitter.com/AmazonStudios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amazonstudios</a> called to say my show was dead
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918571297784807424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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4) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffbezos</a> I am calling on you to stop funding rapists, alleged pedos and sexual harassers. I love <a href="https://twitter.com/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amazon</a> but there is rot in Hollywood
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918571692598767616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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5) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffBezos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jeffbezos</a> Be the change you want to see in the world. Stand with truth. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ROSEARMY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ROSEARMY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Amazon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Amazon</a>
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/918572972620660736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Via Twitter on Tuesday, McGowan accused Ben Affleck of falsely claiming ignorance with respect to Weinstein&#8217;s alleged sexual improprieties and crimes:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/BenAffleck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benaffleck</a> &#8220;GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT&#8221; you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie.
&#8212; rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/917848581540757504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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According to McGowan, Twitter subsequently suspended her Twitter account, describing the actress as having violated &#8220;Twitter Rules&#8221;:

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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BaImG1Mle7b/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TWITTER HAS SUSPENDED ME. THERE ARE POWERFUL FORCES AT WORK. BE MY VOICE. #ROSEARMY #whywomendontreport</a>
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Weinstein and Bezos are long-time Democrats who have given millions to left-wing causes.
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Jeff Bezos, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., left, arrives for a morning session with Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman and founder of Weinstein Co., at the Allen &amp; Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 7, 2011. Media executives are gathering at Allen &amp; Co.&#8217;s Sun Valley conference this week looking to shed assets such as the Hulu LLC video website and G4 game channel amid a declining global stock market and slowing economic growth.
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