One of the beauties of life is the simple fact that no matter how stupid things get, reality always wins.
Whether your personal life or whether politics writ broadly, the simple fact of the matter is, eventually, you are going to run up against reality — and reality is going to win.
That doesn&#8217;t mean bad political ideas can&#8217;t emerge victorious in the short- or even the mid-term.
It does mean the realities of human nature, the realities of the world surrounding you, don&#8217;t just go away. And ultimately, those policies will fail dramatically. The dumber the policies, the faster they tend to fail.
One of those dumb ideas that has obviously taken center stage of late has been the dumb idea of woke.
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Woke is a foolish idea. Now, what exactly is wokeness? Wokeness is the basic idea that if there is any sort of disparity between group outcomes in American life, that group disparity is due to discrimination. The only corrective is, therefore, reverse discrimination or some form of discrimination that is going to equalize the outcomes of the various groups.
We have seen a wide variety of policies that have been implemented in order to close all of these gaps. The Quest for Cosmic Justice — as the great thinker of our time Thomas Sowell has put it — is a foolish quest. It is not something that can be solved because the reality is the vast majority of group gaps are either inborn or they are the result of culture and environment — because those are all the factors that there are.
That does not mean every result is the result of inborn differences. Differences in intellectual outcome very often are about educational or cultural differences as opposed to, for example, height differentials between particular groups; those are about genetics. This happens throughout life.
Looking at the rationales for why things are different in terms of outcomes between groups can be a good way of crafting good policy — but we&#8217;ve thrown all of that out in favor of stupidity. Now, we are going to educate our children in the stupidity, which does not reflect reality. We are seeing the results of that.
The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/woke-kindergarten-glassbrook-hayward-18635504.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reported on this:
<blockquote>A Hayward elementary school struggling to boost low test scores and dismal student attendance is spending $250,000 in federal money for an organization called Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove those barriers to learning.
The Woke Kindergarten sessions train teachers on concepts and curriculum that’s available to use in classrooms with any of Glassbrook Elementary’s 474 students. The sessions are funded through a federal program meant to help the country’s lowest-performing schools boost student achievement. </blockquote>
The basic theory behind this program is that if you just teach kids self-esteem, they will magically become smarter and better performing. If you teach them about the radical injustices of the life they lead in the freest country in the history of the world, then they will magically perform better.
Only one problem: It fails because reality always wins.
The Chronicle continues, <a href="https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/woke-kindergarten-is-capitalism-at#:~:text=A%20Hayward%20elementary%20school%20struggling,remove%20those%20barriers%20to%20learning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>:
<blockquote>But two years into the three-year contract with Woke Kindergarten, a for-profit company, student achievement at Glassbrook has fallen, prompting some teachers to question whether the money was well spent given the needs of the students, who are predominantly low-income. Two-thirds of the students are English learners and more than 80% are Hispanic/Latino. </blockquote>
This is not a particular shock because woke kindergarten is a stupid idea. Teaching kids terrible ideas is likely to make them perform worse, not better. District officials defended the program, saying the kindergarten did what it was hired to do.
That&#8217;s true, albeit not in the way they intended. They made the scores lower. It made things worse.
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One of the most amazing attributes of the nonprofit world, and this is true virtually across the board, is that nonprofits are constantly exacerbating the problems they are supposed to fight so they can raise money to fight those problems.
This happens all the time in nonprofit land. One of the jobs of politically motivated people on the Left is to exacerbate inequalities so as to claim inequity.
That is the goal. Because if at any point those inequalities actually narrowed as a result of freedom and good incentive structures, then what would they do for a living?

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A Hollywood social justice activist was killed on Monday after a homeless woman allegedly broke into his home and shot him in the head, according to reports.
Michael Latt, 33, who founded the charity organization <a href="https://www.michaellatt.com/lead-with-love.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lead With Love</a> to support &#8220;influential women and artists of color,&#8221; died from injuries at a local hospital after authorities <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/hollywood-social-justice-warrior-killed-by-homeless-woman-own-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> discovered him in his $800,000 one-bedroom apartment in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood earlier this week.
Latt&#8217;s next-door neighbor <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/homeless-woman-arrested-in-mid-wilshire-murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> local media she witnesses a female standing in the walkway with her hands up when police took the woman into custody.
“It was really weird because I didn’t hear anything,” Avarie Shevin said. “Like, no gunshot. No arguing, nothing, and it’s the kind of thing where if there’s a gunshot a mile away, I will hear it. So how did I not hear it right there?”
&#8220;I can&#8217;t wrap my brain around what could&#8217;ve happened that caused him to be shot and killed,&#8221; she told the station. &#8220;I keep picturing his face, and I cannot believe he has passed.&#8221;
The Los Angeles Police Department <a href="https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/homicide-suspect-arrested-nr23766mo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> the homicide suspect as 36-year-old Jameelah Elena Michl, who police said lived in her car.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office filed charges of murder and burglary with a firearm enhancement against Michl, according to police.
Michl is currently being held on $3 million bail. Her vehicle was also booked into evidence, according to police.
Although the motive was not immediately clear, police reportedly believe the shooting was a random act of violence.
Latt comes from a family involved in the Hollywood industry. He is the son of film producer David Latt and Michelle Satter, the founding senior director at the Sundance Institute.
Satter paid tribute to her son on social media on Wednesday.
&#8220;Our beloved son, brother, grandson, fiancé Michael Latt, fell victim to a tragic act of violence Monday night,&#8221; Satter wrote. &#8220;Our family, Michael&#8217;s extraordinary friends and colleagues are shattered by the profound grief of losing our Michael.&#8221;
&#8220;He devoted his career to supporting others, championing organizations that raised up women and artists of color, along with leveraging storytelling, art and various mediums to create enduring change and instill communities with hope, love and inspiration,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Michael will never be forgotten and we can all carry on his legacy of love, compassion and fierce dedication to positive and lasting change.&#8221;
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Our beloved son Michael Latt fell victim to a tragic act of violence this week. Michael devoted his career to supporting artists, championing organizations that raised up artists of color, &amp; leveraged storytelling for enduring change. We celebrate his legacy, love &amp; compassion. <a href="https://t.co/AlhuNNBWXZ">pic.twitter.com/AlhuNNBWXZ</a>
&mdash; Michelle Satter (@SundanceSatter) <a href="https://twitter.com/SundanceSatter/status/1729930450133774596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Hannah Lovingood, his fiancée, reportedly expressed her grief about Latt&#8217;s death on social media.
&#8220;My entire life has changed in a blink of an eye,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;My love has been taken from me so tragically. My best friend, confidant, fiancé. My love.&#8221;
According to the Los Angeles Times, Latt <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-29/michael-latt-social-justice-advocate-with-deep-ties-to-hollywood-dies-at-33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduated</a> from Chapman University with a public relations and advertising degree. He spent a number of years working in entertainment marketing, including work for the social justice organization Blackout for Human Rights, which prompted him to become more involved in activism.
&#8220;The moment I realized that I could use my skill set for social good, I decided to dedicate the rest of my career to helping others, empowering storytellers of color, and fighting injustice wherever it stands,&#8221; he told Forbes.

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Economist and bestselling author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/thomas-sowell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Thomas Sowell</a> said that relying on the government to enforce so-called “social justice” would only lead to a loss of freedom in an interview with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7gh68Weimg&amp;t=654s">interview</a> posted to YouTube, <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/black-rednecks-and-white-liberals?_pos=1&amp;_sid=9ad91683a&amp;_ss=r">Sowell</a> joined Shapiro to talk about his new book, “Social Justice Fallacies,” and the dangers of the ideology that has been widely embraced across college campuses, large corporations, and by Democrat politicians.
When asked what the greatest dangers of social justice ideologies were, Sowell pointed to the belief held by many on the Left that the government should be used to make everything equal.
“When you simply give more and more power to the government on the illusion that they can [make everything equal], all that you&#8217;re doing is setting yourself for more and more of your freedom to be taken away by other people,” he said.
Shapiro and Sowell also discussed the social justice fallacy of assuming that disparity was caused by discrimination. Sowell pointed to the representation of black players in professional basketball and white tennis players as examples of disparities that were not caused by anything malicious.
