A group of concerned students, parents, and alumni at a prestigious school in Los Angeles are documenting what they claim is &#8220;the self-destruction of California&#8217;s most elite private school,&#8221; after the institution&#8217;s leadership rolled out extensive measures by which they intend to promote anti-racism.
Individuals associated with Harvard-Westlake School, a college preparatory school that the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-harvard-westlake-20131028-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Los Angeles Times</a> described as &#8220;the destination for many children of L.A.&#8217;s business and entertainment elite,&#8221; have been invited to anonymously &#8220;submit experiences about the intimidation and indoctrination students and faculty are being subjected to as the school obeys the demands of radicals,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsP5ldZaKndBSLqhI24nxZD-Lhao5O0fxM-bCP_3VRc9BtWQ/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Woke at Harvard-Westlake Project</a>.
The Project, the Instagram account of which is &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/wokeathw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wokeathw</a>,&#8221; describes itself as &#8220;a rapidly growing coalition of parents, students, alums, and faculty with widely varied political and personal backgrounds who are deeply alarmed at how quickly Harvard-Westlake&#8217;s standards of rigor and academic excellence are being discarded in response to a campaign of accusation, denunciation, and demand by activists.&#8221;
Submissions to the account so far include recordings of a dean praising Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, the associate head of school endorsing The New York Times&#8217; 1619 Project, and an email sent to 9th graders from a teacher informing her students that she uses the prefix &#8220;Mx.&#8221; and identifies as &#8220;a queer white womxn of European descent.&#8221;
Other images depict assignments about how &#8220;racism is the bedrock of the USA&#8221; and instructed to &#8220;annotate where &#8216;power&#8217; and &#8216;privilege&#8217; reside in the text&#8221; of &#8220;A Catcher in the Rye.&#8221; According to a statement from someone who said he was a Jewish student in the upper school, the mandatory presentation about Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour was particularly distressing:
<blockquote>As a Jewish student, I felt under attack by Harvard-Westlake. I spoke with friends who felt the same way, and were horrified and confused about why the school was promoting extremists and hate-peddlers. We are all afraid to speak out, because the school has made it clear that it is embracing radicalism and we are supposed to obey, not question. This mandatory presentation was introduced by the head of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Janine Hancock Jones. She either thinks anti-Semitism is fine, or she&#8217;s incapable of recognizing it, which is incredibly disturbing for someone in her role.</blockquote>
On June 24, amid the turmoil roiling the country after George Floyd&#8217;s death, the school&#8217;s leadership released a document titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.hw.com/pdf/Anti-RacismatHarvard-Westlake.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anti-Racism At Harvard-Westlake School,</a>&#8221; in which they explained that &#8220;the current national reckoning with systemic racism and injustice has led our community to its own self-examination, and it is clear that we still have a long way to go in our efforts to make our community as inclusive as it ought to be.&#8221;
After speaking to &#8220;students, alumni, parents, faculty, and staff,&#8221; they continued, it became evident to them that &#8220;Harvard-Westlake’s own practices have contributed, however unintentionally, to the racism and injustice that people of color have experienced at our school.&#8221; Self-described people of color comprise 55% of the student body, according to <a href="https://www.hw.com/about/HW-at-a-Glance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the school&#8217;s own data</a>.
The document goes on to list across 18 pages the various ways in which the school, where <a href="https://www.hw.com/admission/Tuition-Information" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">annual tuition and fees approach $50,000</a>, intends to promote &#8220;the active opposition to systemic racism through intentional actions, policies, or practices. This opposition must be present at the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels.&#8221;
Actions taken span curriculum changes, increasing admissions and hiring diversity, requiring implicit bias training for faculty and staff, and banning the use of the N word school-wide, among other things.
The Woke At Harvard-Westlake Project claims such measures are &#8220;politicizing and racializing virtually every aspect of the school,&#8221; adding in part:
<blockquote>These changes are already tearing the social fabric of the school, with many students, faculty, and parents horrified at the replacement of education with demands for adherence to radical and cult-like new racial theories. (One HW class instructs students that &#8220;colorblindness&#8221; &#8212; not judging people by the color of their skin &#8212; is &#8220;not only disingenuous but dangerous.&#8221;)
While we understand the administration felt that &#8220;something&#8221; had to be done to address what it perceived as a &#8220;crisis,&#8221; we do not accept the notion that the changes being implemented will improve anything. In fact, they will sow division, alienation, grievance, and suspicion on campus.
Please join us as we raise awareness of what&#8217;s happening to our beloved institution. You are not alone, and you are not crazy for feeling that the changes being forced on you and your children are profoundly unwise.</blockquote>
Similar to the &#8220;wokeathw&#8221; account, an Instagram account called &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackathw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blackathw</a>,&#8221; which was created by members of the Class of 2019 on June 21, encouraged Harvard-Westlake students, faculty, and alumni of color to &#8220;speak your truth&#8221; with anonymous submissions. &#8220;Our goal is twofold: For one, we want to highlight just how pervasive racism is on our campus, despite our living in a &#8216;liberal bubble&#8217;. For another, we hope that reading one another&#8217;s stories can help you know that you&#8217;re not alone,&#8221; they said.
As of publishing, 31 posts on the account offer alleged anecdotes recounting times that students experienced discrimination, including an allegation of sexual assault.
&#8220;Harvard-Westlake has fostered bigotry for the entirety of its existence,&#8221; the account claims.
According to <a href="http://hwchronicle.com/school-responds-to-blackathw-instagram-account/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Chronicle</a>, the school&#8217;s online newspaper:
<blockquote>Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Janine Jones said she anticipated the creation of Blackathw after students at private schools such as Campbell Hall, Brentwood School and Marlborough School founded similar accounts. Since Blackathw was created by alumni June 21, Jones said she has been reading the posts regularly.
&#8220;My initial reaction was pride,&#8221; Jones said. “I was really proud of the students who are a part of the class of 2019 who started the account because it takes a lot of courage to do something like that. It is not easy to be an African American student at Harvard-Westlake or at any school where you are not in the dominant racial culture.
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Harvard-Westlake School did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-evergreen-state-college-down-300-emily-zanotti" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Get Woke, Go Broke: Evergreen State College Is Down To 300 New Enrollments</a>
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A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student has resigned from her teaching position and lost a teaching job at another university after admitting to falsely claiming to be a person of color.
CV Vitolo-Haddad admitted to posing as a person of color and apologized in two Medium posts last week, CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/09/17/us/wisconsin-grad-student-race-trnd/index.html">reported</a>. Vitolo-Haddad, who also uses the pronouns they/them and also claims to be nonbinary, announced they were resigning as co-president of UW’s Teaching Assistants’ Association.
Vitolo-Haddad’s troubles began on September 4, when an anonymous person on Medium <a href="https://medium.com/@polite_keppel_dinosaur_57/cv-vitolo-haddad-another-academic-racial-fraud-c5c41fe32110">accused</a> the graduate student of falsely identifying as black and continually changing their story on their family history.
“Though their claim to a POC identity was vague, the one consistency was their insistence that they were a constant target of acts of racism and that they came from some kind of nonwhite background. They referenced it frequently on social media and in interpersonal conversations,” the anonymous person wrote. “Their stories lacked coherence, but they intimated an insider status that made (and makes) people hesitant to question them.”
The writer compared Vitolo-Haddad to Jessica Krug, a tenured African History professor at George Washington University who resigned after an investigation was opened into whether she masqueraded as a black woman for years, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/african-history-professor-under-investigation-for-masquerading-as-black-woman-resigns">reported</a>.
Like Krug, Vitolo-Haddad has also “shirked any (potentially Afro) Latinx identity over the past year and begun claiming North African Blackness,” the author wrote.
Vitolo-Haddad then wrote their own post on Medium admitting to the deceit, writing, “so deeply sorry for the ways you are hurting right now because of me.”
&#8220;I have let guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn&#8217;t prove. I have let people make assumptions when I should have corrected them,&#8221; they added.
Vitolo-Haddad made a second post that was edited on September 11, finally admitting they were of southern Italian/Sicilian heritage, CNN reported.
&#8220;It was my choice and error to identify any differently,&#8221; Vitolo-Haddad wrote.
&#8220;When asked if I identify as Black, my answer should have always been &#8216;No.&#8217; There were three separate instances I said otherwise,&#8221; Vitolo-Haddad wrote. &#8220;I should have never entered Black organizing spaces.&#8221;
&#8220;They are not my place. Once realizing this, it wasn&#8217;t sufficient to just leave; I should have explained that directly to the people who invited me and clarified my identity,&#8221; they added.
The revelation also cost Vitolo-Haddad a tenure-track position at California State University-Fresno, CNN confirmed.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Jessica Krug made headlines earlier this month after an investigation was opened into her alleged false identity. In that case, a <a href="https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85">blog post</a> on Medium allegedly written by Krug herself admitted to the deception.
“To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness,” the post stated. “I have not only claimed these identities as my own when I had absolutely no right to do so — when doing so is the very epitome of violence, of thievery and appropriation, of the myriad ways in which non-Black people continue to use and abuse Black identities and cultures — but I have formed intimate relationships with loving, compassionate people who have trusted and cared for me when I have deserved neither trust nor caring.”
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A recent article in The Atlantic tells us that the pandemic has families leaving the public school system in droves and embracing homeschooling. This shift, we are told, may be permanent. From the article: 
“Homeschooling families, which included roughly 3 percent of school-age children in the United States in 2016, have lots of different reasons for wanting to educate their own kids. But they’re united in a common assessment: They want out of the traditional system. The question is whether COVID-19 will cause a temporary bump in homeschooling as parents piece together their days during the pandemic or mark a permanent inflection point in education that continues long after the virus has been controlled. Some families may find that they want to exit the system for good.”
The data seems to bear this out. A <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/317852/parents-satisfaction-child-education-slips.aspx">Gallup</a> poll released last week finds that 1 in 10 families with school aged children are now homeschooling. That means the number of homeschoolers in America has doubled in just one year. Granted, a portion of these families may return to the public school ranks once the lockdowns and mask policies end (if they do end any time this century) but there is reason to think that, as The Atlantic says, the change may be lasting. 
After all, these are families who have unenrolled and severed ties from the school system completely. And in some parts of the country, the number of parents who have taken that step is even more staggering. Texas, for example, has seen a 400 percent increase in parents withdrawing from the public school system, which mirrors pretty closely the reported 300 percent increase in traffic to <a href="http://homeschool.com">homeschool.com</a>, an online community for homeschoolers. 
The trend towards homeschooling has been given a significant shot of adrenaline recently, but it didn’t begin with the pandemic. Over the last two decades, the size of the homeschooling community had already doubled even before the lockdowns began. What was once considered a fringe movement for Christian fundamentalists on one side of the political divide and hippy granola-crunchers on the other, has been increasingly embraced as a possibility for people of all ideological persuasions. 
What makes this moment so significant is that the lockdowns have broken the final barrier that prevented many parents from exploring the homeschooling route. That barrier was psychological more than anything. It was the belief that public schools do something special that the average parent cannot emulate or improve upon. It was thought, even by people who are otherwise skeptical of government control, that parents teaching their own kids is somehow disordered or weird or backwards. We need the school system, it was thought. Education is the system’s thing, its speciality. Parents do not have the ability or resources to take its place. 
