My Gazette: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or, Truth, Justice, and The American Way?

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is irrational, it's leftist philosophy without form, acceptance without accomplishment, and incompetence without consequence

By Rich Kozlovich

While on the surface DEI may seem relatively harmless, but the left knows this is ruse laying the groundwork to impose conditions and values on society that's antithetical to everything America has stood for.  There's that old axiom that says when conservatives decide to stop eating meat and become vegetarians that's with they do. When leftists decide eating meat is wrong, they demand everyone stop eating meat, and that's where DEI is taking the nation, and has now become a state sponsored religion promoting the destruction of America.

The nation is coming to a point where we're going to have to recognize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is diametrically opposed to Truth Justice, and the American Way, and is in point of fact economic, cultural, national suicide, and imposing it is unconstitutional, and the fact is, it's treason, which this next piece highlights.  This is what these DEI misfits really believe, and everything else is a load of horsepucky.  Get over it!

DEI, which stinks to the public, morphs into creative new acronyms - May 8, 2024 By Jack Hellner -Some states have made laws to have universities get rid of their DEI offices. Good luck with that, because now the infamous equity offices are morphing into other acronyms, same way ACORN used to change its names every time another scandal broke. DEI, which is "diversity, equity, and inclusion," is a disastrous policy, but harbors a big, decadent, racism industrial complex, so Democrats, as they always do, are "rebranding" the concept  instead of getting rid of, to intentionally mislead the public. Start with Texas.........

City 'equity' chief calls for U.S. to 'burn to the ground' - A city "equity' officer being paid some $75,000 a year by College Park, Maryland, is being profiled online for desiring that the United States "burn to the ground" so that her ideology "can rise from the ashes." And she wants it all to happen without any effort on her part, apparently, as she insists, "I don't want to work."...............The report reveals she said she is working with activists to orchestrate "how we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down."...............She reminded, in 2021, "Remember we are at war against colonialism. We can't forget," and "I can't wait for society to collapse so MY ideology can rise from the ashes!".......

ACADEMIA IS A SCAM, A SNARE, AND A RACKET 

 

Former Harvard Medical Professor Details How His Defense of Truth During Pandemic Got Him Fired  -  Leah Barkoukis - March 19, 2024  -  At Harvard, Claudine Gay’s short tenure showed the world that you can botch your response to antisemitism on campus, dig a bigger hole for the University during congressional testimony about that response, and then rack up plagiarism allegation after plagiarism allegation and not much will happen to you. Sure, the former president ended up stepping down after the pressure was finally too great, but she’s still on faculty at Harvard getting her $900,000 salary..........

 

Harvard Tramples the Truth -  Martin Kulldorff - When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn’t the university’s guiding principle.  I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard. The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered, truth can get you fired. This is my story—a story of a Harvard biostatistician and infectious-disease epidemiologist, clinging to the truth as the world lost its way during the Covid pandemic.........

 

Another day and another plagiarism story out of academia - By Andrea Widburg April 22, 2024 - Once it emerged that Harvard’s former president, Claudine Gay, was a serial plagiarizer, conservatives started looking for other examples of plagiarizing in the halls of America’s colleges and universities. It turns out that this kind of search is akin to shooting fish in a barrel: You cannot fire without hitting something. The latest case is the DEI official at UCLA’s School of Medicine, an institution that’s completely abandoned itself to the worst excesses of DEI, CRT, and other Democrat madness. And as is so often the case, the culprit is a black woman.............

 

My Take - Harvard has standards, only integrity, truth, honesty and justice aren't among them.  Claudine Gay was a DEI plagiarist DEI appointee, but even after being exposed for her corruption she retained her faculty position....for a paltry 900,000 a year. But telling any truth that's in direct contradiction to the leftist narrative of the moment is absolutely intolerably.  Your fired!  RK

 

The anxiety of snowflakes - April 16, 2024 by George Shuster - Anxiety is a most mutable condition. How like the Cancel Culture to ignore all its many shapes, save that by which it tries to justify its tyranny. The most pervasive excuse offered by the fascists on the academic Left for their censorship has been their alleged therapeutic concern to shield their "snowflake" students from anxiety. The hypocrisy of that claim is demonstrated by all the forms of anxiety such censorship creates but which the Left has never seen fit to acknowledge. Here are three examples.  First, consider the implications for education, which is supposed to provide preparation for the real world after graduation. The decisions that the Cancel Culture makes about which narratives are "safe" inevitably means others are deemed "unsafe." Students are thus denied the opportunity of learning how to deal with those other issues. When those students graduate into reality, their anxiety will be heightened, not lessened, by their impaired inability to deal with the unfamiliar...............