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The two also discussed what the future would look like and how to fight back against the spread of social justice ideology, especially among young people.
Shapiro pointed to polling showing that young generations had embraced the social justice mindset, saying that “it&#8217;s hard to be optimistic in the face of a lot of the polling statistics that are showing that younger Americans believe an enormous number of these fallacies.”
Sowell responded by saying that educational resources not steeped in leftist ideology needed to be made available to young people.
“What I think needs to be done is to open up some other avenue of information for young people that they won&#8217;t get the constant propaganda indoctrination that they find in most colleges around the country,” Sowell said, pointing to free online courses from Hillsdale College.
“I think what needs to be done is for someone to organize a central place where people can hear other ideas that they are not likely to hear in the major institutions &#8212; whether someone will be able to do that or not, it remains to be seen,” Sowell added.
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A social justice advocate in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> was stabbed to death on the street in Brooklyn on Monday.
Ryan Carson, 32, was stabbed around 4 a.m. in the Crown Heights neighborhood at Lafayette Avenue and Malcom X Boulevard in what appeared to be a random, unprovoked attack.
Carson was <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-murder-brooklyn-crime/13856680/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> standing at a bus stop with his girlfriend when the suspect came up to them and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ryan-carson-social-justice-advocate-stabbed-to-death-in-crown-heights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> &#8220;What are you looking at?&#8221; and then stabbed Carson in the chest multiple times.
Carson was transported to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
No suspects have been arrested, and the investigation is ongoing, police said.
Carson&#8217;s friends and family <a href="https://brooklyn.news12.com/over-100-people-gather-for-vigil-of-fatal-stabbing-victim-in-bed-stuy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gathered</a> with candles at a park across the street from his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant to honor his life Monday night. Attendees said Carson and his girlfriend had left a wedding and were heading home when he was killed, News 12 <a href="https://brooklyn.news12.com/authorities-man-fatally-stabbed-in-the-chest-in-brooklyn-suspect-at-large" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
New York Assembly Member Emily Gallagher <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/ryan-carson-social-justice-advocate-stabbed-to-death-in-crown-heights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> she was &#8220;absolutely in disbelief.&#8221;
&#8220;Ryan was the kindest, funniest, and hardest working man in advocacy. He and I bonded because our friends died in the opioid epidemic, &amp; we struggled to make good out of our grief. He put his whole heart into making the world a safer place for all people,&#8221; Gallagher <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilyAssembly/status/1708972584115622262" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a post on X.
Carson was a government advocate known for his work related to drug overdose prevention and environmental recycling efforts.
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He was a long-time campaign manager with the New York Public Interest Research Group when he died, working on recycling discarded bottles and cans and solid waste management.
&#8220;It&#8217;s incredibly tragic &#8211; a life full of promise is snuffed out &#8211; and the world is a worse place for it and we&#8217;ll miss him dearly,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-murder-brooklyn-crime/13856680/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Blair Horner, Carson&#8217;s boss at the organization.
In 2021, Carson lobbied for &#8220;safe injection&#8221; drug sites, which allow people to take drugs under supervision. That year, Carson <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/10/02/man-32-stabbed-to-death-near-brooklyn-bus-stop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walked</a> 350 miles from New York City upstate to Albany to pressure then-Governor Andrew Cuomo to legalize the drug consumption sites.
Later that year, New York City <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/drug-infested-philadelphia-passes-bill-to-ban-supervised-drug-sites">became</a> the first city to allow supervised drug consumption sites. In the first three months, the city’s two locations in upper Manhattan reportedly saw about 800 people who made 9,500 <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/09/a-look-inside-the-1st-safe-injection-sites-in-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visits</a>. Staff <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/14/safe-injection-site-philadelphia-opioids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> they have prevented more than 1,000 overdoses since the sites opened. However, at one point, two regulars of the sites died when they overdosed elsewhere while the sites were closed at night.
Carson&#8217;s death came the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/philadelphia-journalist-former-city-comms-director-shot-and-killed-in-his-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">same day</a> Philadelphia journalist Josh Kruger, who was also a drug addiction <a href="https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/philadelphias-opioid-addiction-failure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate</a>, was shot and killed at his home early Monday morning.
Kruger, 39, was shot seven times in the chest and abdomen at his home in Philadelphia&#8217;s Point Breeze neighborhood around 1:30 a.m. He was found in the street, with police saying they suspect he came outside after he was shot to seek help before collapsing.
Detectives said Kruger&#8217;s death may have been drug-related or related to a domestic dispute, with investigators saying they found methamphetamine in Kruger&#8217;s bedroom, The Philadelphia Inquirer <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/crime/josh-kruger-killed-point-breeze-shooting-philadelphia-journalist-20231002.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
No arrests were immediately made, and no weapon was found, police said, but a person of interest <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/josh-kruger-police-id-person-of-interest-in-murder-of-philadelphia-journalist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been</a> identified in the case.

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It used to be conventional wisdom in the field of economics that corporations should do everything they can to make a profit and maximize shareholder value. That was the whole point of a corporation. It was taught in every high school econ textbook, just like the principle of supply and demand, there was this idea that, if for some reason a corporation decided to spend a ton of money on social causes, instead of growing the business, then they were doing something wrong. They were misusing shareholder funds. They were engaging in a form of social engineering, which is unethical, and maybe even illegal. Pretty much everyone agreed with that.
In the last decade or so, though, this reasoning has fallen completely out of favor. Major corporations now see social engineering as their primary objective, whatever the consequences might be. Blackrock and Vanguard are fixated on E.S.G. scores, which means making sure that companies are promoting values like &#8220;sustainability&#8221; and &#8220;inclusivity&#8221; and so on. They care about E.S.G. more than profitability in some cases.
You often hear this phenomenon being described as &#8220;wokeness.&#8221; But that doesn&#8217;t fully capture what&#8217;s happening. Wokeness implies a kind of pie-in-the-sky naivete. It suggests that corporate executives from the coastal states are being earnest when they, for example, schedule “Pride Nights” at NHL games, or pay Dylan Mulvaney to promote Bud Light. 
What&#8217;s actually happening is more sinister. Corporate wokeness is coordinated. It&#8217;s disingenuous. Its aim is not &#8220;inclusivity,&#8221; whatever that means. Instead, the goal of these corporations is to ensure that conservatives never hold any power in this country ever again. What&#8217;s often called &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; in reality, is best described as a hatred of traditional values. It&#8217;s an effort to stamp out conservatives and to destroy them. With very few exceptions, no matter what the company, no matter what the industry, this is the goal of corporate America. They don&#8217;t see their role as selling products. They understand that their true purpose is to promulgate Left-wing ideology to the point that it&#8217;s dominant and totally unchallenged.
Companies rarely admit this out loud, for obvious reasons. Usually, they bombard you with Left-wing marketing, but they don&#8217;t tell you what their actual objective is. But there is one notable exception that we&#8217;ve just found. We&#8217;ve come across a company that — internally, at least — is willing to say that, yes, they want to wage political warfare on conservatives, and to bring back the glory days of the Obama administration. This is a company that effectively acknowledges that its woke marketing, and indeed its entire product line, is a kind of Trojan horse for something very different.
The company is called &#8220;Harry&#8217;s.&#8221; They make razors. You might know that The Daily Wire has some history with them. Harry&#8217;s surfaced a few years ago as a low-cost alternative to big brands like Gillette. Take a look at this recent advertisement from Harry&#8217;s, to get a sense of their marketing these days:
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Harry’s Razors partnered with a “trans man” (female) to promote their razor set
100% of the profits from this set go to the Trevor Project, which promotes gender surgeries for minors <a href="https://t.co/Sb6ZbBT0GA">pic.twitter.com/Sb6ZbBT0GA</a>
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As you can see from the text in that video, Harry&#8217;s is promoting this idea that it&#8217;s &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; for women to buy razors and shave. The point of buying a Harry&#8217;s razor, in this case, isn&#8217;t really to fulfill any useful function. It&#8217;s to make women feel like men.
