Corporations have allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality</a> to destroy their brands because of pressure to follow woke environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) guidance coming from investment giants like BlackRock, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> said. 
Shapiro, a co-founder of The Daily Wire, said on his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1742-get-approved-for-testicle-removal-in-22-minutes-or-less-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thursday podcast</a> that brands like Bud Light engaged in seemingly self-destructive marketing because of woke policies being pushed from above. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-hit-bud-light-manufacturer-settles-with-epa-over-alleged-environmental-violations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial woes of Anheuser-Busch</a> beer brand Bud Light followed a disastrous partnership with transgender-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney. 
“And you wonder why brands decide to do this,” Shapiro said. “The answer, of course, as we&#8217;ve discussed, is because BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they all basically mandate their brands, engage in this sort of crap through environmental, social governance standards. And it&#8217;s only that which is forced corporations to engage in this sort of absolutely suicidal stupidity.&#8221;
Shapiro made the comments while discussing a new report that said that Bud Light sales had fallen 24% in the week ending on May 27, compared to the previous year. Sales of Bud Light have plummeted after it promoted a partnership with Mulvaney on April 1. The Mulvaney partnership earned the ire of many conservatives, many of who encouraged a boycott of the beer brand. 
“Bud Light had better reverse the decline soon if it hopes to retain shelf space at retailers, because if you walk into pretty much any grocery store in America that sells liquor, what you&#8217;ll see is that there&#8217;s a lot of Bud Light on the shelves,” Shapiro explained. “People just aren&#8217;t buying it. Meanwhile, Dylan Mulvaney is making bank.&#8221;
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Mulvaney has said in recent days that more corporations should partner with transgender-identifying individuals. 
&#8220;If a brand wants to work with me so bad, then they should work with other trans people, too. It&#8217;s not enough to just hire me, this white, skinny trans girl. I want all the dolls getting all the brand deals,” Mulvaney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-urges-more-brands-to-partner-with-trans-people-even-after-bud-light-debacle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the media outlet Them. 
Despite the Mulvaney backlash, Bud Light has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-to-sponsor-pride-parades-despite-ongoing-boycott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued to sponsor</a> Pride events around the country. 
Bud Light is <a href="https://archive.ph/6SSZF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as a sponsor on the <a href="https://www.cincinnatipride.org/our-sponsors.html">Cincinnati Pride Parade</a> website. Planned Parenthood and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which <a href="https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/service/a/adolescent-medicine/programs/transgender/faq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medically transitions minors</a>, are both also listed. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Missouri, where Anheuser-Busch is headquartered, the company is <a href="https://archive.ph/5xuUC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as the <a href="https://www.pridestl.org/sponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presenting sponsor</a> of the St. Louis Pride Parade.

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Ben Shapiro Explains Why Corporate Brands Let Themselves Be Ruined By Intersectionality

Ben Shapiro

BlackRock

Bud Light

Dylan Mulvaney

Intersectionality

Every now and again, I think it’s important for us to lay aside our anger at leftists and other human plagues and dispel any unkind fantasies we might have about latching our hands onto the front of their heads like the face-hugger in the movie &#8220;Alien&#8221; and then twisting sharply while shouting, “You called me a fascist? Well, how do you feel now that I’ve unscrewed the front of your head so I can inject some truth into what used to be your face until it bursts out of your stomach and grows into a monster that tears you to pieces with its teeth?”
I’m sorry, I forgot what I was talking about.
Oh yeah. It’s time for us to lay our anger at these pseudo-Americans aside and truly open our ears and our hearts so we can begin to understand whatever destructive crap they’re trying to sell us now.
For instance, many of you have written to me and asked: What is intersectionalism? Is it fatal? Can you catch it by having gay sex? What makes you think I’ve been having gay sex? Is it because I wear skinny jeans and sleeveless undershirts?
And yes, it was the undershirts that gave you away. But to help you better understand the leftist doctrine of intersectionalism, today I’d like to provide you with this handy Q and A.
Q: What is intersectionalism?
A: Intersectionalism is a highly scientific system in which the very best minds laboring day and night on the hamster wheel of self-delusion invent imaginary categories of victimhood and randomly use them to ruin people’s lives.
Q: What are examples of these victim categories and how does intersectionalism help them?
A: Well, for instance, let’s say you’re a fat, ugly little man who wears a dress, dyes your hair pink and puts metal studs in your cheeks while declaring your pronouns are Pooh Bear and Ding-dong and then you go on TikTok to talk about how you convince the children in your kindergarten class to judge each other by the color of their skin. Intersectionalism helps you to understand that you’re a victim of culturally created categories of sanity, and if you can only shriek at everyone else and call them bigots until they pretend you’re fine, you’ll no longer be as mentally ill as you obviously are.
Q: Will that make me feel better?
A: Of course not. You’re still a total loon. But through intersectionalism, you can become happier relative to everyone else, because you’ve made everyone else as totally miserable as you are yourself.
Q: What about people who have, in fact, been historically victimized — like black people?
A: Intersectionalism helps black people by explaining to them that they’re victims of bad things done by dead white people and so they have to either wait helplessly or act in self-destructive violence and anger until living white people feel guilty about bad things they didn&#8217;t do and give money to black people who didn’t experience those bad things but are black like the people who did.
Q: Well, then, shouldn’t black people feel guilty about violent crimes committed by other black people and give money to white people who didn’t experience those crimes?
A: No.
Q: Why not?
A: Huh?
Q: If we’re distributing guilt according to race, shouldn’t innocent black people be guilty for things done by criminal black people?
A: No, that would be racist. Then a group of Twitter bots with seven followers each would shriek ugly names at you until you apologized and then they wouldn’t accept your apology and your cowardly boss would fire you and your life would be ruined.
Q: And that’s helpful to black people?
A: No, you’re not listening. It’s helpful to intersectionalists, because it makes them feel they’re powerful and virtuous instead of the lying, stink-faced bullies they really are.
Q: Well, what about women? Are they a protected class?
 A: Absolutely. Sometimes. Or possibly never, it depends. Under intersectionalism, women are a protected class as long as they don’t actually exist. Non-existent women must be protected so they can experience the normal biological processes of getting drunk and having promiscuous sex, becoming pregnant and then having an abortion so they can spend the rest of their lives loudly celebrating killing their children to drown out their guilt and misery. However, if a woman should cease to be non-existent by claiming, for instance, that a man can’t be a woman because a woman is an actual thing that exists that isn&#8217;t them, then the woman becomes what is called a TERF, an acronym which stands for Stop Telling the Truth, It Upsets Mentally Ill People and Exposes Our Leftist Scam.
 Q: But that acronym can’t stand for that: that’s not reality and makes no sense.
 A: Exactly. Now you understand intersectionalism.
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Allow Me To Explain The Leftist Doctrine Of Intersectionalism

