In the most recent flashpoint in the culture war, American Eagle showcased actress Sydney Sweeney in an advertisement with the caption “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.”
The ad is overtly sexual, with the camera highlighting sexual features more than the denim itself, with suggestive poses that frame Sweeney as an erotic object of desire.
“Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color,” Sweeney says, back arched, while zipping up her pants. “My jeans are blue.”
The reaction to the ad was a Rorschach test. The Left, locked into a hermeneutic of suspicion with a reflex to read nefarious messaging into things that seem anodyne at a cursory glance, were outraged at the perceived fascist signaling of the ad (Sweeney is thin, blonde, and blue-eyed). Some on the Left interpreted it as a dog whistle for eugenics and white supremacy.
The Right, which often settles for cultural scraps, celebrated the ad as a win against “woke” culture for featuring an attractive, thin white woman after years of brands being influenced by the Left’s ideological fixations with inclusivity. One commentator <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-war-on-hot-women-why-the-woke-mob-hates-sydney-sweeney/ar-AA1Jz1Vf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> the ad was a sign that “the American people are done with ‘woke,” and another said it meant that “woke is dead, and beauty is back.” The X account <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1948383505974510061" target="_blank" rel="noopener">End Wokeness</a>, juxtaposing a picture of an American Eagle ad featuring a heavy-set black woman with a picture of Sweeney immodestly posing, commented, “woke is dead.”
For us social conservatives, much of the Right’s reaction was a bleak cultural bellwether. One can argue that the big-budget designers who created the ad knew exactly how the “great jeans” innuendo would be received, and that it was intended to create the media buzz it has. I personally don’t believe that American Eagle, which has a <a href="https://www.aeo-inc.com/inclusion-diversity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pride flag on its website</a>, is engaged in Nazi dog-whistling.
The Right’s reaction, however, should alarm conservatives who are concerned with the erosion of family-friendly culture. The celebratory reaction to the ad demonstrates just how steeped in liberal paradigms and assumptions the American Right is today. The ad treats sexuality as public, performative, and consumable. It’s revealing and immodest, something I would try to shield my children from seeing at the mall. It’s not a rupture from “woke” in the slightest, rather an embrace of the liberal anthropology that detached sexuality from marriage and procreation during the 1960s sexual revolution.
Much of the contemporary Right now swims in these waters, too steeped in liberalism to even realize that by cheering the American Eagle ad as an “anti-woke” victory, they’re participating in and enabling a culture that the left created.
The ad demonstrated the triumph of liberalism and its assault on the religious right in particular, which, through different kinds of grassroots activist groups, has long campaigned against the kind of sexualized media that brands like American Eagle promote because of the harm it inflicts on families and children.
At the heart of Christianity is the belief that each person is made Imago Dei, in the image of God, and that the human body is not an object of consumption. Pope Saint John Paul II expresses this in “Theology of the Body,” a set of teachings he delivered between 1979 and 1984. He explained how sexual pathologies like pornography distort human dignity and invert the body’s purpose of self-giving love. When this fundamental truth is rejected, it comes as no surprise that the prevalence of sexualized media<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2016.1142496?src=recsys&amp;journalCode=hjsr20" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> leads to</a> consequences like higher levels of body dissatisfaction, a greater tolerance of sexual violence toward women, and diminished views of women’s humanity.
For social conservatives who believe moral guardrails are necessary for human flourishing, mainstream culture is still hostile terrain, and the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney ad exposes the cultural captivity of much of the Right.
Being “anti-woke” is not enough, even if the campaign against wokeness generally aligns with the objectives of any socially conservative movement.  Anyone serious about making the public square welcoming to children and families must work to reclaim modesty as the standard cultural norm, and they must have the courage to oppose the liberal foundations of our sexualized marketplace itself.
Marlo Slayback is the Executive Director of the Collegiate Network for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
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The following excerpt is taken from “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Persistence-Ideological-Lie-Daniel-Mahoney/dp/1641773731">The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now</a>,” by Daniel J. Mahoney (Encounter Books).
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<h3>The Crisis Of The West Reconsidered</h3>
From Sydney to London to untold numbers of American college campuses, we hear incendiary cries for destroying the Jewish state, for a new Jihad or global intifada, all in the name of a purportedly noble and just “anticolonialist” struggle. Tens of thousands march in major European cities and with frenzied glee defend the indefensible. “From the river to the sea,” cry the mobs of Islamists, Palestinians, activists, and radicals, shamelessly announcing their own genocidal sympathies and intent.
The so-called crisis of the West is nothing new. In 1949, the political philosopher Leo Strauss lamented that the main currents of social science in the United States, and in the Western world more broadly, could not understand tyranny for what it was since they were blindly committed to the absurd position that “facts” had nothing to do with “values.” He added that a social science that could not speak reasonably — and forcefully — about the evil that is tyranny (especially in its modern ideological forms) was no better than a medical science that could not name and describe cancer. In the following decade, Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt brought the full arsenal of political philosophy to bear on the “novel” form of tyranny that was totalitarianism and, in the process, mourned the indulgence of so many intellectuals toward it.
In 1964, James Burnham published a still-potent and relevant book called “The Suicide of the West,” where he took aim at Western self-hatred, romanticism about what would soon be called the Third World (some of which came to resemble “Caliban’s kingdoms,” in the striking and provocative words of Paul Johnson), and the degeneration of a once-noble and hardy liberalism into rank sentimentality, free-floating compassion, and a suicidal preference for our murderous and tyrannical enemies over our sometimes-imperfect friends and even our own country and civilization.
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By 1970, the great English writer and journalist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote with eloquence and biting wit about “The Great Liberal Death Wish” in a seminal 1970 essay by that same name in Esquire. Muggeridge saw in the decayed liberal mind a perverse preference for nihilistic self-flagellation that led to the systematic “depreciating and deprecating” of “every aspect of our Western way of life.” God and all moral certitudes were dethroned even as a “Praetorian Guard of ribald students, maintained at the public expense,” were “ready at the drop of a hat to go into action, not only against their own weak-kneed bemused academic authorities, but also against any institution or organ for the maintenance of law and order still capable of functioning, especially the police.” These words could have been written in the summer of 2020 amidst the violence, mayhem, and ritualistic self-flagellation that followed the death of George Floyd, or in the hours and days after the savage Hamas assault on Israeli innocents on October 7, 2023. Muggeridge went on to opine that if and when the West falls, it will not be the result of a barbarian invasion nor the murderous enmity of Communists, fascists, and Nazis, but because of the suicidal death wish of a liberalism gone badly awry. It is hard to say that Muggeridge was wrong.