The ad is, among other things, an endorsement of self-mutilation. Harry&#8217;s has selected an actor — apparently a woman who had her breasts cut off — and they&#8217;re celebrating that decision. Pause for a second to consider how remarkable this is. You might remember that it wasn&#8217;t too long ago that the Left claimed to abhor female genital mutilation, in places like Africa. And now here they are, endorsing the practice to sell cheap razors.
The key question is: Why is Harry&#8217;s doing this? Do they really think this is going to help them sell more razors? Are they just hopelessly naive? 
We don&#8217;t have to look far to find the answer to that question. Here&#8217;s the CEO of Harry&#8217;s, suggesting that something else might be going on. This is a clip that was just unearthed by the popular Twitter account &#8220;End Wokeness.&#8221; Watch:
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Here is the CEO of Harry’s Razors
He calls dads “non-birthing parents” and moms “birthing parents”
He says the company is “socially-minded” <a href="https://t.co/Lrxy3vpciX">pic.twitter.com/Lrxy3vpciX</a>
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The CEO of Harry&#8217;s is using terms like &#8220;birthing parents&#8221; to describe women, and &#8220;non-birthing-parents&#8221; to describe men. He sounds more like a Berkeley coed than the leader of a major company. If you ran a poll, you&#8217;d probably find that a very small percentage of the country talks like this. Maybe something like .0001%. So why is he doing it? If he&#8217;s not trying to increase profits or grow his business, what is he doing exactly?
Those are good questions. So, after seeing that clip, we decided to take a closer look at Harry&#8217;s. And now we have the clearest possible answer to that question. We&#8217;ve unearthed Harry&#8217;s internal <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5390c8aee4b0e52ffc20c4d2/t/5bbd184ee79c709a3ed2fe0e/1539119194494/Ricebowl+Strategy_Harrys_Painting+the+World+Orange.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;global strategy&#8221; agenda</a> from 2018. The document is called &#8220;Painting the World Orange: Positioning Our Way Into a More Progressive Future.&#8221; It was put together by an external agency that Harry&#8217;s selected.
Here&#8217;s a direct quote from that document. As you read this, keep in mind that again, this is supposedly a company with the primary purpose of making razors: 
<blockquote>&#8220;We recognised that rigidly binary gendered constructs were part of the toxic scaffolding we needed to slowly dismantle. &#8230; ‘The Future is Orange’ became our internal shorthand to refer to the thinking and ‘orange’, we hoped, would begin to refer to all the behaviours by which we would embody progressive values for men everywhere. We were excited. This was a brave, bold positioning that could, we hoped, shift culture significantly.&#8221;</blockquote>
The document goes on to mourn the fact that Barack Obama is no longer in office. It then explains that, if you voted for Trump, supported Brexit, or recognize that boys are boys, then you&#8217;re “blatantly racist,” “divisive,&#8221; and &#8220;toxic.&#8221; The strategy document states that Harry&#8217;s, as a company, needs to “fight.”
Harry&#8217;s staffed up accordingly. Per this strategy document, Harry’s then took a company-wide turn to become “an army of energized and motivated social change agents” for “progressive masculinity.” 
What&#8217;s amazing about all this is that it contradicts Harry&#8217;s own studies on this topic. Around the same time that this strategy document was released, Harry&#8217;s commissioned something called a <a href="https://www.menandboyscoalition.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-Harrys-Masculinity-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;masculinity report.&#8221; </a>The report found that men who valued traditional gender roles were more likely to have a positive mindset than men who didn’t. 
But Harry&#8217;s didn&#8217;t change their approach in light of this research. Instead, they enacted a policy to cut off business relationships with companies that don’t align with their radical views. In other words, you must share Harry&#8217;s “progressive values,” or lose any contract you have with Harry&#8217;s.
One of the companies that Harry&#8217;s dropped, as you might have heard, was The Daily Wire. Harry&#8217;s was upset, allegedly, that Michael Knowles said boys are boys, and girls are girls. You probably know that story. The Daily Wire&#8217;s co-founder, Jeremy Boreing, launched Jeremy&#8217;s Razors in response.
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But Harry&#8217;s didn&#8217;t simply cut off companies like The Daily Wire. They also started putting a lot of money into groups that sexualize children.
Since 2019, for example, Harry’s has partnered with The Trevor Project, which bills itself primarily as a suicide hotline. Harry&#8217;s has given <a href="https://shortyawards.com/7th-impact/harrys-pride-2022-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seven figures in contributions</a> to the Trevor Project, in fact. As we&#8217;ve mentioned before on this show, the Trevor Project has lately been pushing the lie that castrating and surgically mutilating children will reduce their mental distress. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/mom-discovers-depravity-in-trevor-projects-trans-chat-room/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the Trevor Project also runs a chat room for children in which adults discuss quote, “nullification surgery,&#8221; meaning &#8220;removing all external genitalia.&#8221; People in the chat room also detail their masturbation addictions, autogynephilic tendencies, and BDSM practices — all of which could be viewed by children.
Harry&#8217;s also donated 100% of the profits from its recent &#8220;Pride&#8221; campaign to organizations such as the U.K. organization, &#8220;Mermaids,&#8221; which is unapologetically in favor of sexualizing and supposedly &#8220;transitioning&#8221; minors. The Daily Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/25/exclusive-trans-charity-mermaids-giving-breast-binders-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that Mermaids offered “advice to users who present themselves as young as 13 that controversial hormone-blocking drugs are safe and ‘totally reversible.'&#8221; Additionally, Mermaids offered chest binders to children as young as 13-years-old, without any parental consent. A Mermaids moderator also <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11260169/Trans-charity-Mermaids-scandal-unfolding-eyes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> &#8220;congratulated a teenage user for deciding that they were transgender by the age of 13 and deciding that they wanted drugs and ‘all the surgeries.’&#8221;
It&#8217;s clear that, regardless of how they bill themselves, Harry&#8217;s isn&#8217;t really a razor company. It&#8217;s a vehicle for Left-wing ideologues who want to transform this country.
 And Harry&#8217;s isn&#8217;t alone. The only thing that separates Harry&#8217;s from pretty much every other major corporation in the country is that they put all of this in writing. That&#8217;s it. So-called &#8220;woke&#8221; corporations like Harry&#8217;s aren&#8217;t misguided, or overly idealistic, or stupid. They know exactly what they&#8217;re doing. They hate you and they want to destroy you. It is nothing less than an act of self-flagellation to voluntarily give your money to businesses like this. They are spitting in your face, and you are paying them for the service. And if that’s how Harry’s or any other Left-wing company wants to operate, that’s their prerogative. But we are still a country where the vast majority of people don’t refer to mothers as “birthing parents,” and don’t think it’s a good idea for women to have cosmetic double mastectomies, and don’t believe in sterilizing and castrating children.
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> discussed biblical justice and masculinity with Dr. Voddie Baucham, a Christian pastor and author, on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-140-voddie-baucham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest episode</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/sunday-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Sunday Special.”</a> 
Baucham, the dean of theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia, spoke with Shapiro on the biblical view of social justice and how woke ideology has taken over some Christian churches. 
“When you have weak and faulty worldviews and then seductive language, and then you have leaders with unclear voices, you end up in the mess we’re in,” Baucham told Shapiro, pointing out that many Christians did not use critical thinking when discussing terms such as “social justice.” 
As Baucham explained, Christians believe in God’s justice, which is “the righteous and equal application of God’s law, but not equal outcomes.” In 2021, Baucham wrote a book dealing with the subject called “Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism&#8217;s Looming Catastrophe.”
Baucham was raised by a single Buddhist mother in South Central Los Angeles and had tendencies toward black nationalism before he converted to Christianity, which he said completely changed his worldview. He said he was converted after coming to realize that he was a sinner and needed redemption after a man came up to him and shared the gospel. 
Shapiro and Baucham also discussed the crisis of masculinity across the United States, with many young men seeming to struggle to find purpose. 
“We have to call men back to this understanding of manhood that is outside of themselves. And you being a man is not just about who you think you are or even who you want to be. It’s about you pointing back to the one who made you. It’s about you pointing back to the purpose for which [God] made you,” Baucham said. 
