On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) released its new guidelines for inclusion, which dictated that movies must meet a diversity threshold, employing specific minority individuals in front of or behind the camera to qualify for Best Picture. As The Los Angeles Times reported:
<blockquote>Those standards require one of the following: at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group; at least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from certain underrepresented groups; or the main storyline, theme or narrative is centered on an underrepresented group.
To be eligible for best picture, a film must meet at least two standards across four categories: “Onscreen Representation, Themes and Narratives,” “Creative Leadership and Project Team,” “Industry Access and Opportunities” and “Audience Development.” Within each category are a variety of criteria …</blockquote>
In response to this blatant violation of artistic freedom, actress Kirstie Alley (&#8220;Cheers,&#8221; &#8220;Star Trek&#8221;) said the new rules are &#8220;a disgrace to artists everywhere&#8221; and likened it to telling Picasso what he could and could not paint.
&#8220;This is a disgrace to artists everywhere…can you imagine telling Picasso what had to be in his fucking paintings,” tweeted Kirstie Alley. “You people have lost your minds. Control artists, control individual thought .. OSCAR ORWELL.”
Kristie Alley deleted that tweet and later clarified that she supports diversity and inclusion but opposes the mandating of it.
&#8220;I deleted my first tweet about the new rules for best movie OSCARS because I feel it was a poor analogy &amp; misrepresented my viewpoint. I am 100% behind diversity inclusion &amp; tolerance. I’m opposed to MANDATED ARBITRARY percentages relating to hiring human beings in any business,&#8221; she tweeted.
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I deleted my first tweet about the new rules for best movie OSCARS because I feel it was a poor analogy &amp; misrepresented my viewpoint. I am 100% behind diversity inclusion &amp; tolerance. I’m opposed to MANDATED ARBITRARY percentages relating to hiring human beings in any business.
&mdash; Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) <a href="https://twitter.com/kirstiealley/status/1303701540205735937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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When &#8220;Selma&#8221; director Ava DuVernay dismissed her, Alley asserted that she has a solid record of pushing diversity and inclusion.
&#8220;But I ask you to explore my record of diversity &amp; inclusion in anything I’ve produced &amp; throughout my life. I’m not perfect but have fought for human &amp; civil rights for 50 years. I just don’t agree w mandated, impossible to &#8216;police&#8217; quotas as a prerequisite 4 a &#8216;best&#8217; picture,&#8221; she tweeted. 
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🤣But I ask you to explore my record of diversity &amp; inclusion in anything I’ve produced &amp; throughout my life. I’m not perfect but have fought for human &amp; civil rights for 50 years. I just don’t agree w mandated, impossible to “police” quotas as a prerequisite 4 a “best” picture🤷‍♀️ <a href="https://t.co/PZy4QMZcEu">https://t.co/PZy4QMZcEu</a>
&mdash; Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) <a href="https://twitter.com/kirstiealley/status/1303670865503178752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Actor Kevin Sorbo (&#8220;Hercules&#8221;) joked that the NBA and the NFL should now apply those same standards by getting the most diverse athletes instead of the best.
&#8220;I&#8217;m with ya, Hollywood. Now if you could change the NBA and NFL and get more diversity in there as well. It&#8217;s not about just having the best athletes anymore. We need people of all races and levels of talent playing professionally. Lose the best!&#8221; tweeted Sorbo.
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I&#39;m with ya, Hollywood. Now if you could change the NBA and NFL and get more diversity in there as well. It&#39;s not about just having the best athletes anymore. We need people of all races and levels of talent playing professionally. Lose the best!<a href="https://t.co/obIZTscdTD">https://t.co/obIZTscdTD</a>
&mdash; Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1303748653119680514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Below are the actual guidelines from the Oscars press release:
<blockquote>STANDARD A:  ON-SCREEN REPRESENTATION, THEMES AND NARRATIVES 
To achieve Standard A, the film must meet ONE of the following criteria:
A1. Lead or significant supporting actors
At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. 
• Asian 
• Hispanic/Latinx 
• Black/African American 
• Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native 
• Middle Eastern/North African 
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 
• Other underrepresented race or ethnicity
A2. General ensemble cast
At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
A3. Main storyline/subject matter
The main storyline(s), theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group(s). 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
STANDARD B: CREATIVE LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT TEAM 
To achieve Standard B, the film must meet ONE of the criteria below:
B1. Creative leadership and department heads
At least two of the following creative leadership positions and department heads—Casting Director, Cinematographer, Composer, Costume Designer, Director, Editor, Hairstylist, Makeup Artist, Producer, Production Designer, Set Decorator, Sound, VFX Supervisor, Writer—are from the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
At least one of those positions must belong to the following underrepresented racial or ethnic group: 
• Asian 
• Hispanic/Latinx 
• Black/African American 
• Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native 
• Middle Eastern/North African 
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 
• Other underrepresented race or ethnicity
B2. Other key roles
At least six other crew/team and technical positions (excluding Production Assistants) are from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. These positions include but are not limited to First AD, Gaffer, Script Supervisor, etc.
B3. Overall crew composition 
At least 30% of the film’s crew is from the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
STANDARD C:  INDUSTRY ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES 
To achieve Standard C, the film must meet BOTH criteria below:
C1. Paid apprenticeship and internship opportunities
The film’s distribution or financing company has paid apprenticeships or internships that are from the following underrepresented groups and satisfy the criteria below: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing
The major studios/distributors are required to have substantive, ongoing paid apprenticeships/internships inclusive of underrepresented groups (must also include racial or ethnic groups) in most of the following departments: production/development, physical production, post-production, music, VFX, acquisitions, business affairs, distribution, marketing and publicity.
The mini-major or independent studios/distributors must have a minimum of two apprentices/interns from the above underrepresented groups (at least one from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group) in at least one of the following departments: production/development, physical production, post-production, music, VFX, acquisitions, business affairs, distribution, marketing and publicity.
C2. Training opportunities and skills development (crew)
The film’s production, distribution and/or financing company offers training and/or work opportunities for below-the-line skill development to people from the following underrepresented groups: 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group 
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing 
STANDARD D: AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT 
To achieve Standard D, the film must meet the criterion below:
D1. Representation in marketing, publicity, and distribution
The studio and/or film company has multiple in-house senior executives from among the following underrepresented groups (must include individuals from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups) on their marketing, publicity, and/or distribution teams. 
• Women 
• Racial or ethnic group
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<li>Asian</li>
<li>Hispanic/Latinx</li>
<li>Black/African American</li>
<li>Indigenous/Native American/Alaskan Native</li>
<li>Middle Eastern/North African</li>
<li>Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander</li>
<li>​Other underrepresented race or ethnicity</li>
</ul>
• LGBTQ+ 
• People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing</blockquote>
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Kirstie Alley: New Oscars Inclusion Requirements ‘A Disgrace To Artists Everywhere’

Diversity

Oscars

Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the diversity and inclusion sought by the nation&#8217;s social justice warriors. Both professional and college coaches have ignored and threw any pretense of seeking diversity and inclusiveness. My question to you is: Would a basketball team be improved if coaches were required to include ethnically diverse players for the sake of equity? I have no idea of what your answer might be but mine would be: &#8220;The hell with diversity, equity and inclusion. I am going to recruit the best players and do not care if most of them turn out to be black players.&#8221; Another question: Do you think that any diversity-crazed college president would chastise his basketball coach for lack of diversity and inclusiveness?
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (National Accelerator Laboratory) is home to the world&#8217;s most powerful experiments, fastest supercomputers and top-notch physics researchers. Much of SLAC&#8217;s research is on particle accelerators that are complicated machines that are designed, engineered and operated to produce high-quality particle beams and develop clues to the fundamental structure of matter and the forces between subatomic particles. You can bet that their personnel makeup exhibits very little concern about racial diversity, equity and inclusion. The bulk of their scientists is not only Americans of European and Asian ancestry but mostly men. My question to you is: What would you do to make SLAC more illustrative of the racial, ethnic and sexual diversity of America? As for me, my answer would be the same one that I gave in the basketball example: I am going to recruit the brightest scientists and I do not care if most of them turn out to be men of European and Asian ancestry.
<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" alt="pastedGraphic.png" />In the hard sciences, one will find black Americans underrepresented. For example, a 2018 survey of the American Astronomical Society, which includes undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and retired astronomers, found that 82% of members identified as white and only 2% as black or African American. Only 3% of bachelor&#8217;s degrees in physics go to black students. In 2017, some fields, such as structural engineering and atmospheric physics, graduated not a single black Ph.D. The conspicuous absence of black Americans in the sciences have little or nothing to do with racism. It has to do with academic preparation. If one graduates from high school and has not mastered a minimum proficiency in high school algebra, geometry and precalculus, it is likely that high-paying careers such as engineering, medicine, physics and computer technology are hermetically sealed off for life.
There are relatively few black fighter jet pilots. There are stringent physical, character and mental requirements, which many black applicants could meet. But fighter pilots must also have a strong knowledge of air navigation, aircraft operating procedures, flight theory, fluid mechanics, meteorology and engineering. The college majors that help prepare undergraduates for a career as a fighter pilot include mathematics, physical science and engineering. But if one graduates from high school without elementary training in math, it is not likely that he will enroll in the college courses that would qualify him for fighter pilot training.
At many predominantly black high schools, not a single black student tests proficient in math and a very low percentage test proficient in reading; however, these schools confer a diploma that attests that the students can read, write and compute at a 12th-grade level and these schools often boast that they have a 70% and higher graduation rate. They mislead students, their families and others by conferring fraudulent diplomas.
What explains the fact that over 80% of professional basketball players are black, as are about 70% of professional football players? Only an idiot would chalk it up to diversity and inclusion. Instead, it is excellence that explains the disproportionate numbers. Jewish Americans, who are just 3% of our population, win over 35% of the Nobel prizes in science that are awarded to Americans. Again, it is excellence that explains the disproportionality, not diversity and inclusion. As my stepfather often told me, &#8220;To do well in this world, you have to come early and stay late.&#8221;
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WILLIAMS: Diversity, Equity And Inclusion Nonsense