That was always a facade. In fact, parents are the primary educators of a child, whether they accept that role officially or not. There is nothing the school system does that a parent cannot do. There is no role the school system is better suited to fill. The most natural and, for the child, healthiest, choice is to be taught full time by parents who know them, love them, understand them, and can meet their specific needs. If large-scale, government controlled education has any role, it should be as a back up, a Plan B (or maybe C or D), not as the automatic, default option. 
It is not as though the public school system has been a rousing success up to this point. Headlines this week tell us that young people today have a “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/survey-finds-shocking-lack-holocaust-knowledge-among-millennials-gen-z-n1240031?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">shocking</a>” lack of knowledge about the Holocaust. Over half of the respondents in a recent survey did not know that 6 million Jews died in the genocide, and 1 in 10 could not recall ever hearing the word “Holocaust” in their lives.
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None of this is actually shocking. Polls and surveys for years have shown that Americans have a very tenuous grasp of basic subjects like history, science, and civics. A survey conducted a few years ago discovered that only about 30 percent of Americans could pass a citizenship test. Less than 30 percent could identify the 13 original colonies or one thing Benjamin Franklin was famous for. Almost 40 percent thought he was famous for inventing the lightbulb. Another study reveals that 1 in 5 Americans cannot name a branch of government. A  survey released by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni in 2015 showed that half of Americans can’t say when the Civil War was fought. In science, a Pew study finds that just 39 percent of Americans have a high level of scientific knowledge, with 29 percent having little knowledge, and everyone else falling somewhere in the mediocre middle. 
The media likes to trumpet headlines like these, showing that many Americans are embarrassingly ignorant, but they don’t like to connect the dots and draw the obvious conclusion: our education system is an abysmal failure. Indeed, ours is an education system that produces citizens who cannot pass a citizenship test. What more needs to be said? 
Of course, we must stipulate that the education system has failed to do what it should be trying to do, which is to equip new generations with the strong base of knowledge and critical thinking skills they will need to be well rounded, well adjusted, contributing members of society. It has not failed to do what it has actually tried to do, which is to indoctrinate new generations into the religion of leftism. The rioters terrorizing our cities, screaming about the imaginary bogeyman of “systemic racism,” illustrate at once both sides of this dichotomy. 
Public schools simply do not deserve the faith we have had in them, nor have they earned the credit we have often given them. They also do not deserve to be seen as inevitable or necessary. And the school system itself has now admitted as much. By shutting down suddenly, for months on end, and even protesting to ensure that it can remain shut for longer, insisting that it is not an essential service like Walmart or the local liquor store, the school system has let the truth slip: we don’t actually need it. Society can function without it. There is nothing it is doing that can’t be done at home.
Parents are discovering this, too. They are trying their hand at educating their own children — which is something they were already doing, and all parents already do, whether in official capacity or not — and many are discovering that it’s not so hard as they thought. Let’s hope even more parents have this revelation, and that the government school system is rendered finally obsolete and superfluous. That would be one good thing — one extremely good thing — to come out of this godforsaken year. 
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-party-of-science-is-waging-a-war-on-science">The ‘Party Of Science’ Is Waging A War On Science</a> 
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President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was creating the “1776 Commission” to promote patriotism in U.S. education as part of the administration’s efforts to combat the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-shreds-1619-project-communist-china-gleeful-when-they-see-nyt-spread-this-false-doctrine">far Left’s agenda</a> of trying to re-write American history.
“Our mission is to defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of the American character,” Trump said at the White House Conference on American History, hosted at the National Archives Museum. “We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world.”
Trump&#8217;s speech comes after the administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-bans-federal-money-from-funding-far-left-anti-american-critical-race-theory?fbclid=IwAR3HRi8yiVTQDpUt9MVpws5wLv17PnyV-1k1WgRHbU7sJxQpy0pfpdbLbYI">announced</a> two weeks ago that it was cancelling all federal funding that was going toward promoting critical race theory.
After speaking briefly about the importance of America&#8217;s founding documents, Trump pivoted to warning about what he said the Left is trying to do in the United States:
<blockquote>Yet, as we gather this afternoon, a radical movement is attempting to demolish this treasured and precious inheritance. We can’t let that happen. Left-wing mobs have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy. Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words “America was never great.” The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement — the universal symbol of the rule of law in America. These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians, establishment media, and even large corporations.
Whether it is the mob on the street, or the cancel culture in the boardroom, the goal is the same: to silence dissent, to scare you out of speaking the truth, and to bully Americans into abandoning their values, their heritage, and their very way of life.
We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed.
The radicals burning American flags want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents, including the bedrock principle of equal justice under law. In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe. As I said at Mount Rushmore — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast, and that’s never going to happen — two months ago, the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.
As many of you testified today, the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It’s gone on far too long. Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history.
The left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies. There is no better example than the New York Times’ totally discredited 1619 Project. This project rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom.
Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal, and prosperous nation in human history.
The narratives about America being pushed by the far-left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries — because both groups want to see America weakened, derided, and totally diminished.
Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed. Critical race theory is being forced into our children’s schools, it’s being imposed into workplace trainings, and it’s being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors, and families.
A perfect example of critical race theory was recently published by the Smithsonian Institution. This document alleged that concepts such as hard work, rational thinking, the nuclear family, and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans, but were instead aspects of “whiteness.” This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity, and it is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted, not disparaged.
Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words. For many years now, the radicals have mistaken Americans’ silence for weakness. But they’re wrong.
There is no more powerful force than a parent’s love for their children. And patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country. American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at our work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture, and values in the public square. Not anymore. &#8230;
The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power. By viewing every issue through the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation, and we must not allow that to happen.
Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country.</blockquote>
Trump then announced that the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum to be taught in U.S. schools that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.
&#8220;Today, I am also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an Executive Order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education,&#8221; Trump concluded on the topic. &#8220;It will be called the &#8216;1776 Commission.&#8217; It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding. Think of that — 250 years.&#8221;
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A surprisingly high number of young Americans polled nationwide displayed profound ignorance about the Holocaust, with a sizable percentage even believing that Jewish people were responsible for it, according to the <a href="http://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Millennial-Holocaust-Survey-TOPLINE.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">results of a survey</a> released on Wednesday.
In the <a href="http://www.claimscon.org/millennial-study/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">first-ever survey of young people between 18 and 39 in all 50 states</a> about the topic, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany discovered that nearly two-thirds of those polled did not know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Nearly half could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto. Almost a quarter either did not believe the Holocaust happened, that it was exaggerated, or were unsure. About 12% had not heard about the Holocaust at all, or were unsure if they had.
In a finding that the study described as &#8220;particularly disquieting,&#8221; nearly 20% of respondents in New York believed that Jews were responsible for the Holocaust, which was the highest percentage in a nation where 11% of young people polled overall believed the same thing.
Another portion of the survey discovered that about half had &#8220;witnessed Holocaust denial or distortion on social media,&#8221; and 30% had seen Nazi symbols either on social media or in their community.
Despite the otherwise sobering results, 64% of the young people polled believe that Holocaust education should be compulsory in schools and 80% believe continuing to teach about the Holocaust is important, in part to prevent it from happening again.
Gideon Taylor, the president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, said, &#8220;The results are both shocking and saddening, and they underscore why we must act now while Holocaust survivors are still with us to voice their stories.&#8221;
&#8220;We need to understand why we aren’t doing better in educating a younger generation about the Holocaust and the lessons of the past. This needs to serve as a wake-up call to us all, and as a road map of where government officials need to act,&#8221; Taylor added.
The study results were met with alarm, condemnation, and ridicule on social media, where terms such as &#8220;Holocaust,” &#8220;Anne Frank,&#8221; &#8220;Elie Wiesel,&#8221; and &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List&#8221; trended on Twitter all day. Many blamed an abysmal education system for the widespread ignorance about one of the 20th century&#8217;s worst atrocities.
&#8220;Thanks a lot, US educators,&#8221; Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume tweeted.
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Thanks a lot, US educators. <a href="https://t.co/YNbTVVXTL1">https://t.co/YNbTVVXTL1</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1306265861276262403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We need a national &#8211; and global- reckoning to combat the hateful, destructive ignorance of the Holocaust,&#8221; tweeted former CBS anchor Dan Rather.
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We need a national &#8211; and global- reckoning to combat the hateful, destructive ignorance of the Holocaust. <a href="https://t.co/XAuolxEf6p">https://t.co/XAuolxEf6p</a>
&mdash; Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1306267689367732229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We need to fix our education system,&#8221; wrote Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter.
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Almost Two-Thirds of American Young Adults Don’t Know That 6 Million Jews Were Killed In The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Holocaust?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Holocaust</a>
We need to fix our education system.<a href="https://t.co/Soc8qpL0hZ">https://t.co/Soc8qpL0hZ</a>
&mdash; Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1306319527836291072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt described the survey as &#8220;disturbing,&#8221; &#8220;disappointing,&#8221; and &#8220;wholly unsettling.&#8221;
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Disturbing. Disappointing. Wholly unsettling. Almost two-thirds of young Americans don’t know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.<a href="https://t.co/aMqXFkSdJi">https://t.co/aMqXFkSdJi</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1306279243735760896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Allie Beth Stuckey questioned, &#8220;What are people learning in school today?? How can you learn about WWII without learning this? How can you not be required to read Night or The Hiding Place or The Diary of Ann Frank or watch Schindler’s List or visit the Holocaust Museum? Why?&#8221;
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What are people learning in school today?? How can you learn about WWII without learning this? How can you not be required to read Night or The Hiding Place or The Diary of Ann Frank or watch Schindler’s List or visit the Holocaust Museum? Why? <a href="https://t.co/tv74GYQ0JF">https://t.co/tv74GYQ0JF</a>
&mdash; Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1306245343202377731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘Shocking And Saddening’: Survey Shows Profound Ignorance Of Holocaust Among U.S. Young People, Including Nearly 20% In New York Who Believe Jews Were Responsible