 

 DIE Required: 67% of Universities Mandate “Diversity” Indoctrination - More than two-thirds of America’s major universities are prioritizing indoctrination in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology over real education. That’s the bracing conclusion of a new report finding that 67 percent of major universities across the country require students to take courses in DEI—an ideology that promotes race-based discrimination—just to graduate. But the Goldwater Institute has a solution to restore institutions of higher learning to their core educational purpose: the pursuit of truth through the creation and dissemination of knowledge. The ideology behind DEI teaches that the world is divided into the categories of “oppressor” and “oppressed.” Accordingly, the only way to pursue justice is to practice discrimination against those deemed “oppressors.” DEI thus rejects the American ideal of equal opportunity regardless of race, color, or creed.............

Two-Thirds of Colleges Mandate DEI Courses for Graduation, Report Finds -Eric Revell, Fox News, April 11, 2024 -  "This is actually going to take a lot more effort by the states to actually disentangle DEI from campus."  A new report released Thursday by the group Speech First finds that nearly two-thirds of colleges and universities reviewed have requirements for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) courses to satisfy graduation requirements.The report, titled “No Graduation Without Indoctrination: The DEI Course Mandate,” investigated 248 colleges from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and found that 67% of the institutions reviewed mandate DEI courses to satisfy general education requirements. Of the 165 institutions identified that enforce DEI requirements, 59% were taxpayer-funded public institutions and 41% were private institutions. Speech First Executive Director Cherise Trump — no relation to the former president — spoke with FOX Business’ Lydia Hu about the report and said that the idea to look into DEI graduation requirements came about through conversations with college students.....

At UCLA’s medical school, suicide is a valid protest against societal pathologies - By Andrea Widburg - Last month, Aaron Bushnell, a member of the United States Air Force, decided to show his support for Hamas by setting himself ablaze. It was, perhaps, an appropriate form of suicide given that Hamas burned alive and otherwise tortured in medieval ways hundreds of Israelis prior to executing them, along with those whom they simply shot to death. Bushnell was obviously a deeply sick man, whether because he was mentally ill or just plain evil, I do not know. However, at the UCLA Medical School, in the psychiatry department, he was celebrated as a mentally healthy man making a reasonable protest against America, a sick society. This isn’t just creepy; it’s also how you create a society of future suicide bombers.......

Washington’s Latest Health Care Whipping Boy - April 13, 2024 By Deane Waldman, M.D. - U.S. healthcare is failing (obviously).  Over the years, Washington and their complicit media have identified many different groups as blame-worthy, including wealthy insurance companies, greedy doctors, Big Pharma, and over-charging hospitals.  Their newest target and designated bad boy is private equity.  The true guilty party remains in shadow and protected. The Biden administration’s latest healthcare culprits are private equity firms, who have invested more than $1 trillion purchasing healthcare facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes as well as medical practices.  “Private equity acquisitions of U.S. physician practices rose sixfold over a decade, from 75 deals in 2012 to 484 in 2021.”  Currently, approximately 8 percent of U.S. hospitals are owned by for-profit, private equity companies. Washington has begun a federal probe into private equity in healthcare citing a single government-funded study reporting substandard outcomes.  Their investigation sends a clear message: “Our failing healthcare system is their fault!”.......

 

Adult failure on campus - April 24, 2024 By Peter Olsson, M.D. - The famous child psychologist Erik Erikson talked about generativity versus stagnation in middle age. (Childhood and Society, 1950). Generativity involves the need for individuals to guide the next generation. This may take the form of successfully raising children and mentoring and teaching the next generation. Faculty members and administrators at American universities seem devoid of effective generativity and leadership. They are failing their students, their institutions, and America. Leadership by a college professor requires more than excellent research, publications, and preparation of lectures. ......

 

The DEI Buzzsaw - April 13, 2024By Bruce Olav Solheim - In June 2022, the California Community College Curriculum Committee published a set of guidelines entitled: DEI in Curriculum: Model Principles and Practices.  This document is representative of the flurry of equity activity in the academic world and beyond after the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the subsequent nationwide protesting and rioting. Driven by emotion, sometimes idealistic and well-meaning programs can morph into nightmarish draconian doctrine and dogma with its requisite enforcement and punitive mechanisms. DEI has indeed become such a nightmare.  Having taught college history and enjoyed academic freedom since 1991, I was shocked to see some of the guidance in the curriculum document that employs incendiary language and precepts. I resisted earlier pressure for antiracism at the beginning of my career when an administrator told me to focus on George Washington Carver instead of George Washington. I was puzzled and asked: “Why can’t we talk about both of them?”.............

My Take - It appears sanity is starting to emerge in academia, and while this is a small start, it's a beginning, and I think it will grow.  RK

University of Texas at Dallas Lays Off DEI Staff - Tasha Tsiaperas April 10, 2024 -  UT Dallas is the latest Texas public university to lay off staff due to the new law barring diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state institutions. Why it matters: Texas is one of at least nine states to pass legislation limiting or prohibiting DEI programs on college campuses.  Anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 21 states since 2021. State of play: Senate Bill 17, which took effect in January, bars public universities from maintaining offices or programs dedicated to supporting historically underrepresented groups, such as people of color or members of the LGBTQ community.  Critics of the programs say they are discriminatory and emphasize assisting only certain groups.......