Social Justice

According to a recent report from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-bull-replaces-top-u-s-executives-amid-internal-tensions-11594819809">The Wall Street Journal</a>, two leading Red Bull executives pushing diversity and racial justice causes were ousted following internal tensions over the energy drink company&#8217;s response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
It was announced last week via an internal memo that North America Chief Executive Stefan Kozak and North America President and Chief Marketing Officer Amy Taylor had both left the company. Red Bull executives already onboard have filled their vacancies.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the Journal reported that &#8220;Ms. Taylor had been working on diversity and inclusion efforts within the company with Mr. Kozak’s support for several years but was met with opposition when she began advocating for Red Bull to be more overt in its support of racial justice in the last month.&#8221;
As noted in the report, the company was already dealing with some of their U.S. employees raising &#8220;concerns&#8221; about the company’s &#8220;inaction&#8221; with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Beginning at the end of May, racially-charged protests and riots erupted across dozens of cities in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died following an arrest caught on viral video that showed an officer holding his knee on the 46-year-old&#8217;s neck for several minutes.
The officer at the center of the arrest was soon after charged with second-degree murder, though the swift action did not quell the calls for &#8220;justice&#8221; and the accompanying riots.
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Red Bull has also decided to &#8220;discontinue much of its culture marketing programs,&#8221; the report said, noting that the Austrian company&#8217;s global culture marketing head Florian Klaass will, too, leave Red Bull.
Klaass oversaw the team that presented an apparently racially offensive slide during a February meeting.
As noted by <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/red-bull-employees-leak-offensive-slide-from-meeting/">the New York Post</a> in June, the leaked presentation slide included a &#8220;repurposed map meme that described India as &#8216;call centers,&#8217; China as &#8216;they make our stuff,&#8217; and Africa as &#8216;zoo animals come from here.'&#8221;
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&#8220;Red Bull has a history of hosting events and publishing content about Black music and culture,&#8221; the Journal noted. &#8220;U.S.-based executives believed the company had an obligation to publicly support racial justice because it has benefited from its close association with Black culture, the people familiar with the matter said.&#8221;
According to the report, Red Bull will now &#8220;focus its culture marketing programs on where they make the most impact,&#8221; a spokeswoman said. &#8220;It will continue the Red Bull BC One, a breakdancing competition, Red Bull Dance Your Style street dancing events, and Red Bull Batalla de los Gallos, a rap competition for Spanish speakers.&#8221;
“We reject racism in every form, we always have, and we always will,” the company’s board told the Journal via a statement. “Red Bull has always put people and their dreams and accomplishments at its core and values the contribution of each and every person — no matter who they are. We want everyone who feels this way to be welcome in Red Bull.”
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Diversity, Racial Justice-Pushing Execs Ousted At Red Bull: Report

Black Lives Matter

Cancel culture

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has been using so-called “anti-racism” training to tell white employees that “virtually all” of them “contribute to racism” and that they cannot object if a person of color “responds to their oppression in a way you don’t like.”
The training materials were sent by a whistleblower to Director of the Center of Wealth &amp; Poverty Christopher Rufo, who is also the contributing editor of City Journal. Rufo produced a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1283472137525661697">Twitter thread</a> to disseminate what he found, calling the training documents “deeply disturbing – and an affront to equality.”
The training, called “Difficult Conversations about Race,” is aimed at white employees at the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and National Credit Union Administration, Rufo tweeted. The goal of the training, he wrote, is to convert “everyone in the federal government” to “antiracism.”
The way the training sets out to achieve this goal, however, appears similar to Rufo’s last <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/city-of-seattle-holds-training-session-for-white-employees">document analysis</a> about Seattle’s “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness” training, which basically consisted of trainers telling white people they were racist.
The Treasury training is hardly different, with trainers insisting “white employees must ‘struggle to own their racism’ and accept their ‘unconscious bias, White privilege, and White fragility,” Rufo wrote on Twitter.
“Next, the trainers recommend ‘White managers’ create ‘safe spaces’ for ‘listening sessions,’ where black employees can explain ‘what it means to be Black’ and be ‘seen in their pain.’ White employees must not ‘fill the silence with [their] own thoughts and feelings,’&#8221; Rufo tweeted.
The training also stereotypes white people by claiming they hold “fairly consistent narratives about race.” Those narratives, such as “we’ve made so much progress from the 60’s” and suggesting people “talk about how much we have in common,” the training insists, are racist and “don’t support the dismantling of racist institutions.”
In another section of the training highlighted by Rufo, white employees are told to think about how racially diverse their everyday lives are, including asking questions such as “Who are your ten closest friends? What is the racial mix in this group?”
“As you move through the day, what’s the racial composition of the people around you? On your commute? At the coffee shop you go to? At the gym? At your workplace? At the show you go on the weekend?” asks another section.
The training also asks white employees to “[n]otice how much of your day you are speaking about racism.”
“Who are you engaging with on these issues? Who are you not? Why do you think this is?” the training asks.
Later, the training demands white employees “Provide unconditional solidarity” with people of color. “Your allyship is not a favor that you can retract when some [sic] responds to their oppression in a way you don’t like,” the training says.
Further, white employees are told that “white silence has been one of the most powerful detractors from real progress in social justice,&#8221; and that they must “sit in the discomfort” of being lectured about “whiteness,” “racism,” “white supremacy,” and “allyship.”
The kicker for all this? The training was developed and is being taught by a white man who has made millions of dollars selling his training to the federal government.
Rufo also provided <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/the-treasury-departments-difficult-conversations-about-race-training/">a link</a> to all the documents he received.
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‘Virtually All White People Contribute To Racism’: Treasury Department Lectures White Employees As Part Of ‘Diversity Training’

Department of the Treasury

Racism

In mid-June, Pennsylvania State University’s liberal arts department tweeted a statement affirming multiple student groups, including conservatives, who are often in the minority viewpoint.
The tweet began by saying “Dear students, each of you belongs here,” before listing several groups, starting with black students. “Your lives matter,” the tweet said. Here’s the rest of the tweet:
<blockquote>Dear Muslim and Jewish students,
Your beliefs are valued here.
Dear conservative students,
Your viewpoints are important.
Dear Latinx students,
You will not find walls here.
Dear female students,
You are respected.
Dear LGBTQ+ students,
You are supported here.
Dear international students,
You are welcome here.
Dear ALL students,
We are here to support and learn from one another.</blockquote>
Unfortunately for Penn State, viewpoint diversity is not tolerated, and students rushed to express their dismay for the department including conservative viewpoints alongside other groups.
“Conservatives in the United States do not live in a system that was built from the blood and trauma of their ancestors — a system that continues to put down people who look like [their ancestors] every day,” one student told The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s student newspaper.
“Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Muslim and Jewish individuals have to deal with [an environment] where a student can scream the N-word at protestors and draw a swastika for a ‘cute’ sorority squat picture and there are no consequences,” the student added.
Another student accused conservatives of being “some of the students that call us the N-word and show us firsthand what white supremacy really is.”
Many others simply repeated liberal stereotypes about conservatives to suggest they don’t care about minorities or women, including one person who said on social media, “penn state really addressed conservative students views being important while attempting to say ‘black lives matter’ i’m confused.” Another tweeted: “Penn state: conservative lives matter 
us: uh no.”
Another Penn State student told the Collegian that Penn State was remaining “silent” about racism.
“Actions speak louder than words and right now, and Penn State’s silence is deafening,” the student said.
“This administration needs to combat racism with a comprehensive plan to uplift the Black community not only at University Park but at all commonwealth campuses, or else it will bring them unbearable consequences that will hurt them in the long run.”
The tweet was soon deleted.
Campus Reform, which recently <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=15231">reported</a> on the incident, reached out to Penn State Director of Strategic Communications William Hessert, Jr, who told the outlet the tweet was deleted because even though its intent was “to express the inclusive, democratic and participatory values of the liberal arts,” the “message was not being received well and it is important for us that our messages be received as intended.”
“While we do not believe in deleting our posts, given the sensitivities of the matter we felt that it was better to remove it,” Hessert told the outlet.
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Penn State Deletes Tweet Acknowledging Conservatives Student Viewpoints Are Important