Andrew Klavan

Readers Pass

Satire

Beyoncé’s album “Renaissance,” released just three weeks ago, has already been through many iterations.
First, there was the “ableist slur” controversy. News about “Renaissance” was almost overshadowed by Beyoncé’s inclusion of one controversial word on “Heated.” This word was so bad that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/arts/music/beyonce-lyrics-heated-changed.html">major</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/02/beyonce-spaz-slur/">news</a> <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/beyonce-renaissance-lyrics-ableist-slur-removed.html">outlets</a> didn’t even include it in their headlines about the drama. The offending lyric? “Spazzin’ on that a**, spazz on that a**.” 
No, the legacy media hasn’t suddenly become concerned with sexual content in pop songs. The word in question was “spaz.” Disability rights advocates complained, and Beyoncé’s team swiftly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harmful-way-beyonce-says-shell-remove-lyric-from-album-following-backlash">issued</a> a statement saying, “​​The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.” (Ironically, this exact drama played out a couple of months ago with Lizzo, who also <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-language-police-are-after-lizzo">chose</a> to have a song rewritten after backlash over the same word.)
Controversy over, listeners could now enjoy the queen of pop’s new album free from problematic content. Just kidding. “Renaissance” is full of music samples, brimming with the influence of “queer” and transgender artists, much to the excitement of <a href="https://ew.com/music/beyonce-renaissance-tribute-to-black-queer-culture-ball-scene/">entertainment writers</a>. But when Beyoncé indirectly referenced Kelis’ hit song “Milkshake” on “Energy,” the singer complained.
As BBC reports, both songs were <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62405039">updated</a> on streaming services to remove their respective offenses “just five days after ‘Renaissance’ was released.”
Given Beyoncé’s apparent flexibility with her own music, it’s no surprise that yet another person went looking for a lyric change. This time, it was Monica Lewinsky. 
Tweeting out an article about the “spaz” controversy, Lewinsky <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/1554129582755721216">wrote</a>, “uhmm, while we’re at it… #Partition.”
In Beyoncé’s song “Partition” (yes, the one from 2013), the singer crudely references former President Bill Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky, saying, “He Monica Lewinski&#8217;d all on my gown.” A year later, Lewinsky objected to the lyric in an article for Vanity Fair, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks">writing</a>, “Thanks, Beyoncé, but if we’re verbing, I think you meant ‘Bill Clinton’d all on my gown,’ not ‘Monica Lewinsky’d.’”
But that was the early 2010s, an age in which artists weren’t cowed by Cancel Culture into changing their music every time someone got offended, rightly or not. (Now, thanks to internet culture and the explosion of streaming over CDs, it’s easier than ever to quietly acquiesce, edit, and pretend the drama never happened.)
Nearly a decade after “Partition” came out, Lewinsky is now hoping to get the lyric change she wants, and why shouldn’t she? It’s almost too easy to act as a censor these days.
But Beyoncé, Lizzo, and other artists who change their lyrics at the behest of their fans have put themselves in a difficult position. Whether they meant to or not, they are now in the business of explicitly choosing winners and losers in their lyrics. Certain people or groups are allowed to complain and be listened to. Others just have to suck it up.
It was always the case that you could complain about song lyrics. Only recently has it been so easy for your complaint to be heard, accepted, and used to implement an accommodation to your preference within a matter of days.
And there are plenty more lyrics on “Renaissance” to which listeners might object. After bragging about “votin&#8217; out forty-five” on “Energy,” the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-news-blog/2012/dec/21/beyonce-jamie-foxx-antigun-campaign">gun-control advocate</a> sings, “I just entered the country with Derringers / &#8216;Cause them Karens just turned into terrorists.” Where are the protests about gun control? For that matter, where are the protests from Karens?
If Beyoncé (or her team, who’s really in charge of responding to these silly outrages) were to address Lewinsky’s tweet, the singer could argue that the statute of limitations has expired. It’s been nearly a decade, for goodness’ sake. You have exactly five days to stir up a Twitter mob about your personal grievance, and after that, you’re done!
But as woke culture’s Overton window swiftly shifts — even “woman” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bette-midler-gets-attacked-as-a-terf-after-saying-women-are-being-erased-due-to-terms-like-birthing-people-people-with-vaginas">isn’t an acceptable word</a> anymore when “birthing people” will do — who knows what will become problematic years, even months, down the line. After all, once a punchline, Lewinsky has become widely recognized as a <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/11/15/18095050/monica-lewinsky-clinton-affair-tv-series-interview">potential #MeToo victim</a>. It’s not very intersectional for <a href="https://time.com/3181644/beyonce-reclaim-feminism-pop-star/">noted feminist</a> Beyoncé to poke fun at Lewinsky.
The underlying irony in all of this comes from the title of Beyoncé’s latest album: “Renaissance.” The word <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/renaissance">references</a> “a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity,” presumably one that includes a debate of ideas in which both sides present their arguments, not one in which one side complains of hurt feelings and the other side plays along out of fear.
Now that Beyoncé has changed her recent music — not even once, but twice — there’s no way listeners will let her get away with another “mistake.” Expect Beyoncé’s next album, and musical albums from other artists, to go through a few early iterations after their release until they’re appropriately sanitized.
Even then, not everyone will be happy. So if she wants to start choosing who has a legitimate right to victimhood, Beyoncé owes everyone an apology.