Multiple Texas Universities Ditch DEI In Accord With State Law - Multiple universities in the University of Texas system have recently announced the firing of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff, in order to comply with state law. The Austin American-Statesman confirmed Friday that the University of Texas at Austin (UT) laid off a total of 66 DEI administrators at the school and axed the Multicultural Engagement Center, which had housed six DEI-related programs. News of the layoffs first broke early this month. On April 2, the Statesman reported that “a person with knowledge of the terminations said at least 60 people have lost their jobs, 40 of them in the Division of Campus and Community Engagement  [DCCE] alone.”............

East Coast students are shunning elite universities and fleeing to Southern universities -report - April 23, 2024 By Monica Showalter - Looks like it's not just the taxpayers who are fleeing from one-party blue states to red ones. The kids are fleeing, too. They've started shunning the Ivy League universities and are flooding into Southern universities.......An unprecedented number of students are gravitating away from Ivy League universities and looking to Southern colleges that wouldn’t have been on their radar twenty years ago. The exodus is fueled, sources told me, by warmer weather, great college sports, and a more relaxed atmosphere, which stands in stark contrast to the Covid restrictions many Northern universities put in place from 2020–2023.........The warmer weather claim is nonsense, the weather has always been warmer in the South, plus, it's not like our warmer weather in San Diego. Heat, humidity, mosquitos, and gargantuan bugs come with the territory in the South, which is a different challenge.  More likely, it's the progressive politics, as the report delicately notes. Antisemitism, such as is seen at elite ivies is a major one, as the chaos at Columbia and Yale now show.......

DEI IS A CORRUPT SCAM

 

DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters - When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows. Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking.  The same thing has happened with the woke movement and the now-huge Diversity/Equity/Inclusion conglomerate.  Grifters and opportunists mask their selfish agendas under the cloak of neo-Marxist care for the underprivileged or victimized minorities. Meanwhile, they seek to profit illegally as if they were old-fashioned crony capitalists.......

 

CRIME IN AMERICA:  Why is so hard to get when you tolerate bad behavior, when you eliminate law enforcers, and enforcement, you get more bad behavior. 

 

Nashville police department lowers its standards… so it can recruit more women -  March 19, 2024 by Olivia Murray - Has there ever been a scenario in which lowering the standards for candidates trying to enter a career field has raised the quality of said candidates? I’d think the obvious answer would be “no” but apparently the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, or the Nashville police, doesn’t agree, because the agency is doing just that in an effort to recruit more women/  As long as suspected criminals in Nashville only hop small fences and don’t run too fast, the police department’s newest hires (recruited after standards were lowered), shouldn’t have a problem apprehending these suspects. Or, as Matt Walsh said, “I can only hope that the only people committing crimes in [Nashville] are 600 pounds and have no legs.” Here’s the video that Walsh posted to X, illustrating the department’s new “standards” for future cops:................

Police Dropping Standards To Satisfy An Imaginary Non-Descript Quota - Anytime a quota is imagined into reality, it doesn't represent the inclusion the left is trying to sellBy Milt Harris March 21, 2024Quotas are very rarely grounded in fact. They are imaginary numbers that are figments of one person’s or a group of people’s imagination to meet a need that in most cases is just as imaginary. Today, there is a rush to fill voids that don’t require filling. DEI is a farce that isn’t rectifying an injustice, it is inflicting one on society. People who either don’t want certain jobs or aren’t qualified for them are being forced into them by leftist social pressure. Anytime a quota is imagined into reality, it doesn't represent the inclusion the left is trying to sell. It excludes someone who wants the job and has the qualifications to do it. Such is the case that is now taking place with the Metro Nashville Police Force.....

Grandmother, 68, Who Was Put In ICU and the 16-Year-Old Attacker Who Pushed Her Down Church Steps and Robbed Her - Ruth Bashinsky April 12, 2024- This is the innocent 68-year-old grandmother who was punched in the face and pushed down the stairs outside a Queens church during a robbery that saw her sixteen-year-old attacker take off with her car. Irene Tahliambouris suffered a fractured skull, black eye, and numerous bruises from the vicious assault that took place outside of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church on 152 Street in Briarwood around 8.20 on Sunday. Jayvaun Prince arrested. April 12, 2024.......

 

Kim Reynolds Signs Texas-Style Immigration Law Criminalizing ‘Illegal Reentry’ Into Iowa -  Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a Texas-style immigration law allowing Iowa officers to arrest undocumented immigrants under a new crime of “illegal reentry” into the state. Reynolds signed Senate File 2340 Wednesday, making it a crime to attempt to enter Iowa after being previously deported or barred from entering the United States. It takes effect July 1. “The Biden administration has failed to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk,” Reynolds said in a statement announcing the law signing. “Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them. This bill gives Iowa law enforcement the power to do what he is unwilling to do: enforce immigration laws already on the books.”.......