Conservatism

Penn State University

The first responsibility of government is to protect its citizens and their inalienable rights. As the Declaration of Independence puts it, “to secure these rights [of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], Governments are instituted among Men.” But what happens when the government officials whose first job is protecting your rights are the ones who are violating them? If government officials can violate your constitutional rights and not be held accountable, your rights aren’t worth the parchment they’re written on. Qualified immunity is the judge-made law that allows government officials to fail their first responsibility and avoid accountability. Conservatives, as much as anyone, should oppose it.
The 1871 Civil Rights Act, passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, authorizes lawsuits against state and local government officials who violate your constitutional rights. But the Supreme Court has judicially amended the law to completely protect police, university, or other officials who violated your rights if the law was not already “clearly established.” In practice, this is an extraordinarily high bar that shields “all but <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/475/335/">the</a> plainly incompetent” government officials. Another court must have already said that another official violated the Constitution when he did the exact same thing to someone else that an official did to you. That’s why police officers have recently been deemed immune from civil liability <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2020/05/13/should-cops-accused-of-stealing-over-225000-have-legal-immunity-supreme-court-urged-to-hear-case/#70872ed02877">for stealing money</a> from people whose homes they searched or ordering <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/baxter-v-bracey/">police dogs to attack suspects</a> sitting on the ground and giving themselves up.
As Justice Clarence Thomas has <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1287_09m1.pdf">recently written</a>, there is “no basis [in the Civil Rights Act] for the objective inquiry into clearly established law” that the Supreme Court has imposed to protect government officials from accountability. This is not an approach to your constitutional rights that conservatives or anyone else should support. And that’s why many civil liberties organizations <a href="https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/william-baude-new-calls-supreme-court-reconsider-qualified-immunity">across the ideological spectrum</a> are urging the Supreme Court – and Congress and even state legislators – to end qualified immunity.
Qualified immunity is getting enhanced scrutiny because of the impact it may have on justice for the family of George Floyd, killed by a Minneapolis police officer. And conservatives should lead the charge to see government respect constitutional rights, opposing qualified immunity because it turns communities against good police officers because it prevents true accountability for the worst ones. But free speech advocates have an additional reason to oppose qualified immunity — it’s a primary reason why university administrators keep getting it wrong when it comes to student and faculty expression rights. There is obviously no parity between the victims of police abusing their power and the frequent fights over campus speech policies. But the same judge-made legal rule stops those in power from feeling the consequences of violating any number of rights. Advocates of free speech and open inquiry on campus, like everyone else, should join this fight to hold the government accountable.
Instinctively, conservatives know that incentives matter here. I’ve sued dozens of public universities for violating the First Amendment rights of students. Every time I sued a university that told a Christian student group they couldn’t share their faith without advance permission from the Office of Student Affairs or literally arrested students for handing out the Constitution on their campus on Constitution Day, concerned conservatives told me: “Make the universities pay! That will stop this!”
That’s a truth that’s universal — people change their behavior when they’re accountable for bad outcomes. If we want government at any level to prioritize protecting constitutional rights, officials must be motivated to prioritize it.
Our country’s free speech challenges extend well beyond campuses and cut across ideology and other demographics.  <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SOFAreport2019.pdf">Almost 30 percent</a> of adults say the First Amendment “goes too far” in its protections, 25 percent would give the president power to shutter news media “engaged in bad behavior,” and 50 percent say that <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/SOFAreport2019.pdf">universities should disinvite speakers</a> who will offend some part of a campus’ population.
But in few places in American life is it so common for government to write down anti-speech policies in ink. <a href="https://www.thefire.org/report-9-in-10-american-colleges-restrict-free-speech/">Roughly 90 percent of public universities</a> maintain speech zones, speech codes, and other formal written policies that, however well-meaning their intent, violate the First Amendment. This is after years of groups like Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Alliance Defending Freedom, and others working with universities to correct unconstitutional policies and challenging them in court when those rights are violated.
After decades of work, there has been considerable progress — that just 10 percent of colleges now have “green light” policies with no free speech problems is significant, and many of the worst “red light” schools have at least become “yellow light” schools. That’s something. But if 90 percent of municipalities passed laws unconstitutionally restricting what people can say, where they can say it, or with whom they can associate, we would undoubtedly deem that a free speech crisis.
But the reason speech advocates can’t  “make the universities pay” for these violations — and thus encourage them to prioritize getting these policies right — is qualified immunity.
The Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution to prohibit you from filing suit against the University of California, Berkeley, an arm of the state, in federal court for damages when it violates your First Amendment rights. So your only option is to sue the individuals responsible for the decision. But qualified immunity makes that unlikely to succeed.
Your rights are violated, no one pays, and the officials who continue to draft and enforce those unconstitutional policies are not incentivized to spend the time and effort to get it right.
What happens if we eliminate qualified immunity? Then not only police officers, but all state government officials, including those who run your university, know they are accountable for constitutional violations. The city, university, or insurer will still cover employees’ liability, but by allowing more cases for constitutional violations to go forward, more rights will be vindicated and government will prioritize getting their written policies into compliance with the Constitution and training employees on what it requires of them. Whether police or universities, when government must weigh the cost of getting the Constitution wrong it will be more focused on getting it right.
In other words, we incentivize doing what government is created to do, protect your rights.
Eliminating disincentives to free expression such as qualified immunity would also reduce counterproductive attacks on higher education. <a href="https://www.charleskochfoundation.org/news/ckf-raises-concern-call-intimidate-scholars-courses-online-covid-pandemic/">Some groups</a> have responded to censorial speech policies with efforts to intimidate and antagonize university leaders and faculty. Fighting fire with fire backfires and ultimately chills the environment that allows for diverse speech on campus. It also assumes that the university officials on the other side are trying to silence your views. The reality is that most are simply trying to weigh competing priorities.
Qualified immunity invites them to err too often on the side of restricting protected speech. Change the incentives and you get better results, without attacking the very principles of free expression that you otherwise defend.
When students graduate from universities where free speech and open inquiry is valued, not just in rhetoric but in lived reality, the next generation of teachers and judges and policymakers and community leaders will leave equipped to be the antidote to the broader attacks on civil liberties coming from all directions.
Government’s primary job is to protect your individual rights. Qualified immunity is a made-up judicial doctrine that absolves government of that responsibility on campus as well as in your police force. It’s time we end it. And campus speech advocates, especially the conservatives and libertarians who most often take on these unconstitutional campus speech policies, should welcome the opportunity to partner with anyone to hold government accountable.
Casey Mattox is vice president for legal and judicial strategy at Americans for Prosperity. On Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/caseymattox_">@CaseyMattox_</a>
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Chicago&#8217;s Improv Olympic, or iO theater, will not reopen despite its storied history and position within the Chicago comedy community, in part because of losses incurred during the coronavirus lockdown, and in part, it seems, because of demands made by diversity activists looking to force iO to expand its offerings and fire its owner.
The theater announced late last week that it would not reopen its doors, with the owner, Charna Halpern, <a href="https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/covid-claims-chicagos-improvolympic">telling local media</a> that the building owes a huge property tax bill to the city that it will not be able to pay, given that it has been out of operation for several months during a coronavirus-related lockdown.
Halpern, who did get a Paycheck Protection Program loan to help defray some of her operations costs, says the burden is just too much for the theater, which runs at a narrow profit margin normally.
“I was hoping that maybe the county would say we didn’t have to pay property taxes in the next couple of months. They haven’t. They just moved it a couple months,” she said. &#8220;I don’t know when theater is going to come back, so I think selling the building would be the best thing for me to do right now.&#8221;
She added that the decision has been &#8220;heartbreaking.&#8221;
One opinion writer for the Chicago Tribune, though, suggests that there&#8217;s more to Improve Olympic&#8217;s decision to close than just money troubles. <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-cancel-culture-i0-charna-halpern-20200622-mo34gvlupbaz7cb5jsu2jcsrbe-story.html">Writing Tuesday</a>, Shaun Cammack says the theater has the been the target of a woke mob who demanded it &#8212; and owner Halpern &#8212; pay for its sins against diversity. Literally.
&#8220;A few weeks ago, five members of the iO improv theater started a petition<a href="https://www.change.org/p/io-chicago-i-will-not-perform-at-io-until-until-the-following-demands-are-met?recruiter=868178146&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=share_email_responsive&amp;utm_term=G%3ESearch%3ESAP%3EUS%3ENonBrand%3EExact&amp;recruited_by_id=c29dd250-39ef-11e8-851a-35db61e11d78" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> </a>titled, &#8216;I Will Not Perform at iO Until the Following Demands Are Met.&#8217; The petition, in addition to the demands, accused owner and co-founder Charna Halpern of having a history of racism and called on her to step down,&#8221; Cammack reported.
&#8220;The petition, with more than 2,500 signatures, demanded the hiring of a diversity and inclusion coordinator, a rewriting of the entire improv curriculum, and increased funding of the theater’s current diversity program. These, at a time when the theater hasn’t been open for more than three months, are insurmountable demands,&#8221; he added.
