Tag: Social Justice

Environmental Justice and Pollution Equity

October 6, 2024

by John Klar

Do EPA regulations prohibit racism or implement it? A recent federal court decision prohibited the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating pollution based on skin color. Viewed as a blow to “environmental justice” initiatives, the Louisiana decision hinged on an important distinction between government policies created with racist intent versus those that result in racially disparate impacts. The … Read more

VT Dept of Health Objects to Calling Children ‘Son’ or ‘Daughter’

August 29, 2024

by Steve MacDonald

Libs of TikTok shared a story about the Vermont Department of Health. It has issued a fatwa on the proper use of language and adopted a moral obligation to ensure that we do not incidentally hurt each other’s feelings as if that’s their job. This is Vermont. Hurt feelings must be a burgeoning public health … Read more

What Did You Expect, Lefties, as YOU Made It Clear That ANYONE Can Claim to Be Anything They Want!

July 9, 2024

by Skip

The left made it clear that anyone could claim to be anything they wanted! You made these rules—we’re just following them.

Social Justice Ideology Compromises “Real” Science

May 30, 2024

by John Klar

Once upon a time, scientific inquiry was premised on ideas of objectivity, factual analysis, and avoiding bias. The advent of social justice theory, post-modernist thought, and climate alarmism have polluted the waters of many once-prestigious science journals. This political transformation of what was once called science has given rise to pseudo-scientific partisanship on both sides … Read more

Proposed Statute Perverts History

May 21, 2024

by John Klar

The “social justice” movement that’s taken the nation by storm since last summer has descended as leftists employ absurd lies to impose glaring injustices. Perhaps the biggest of these lies being spread by leftist lawmakers is that Vermonters killed off all the Native Americans and must now pay economic penance.

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Shot Across The Bow – Will NH DCYF Take a Knee To The Biden Administration?

November 27, 2023

by Skip

I already FOUGHT this battle – NOW I may have to do it again? Crikey! After founding and running GraniteGrok for 17 and a half years, hardly a month has gone by since I announced my [semi-] retirement, yet I find myself at the keyboard again over this nonsense. ”

School District is Sending Its First Graders on a ‘Field Trip’ to Learn How to Be Activists

November 29, 2023November 21, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

If you’ve never heard of SAU 16 in Exeter, New Hampshire, then you’ve missed an opportunity to watch the decline and fall of civilization. It’s not quite as bad as Loudon County, Virginia, but if I had to guess, SAU 16 sees them as a role model for shoveling woke social justice garbage at kids.

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Charity for Womb Condition Hires Wombless Transwoman as Its CEO

November 19, 2023

by Auntie Vaquser

Endometriosis South Coast has chosen a man who lives as a woman to be their CEO, and it’s raised the hackles on several backs as a result. But not all of the arguments for outrage make sense to me.

If American Society Hadn’t Grown Soft, We Wouldn’t Have This Problem

October 10, 2023

by Skip

The traditional American view of people as Individuals REQUIRES swift justice. Instead, the Progressives see not individual criminals but Society as a whole being an entire group – which deserves to be punished.

The “End Point” of DIE Meets Critical Race Theory in Progressive Politics

October 6, 2023October 6, 2023

by Skip

California Gov Gavin “Hair Gel” Newsom (with that winsome smile and those You can trust me, I’m not like the others” eyes) just did this after the passing of Dianne “I’d take all the guns if I had the votes” Feinstein.

“Social Justice” Is Neither Social nor Just

September 25, 2023

by Op-Ed

Thomas Sowell has given us a penetrating criticism of the approach to justice taken by many political philosophers, especially John Rawls and his innumerable followers. He says that they construct an image of the way society ought to be but fail to ask whether their plans are feasible. His criticism is well-taken, although he does not offer an adequate account of the rights that people have.

It’s Time for Another Episode of, Sununu Said …

September 10, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Fresh off yesterday’s edition of “Sununu Said,” where he asked candidates not to make it personal with Trump, we’ve got another example. Governor Sununu and a dozen legislative energy apostles signed a letter to Robert Ludlow, the CFO at ISO New England.

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EU Censorship Laws (To Prevent the Spread of ‘Harmful Content’) Went Into Effect Last Friday

August 29, 2023

by Steve MacDonald

Given that we can share the unvarnished truth ‘cuz America, I was (sort of, kind of) expecting our traffic to take a bit of a hit when the EU’s new censorship regime went into effect. Nothing yet, but we should note the globalists see this as a template for the world.

Treehugger Serves Up a “Food Apartheid” Word Salad

June 26, 2023June 25, 2023

by Skip

Treehugger, that former font of Eco-Socialism, went pretty much dry when they fired the writers (like Lloyd Alter and Sami Grover) that were smart, stuck to their guns – and provoked a community of commenters that often were more interesting than the articles themselves.

The NH Library Trustees Association Met Yesterday to Talk about Reading? Nope – ‘Social Justice!’

May 10, 2023

by Op-Ed

Where is the reading? And where’s the age-appropriate consideration for curriculum?

In the included images, we see the conference agenda from the New Hampshire Library Trustees Association spring 2023 conference and annual meeting.

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Notable Quote –

March 8, 2023

by Skip

The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create “social justice,” you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that -Prof. Thomas Sowell ( Barbarians Inside the Gates) “Social Justice” is really Mob Justice. … Read more

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Dartmouth is Planning to Violate Title VII and Title IX

December 30, 2022December 29, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

Dartmouth continues to shower New Hampshire in glory. They’ve decided that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and the solution is one hundred million in scholarships which, at least for now, are not available to white men.

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Oberlin College Finally Pays Gibson’s Bakery (With Interest) 3 Years After Losing Defamation Suit

December 13, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

Remember Gibson’s Bakery? An Oberlin College Dean led a Social Justice war on a local small business. They created a crime fabricated a narrative to substantiate it then tried to ruin the Bakery.

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Woke Rats in Our Midst

July 9, 2022

by Op-Ed

The conservative today might be flummoxed by the sudden appearance of all manner of popular society-destroying ideologies that seem to have appeared overnight. Critical Race Theory infecting our schools, Environmental Social Governance (ESG) scores infesting our largest corporations. Mumu-wearing Chief Diversity Officers at most any corporation of size. The insanity of boys calling themselves girls … Read more

The Stanford Review Introduces “Woke Watch”

April 28, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

This is unexpected. A prestigious institution of higher learning – one of many where #woke was crafted and released first upon matriculating morons and later the world, is concerned about the effects that might have on common sense.