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A surprisingly high number of young Americans polled nationwide displayed profound ignorance about the Holocaust, with a sizable percentage even believing

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us all to rethink our lives and cancel various plans. Vacations have been canceled. Sports have been canceled. Classes have been canceled. But at my university, I soon found “cancel culture” taking this canceling to whole new level. I was removed from my job as Student Senate President at Florida State University because my peers and administrators decided to cancel my Catholic faith.
My story started on a bright day in early June. Though we were in the midst of the summer semester, I remained digitally engaged with my classmates during the pandemic, including those in the Catholic Student Union. In our <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/DentonScreenshots.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.adfmedia.org/files/DentonScreenshots.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGEWIcw3RpW-H4NVxQ1LZa4cohinQ">Catholic GroupMe chat</a>, one student shared a YouTube video that was soliciting donations and collecting ad revenue for several organizations, including the ACLU and BlackLivesMatter.com.
These two organizations take several positions that clearly conflict with Catholic doctrine. For example, the ACLU is so unabashedly pro-abortion that it <a href="https://www.aclu.org/cases/preterm-cleveland-v-himes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aclu.org/cases/preterm-cleveland-v-himes&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1rEOf5IlgkLZN-6IAPSIKlfuTuQ">is fighting</a> Ohio’s law that protects unborn children from being aborted because of their disability status. BlackLivesMatter.com <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFd3q2Ct_R9J7LeHJk6EtC5_zd2fw">aims to</a> “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure” where children are raised by a married mother and father. Both <a href="https://denvercatholic.org/can-catholics-support-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://denvercatholic.org/can-catholics-support-black-lives-matter/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEyGIQYDZTrIN2gbGL5ZmCjkqFxhg">BlackLivesM</a><a href="http://atter.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://atter.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEWB1YYQNZ-TlHrK4yYOnvSZd-_lg">atter.com</a> and the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbt-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbt-rights&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLJaRaZTqBqswSmM41phRVUW2ayw">ACLU</a> also support radical secular theories on transgenderism.
I decided to politely point out my concerns to my classmates in the Catholic GroupMe chat. I realize that our nation is wrestling with very challenging issues on race right now, and the solutions to those issues are complex and unclear. But what remains clear is the objective harm caused by supporting pro-abortion and anti-family organizations, including BlackLivesMatter.com and the ACLU. I had no intention of creating anger or division. I just wanted to make sure my friends were not unknowingly supporting organizations that are hostile to some of the core tenets of our faith. I was making a point I thought all Catholics could agree upon.
Sadly, I found out that not everyone did agree.
The content of my messages was leaked and mischaracterized all over social media. I had countless false accusations of “hate” and “discrimination” levied against me, and by extension, against Catholicism. Thousands of people signed a petition saying I was unfit to serve as Senate president. And less than a week later, an overwhelming majority of the Student Senate that I had worked so hard to serve succumbed to these demands, removing me strictly because of my Catholic beliefs.
After unsuccessfully trying to appeal this decision to the university administration and the Student Supreme Court, I have now decided to file a <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/case/denton-v-thrasher" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.adflegal.org/case/denton-v-thrasher&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFhq3d5XoUzV5iSysvjlLxUc5H5tw">lawsuit</a> with the help of Alliance Defending Freedom.
It is heartbreaking that so many people have bought into the secular falsehoods that claim people who hold orthodox Judeo-Christian beliefs cannot be tolerated in public life. I, like my fellow classmates, have legitimate concerns about the social issues facing America today. My classmates also say they want to love others, and that they are hoping to create a brighter future. I share these same aspirations. But as Archbishop Charles Chaput <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Strange-Land-Catholic-Post-Christian/dp/1627796746" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Strangers-Strange-Land-Catholic-Post-Christian/dp/1627796746&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAMsEaA8VMbYzrslbx0nYtN3-Frg">succinctly put it</a> in his newest book, “candor is not an enemy of love. And real hope begins in honesty.”
Sept. 5 was the day the Catholic Church celebrated the feast day of a saint who displayed true love like few others: St. Teresa of Calcutta. Mother Teresa draws admiration from people of all faiths or no faith at all. The modern-day saint loved the poorest of the poor unconditionally, even <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1979/teresa/facts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1979/teresa/facts/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGwBZqQdW8wi-qYNGb1a8LOBU9m6Q">winning</a> the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and her contributions to this world cannot be overstated.
And yet, according to the secular orthodoxy that permeates many universities, Mother Teresa would be declared unfit to serve as a public figure on campus, simply because she was devoutly Catholic.
Mother Teresa once <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/mother-teresas-message-calcutta-is-everywhere" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/mother-teresas-message-calcutta-is-everywhere&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFcNiIQ6cr94vsM-igRjCcEhf4rJw">said</a>, “Calcutta is everywhere.” Many people, including her biographer <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Teresa-Private-Writings-Calcutta/dp/0307589234" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Teresa-Private-Writings-Calcutta/dp/0307589234&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1600002598406000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE-eeUzu39l1ZlAeGaaRqF20mk92g">Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.</a>, have taken her words to mean that various forms of poverty can be found everywhere. And as a college student, I have found the university campus to be a Calcutta of its own kind: a Calcutta of spiritual poverty.
If we are to address this poverty, people of faith must be free to partake in public life and express their deeply held beliefs, just as everyone else is. That’s why I’m standing strong for my faith at Florida State University.
Jack Denton is the former student senate president at Florida State University.
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Cancel Culture Kicked Me Out of My College Job Simply Because I Was Catholic

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The not-for-profit College Board gave the Chinese Communist Party unprecedented access to America’s K-12 education programs in exchange for funding, according to a new <a href="https://www.nas.org/reports/corrupting-the-college-board">report</a> from the National Association of Scholars.
The report, titled “Corrupting the College Board: Confucius Institutes and K-12 Education,” found that since at least 2003, “the College Board has sponsored Confucius Institutes at K-12 schools, served as a recruiter for Chinese government programs, and helped the Chinese Communist Party design and gain control over American teacher training programs.”
A press release for the report stated that the College Board worked with the CCP “to develop an AP Chinese Language and Culture course, served as a recruiter for Chinese government initiatives, and helped the CCP design and gain control over American teacher-training programs such as the National Chinese Language Conference.”
The College Board was founded in 1899 and develops and administers standardized tests as well as curricula for American education institutions. The Board is probably best known for the SAT and Advanced Placement Tests. The NAS report found that the Board worked closely with Hanban, the Chinese government agency that oversees Confucius Institutes, which have been targeted by the Trump administration as a threat to America. In February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-states-and-the-china-competition/">speech</a> at the National Governors Association winter meeting that universities across the country were shutting down their Confucius Institute programs after independent reviews.
“Many of you are familiar with Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes purport to have the sole purpose of teaching Mandarin language skills and Chinese culture. A bipartisan Senate committee found last year in 2019 that the Chinese Communist Party controls nearly every aspect of the Confucius Institutes’ activities here in the United States,” Pompeo said at the time. “Sadly, China’s propaganda campaign starts even earlier than college. China has targeted K through 12 schools through its ‘Confucius Classrooms,’ the CCP’s program to influence kids at elementary, middle, and high schools around the world.”
The NAS report found the College Board “strongly promoted Confucius Institutes” and allowed the Chinese government to become a stakeholder by providing millions in funding for the curriculum.
From the report:
<blockquote>Early critics of the AP partnership expressed concern that the College Board had behaved inappropriately by making a foreign government a stakeholder in its course design. Bob Schaeffer, public education director for the National Center for Fair &amp; Open Testing, asked, “What is the Chinese or Italian government buying for their sponsorship? Will they be able to specify or influence the content of the exam, which is, in turn, designed to drive the AP course curriculum? Can they, for example, urge the inclusion of reading passages from the &#8216;Little Red Book&#8217;?”
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The AP test asks students to learn simplified Chinese characters, a more basic set of brush strokes imposed by the Chinese government in the 1950s and 1960s, with particular fervor during the Cultural Revolution. The PRC praised simplified characters as a boon for literacy: easier characters meant more people could master Chinese, a language notoriously difficult to write even for native speakers. But the promotion of simplified characters also served a political purpose. It prevented readers from accessing the older, traditional Chinese literature that Mao sought to supplant, leaving readers reliant on newer materials put forth by the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party. Contemporary readers of simplified characters are likewise cut off from much of traditional Chinese literature, as well as materials coming from Taiwan and Hong Kong—including dissident literature—where traditional characters remain in use.
Perhaps, in choosing simplified characters, the College Board simply decided that ease of reading was paramount. But regardless, the College Board has aided the Hanban in rendering traditional Chinese literature increasingly inaccessible—leaving readers more and more reliant on post-Mao materials.</blockquote>
The report made five policy recommendations to try and fix the American education system’s corruption from China:
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<li>Replace the AP Chinese Language and Culture Test. The Department of Education and Department of Defense should convene a working group to prepare an alternative high school Chinese language and culture test.</li>
<li>Require schools to close Confucius Classrooms. The Department of Education should warn all school districts of the risks of hosting a Confucius Classroom or using the Chinese Guest Teacher Program, and Congress should require, on penalty of losing public funding, the closure of Confucius Classrooms.</li>
<li>Require the College Board to cut ties with the Chinese government. Congress should condition federal funding to the College Board on the immediate severance of all partnerships with the Hanban or any of its replacement organizations.</li>
<li>Investigate the College Board’s corruption. The Department of Justice should open up an inquiry at once.</li>
<li>Replace the National Chinese Language Conference. The Department of Defense should sponsor an alternative program to train and provide professional development for American teachers of Chinese language.</li>
</ul>
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Century Old College Board Gave Chinese Government Access To U.S. Education In Exchange For Funding, Report Finds