He added that the result of the war on marriage and traditional roles left women unprotected because it left men unchecked. 
Baucham explained that young men need mentors to help point them to the “God who made them, and to point them to Christ who wants to redeem that manhood. Christ who is the ultimate picture of manhood.” 
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After visiting Zambia for many years, Baucham moved there in 2015 to help form African Christian University, which focuses on training students with a Christian worldview and the humanities.
Shapiro asked Baucham about how he responded to people who object to belief in the Bible and God on an intellectual level. Baucham said he would challenge their presuppositions, saying they also needed faith to get where they were.
Their &#8220;presuppositions have been tried before and they’ve led to catastrophe. My [worldview] is based on presuppositions as well, but my presuppositions have led to Western civilization,” Baucham said.
Shapiro’s full conversation with Baucham can be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-140-voddie-baucham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watched</a> here.

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Courses involving &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies,&#8221; an offshoot of Critical Race Theory, will be available to students at several colleges across the country during the upcoming 2023-2024 school year.
The University of New Mexico’s Department of English Language and Literature will host a &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies&#8221; <a href="https://english.unm.edu/grad/current-students/courses/upcoming-fall.html">course</a> in Fall 2023, where students “will learn about whiteness as an ideology of supremacy and domination.”
“Our goal in this course is to learn how to identify and challenge whiteness as part of an antiracist practice,” the course description says.
A <a href="https://catalog.ucdenver.edu/cu-denver/undergraduate/courses-a-z/edfn/edfn.pdf">course</a> titled “Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice” at the University of Colorado, Denver, asserts that “Critical Whiteness Studies provides a deeper analysis of race that accounts for both sides … the plight of people of color and how white people are complicit.
The University of Oregon also <a href="https://catalog.uoregon.edu/courses/crs-es/">hosts</a> a class titled “Critical Whiteness Studies,” which “explores the social construction of race by investigating and historicizing ‘whiteness’ as a racial category in the U.S.” The University of Oregon also hosts courses on “Environmental Racism” and “Feminist Theories of Race.”
One <a href="https://catalog.usfca.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=38&amp;poid=36311">course</a> at the University of San Francisco&#8217;s School of Education, called &#8220;<a href="https://catalog.usfca.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=38&amp;poid=36086&amp;hl=ime+644&amp;returnto=search">Whiteness, Power and Privilege</a>,&#8221; will explore &#8220;racialization and racism through the lens of Critical Whiteness Studies.&#8221; It also offers an &#8220;examination of whiteness as the driving force behind &#8230; oppression.&#8221;
The University of Puget Sound hosted a <a href="https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/english/courses#:~:text=Critical%20Whiteness%20Studies,society%20it%20influences%20and%20reflects.">course</a> on &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies&#8221; through the English Department in the 2022-2023 school year. The course &#8220;engages with &#8216;whiteness&#8217; as a category of identification in order to develop a theoretically informed understanding of the history, function, and effects of racial encoding within literature.&#8221;
A <a href="https://african.wisc.edu/courses/african-405-the-problem-of-whiteness/">now-deleted</a> course listing from the University of Wisconsin Madison’s African Cultural Studies, which is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210116185706/https://african.wisc.edu/courses/african-405-the-problem-of-whiteness/">archived here</a>, was titled “The Problem of Whiteness.” The course description explained that “Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy.”
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It added “Our class will break away from the standard US-centric frame, and consider how whiteness is constructed globally.” The course also discussed how white people “consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism.”
Johnathan Butcher, a Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy for the Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Wire that &#8220;Any &#8216;critical studies&#8217; are applications or extensions of critical theory, the neo-Marxist worldview developed by Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt School in the 1930s.&#8221;
While Butcher said that there is &#8220;little to distinguish&#8221; Critical Race Theory from &#8220;Critical Whiteness Studies,&#8221; he contended that &#8220;the &#8216;whiteness&#8217; studies claim that whiteness is &#8216;an ideology of supremacy&#8217; and not just a skin color,&#8221; a claim that regurgitates &#8220;the same concepts from critical race theory, in a very pointed fashion.&#8221;
&#8220;The theories — critical legal theory, race theory, queer theory, etc.—are based on the idea that the world can only be explained in terms of power struggles between different identity groups and any existing laws or customs were designed by white individuals to maintain their power,&#8221; he went on to explain.
Butcher, who authored a <a href="https://www.heritage.org/splintered">book</a> on Critical Race Theory, also added that these theories &#8220;reject the idea of equality under the law and individual responsibility,&#8221; instead positing that &#8220;identity groups are victims of structural oppression caused by (white) ruling authorities.&#8221;
The courses come amidst a <a href="https://criticalrace.org">sustained effort</a> to embed Critical Race Theory in both K-12 education and higher education.
Hobart and Williams College’s “Perspectives on Ballet” class will focus on the overlap of race and dance. The <a href="https://www.hws.edu/catalogue/danc.aspx">course</a> will examine “the ways in which ballet represents a Eurocentric perspective on dance, and how the history of ballet has centered whiteness.”
The description goes on to allege that “Ballet … has developed in connection with dominant social, artistic, and political belief systems, many of which contain racist, sexist, ableist, and discriminatory ideologies.”
Butcher <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/arizona-state-university-and-offerings-the-temple-the-woke">pointed out</a> that Arizona State University School of Music, Dance, and Theater previously <a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre">hired a Critical Race Theorist</a> to teach music education courses.
A social work <a href="https://catalog.louisville.edu/undergraduate/courses/bsw/">course</a> at the University of Louisville called “Historical and Contemporary Abolitionism and Anti-Racism” boasted that students will learn “strategies for engaging in anti-racism and de-centering Whiteness including re-education about the history of race and racism.”
The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology offers an <a href="https://ehe.osu.edu/academics/curriculum/anti-racism-certificate">Anti-Racism Certificate</a>, which includes classes based on the tenets of Critical Race Theory. Courses include “Anti-racist, Culturally Responsive Education,” “Multicultural and Social Justice Issues in Counseling,” “Critical Race Theory in Education,” and “Exploring Whiteness,” among others.
There&#8217;s also a “Black Queer Studies” <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23374">course</a> at the University of Maryland that seeks to “center Blackness to meditate upon the overlapping and interwoven categories of race, gender, and sexuality with the goal of decoupling whiteness from LGBTQ+ studies and decoupling heterosexuality from Black studies.”

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What is with the New England Democrat crime wave as of late? Over the past year, a string of Democratic officials and leftists from Rhode Island all the way up to Maine have been arrested for, accused of, or convicted of some pretty bizarre allegations. Here are seven examples:
Boston City Councilor Allegedly Crashes Car Without License, Insurance, Registration
On Friday, Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara (D) allegedly crashed her car into a home in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. The only problem for Lara is that she was reportedly driving the vehicle with a revoked license, and the car was unregistered and uninsured. To make matters worse, Lara&#8217;s autistic child was reportedly in the car. 
Per Massachusetts-based outlet <a href="https://tbdailynews.com/boston-city-councilor-kendra-lara-crashes-into-house-with-unrestrained-son-while-driving-unlicensed-in-unregistered-car-belonging-to-man-she-made-sex-tape-with/">Turtle Boy Daily News&#8217;</a> Aidan Kearney, Lara, née Hicks, ran for office in 2021 on an anti-cop, pro-socialism platform. She will appear in court later this month, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/07/03/boston-city-councilor-kendra-lara-car-driving-history">according</a> to WBUR.
Rhode Island State Senator Allegedly Lies About Keying Car With &#8220;Biden Sucks&#8221; Sticker
Speaking of car crimes, who could forget about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rhode-island-state-senator-faces-additional-charges-over-vandalism-incident-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rhode Island state Senator Joshua Miller</a>? A couple of weeks ago, Miller was arrested for allegedly keying a man&#8217;s car displaying a &#8220;Biden Sucks&#8221; bumper sticker.
When Miller was first questioned by police, he claimed that the alleged victim was possibly a &#8220;gun nut&#8221; who knew that Miller was a state senator and that the victim made up the whole incident. So in other words, Miller pulled a reverse, &#8220;Do you know who I am?&#8221; but a video review would appear to show he was lying.