The better liberals, humane and decent people, are rightly shocked by professors, students, and activists who celebrate or apologize for the savage nihilism of Hamas or who think that these cruel ideologues and terrorists, heedless to the lives of their own people, whose deaths they relish for the propaganda value, somehow represent the legitimate interests of the Palestinian people. But what reason do we have for being surprised? English departments everywhere have given up teaching literature and humane letters and now specialize in the hate-filled jargon that defines “postcolonial” studies and discourse (more on this to come). “Intersectionality” is the order of the day — everyone who desires to be ideologically correct must unthinkingly parrot demands for CRT, gender ideology, abortion on demand, environmental extremism, sympathy and support for radical regimes and ideologies, contempt for religion and traditional morality, and a hatred of the West — above all for Israel, which is freely and ludicrously compared to apartheid South Africa and, most obscenely of all, Nazi Germany. DEI departments on most campuses enforce this new regime in a totalitarian spirit that is hardly “soft” or benign. For too long, economistic and anti-intellectual conservatives thought this had little to do with the “real world” and still proudly sent their children to utterly corrupt but still-prestigious universities and liberal-arts colleges. But as the journalist Andrew Sullivan likes to say, “We are all living on campus now.”
Political correctness has been omnipresent for many years now, but somehow former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, the quintessentially “moderate” politician, just noticed: after witnessing the temerity of the University of Pennsylvania’s response to its mob of anti-Semitic agitators, he decided he could no longer be a benefactor of the corrupt institution. He is a decent human being, and I am glad he is appalled by the fact that UPenn was incapable of truly, unequivocally condemning what Hamas so brutally did to innocents on October 7, 2023. But why precisely was he surprised? UPenn was only being itself when it shamelessly indulged the enemies of Israel — and Western civilization. This is a university that took down, as if in a parody of political correctness, a picture of William Shakespeare in its English department. It regularly encourages every manifestation of crude, ritualistic anti-Western and “anticolonial” ideology.
The institution has long hounded conservative and other independent-minded faculty (and students) for not toeing the party line. Progressive ideology requires absolute fealty to the cause. To be sure, many Arabs and Palestinians (and their Western sympathizers) casually give way to Jew-hatred. But progressives hate Israel mainly because they hate themselves and the Western world of which they are a part, though that self-loathing has quickly given way to fierce and crude anti-Jewish rhetoric and behavior. A figure long at the head of this charge, the radical intellectual and celebrated linguist Noam Chomsky, once accused Cambodian refugees of exaggerating the “excesses” of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and wrote a foreword to a book by the French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson. Chomsky had no real deep affinity for monstrous regimes, but he was adamantly committed, and remains committed, to the view that the United States, and the Western world more broadly, is the primary author of evil in the world. Chomsky embodies the reductio ad absurdum of self-flagellating radicalism. On the left, he is still perversely celebrated as a courageous truth teller.
Writing in “The Abolition of Man” in 1943, the Christian apologist and man of letters C. S. Lewis wondered why our contemporary “men without chests,” who had abandoned both reason and faith, who confused moral judgment with mere emotivism, and who belittled the virile virtues and the essential connections between reason and a spirited regard for liberty and civilization, were surprised by the inevitably destructive consequences of their doctrines. In words that stick to memory and that are as relevant as ever, Lewis writes:
<blockquote>In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.</blockquote>
Those false liberals who actively supported the progressivist degradation of our colleges and universities ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Those who marched with the totalitarian Marxists and Maoists of BLM (and who now predictably cheer Hamas on) in the summer of 2020 — including foolish white progressives such as Senator Mitt Romney — are complicit in the madness that has taken hold of our political culture. They are also fools, naïfs.
As the Russianist Gary Saul Morson argued in a powerful piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal (“Dostoevsky Knew: It Can Happen Here,” October 18, 2023), those ideologues and intellectuals who justify the unjustifiable would do it to us if they had the chance. As Morson argues, the militant “anticolonialism” that is regnant today on our campuses and in bien-pensant intellectual circles is only the latest totalitarian ideology to justify the destruction of their “designated enemies.” And the soft leftists — the naïve fellow travelers — always go first. One thinks of the politically correct bourgeoisie in Saint Petersburg, as described so vividly in Solzhenitsyn’s “The Red Wheel” (March 1917), who proudly wore red and waved red flags (for two hundred years the color of the radical Left) to display their fine feelings and progressive leanings. They were the first to be condemned as class enemies and marched off to the camps in Lenin’s new totalitarian dispensation. It is high time for their American counterparts to be mugged by reality before it is too late for them — and for the rest of us.
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This excerpt from “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Persistence-Ideological-Lie-Daniel-Mahoney/dp/1641773731">The Persistence of the Ideological Lie</a>” is published by permission from Encounter Books.
Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University (where he taught from 1986 until 2021), senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, and senior writer at Law and Liberty. He has written extensively on statesmanship, French political thought, the art and political thought of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, conservatism, religion and politics, and various themes in political philosophy. His 2022 book, “The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, And Moderation” (Encounter Book was awarded the Paolucci Prize for Conservative Book of the Year by ISI in 2023.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Here’s something you won’t hear often in mainstream media — but the data keeps backing it up:
Conservative men are, on average, healthier, happier, and more optimistic about the future than their progressive counterparts.
In 2023, The Wall Street Journal and NORC at the University of Chicago <a href="https://www.norc.org/content/dam/norc-org/pdf2024/wsj-norc-topline-march2023.pdf">reported</a> a striking divide: self-identified conservatives were significantly more likely to report high levels of happiness, purpose, and personal satisfaction. Meanwhile, progressive men under 40 showed the lowest mental health scores of any demographic group.
And it&#8217;s not just psychological.