 

Man on Terror Watchlist Remains in U.S. After Being Released by Border Patrol - An Afghan migrant on the terror watchlist spent nearly a year inside the U.S. after being apprehended and released by Border Patrol agents in 2023, U.S. officials tell NBC News. The Afghan national was arrested last month and then released again by an immigration judge who was not told he was a national security threat. Mohammad Kharwin, 48, is currently out on bond as he awaits an immigration hearing in Texas, scheduled for 2025. There are no restrictions on his movements inside the United States, U.S. officials said. Kharwin was initially apprehended on March 10, 2023, near San Ysidro, California, after crossing the Mexico-U.S. border illegally.......

Blue City Plans to Defund Its Police Force to Pay for Illegal Immigrants - The Democratic-run city of Denver, Colorado, plans to defund its police department to pay for illegal immigrants. Denver, which is commonly referred to as a “sanctuary city,” announced on Wednesday that it will spend $89.9 million on services for incoming illegal migrants, pulling some of the funding from roughly $45 million in public programs and services. Denver’s police department will be hit with an $8.4 million reduction — about 1.9% of its total operating budget, the city confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Denver became the top destination per capita for incoming migrants in 2023, having had more than 40,000 arrive that year alone — putting the total migrant population at roughly 710,000, Denver already spent over $42 million in 2023 in housing and medical services for migrants and plans to spend over $100 million on similar costs in 2024.  The fire department will also suffer a $2.5 million reduction, or about 0.8% of its total operating costs...........

  

Austin: Where 'weird' turns dangerous - February 25, 2024  By Mike McDaniel - Austin, capitol of Texas, an island of blue in a sea of red. When I taught in Texas, I avoided Austin as much as possible.  I had to visit for the occasional class, or to speak at a conference, but other than that, Austin was far more big, leftist city, and far less Texas than I could easily stomach. It has worsened since:..................This isn’t surprising.  In 2020, following the ascension of Saint George Floyd, Austin cut $150 million from the police budget. Things got so bad, Gov. Abbott sent state troopers to handle calls in Austin, and the city council sort of backtracked, but not before serious damage to public safety in the “Keep Austin Weird” city................To put one officer on the street 24/7/365 requires hiring at least 4.5 officers, one for each eight-hour shift, and 1.5 to cover for vacations, illness, personal time, court, training and other absences. Newly hired officers aren’t on their own for about a year, drawing salary and benefits for undergoing training, but providing no real services for the public...............

 

Louisiana’s police shortage is what Democrats wanted - March 2, 2024 by Michael A. Letts -  If you defund the police, do you expect them to work for free? In Louisiana, the Louisiana Sheriff’s Association estimates that sheriffs’ offices across the state are currently understaffed by approximately 1,800 deputies. This has created problems for agencies keeping the needed levels of officers on the street and increasing the response time for calls. Governor Jeff Landry said, "Currently, our state is facing a shortage of officers, resulting in increased crime and less public safety." The problem has gotten so bad that Landry, who is a former local police officer and sheriff’s deputy, issued an executive declaring a state of emergency this month. The order also allows lifts limits on how many new employees Louisiana sheriffs can hire and on payroll increases for their departments. The hope is that by lifting the limits, the agencies will be able to fill their ranks in a relatively short amount of time. Police officer resignations were up 47 percent in 2022, compared with 2019, the year before the pandemic and George Floyd’s murder, according to a survey of nearly 200 police agencies by the Police Executive Research Forum. Retirements are up over that period are up 19 percent......

 

Who knew that there would be a shortage of police? - March 2, 2024 By Silvio Canto, Jr. -   Remember 9/11 and how we all valued the heroic efforts of the NYPD? Yes, it does feel like we were living in a different country. Or should I say the country that we grew up in or where we valued the importance of the men in blue. Enter Pittsburgh, where they are facing a shortage of police officers. This is the story:........Who knew that stabbing police officers in the back would discourage recruitment? It's hard to do a difficult job when the political class doesn't support you. Instead, they always side with the criminal, especially when the police officer is targeted by iPhones shown on TV indiscriminately.........

 

Marilyn Mosby: finally, justice comes to Baltimore - May 12, 2024 by  Mike McDaniel - Freddie Gray was a small-time petty criminal and drug dealer, who back in April of 2015 was arrested for possession of a knife illegal under Baltimore law. Richly ironic was Gray was hanging out, likely making drug connections, in a Baltimore neighborhood notorious for that. Officers were there that day at DA Marilyn Mosby’s direction in response to community outrage at the lawlessness in the area. Officers made a lawful Terry stop on Gray who ran, was caught and searched, and the knife was found. On the way to jail, Gray was seated in the back of a transport van and was seen and heard to be bashing himself against the interior of the vehicle. Before he arrived at the jail, he managed to break his neck and died, but not immediately............