See the saga below in a must-watch video for some great Boston accents:
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Surveillance video shows the moments Senator Josh Miller is accused of keying an SUV with an anti-Biden sticker at Garden City
He first tells Cranston PD he didn&#39;t do it, then when they show up at his house and say they have video, he admits to it <a href="https://twitter.com/wpri12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wpri12</a> <a href="https://t.co/Fn78uKFKrt">https://t.co/Fn78uKFKrt</a> <a href="https://t.co/vt8Zw3sZD0">pic.twitter.com/vt8Zw3sZD0</a>
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Miller is now facing charges of vandalism and a potential charge of obstruction of justice. The official was first elected in 2006 and is set to be arraigned in court on July 18.
Boston’s Reparations Task Force Coordinator&#8217;s Wild Night At City Hall
Then there was the arrest of Boston’s Reparations Task Force project coordinator George Williams in May. The 35-year-old ex-college professor was appointed by Boston&#8217;s uber-leftist Mayor Michelle Wu to help advise the Reparations Task Force. Police say that Williams used his position to trespass in city hall, harangue custodians, burn sage, physically assault cops, and possibly do some drugs.
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Boston’s Reparations Task Force Coordinator Fired After Burning Sage, Harassing Custodians, Sleeping In City Hall, And Getting Arrested: Report <a href="https://t.co/S9opik8Zqd">https://t.co/S9opik8Zqd</a> <a href="https://t.co/X7ZSYr4u9O">pic.twitter.com/X7ZSYr4u9O</a>
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Nation’s First Elected Transgender State Rep. Arrested On Child Porn Charges: Police
In Nashua, New Hampshire, an alleged pervert and the nation&#8217;s first elected &#8220;transgender-identifying&#8221; man was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nations-first-elected-transgender-state-rep-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-police">arrested</a> on child porn charges in June. 
Stacie Laughton might be the crème de la crème in terms of abject weirdos in Democrat politics in the Granite State — if not all of New England. Laughton was first elected in 2012, only to resign shortly after numerous credit card fraud allegations came to light.
He was later sentenced to six months in jail after reporting a bomb threat to a hospital in 2015. In July 2021, he was arrested for giving police false information.
Unbelievably, Laughton won election to the state house again in November 2022. Then Laughton had to step down in December after accusations of stalking. Laughton had been arrested on stalking charges twice in 2022, including an incident in September just months before the election. 
Now, the guy is being arrested on allegations of distribution of sexually explicit images of children. 
Ex-Democrat Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Guilty Of Child Porn Charges
Laughton isn&#8217;t the only Democrat in New England arrested on child porn charges. 
In May, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-donor-former-gubernatorial-candidate-pleads-guilty-to-child-pornography-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eliot Cutler</a>, a Democratic donor who twice ran for governor of Maine, pleaded guilty to charges of possessing child pornography. Authorities discovered thousands of images of children under the age of 12 being sexually abused in his possession. He will now serve nine months in jail for four counts of possessing sexually explicit material of a child under 12.
Senate-Confirmed U.S. Attorney Resigns After DOJ Report
So far, we&#8217;ve discussed state and local Democrats in New England. But Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins has had her run-ins with the law as well — albeit no charges thus far. 
In May, the George Soros-backed attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-backed-u-s-attorney-resigning-after-doj-ig-accuses-her-of-election-interference-lying-to-feds-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> after a Department of Justice Inspectors General report claimed that she effectively ran election interference, violated the Hatch Act, and committed other unethical moves while on the job.
The DOJ alleged that she &#8220;violated federal regulations, numerous DOJ policies, her Ethics Agreement, and applicable law, and fell far short of the standards of professionalism and judgment that the Department should expect of any employee, much less a U.S. Attorney.&#8221;
The supposedly apolitical DOJ under President Joe Biden declined to charge his Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney.
Racial Justice Warrior Scams The System—Allegedly
Rollins was close pals with another apparent New England ne&#8217;er-do-well: Monica Cannon-Grant, a prominent leftist activist in the Boston area, and her husband, Clark Grant. The two were federally charged and arrested on 18 counts of fraud and conspiracy in relation to her non-profit, Violence in Boston (VIB), in March 2022. Cannon-Grant was named the 2020 &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/progressive-activist-a-2020-bostonian-of-the-year-arrested-on-federal-charges-of-fraud-conspiracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bostonian of the Year</a>&#8221; by the Boston Globe for her activism after the death of George Floyd and for her involvement with local protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.
In March 2023, authorities <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/10/activist-monica-cannon-grant-nonprofit-fraud-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tacked</a> on some more charges after she allegedly misused city funds while lying about her income to get more government cash intended for impoverished people. 
Grant and her husband pleaded not guilty to the original 18 charges. Sadly on March 30, Clark Grant died in a motorcycle accident.
Is The Late Ted Kennedy To Blame For It All?
Of course, perhaps there is one man to blame for this apparent crime wave: ex-U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
Kennedy really set the gold standard for allegedly breaking several laws and endangering others while getting away with it. Just ask Mary Jo Kopechne. (See: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/craven-teddy-kennedy-wanted-to-say-mary-jo-kopechne-was-driving-at-chappaquiddick-book-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chappaquiddick</a>).
Every liberal in New England grows up yearning to be the next Kennedy. 
It turns out that committing alleged crimes is a package deal alongside Kennedy&#8217;s words that &#8220;the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.&#8221;
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Liberalism is a mental disorder, or so the saying goes. That expression appears to be proven correct every single day. For example, take the latest story out of Arlington, Virginia, as evidence that some leftists have become so open-minded that their brains have fallen out.
Over Memorial Day Weekend,  Adam Theo, a candidate for the Arlington County Board and a social justice activist, tweeted that he was horribly beaten up and bloodied to a pulp after he intervened in what appeared to be a couple fighting. The male suspect brutally attacked him before dragging a female companion off into the darkness, Theo said.
Photos posted online show that Theo was left with two bruised eyes and a giant slash on his neck. He suffered senseless injuries no innocent person should be put through — especially not somebody trying to break up a fight.
&#8220;I lost count after punch no. 6. His GF pulled him back long enough for me to stumble away, but not far enough as he broke away from her and went for another series of blows. About 15 in total I think?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Samaritans came to aid and called 911, with the guy dragging the woman away screaming. Last I heard while sitting in Virginia Hospital Center he&#8217;d not yet been caught.&#8221;
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It&#8217;s an awful attack. You would think anybody who experienced something like that would want the maniac behind it in jail.
Not Theo. Theo wants to see his assailant go to a diversion program and be placed in restorative justice.
&#8220;Assuming @ArlingtonVaPD catches him, I want to persue #RestorativeJustice,&#8221; he <a href="https://archive.ph/saCvh#selection-1569.0-1591.178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> from his now locked Twitter account. &#8220;I want programs to deal with such anger &amp; possibly substance abuse. Jail doesn&#8217;t fix people — it just releases problems back out into society even worse than when they went in.&#8221;
Restorative justice programs have been tried in the most liberal of cities. For example, in Los Angeles, District Attorney George Gascon believes in restorative justice. One of the criminals placed in Gascon&#8217;s soft-on-crime program was <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-man-avoided-prison-212405042.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently arrested for allegedly murdering</a> his neighbor. He evaded jail time after slashing somebody in the neck.
Sounds pretty similar to the man who allegedly attacked Theo. Nonetheless, the Leftist wants criminals to avoid jail time — even if it means putting people a future risk.
To be clear, nobody is mocking Theo for this horrendous assault. But, how can a political philosophy be taken seriously when promoters of said ideology get beaten to a pulp in the street and still think the man who did it shouldn&#8217;t be behind bars — because that&#8217;s what their philosophy dictates?