Fry – Beyonce Owes Everyone An Apology

Beyoncé Owes Everyone An Apology: How ‘Renaissance’ Opened A Pandora’s Box Of Victimhood

Beyonce

Bill Clinton

Cancel Culture

Monica Lewinsky

Music Industry

Each time <a href="https://www.voddiebaucham.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dr. Voddie T. Baucham</a> returned in recent years to visit his native United States from Zambia, where he lives and serves as the dean of theology at African Christian University, he further cemented his resolve to write a book.
During a recent interview with The Daily Wire, Baucham explained the unique insight he offers as a black pastor and theologian who now views the country from the outside after having been raised in an American inner city.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve come back three or four times a year for speaking tours and it&#8217;s always interesting to be an American expat looking back at the U.S.,&#8221; Baucham said. Each time he came back, he explained, he could &#8220;sense the temperature change&#8221; around flashpoint issues such as social justice, Critical Race Theory (CRT), Intersectionality, and antiracism.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fault-Lines-Movement-Evangelicalisms-Catastrophe/dp/1684511801/ref=zg_bs_12360_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=561A04K7Z3RA3YT44182" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism&#8217;s Looming Catastrophe</a>&#8221; is the new book that emerged from Baucham&#8217;s years of studying and reflecting on such ideologies, which he believes are new fronts in a spiritual war that is fracturing both evangelicalism and the nation.
&#8220;I think that&#8217;s one of the reasons that I just became so keenly aware and so passionate about writing this book, because it was really noticeable to me that things were shifting quickly and deteriorating quickly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m watching families be divided, churches be divided, institutions and schools and denominations be divided over this thing. Being an expat coming back and seeing that, it was just alarming to me.&#8221;
&#8220;A Black Christian&#8221;
Born 1969 in Los Angeles, Baucham was raised by a single teenage mother, whose many sacrifices he credits with his survival. He spends the first part of the book recounting his formative years, which took place during an especially tumultuous time for the black community. He remembers well the era of desegregation busing and the ravages of the crack epidemic.
In a struggle he describes in a chapter titled &#8220;A Black Christian,&#8221; Baucham wrestled for some time with the challenge of whether to find his identity primarily in his race or his faith after he converted to Christianity during his freshman year of college.
&#8220;The question of the proper order of faith and ethnicity is critical to understanding the various positions people take in the broader social-justice debate — one with which all people must wrestle, regardless of their ethnicity,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;However, for black Christians, this concept has often been difficult to embrace for several reasons.&#8221;
As a young man, Baucham had been drawn to the Black Nationalist ideas of Malcolm X, who &#8220;denounced Christianity as a religion designed for slaves.&#8221; When he became a Christian, he found he had to renounce such a worldview, but it gave him unique discernment into the nature of CRT and other ideologies that seek to politically weaponize race and undermine faith.
&#8220;A Religion Without Grace&#8221;
Baucham dissects over several chapters how CRT and the social justice movement twist traditional religious categories into a means by which to assert power. Characterizing the battles facing the U.S. as fundamentally spiritual, he deftly traces such philosophies to their origin in what he describes as the &#8220;demonic ideology&#8221; of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, and their neo-Marxist successors in the Frankfurt School.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-national-review-karl-marx-you-were-wrong-ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shapiro At ‘National Review’: Karl Marx, You Were Wrong</a>
&#8220;This talk of antiracism and this talk of critical social justice is very much religious in its overtones,&#8221; he said, explaining how it &#8220;borrows from the Judeo-Christian worldview in terms of the words that it uses.&#8221; With its emphasis on slavery and reparations, he pointed out, the so-called antiracism of Ibram X. Kendi, for example, is replete with notions of original sin and atonement.
&#8220;But more specifically, this religion has its own cosmology, its own understanding of the way the world came to be. This religion has its own theology and theological terminology. It has its own saints, its own priests, it has its own rituals. And it has a dogged commitment to its ideology and its theology and a punitive approach to those who step out of line,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;So it&#8217;s a religion, but as a religion, it offers no hope. There is no ultimate redemption in antiracism. You just have to do the work of antiracism for the rest of your life and hope you never step out of line, because if you do, then you go back to zero.&#8221;
In a recent <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/15/why-antiracism-zealots-try-to-silence-black-voices-like-mine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">op-ed</a> for the New York Post, he put it another way: &#8220;a religion without grace.&#8221;
As someone who traces his ancestry to slaves in North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, and Texas, Baucham himself had to personally come to terms with what he believes is the only answer to historic injustice. &#8220;The most powerful weapon in our arsenal is not calling for reparations: it is forgiveness,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Antiracism knows nothing of forgiveness because it knows nothing of the Gospel. Instead, antiracism offers endless penance, judgment, and fear.&#8221;
&#8220;This Present Darkness&#8221;
Because it has the trappings of Christianity, Baucham believes many Christians have &#8220;fallen prey&#8221; to the social justice movement. &#8220;What Christian does not want to be for justice, right? What Christian does not want to empathize with people if they are oppressed? What Christian doesn&#8217;t want unity and reconciliation and everything else? So I think there&#8217;s a sinister aspect to the religious nature of this movement in that it&#8217;s those religious terms and that religious ideology that it tapped into that has really led people astray.&#8221;
Apart from what it co-opts from Christianity, Baucham also discerns a darker element in the rites of these pseudo-religious ideologies and the movements that spring from them, such as BLM. Referencing the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A12&amp;version=ESV" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">verse</a> in Ephesians that teaches mankind contends with invisible forces of evil, Baucham writes in his concluding pages: &#8220;I see Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Critical Social Justice, and their antecedents — Marxism, Conflict Theory, and Critical Theory — as &#8216;cosmic powers over this present darkness.’”
&#8220;The organization is Marxist, revolutionary, feminist, misandrous, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-abortion, and anti-family, with <a href="https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/the-occult-spirituality-of-black-lives-matter?mc_cid=8b7e6b9b67&amp;mc_eid=1782d9211a&amp;fbclid=IwAR0WXYASyiCvki5VVyEJjF1AxTaY0R-PPvsyHNqV-tgPnvtXxWzliIzr6Fw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">roots in the occult</a>,&#8221; Bachaum writes of BLM. &#8220;It is unacceptable for Christians to partner with, celebrate, identify with or promote this organization.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-just-cant-get-on-board-sf-giants-player-cites-christian-faith-as-reason-for-refusing-to-kneel-for-blm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘I Just Can’t Get On Board’: SF Giants Player Cites Christian Faith As Reason For Refusing To Kneel For BLM</a>
He notes how, in addition to being self-described &#8220;trained Marxists,&#8221; Patrisse Cullors and her BLM co-founders are also open practitioners of witchcraft, whose rituals to invoke the dead feature prominently in the organization&#8217;s protests for slain people of color.
“In my tradition, you offer things that your loved ones who have passed away would want,&#8221; Cullors <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NHQ3uyIngM&amp;t=1828s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> during an interview with Los Angeles BLM chapter founder Dr. Melina Abdullah. &#8220;Whether it’s like honey or tobacco, things like that. It&#8217;s so important, not just for us, to be in direct relationship with our people who have passed, but also for them to know we&#8217;ve remembered them.&#8221;
“Hashtags for us are way more than a hashtag,&#8221; Cullors said of social media protests. &#8220;It is literally almost resurrecting a spirit so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done.&#8221;
&#8220;This movement is much more than a racial and social justice movement,&#8221; Abdullah added. &#8220;At its core it’s a spiritual movement.&#8221;
&#8220;People Are Beginning To Wake Up&#8221;
Baucham&#8217;s cultural and spiritual diagnosis is sober, but he remains hopeful. &#8220;I was worried for a while that we&#8217;re moving toward a race war,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see that now. I see a pushback against Critical Race Theory and some of these other things, and so I&#8217;m excited about that. The other thing is, I feel like this is running out of steam. There&#8217;s only so much guilt and self-flagellation that people can go through before they finally say, &#8216;You know what, I&#8217;m tired.&#8217; I think we&#8217;re at that point now.&#8221;
&#8220;Also, the emperor has no clothes and there are people out there who are screaming that from the rooftops. I&#8217;m trying to do that in my book to basically say, &#8216;Listen, this ideology is bankrupt.&#8217; I&#8217;m hopeful that people are beginning to wake up and become aware. I think we&#8217;re beginning to turn a corner, but there&#8217;s a lot of damage that&#8217;s been done. And there are a lot of people who are still entrenched in this, because ultimately this is about power.&#8221;
Explaining how the neo-Marxists shifted Marx&#8217;s idea of economic class conflict to apply instead to &#8220;an oppressor class&#8221; and &#8220;an oppressed class,&#8221; Baucham said, &#8220;The whole idea of Critical Theory is that you assume those categories and then work your way toward this revolutionary overthrow of the oppressor by the oppressed. So that&#8217;s still there and there are a number of people who are committed to it, mainly because of the power that it gives them. And people will ride that all the way to positions in Fortune 500 companies, or positions in the government, or whatever else is available to them.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cashing-in-blm-co-founder-goes-on-real-estate-buying-binge-snagging-four-homes-totaling-millions-of-dollars-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cashing In: BLM Co-Founder Goes On ‘Real-Estate Buying Binge,’ Snagging Four Homes Totalling Millions Of Dollars: Report</a>
&#8220;So there are those people who are going to hold onto it for dear life,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But I&#8217;m hopeful because people&#8217;s eyes are opening.&#8221;
Regarding what the average person can do to push back against this ideology, Baucham stressed the importance of knowledge and courage. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be informed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think a lot of people have just decided to curl up and not engage this because they haven&#8217;t been informed.&#8221; He hopes his book will be useful to that end.
&#8220;And then secondly, when you&#8217;re informed, be engaged,&#8221; Baucham continued, adding how much of the ideology has advanced through bully tactics. &#8220;We have to engage and we&#8217;ve got to refuse to be bullied. We&#8217;ve got to refuse to be silenced on this.&#8221;
&#8220;And then, when we engage, we have to engage in a way that we&#8217;re exposing this ideology for what it is,&#8221; he added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/big-media-aligns-to-bend-largest-protestant-denomination-to-its-woke-will" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Big Media Aligns To Bend Largest Protestant Denomination To Its Woke Will</a>