 

The Dangers of Falling in Love With a Serial Killer - By Josiah Lippincott March 2, 2024 - The Thomas Creech case is a stunning indictment of the American legal system. A regime that cannot bring itself to punish serial killers is a regime in crisis.  - - If you overlook the time he murdered a fellow inmate by beating him to death, Thomas Creech has been a model prisoner. He writes poetry for his guards at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution (IMSI) and plays the guitar in his cell. Very sweet.  He murdered five people in three states. Those, at least, are the killings for which he was convicted. 

 

Creech is suspected in a half dozen other cases.  Creech has been sitting on death row in Idaho after murdering, in cold blood, a fellow prisoner, a mentally disabled man named David Dale Jensen, who was serving a sentence for car theft. While working out with Jensen, Creech pulled out a sock filled with batteries and beat him over the head until he was stopped by guards. Jensen died of his injuries. This was in 1981............. 

 

The inability of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution staff to perform their legal obligations is a sign of the profound degeneration of our political order. A regime that cannot bring itself to punish serial killers is a regime in crisis. ...........There is a whole cottage industry blathering about the importance of the “rule of law” in American life. Stories like this show how hollow those claims really are. ............

 

There is no rule of law in America today. Instead, we have the rule of lawyers. The system of legal “experts” prevails over the will of the people and the consent of the governed. The state of Idaho has spent four decades failing to carry out the sentence to which Thomas Creech was sentenced.............The purpose of punishment in a civilized regime is reparation and restraint. A decent society punishes criminals not to get revenge or to bring closure to the victim or the family but to repair the wrong (to the extent it can be) and to restrain the criminal (and others!) from performing wicked and dissolute deeds...................

DEI ECONOMICS KILLS

 

DEI is destroying the future competitiveness of Chip industry - March 11, 2024 by Thomas Lifson - DEI is hobbling the effectiveness large organizations throughout our economy.  Nowhere is this more evident and urgent than the semiconductor chip industry, which is vital to our competitiveness as an advanced economy and our military security. 

Now Progressives are Sneering at Economics - May2, 2023 By Christopher Chantrill - Who knew? Progressive economists are now attacking economics. According to Burton Abrams  "progressives in the Democrat Party, backed… by left-wing sociologists and political scientists":deny basic economic principles and theory. They deny that incentives matter, that markets work better than government dictates, that scarcity and opportunity costs exist, that the laws of supply and demand are operative, that benefit-cost analyses have merit, and that economic efficiency makes consumers and producers better off. Okay, fine. So how do progressive experience things? 

They rely heavily on the vaguely defined concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In other words, politics. In another proof of God's existence, my brother-in-law pointed me to a piece in Claremont Review of Books that addresses this question. It's a piece by Helen Andrews about the lights going out in South Africa.  Briefly, the ANC regime in South Africa has followed the progressive line to a T. And South Africa has gone straight to hell, economically and culturally and politically. Why? Because the ANC thinks that all you need to do is hand over the levers of the economy to its supporters, and bingo! 

Except that everything goes straight to hell. And plenty of people in today's South Africa are witnessing it. Does the daughter of an ANC "activist" get it? No. Malaika, 30 years after Mandela rose to power, thinks that "the perks of white society are… withheld from her." .....

DIE Kills American Chip Manufacturing  -  Robert Weissberg -  If all the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion functionaries and their supporters were a corporation -- DIE, Inc. -- it might rival Apple’s market value. 

 

Texas tells BlackRock to kick rocks March 20, 2024 by Chris Talgo Texas has officially divested $8.5 billion from the woke monster-asset management-company.  In yet another stunning blow to BlackRock and its dubious environmental, social, governance (ESG) scores agenda, Texas has officially divested $8.5 billion from the woke monster-asset management-company. Specifically, the Texas Permanent School Fund, which oversees the $8.5 billion, told BlackRock it would terminate its relationship with the world’s largest asset management company due to BlackRock’s penchant for bullying and boycotting energy companies. According to Texas Permanent School Fund chair Aaron Kinsey, “BlackRock's dominant and persistent leadership in the ESG movement immeasurably damages our state's oil and gas economy and the very companies that generate revenues for our PSF... 

 

My Take -  If a privately owned company wants to be  All Woke, and waste their money on all these insane practices, then that's their money, and that's their business.  However, if companies have stockholders, and they're following all this leftist insanity and it's costing the investors money, then they're violating their fiduciary responsibilities to their investors.  They are required by law to do everything legal to maximize returns to the investors, not waste their money on every leftist social issue that comes down the pike.  And the investors are starting to sue!  Well, it's about time.   RK

Two catastrophic airline disasters in the space of 3 days narrowly averted as controllers apparently not up to the job - April 23, 2024 by Thomas Lifson - Frankly, I don’t trust the FAA to conduct the inevitable investigations of these incidents, given its commitment to DEI. Congressional hearings must take place. 