On Monday evening, Theo was going to get some ramen and sushi. Sometime after that, he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-area-activist-wants-anger-management-restorative-justice-attacker-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated</a> his Twitter bio to say, &#8220;Temporarily locked to fend off right-winger trolls flooding my TL with racist slurs &amp; attacking friends.&#8221;
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The following is a chapter excerpt from the new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Failure-American-Jewish-Leadership/dp/163758878X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership</a>, compiled and edited by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser (May 2023), from <a href="https://posthillpress.com/bombardier-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bombardier Books,</a> an imprint of <a href="https://posthillpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post Hill Press</a>.
“We know the Zionist perspective,” a chorus of Jewish students at elite Jewish day schools across the nation continuously assure me. “We want to hear the other side. We want to know the Palestinian side.” Indeed, the tagline of IfNotNow, one of the most virulent anti-Zionist Jewish youth groups, is, “You never told me.”
It was my latest visit to a prestigious Jewish day school in North America that prompted me to re-evaluate how it is that we got to a place where I question the efficacy of Jewish and Israel education in America. It was at one such lecture that I had given on anti-Zionism and antisemitism that students complained of my bias, presenting me with a plethora of grievances with Israel. In that moment, I decided to switch gears: “You have presented criticisms of Israel, and you claim that you come from Zionist homes and a Zionist school. So, you tell me: Why should Israel exist as a Jewish country?” 
The Zionist challenge, as I have come to call it, was met with alarming rejoinders. One student proclaimed, “To be completely honest, as I am thinking out loud, I have to say, I would be willing to give up the land if human rights would be restored to the Palestinians.” Her friend further explained: “Yes, because I can pray and practice my Judaism here [America] without ever having to be there [Israel].” Another student stated: “I can’t trust Israeli courts when it comes to settling land disputes because they are majority Jewish and therefore, biased.” And finally, a student settled it all: “I don’t see a reason to call myself a Zionist. Zionism has fulfilled its purpose.”
How did we get here? How do our brightest and most dedicated Jewish students surrender the land, the trust in their people, and their history? 
It used to be that within Jewish families in North America, one sensible reason to send kids to Jewish day schools and to Jewish youth programs was to avoid anti-Israel bias in the classroom. This strategy, however, has proven to not only be ineffective, but more alarmingly, produced a generation of anti-Zionist Jews — or, as Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy call them, the “un-Jews.” Likewise, having Israeli parents or joining Israeli youth movements, such as tsofim, provide little to no real shelter from the dangers of radical leftism, which has ushered in anti-Zionism, today’s most potent form of Jew-hatred. 
A stark example is a graduate of a K–12 Jewish day school, Simone Zimmerman, the founder of <a href="https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/">IfNotNow</a> (a Jewish organization whose goal is to oppose “Israeli occupation”). Zimmerman is but one, although vivid, example of how Jewish education provides little refuge from an education steeped in Marxist thought. But the phenomenon of Jewish young adults graduating Jewish day schools and joining anti-Israel groups such as J Street, Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and even Students for Justice in Palestine, has been in the making for decades now. Indeed, Jewish day school graduates are at the helm of anti-Israel and anti-American movements on college campuses. They aren’t just members, they are leaders. How did this happen? 
To help answer this question, I turn to a Soviet policy enshrined during the Stalin years: “socialist in content, national in form.” Having formed a nascent Soviet government in 1918, several ethnic minorities (that is, Jewish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Armenian) found themselves under Soviet rule. Party officials had a problem to solve: how to unite these diverse ethnic minorities under the aegis of a common ideology.
What the central committee devised was ingenious: Allow ethnic minorities to speak their native language, publish newspapers and books in their native language, and support the arts of the minorities. The only caveat: The content had to promote socialism. Indeed, in the 1920s and even in the 1930s, there was a burgeoning of Yiddish in the Soviet Union. This is why Jews scanning the globe in 1919 declared the Jewish future not in Palestine or America, but in the Soviet Union! How wrong they were is for another time (anti-Semitism returned in greater force in the Soviet Union with the murder of Yiddish poets, artists, and writers during Stalin’s last years in power).
In a rather twisted turn of historic events that would make Stalin chuckle, Jewish day schools in North America practice “woke in content, Jewish in form.” Indeed, all major Jewish groups that oppose the “Israeli occupation” or promote the BDS movement have been started by Jews who either graduated from Jewish day schools or were involved in Jewish youth groups:
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<li><a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/"> Jewish Voice for Peace</a>: Founder Julie Ivny joined Hashomer Hatzair, a Jewish youth group focused on social justice and Judaism, when she was in the third grade: “The older teens in the youth group,” a sympathetic article says, “encouraged their waist-high counterparts to think and talk about the world around them, to not ignore the inequality that persisted in Los Angeles’ neighborhoods and schools.” According to the ADL, Jewish Voice for Peace is a “radical anti-Israel activist group that advocates for a complete economic, cultural and academic boycott of the state of Israel.”</li>
<li><a href="https://jstreet.org/"> J Street</a>: Founder Jeremy Ben-Ami completed Hebrew school at Temple Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan, a Reform synagogue. Ben-Ami founded J Street as a reaction to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), whose goal is to foster a strong relationship between the U.S. and Israel. According to J Street, the “ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is a major obstacle to the achievement of Israeli-Palestinian peace, is a systemic injustice violating the rights of the Palestinian people, and poses a severe threat to Israel’s long-term future as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.”</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/IfNotNowOrg"> IfNotNow</a>: Founded by Simone Zimmerman, a graduate of two Jewish day schools in Los Angeles, the group calls itself a movement to end Israel’s “occupation.” In 2018, IfNotNow held a mourner’s kaddish service for Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in a Gaza airstrike. </li>
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This is not a coincidence. This is a pattern. And it comes from Jewish educational institutions that focus not on Judaism and anti-Semitism specifically, but on promoting “anti-racist” education, restoring “climate justice,” and battling gender and racial “inequity.” Moreover, at the root of it all is discomfort with Jewish particularism: a majority Jewish state with borders and, by extension, Jewish nationalism. Jewish mainstream institutions have abandoned Jewish particularism and gravitated toward universalism. Through universalism, we have re-written, so to speak, three major concepts in Judaism: tzedek, tzedek tirdof; tikkun olam; and derech eretz.
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<li> Tzedek, tzedek tirdof: “Justice, justice shall you pursue&#8230;” This phrase, taken from Deuteronomy 16:20, appears in most Jewish schools’ mission statements, at times even emblematized on the front gates of the school. The original text reads: “Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that Adonai your God is giving you.” In its entire context, it is an imperative from God that the Jewish people occupy and settle in Eretz Yisrael by appointing magistrates and officials who will “not judge unfairly.” Willfully forgetting the remainder of the passage, Jewish educators apply these words, “justice, justice shall you pursue,” as an ethical permission slip to embrace social justice causes such as racial and gender inequity, inclusivity, and immigration reform, to name a few.</li>
<li> Tikkun olam: “Repair the world.” While tikkun olam is a signature theme of Jewish tradition in North America, somewhere along the way Jewish educators came to believe that the goal for the Jewish people was to help to repair the world through solving world hunger, campaigning against occupations real or imagined, ending gender wage gaps, and fighting climate change; however, in its original formulation, tikkun olam is achieved through ethical and ritual mitzvot, such as keeping the laws of kashrut and observing the Sabbath. Similar to those who invoke tzedek, tzedek tirdof piecemeal, tikkun olam, which comes from the Aleinu, a seminal prayer in Jewish liturgy, appears in a passage that extends hope in “You, Adonai our God&#8230; to completely cut off all false gods; to repair the world, Your holy empire.” We make a grave error, therefore, in thinking that tikkun olam means embracing a woman’s right to choose, open immigration, or supporting equity of outcome policies. </li>
<li> Derech eretz: “Way of the land.” Although the literal translation is “way of the land,” Jewish educators have applied derech eretz to embrace compassion, kindness, and “common decency.” The problem, however, is that compassion and kindness to each person mean different things. I once asked my students to define kindness and received disparate responses. To one, kindness was giving something from oneself in order to benefit another person; to another, it was saying kind words in order to make someone else feel better. </li>
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Derech eretz appears in several iterations in rabbinic literature. Take, for example, the midrash from Exodus Rabbah (Shemot Rabbah 35:2). In this tractate, an example of derech eretz is “refrain[ing] from using wood from a fruit-bearing tree to build a house.”10 Here, derech eretz is not a commentary on kindness, but rather a frame to help people to make better economic and ecological choices. But as I once heard among a cohort of Jewish senior educators at a conference, practicing derech eretz was finding a way to incorporate LGBTQ awareness into the Jewish middle school curriculum.