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The not-for-profit College Board gave the Chinese Communist Party unprecedented access to America’s K-12 education programs in exchange for funding,

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In matters of race and other social phenomena, there is a tendency to believe that what is seen today has always been. For black people, the socioeconomic progress achieved during my lifetime, which started in 1936, exceeded anyone&#8217;s wildest dreams. In 1936, most black people lived in gross material poverty and racial discrimination. Such poverty and discrimination is all but nonexistent today. Government data, assembled by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, shows that &#8220;the average American family &#8230; identified as poor by the Census Bureau, lives in an air-conditioned, centrally heated house or apartment &#8230; They have a car or truck. (Indeed, 43% of poor families own two or more cars.)&#8221; The household &#8220;has at least one widescreen TV connected to cable, satellite, or a streaming service, a computer or tablet with internet connection, and a smartphone. (Some 82% of poor families have one or more smartphones.&#8221; On top of this, blacks today have the same constitutional guarantees as everyone else, which is not to say that every vestige of racial discrimination has been eliminated.
The poverty we have today is spiritual poverty. Spiritual poverty is an absence of what traditionally has been known as various human virtues. Much of that spiritual poverty is a result of public and private policy that rewards inferiority and irresponsibility. Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility is the welfare state. When some people know they can have children out of wedlock, drop out of school and refuse employment and suffer little consequence and social sanction, one should not be surprised to see the growth of such behavior. Today&#8217;s out-of-wedlock births among blacks is over 70%, but in the 1930s, it was 11%. During the same period, out-of-wedlock births among whites was 3%; today, it is over 30%. It is fashionable and politically correct to blame today&#8217;s 21% black poverty on racial discrimination. That is nonsense. Why? The poverty rate among black husband-and-wife families has been in the single digits for more than two decades. Can anyone produce evidence that racists discriminate against black female-headed families but not black husband-and-wife families?
For most people, education is one of the steppingstones out of poverty, and it has been a steppingstone for many black people. Today, decent education is just about impossible at many big-city public schools where violence, disorder, disrespect and assaults on teachers are routine. The kind of disrespectful and violent behavior observed in many predominantly black schools is entirely new. Some have suggested that such disorder is part of black culture, but that is an insulting lie. Black people can be thankful that double standards, and public and private policies rewarding inferiority and irresponsibility, were not broadly accepted during the 1920s, &#8217;30s, &#8217;40s and &#8217;50s. There would not have been the kind of intellectual excellence and spiritual courage that created the world&#8217;s most successful civil rights movement.
Many whites are ashamed, saddened and guilt-ridden by our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. They see that justice and compensation for that ugly history is to hold their fellow black Americans accountable to the kind of standards and conduct they would never accept from whites. That behavior and conduct is relatively new. Meet with black people in their 70s or older, even liberal politicians such as Charles Rangel (age 90), and Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson (85), Alcee Hastings (83) and Maxine Waters (82). Ask them whether their parents would have tolerated their assaulting and cursing of teachers or any other adult. I bet you the rent money their parents and other parents of that era would not have accepted the grossly disrespectful behavior seen today among many black youngsters who use foul language and racial epithets at one another. These older blacks will tell you that, had they behaved that way, they would have felt serious pain in their hind parts. If blacks of yesteryear would not accept such self-destructive behavior, why should today&#8217;s blacks accept it?
Black people have made tremendous gains over the years that came as a result of hard work, sacrifice and a no-nonsense approach to life. Recovering those virtues can provide solutions to many of today&#8217;s problems.
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: Today And Yesterday

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A University of Rhode Island history professor, writing about the alleged killing of a Trump supporter by Antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, wrote, “Reinoehl killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.”
Reinoehl <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-da-antifa-supporting-gunman-appeared-to-be-targeting-counterprotesters-allegedly-stalked-victim">allegedly gunned down</a> Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a member of a group called &#8220;Patriot Prayer&#8221; that showed up to counter-protest at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Reinoehl was later killed in a confrontation with U.S. Marshals who were trying to arrest him for second-degree murder.
Portland&#8217;s District Attorney released a charging affidavit, which, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/portlands-antifa-gunman-appeared-to-target-victim-police-say">according to Fox News</a>, noted that Reinoehl &#8220;appeared to be targeting the victim prior to the shooting,&#8221; that he had deliberately armed himself for the protest in case of an interaction that turned violent, and that he &#8220;allegedly hid in a parking garage, waiting for Aaron &#8216;Jay&#8217; Danielson, 39, and another Patriot Prayer member.&#8221;
The Rhode Island University professor, Erik Loomis, initiated the conversation wherein he made the incendiary comment with a <a href="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/09/why-was-michael-reinoehl-killed">blog post</a> in which he wrote:
<blockquote>Michael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him Well, now the cops have killed him. I am extremely anti-conspiracy theory. But it’s not a conspiracy theory at this point in time to wonder if the cops simply murdered him. The police is shot through with fascists from stem to stern. They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors.</blockquote>
Loomis continued by referencing a tweet by historian Manisha Sinha, whom he described as “hardly a conspiracy theorist herself.” Sinha had tweeted that Reinoehl “deserved to be arrested and tried in court, not killed by a motley of federal law enforcement. This seems like a hit job, an extra judicial killing ordered by Trumpsters.”
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Whether you disagree with Michael Reinoehl&#39;s tactics, he deserved to be arrested and tried in court, not killed by a motley of federal law enforcement. This seems like a hit job, an extra judicial killing ordered by Trumpsters. When you get rid of the rule of law, you get fascism <a href="https://t.co/hAqstbGCxx">https://t.co/hAqstbGCxx</a>
&mdash; Manisha Sinha (@ProfMSinha) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfMSinha/status/1301882877890777090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the comments below Loomis’ blog, one commenter protested to Loomis, “&#8217;Erik, he shot and killed a guy.” Loomis replied, “Reinoehl killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.”
Another reader asked, “What&#8217;s so great about assassinating a rando fascist? And in the absence of a sound affirmative justification, it should be easy to envision the drawbacks.”
Loomis answered, “What&#8217;s so great about assassinating random slaveholders, said liberals to John Brown.”
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8721235/University-professor-says-wrong-moral-perspective-Antifa-killing-fascist.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported that Loomis had made prior comments indicating his hostility to Republicans, including: “Once Republicans figured out COVID was going to affect people of color and the poor disproportionately, they stopped caring about doing anything about it.” In May 2018, he titled a blog post, “Republicans: The party of ethnic cleansing in multiple nations,” ranting, “Republicans aren&#8217;t just happy with ethnic cleansing in the United States. The Israeli apartheid state is right up their alley too.”
The Daily Mail added that in 2016, Loomis &#8220;argued that people should not think of Fidel Castro &#8216;in terms of simplistic moral judgments.&#8217; Loomis claimed the Cuban strongman &#8216;an inspiration for billions of people around the world seeking freedom from colonial overlords&#8217; and was &#8216;a tremendously complex person who attempted to rebuild a society around ideas of justice.&#8217; In August 2015, Loomis called Israel &#8216;the 21st century version of the white colonialist settler state,&#8217; and said Israel &#8216;continues committing horrifying violence against the indigenous people in its way.&#8217;”
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Professor Defends Killing Of Trump Supporter By Antifa Supporter: ‘I See Nothing Wrong With It’

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A University of Rhode Island history professor, writing about the alleged killing of a Trump supporter by Antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, wrote,