‘This Is About Power’: Black Theologian Exposes The ‘Demonic Ideology’ Behind Critical Race Theory, BLM

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Books

Christianity

Critical Race Theory

Marxism

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A new report from the U.S. Navy on inclusion and diversity includes a pledge for members of a new task force to &#8220;advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy.&#8221;
The task force, dubbed Task Force One Navy (TF1N), was <a href="https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/2298130/task-force-one-navy-established-to-combat-discrimination-in-the-navy/">announced</a> in June 2020, to &#8220;analyze and evaluate issues in our society and military that detract from Navy readiness, such as racism, sexism and other structural and interpersonal biases to attain significant, sustainable [inclusion and diversity]-related reform.&#8221;
The timing of the creation of the task force coincides with the protests and riots that broke out following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The report appears to reference those events, stating that it was &#8220;founded during a time of national crisis.&#8221;
The <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/26/2002570959/-1/-1/1/TASK%20FORCE%20ONE%20NAVY%20FINAL%20REPORT.PDF">report</a> includes the following pledge for members of the TF1N members:
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<li>As a key member of Task Force One Navy I will invest the time, attention and empathy required to analyze and evaluate Navywide issues related to racism, sexism, ableism and other structural and interpersonal biases.</li>
<li>I pledge to be actively inclusive in the public and private spheres where I live and work, and proactively encourage others to do the same.</li>
<li>I pledge to advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences and intersectional identities of every Sailor in the Navy.</li>
<li>I pledge to engage in ongoing self-reflection, education and knowledge sharing to better myself and my communities.</li>
<li>I pledge to be an example in establishing healthy, inclusive and team-oriented environments.</li>
<li>I pledge to constructively share all experiences and information gained from activities above to inform the development of Navywide reforms.</li>
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&#8220;Our nation of over 330 million individuals is made up of a multitude of races, ethnicities, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;And we value them all. Why? Because that’s what right looks like, and that’s what we teach our young people.&#8221;
&#8220;In our Navy, like society, I&amp;D must never become an afterthought. It’s true to who we are,&#8221; the report adds. &#8220;With all of our ills, injustices, and sometimes broken promises. We will still rise and stand shoulder-to-shoulder against any foe, knowing we will win. We will win because of our shared beliefs and common ideas – an oath to protect and defend the constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic.&#8221;
In a statement from earlier this month, the U.S. Navy said that their Culture of Excellence (COE) Governance Board was evaluating how to best implement the nearly 60 recommendations included in the report.
“As a Navy – uniform and civilian, active and reserve – we cannot tolerate discrimination of any kind, and must engage in open and honest conversations with each other and take action,&#8221; said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday.  &#8220;That is why we stood up ‘Task Force One Navy’ – to identify and remove racial barriers, improve inclusion efforts, create new opportunities for professional development, and eliminate obstacles to enter the Navy.”
“We have fallen short in the past by excluding or limiting opportunity for people on the basis of race, sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender or creed,” Gilday said. “Our Navy must continue to remove barriers to service, and most importantly, be a shining example of a workforce centered on respect, inclusive of all. Simply put, all Sailors – uniformed and civilian – and applicants for accession to the Navy must be treated with dignity and respect above all else.”