<a href="https://equityresearch.tufts.edu/why-being-conservative-is-correlated-with-higher-happiness/">Multiple studies</a> show conservative men are more likely to exercise, less likely to abuse substances, and more likely to have strong support systems through marriage, faith, and community. That trifecta — physical discipline, mental resilience, and social grounding — turns out to be a major health advantage.
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At a cultural level, mindset matters.
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Target announced plans to shut down nine stores across four different U.S. states after ongoing reports of violence, theft, and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of shoppers and employees.
The company said effective October 21, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area, three more in Portland, two locations in Seattle, and one store in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City will permanently close.
“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” Target said in a <a href="https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2023/09/Target-Closes-Select-Stores-to-Prioritize-Team-Mem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Before making the decision, Target officials said the retailer corporation invested “heavily” in efforts to prevent and stop organized retail crime in its stores, including ramping up internal security team members and third-party guard services, but struggled to combat the uptick in retail theft from organized smash-and-grab robberies involving large groups of thieves.
Target’s CEO Brian Cornell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-veers-off-target-reaps-rewards-of-pride-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month the company has been battling an “unacceptable amount” of retail theft that has become increasingly violent and dangerous for workers.
Store theft that included “violence or threats of violence” surged 120% during the first five months of the year, Cornell said, adding that Target’s full-year profitability is expected to reduce by more than $500 million compared to the previous year.
Cornell reportedly said the company intended to keep locations open after releasing its rising shrink reported in the fiscal second-quarter earnings in mid-May.
“We do not want to close stores. We know how important our stores are. They create local jobs, they generate taxes, they’re very important for those local shoppers, and they play a critical role in communities across the country,” Cornell said. “We’ll continue to do everything in our power to keep our doors open,” he added. “At the same time, we’ll be closely monitoring the safety of our team and guests as well as the financial impact to our business as we determine the right path forward at Target.”
Organized retail theft has spiked in cities around the country, with videos from some incidents showing hooded figures in dark clothes darting in and out of stores with merchandise, often expensive luxury items.
Critics blame progressive prosecutors, who they say allow criminals to get off without serious consequences — if they face consequences at all.
Earlier this year, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/01/30/2023/grassley-cortez-masto-bill-bolsters-federal-response-to-organized-retail-theft#:~:text=The%20Combating%20Organized%20Retail%20Crime,trends%20in%20organized%20retail%20theft." target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduced</a> legislation to target the rise in flash mob robberies sweeping the nation, which they estimated costs retailers $720,000 for every $1 billion in sales — a 50% increase since 2015.
The bill, which Target officials advocated for in its announcement on Tuesday, would create a multi-agency federal task force at the state and local levels to promote inter-agency efforts and cooperation to crack down on theft and organized retail crime.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/target-says-it-will-close-nine-stores-citing-violence-and-theft-.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&amp;par=sharebar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that over the last two years, at least nine states have passed similar laws to impose harsher penalties for those involved in organized retail crime.
Target’s latest announcement comes after the company revealed a dismal quarterly report showing its sales sank 5.4% for the first time in six years after facing national backlash over its Pride Month collection.
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Is Dove soaps trying to be the wokest brand of them all?
From pushing radical gender ideology onto kids, to throwing their weight behind an emerging field known as “fat liberation,” Dove — which is owned by the British-company Unilever — is making waves for all the wrong reasons.
For example, on Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dove-partners-with-blm-activist-in-fat-liberation-campaign-activist-wrecked-white-student-with-uncorroborated-accusations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Dove has now teamed up with BLM activist Zyahna Bryant to advance “size freedom.” 
Bryant, some readers might remember, became infamous for effectively ruining a white girl’s life based on something Bryant later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-black-woman-accused-a-white-woman-of-threatening-protesters-thats-not-what-happened-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> she didn’t actually hear and the woman never actually said. 
Nowadays, she’s apparently such a hot commodity that international brands are dying to work with her to support certain causes. As explained by Bryant, she believes, “that we should be centering the voices and experiences of the most marginalized people and communities at all times.” 
If you don’t do that, presumably, then you’re discriminating against people of size like Bryant — which hampers their success, or something. 
And you thought you were just being sold a bar of soap!  
If you don’t want to buy all the woke the Left has to offer, purchase bars of soap from Jeremy’s instead. <a href="https://www.jeremysrazors.com/collections/hair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BUY HERE</a>. 
Jeremy’s wants to sell you woke-free products, but certain corporations want to sell you a crash course into the victimhood mentality that has consumed the Left. 
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That ideology is so pervasive that even buying soap has to be politicized. In fact, if you buy from brands like Dove, your money goes to support woke causes and <a href="https://www.flareproject.org/fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partner with organizations</a> that support different forms of legislation. Dove proudly acknowledges this. 
“So when I think about what fat liberation looks like, to me, it looks like centering the voices and the experiences of those who live and who maneuver through spaces and institutions in a fat body,” Bryant explained in one video, while explaining that makes Dove a perfect partner in that fight. 
 Here’s who we’re dealing with, so readers can get a good sense of the gravity of the situation:
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Zyahna Bryant ruined a white girl’s life over a non-existent remark
Dove just did a brand partnership with her to support “fat liberation” <a href="https://t.co/7mgaOuXQco">pic.twitter.com/7mgaOuXQco</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1702297504623022384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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What does any of that have to do with personal hygiene? Well, nothing. 
It has everything to do with Dove forcing its values onto you as a consumer.
Indeed, it’s not the first time that Dove has advocated far-Left ideas under the guise of “body positivity.” 
In June 2021, for example, Dove rolled out a new initiative called “<a href="https://assets.unileversolutions.com/v1/45523998.pdf?disposition=inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Proud To Be Me</a>,” a “new body positivity tool for LGBTQ+ youth, brought to you by the <a href="https://www.dove.com/us/en/dove-self-esteem-project/self-esteem-resources-for-youth-groups/proud-to-be-me.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dove Self-Esteem Project</a>.”
“Let’s help the young people in our lives feel confident and proud of who they are,” Dove’s website confidently states.
That “tool” was targeted at kids between the ages of 11 &#8211; 14 and focused on LGBTQ acceptance. It encouraged individuals to host group conversations with children about sex-changes and sexual orientation.