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Long Island police arrested a 17-year-old high school student on Thursday after he showed up to class for the third day in a row in protest of remote learning.
Maverick Stow, a senior at William Floyd High School in Long Island, NY, attempted to attend class for the third day in a row in defiance of the school district’s hybrid learning plan and his five-day suspension issued after he first attended class in protest on Tuesday. School administrators called the police on Stow on his third day of protest. Officers arrested the teen and later charged him with third-degree criminal trespass, according to <a href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/student-protest-remote-learning-high-school-1.49175347">Newsday</a>.
After Stow’s arrest, the school district threatened to close the hybrid remote/in-class learning schedule and switch to fully remote classes.
“If Mr. Stow continues to try to access school grounds each day that we are open, we will close the high school — and its approximately 3,000 students — to all in-person learning and it will be all virtual for the foreseeable future,” school spokesman James Montalto said in a statement.
“We are still in the midst of a pandemic and will abide by the regulations set in place by our government and health officials designed to keep our students and staff safe. As we have said, Mr. Stow’s rights as a student do not surpass the rights of any of our other 8,799 students,” Montalto continued. “Most of our in-person classes at the high school are at maximum capacity according to the square footage of each classroom.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/high-school-student-slapped-with-5-day-suspension-for-coming-to-class-on-remote-learning-day">Stow initially attended school</a> in violation of the hybrid schedule on Tuesday, and after going to class all day school administrators issued him a five-day suspension for violating the district’s health protocol. Stow said at the time that he was protesting remote learning and believed that all students should be attending school five days a week.
“I was going to school like students should be going to school. I think that a five-day suspension is out of line,” he said at the time. “The virus doesn’t discriminate on Mondays or Tuesdays or Thursdays or Fridays. That’s not how it works.”
Stow attempted to attend class again on Wednesday in violation of his suspension, but school administrators stopped him and denied him access. Administrators accused Stow of “insubordinate behavior” and called the police to remove him from campus. Police said “the student left without incident” after they arrived, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/10/long-island-student-heads-to-school-again-to-protest-remote-classes/">the New York Post</a>.
Stow’s parents have supported and encouraged their son’s protest. On Wednesday, Stow’s mother, Nora Kaplan-Stow, said she was proud of him for standing up for his beliefs.
“I’m 1,000% behind him,” Kaplan-Stow said, according to Newsday. “I’m very proud of him. I support him for sticking up for something he feels passionately about.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-sides-with-trump-says-students-need-to-go-back-to-school">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC) has recommended that states and communities push to open schools as soon as possible citing the relatively low risk the coronavirus poses to students.
“The best available evidence from countries that have opened schools indicates that COVID-19 poses low risks to school-aged children, at least in areas with low community transmission, and suggests that children are unlikely to be major drivers of the spread of the virus,” the CDC says in its guidance. “Reopening schools creates opportunity to invest in the education, well-being, and future of one of America’s greatest assets — our children — while taking every precaution to protect students, teachers, staff and all their families.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-academy-of-pediatrics-get-students-back-to-school-in-the-fall">American Academy of Pediatrics</a> has taken a similar position, citing the relatively high risk to students of depression, abuse, and other factors that increase as they spend more time away from school.
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High School Student Charged With Criminal Trespass For Attending Class In Remote Learning Protest

Coronavirus

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Long Island police arrested a 17-year-old high school student on Thursday after he showed up to class for the third day in a row in protest of remote

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A former Oberlin College professor is suing after she says she was denied a tenure-track position based on her race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and marital status.
The Morning Journal <a href="https://www.morningjournal.com/news/lorain-county/oberlin-college-sued-by-former-professor/article_cfb8a150-eef0-11ea-bfad-4bd439033b2b.html">reported</a> that Alice Blumenfeld, a former visiting assistant professor of dance, filed the lawsuit alleging discrimination after she says Oberlin Dance Department Chair Ann Cooper Albright told her she couldn’t be hired because she was “another white woman from the Midwest with a husband.”
The statement allegedly occurred on July 7, 2019, when Blumenfeld was told to look for a position elsewhere.
“Ms. Albright, acting individually and in her capacity as chair of Oberlin’s Dance Department, effectively rejected Ms. Blumenfeld for the new tenure-track position, not because of her accomplishments, her skill, her experiences, her work ethic, or her individual and personal qualities, but instead, because of her race, the color of her skin, her sex, her sexual orientation, her national origin, and her ancestry,” Blumenfeld alleges in her lawsuit.
“While Ms. Blumenfeld was more qualified for the tenure-track position than the individual Oberlin hired, she failed to meet the identity-based qualifications that the defendants required, which included qualifications based upon race, skin color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin and ancestry,” the lawsuit says.
Blumenfeld’s position was terminated on June 30, 2020, but was not hired for the tenure-track position. As the Journal reported, Blumenfeld filed a complaint with Oberlin’s director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Rebecca Mosely, requesting the matter be handled confidentially to avoid professional consequences.
Blumenfeld’s complaint led to an internal review by Oberlin, which unsurprisingly found that it had not discriminated against the former professor. The report did, however, suggest “three policy recommendations to improve hiring practices and the complaint process,” the Journal reported.
“The lawsuit names Oberlin College, Albright and Mosely as defendants, and seeks damages in excess of $25,000 for discrimination on race and color, discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation, discrimination based on national origin and ancestry, retaliation, and negligent hiring, retention and supervision,” the Journal reported.
Neither Oberlin nor Albright responded to the Journal’s requests for comment.
Oberlin is no stranger to racial controversy or lawsuits. In 2019, the college was ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars to the owners of a small bakery after college officials helped students protest the establishment, claiming racial discrimination. A member of the family that owns the bakery caught a non-white Oberlin student stealing wine and was attacked by the shoplifter and his friends. The student acknowledged he shoplifted, yet other Oberlin students harassed the business claiming the shoplifter was discriminated against. Oberlin officials attended the protests and attempted to stop the press from filming. Officials also passed out flyers claiming the bakery had a history of racism.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worse-you-think-theres-more-oberlin-story-ashe-schow">reported</a>, internal emails from Oberlin administration officials revealed that behind the scenes, administrators trashed the bakery.
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Former Professor Sues After College Allegedly Told Her They Couldn’t ‘Hire Another White Woman From The Midwest With A Husband’

Lawsuit

Oberlin College

racial discrimination

A former Oberlin College professor is suing after she says she was denied a tenure-track position based on her race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation,

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A 12-year-old Colorado Springs, Colorado, boy received a five-day suspension from school after one of his teachers spotted a toy gun in his hand during an online art class, local news reports.
Isaiah Elliot was participating in a group virtual learning session, <a href="https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/12-year-old-suspended-over-toy-gun-seen-in-virtual-class/">a local Fox affiliate reports</a>, when he allegedly &#8220;flashed&#8221; what looked to be a weapon. The gun was, in fact, toy &#8212; &#8220;a neon green and black handgun with an orange tip with the words &#8216;Zombie Hunter&#8217; printed on the side.&#8221;
The teacher &#8220;notified the school principal who suspended Isaiah for five days&#8221; &#8212; a suspension reportedly consistent with threatening classmates, even though Elliot was in a virtual environment and not in the same classroom as his peers where a &#8220;threat&#8221; of violence might be more meaningful. The principal then took the additional step of contacting the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office to conduct a &#8220;welfare check&#8221; on the family.
Local media reports that the principal never consulted the boy&#8217;s parents to get clarification on the incident, and Fox 31 says the teacher knew the item was a toy gun and not a real, usable weapon.
Elliot&#8217;s parents were furious, they say, especially because Elliot and his parents are black.
“It was really frightening and upsetting for me as a parent, especially as the parent of an African-American young man, especially given what’s going on in our country right now,&#8221; Curtis Elliot, Isaiah&#8217;s father told local media, referencing the recent national outcry over racism and racially motivated brutality in policing &#8212; an issue that can arise even from seemingly innocuous contacts with law enforcement, like a welfare check.
“He was in tears when the cops came. He was just in tears. He was scared. We all were scared. I literally was scared for his life,” he added.
“For them to go as extreme as suspending him for five days, sending the police out, having the police threaten to press charges against him because they want to compare the virtual environment to the actual in-school environment is insane,” Elliot&#8217;s mother, Dani, said.
Elliot&#8217;s mother noted that neither the teacher nor the principal bothered to check in with either her or her husband &#8212; a decision she can&#8217;t understand.
“If her main concern was his safety, a two-minute phone call to me or my husband could easily have alleviated this whole situation to where I told them it was fake,” she said.
It also appears, from a video of the incident, that Isaiah did not intend for his teacher or classmates to see the gun as he moved it from one side of his laptop to the other.
&#8220;A sheriff’s deputy recorded the video on his body cam and showed it to the boy’s father. Curtis Elliott told FOX31 the video shows his son sitting at home on his sofa when he momentarily picks up the toy gun on the right side of where he’s sitting and moves it to his left side, not realizing that in the process his teacher and fellow students saw him move the gun across the computer screen,&#8221; Fox 18 reported.
A second student, who also played with the toy gun, is believed to have received a similar suspension. That child allegedly handled the &#8220;Zombie Hunter&#8221; weapon and may have pointed it at the screen, but it&#8217;s not clear whether that student knew he was on video and in view of teachers at the time.
The school district refused to comment on the incident but did say that they were not yet &#8220;familiar&#8221; with all aspects of virtual learning.
“The platforms we use for distance learning have the feature to record classes for educational purposes. During our first week of school, we were still becoming familiar with the platform. It is not our current practice to record classes at this time. Parents will be notified if that changes. We will continue to support all families in our school to make sure they feel safe, respected, and educated.”
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Colorado 12-Year-Old Suspended From School After Teacher Spots ‘Gun’ During Online School Session

Colorado

Guns

A 12-year-old Colorado Springs, Colorado, boy received a five-day suspension from school after one of his teachers spotted a toy gun in his hand during an