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At an elementary school in Cupertino, California, a teacher of third graders instructed them to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then create rankings based on their “power and privilege.” The project was met with backlash from parents.
The majority of families at the school are Asian-American, and the parent who led the protest against the intersectionality curriculum was Asian-American. The group of families confronted the principal, which ultimately caused the school to suspend the program, as Christopher Rufo <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/woke-elementary/">reported</a>.
One parent told Rufo, “We were shocked. They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old.” Another stated, “We think some of our school board members are [critical race theory] activists and they must go.”
While teaching a math lesson to students, the third grade teacher told them to create an “identity map.” The map was intended to delineate their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, among other features.
Rufo wrote, “The teacher explained that the students live in a ‘dominant culture’ of ‘white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian, English speaker[s],’ who, according to the lesson, ‘created and maintained’ this culture in order ‘to hold power and stay in power.’”
The teacher used a book titled “This Book Is Antiracist” to impart these lessons to the students: “Those with privilege have power over others,” it states. “Folx [folks] who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.” One passage stated “a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman.”
The students were asked to select their various identities so they could see where they ranked on a &#8220;power and privilege&#8221; hierarchy. They were additionally asked to write brief essays about what aspects of their identity groups gave them &#8220;power and privilege.&#8221; The teacher provided the third graders with an example paragraph that referenced nonbinary sexuality and transgenderism, Rufo notes.
Rufo spoke to a parent who grew up in China; the parent stated that critical race theory made them recall the Chinese Cultural Revolution, saying,  “[It divides society between] the oppressor and the oppressed, and since these identities are inborn characteristics people cannot change, the only way to change it is via violent revolution. Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here.”
Rufo noted, “In 2019, Asian-Americans ran a <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/asian-americans-affirmative-action">successful initiative campaign</a> against affirmative action in Washington State; in 2020, Asian-Americans ran a similar campaign in California, winning by an astonishing 57 percent to 43 percent margin. In both cases, they defended the principles of meritocracy, individual rights, and equality under the law—and roundly defeated a super-coalition of the states’ progressive politicians, activists, universities, media, and corporations.”
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SCOOP: A Cupertino elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”
I&#39;ve obtained exclusive whistleblower documents from inside the classroom. They will shock you. 🧵
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1349473089331974144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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First, the teacher told the eight- and nine-year-old students that they live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian[s]” who “created and maintained” this culture in order “to hold power and stay in power.” <a href="https://t.co/vxFaDSVl4z">pic.twitter.com/vxFaDSVl4z</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1349473511463555073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Reading from This Book Is Antiracist, the teacher taught the children the theory of &quot;intersectionality&quot; and claimed that “those with privilege have power over others&quot; and that “folx who do not benefit from their social identities &#8230; have little to no privilege and power.” <a href="https://t.co/GX77Og36Ai">pic.twitter.com/GX77Og36Ai</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1349474120136704000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The teacher asked students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. They were told to “circle the identities that hold power and privilege.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/pENBJeZ3cF">pic.twitter.com/pENBJeZ3cF</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1349474519098949632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In a related assignment assignment, the children were asked to write short essays describing which aspects of their identities &quot;hold power and privilege&quot; and which are &quot;oppressed&quot;—in effect, ranking themselves according to the intersectional hierarchy. <a href="https://t.co/kAJurjRlAp">pic.twitter.com/kAJurjRlAp</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1349475156666667012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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CA School Tells Third Graders To Rank Themselves According To ‘Power And Privilege’

Southern Baptists, celebrating the twentieth anniversary year of the Baptist Faith &amp; Message, reaffirmed the message in a statement in which they firmly denounced racism but also clearly denounced Critical Race Theory and intersectionality, writing that they were “incompatible with the Baptist Faith &amp; Message.”
As the <a href="https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/seminary-presidents-reaffirm-bfm-declare-crt-incompatible/">Baptist Press</a> reported, the Council of Seminary Presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention wrote:
<blockquote>On this twentieth anniversary year of the Baptist Faith &amp; Message (as revised and adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000), the Council of Seminary Presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in its annual session, hereby reaffirms with eagerness the Baptist Faith &amp; Message as the doctrinal statement that unites and defines Southern Baptist cooperation and establishes the confessional unity of our Convention. Our six seminaries are confessional institutions, standing together in this classic statement of biblical truth.
All professors must agree to teach in accordance with and not contrary to the Baptist Faith &amp; Message. This is our sacred commitment and privilege, and every individual faculty member and trustee of our institutions shares this commitment. We are thankful for the theological commitments of the Southern Baptist Convention, standing against the tide of theological compromise and in the face of an increasingly hostile secular culture.
In light of current conversations in the Southern Baptist Convention, we stand together on historic Southern Baptist condemnations of racism in any form and we also declare that affirmation of Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and any version of Critical Theory is incompatible with the Baptist Faith &amp; Message.</blockquote>
Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and current chairman of the Council of Seminary Presidents, stated,“This is not a statement for fringe groups. This is for the regular, faithful Southern Baptists who love us and make it possible for us to do what we do.” He also stated, “While we must continue to speak with clear conviction against any aspects of racism, the sure and certain cure to any evil of this age is the gospel of Jesus Christ. No unbiblical ideology can solve the social issues that confront us.”
Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote, “We also honor and affirm the Southern Baptist Convention’s very clear and historic condemnations of racism in any form and the Convention’s acknowledgement of our own history and the moral responsibility we bear. Instructed by the Bible and motivated by the Gospel, we are called to stand together in opposing the sin of racism. We must make clear that racism has no rightful place within the SBC, our churches, or our entities.”
SBC President J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area, said, “As this statement demonstrates, our convention leaders affirm without reservation not only our historic Baptist theological confessions, but also a biblical view of justice, which I also affirm and applaud. While we lament the painful legacy that racism and discrimination have left in our country and remain committed to fighting it in every form, we also declare that ideological frameworks like Critical Race Theory are incompatible with the BFM. The Gospel gives a better answer.”
Jason K. Allen, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, said,“ … these days there’s a particular relevance to Critical Race Theory, and what it portends to mean for Gospel ministry and for the church. Clearly, Critical Race Theory is at the forefront of our cultural and denominational moment. Confusion abounds on Critical Race Theory, but one thing is clear: the closer you look into the history, advocates, and aims of Critical Race Theory the more troubling it becomes. … Unfortunately, the problem of racism still exists, but Critical Race Theory is not a biblical solution. We must be a people who stubbornly fight against both racism and Critical Race Theory, while fighting for racial reconciliation and the truth of Scripture.”