In the FAQ portion of that document, “leaders” of such conversations were provided an answer to the question, “How do I facilitate the discussion around gender dysphoria and body change vs. acceptance?” 
“Leaders should speak to the fact that the way we choose to express ourselves in the world is a personal decision and there are many options for how people choose to do this,” the document said.
What sort of “options”? Oh, you know, just the life-altering ones with long-lasting and often irreversible consequences:
(&#8230;if someone is considering/has questions about body change, highlight that there are many options including choosing clothing that makes you feel good/comfortable, wearing clothing items like binders, etc. Other people may take hormones and others may choose to get some form of surgery.) (Emphasis added.)
Of course, one has to wonder how Dove can advocate “accepting” your whole body, while also letting minors know that castration and foregoing puberty might make them “proud”  — but that matters not to the woke.
What matters most to woke corporations is perpetuating the notion that power in society is built upon the oppressed vs. the oppressor.
So, in this case, it seems the message from Dove is that, if you’re fat, you will never find contentment unless society changes for you. Losing weight is not an option. Everybody else must change.
If you’re a child who thinks you should be in a different body — make it happen. Only those opposed to your well-being would discourage it, Dove seems to want consumers to believe.
Again, this is a soap company we’re talking about — not the Gender Studies Program at Oberlin College. 
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Chicago&#8217;s new Mayor Brandon Johnson might actually be worse than his predecessor Lori Lightfoot. At least she provided <a href="https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1437832101143867393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1437832101143867393%7Ctwgr%5E4a2d104686d73b1809ed6d7eb5718ee13f169e1b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2021%2F10%2F08%2Ftim-dillon-lori-lightfoot-yelp-segment%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comic relief</a> as the city went into decay. With Johnson, all you get is a lecture about the importance of policing speech, not the streets.
The latest chastisement from Johnson came on Thursday when he reprimanded a reporter who used the word &#8220;mob&#8221; to describe, well, a mob of teenagers looting a local convenient store last weekend.
&#8220;That’s not appropriate. We’re not talking about mob actions,&#8221; Johnson said about those who called it a &#8220;mob.&#8221; &#8220;We have to be careful when we use language to describe certain behavior. There’s a history in this city, and, I mean, to refer to children as like baby Al Capones is not appropriate.&#8221;
Instead, he encouraged us all to say &#8220;large gatherings.&#8221;
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson minimizes mass looting over the weekend
He scolds a reporter for using the term “mob” and says we should instead call them “large gatherings” <a href="https://t.co/fXGY3MgcKV">pic.twitter.com/fXGY3MgcKV</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1687159177104277507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s not the first time that Johnson has been angry with how the media talks about such violence.
After one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bedlam-as-hundreds-of-teenagers-inundate-downtown-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April weekend</a> during which throngs of teenagers rampaged in the streets, jumped on cars, and beat up at least one innocent couple, the Chicago mayor blamed government leaders for &#8220;disinvestment&#8221; and compared the behavior to his young child jumping down the flight of stairs.
He told the press that it “is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.”
&#8220;Have you ever taught middle school? I have,” Johnson <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-chicago-mayor-elect-defends-looters-demonizing-children-is-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. “Have you ever raised young people? Do you understand the risk that young people take just because they’re young? Do you know that home plate is at the bottom of my stairs? I found that out when my son was sliding down those stairs trying to score.”
He went on to say that youngsters “make silly decisions! They do. So we have to make sure that we are investing to make sure that young people know that they are supported.”
Here&#8217;s what all that &#8220;silliness&#8221; looked like: 
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Chaotic Scene Unfolds in Downtown Chicago as Teenagers Vandalize Cars and Gunfire Erupts 
📌<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chicago?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chicago</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Illinois?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Illinois</a> ⁰ There is currently a significant police response taking place in downtown Chicago due to a large group of teenagers causing chaos. They have been… <a href="https://t.co/n7xhBpsTKs">pic.twitter.com/n7xhBpsTKs</a>
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As for this latest looting, Johnson appeared to be dismayed that Chicago police arrested individuals.
Police reportedly provided warnings before taking action — something he admits is abnormal.
“That’s a unique approach. You know, many people expect us to treat people undignified. My administration is different,” Johnson said. “Unfortunately, arrests were made. Unfortunately, some damage was caused. And the level of sensitivity and patience that our officers expressed, I’m appreciative of that. That is constitutional. That is a system of care.” (emphasis added)
Unfortunately? The follow-up <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/nearly-40-minors-arrested-disorderly-gathering-looting-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">question should</a> have been about why only 40 individuals out of nearly 400 were arrested. Of course, the answer is likely because cops were directed not to arrest these individuals in the name of equity and restorative justice.
But, if you&#8217;re a journalist who does decide to ask Johnson about the lawlessness and lack of support for police, be careful how you phrase it — you&#8217;re likely going to get a stern talking-to about your word choices rather than a straightforward response from the Windy City mayor.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – AUGUST 3: City of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson introduces Billie Eilish during Lollapalooza at Grant Park on August 3, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

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A private school in Ohio has been accused of alerting the FBI and local police on two mothers — whose kids were expelled from the academy — after they exposed Critical Race Theory curriculum teachings and financial mismanagement, according to a complaint.
Amy Gonzalez and Andrea Gross filed a <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6494e7535f942320f6ee239c/t/64950f9e1803603266cdc6a3/1687490467717/CA+Complaint+%7C+FILED.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> against Columbus Academy — just outside Columbus, Ohio — and the school&#8217;s headmaster Melissa Soderberg on June 12 for alleged intentional infliction of emotional distress, civil conspiracy, and violation of the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act.
&#8220;This lawsuit is a result of two years of concerted work to protect our children against the conspiracy concocted by CA and some of their members,&#8221; Gonzalez said in a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pro-ca-coalition-founders-amy-gonzalez-and-andrea-gross-file-lawsuit-against-columbus-academy-headmaster-melissa-soderberg-301858204.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;Expelling our innocent children is retaliatory in nature and in effort to indirectly squelch our efforts in uncovering these financial wrongdoings.&#8221;
According to the complaint, the exclusive academy expelled Gonzalez and Gross&#8217;s children — both in 6th grade at the time — without prior warning or discussion in 2021 and further launched a bullying campaign against the families by reporting them as &#8220;potential threats&#8221; and portraying them as &#8220;violent and racists&#8221; to local and federal authorities.
