The Left is Eating Itself Pt. II
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:51 am
Oberlin strikes again.
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Of all the hateful, slanderous things said about millennials...voice-of-a-generation actress Lena Dunham
Libertarian666 wrote:Of course I don't want anyone to be injured, but other than that, I hope they keep up this insanity forever.
People are starting to wake up to exactly how crazy they are.
Well, that's pretty easy, since most comedy shows have turned into PSAs for TDS.Michellebell wrote:Libertarian666 wrote:Of course I don't want anyone to be injured, but other than that, I hope they keep up this insanity forever.
People are starting to wake up to exactly how crazy they are.
Yes you just can't make this stuff up. So much more funny than comedy shows these days.
Love those TLAs.Libertarian666 wrote:Well, that's pretty easy, since most comedy shows have turned into PSAs for TDS.Michellebell wrote:Libertarian666 wrote:Of course I don't want anyone to be injured, but other than that, I hope they keep up this insanity forever.
People are starting to wake up to exactly how crazy they are.
Yes you just can't make this stuff up. So much more funny than comedy shows these days.
One hopes that St. Catherines is unsuccessful in creating this racist world they're so nobly striving for.Upon obtaining an email sent out to the speakers, the university stated that the conference was called off because the presenters who had been selected to speak at the conference did not “reflect the diverse St. Kate's community of today nor the world of tomorrow we are committed to creating.”
According to the author of the email, the cancellation was not due to “the quality of [the speaker’s] presentation material or credentials.” Rather, the organizers of this event insisted on “modeling the ideal state today in everything we do.”
The blind process used to pick the speakers was based solely on the themes of the conference—“Explore your purpose, Ignite your passion, and Inspire excellence.” This was designed to eliminate over-representing certain industries over others.
Apparently, this process yielded results that “led to a racial and ethnic blind outcome."
This suggests that most, if not all the scheduled speakers ended up being white. Consequently, the speakers were determined to be an unacceptable representation of the “ideal state” envisioned by conference organizers.
This event was an opportunity for 30 qualified women with diverse upbringings and areas of expertise to advance their careers and that of others by meeting new contacts and networking. If not for the color of their skin—which became an issue only after the blind selection process—they would have gotten the chance to do so.
Unfortunately, this is not uncommon in Minnesota.
As the Star Tribune reported last August, the “Loft Literary Center’s conference on writing for children and young adults” was also canceled after complaints that 21 of 22 speakers were white. This was not an intentional outcome and only occurred because many of the “writers of color” could not make it during MEA weekend.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10621
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The only surprising thing about that is that it appears to be a spoof.Kriegsspiel wrote:There's an app for that now.
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Somali man whose deportation from the UK was stopped by plane passengers gang raped a 16-year-old girl in London and his accomplice went on to fight for ISIS
A Somalian whose deportation from Britain was dramatically halted after airline passengers staged a mutiny demanding his release can be exposed today as a convicted gang rapist who was being kicked out of the country because of his sickening crime.
Officials escorting Yaqub Ahmed on a flight from Heathrow to Turkey were forced to abandon his deportation when around a dozen holidaymakers who felt sorry for him angrily intervened shortly before take-off.
The article doesn't say what happens next. Rebooking?Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:30 pm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... apist.html
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.Ayers also addressed the writer of the note directly, saying she hoped that person was in the room. She called that person weak, cowardly and worthless.
“You may find me revolting and worthy of a threat on my life, but in reality, it is your beliefs that are repulsive,” Ayers said. “You need to get this through your head, you f---ing a--hole: I am proud to be who I am, and nothing you could say or do will ever change that.”
I originally read about these amazing hoax publications in the WSJ, but there’s someinfo here.the trolling trio wondered, they write, if a journal might even "publish a feminist rewrite of a chapter from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf." Yup. "
One of the trio’s hoax papers, published in April by the journal Fat Studies, claimed bodybuilding is “fat-exclusionary” and proposed “a new classification . . . termed fat bodybuilding, as a fat-inclusive politicized performance.” Editor Esther Rothblum said the paper had gone through peer review
One hoax paper, submitted to Hypatia, proposed a teaching method centered on “experiential reparations.” It suggested that professors rate students’ levels of oppression based on race, gender, class and other identity categories. Students deemed “privileged” would be kept from commenting in class, interrupted when they did speak, and “invited” to “sit on the floor” or “to wear (light) chains around their shoulders, wrists or ankles for the duration of the course.”
I read somewhere that the latter hoax paper was criticized by the journal it was sent to for being insufficiently harsh on those students.dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:56 pm Re: the above, I can’t resist a few vignettes from the wsj:
One of the trio’s hoax papers, published in April by the journal Fat Studies, claimed bodybuilding is “fat-exclusionary” and proposed “a new classification . . . termed fat bodybuilding, as a fat-inclusive politicized performance.” Editor Esther Rothblum said the paper had gone through peer reviewOne hoax paper, submitted to Hypatia, proposed a teaching method centered on “experiential reparations.” It suggested that professors rate students’ levels of oppression based on race, gender, class and other identity categories. Students deemed “privileged” would be kept from commenting in class, interrupted when they did speak, and “invited” to “sit on the floor” or “to wear (light) chains around their shoulders, wrists or ankles for the duration of the course.”