 

The Democrats’ Anti-Business Policies Create The Food Deserts They Decry - April 24, 2024 By Vince Coyner - After the Rodney King riots in LA in the early 1990s, news organizations told us endlessly that citizens were angry about the food deserts in minority communities. I remember thinking there might be another reason why there were no stores in the neighborhoods besides the implied racism. Maybe the burned husks of buildings might have something to do with it….....Riots, however, are just one way a community can be destroyed. Another, far more insidious, is common crime. With riots, everyone can point to the damage and clamor for rebuilding, but with common crime, once the window is replaced or the body chalk is washed away, the neighborhood looks exactly the same as it did before.......

 

EDUCATION

SCOTUS Declines to Block School's Diversity Policy Parents said 'race-neutral' process discriminated against Asian Americans - By Rob Quinn Feb 20, 2024 -The Supreme Court, with its two most conservative justices dissenting, has decided to leave a controversial admissions policy at a Virginia magnet school in place. The court declined to review the policy at the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which moved to boost diversity in 2020 by using what experts call "race-neutral" factors, the Washington Post reports. The Fairfax County School Board scrapped a standardized test and looked at factors including whether a student was economically disadvantaged, learning English, or from a "historically underrepresented" school. ....

 

My Take - Just one more example for the need to end lifetime appointments to the federal judiciary.  RK

 

GENDER WARS

 

EU Wages War on ‘Gendered’ Language, Phrases Like ‘Workmanship’ and ‘Joe Public.’  - The European Institute for Gender Equality, an agency of the European Union (EU), has issued a lengthy document decrying phrases like “a man’s home is his castle” and traditions like referring to a ship as a “she.” The ‘Toolkit on Gender-sensitive Communication’ hectors readers on a range of common expressions like ‘Joe Public,’ which they are told to drop in favor of the anodyne “an average citizen.” Other terms deemed problematic include “brotherhood,” “countryman,” and “Englishman,” with the EU agency recommending “community,” “compatriot,” and “English person” instead.  The toolkit also takes issue with “King and Queen,” “ladies and gentlemen,” “husband and wife,” and related terms, suggesting readers “try swapping the order of these phrases sometimes.” ....

 

My Take  - Another reason why the EU will be gone soon.  Who thinks of this crap?  Bureaucrats who are overpaid, under worked, misfit activists working to destroy the Judaic/Christian foundational ethics of western civilization.   RK

 

 HEALTH CARE

State of American Health Care - By Eileen F. Toplansky -  Wokery will be the death of American health care. Once the envy of the world, American medical care continues to be infected with Leftist woke ideology with abysmal and terrifying outcomes.  Under the term “health equity” the only parameter that matters appears to be a person’s melanin level, not his need for timely medical treatment.......

 

Karl Marx Conquers American Medicine -  John Dale Dunn, M.D. - Our medical schools have embraced Marxist DEI and intersectionality theories, which will be a rolling disaster for American medical care.  In early April, it emerged that a Marxist, pro-Hamas, anti-American guest speaker gave a two-hour-long lecture at the UCLA Geffen School that included an invocation to kneel in prayer to momma earth and stand up and scream for Hamas. This proves that Marxist ideological argot, the canons of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), intersectionality, and critical race theory have infiltrated American medicine.T  he Supreme Court has established that DEI (i.e., reverse discrimination) violates the Constitution when it comes to admissions:......

 

Sen Ron Johnson and Dr. Aseem Malhotra detail the systemic corruption of 'Medicine' - by Dr. Jordan Vaughn and Dr. Stewart Tankersley America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Vaughn & Dr. Tankersley –Sen Ron Johnson's interview this past week with New American was more insight from the most honest senator regarding the huge catastrophe of COVID. His awareness of the deceptions of Fauci et al. was earlier than any politician we are aware of. He details Fauci's deceptions from the start - IT IS UNDENIABLE... 

Disturbing Left-Wing Propaganda Infects Our Medical Schools - If there is one area of life you would hope might be off limits to the left-wing insanity ripping through the nation like wildfire, surely it would be the field of medicine. When it comes to your health, politics should not have anything to do with how you’re treated by your doctor. Yet, a guest speaker, whose lecture was required by all first-year medical students at UCLA as part of their mandatory course on “structural racism,” said a prayer to “the ancestors” and “mama earth.” She went on to criticize private property and accuse “colonizers” of “pimp[ing] and play[ing] mama earth.” She concluded her talk by having the students get on their knees and touch “mama earth” with their fists while she prayed. Then later, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon, she led the students in chanting, “Free, Free Palestine.”...........

 

IMMIGRATION 

 

Sanity or insanity? Misery or faith? Pascal or Mohammed? It seems so easy to me: Christianity and hope, or atheism and nihilism; or, through a less existential lens: destruction and Islam. Isn’t it as simple as sanity or insanity? This past week, Richard Dawkins, the UK’s most renowned atheist and one of the most lauded non-believers in the world, declared that he preferred living in a culture that was predominantly Christian over one that is predominantly Islamic; specifically, Dawkins averred, quote, “If I had to choose between Christianity and Islam, I’d choose Christianity every time,” end quote. 