To return to the dictum “socialist in content, national in form,” Soviet officials relied on this policy in order to unite a society around a shared system of values. In its entirety, the slogan, taken from Stalin’s 1934 essay “Marxism and the National-Colonial Question,” reads: 
<blockquote>“The development of cultures national in form and socialist in content is necessary for the purpose of their ultimate fusion into one General Culture, socialist as to form and content, and expressed in one general language.” </blockquote>
This “one General Culture” was emblematized by the “new Soviet man” — novyj Sovetskii chelovek — an archetype of the Leninist-Marxist ideals. Regardless of the chelovek’s ethnic background, he was a highly conscious individual, hyper-aware of his role to oppose private property and the greed of capitalism and to support the worker against the petty bourgeoisie. The policy to conform was a success. Within five to ten years, ethnic minorities touted the Soviet policy line; and within fifteen to twenty years, as was planned, the “national form” had disappeared. 
By the 1960s, Jewish homes in the Soviet Union saw a 66 percent decline in spoken Yiddish. But at least in the Soviet Union, it was done for a cause, granted a rotten one. What is the reason — the cause — for Jewish educators to practice “woke in content, Jewish in form”? Certainly, it is not due to external forces, as in the case of the Soviet government that mandated educational policy. In North America, we cannot point to a single leader, a legislative document, or unique event that demonstrates a widespread adoption of these principles. What we can do, instead, is look to the triad — tzedek, tzedek tirdof, tikkun olam, and derech eretz — and find a common denominator: the removal of God from each of the Jewish ideas. In each invocation of the triad, God is not present.
The consequence of an absent God is that man must step in to restore order. Therein lies the problem: The moral compass is thus defined by individuals and not the institutional codex from which the principles emanate. The lack of explicit theological grounding allows individuals to sanction ideologies and policies they see fit to promote.
My recent encounter with young Jews demonstrates that in each of their articulations — from discomfort with a Jewish majority court system to enshrining human rights, and, most significantly, finding no reason to be a Zionist since “Zionism has fulfilled its purpose” — somewhere along the way, Jewish educators, along with the institutions, have dropped the ball on Jewish identity. It was most painful to hear a young Jewish student surrender one of the holiest pillars of Jewish identity, the Land of Israel, in order to “restore” justice and human rights to the Palestinians. And what is most painful is that behind her reasoning is a well-oiled Jewish education system that has taught this young lady that, in order to be a Jew, she must repair the world, seek justice for the persecuted, and jettison her parochial Jewish nationalism. This young lady, therefore, surrenders the Land because she is a Jew, a Jew who has been taught social justice in content while national in form.
What then is the answer? How do we treat this alarming malaise? First and foremost, we address the root cause: discomfort with Jewish nationalism. Next, we unpack Jewish nationalism by reminding American Jews that we are, first and foremost, a people, not a religion. We are an indigenous people from the Land of Israel; the reason we have been dispersed around the globe is because we were exiled from our national homeland.
We need to stop capitulating to the Zeitgeist, that is the desire to fit Jewish identity into a woke framework. Yes, Zionism is a movement of justice; yes, Zionism sought to restore power to the persecuted Jewish people. But this is partial. We must inspire our Jewish youth in the idea that we are living in the most miraculous moment, a most supreme Zionist moment. Through Zionism, Jews have returned to history: We are not being written about, but rather are the scribes of history. What is Zionism? Zionism is a national Jewish movement — it is about returning the Jewish people to their homeland, with self-determination, with power, and with secure borders.
This chapter excerpt is published by permission from <a href="https://posthillpress.com/">Post Hill Press</a>. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Failure-American-Jewish-Leadership/dp/163758878X">Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership</a>, is compiled and edited by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser.
Naya Lekht received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Russian Literature, where she wrote her dissertation on how Soviet writers pushed communist-enforced boundaries of Holocaust representation in literature and film. A passionate educator and public speaker, Naya writes and teaches on the topic of antisemitism, and Soviet influences on contemporary anti-Zionism in particular. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Global Study of Antisemitism and Policy, as well as a senior educator at Club Z, a rapidly growing Zionist youth movement.
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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Former NBA coach and player Phil Jackson says the league has gotten so political that he doesn’t watch it anymore. 
Appearing on the “Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin” podcast, Jackson said since 2020, the league began catering to a “certain audience” in an attempt to bring them in, but in the process, began alienating many longtime NBA fans. The former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers coach called for professional basketball to be non-political, criticizing the NBA for social justice slogans that have been displayed on the court and jerseys. 
“I am not enjoying the game,” Jackson said. “That’s too bad. There’s a whole generation that doesn’t like the game.”
Jackson, 77,  <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30055011/everything-happened-nba-bubble">said</a> that the politicization of the NBA became too much as the league reacted to social unrest that followed the death of George Floyd while in police custody. During this time, which coincided with the pandemic and peak of government-mandated lockdowns, the league transitioned to a “bubble” where players, coaches, media, and other staff all traveled to Orlando in an attempt to protect themselves from COVID while being able to continue their season. 
“All the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed down there, no audience, and they had things on their back like ‘Justice’ and a funny thing happened,” Jackson <a href="https://www.outkick.com/phil-jackson-doesnt-watch-nba-anymore-because-its-too-political/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “They made a funny thing like, ‘Justice just went to the basket and Equal Opportunity just knocked him down.&#8217; My grandkids thought that was pretty funny to play up those names. I couldn’t watch that.”
During that time, the NBA embraced social justice buzzwords and slogans, plastering messages like “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice” on the court, jerseys, and even team buses. According to the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/article-12003315/Phil-Jackson-says-doesnt-follow-NBA-political-2020-Bubble.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>, few players kept their last names on their jerseys, instead opting for “Justice.” The NBA also <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/article-12003315/Phil-Jackson-says-doesnt-follow-NBA-political-2020-Bubble.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> players to kneel during the national anthem. 
“It was trying to cater to an audience or trying to bring a certain audience to the game, and they didn’t know it was turning other people off,” Jackson said. “People want to see sports as non-political. Politics stays out of the game. It doesn’t need to be there.”
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Jackson is an 11-time NBA champion coach, winning six titles as head coach of the Bulls in the ‘90s and five with the Lakers in the 2000s. He played 12 seasons in the league and won two NBA championships in the 1970s with the New York Knicks.
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According to a 2021 YouGov/Yahoo News <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/nearly-half-of-americans-changed-sports-viewing-habits-because-of-social-justice-192601834.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnJlaXRiYXJ0LmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA-_ovRWeAYGgvpU6tuNxKtwJKCZVuX11aIaW4RdzsHCMX6fzyiwCd49CjXBbnWPrE7Pgx8HJeGz34IvyH8Trxi3df-3bYKixcC5FjWpF9d-heY4Uz5Q3OvEtK6xfXjyvBVityn0ayZ7XOE9lvz6xhH9y583KL-qw_rhHFQM3Z8z" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>, Jackson is not alone in his view that social justice advocacy intermingled with sports is difficult to watch. The poll found that nearly 50% of sports fans in the country changed their viewing habits because of political messaging. Eleven percent of viewers said they watch more sports because of it, but 34.5% said they watched less.

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A federal tech agency recently caught <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">risking the nation’s cybersecurity</a> by violating rules and lying in the name of “equity” is dominated by a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire</a> investigation shows.
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Service (TTS) — whose employees have included a self-proclaimed Marxist organizer and a man who identifies as transgender who raised money from colleagues to “void their gender warranty” — spent its time on projects like creating a social justice robot. The efforts came as the unit lost millions of dollars, repeatedly lied, and put the security of sensitive data at risk with wanton noncompliance with basic security rules, according to watchdog reports and other records reviewed by The Daily Wire.