The academy, which teaches students grades K-12, is a private school that was founded 112 years ago and is one of the state&#8217;s most prestigious learning institutions.
During the pandemic, the mothers noticed irregularities in how the school allegedly handled its finances, including allegedly segregating money available to certain minority groups while certain establishment members wrongfully benefitted from their association with the school.
The complaint also alleges some students were intimidated and bullied based on their political beliefs, citing one teacher from the academy who allegedly told his students he would not communicate with anyone who supported former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Politically charged issues were regularly taught and discussed in the classroom without opposing viewpoints presented,&#8221; the complaint said.
The mothers <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ohio-moms-react-vicious-school-reported-them-fbi-exposing-left-wing-crt-curriculum-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News their requests for transparency over the school&#8217;s curriculum and fiduciary compliance were met with an &#8220;overreaction&#8221; from the academy.
&#8220;And so when I say an overreaction, I mean an overreaction of calling the police on us, alerting almost 900 faculty members that they had alerted the FBI that we were dangerous,&#8221; Gross said. &#8220;Just things that were so far beyond the pale that it would lead one to ask why? Why is the reaction so extreme?&#8221;
Gonzalez told the outlet the school&#8217;s response was &#8220;predatory alienation.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe that whenever they weaponize a federal agency in order to intimidate us and to promulgate fear in the faculty, they never told the entire community as far as parents that they had alerted the FBI,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But they told the teachers that. So, you know, teachers walked out of that meeting, like, are we supposed to be afraid or what exactly does this mean?&#8221;
Gross added the academy&#8217;s campaign against her family caused the community to turn against them and forced her daughter to enroll in another school outside the state.
&#8220;Upon information and belief, the Academy&#8217;s vicious treatment of the Parent Plaintiffs, and by relation, their children, including improperly invoking governmental investigative agencies, disseminating false information, and engaging in a coordinated effort to destroy their reputations in the community, was retaliation to prevent any further inquiry financial wrongdoing of the Academy,&#8221; the complaint said.
The complaint stated, &#8220;the Academy&#8217;s head of Security … filed a false police report against the Parent Plaintiffs with the Gahanna Police Department.&#8221;
&#8220;During the meeting when faculty was told the FBI had been alerted, the environment was such that one of the Academy&#8217;s faculty members raised his/her hand and asked if the Child Plaintiffs should be treated differently. Another member of faculty stated, &#8216;it sounds like we have a mole,'&#8221; the complaint said.
&#8220;The actions of the Academy and those of its affiliates, as directed by the Academy, had an extreme impact on the wellbeing of Plaintiffs. The Academy falsely accused the Parent Plaintiffs of being dangerous to the health and wellbeing of the entire Academy community and destroyed their reputations with many of the people they had spent years working and learning with,&#8221; the complaint continued.
Columbus Academy categorically denied all allegations in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, &#8220;These allegations are entirely without any legal merit or factual basis whatsoever.&#8221;
An earlier statement sent to the outlet said: &#8220;[A]ny parent who waged a public campaign of false and misleading statements and inflammatory attacks harmful to the employees, the reputation, or the financial stability of Columbus Academy would be in clear violation of the Enrollment Agreement and would be denied re-enrollment for the following school year.&#8221;

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Whatever <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/juneteenth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juneteenth</a> once stood for as a state holiday is dead and gone. Today, leftists use the new federal holiday as merely the latest tool to advance &#8220;equity&#8221; — aka race-based discrimination — and further entrench Critical Race Theory into American society.
That Democrats are using something positive and noncontroversial — the celebration of emancipation and an end to slavery — to push its anti-American agenda is unsurprising. The Left always takes that which is proper and twists it for their own end. What is alarming is how many Republicans are oblivious to this tactic.
To start, consider that leftist success depends upon invoking fear, preying upon the goodwill of Americans, and conning gullible rubes in the GOP. To see a textbook example of that strategy, look no further than how &#8220;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/legislation/2021/06/17/bill-signed-s-475/#:~:text=On%20Thursday%2C%20June%2017%2C%202021,as%20a%20legal%20public%20holiday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juneteenth National Independence Day</a>&#8221; came to be.
For background, on June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced slavery had ended via the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier. Since then, varying communities have celebrated &#8220;Juneteenth&#8221; most predominantly in Texas. Its regional significance and place in black culture should not be understated — even if not recognized by the majority of Americans.
In 2020, after George Floyd&#8217;s death, activists began pushing for its national holiday status. President Donald Trump, reportedly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-juneteenth-idUSKCN26G326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advised</a> that supporting such a holiday would curry favor with the black vote in the 2020 election, voiced support for Juneteenth.
&#8220;This Juneteenth, we commit, as one Nation, to live true to our highest ideals and to build always toward a freer, stronger country that values the dignity and boundless potential of all Americans,&#8221; he <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-juneteenth-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> on June 19, 2020.
Democrats accused him of racism despite his calls for unity. They then took the Juneteenth craze and ran with it.
A year later, President Joe Biden signed into law near-unanimous legislation making Juneteenth the 11th federal holiday. Biden used the occasion not to unite all Americans, but to foster division.
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Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/17/remarks-by-president-biden-at-signing-of-the-juneteenth-national-independence-day-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the nation that Juneteenth in part represents &#8220;the ongoing work to have to bring true equity and racial justice into American society.&#8221;
&#8220;In short, this day doesn’t just celebrate the past; it calls for action today,&#8221; he added.
Biden isn&#8217;t speaking of performative gestures. It is a whole-of-government approach. Since practically Day One of Biden&#8217;s term, his administration has been intent on unleashing a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unleashes-total-transformation-of-government-with-equity-action-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">total transformation of government</a>&#8221; that turns the administrative state into a vehicle for race-based discrimination and redistribution of wealth.
What that really means is an abandonment of equality.