 

NATIONAL SECURITY

Bombshell House Committee Report on DEI, The FBI, and National Security John Nantz  |  Jan 30, 2024  The House Committee on the Judiciary produced a bombshell report last week about the devastating effect of the Biden administration’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policy on FBI recruitment, hiring practices, culture, and its inevitable impact on national security...

Eunuchs in Lotusland? James O'Keefe interviews a top Pentagon official - March 14, 2024  by Monica Showalter -The Deep State is full of strange characters, but few are as strange as the one undercover journalist James O'Keefe picked out for a feature on Pentagon policymakers, a character named Jason Beck whose title is Associate Director, Total Force Requirements & Sourcing Policy at the Secretary of Defense's Office.  He spoke to O'Keefe with a full wokester menu of opening the border, disarming the population, abolishing the Second Amendment, abolishing the Electoral College, abolishing the Senate, and stacking the Supreme Court. His tone was repellently lackadaisical.   O'Keefe posed as a gay guy in a flowered shirt seeking a romantic relationship with the official from apparently a gay dating app in order to get him to open up:......

West Point announces change to mission statement, school’s official ‘Duty Honor Country’ motto has been eliminated -  March 13, 2024 by Olivia Murray - On Sunday, the Armed Forces Press reported that West Point brass had made a recent decision to “update” the academy’s Mission Statement, which until that point, read as such: To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army. With the approved revisions, West Point’s official mission now reads: To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corp of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation. As you can see, the sacred and “hallowed” words, recognized as the official motto of the school since before even Douglas MacArthur graduated in 1903, have been jettisoned—into the Memory Hole “Duty Honor Country” goes!.......

The immolation of our military? March 2, 2024 By Mike McDaniel - I served as a military police officer, a “security police officer,” in the USAF during the Cold War. I served stateside, and was an actual police officer, not a “rivet counter” as we termed the SPs that carried M-16s and guarded hardware like B-52s. Do that for very long, and you know exactly how many rivets are employed to hold those bombers together. In those days, the military was serious about being a military. We were all inculcated with military values, and military virtue was expected of us all. Do anything to bring disrepute upon one’s squadron and corrective action, including dishonorable discharge, was swift and sure. The only pronoun was “yes Sir!” Any sign of odd behavior or mental illness was swiftly investigated and sorted out. Not so, it seems, in America’s military circa 2024, as Ben Shapiro at Jewish World Review, explains:......

Editor's Note:  While this next one is not about the American Navy, but in point of fact the issues are the same, ergo, it actually is.  RK

UK’s Navy Redeploys Officers in ‘Key Roles’ to ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Jobs.  - Britain’s Royal Navy and Royal Marines are redeploying officers to serve in diversity and inclusion roles — despite severe manpower shortages leaving them unable to fulfill their essential functions. The Royal Navy was recently unable to deploy any of its multi-billion-pound aircraft carriers to assist the British-American operation against the Houthis in Yemen due to a staffing crisis — yet service chiefs are advertising internally for officers to leave their existing roles and become diversity and inclusion officers regardless........

A DEI military cannot protect or defend America - May 6, 2024 By M.B. Mathews - DEI has infiltrated our American military like a deadly toxin, making it incapable of defending our shores or our country. The higher-ups in the American armed forces have somehow succumbed to a racist philosophy that recruits, promotes, hires, and rewards black, brown, and Hispanic members at the expense of white people, who need not apply. Word is out: White people will not be hired or promoted according to merit, nor will they even be allowed to function the way other races function so long as DEI has a branch in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or any other American defense mechanism. In short, hiring and promoting in the military according to race seems to be more important than defending our country. This is suicidal madness.  From a report at The Daily Signal, there is this:.............

RACISM: All Things Great and Small Are Racist!

Court warns mandatory DEI indoctrination can violate the law -  By Bob Unruh  March 13, 2024 - Well on its way to subjectively harassing messaging.  A ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the liberal enclave of Denver has rejected a white state employee's claim that being forced to endure "diversity" and "equity" indoctrination violated his rights and his supervisors should be held responsible. But the court at the same time issued a warning that such DEI campaigns "can cross the line into illegal workplace discrimination.".........

Microsoft Brags About Paying Minorities More than Whites for the Same Work  - Lucas Nolan 26 Feb 2024 - Microsoft is facing backlash after bragging in a recent diversity report that it pays white employees less than racial minority employees in similar roles. The report boasts that asian employees make more than both black and white employees with matching job titles, levels, and tenure. Microsoft touts in its 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report its “pay equity agenda,” admitting that racial minorities who are eligible for rewards earn $1.007 in total pay for every $1 white employees earn. Specifically, the report states that Black and African American employees earn $1.004 and Asian employees earn a higher $1.012 for every $1 earned by white employees with matching job titles, levels, and tenure.......