The Daily Wire reported last week that GSA’s inspector general found that TTS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tricked federal agencies into violating security standards</a> by omitting facial recognition from software designed to lock up highly sensitive information, privately reasoning that such software was racist. It obtained $197 million in part by falsely telling customers and funders that it was compliant with NIST standards that required biometrics. The scandal affected Login.gov, a service to authenticate Americans’ identity before giving access to sensitive data, and in particular the nearly one million accounts that were sold as conforming to higher-level NIST standards which would have required facial recognition. GSA said it was &#8220;completely unacceptable&#8221; and that it is pursuing discipline.
TTS — which began as a project called 18F that still operates as one of its largest units — matters because of the importance of technology to modern government and because, like other GSA departments, its work fans out into other federal agencies.
President Joe Biden is planning an executive order that would push Login.gov to every American, <a href="https://fcw.com/digital-government/2023/02/white-house-mulls-scaling-login-dot-gov-reach-every-american/383142/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FCW</a> reported last month. The IRS plans to implement Login.gov to allow Americans to file their taxes directly to it this April, despite concerns by one of the software platform’s own former leaders that it could <a href="https://fcw.com/it-modernization/2023/03/plans-approve-use-login-dot-gov-tax-day-nears/383934/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not handle it</a>. Though the IRS originally planned to use <a href="https://fcw.com/digital-government/2022/02/irs-backs-away-facial-recognition-technology/361674/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facial recognition</a> technology — which could cut down on billions of dollars of fraud from people filing tax returns in others&#8217; names — it ultimately decided not to.
The Login.gov cyber-vulnerability and deception disclosed this month was just one of a series of serious rule violations, financial losses, and cyber-vulnerabilities that the GSA acknowledged were the result of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“gross mismanagement.”</a> But the breakdown also occurred because the unit, which spent only half of its time working on actual billable projects, was consumed with a shocking level of partisanship.
In 2016, the agency’s inspector general <a href="https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/ipa-reports/OIG%20EVALUATION%20REPORT_Evaluation%20of%2018F_%20JE17-001_October%2024%202016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> 18F for spending more than $4,000 in manpower on “bots” such as one that corrected gendered language in internal messages between employees.
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<h1>Users shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;no problemo&#8221; because it &#8220;arose as a way of devaluing Spanish in favor of an &#8216;English-only&#8217; United States.&#8221;</h1>
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“The ‘Slackbot’ polices a user&#8217;s text for the pronouns &#8216;guys,&#8217; ‘guyz,’ and ‘dudes.’ When the bot detects these pronouns, it prompts the user to consider replacing the pronoun with an option, like ‘team,’” the IG wrote.
Staff only doubled down after being called out, prompting the creation of a far more expansive social justice robot.
“Pretty soon, we realized that we could introduce a lot more language nudges than just ‘guys,’ and we renamed ‘guys bot’ to ‘<a href="https://18f.gsa.gov/2022/11/14/improving-inclusion-continuously-how-we-iterated-on-our-bot-to-promote-more-inclusive-and-thoughtful-language/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inclusion Bot</a>,’” 18F officials wrote in November 2022.
The new bot <a href="https://github.com/18F/charlie/blob/main/InclusionBot.md">objects</a> to calling something &#8220;nuts&#8221; and suggests replacing it with &#8220;bananas&#8221; because we &#8220;want to avoid stigmatizing mental illness.&#8221; It discourages saying something is &#8220;like crack&#8221; because &#8220;We want to avoid stigmatizing addiction. Crack cocaine usage has also been racialized, resulting in discriminatory policies that target Black people.&#8221;
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Users shouldn&#8217;t say &#8220;no problemo&#8221; because it &#8220;arose as a way of devaluing Spanish in favor of an &#8216;English-only&#8217; United States.&#8221; And they shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;circle the wagons&#8221; because &#8220;this term arose from colonization,&#8221; nor &#8220;hold down the fort&#8221; because &#8220;this term arose as a military phrase.&#8221; They shouldn&#8217;t conduct a &#8220;postmortem&#8221; because &#8220;This term can trigger emotions related to death.&#8221;
After the 2016 election, top honchos tried to shield TTS — which has its roots in a program architected by Barack Obama — from layoffs by claiming it was nonpartisan. &#8220;We have people from different political stripes on the team … We don&#8217;t think technology is partisan,&#8221; TTS Commissioner Rob Cook told <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2016/11/16/technology/trump-innovation-white-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, which also noted that Republican Kevin McCarthy supported the unit.
But records reviewed by The Daily Wire depict a team of far-Left partisans that impacted agencies across the federal government through their web and data work. Choose any name on 18F’s roster and there’s a good chance you’ll find openly far-Left sentiment and a fixation on identity politics. For example, <a href="https://meritalk.com/articles/gsa-names-ann-lewis-new-director-of-tts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ann Lewis</a>, who was hired as TTS’ director in December, was previously chief technology officer of MoveOn.org, the leftist political fundraising group.
TTS Design Director Cordelia Yu last year raised money from colleagues (including former 18F director Aaron Snow) for &#8220;gender-affirming surgery&#8221;&#8211;billed in tech-speak as &#8220;Help Cordelia <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cordelia-void-their-gender-warranty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Void Their Gender</a> Warranty&#8221;&#8211;in a GoFundMe organized by a friend. Yu&#8217;s blog mimicked <a href="https://cordy.news/agile-broke-my-brain">&#8220;the 18F</a> project reflection template&#8221; and stated: &#8220;Goals for the last three months: Turn a penis into a p****.”
Leah Bannon, a former product lead who worked on <a href="https://ash.harvard.edu/people/leah-bannon">immigration at 18F</a>, is now an organizer for Bread and Roses Democratic Socialists of America, a self-described &#8220;national caucus of <a href="https://twitter.com/leahbannon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marxist organizers</a>.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/apetersen/status/1625343636379512833" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Peterson</a>, a graphic designer for 18F, wrote this month on Twitter: &#8220;Hi: my name is Anne and my pronouns are they/them. My name or appearance should not lead to a presumption of gender. Your assumption may harm me whether or not you intend it to.&#8221; She complained about the lack of bathrooms for nonbinary people.
After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, 18F infrastructure director Noah Kunin — who the inspector general said repeatedly plotted to circumvent rules and made false statements — wrote a blog post saying he was quitting because of his hatred of Trump.
&#8220;The people with the matches are inside the house &#8230; It’s now on fire because the people in charge want to burn it down,&#8221; he <a href="https://medium.com/@noahkunin/why-im-leaving-18f-48970131d547">wrote</a>.
He also claimed Trump had converted a position overseeing the unit from a civil servant to political appointee role in order to demand “loyalty.” In private correspondence, Kunin’s supervisor fretted that the blog was false, and an IG report showed that it was false in a deeply ironic way: In reality, Obama’s GSA head, Denise Turner Roth, had pushed for the position to be converted to a politically appointed one as she sought a way to fire a civil servant who blew the whistle on the “politicization” of 18F during the Obama years. The IG found that Roth improperly retaliated against that whistleblower.
The day after Trump’s election, TTS held a “town hall” where high-paid tech employees — many of whom worked remotely — expressed fears for their “safety” and plotted to continue getting paid while refusing to do work asked for by the Trump administration, according to records obtained by The Daily Wire under the Freedom of Information Act.
Some employees transcribed quotes from the bosses in Slack for those who could not tune in to the video meeting. Shawn Allen quoted one seemingly suggesting that they stay in government in order to resist Trump: &#8220;you guys don&#8217;t run away from a fight; you run _to_ the fight.&#8221;
The next reply came from the social justice bot the team had created, objecting to the gendered language.
“Did you mean *mates*?” it asked.
This is the third installment in a series.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity">Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans’ Online Accounts, Citing ‘Equity’</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-tech-arm-had-pattern-of-gross-mismanagement-before-equity-induced-cybersecurity-fiasco">Federal Tech Arm Had Pattern Of ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Before ‘Equity’-Induced Cybersecurity Fiasco</a>

Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Put Cybersecurity At Risk

Federal Agency Focused On Leftist Politics And Pronouns As 'Gross Mismanagement' Put Cybersecurity At Risk

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