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After a graduate of Kentucky’s Transylvania University who currently <a href="https://www.aclu-ky.org/en/biographies/samuel-crankshaw">works with the ACLU</a> ripped the idea of the university accepting Nick Sandman, writing that Sandmann “clearly is a provocateur in training” and “dangerous,” an Assistant Professor and Diversity Scholar at the university responded that if Sandmann “were to cause problems,” she would “file a conduct report.”
Transylvania University is a private university in Lexington, Kentucky, and the first university in Kentucky, founded in 1780.
The exchange started with Samuel Crankshaw writing on Facebook:
<blockquote>Does anyone else think it’s a bit of a stain on Transylvania University for accepting Nick Sandman? I’m sure it’s a “both sides” defense, but it’s pretty counter to their mission and another instance of there not actually being equal sides to an issue. I think TU should accept anyone willing to have an open mind and engage in debate, regardless of their views. That’s how we all learn. That’s Transy’s mission.
But this kid clearly is a provocateur in training with no intention of learning. He exists only to troll, intimidate and play victim. He and his attorney proudly use their national platforms to promote QAnon, which has *literally* been the direct cause of multiple instances of violence (not to mention all of the other batshit stuff). He is proudly defending Kyle Rittenhouse, who murdered two people for exercising political speech. Ironically, this silenced victim is running with Don Jr., spoke at the GOP convention, has a bill in his honor at the General Assembly, has attended private schools, has a national law firm representing him, etc. So silenced. He’s no different from the likes of Milo Yiannopoulos, but he is more dangerous.
Having experienced the incredibly high standards Transy requires for admission and then holds its students to, this seems like a slap in the face. I hope some time in a real classroom changes him, but his twitter and public persona suggest otherwise …</blockquote>
Dr. Avery Tompkins replied, “While I certainly don’t support or agree with his views, and find his public behavior and rhetoric atrocious and uninformed, we can’t not admit academically qualified students due to their political and personal views.”
Then she got snarky and patronizing: “If he ends up in my intro class, fine. He might learn something that is actually based on research and evidence. I’m well aware of the anti-intellectual views tied to the organizations he’s part of, so I assume he’d view me as part of some liberal brainwashing machine, but signing up for Transy and my class means he is required to learn that information, even if he disagrees.”
“If he were to cause problems by being disruptive, trolling, or engaging in unethical behavior of any kind, I would immediately document it (just like I would for any student doing the same thing) and he would just be putting himself in a position for me to file a conduct report,” she threatened. “So. As far as I know, there have been no issues so far (though I certainly could be missing info).&#8221;
Then she expressed sympathy with Crankshaw’s attack on Sandmann: “That said, I totally get where you’re coming from. I’m interested in knowing why he chose Transy, whose mission is the antithesis of what he believes and promotes.”
Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University Law School, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2020/09/08/aclu-official-attacks-university-for-admitting-nick-sandmann-while-professor-promises-to-monitor-his-conduct/">wrote</a> in response to the professor&#8217;s post, &#8220;[the] fact that figures in the ACLU and academia would publicly espouse such views of intolerance is a chilling example of how our faith in free speech has eroded in the recent years.&#8221; Excerpts from Turley&#8217;s response:
<blockquote>Crankshaw labels Sandmann a “provocateur in training with no intention of learning.” Putting aside the provocateur label how would Crankshaw know that Sandmann has “no intention of learning”? … Rather than say that there is no reason why this conservative student should be singled out in this way, Tompkins declares publicly “I get where you are coming from.” Where would that be?  Cranksaw was coming from a place where a wrongly accused conservative teenager will be harassed or targeted for daring to take his views to a college. &#8230; Tompkins labels this incoming freshman as part of an anti-intellectual movement and publicly assumes that Sandmann will reject core principles of learning. This is a freshman being publicly shredded by a professor at his school. Tompkins then expresses the same uncertainty why this student would pick a university dedicated to higher education and “the antithesis of what he belies and promotes.”</blockquote>
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ACLU Associate Warns University Nick Sandmann A ‘Provocateur,’ ‘Dangerous.’ University Prof: ‘I Get Where You Are Coming From’

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After a graduate of Kentucky’s Transylvania University who currently works with the ACLU ripped the idea of the university accepting Nick Sandman, writing

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A tenured professor of religion and philosophy at Taylor University has reportedly been fired for refusing to delete a song from YouTube called “Little Hitler,” a song he wrote to warn about the nature of hatred and sin. 
According to <a href="https://www.theechonews.com/article/2020/09/itrg2whvihfkooc?fbclid=IwAR0rraVCVV46a1R7UsPymrpXrkL6ENCd9Sw4GEA6ptC-GzDGP-jVg_s-eMg">The Echo News</a>, Taylor University’s student newspaper, Professor Jim Spiegel said that the university received a harassment complaint over the “Little Hitler” song on his YouTube channel after he shared it on his personal Facebook page. 
Although the Echo reported that Spiegel had performed the song on campus before without complaints, university officials informed him several days after posting it online that he needed to take it down. Spiegel says he refused and was subsequently fired. 
In an email to faculty members on September 1, Taylor administration officials reportedly detailed the situation, writing: “Just as we as individuals are all called to seek restoration of damaged relationships, the biblical principles embodied in Taylor’s Life Together Covenant compel us to do the same corporately within the University.”
“That process was followed, engaging faculty leadership, the academic department, and the administration seeking to restore what was damaged. In this case restoration was not possible,” said the email, reports Echo News. 
Spiegel explained his reasoning for writing the song when he uploaded it on Youtube back in mid-August: “Many years ago, while hiking in Colorado Springs, I came across a group of campers where a folk singer was singing song after song which exalted human nature in the most grandiose terms.  I was struck by how the singer and his songs did not recognize that humans have a fundamental moral problem, what theologians call a ‘sin nature.’  It was in response to this that I wrote ‘Little Hitler’ — as a theological corrective to such unabashed (and dangerous) humanism. In this video I perform the song with the same corny exuberance that that folk singer displayed.”
An excerpt of the lyrics includes: 
<blockquote>There’s a little Hitler inside of you
There’s a little Hitler inside of me
There’s a brutal killer within everyone
The hatred grows inside us naturally
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We’re appalled at injustice and oppression, 
And every atrocity that makes the nightly news, 
But just give it a thought, if you knew you’d never get caught,
You’d be thieving and raping and murdering too</blockquote>
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/04/christian-college-fires-professor-for-warning-against-hate/?fbclid=IwAR0rraVCVV46a1R7UsPymrpXrkL6ENCd9Sw4GEA6ptC-GzDGP-jVg_s-eMg">New York Post</a>, Spiegel has previously had politics-related disagreements with university officials unrelated to his academic work. For example, the Post reported that in 2018, Spiegel pseudonymously helped launch an anti-Marxist newsletter with two other professors, and in 2019, was part of an effort to prevent Starbucks from coming to the university campus. 
In the faculty email earlier this month, the university officials denied politics played a role in the decision, reported The Echo News. 
“Some may see this through a political or ideological &#8216;left-right/liberal-conservative&#8217; lens,” wrote the officials. “In the world today that is an ever more common way to view a decision-making process. Taylor is not a political enterprise, nor was this an effort to silence disagreements with the University and/or its leadership.” 
The Post reported that Spiegel holds &#8220;no ill-will towards anyone&#8221; over the situation and he and his family &#8220;wish only the best for the Taylor community.&#8221;
You can watch Spiegel&#8217;s YouTube video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTk5eB-ZN7U">here</a>.
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Report: Tenured Professor Fired From Christian University Over ‘Little Hitler’ Song Warning Of Hatred, Sin

Cancel culture

A tenured professor of religion and philosophy at Taylor University has reportedly been fired for refusing to delete a song from YouTube called “Little

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Those who teach foreign languages to English-speaking students, especially American students, will have to be careful what words they teach from now on, lest a foreign-language word sound like an offensive English word.
At the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, communications professor Greg Patton recently gave an online class in which he explained a filler word in Chinese meaning “that.” Patton explained to his class that the filler word, “nega,” is akin to saying “um” or “like” in English.
Patton repeated the word a few times and then said it was like them saying “that, that, that.” Despite the clear explanation and context, some students were apparently offended by the Chinese word. These were business school students, so one has to wonder what would have happened had they been in a meeting with Chinese businessmen and heard the word without an advance explanation from Patton.
Campus Reform has video of the professor’s lecture and <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=15580">reported</a> that Patton is no longer teaching the course.
“Recently, a USC faculty member during class used a Chinese word that sounds similar to a racial slur in English. We acknowledge the historical, cultural and harmful impact of racist language,” USC said in a statement.
Another instructor is currently teaching the class as Patton “agreed to take a short term pause while we are reviewing to better understand the situation and to take any appropriate next steps,” the school’s statement added.
In addition to Patton no longer teaching the class, at least for now, USC is also “offering supportive measures to any student, faculty, or staff member who requests assistance.” In the statement to students, the school said that it was “committed to building a culture of respect and dignity where all members of our community can feel safe, supported, and can thrive.”
University and college professors are increasingly under attack from students who claim to be offended by what they teach and whether or not they are sufficiently accommodating to students who claim to be affected by racial injustice.
As The Daily Wire reported in June, students at the University of California-Los Angeles wanted two professors fired for doing their jobs.
Gordon Klein, an accounting professor, received an email from a group of students requesting the professor allow for a “‘no-harm’ final exam that could only benefit students’ grades, and for shortened exams and extended deadlines for final assignments and projects,” Inside Higher Ed <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/06/04/professor-resigns-after-criticizing-protesters-and-another-faces-calls-his">reported</a>. The students requested all of these accommodations due to recent “traumas, we have been placed in a position where we much choose between actively supporting our black classmates or focusing on finishing up our spring quarter.”
Klein responded with a sarcastic email.
“Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,” Klein wrote back to the students.
“Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?” he asked them. “How can I identify them since we’ve been having online classes only?”
Klein went on to ask about students who “may be of mixed parentage, such as half black-half Asian?”
“What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?” he asked.
Another UCLA professor, political science lecturer W. Ajax Peris, received calls for his resignation because he read aloud MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” which included the n-word. As The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/09/ucla-students-demand-two-professors-be-fired-for-doing-their-job/">reported</a>, students “hearing a white lecturer read the n-word from a letter written by a jailed civil rights leader and watching lynching imagery made them feel so ‘uncomfortable,’ they asked Peris to stop.” He apologized for causing “discomfort,” but continued teaching. UCLA’s Political Science Department condemned Peris for failing to “meet the students’ needs” and referred him for a discrimination investigation.
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USC Professor Taken Out Of Classroom After Using Chinese Filler Word That Sounds Like English Racial Slur