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All of my life, I have said that the Left’s moral compass is broken.
And all of my life, I was wrong.
Why I was wrong explains both the Left and the moral crisis we are in better than almost any other explanation.
I was wrong because in order to have a broken moral compass, you need to have a moral compass to begin with. But the Left doesn&#8217;t have one.
This is not meant as an attack. It is a description of reality. The Left regularly acknowledges that it doesn&#8217;t think in terms of good and evil. Most of us are so used to thinking in those terms — what we call &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; — that it is very difficult for us to divide the world in any other way.
But since Karl Marx, the Left (not liberalism; the two are different) has always divided the world, and, therefore, human actions, in ways other than good and evil. The Left, in Friedrich Nietzsche&#8217;s famous words, has always operated &#8220;beyond good and evil.&#8221;
It all began with Marx, who divided the world by economic class — worker and owner or exploited and exploiter. To Marx and to Marxism, there is no such thing as a good or an evil that transcends class. Good is defined as what is good for the working class; evil is what is bad for the working class.
Therefore, to Marxists, there is no such thing as a universal good or a universal evil. Those of us still in thrall to Judeo-Christian morality believe that good and evil are universal. In other words, whether an act is good or evil has nothing to do with who committed the act — rich or poor, male or female, religious or secular, member of one&#8217;s nation or of another nation. Stealing and murder are morally wrong, no matter who stole or who murdered.
That is not the case for Marx and the Left. In Marx&#8217;s words in &#8220;Capital&#8221; (&#8220;Das Kapital&#8221;):
&#8220;Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and the cultural development thereby determined. We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma whatsoever as an eternal, ultimate and forever immutable moral law.&#8221;
Fifty-three years later, Marx&#8217;s foremost disciple, Vladimir Lenin, architect of the Russian Revolution, proclaimed:
&#8220;We say that our morality is entirely subordinated to the interests of the class struggle of the proletariat. &#8230; We do not believe in an eternal morality. &#8230; We repudiate all morality derived from non-human (i.e., God) and non-class concepts&#8221; (Address to the Third Congress of the Russian Young Communist League, Oct. 2, 1920).
As professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith, director of Harvard University&#8217;s Center for the Study of World Religions, wrote in 1957: &#8220;For Marxism there is no reason (literally no reason: our universe, the movement posits, is the kind of universe where there cannot conceivably be any reason) for not killing or torturing or exploiting a human person if his liquidation or torture or slave labor will advance the historical process.&#8221;
This is how Marx&#8217;s ideological heirs, today&#8217;s leftists, view the world — with one important difference: Morality is not determined only by class, but by race, power and sex as well.
RACE
It is left-wing dogma that a black person cannot be a racist. Only whites can be racist. And, indeed, all whites are racist.
It is increasingly a left-wing position that when blacks loot, they are only taking what they deserve, or, as the looters often put it, looted goods are &#8220;reparations.&#8221; A Black Lives Matter organizer in Chicago, Ariel Atkins, recently put it this way:
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy&#8217;s or a Nike store because that makes sure that person eats. That makes sure that person has clothes. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance&#8221; (Chicago Tribune, Aug. 17, 2020).
POWER
Another nonmoral left-wing compass concerns power. Just as right and wrong are determined by class (worker and owner/rich and poor) and race (white and people of color), good and evil are also determined by power (the strong and the weak).
That explains much of the Left’s hatred for two countries in particular — America and Israel. America is wrong when it does almost anything in the world that involves weaker countries — assassinates the most important Iranian terrorist, builds a wall between itself and Mexico, opposes unlimited immigration. It is wrong because it is much stronger than those other countries.
The Left’s antipathy to Israel derives from both the power compass and the race compass. Because Israel is so much stronger than the Palestinians and because Israelis are classified as white (despite the fact that more than half of all Israelis are not white), the Left deems Israel wrong. So, when Israel justifiably attacks Gaza for raining rockets over Israel, the world&#8217;s Left vehemently attacks Israel — because it is so much stronger than the people of Gaza and because whites have attacked people of color.
SEX
When a woman accuses a man of sexually harassing or raping her, the Left’s reaction is not, &#8220;Let us try to determine the truth as best we can.&#8221; It is, &#8220;Believe women.&#8221; One must automatically &#8220;believe women&#8221; because, on the Left, it is not only morality that doesn&#8217;t transcend race, power, class or sex; truth doesn&#8217;t either. That&#8217;s why leftists protest and riot whenever a confrontation between a police officer and a black person ends with the death of an unarmed black person. The police officer is automatically racist, and the death is automatically deemed murder. On the Left, the concept of objective truth is increasingly deemed a form of white supremacy.
So, then, it turns out I was mistaken all my life. The Left’s moral compass is not broken. The Left simply rejects such a compass.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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PRAGER: The Left’s Moral Compass Isn’t Broken …