&#8220;The entire program is set to lower standards, dilute meritocracy, and have the first large-scale government-supported laws that discriminate against people based on their race since before Eisenhower was President,&#8221; 1776 Project PAC founder Ryan Girdusky said of the Biden administration&#8217;s plan.
Democrats are quite honest and open about that. Folks like Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) are unafraid to say what Juneteenth is really all about now.
&#8220;It’s Juneteenth AND reparations. It’s Juneteenth AND end police violence + the War on Drugs. It’s Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid. It’s Juneteenth AND teach the truth about white supremacy in our country,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Black liberation must be prioritized.&#8221;
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It’s Juneteenth AND reparations.
It’s Juneteenth AND end police violence + the War on Drugs.
It’s Juneteenth AND end housing + education apartheid.
It’s Juneteenth AND teach the truth about white supremacy in our country.
Black liberation must be prioritized.
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1670797693407354882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, agency heads in the Biden administration rushed to declare how their department is accomplishing Justice40 — the <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/commitment-climate-justice-celebrating-juneteenth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden plan</a> that &#8220;directs 40% of the overall benefits of certain Federal investments to flow to underserved and overburdened communities.&#8221; That should be taken to mean mostly non-white areas.
The Energy Department said that &#8220;Juneteenth serves as a celebration and a reminder of why advancing climate justice is an integral part of our work at the Department of Energy today and every day.&#8221;
&#8220;Climate justice&#8221; looks a lot like &#8220;racial justice,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-climate-endgame-a-50-trillion-bridge-to-racial-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously observed</a>.
And Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona stated Monday, &#8220;We cannot celebrate #Juneteenth without committing to fight for equity &amp; opportunity for all.&#8221;
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We cannot celebrate <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Juneteenth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Juneteenth</a> without committing to fight for equity &amp; opportunity for all. 
Progress for America must ensure that Black and Brown children receive an excellent education and the resources they need to thrive. <a href="https://t.co/F1o9ckNld8">pic.twitter.com/F1o9ckNld8</a>
&mdash; Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecCardona/status/1670778491103584265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Equity&#8221; in education is often <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dei-is-dead-glenn-youngkins-diversity-officer-nukes-woke-diktats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">code</a> for lowering standards and diluting the overall quality of education.
Excellence and potential success of federally-funded projects alone no longer determine where your tax dollars go — what really matters is whether it can put more money in the hands of minorities. Everything the Biden administration does domestically is animated by that mission — especially marking Juneteenth.
In 2021, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) warned that Juneteenth would be used by the Left to push for these sorts of plans. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) derided him as &#8220;kooky.&#8221;
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Kooky <a href="https://t.co/O3gPnJCyiR">https://t.co/O3gPnJCyiR</a>
&mdash; Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1405290573737578496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Cornyn is a potential replacement for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), it should be noted. The only thing that is &#8220;kooky&#8221; is that the Republicans have not learned the way the Left operates yet. Rather than offering any pushback, Republican leaders like Ronna McDaniel still think that this day is really about American Exceptionalism.
&#8220;Juneteenth reminds us all how valuable freedom is and what we can achieve when we appeal to our nation’s highest ideals and come together as Americans,&#8221; she said in a statement.
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&quot;Juneteenth reminds us all how valuable freedom is and what we can achieve when we appeal to our nation’s highest ideals and come together as Americans.”
-@GOPChairwoman <a href="https://t.co/OUZDRZtXao">pic.twitter.com/OUZDRZtXao</a>
&mdash; GOP (@GOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1670769922597695488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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So, while Republicans use Juneteenth to offer vague platitudes, Democrats are using it to browbeat their opponents into supporting their agenda and score wins for their voters.
Democrats never do something out of the kindness of their own hearts. The Left has no desire to honor our nation&#8217;s heritage simply to celebrate American greatness. Democrats only advance certain holidays, policies, or rhetoric if it gives them a chance at maintaining and expanding power. They know that the GOP is either unwilling or too scared to call them out for it.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY – JUNE 17: People march during a Juneteenth reparations rally on Broad Street on June 17, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. The New Jersey Institute of Social Justice (NJISJ), elected officials, and activists marched and held a rally at City Hall celebrating the second year Juneteenth was recognized as a federal and state holiday in New Jersey. Legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday was introduced by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in 2020.

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Ryan Webb, a local Indiana GOP councilman isn&#8217;t the hero America deserves, but he just might be the one we need to expose the utter lunacy of the Left. Recently, Webb announced to his constituents in Delaware County, Indiana, that he now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identifies</a> as a &#8220;woman of color&#8221; — making him the first lesbian councilwoman ever elected to the council.
It appears to all be a gigantic gag — much to the chagrin of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=progressivism+dailywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=progressivism+dailywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l3.3441j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progressives</a> everywhere.
&#8220;After much consideration I have decided to come out and finally feel comfortable announcing my true authentic self,&#8221; Webb <a href="https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/04/20/ryan-webb-muncie-county-council-member-now-identifies-as-woman-of-color/70134376007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to his Facebook page. &#8220;It is with great relief that I announce to everyone that I identify as a woman and not just any woman but as a woman of color as well. I guess this would make me gay/lesbian as well, since I am attracted to women.&#8221;
Webb, the Muncie, Indiana native, noted that he would retain using he/him pronouns, and might wind up changing his mind someday.
&#8220;To avoid confusion, everyone can continue to address me as Ryan or as Councilman Webb,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I will also retain my preferred pronouns of He/Him, however, this will in no way diminish my true identity as a woman of color. I’m excited to be a vocal partner of the LGBTQIAPC+++ movement. Who knows just how far we can take things, but I’m just glad that this is now possible so ANYONE can be ANYTHING or ANYONE they want. God bless America!&#8221;
Here&#8217;s a local news report, which is hilarious in and of itself.
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Ryan Webb, a white councilman in Indiana, now identifies as a woman of color
The best part? The media being forced to take him seriously: <a href="https://t.co/pM5PZsy2OH">pic.twitter.com/pM5PZsy2OH</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1652630757238534144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Progressives say that Webb is making a mockery of them and are demanding that he resign.