California

language

Those who teach foreign languages to English-speaking students, especially American students, will have to be careful what words they teach from now on,

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Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism. Both operate under the assumption that one race is superior to another. It involves the practice of treating a person or group of people differently based on their race. Negroes, as we proudly called ourselves back then, were denied entry to hotels, restaurants and other establishments all over the nation, including the north. Certain jobs were entirely off-limits to Negroes. What school a child attended was determined by his race. In motion pictures, Negroes were portrayed as being unintelligent, such as the roles played by Stepin Fetchit and Mantan Moreland in the Charlie Chan movies. Fortunately, those aspects of racism are a part of our history. By the way, Fetchit, whose real name was Lincoln Perry, was the first black actor to become a millionaire, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and, in 1976, the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP awarded Perry a Special NAACP Image Award.
Despite the nation&#8217;s great achievements in race relations, there remains institutional racism, namely the widespread practice of treating a person or group of people differently based on their race. Most institutional racism is practiced by the nation&#8217;s institutions of higher learning. Eric Dreiband, an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, recently wrote that Yale University &#8220;grants substantial, and often determinative, preferences based on race.&#8221; The four-page letter said, &#8220;Yale&#8217;s race discrimination imposes undue and unlawful penalties on racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular Asian American and White applicants.&#8221;
Yale University is by no means alone in the practice of institutional racism. Last year, Asian students brought a discrimination lawsuit against Harvard University and lost. The judge held that the plaintiffs could not prove that the lower personal ratings assigned to Asian applicants are the result of &#8220;animus&#8221; or ill-motivated racial hostility towards Asian Americans by Harvard admissions officials. However, no one offered an explanation as to why Asian American applicants were deemed to have, on average, poorer personal qualities than white applicants. An explanation may be that Asian students party less, study more and get higher test scores than white students.
In court filings, Students for Fair Admissions argued that the University of North Carolina&#8217;s admissions practices are unconstitutional. Their brief stated: &#8220;UNC&#8217;s use of race is the opposite of individualized; UNC uses race mechanically to ensure the admission of the vast majority of underrepresented minorities.&#8221; Edward Blum, president of Students for Fair Admissions, said in a news release that the court filing &#8220;exposes the startling magnitude of the University of North Carolina&#8217;s racial preferences.&#8221; Blum said that their filing contains statistical evidence that shows that an Asian American male applicant from North Carolina with a 25% chance of getting into UNC would see his acceptance probability increase to about 67% if he were Latino and to more than 90% if he were African American.
In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative) that read: &#8220;The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.&#8221; California legislators voted earlier this summer to put the question to voters to repeal the state&#8217;s ban on the use of race as a criterion in the hiring, awarding public contracts and admissions to public universities and restore the practice of institutional racism under the euphemistic title &#8220;affirmative action.&#8221;
When social justice warriors use the terms &#8220;institutional racism&#8221; or &#8220;systemic racism,&#8221; I suspect it means that they cannot identify the actual person or entities engaged in the practice. However, most of what might be called institutional or systemic racism is practiced by the nation&#8217;s institutions of higher learning. And it is seen by many, particularly the intellectual elite, as a desirable form of determining who gets what.
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: Institutional Racism

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Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through

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Earlier this summer, Sonya Forte Duhé was preparing to start her new job at Arizona State University as dean of the school’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, but a tweet suggesting some cops were “good” and alleged microaggressions she made in her previous position, caused her to lose her job offer.
She’s now suing her previous employer, Loyola University New Orleans for refusing to let her return to her position as director of the School of Communication and Design, The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lawsuit-university-used-false-and-defamatory-accusations-to-get-rid-of-tenured-professor/">reported</a>, alleging the school has no “cause” to keep her from returning to her previous position.
“The five-page complaint implies that Loyola is using ‘false and defamatory accusations’ to violate her contract, which remains in force because Loyola allegedly never ‘accepted’ her resignation,” the Fix reported.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-rescinds-job-offer-from-incoming-journalism-dean-for-calling-some-cops-good-and-alleged-microaggressions">reported</a>, Duhé came under fire after posting a now-deleted tweet that said, “for the family of George Floyd, the good police officers who keep us safe, my students, faculty and staff. Praying for peace on this #BlackOutTuesday.” This opened the floodgates for students to complain about her alleged behavior:
<blockquote>One former student, Whitney Woods, responded to Duhé’s tweet by claiming there was “no way in hell that black lives matter to you.” Woods added, “You are one of, if not, THE most racist human that I have ever encountered in a professional setting.” Woods <a href="https://www.statepress.com/article/2020/06/spcommunity-incoming-cronkite-dean-has-alleged-history-of-racist-homophobic-comments-toward-students">told</a> The State Press that Duhé openly liked conservative news outlets and allegedly told Woods that her hair was messy but she didn’t know the student was black because she didn’t act black.
“Not once was she, or did I ever feel like, she was a genuine POC ally,” Woods told the outlet. “She never advocated for any students of color, not a single one. She never took any of them under her wing. She never mentored them. And to have her be a dean of students in our current climate in 2020 would be a disservice to their education.”
Another student, Andrew Ketcham, who didn’t complete his degree at Duhé’s former employer, Loyola University New Orleans, because he lost his grant, claimed Duhé criticized his voice, implying it was because he was gay. “I’ll never forget her advice to me that my voice was too theatrical and that I should stick with print,” Ketcham told the Press. Ketcham also said he remembered Woods telling people about what she claimed Duhé said about her appearance.
Edward Wroten, another student, claimed Duhé would compare black and white students and suggest students of color change their looks and the way they spoke.
Zinsule Bonner told the outlet that her friend, Wroten, didn’t feel he could be himself around Duhé and that the professor would yell and make inappropriate coments. Bonner alleged that Duhé told a student to have their mole removed for television and black students not to have “natural hair.”
Hannah Gomez Farias told the outlet that she failed a presentation in Duhé’s class for not being presentable enough. Gomez Farias claimed Duhé said she “was too tan,” and didn’t wear makeup for the presentation, saying that if your hair wasn’t straight you would lose points in Duhé’s class.</blockquote>
Twenty-three students complained to the media about Duhé’s alleged behavior. In 2019, a student actually lodged a bias complaint against her with Loyola, though it is unclear what happened, as the university only reported that “appropriate action had been taken.” Duhé defended herself at the time by saying to “accuse me of telling students of African American descent that I said to have their hair not natural is just ludicrous.”
“I do expect students to follow all professional standards of the news industry,” Duhé wrote in the report, according to the Press. “I do require my students to have professional photographs on their digital portfolios which includes appropriate attire and grooming. That is the professional standard of the news industry and one I adhere to as a journalism professor who has years of experience in the television news industry and a standard I uphold as director of our school.”
Loyola President Tania Tetlow previously apologized for the “deep pain” some students said they felt due to Duhé, but suggested she may have been trying to give practical advice, even if the delivery was poor.
As the Fix reported, Loyola hasn’t given a practical reason for not allowing Duhé to return to her position, and Duhé’s lawsuit does not explain why she is being refused her old job.
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Professor Sues University After Refusal To Reinstate Her After Accusations Of ‘Microaggressions’

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Earlier this summer, Sonya Forte Duhé was preparing to start her new job at Arizona State University as dean of the school’s Walter Cronkite School of