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Political observers in the year 2020 know that, for the Democratic Party and the broader political Left alike, intersectionality often reigns supreme. For those still wondering what exactly &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; is, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has produced a helpful explanatory video on the topic:
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&#8220;Intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey">explained</a>. &#8220;At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate: The straight, white male. And who’s at the top? Well, it’s very hard to say, because new groups claim victim status all the time. No one can keep track.&#8221;
Alas, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Democrats would rally around what is perhaps one of the most readily identifiable sub-identity groups boasting immense &#8220;intersectional&#8221; street credibility: The transgender illegal alien.
&#8220;House Democrats plan to call on a key immigration agency to release all transgender people who are currently being detained, arguing that the U.S. has failed to follow guidelines to protect individuals who face more perilous conditions in detention than other migrants,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">reported</a> yesterday.
The outlet then reported on the precise contents of the early copy of the letter it obtained. The letter will be sent to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence. Per <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">The Hill</a>, the letter reads, in relevant part:
<blockquote>We write to demand the release of all transgender people currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Transgender migrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect. These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people.</blockquote>
According to the outlet, the letter cites research from left-wing organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, and the Center for American Progress in order to argue that &#8220;due to their gender identity, transgender migrants are more likely to face &#8216;the pervasive use of solitary confinement&#8217; and that they are &#8217;97 times more likely to be sexually victimized&#8217; compared to &#8216;their cis-gender and straight counterparts in detention.'&#8221;
The effort is being led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), who TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-democrats-want-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">notes</a> is of the belief that ICE is actually required to release all transgender detainees. In order to advance that claim, the letter cites a 2015 ICE memo and the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s 2020 appropriations bill.
&#8220;Quigley&#8217;s office is working to get lawmakers&#8217; signatures on the letter and expects to send it to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and ICE Director Matt Albence later this week,&#8221; the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-to-ask-ice-to-release-all-transgender-immigrants-in-custody">reports</a>.
The year 2019 was a busy year for ICE, especially over the first six months. Record numbers of illegal aliens seemed to flood over America&#8217;s porous southern border on a seemingly monthly basis, although the tide has stemmed over the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month-decline-unauthorized-border-crossings-nearing-million/story?id=66134521">past few months</a>. As the 2020 election heats up, President Donald Trump is continuing to emphasize border security and immigration enforcement as key political priorities.

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Generally, politicizing tragedy is a scourge that should be avoided. But sometimes, the cause of the tragedy is so obvious that it becomes impossible not to trace it back to politics.
For the last few years, parts of New York, including much of New York City, have become <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/nyregion/anti-semitism-brooklyn-new-york.html">hotbeds</a> of anti-Semitic attacks against Jews at random, ranging from beating Jews in the streets to <a href="https://abc7ny.com/vandals-break-window-at-synagogue-in-brooklyn/5142611/">throwing</a> bricks into synagogue windows.
However, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/jewish-attacks-week-new-york-trnd/index.html">this week</a> saw a new, unprecedented wave of anti-Semitic attacks in New York. An elderly Jew was beaten by a Latino assailant in broad daylight in Midtown Manhattan. A few days <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/28/suspects-released-without-bail-after-shocking-attacks-on-jews/">later</a>, a homeless black attacker hit a Jewish woman in the face with a bag of groceries in front of her son. And over the weekend, multiple Jews were stabbed by an African-American attacker near a Monsey synagogue during a Hanukkah celebration.
This is horrifying, to say the least. I grew up in Monsey. To say I never thought I’d see the day a tragedy such as this one would occur in my own hometown is an understatement.
But this should cause Jews, both in New York and throughout the country, to truly question who in power has their best interests in mind. And it’s becoming increasingly obvious that, try as they may to <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1211376731422113792">deny</a> it, it is the Left that truly has no interest in helping to stop this epidemic of anti-Semitism.
To his credit, however, after the Monday attack, far-left New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted the following:
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Hate doesn’t have a home in our city. 
In light of recent anti-Semitic attacks, the NYPD will increase their presence in Boro Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg. 
Anyone who terrorizes our Jewish community WILL face justice.
&mdash; Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1210529913004015617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Still, leftists, even Jewish ones, pounced:
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in a decision that impacts both Black and Jewish New Yorkers, how many Black Jews have you consulted before deciding occupying Black and Jewish communities with more NYPD makes everyone safer?
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One may wonder why Jews would be upset by this. After all, it seems insane that Jews would be against the notion of protecting their own co-religionists. But the Left’s obsession with race and identity politics leads directly to this logical conclusion.
To the Left, African-Americans and Latino Americans are a perpetual victim class, no matter the progress each community makes over time. As such, leftists feel a visceral guilt about these communities and will excuse any action in which people of these ethnicities participate. And even though Jews are a minority as well, their disproportionate success in America puts them on a pedestal above other minorities, such as African-Americans and Hispanics. As such, leftists will side with the supposed “oppressed” group, no matter what the truth actually is.
Even The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/jewish-bias-safety-nyc.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">admitted</a> the conundrum for progressives in fighting anti-Semitism, noting that &#8220;[I]t is the varied backgrounds of people who commit hate crimes in the city that make combating and talking about anti-Semitism in New York much harder.&#8221;
How else do you explain New York’s new law <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/new-york-prosecutor-abolishing-bail-will-lead-dangerous-crime-waves-witness-intimidation/">abolishing</a> bail, which clearly will lead to spikes in crime, rampant witness intimidation, and more criminals out on the streets? Or the fact that the endorsement of Rev. Al Sharpton, infamous for his role in the Crown Heights riots of the early 1990s and the 1995 Freddy&#8217;s Fashion Mart massacre, is a de facto <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/the-run/articles/2019-04-02/2020-democrats-flock-to-al-sharptons-national-action-network-to-address-race-gap">gateway</a> to qualifying for the Democratic Party presidential nomination? Or that Democrats in the House leadership have <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/anti-semitism-louis-farrakhan-democratic-party/">met</a> with the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and none have denounced him as the racist he so clearly is?
The answer is that intersectionality and identity politics are sacred cows to the Left. It is a golden rule that the color of a perpetrator’s skin is always more important than the actions they take. As such, as long as the culprit is not a white supremacist, as white Christian males are on top of the intersectional totem pole, Jewish blood becomes cheap to the Left.
We as Americans cannot let this stand. The cancer to the civil society that is identity politics must end now.

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FRANKEL: The Golden Calf of Identity Politics Must Be Destroyed. Jewish Lives Depend On It.