The petition, on Change.org, demands the theater hire diversity coordinators, employ an advisory board of &#8220;BIPOC LGBTQIA+ performers and students,&#8221; and commit to a board-approved &#8220;fully revised and decolonized curriculum in order to create a learning environment where Black students can thrive.&#8221;
In addition, the group wants changes and expansions to the theater&#8217;s diversity scholarship program, a campaign to hire &#8220;diverse&#8221; teachers from the minority community, and for Halpern to step down and, presumably, atone for her sins.
The petition&#8217;s authors are reportedly recipients of the theater&#8217;s existing diversity program, &#8220;receiving free classes from the theater.&#8221;
Halpern says she agrees with the protesters, in theory, but that the theater&#8217;s budget simply can&#8217;t sustain such a major change.
“Right now,” she said, “there’s an important movement and they have a lot to fight for.”
“If there was no pandemic,” Halpern told local media, “I would be working with them and I would certainly not be closing.&#8221;
She also told both Cammack and other members of the media that she feels personally insulted by the petition.
“The petition hurt me a little personally because people who didn’t know&#8221;ow me claimed that ‘Halpern also has a personal history of racism.’ So, that was upsetting,&#8221; she said.
Improv Olympic is not alone in facing allegations of racism. The comedy world is rife with such accusations, and Chicago&#8217;s other landmark improv training ground, Second City, has faced allegations of its own in recent years. Cammack said on Twitter that he has yet to receive any concrete evidence, though, of racism from iO&#8217;s owner.
He has received a considerable amount of criticism for suggesting that diversity activists were the &#8220;straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back,&#8221; forcing iO to shut its doors completely.
&#8220;As expected, the piece received a lot of blowback,&#8221; Cammack told the Daily Wire in a statement. &#8220;Some accused me of actively oppressing minorities by writing this opinion, and there were plenty of personal insults&#8211;although one, which said I bore a resemblance to Ned Flanders, definitely made me laugh.&#8221;
&#8220;Fortunately, after some healthy criticism regarding the details of the theater’s financial situation, Charna confirmed with me that iO received support as part of the PPP program to cover payroll expenses,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Still, the theater was in a precarious financial situation, and the petition and the accusations were undoubtedly the straw the broke the camel’s back. Investors and corporate clients are fleeing from anything remotely controversial right now, and so the unfounded accusation of racism has sunk the last lifeboat for iO.&#8221;
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In a letter posted Monday, the National Executive Committee for the Boy Scouts of America announced a new badge related to &#8220;diversity and inclusion&#8221; in conjunction with the far-left, anti-cop Black Lives Matter movement.
The new badge will be a prerequisite to becoming an Eagle Scout, according to the committee.
Though Black Lives Matter is clearly political, calling for the national defunding of police departments and the disruption of the nuclear family, the Scouts claim the move is apolitical and about mere anti-racism.
&#8220;We condemn the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and all those who are not named but are equally important,&#8221; the letter to scout families reads. &#8220;We hear the anguish, feel the heartbreak, and join the country’s resolve to do better.&#8221;
&#8220;The Boy Scouts of America stands with Black families and the Black community because we believe that Black Lives Matter,&#8221; the executive committee emphasized. &#8220;This is not a political issue; it is a human rights issue and one we all have a duty to address.&#8221;
&#8220;That is why, as an organization, we commit to [i]ntroducing a specific diversity and inclusion merit badge that will be required for the rank of Eagle Scout,&#8221; the letter continues. &#8220;It will build on components within existing merit badges, including the American Cultures and Citizenship in the Community merit badges, which require Scouts to learn about and engage with other groups and cultures to increase understanding and spur positive action.&#8221;
The Scouts will also be &#8220;[r]equiring diversity and inclusion training for all BSA employees starting July 1,&#8221; and &#8220;[c]onducting a review of property names, events, and insignia, in partnership with local councils, to build on and enhance the organization’s nearly 30-year ban on use of the Confederate flag and to ensure that symbols of oppression are not in use today or in the future.&#8221;
The organization noted that these moves are only their &#8220;next steps but certainly not our last.&#8221;
Read the full letter, below (via <a href="https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/irving-texas-boy-scouts-stand-black-lives-matter/">CBS 11 News</a>):
<blockquote>Dear Scouting family,
As our country reckons with racial injustice, we all must consider our role and our failures and commit to meaningful action.
The twelve points of the Scout Law that define a Scout are all important, but at this moment, we are called on to be brave. Brave means taking action because it is the right thing to do and being an upstander even when it may prompt criticism from some. We realize we have not been as brave as we should have been because, as Scouts, we must always stand for what is right and take action when the situation demands it.
There is no place for racism – not in Scouting and not in our communities. Racism will not be tolerated.
We condemn the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and all those who are not named but are equally important. We hear the anguish, feel the heartbreak, and join the country’s resolve to do better.
The Boy Scouts of America stands with Black families and the Black community because we believe that Black Lives Matter. This is not a political issue; it is a human rights issue and one we all have a duty to address. 
That is why, as an organization, we commit to:
Introducing a specific diversity and inclusion merit badge that will be required for the rank of Eagle Scout. It will build on components within existing merit badges, including the American Cultures and Citizenship in the Community merit badges, which require Scouts to learn about and engage with other groups and cultures to increase understanding and spur positive action.
Reviewing every element of our programs to ensure diversity and inclusion are engrained at every level for participants and volunteers by applying a standard that promotes racial equality and denounces racism, discrimination, inequality and injustice.
Requiring diversity and inclusion training for all BSA employees starting July 1 and taking immediate action toward introducing a version for volunteers in the coming months.
Conducting a review of property names, events and insignia, in partnership with local councils, to build on and enhance the organization’s nearly 30-year ban on use of the Confederate flag and to ensure that symbols of oppression are not in use today or in the future.
These are our next steps but certainly not our last.
We will also continue to listen more, learn more and do more to promote a culture in which every person feels that they belong, are respected, and are valued in Scouting, in their community, and across America.
As a movement, we are committed to working together with our employees, volunteers, youth members, and communities so we can all become a better version of ourselves and continue to prepare young people to become the leaders of character our communities and our country need to heal and grow.
Yours in Scouting,
The Boy Scouts of America, National Executive Committee
Dan Ownby – National Chair
Roger Mosby – President and CEO
Scott Sorrels – National Commissioner
Devang Desai
Jack Furst
Skip Oppenheimer
Nathan Rosenberg
Alison Schuler
Michael Sears
Thear Suzuki
Brad Tilden
Jim Turley</blockquote>
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Rachel Lindsay, the only black person to have led a season of &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; franchise, has called for the show to embrace more diversity in the wake of the horrible deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-kIunV7hgw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">AfterBuzz</a>, Lindsay called out the franchise for having just one black lead, namely herself, in all 40 seasons of its run.
&#8220;In 40 seasons, [&#8216;The Bachelor&#8217;] had one black lead,&#8221; Lindsay said. &#8220;You are almost on par to say you&#8217;re more likely to become the president of the United States than you are a black lead in this franchise. That&#8217;s insane. That&#8217;s ridiculous.&#8221;
If the franchise does not change course, Lindsay said that she is prepared to step away from it entirely. Just recently, she appeared as a judge on the &#8220;Bachelor&#8221; spin-off show &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/genres/reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to Your Heart.&#8221;</a>
&#8220;It&#8217;s been asked of me: &#8216;Will I continue in this franchise if it continues in this way?'&#8221; Lindsay said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bachelorette-rachel-lindsay-quit-franchise-unless-diversity-problems-solved">Fox News</a>. &#8220;I can&#8217;t. I have to see some type of change. It&#8217;s ridiculous. It&#8217;s embarrassing. At this point, it&#8217;s embarrassing to be affiliated with it.&#8221;
Lindsay suggested that Mike Johnson, who appeared on Hannah Brown&#8217;s season of the hit dating show, could make for a good lead for &#8220;The Bachelor.&#8221;
&#8220;I would be thrilled if [Johnson] was the bachelor,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think a lot of people would, there was such a huge movement to make him the bachelor last season. I gave a whole spiel when I found out he wasn&#8217;t. If it&#8217;s him, everybody knows where I stand!&#8221;
As protests about police brutality and its effect on black communities gripped the nation, Lindsay said in an Instagram post that black women are not appreciated enough in this country.
&#8220;We are BLACK WOMEN…we build…we don’t tear down other black women…for many years we have felt the pain of not being seen for our undeniably beautiful skin, instead, we are looked down upon,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But right now in this moment, we will acknowledge each other! We will uplift each other today! We can see how they portray the black women on the media and what affect that has had on our beautiful black girls. The fighting, the screaming, and the judging has run its course. We are beautifully the same. Upload 1 picture/video of just you and tag as many beautiful black queens as you would like. Please let’s keep this challenge going!&#8221;
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Speaking at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles on Saturday, &#8220;Black Panther&#8221; actor Michael B. Jordan called on Hollywood to “commit to black hiring,” demanding they invest in “black staff” and focus on black stories.
“I want us to invest in black staff,” said Jordan. “I’m proud to have an <a href="https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2018/03/michael_b_jordan_inclusion_rider.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">inclusion rider </a>and all that good stuff and I use my power to demand diversity, but it’s time the studios and agencies — all the agencies, all these buildings that we’re standing in front of — to do the same.”
“You committed to a 50/50 gender parity in 2020, where is the challenge to commit to black hiring?” Jordan added. “Black content led by black executives, black consultants. Are you policing our storytelling as well?”
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Celebrities Visit Build &#8211; September 30, 2019