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Andrew Koppelman, a Northwestern University law professor, recently published two articles, each one about a professor under fire for his classroom speech. But he treats the two professors vastly different, illustrating the double standard that is far too prevalent in today’s free speech debates. He, like too many, says: I support free speech, unless I disagree with you.
Koppelman’s Aug. 12 blog post defended Stanford Law Professor Michael McConnell, who read a historical quotation to his constitutional law class that included the “n” word. Numerous faculty and students condemned him, and some called for him to be punished.
Why does Koppelman vigorously <a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2020/08/michael-mcconnell-and-n-word.html">defend</a> McConnell? Because he employs a similar teaching methodology. Like McConnell, he also delves into America’s history of slavery and racism in his constitutional law class. He requires his students to read decisions like Plessy v. Ferguson, which defended racial segregation, and other “awful, racist stuff, blandly clothed in the dry language of legal argumentation.” He then invites them to attack the courts’ reasoning. He believes that every lawyer must develop the ability to anticipate the arguments of the other side and respond to them. His philosophy is: “If you can’t read or hear stuff that enrages you, don’t be a lawyer.”
Koppelman acknowledges some faculty and students disagree with his philosophy. He admits he could be the next victim of an outrage campaign. He understands how easily students could accuse him of being “insensitive,” “showing a lack of respect,” and being “complicit in systemic racism.” They could insist he “need[s] to be held accountable” because his “lack of sensitivity has needlessly harmed [his] students.”
But Koppelman rightly rejects these risks because “this informal norm-setting, enforced by ad hoc groups of students, creates massive uncertainty about where the line is drawn.” This “ethic can and sometimes does degenerate into crude virtue signaling and mob justice,” which is “in some ways worse than administrative censorship, because it is decentralized and unpredictable, the censorship of all against all.” This thinking “damages education whenever it happens” because it “creates an atmosphere of intimidation in which the free exchange of ideas is impossible.”
But when assessing speech he dislikes, a very different and dismissive Koppelman emerges. Five days after defending McConnell, he derided Dr. Nicholas Meriwether, a long-time philosophy professor at Shawnee State University who is involved in a free-speech <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/512306-free-speech-gone-wild-the-meriwether-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/512306-free-speech-gone-wild-the-meriwether-case&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1598573322095000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGidjRg8gZbVtB-vcoSv1U10C_6BQ">lawsuit</a>.
In 2018, a male student in Meriwether’s class demanded to be referred to as a woman. Meriwether politely declined but sought to accommodate the student by simply using the student’s last name and avoiding pronouns for this student. The university and student rejected this reasonable compromise. Instead, the university demanded that Meriwether either refer to this student as female, or refer to every student solely by name and stop using any pronouns at all — for every student, both on and off campus. Meriwether respectfully declined because both options required him to endorse philosophies he believes are false, and the latter is impossible and every slip would lead to more punishment.
Meanwhile, the student remained in Meriwether’s class and earned a high grade. Ignoring this, university officials formally reprimanded him. To them, by using standard English, Meriwether discriminated and created a hostile environment. They warned him that if he continued, he would face more punishment. After they denied his grievance, Meriwether filed suit to protect his rights and prevent further punishment.
Unlike his robust defense of McConnell, Koppelman blithely dismisses Meriwether’s free speech rights as “silly stuff.” He ignores that, as with issues of race, there is a debate raging in academia and society about sex and gender identity. Gone are his (rightful) concerns that censoring one side of the debate will result in “informal norm-setting, enforced by ad hoc groups of students, creat[ing] massive uncertainty about where the line is drawn,” even though this is exactly what happens when universities allow students to force professors either to use certain terms or to purge certain terms from their vocabulary based on each student’s subjective offense.
By advocating for censoring Meriwether, Koppelman seeks to deny Meriwether’s students the opportunity to learn about and respond to philosophical ideas they disagree with. This would disserve these students and deprive them of one of the hallmarks of higher education.
Don’t just take my word for it. Listen to Meriwether’s former students. One wrote:
“I’m a queer person. Your personal convictions could not be any further from mine. It doesn’t matter, though. I respect you, and I respect the ideas that you bring to the table of the marketplace of ideas. You made me think. That’s hard to come by these days.”
Another, a self-described atheist, wrote:
“Insulating students from intellectual scrutiny in the name of avoiding offense would be doing them a disservice. You and I saw eye-to-eye on very little and that made those arguments all the more valuable to me. . . . I hope that more people can [rein] in their emotions and see the benefit in having their ideas stress-tested by an earnest lover of wisdom.”
These students powerfully express why I and my colleagues at Alliance Defending Freedom are representing Meriwether and why everyone should cheer him on as <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/meriwether-v-trustees-shawnee-state-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://adflegal.org/case/meriwether-v-trustees-shawnee-state-university&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1598573322096000&amp;usg=AFQjCNESOjG-k1TDnf5m6sRtP25Sdey3xQ">he defends free speech</a>: to ensure that public universities remain a marketplace of ideas, not an assembly line for one type of thought.
Tyson Langhofer is senior counsel for <a href="https://adflegal.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://adflegal.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1598573322096000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-pyBFz6qVMaLgle6hmrgM4qdxCA">Alliance Defending Freedom</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/AllianceDefends" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/AllianceDefends&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1598573322096000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElfPBNhTHsUUWnwLfDe-xFA1XkJw">@AllianceDefends</a>) and director of its Center for Academic Freedom, which represents Dr. Nicholas Meriwether.
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LANGHOFER: Free Speech On Campus: A Tale of Two Professors

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Andrew Koppelman, a Northwestern University law professor, recently published two articles, each one about a professor under fire for his classroom

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Some public schools are considering revamping their history curriculum after a study from the EdWeek Research Center found that more than 80% of teachers support the Black Lives Matter movement.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8650877/U-S-schools-revamp-curricula-response-Black-Lives-Matter.html">The Daily Mail reports</a> that educators are looking to institute a new history curriculum with a greater focus on &#8220;black history and experiences&#8221; and which recasts the story of the United States to better showcase progressive movements against oppression.
EdWeek&#8217;s survey, taken just after George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, and just as the national anti-police brutality and anti-racism movement was ramping up, &#8220;found that 81 percent of US teachers support Black Lives Matter&#8221; according to The Daily Mail.
The sea change in how Americans view racial justice is, the outlet found, bleeding into decisions about curriculum. Several school districts around the country are considering major changes to their history education and others are looking to supplement history curriculum with outside resources that better showcase the decades-long civil rights battle.
“We can’t control what happens with the police, but we can control what happens in our school systems,” Michael McFarland, head of the National Alliance of Black School Educators and the superintendent of a school district in Texas, told the outlet.
&#8220;We’re not just talking about a couple of lesson changes,” another curriculum activist noted. “We’re getting to the quintessential work of trying to put race, equity, and inclusion inside of our curriculum.”
Even the National School Boards Association is getting in on the act, providing schools with instructions on how to alter curriculum to handle social justice needs.
&#8220;They’re making sure teachers are teaching the right history in their classrooms,&#8221; the organization&#8217;s executive director told the Daily Mail.
The call to change how history is taught in schools is not new, but as students return to school &#8212; virtually or otherwise &#8212; curriculum decisions have moved to the forefront, buoyed by a series of prominent stories involving lawmakers looking to make their own changes to how students are taught about racial justice.
In early August, <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-leaders-call-for-illinois-to-eliminate-history-classes/2315752/">CBS Chicago reported</a> that one Illinois lawmaker was proposing a radical change to history curriculum in that state: eliminating most traditional history education altogether.
“I’m calling on the Illinois State Board of Education and local school districts to take immediate action by removing current history books and curriculum practices that unfairly communicate our history,” Democratic state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford said in a press conference. “Until a suitable alternative is developed, we should instead devote greater attention toward civics and ensuring students understand our democratic processes and how they can be involved.&#8221;
School districts in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., are reportedly considering incorporating elements of the &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; into their curriculums, <a href="https://reason.com/2020/01/28/1619-project-new-york-times-public-schools/">according to Reason Magazine</a>, supplementing traditional materials with The New York Times essay series which claims, controversially, &#8220;that the institution of slavery was so embedded in the country&#8217;s DNA that the country&#8217;s true founding could be said to have occurred in 1619, rather than in 1776.&#8221;
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill in Congress earlier this year to prohibit schools from teaching the 1619 project.
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REPORT: Public Schools ‘Revamping’ History Curriculum After Study Finds Vast Majority Of Teachers Support BLM

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Some public schools are considering revamping their history curriculum after a study from the EdWeek Research Center found that more than 80% of teachers

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A group of California parents has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to challenge Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s one-size-fits-all approach to reopening schools in counties being monitored for coronavirus progress.
The parents, coordinating with the Dhillon Law Group, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/26/under-gov-newsoms-rules-school-has-become-netflix-and-disney-plus-parents-are-taking-legal-action/">told</a> The Federalist (where I also have a byline) the struggles associated with getting their children an education when those students aren’t allowed to attend in-person classes. The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to an education, but the California Constitution does, according to The Federalist. But the type of education children are getting in 80% of California schools is not making parents feel secure.
More than 1,000 districts, which include 10,500 schools and about 6.1 million students, fall under the state monitoring list and are banned from in-person classes.
“A one-size-fits-all solution is not the correct approach,” one of the plaintiffs, a father in south Orange County, told The Federalist. “We really need to have these decisions at the district level because there are nearly 30 school districts in Orange County and they all have vastly different demographics, different population densities, different case numbers, and so for the governor to take this away from the local districts really doesn’t make sense.”
Another plaintiff, a registered Democrat and mother of a daughter starting transitional kindergarten, asked the outlet how Newsom “thinks he knows what’s best for more than 40 million people?”
“While Gov. Cuomo has made his share of mistakes dealing with the coronavirus, at least he recognizes that with a decision this important, there has to be meaningful input from the parents and local districts at the ground level,” she added.
The Orange County father, whose son finished kindergarten under coronavirus lockdown and is beginning first grade now, also said he and his wife were “really worried about the long-term, lifelong negative effects this might have on [our son] if schools remain closed.”
“It’s just going to be so difficult on him at such a young age because social skills are so important to develop at that age. And distance learning for a six-year-old is just nonsense,” he added.
Another father who is a plaintiff in the lawsuit spoke of the different hardships his son, who is entering his senior year of high school, faced.
“We don’t even know where to begin. Schools closed before he could take the SAT last spring,” the father said.
“We don’t even know what colleges we’re going to be looking at in the fall,” he continued. “It makes it very stressful as we’re trying to help him make decisions that will influence the rest of his life when there are no answers, and there isn’t even a timeline of when there will be answers.”
The father also has a younger daughter entering eighth grade who misses the social aspect of school.
“How do you have that connection with somebody who is on the other side of the monitor?” he said. “As a dad, you become her friend group as well.”
Yet another parent, a mother, said teachers weren’t even grading by the end of the previous school year.
“They just wanted the assignments turned in, so even if my son, who was so unmotivated like all the other seniors, turned it in like weeks later, it was still counted as 100 percent,” she said. “All the parents are talking about how their kids are unmotivated, sleeping the entire day, logging onto school around 3 or 4 [p.m.] when they woke up.”

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No Grading, No Socialization, No Structure; California Parents Sue Over Education Concerns Amid Coronavirus Lockdown

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A group of California parents has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to challenge Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s one-size-fits-all approach to reopening

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