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As The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-teacher-training-program-used-across-the-u-s-is-hostile-to-whites">reported</a> yesterday, a far-left public educational initiative called Deep Equity is being increasingly adopted across the country.
As <a href="https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/the-program-deep-equity">described by Corwin</a>, an educational training initiative umbrella organization that describes itself as &#8220;aimed at producing real school improvement for equity and social justice,&#8221; Deep Equity &#8220;is a comprehensive and systemic professional development process aimed at producing the deep personal, professional, and organizational transformations that are necessary to create equitable places of learning for all of our nation’s children.&#8221; Using unmistakable leftist language, the program &#8220;addresses the dynamics of power and privilege in a safe, engaging, and inspiring environment in which all educators are honored and valued as professionals,&#8221; as further described by Corwin.
The Daily Wire also quoted Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s highlighting of the Deep Equity program on his platform. Carlson described Deep Equity as follows:
<blockquote>According to Deep Equity, America is based on a hierarchy of various oppressions: Men oppress women, Christianity oppresses Islam, English oppresses Spanish, white people oppress everyone. And, by the way, if you have a problem with this explanation, you are yourself entrenching oppression; you’re part of the problem. According to Corwin, differences in academic performance have nothing to do with culture or effort; they are purely the product of racism. &#8230;
In order to fight that racism, teachers are instructed on different types of ‘white identity orientations’ … many white people, teachers are told, according to Deep Equity, are defined by their ‘ignorance and supremacy.’ Other white people, ‘question the systemic issues that have caused whites to be so much in a superior position.</blockquote>
Following the publication of The Daily Wire&#8217;s report yesterday, a concerned parent in Chandler, Arizona, contacted The Daily Wire to provide further details about the nature of Deep Equity and the extent to which leftism seems to be seeping into Democratic State Superintendent of Public Instruction <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Hoffman">Kathy Hoffman&#8217;s</a> statewide education initiatives. Hoffman, who has previously implied that she was <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/12/does-kathy-hoffman-have-resume-lead-arizona-schools-frank-riggs-superintendent-public-instruction/1595498002/">only inspired to seek her current perch</a> after watching the confirmation of current U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, has already embarked upon a hard leftist path since taking office in January. In April, for example, Hoffman <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-arizona-promo-homo-law-repealed-lgbtq-20190412-5f6gkfhw65h7zbprkbjhbxcu6q-story.html?fbclid=IwAR2CFaKUFlCNqjwgiZRHpoJ11Pr8gesdzrwlb4gKGdPP0IWcSJ5qBiWFjTQ">celebrated</a> the repeal of Arizona&#8217;s so-called &#8220;no promo homo&#8221; law, and stood at a jubilant post-repeal press conference podium alongside a representative of LGBT advocacy group <a href="https://www.glsen.org/chapter/phoenix">GLSEN Phoenix</a>.
As flagged by the concerned Chandler parent and confirmed by verifiable evidence, the application form to join Chandler Unified School District&#8217;s (CUSD) Deep Equity Advisory Board specifically asks applicants whether they have sufficient &#8220;personal[]&#8221; or &#8220;professional[]&#8221; experience to understand prioritized Deep Equity values with respect to &#8220;intersectionality of race, gender, class, religion, and sexual orientation.&#8221;
Furthermore, the concerned Chandler parent provided verifiable evidence, submitted to the parent from a CUSD teacher who harbors deep concerns about Deep Equity, that the Deep Equity program in CUSD attempts to encourage such themes as &#8220;religious/spiritual pluralism&#8221; in lieu of &#8220;Christianity over other religions,&#8221; &#8220;affectional/sexual pluralism and equal rights&#8221; in lieu of &#8220;heterosexual over other gender/sexual identities,&#8221; &#8220;distributive justice&#8221; in lieu of &#8220;haves over &#8216;have-nots,'&#8221; &#8220;language preservation and respect&#8221; in lieu of &#8220;English only,&#8221; and the elevation of many other far-left social justice themes over traditional norms.
The concerned Chandler parent also provided verifiable evidence that CUSD sponsors such seminars during its Deep Equity Summer Symposium — meaning they are taxpayer-funded — as &#8220;Inclusiveness With LGBTQ+ Students&#8221; and &#8220;Building LGBTQ-Inclusive Elementary Schools.&#8221; As The Daily Wire reported yesterday, there does not seem to be a normal mode of recourse for parents objecting to this leftist indoctrination.
The Daily Wire will continue to monitor Deep Equity-themed developments.

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On Thursday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro gave a speech at Stanford University, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-shapiro-dismantles-the-alt-right-and-radical-lefts-dangerous-game">covering </a>both the radical Left and the &#8220;alt-Right.&#8221; Shapiro explained that both of these movements feed off of each other, because each movement relies on a hierarchy for its existence. But while the radical Left’s intersectional philosophy puts white, Christian males at the bottom as the &#8220;least oppressed group,&#8221; the &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; flips that hierarchy on its head and white people become the desired, most important group of all.
Needless to say, what both of these groups stand for is anathema to Americanism — much less mainstream conservatism. The conservative believes that we are all, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, &#8220;[C]reated equal&#8221; and that all people &#8220;are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.&#8221; To be on the Right means to see no significance whatsoever in race, class, or sexual orientation. We conservatives believe in meritocracy and equality of opportunity for everyone.
However, the question remains, why does anyone in our society consider the &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; to actually be on the political Right?
These racists share nothing in common with conservatives. Indeed, as Shapiro noted in his speech, the Left and &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; are inherently intertwined, as both groups focus almost exclusively on the collective and on superficial external features. They focus on groups competing for hierarchical supremacy and winning awards for being the the most privileged and the most victimized.
This should come as no surprise. The Democratic Party, throughout much of its history, has focused on race, class and the collective, at-large. The Democratic Party was the political party of slavery and Jim Crow in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Until the 1960s, the Democratic Party largely defended school segregation in the South. The party of segregationists, such as Alabama Governor George Wallace and father of American leftism President Woodrow Wilson, is the same party that now endlessly promotes intersectionality and its champions, such as Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar.
As a perfect modern encapsulation of this, Massachusetts Senator and 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren tweeted the following last week:
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Thank you, <a href="https://twitter.com/BlackWomxnFor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BlackWomxnFor</a>! Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy and I don’t take this endorsement lightly. I&#39;m committed to fighting alongside you for the big, structural change our country needs. <a href="https://t.co/KqWsVoRYMb">https://t.co/KqWsVoRYMb</a>
&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1192526820559785986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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There are countless examples of the Left pushing this ideology. Warren&#8217;s obvious pander is just the latest example of the Left promoting a group over an individual.
And the &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; agrees with this approach, even if it utilizes it in a different way.
Should we then really call these people &#8220;alt-Right?&#8221;
The answer is no. By even accepting the tacit premise that these people have something in common with conservatives, we are using the Left’s branding and helping them spread this egregious lie — with the tragic result of allowing unvarnished racists to be lumped together with us. The Left’s goal is to confuse the public, brand us as bigots, and expand their own power.
The &#8220;alt-Right&#8221; and the radical Left are two sides of the same coin. We should stop calling them &#8220;Right,&#8221; no matter what the qualifier is. They are, in reality, an intellectual alternative to the Left.

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