Did anti-white, DEI bias steal a state final spot from a white basketball team? By Selwyn Duke -  Some say it was the worst call they’ve ever seen in high-school basketball. The scene was the recent NJSIAA Group 2 state semifinal game between New Jersey team Camden — a powerhouse that hadn’t lost to another NJ public-school squad in five years — and underdog Manasquan. Down 46-45 after Camden player Alijah Curry sank a couple of free throws, Manasquan drove down the floor with 5.8 seconds left on the clock. One of its players took a long shot, which bounced off the rim — into the waiting hand of teammate Griffin Linstra, who laid the ball up through the hoop, releasing it with 0.6 seconds left on the clock. The Central Regional High School gymnasium erupted in celebration, with Linstra’s shot being called good. But then it happened.............

Dems: Roads, Trees, Dogs, Cameras, and the Outdoors are Racist-  March 18, 2024 By Noel S. Williams - Per recent polls, former President Trump is garnering more support from traditional Democrat constituencies. One way Dems are desperately trying to cement their cobbled coalition is by fostering race-based jealousy and disillusionment. Their dispiriting message of systemic racism now includes roads, trees, animate dogs, inanimate dogs, cameras, and the great outdoors.......

Tree Equity Is Trivial - April 24, 2024 By Noel S. Williams - With so many social ills plaguing our cities, some dyed-in-the-wool liberals are obsessed with tree equity.   Their complaint: White neighborhoods have more trees than minority neighborhoods. Constantly looking for something to ruminate upon (no wonder they’re depressed), the lefty tree-huggers maintain that being immersed in nature has benefits impacting cognitive function, blood pressure, mental health, physical activity, and sleep.  But before lamenting the inequitable dispersal of green spaces, how about addressing issues that are more predictive of well-being, such as education, a sense of safety, and nurturing families? With our cities in progressive turmoil, dwelling on tree equity is.........

 WHO ARE THE REAL FASCISTS? 

Editor's Note:  I save an inordinate number of articles dealing with every issue facing humanity.  I save them with the intention to use them in my own commentaries as source material.  But, after a while my draft files get really big and while I still want to have that materiel for reference, I have to purge those files.  So, I've decided to start a weekly series of Gazettes.  I will be publishing a "Gazette" dealing with each issue regularly, and I will insert "My Take " along the way.  Draft file purged, material saved.  Some of these draft articles go aways back, and while that may be tiresome, it will also lay out a historical pattern.  Let's start here:

Can martial law be far behind? -  Letitia James New York’s attorney general wasn’t happy when NYFD firemen booed her and chanted “Trump” at a recent promotion ceremony. A memo instructed all firefighters that they “should understand that (the department’s Bureau of Investigations) is gathering video and identifying members that brought discredit … to the department.” The memo said all malefactors “will come to HQ to be educated why their behavior is unacceptable.” It is not just New York but the legion of cities run by socialist democrats. These cities, once the envy of the world, are on the path to ruin via one party rule like any other third world country. Government is to work for its citizens, not against them. Having refused border integrity, the nation’s interior must be militarized. If Donald Trump did such a thing the left would bemoan nonstop how this is a “threat to democracy.” A police state is no answer, but steadfast policing that is unafraid to do their job is. Hochul needs to restore former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Broken Windows and stop-and-frisk policies that turned New York into one of the world’s safest cities. In a country where the military must protect its citizens from internal conflict, anarchy will always reign.

Firefighters Who Booed At Letitia James Will Be Sent to HQ for Woke 'Re-Education' Classes - Sarah Arnold March 10, 2024 - New York Attorney General Letitia James was met with a roar of boos and chants of “Trump” from firefighters during a speech at an FDNY promotion ceremony this week.  However, in the classes Democrat-led state of New York, those firefighters are facing consequences for their outbursts toward the woman who will do anything in her power to take former President Trump down.  “Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,” the crowd of firefighters shouted at James, while many booed.  “Oh, come on. We’re in a house of God. First, Uhm, simmer down,” James said, attempting to simmer the crowd down. “Thank you for getting it out of your system.” In a statement, FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens said that the firefighters who disrupted James’s speech will be forced to take woke “re-education” classes. ....................

FDNY Won't Investigate Those Who Booed Letitia James, But Don't Expect Love for Anti-Trump AG - Earlier this month, New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke to a group of firefighters at a promotion event held at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. She was welcomed with boos and shouts of "Trump" in reference to her obsessive crusade against the former and potentially future president. James didn't take too well to the reception, as one can clearly see in clips of the event. Not long after, it was revealed through internal documents that the FDNY was actually going to investigate the hecklers and subject them to "re-education," inviting those involved to come forward or even tell on their friends. The FDNY has since reversed such a decision, the backlash having been swift and severe.........

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