&#8220;If he were serious, I&#8217;d sing his praises,&#8221; said Charlize Jamieson, a transgender female <a href="https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2023/04/25/ryan-webb-gender-claim-creates-outcry-at-muncie-county-council-meeting/70150253007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the council recently. &#8220;But instead, I know better. We all do. I know better because of his history of making hateful anti-trans statements on social media and disrespecting one&#8217;s pronouns. He has, purposely, and intentionally, misgendered me, ridiculing my own gender identity. That is not something transgender people do to one another.&#8221;
The thing is, under Leftist rules, you are not allowed to question the sincerity — or sanity — of somebody who claims that they are a member of the opposite sex. Now, best-selling LGBTQ children&#8217;s author Matt Walsh is on the case to make sure that Webb is respected.
&#8220;Apparently Ms. Webb&#8217;s self-identity is not being respected in Delaware County,&#8221; Walsh tweeted. &#8220;A number of people at the last council meeting even called for her to resign. I&#8217;m wondering if I might need to show up to the next meeting to show my support. Can&#8217;t tolerate this bigotry in the year 2023.&#8221;
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Apparently Ms. Webb&#39;s self-identity is not being respected in Delaware County. A number of people at the last council meeting even called for her to resign. I&#39;m wondering if I might need to show up to the next meeting to show my support. Can&#39;t tolerate this bigotry in the year…
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1652709100835274753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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At a recent council meeting, Webb continued to put the radical gender ideology on blast, in a deadpan fashion.
&#8220;To clarify, I never claimed to be trans anything,&#8221; he said at the meeting. &#8220;I simply expressed my own gender identity &#8230; I&#8217;m being dead serious. This isn&#8217;t a joke. I said what I said. I don&#8217;t know what to tell you. You don&#8217;t get to question me. You do not get to require proof from me. You were part of the movement that helped establish these rules and set the bar, OK? You don&#8217;t get to come later when someone else joins the club that you don&#8217;t want in &#8230; You don&#8217;t get to question how I identify.&#8221;
If you can wake up one day and change your gender, as Dylan Mulvaney did, then you can change your race, too.  All Webb is doing is holding the Left to the standards that they set. Rules are rules, after all.
Godspeed, Mr. (or is it Mrs.?)Webb. Congratulations on making history as the first woman of color and lesbian on the Delaware County Council.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Local Hoosier Rep. Changes His Identity To ‘Woman Of Color,’ Liberal Outrage Ensues

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National Public Radio (NPR) employees accused the network&#8217;s CEO of racism during a virtual all-staff presentation last week detailing financial metrics and diversity level updates following the organization slashing approximately 10% of its workforce. 
NPR officials laid off 84 employees last week and halted production on four seasonal podcasts, including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, and Rough Translation. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-30/tensions-flare-inside-npr-after-staff-layoffs-and-town-halls">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported network officials would cut another 13 employees from the digital team.
Following the exodus from ex-staffers, Lansing and other executives reportedly tuned into a Zoom meeting to address the news department and the programming team, taking questions from employees that included how many employees of different races and identities were laid off compared to those who retained their job. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re here today to take your questions and see if we can move together through this,&#8221; Lansing said, according to a recording of the meeting that Bloomberg obtained, adding that the network would have run out of money in approximately three years if the company kept its entire staff. 
At one point during the meeting, The Wall Street Journal reported a laid-off black employee grilled Lansing about why some podcasts lacked marketing support, called out by name the executives for repeating statements they made in the past concerning more accountability, and questioned how the network would make diversity essential.
Lansing pointed to the network&#8217;s mission statement and told the group to &#8220;turn down the rhetoric&#8221; and refrain from naming the executives.
&#8220;I would never, ever, on your worst day, call you out by name in a meeting with 827 people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s please keep in mind nobody is happy about this. Nobody is more unhappy about it than those affected, but certainly, everybody in the company, beginning with me, this is the last thing we wanted to do.&#8221;
Despite Lansing&#8217;s remarks about making such decisions, a group of employees reportedly accused him of &#8220;tone-policing,&#8221; causing them to feel offended and uncomfortable with the conversation, which he said should have been more civil.
Employees began calling Lansing&#8217;s response &#8220;racist&#8221; during the Zoom meeting. 
One employee referenced a segment from NPR&#8217;s Code Switch titled &#8220;When Civility Is Used As A Cudgel Against People Of Color.&#8221; 
&#8220;Civility is a weapon wielded by the powerful,&#8221; one person wrote, according to screenshots of the chat viewed by Bloomberg.
&#8220;This meeting has made me more afraid for the future of public media than any conversation I have had in a very long time,&#8221; wrote another.
In an email, NPR Chief Communications Officer Isabel Lara told Bloomberg that the organization creates &#8220;forums for internal staff conversations and respects the hard questions that come from our staff.&#8221; 
&#8220;We value the feedback we receive and acknowledge that this is an incredibly difficult time for everyone in our organization,&#8221; Lara said. &#8220;Our staff has the right and duty to hold NPR leadership accountable,&#8221; adding the organization has committed to creating and maintaining an environment where &#8220;we treat our colleagues with the utmost compassion, respect and dignity, and we will continue to provide opportunities for everyone in the organization to provide feedback on this process and support continuing dialogue.&#8221;
In a February <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-sees-sharp-decline-in-ad-revenue-announces-10-of-staff-face-layoffs">memo</a> distributed to NPR staff, CEO John Lansing broke the news that the network would have to cut most vacant positions and lay off around 10% of its current staff — approximately 100 employees — amid a &#8220;sharp decline&#8221; in advertisement revenues. 
Lansing broke the news nearly three months after pledging the nonprofit media organization would attempt to avoid layoffs as the network said it would lose approximately $10 million from the current fiscal year budget.
&#8220;Our financial outlook has darkened considerably over recent weeks,&#8221; Lansing wrote in the memo published by The Hollywood Reporter. &#8220;At a time when we are doing some of our most ambitious and essential work, the global economy remains uncertain. As a result, the ad industry has weakened and we are grappling with a sharp decline in our revenues from corporate sponsors.&#8221;
According to the outlet, the company employs over 700 individuals, with about 490 people filling the newsroom and 230 staff members in the programming division. Lansing told NPR staffers that officials had created a plan to address a $20 million sponsorship revenue fall-off for the current fiscal year, but new projections show at least a $30 million shortfall.