Former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay Says Show Needs More Diversity

America&#8217;s largest brick and mortar bookseller, Barnes &amp; Noble, has canceled a plan to offer &#8220;diversity&#8221; editions of classic novels like &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; and &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221; after a backlash from progressives and social justice warriors who criticized the effort as &#8220;fake,&#8221; given that the characters in the books are still, for the most part, white.
&#8220;The new &#8216;Diverse Editions&#8217; series was announced on Tuesday to honor Black History Month and due to hit shelves on Wednesday,&#8221; the Guardian reported. &#8220;The project saw 12 classic young adult novels receive new covers, the protagonists now &#8216;culturally diverse.&#8217; Frankenstein[&#8216;s monster] has brown skin, not green, while a kissing Romeo and Juliet have darker skin tones and kinky hair textures.&#8221; Juliet is also shown wearing a headscarf.
“For the first time ever, all parents will be able to pick up a book and see themselves in a story,” Barnes &amp; Noble gloated.
The &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; &#8220;diverse edition&#8221; had several variant covers, each depicting the main character, Dorothy, as a different minority ethnicity. The main character of Dr. Jekyll &amp; Mr. Hyde is depicted wearing a turban.
&#8220;Moby Dick,&#8221; &#8220;Emma,&#8221; &#8220;The Secret Garden,&#8221; &#8220;Treasure Island,&#8221; &#8220;Peter Pan,&#8221; &#8220;Alice in Wonderland,&#8221; &#8220;The Count of Monte Cristo&#8221; and &#8220;The Three Musketeers,&#8221; were also slated to receive &#8220;diversity&#8221; updates <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/05/media/barnes-and-noble-diverse-editions-trnd/index.html">per CNN</a>.
But, as many on social media pointed out after reading Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s initial press release, the classic novels remain unchanged within. Dorothy is still a white girl, as are the protagonists of &#8220;Emma,&#8221; &#8220;The Secret Garden,&#8221; and &#8220;Alice in Wonderland.&#8221; Romeo and Juliet are Italian. And all of the selected authors are white save one, Alexandre Dumas, who penned both &#8220;The Count of Monte Cristo,&#8221; and &#8220;The Three Musketeers.&#8221;
In many cases, the changes don&#8217;t make sense with the plotline, either. The &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; is a political allegory. Jane Austen&#8217;s novels revolve around the white aristocracy in Edwardian England. And portraying Frankenstein&#8217;s monster or Dr. Jekyll as a &#8220;diverse&#8221; character seems to add little to the cultural impact of the book, particularly given that both are murderers.
Fortunately, the social media social justice warriors were on the case to point out that Barnes &amp; Noble could celebrate a month dedicated to black history by, well, prominently marketing authors of color.
&#8220;Us: Hey, it’d be great if you could publish writers of color— Publishing industry: Black Frankenstein,&#8221; wrote author Brit Bennett.
&#8220;The only thing you’re disrupting is<a class="u-underline" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackHistoryMonth?src=hashtag_click" data-link-name="in body link"> #BlackHistoryMonth</a> and the literary dignity of communities of color,” David Bowles, &#8220;a Latinx children’s writer and poet,&#8221; wrote, according to the Guardian. “So disappointed in you.”
Barnes &amp; Noble quickly backtracked on their &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221; event.
We acknowledge the voices who have expressed concerns about the Diverse Editions project at our Barnes &amp; Noble Fifth Avenue store and have decided to suspend the initiative,&#8221; they wrote in a statement released just 24 hours after announcing the &#8220;diversity editions.&#8221; &#8220;The covers are not a substitute for black voices or writers of color, whose work and voices deserve to be heard. The booksellers who championed this initiative did so convinced it would help drive engagement with these classic titles.”

Barnes &#038; Noble

Barnes & Noble Cancels Plan To Offer ‘Diversity’ Editions Of Classic Novels After Woke Backlash

Weeks after leftists subjected him to a public flogging for daring to say that &#8220;quality&#8221; should always trump diversity in art, author Stephen King is now pitching incense to the woke gods as a way to seemingly ingratiate himself to them.
In an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stephen-king-oped-the-oscars-are-rigged-for-white-people/2020/01/27/ad29c4e8-407c-11ea-aa6a-083d01b3ed18_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">op-ed for The Washington Post</a> on Monday, the renowned author scolded the recent Academy Award nominations for their lack of racial and sexual diversity, arguing that the whole business is “rigged in favor of the white folks.”
Starting out, King addressed the controversy that landed him in hot water earlier this month, in which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-king-says-art-should-be-judged-on-quality-not-diversity-gets-torched-by-leftists-online">he tweeted</a>, &#8220;I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.&#8221;
The hits at King were relentless, as accusations of &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and &#8220;white-washing&#8221; erupted across his Twitter page. In the op-ed, the &#8220;It&#8221; author clarified he never meant to say that people in charge of creative content live by the creed of quality over diversity, insisting that he believes they have rigged the game in the white man&#8217;s favor.
“I also said, in essence, that those judging creative excellence should be blind to questions of race, gender or sexual orientation. I did not say that was the case today, because nothing could be further from the truth,” King wrote on Monday, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/480139-stephen-king-oscars-rigged-in-favor-of-the-white-folks">The Hill</a>.
“Has there been progress in the film community? Yes, some,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I’m old enough to remember when there were only a handful of African-American directors and about the only female director in Hollywood was Ida Lupino, who made hard-edged noir B-pictures in the 1950s and later worked in television. Her directing work was never nominated for an Oscar or an Emmy.&#8221;
King blames the lack of diversity among those nominated on the diversity of the Academy&#8217;s voting members, noting they are only 32% women and 16% minorities. “Not good enough. Not even within shouting distance of good enough,” King wrote.
But just last week, an anonymous Oscar voter told The Daily Beast that the diversity issues among those nominated were overblown, when considering the reforms that the Academy instituted following the so-called &#8220;#OscarsSoWhite&#8221; controversy of 2016.
“When the #OscarsSoWhite backlash happened, we were all thrown under the bus by our own Academy for seemingly being biased,” the voter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anonymous-oscar-voter-diversity-problems-overblown">told the outlet</a>. “So they added a lot more members, making sure it was diverse. But what also came out of that was an extra fringe benefit of youth. Suddenly an entire group of voters was plugged into social media in a way the older voters were not.”
“So now comes this year, where the grumblings are happening again, but this time it’s harder to throw the Academy members under the bus because we are more diverse now,” the voter continued. “I think it points to what the other issue was that got buried under the controversy, and that is the need to develop more projects that are richer in roles for actors of color and even stronger directing opportunities for women.”
King closed out his Post op-ed by reflecting upon how a perfect world would be completely color-blind, before lamenting on how that perfect world has been supplanted by a system &#8220;rigged in favor of the white folks.&#8221;
&#8220;My overall attitude that, as with justice, judgments of creative excellence should be blind,&#8221; King wrote. &#8220;But that would be the case in a perfect world, one where the game isn’t rigged in favor of the white folks. Creative excellence comes from every walk, color, creed, gender and sexual orientation, and it’s made richer and bolder and more exciting by diversity, but it’s defined by being excellent. Judging anyone’s work by any other standard is insulting and — worse — it undermines those hard-won moments when excellence from a diverse source is rewarded (against, it seems, all the odds) by leaving such recognition vulnerable to being dismissed as politically correct.&#8221;

ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; &#8211; 2015

Stephen King Goes Ultra-Woke After SJWs Scold Him For Anti-Diversity Comments: Oscars ‘Rigged In Favor Of The White Folks’

Hollywood

Stephen King

Woke

It&#8217;s nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping from their lips. Diversity and inclusion appear to be the end-all and be-all of their existence. So, I thought I&#8217;d begin this discussion by first looking up the definition of diversity.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, diversity is &#8220;the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.&#8221; The definition gratuitously adds, &#8220;equality and diversity should be supported for their own sake.&#8221; The standard definition given for inclusion is involvement and empowerment where the inherent worth and dignity of all people are recognized.
Here&#8217;s my question to those who are wedded to diversity and inclusion: Are people better off the less they have in common with one another? For example, women are less likely to be able to march 12.4 miles in five hours with an 83-pound assault load. They are also less likely to be able to crawl, sprint, negotiate obstacles and move a wounded comrade weighing 165 pounds while carrying that load. Would anyone argue that a military outfit would benefit from diversity by including soldiers who can and those who cannot march 12 miles in five hours while carrying an 83-pound load?
You say, &#8220;Williams, the military is an exception!&#8221; What about language? The International Civil Aviation Organization has decreed that all air traffic controllers and flight crew members engaged in or in contact with international flights must be proficient in the English language as a general spoken medium. According to UNESCO, there are about 7,000 languages in the world. The International Civil Aviation Organization could promote language inclusiveness by requiring language rotation. Some years, Cebuano (of the Malayo-Polynesian language family) and in other years Kinyarwanda (of the Niger-Congo language family) could be the language of pilots and air traffic controllers. Keep in mind that it is claimed that the great benefit of diversity and inclusiveness is that it promotes and fosters a sense of belonging. It values and practices respect for the differences in the talents, beliefs, backgrounds and ways of living of its members.
Another issue is what should be done when people who should know better praise nondiversity and noninclusiveness? Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said, &#8220;I applaud commissioner Adam Silver&#8217;s commitment to diversity and inclusion within the NBA.&#8221; During the 2018-2019 season, more than 33% of NBA teams had head coaches of color. The number of assistant head coaches of color was over 42%. The number of black NBA players was 82%. In the face of these statistics, Oris Stuart, the NBA&#8217;s chief diversity and inclusion officer said, &#8220;Diversity, inclusion and equality are central to every aspect of our game and our business.&#8221; I would like for Jesse Jackson and others who claim that there&#8217;s racial diversity and inclusiveness in professional basketball to make their case. The same question can be asked about professional football where 70% of NFL players are black, and 9% of team head coaches are black. The thornier question and challenge is what can be done to make professional basketball and football look more like the American population?
Most of the diversity and inclusiveness insanity has its roots in academia. An example is a paper titled &#8220;Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors,&#8221; written by Naval Postgraduate School professor Thomas Ahn, Duke University economics professor Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University researcher Amy Hopson, and James R. Thomas of the Federal Trade Commission. The authors argue that science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at colleges and universities lacking female enrollment can be attributed largely to harsh grading policies in these fields. Their solution to increase the number of women&#8217;s involvement in STEM is to standardize grading curves, in order to grade less &#8220;harshly.&#8221; The insanity of this approach is to not only weaken standards for women but to weaken standards across the board. This is more evidence that George Orwell was absolutely right when he said, &#8220;There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.&#8221;
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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WILLIAMS: Diversity And Inclusion Insanity

Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today&#8217;s students have needs that were unknown to their predecessors. Those needs include diversity and equity personnel, with massive budgets to accommodate.
According to Minding the Campus, Penn State University&#8217;s Office of Vice Provost for Educational Equity employs 66 staff members. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of 93 full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts and coordinators. Amherst College, with a student body of 1,800 students employs 19 diversity people. Top college diversity bureaucrats earn salaries six figures, in some cases approaching $500,000 per year. In the case of the University of Michigan, a quarter (26) of their diversity officers earn annual salaries of more than $100,000. If you add generous fringe benefits and other expenses, you could easily be talking about $13 million a year in diversity costs. The Economist reports that University of California, Berkeley, has 175 diversity bureaucrats.
Diversity officials are a growing part of a college bureaucracy structure that outnumbers faculty by 2 to 2.5 depending on the college. According to &#8220;The Campus Diversity Swarm,&#8221; an article from Mark Pulliam, a contributing editor at Law and Liberty, which appeared in the City Journal (10/10/2018), diversity people assist in the cultivation of imaginary grievances of an ever-growing number of &#8220;oppressed&#8221; groups. Pulliam writes:
<blockquote>The mission of campus diversity officers is self-perpetuating. Affirmative action (i.e., racial and ethnic preferences in admissions) leads to grievance studies. Increased recognition of LGBTQ rights requires ever-greater accommodation by the rest of the student body. Protecting &#8216;vulnerable&#8217; groups from &#8216;hate speech&#8217; and &#8216;microaggressions&#8217; requires speech codes and bias-response teams (staffed by diversocrats). Complaints must be investigated and adjudicated (by diversocrats). Fighting &#8216;toxic masculinity&#8217; and combating an imaginary epidemic of campus sexual assault necessitate consent protocols, training, and hearing procedures — more work for an always-growing diversocrat cadre. Each newly recognized problem leads to a call for more programs and staffing.</blockquote>
Campus diversity people have developed their own professional organization — the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. They hold annual conferences — the last one in Philadelphia. The NADOHE has developed standards for professional practice and a political agenda, plus a Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, which is published by the American Psychological Association.
One wonders just how far spineless college administrators will go when it comes to caving in to the demands of campus snowflakes who have been taught that they must be protected against words, events and deeds that do not fully conform to their extremely limited, narrow-minded beliefs built on sheer delusion. Generosity demands that we forgive these precious snowflakes and hope that they eventually grow up. The real problem is with people assumed to be grown-ups — college professors and administrators — who serve their self-interests by tolerating and giving aid and comfort to our aberrant youth. Unless the cycle of promoting and nursing imaginary grievances is ended, diversity bureaucracies will take over our colleges and universities, supplanting altogether the goal of higher education.
&#8220;Diversity&#8221; is the highest goal of students and professors who openly detest those with whom they disagree. These people support the very antithesis of higher education with their withering attacks on free speech. Both in and out of academia, the content of a man&#8217;s character is no longer as important as the color of his skin, his sex, his sexual preferences or his political loyalties. That&#8217;s a vision that spells tragedy for our nation.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

WILLIAMS: Colleges Dupe Parents And Taxpayers

Education

Progressivism

A mathematics professor at the University of California, Davis, who published an essay slamming university-mandated “diversity statements” that are used to determine the advisability of hiring prospective applicants has been bitterly attacked in <a style="font-style: inherit;" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemUplE2hevhePBEpOpmRF6Kb7iYQkxKPJozrJakqu-sKbiWA/viewform">a letter</a> signed by hundreds of academics around the country, who also attacked the American Mathematical Society for even publishing her essay.
As Addison Smith reports in <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/uc-davis-professor-under-fire-for-opposing-required-diversity-statements/">The College Fix</a>, Professor Abigail Thompson, a vice president of the American Mathematical Society, wrote in her <a href="https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1778.pdf">essay</a>:
<blockquote>We should continue to do all we can to reduce barriers to participation in this most beautiful of fields. I am encouraged by the many mathematicians who are working to achieve this laudable aim. There are reasonable means to further this goal: encouraging students from all backgrounds to enter the mathematics pipeline, trying to ensure that talented mathematicians don’t leave the profession, creating family-friendly policies, and supporting junior faculty at the beginning of their careers, for example. There are also mistakes to avoid. Mandating diversity statements for job candidates is one such mistake, reminiscent of events of seventy years ago.</blockquote>
Thomson recounted the history of the Regents of the University of California, who in 1950 required all UC faculty to sign a statement asserting that “I am not a member of, nor do I support any party or organization that believes in, advocates, or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government, by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional means, that I am not a member of the Communist Party.” She pointed out “thirty-one faculty members were fired over their refusal to sign. Among them was David Saxon, an eminent physicist who later became the president of the University of California.”
Then she got to the meat of the matter:
<blockquote>Faculty at universities across the country are facing an echo of the loyalty oath, a mandatory &#8220;Diversity Statement&#8221; for job applicants. The professed purpose is to identify candidates who have the skills and experience to advance institutional diversity and equity goals. In reality it’s a political test, and it’s a political test with teeth. What are the teeth? Nearly all University of California campuses require that job applicants submit a “contributions to diversity” statement as a part of their application. The campuses evaluate such statements using rubrics, a detailed scoring system. Several UC programs have used these diversity statements to screen out candidates early in the search process.</blockquote>
She added, “The diversity ‘score’ is becoming central in the hiring process. Hiring committees are being urged to start the review process by using officially provided rubrics to score the required diversity statements and to eliminate applicants who don’t achieve a scoring cut-off.”
Thompson theorized:
<blockquote>Why is it a political test? Politics are a reflection of how you believe society should be organized … Requiring candidates to believe that people should be treated differently according to their identity is indeed a political test. The idea of using a political test as a screen for job applicants should send a shiver down our collective spine … Whatever our views on diversity and how it can be achieved, mandatory diversity statements are equally misguided … Imposing a political litmus test is not the way to achieve excellence in mathematics or in the university. Not in 1950, and not today.</blockquote>
The letter signed by the academics stated in part:
<blockquote>We are writing because we support diversity statements as one tool to encourage a more inclusive and equitable mathematics profession … We are writing because we are disappointed by the editorial decision to publish the piece which contradicts the AMS’s commitment to diversity affirmed in its own diversity statement. Clearly, this is something that people needed to talk about, but the AMS has chosen to spark this conversation by giving its imprimatur to a piece that undermines productive discussion and causes real danger and burden to the marginalized members of our community … Diversity statements help assess a candidate&#8217;s ability to effectively teach a diverse group of students. If our goal as mathematicians and educators is truly to reach as many students as possible, thinking about diversity and inclusion is necessary.</blockquote>
They added a direct attack on Thompson, who humbly began her essay by stating simply “This essay contains my opinions as an individual.” They wrote, “While Dr. Thompson attempts to spin this issue with partisan wording, diversity statements are a small yet necessary step towards creating a more equitable and inclusive community.” They added an attack on AMS for publishing Thompson’s piece: “The AMS and Notices bear responsibility for amplifying views that fly in the face of research-based practices and that falsely equate evidence-based approaches to teaching and professional practice with the blacklisting of people based on political ideology, all in direct contradiction of the AMS’s stated commitment to diversity.”

Math Professor Slams ‘Diversity Statements’ Used In Hiring. Hundreds Of Academics Condemn Her And Math Society For Publishing Her Essay.

The Hallmark Channel has now been scrutinized for having a lack of religious and racial diversity during its &#8220;Countdown to Christmas&#8221; programming.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hallmark-channel-struggles-give-diversity-a-home-holidays-1257946">The Hollywood Reporter </a>(THR), the Hallmark Channel featured just four movies this year with black leads and virtually no other religious representation outside of Judaism and Christianity.
&#8220;Of the network&#8217;s record 24 original holiday movies this season, four of them have black leads,&#8221; reported THR. &#8220;And that&#8217;s down from last year, when five of its 21 original holiday movies had black leads.&#8221;
&#8220;Missing from Hallmark&#8217;s festive roster? Any other religion in the title,&#8221; the report later noted. &#8220;That&#8217;s especially interesting given that Hallmark last year announced that it would be producing two Hanukkah movies in 2019 — &#8216;Holiday Date&#8217; (Dec. 14) and a &#8216;Double Holiday&#8217; (Dec. 22). &#8216;Double Holiday&#8216; is a romance between a woman who is Jewish, while &#8216;Holiday Date&#8217; features a Jewish guy pretending to be &#8216;Mr. Christmas.'&#8221;
Speaking on THR&#8217;s TV podcast, Bill Abbott, CEO of Crown Media Family Networks (Hallmark&#8217;s parent company), said that the allegation that Hallmark has no diversity is unfair.
&#8220;I think that generalization isn&#8217;t fair either, that we just have Christmas with white leads,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;In terms of broadening out the demographic, it’s something we’re always thinking about, always considering and we’ll continue to make the movies where the best scripts are delivered to us and what we think have the most potential.&#8221;
As to why the two movies featuring Jewish characters did not use the word &#8220;Hanukkah&#8221; in the title, Abbott said the programming has never been overtly religious, arguing that Christmas is more of a &#8220;seasonal celebration.&#8221;
&#8220;We are very proud of those movies and we think those movies really reflect an across-the-board approach to celebrating the holiday season,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;It’s hard if we start to slice up the pie, so to speak, and make movies based off of specific holidays. So, if we were to look at Kwanzaa, for example, or other religions and how they celebrate the holidays it’s a little bit more difficult because we don’t look at Christmas from a religious point of view, it’s more a seasonal celebration. [O]nce you start to slice it more finely within individual religions it’s a little bit tougher to necessarily tell that story in a way that doesn’t involve religion and we always want to stay clear of religion or controversy.&#8221;
&#8220;I think Christmas has become almost a secular type of holiday more than Hanukkah, which really does have more of a religious feel,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think Hanukkah, from a religious point of view, is not necessarily as commercial and not necessarily as much about gift-giving and it’s really about what those eight nights signify from the religious point of view. So I’m not ruling it out as something we would not do but this is kind of our first foray into this type of double holiday mix with a lot of Hanukkah in both movies [and] a lot of the celebration of how those nights are celebrated and experienced by those who practice the religion.&#8221;
Abbott did, however, say that the Hallmark Channel has an interest in featuring other diverse leads, including LGBT.

Hallmark Channel&#8217;s Countdown To Christmas Celebration And VIP Screening Of &#8220;Christmas At Holly Lodge&#8221;

Hallmark Channel Blasted For Lack Of Inclusion, Diversity

LGBT

Race

Religion

The wealthy Chicago suburb of Oak Park attempted to do something simple enough for a liberal town: Update the village’s diversity statement.
But as many things involving identity politics go, this simple statement caused the town some embarrassment. Mark Glennon, founder of an Illinois online outlet <a href="https://wirepoints.org/where-hate-has-a-home-oak-park-illinois-2/">called WirePoints</a>, explained what happened in Oak Park.
The Oak Park village board met and debated the diversity statement, which included the phrase “system of oppression.” As Glennon wrote, this upset some members of the board, who felt the phrase unfairly smeared the local police department.
“That’s when Trustee Susan Buchanan let loose, telling the white males on the board to &#8216;shut up,&#8217; and much more,” Glennon wrote. “Keep in mind that one of the targets of Buchanan’s comments was the mayor, Anan Abu-Taleb. He’s a Palestinian immigrant born in the Gaza Strip as the second oldest of 13 children and came to the Chicago area at the age of 18 to attend college.”
Buchanan, according <a href="https://youtu.be/COzVGRhSOuI">to video</a> of the meeting told the white members and Abu-Taleb that they “shouldn’t have an opinion on that.”
“That is the point. Why do you have an opinion on equity? You’ve never experienced oppression so shut up … . Just stop … You are not oppressed … . Enough … You stop it! You are a white male. Your skin is light enough. Stop it,” she said.
Instead of Buchanan losing her job and becoming a political pariah for her comments, she was supported by members of her community. Glennon reported that the “loudest voices” in the town support Buchanan, and have even posted <a href="https://www.change.org/p/oak-park-board-of-trustees-dan-moroney-resign-from-oak-park-s-board-of-trustees/c">a petition</a> demanding that one of the other village board members resign.
“That’s Dan Moroney, who was among the trustees who questioned the wording of the original diversity statement,” Glennon wrote. “They’ve selected him as scapegoat for the bad press Oak Park got from Buchanan’s words and for the threats she says she and her family received.”
Moroney, according to Buchanan’s supporters, is the one who has to go because he spoke about the situation on a conservative Dan Proft’s radio show. Buchanan’s supporters claim that the neighborhood was “targeted by white supremacists” and that Buchanan was threatened.
But, according to Glennon, Moroney didn’t appear on the radio show until October 18, two weeks after Buchanan’s comments went national and after Buchanan said she had been threatened. Also, the reporting on the incident was not initiated by Moroney.
For what it’s worth, the diversity statement was approved on October 9. The Chicago Tribune <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/oak-park/ct-oak-park-diversity-statement-tl-1017-20191009-sevkm5o6yvhf3fxxyiymyqynty-story.html">reported</a> at the time that the statement was updated after each election.
Despite the statement being approved, protesters showed up at last week’s village board meeting to defend Buchanan. A woman suggested men did need to “shut up,” while another said Buchanan’s critics were “vile and Brett Kavanaugh-like.” The Left believes Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted women 30 years ago, even though the available evidence suggests he didn’t. The protester’s reference was likely suggesting that anyone who thought Buchanan’s comments were disrespectful and bigoted was actually a sexual assaulter.

Cropped Hand Of Woman Holding Megaphone By Drawing Against Blackboard

Illinois Town Tries To Release Statement On Inclusion, Chaos Ensues

Illinois

There may be no other single college in America that is a better example of the failures of being “woke” than the University of Missouri, more commonly known as Mizzou.
The latest embarrassment for the university comes from its attempt at a PR campaign featuring student athletes. The aim or the campaign was simple enough: Show that student athletes are more than the stereotypical jock. The school asked athletes who they are as a person.
But when the school made images using the photos of these athletes, something went wrong. The photos highlighting white female athletes included quotes saying what they want to be in the future.
“I am a future doctor,” reads the quote from Chelsey Christensen.
“I am a future corporate financer,” reads the quote from CJ Kovac.
But the images featuring African-American athletes don’t include information about their futures. Arielle Mack’s photo quote reads: “I am an African American woman.” Caulin Graves’ quote says, “I am a brother.”
This might not have been such a problem if there was a little more explanation. If they simply asked the students to finish the sentence, “I am a/an,” one might get more insight into the students. We would commend Graves for putting his family first.
But a video released with the images shows that the black students did talk about their futures, but that’s not what the school included.
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Today, we will focus on the core values &amp; various identities <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mizzou?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mizzou</a> student-athletes hold.
Who are YOU as a person?
Use <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NCAAInclusion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NCAAInclusion</a> to show that you are more than an athlete, coach or staff member.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MIZ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MIZ</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShowMe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShowMe</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NCAAInclusion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NCAAInclusion</a> 🐯 <a href="https://t.co/I8AfQbiAPy">pic.twitter.com/I8AfQbiAPy</a>
— Mizzou Athletics (@MizzouAthletics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MizzouAthletics/status/1187020479783006208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Graves did not simply say he “is a brother.” He also said he was an uncle “and a leader.”
Mack said she was “a future physical therapist” in addition to the quote included on her image. Another black student athlete said he was an electrical engineer. Why couldn’t those quotes be included on images to continue the theme?
After a swift backlash, Mizzou deleted its tweet featuring the athletes’ images and apologized.
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Earlier we made a mistake when we posted a graphic about our student athletes. We apologize. Our intent was to provide personal information about our students, but we failed. We listened and removed the post. This video better represents our intent to celebrate our diversity. <a href="https://t.co/dVZjrLZ254">pic.twitter.com/dVZjrLZ254</a>
— Mizzou Athletics (@MizzouAthletics) <a href="https://twitter.com/MizzouAthletics/status/1187213416278220801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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RedState’s Kira Davis included screenshots of the failed tweets in <a href="https://www.redstate.com/kiradavis/2019/10/25/epic-fail-mizzou-athletics-attempt-diversity-campaign-goes-horribly-horribly-wrong/">her article</a> about the PR disaster, writing:
<blockquote>To recap: at Mizzou white student athletes are future doctors and business people. Black student athletes are…black. Poor Caulin Graves doesn’t even get to be black, just “a brother.” *insert laughy-cry emoji here*</blockquote>
Mizzou’s social justice troubles <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mizzou-closes-two-dorms-due-to-lack-of-students">began in 2015</a>, when it became the poster child for protests from students claiming their school was a hotbed of racism. During the protests, professor Melissa Click pushed a student journalist and threatened to call some “muscle” over. She was eventually fired and charged with assault.
The incident was embarrassing for the school, which saw a massive drop in admissions the following year. The drop in admissions led to a $32 million budget shortfall, which resulted in the closure of two dorms.
Earlier this year, the school was threatened with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mizzou-faces-loss-funding-threat-over-lack-due-ashe-schow">a loss of funding</a> due to its lack of due process for students accused of sexual assault. Local media sneered at legislators’ attempts to provide basic fairness to murky he said/she said accusations by scoffing at the idea that an accused student deserved to see the evidence against him and to cross-examine his accuser.