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Students at a woman-only private liberal arts college in Massachusetts supported a non-binding referendum on Tuesday that would allow women who identify as men and &#8220;non-binary&#8221; individuals to apply to the institution.
Student body officials at Wellesley College, which includes alumnae Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright, voted unanimously last month to advance the Gender Inclusivity Ballot, which would allow students to &#8220;express their views&#8221; on the 150-year-old institution&#8217;s admissions policy while making its language more inclusive to such students. However, school officials said the student vote wouldn’t have any impact on the school’s policies or practices.
The college already accepts transgender-identifying students who were born male, but the controversial referendum expands the application process for women who identify as men.
&#8220;We&#8217;re just asking the administration to put on paper what&#8217;s already true of the student body,&#8221; Alexandra Brooks, the student body president, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/wellesley-college-trans-nonbinary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. &#8220;Trans men go to Wellesley, nonbinary people go to Wellesley, and they kind of always have.&#8221;
Elizabeth Um, a senior and president of the campus&#8217; pro-life group, Wellesley For Life, told the Times that she enrolled at the liberal arts college due to its close proximity to home and its identity as a women&#8217;s college.
&#8220;If you don&#8217;t think you can fit in here, then you have your pick of thousands of other coed colleges in the country or the world,&#8221; Um said. &#8220;We&#8217;re a women&#8217;s college. That&#8217;s the core identity of the school, and we can&#8217;t start watering that down.&#8221;
Um did not disclose to the outlet whether she opposed the referendum, noting that it would pass and speaking out against the ballot on campus would be &#8220;social suicide.&#8221;
Wellesley already admits &#8220;cis, trans, and nonbinary students—all who consistently identify as women,&#8221; the college&#8217;s president, Paula Johnson, wrote in a <a href="https://blogs.wellesley.edu/announcements/2023/03/06/affirming-our-mission-and-embracing-our-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> last week on the college website.
Johnson opposed the referendum and warned students that the results would not impact its admissions policy.
&#8220;We are not a &#8216;historically women&#8217;s college,&#8217; a term that only applies to women&#8217;s colleges that have made the decision to enroll men,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;We have chosen a different path, one that aligns with peer institutions, including Barnard, Smith, and Bryn Mawr colleges.&#8221;
&#8220;In accordance with our admission policy, Wellesley admits applicants who identify and live consistently as women, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth,&#8221; she added.
Roughly 2,500 students attend Wellesley college, which is located in the suburbs of Boston. It is not known how many of those students claim to be the opposite sex or &#8220;non-binary.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s important that all members of this community feel seen. Some transgender male and nonbinary students whose identities have evolved during their time here say they feel excluded by the College&#8217;s use of the words ‘women’ and ‘alumnae’ — and feel that their individual identities are not embraced,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;At the same time, many students who are committed to Wellesley&#8217;s mission as a women&#8217;s college and who identify as women have been publicly criticized for their view and have felt pressured to describe Wellesley as a historically women&#8217;s college.&#8221;
The Wellesley News editorial board disapproved of Johnson&#8217;s letter, calling it &#8220;the College&#8217;s transphobic rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;Transgender and nonbinary students have always belonged and will continue to belong at Wellesley, a historically women&#8217;s college,&#8221; they wrote in the <a href="https://thewellesleynews.com/2023/03/08/the-wellesley-news-editorial-boards-statement-on-president-paula-johnsons-recent-rmail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial</a>.

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All-Women Liberal Arts College Votes On Non-Binding Referendum To Allow Trans, Non-Binary Individuals To Apply

All-Women Liberal Arts College Votes On Non-Binding Referendum To Allow Trans, 'Non-Binary' Individuals To Apply

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“Harry Potter” creator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jk-rowling">J.K. Rowling</a> will be telling her side of the story as part of a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/podcast">podcast</a> called “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling.”
The 57-year-old British author has become an extremely controversial figure in mainstream media and with some fans and critics over recent years. Though Rowling considers herself a liberal feminist, she disagrees with radical left-wing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender">gender theory</a>, which in turn made her an enemy of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">transgender activists</a>. Now, the best-selling author will explain the story from her perspective.
A sneak preview of the podcast was just released. “What has interested me in recent years, particularly on social media [is when fans say], ‘You’ve ruined your legacy. Oh, you could have been beloved forever, but you chose to say this,’” Rowling says during the trailer. “And I think: ‘You could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.’”
“I never set out to upset anyone,” she says. “However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal.”
“The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling” will premiere February 21. It’s hosted by Megan Phelps-Roper, who was raised in a family that attended the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps-Roper has since denounced the church and <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling">explained</a> that Rowling had agreed to speak to her after reading her memoir, &#8220;Unfollow.&#8221;
The podcast description <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DZOjpO1EPfwcrB6Ol2nhU?si=ddd433a87df44969&amp;nd=1">page</a> calls the project “an audio documentary that examines some of the most contentious conflicts of our time through the life and career of the world’s most successful author,” featuring Rowling speaking with “unprecedented candor and depth about the controversies surrounding her—from book bans to debates on gender and sex.” 
The controversy exploded in 2020 when Rowling mocked an article headline which referred to women as “people who menstruate.”
“‘People who menstruate,’” Rowling <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269382518362509313">responded</a> on Twitter. “I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction,” she went on. “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”
Though Rowling received an intense backlash for the statement, she never backed down beyond saying she doesn’t hate anyone.
“I have no irrational fear of or hatred towards trans people in the slightest – as, God knows, I’ve said so many times,” the “Harry Potter” author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-on-why-she-chose-to-stand-up-to-trans-activists-a-phenomenally-privileged-position">said</a> during an interview in December 2022. “But if you’re going to say it’s ‘hate’ not to believe in a gendered soul, then we cannot have a discussion. We can’t. There’s nowhere to go. The tactic has been no debate, but it is changing.”

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J.K. Rowling Discusses Her Portrayal As Anti-Trans Villain In New Podcast, Says She’s ‘Profoundly Misunderstood’

J.K. Rowling Discusses Her Portrayal As Anti-Trans Villain In New Podcast, Says She's 'Profoundly Misunderstood'

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