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In higher education’s ongoing quest to appeal to the “woke” crowd, colleges and universities across the country are now training professors about “inclusive grading” as part of a larger focus on diversity and inclusion.
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/public-university-tells-professors-not-to-grade-based-on-merit/">reported</a> that Boise State University (BSU) is the latest in a long line of schools to jump on the ‘inclusive grading’ bandwagon. This week, the university is hosting an event called “Inclusive Teaching Means Inclusive Grading, Too.” The event is part of a larger certificate program, called Boise State Uniting for Inclusion and Leadership in Diversity (BUILD).
Information regarding the event could not be accessed, but other events with the same name offered insight into what is now being taught. From the Fix:
<blockquote>BSU’s event has the exact same name as a previous University of Tennessee-Knoxville faculty <a href="https://calendar.utk.edu/event/inclusive_teaching_means_inclusive_grading_practices_too#.XaTOB-dKi_I">workshop</a>. It was aimed to “engage instructors in conversations and activities designed to foreground diversity and inclusion in considerations of assessment and grading practices.”
The University of Michigan held a faculty workshop with a near-identical name as well. The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching <a href="http://crlt.umich.edu/events/inclusive-teaching-means-inclusive-grading-practices-too-inclusive-teaching-michigan-series">stated</a> on its website that attending teachers would “be asked to review their own practices” on grading throughout the event.
This workshop is reminiscent of one <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-seminar-teaches-faculty-not-to-judge-quality-of-writing-when-grading/">held</a> in February at American University, designed to teach faculty “how to assess writing without judging its quality.”
Titled “Grading ain’t just grading” and promising to help teachers rethink “writing assessment ecologies toward antiracist ends,” the workshop <a href="https://edspace.american.edu/ariwa/">warned</a> that “the practices of grading writing” maintained “White language supremacy.”</blockquote>
BSU, the Fix reported, has been on a “woke” kick lately, including hosting a book circle that makes participants “dig deep into ourselves to explore the ways in which we all, as individuals, sometimes unknowingly, support racism and white supremacy.”
The Fix also highlighted other programs coming up as part of the BUILD certification. One workshop is titled “Implicit Bias in the Academic Workplace” and suggests faculty attending reflect on “messages that are fed to us via news and popular culture may cause us to create an inequitable environment.”
Another workshop, titled, “‘Why are You Reacting that Way?’: Unpacking Identity Development &amp; it’s Impact on Interactions in the Classroom &amp; Workplace,” promises to “give participants opportunities to examine the lens they use to interact with others and understand why there is resistance.”
So, it’s now a professor’s responsibility to change their behavior to reduce “resistance” from students? What ever happened to teaching children and young adults how to properly behave?
Another upcoming program asks: “How accessible is your syllabus? That is, to what extent is it able to be used by all intended users, each with differing capabilities?”
Schools across the country have been giving into the woke crowd with increasing frequency. Multiple schools have held “white privilege workshops” designed to teach white people that they are racist and must repent. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-university-holds-white-privilege-workshop-joseph-curl">one recent example</a>, the University of North Carolina’s workshop was attended by just nine students.
No subject is safe from the woke brigade, either. In Seattle, curriculum has been proposed that would teach students that math – yes math – <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/seattle-public-schools-teaching-math-ethnic-studies-asks-who-gets-to-say-if-an-answer-is-right">is racist</a>.

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Even though &#8220;Sex and the City&#8221; instilled the values of carefree, loveless sex into a whole generation of women, the show&#8217;s creator has one regret: not ensuring more diversity.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/darren-star-iconic-tv-characters-at-2019-mipcom-1247631">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR) in Cannes recently, Darren Star said, in retrospect, he should have included more minority characters.
“That&#8217;s the one thing I probably would have liked to have done differently,” said Star. “Hopefully it transcended that, but looking back, wow, that would have been another way to make it feel more groundbreaking.”
“The show is very much a product of its time and I think the show is a time capsule. You can only think about shows as representing the time that they are being made,” he continued. “TV has evolved in being much more inclusive, and I think that people do now think about series that way.”
In the same interview, Star expressed feeling quite drawn to stories about female characters due to their openness. “I feel like they&#8217;re emotionally very open, they&#8217;re very expressive, they&#8217;re funny. I just think of the female characters as people,” he said. “If you put men in the same situation you just wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell the same kinds of stories.”
Though &#8220;Sex and the City&#8221; has a loyal fanbase, as THR noted, the show has indeed faced criticism for a lack of diversity. The show&#8217;s star, Sarah Jessica Parker, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sarah-jessica-parker-says-sex-city-looks-tone-deaf-20-years-1141149">even said that the show looks &#8220;tone-deaf&#8221; 20 years later</a>.
&#8220;You couldn&#8217;t make it today because of the lack of diversity on screen,&#8221; she said in 2018. &#8220;I personally think it would feel bizarre.&#8221;
“I don&#8217;t know that you could do it with a different cast,” she said of a possible reboot. “I think that&#8217;s radical and interesting, but you can&#8217;t pretend it&#8217;s the same. It wouldn&#8217;t be a reboot as I understand it. If you came back and did six episodes, you&#8217;d have to acknowledge the city is not hospitable to those same ideas. You&#8217;d look like you were generationally removed from reality, but it would be certainly interesting to see four diverse women experiencing NYC their way. … It would be interesting and very worthwhile exploring, but it couldn&#8217;t be the same.”
&#8220;Sex and the City&#8221; also made headlines recently when the original author, Candace Bushnell (upon whom the character of Carrie Bradshaw was based), admitted that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sex-and-city-author-regrets-not-having-kids-i-felt-paul-bois">she regrets not having kids</a>.
“When I was in my 30s and 40s, I didn’t think about it,” Bushnell said earlier this year. “Then when I got divorced and I was in my 50s, I started to see the impact of not having children and of truly being alone. I do see that people with children have an anchor in a way that people who have no kids don’t.”
Bushnell and her husband, ballet dancer Charles Askegard, divorced in 2012 after 10 years of marriage – which she said caused her to go without sex for five years. “It’s not that long when you get to my age. I know women who have gone longer,” she said.
Bushnell&#8217;s latest book already has a television deal on the table and will focus on a group of single, middle-aged women from New York City who move to the Hamptons in order to start anew. Similarly autobiographical like “Sex and the City,” the novel was inspired by her own experience as a childless, single woman in her 50s.
“We’re all single women without children. And you think about, what are you going to do when you get old?” she said. “If you don’t have kids, you realize, ‘Who is going to take care of me?’ Your girlfriends.”
“It was a weird, great communal living where your best friends who are like your family are right across the street and you can run and see them any time and you’re there for each other,” Bushnell said. “We live within walking or biking distance [of each other]. We get together usually for Sunday brunch. And sometimes we have a paddle-boarding lunch.”

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College Board, the university entrance-exam company that produces the SAT, has walked back its plan to assign a numeric &#8220;adversity score&#8221; to students&#8217; college-application profiles, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-board-sat-cheating-scandal-announces-new-plan-to-include-socioeconomic-factors-in-admissions/">CBS News</a>.
The plan was designed to give college admissions officers an opportunity to &#8220;view a student&#8217;s academic accomplishment in the context of where they live and learn,&#8221; said a College Board spokesperson back in May, as reported by <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/05/20/college-board-will-add-adversity-score-everyone-taking-sat">InsideHigherEd</a>.
Factors that would have boosted a student&#8217;s adversity score included an unrigorous curriculum, local property values, percentage of students receiving discounted lunches, and the education level of the students&#8217; parents, reports InsideHigherEd.
But many people at the time criticized the College Board for a variety of reasons, including lowering standards and providing opportunities to game the system. Heather Mac Donald, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute, wrote an op-ed in May at <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/college-boards-sat-adversity-score">City Journal</a> criticizing the college board&#8217;s decision, calling it &#8220;the latest response on the part of mainstream institutions to the seeming intractability of the racial academic achievement gap.&#8221;
&#8220;Colleges pay lip service to socioeconomic diversity, but that concept is inevitably a surrogate for race. Colleges have repeatedly rejected admissions schemes that purport to substitute socioeconomic preferences for racial preferences, on the ground that those socioeconomic schemes do not yield enough &#8216;underrepresented minorities,'&#8221; Mac Donald continued.
Jason Richwine, a contributor at <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-college-boards-adversity-score-perpetuates-the-myth-of-sat-bias/">National Review,</a> wrote that colleges should just say that &#8220;diversity is so important to our schools and to broader society that lowering standards is a worthy price to pay.&#8221;
Derek Newton, an education writer at <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2019/05/27/why-the-s-a-t-adversity-score-is-worse-than-no-score-at-all/#593d78071ab5">Forbes</a>, called the adversity score &#8220;worse than no score at all&#8221; because it provided a path for well-off families to game the college admissions system. &#8220;It&#8217;s only a matter of time before highly-resourced, expensive, elite prep schools establish satellites with official addresses in communities with high adversity scores,&#8221; wrote Newton.
According to CBS News, the College Board will replace the adversity score with the &#8220;Landscape Program,&#8221; which provides colleges with data showing the type of schools and neighborhoods applicants come from.
David Coleman, CEO of the College Board, says &#8220;we made changes because we heard and thought we could do better,&#8221; reports CBS News.
&#8220;There is no longer a single number that tries to sum up your neighborhood and school. Today, we&#8217;ll share with everyone exactly how we calculate it, and within a year, every student and family, they&#8217;ll be able to see the information for their neighborhood and school,&#8221; says Coleman.

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