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Seattle is majority white. Sorry, I meant majority white-guilt. Three-quarters of the population is not a minority by the left’s definition. (66% white, 10% Asian.) And because white everything is oppressive, the public-school system has adopted the new (new) [NEW] Social Justice math.
My new truck doesn’t get much in the way of radio reception, so I was tuning around and found NHNPR. Which is, in fact, more like Nincom Poop Radio.
Remember that time when Gillette decided to bash its entire customer base and lost 8 billion dollars? That appears to be enough to wake up from #Woke and spin them 180 degrees.
Justice is an important concept. In all societies it is good from time to time to make an assessment of the justice system. To do that a determination of what has worked and what has not with respect to justice is required. A consensus must be reached on two points before beginning an assessment: The … Read more
Justice… Don’t we all work in our own ways to promote justice? But what exactly is justice? The classical definition is the will to render to a person what is due him. That seems pretty simple, pretty obvious. Social Justice… So what is social justice? To those using the term it seems to mean something … Read more
With its utopian quest for a society cleansed of all traces of bias or inequality and its politicization of everything from art to family life, social-justice leftism is in some ways the modern heir to 20th-century communism. While it does not command totalitarian regimes, its effect on Western liberal institutions — especially the media and … Read more
The Social Justice movement has penetrated your local schools. Like an invasive weed, its tendrils are climbing into the curriculum, establishing itself in the collective conscious. A dogma that turns on an anti-white, anti-male, anti-christian bias. Its true goals demand it.
The wussification of Boys has been one of the more successful progressive projects of our lifetime. A track that had the feminists dancing widdershins when the Boy Scouts of America gave an inch, then a mile. First, it was openly gay Scouts, then gay Scoutmasters, and then girls. And now bankruptcy.
It has been five days since we reported on Peter Vlaming. The Virginia teacher irked the social justice beast by choosing not to use a transgender students pronoun of choice. He didn’t use the wrong one. He didn’t use one at all. The school suspended and then fired him.
It has long been my contention that the Left’s template for America is the modern American College Campus. It spreads to the college town and then the county, state, and nation. Durham, New Hampshire, the home of UNH, continues to prove me right. The towns Human Rights Commission (ack!) has recommended an end to the … Read more
If milk is the symbol of white supremacy, then bacon is the oppressor of disadvantaged peoples. Meat, the “ancient” cudgel of oppressors. An elitist symbol of ruling class power. A superiority expressed in phrases like “bring home the bacon,” and your “goose is cooked.” Sinister slights wielded by thoughtless elites doing the bidding of the one percent.
I stumbled across the Social Justice rantings of some privileged (staff writer) for The Dartmouth. The opinion piece is a screed against Thanksgiving. You can’t even get past the first paragraph without realizing what a miserable ass they are. By now the world knows, or at least many of us do, that Thanksgiving is a holiday … Read more
Liberals have been wrecking Thanksgiving for years. In the past, it’s been the DCCC annual ruin Thanksgiving guide/talking points. Your racist, sexist, relatives will spout lies comrades (Lies I tell You!) and here’s what you need to know to set everyone in hearing-distance straight (like ideological conversion therapy). Because that’s how you get invited back … Read more
California is a birthplace of stupidity. At CalPoly a progressive group doing its part to make dumb chic, got offended when two students appeared in a picture (on Snapchat) in which one of them has a series of tight braids.
The NFL has announced a new policy regarding the National Anthem, agreed to by all 32 NFL owners.
By Jim Johnson
The National Football League and a handful of player advocates have compromised to reach what they believe is workable consensus 90 million dollars over seven years. A mere pittance when compared to league Commissioner Roger Goodell’s salary. (Between 2008 and 2015 Goodell was paid more than $205 million).
“Our partnership is designed to equip athletes as influencers and community leaders with the mechanics to develop their advocacy platform.”
Listening – or evangelizing on behalf of other Masters? Yes, NHListens is tracking the ‘Grok as I pointed out here. I decided to point it out because it does seem that NHListens and the Carsey Institute (two peas in the Progressive Pod and definitely not organizations exactly loving NH Traditions or the Live Free or Die philosophy) have been upping their activity in “persuading” the public that their citizens believe in certain outcomes. It is the opinion of many here in NH, especially when one examines their “fellow traveler organizations”, that these groups are merely another manifestation of the outside the State Progressive money pouring into NH to fundamentally change the culture and structure of the independence that we enjoy and ‘guiding us’ to a more collective outlook (and of course, with the Progressive mantra that we all too stupid to figure things out for ourselves, they are the PERFECT people to “guide us”). Here’s a good example from MathWizards (emphasis mine) of NHListens trying to interject ‘social justice’ into math education:
At the request of a Pittsfield and Winnesquam resident, I attended two community sessions hosted by “Pittsfield Listens and NH Listens”.
Pittsfield Listens asked members of the community to attend a meeting a couple of months ago. They wanted members of the community to discuss some of the changes happening in the local schools. I attended the small meeting with the knowledge of what the Delphi Technique was and how it’s used to manipulate attendees. (http://www.vlrc.org/articles/110.html Delphi explained)
I arrived a little late for the meeting but when I walked in I noticed there was a small number of people in attendance. I’d say roughly 10 people were there to participate. I also noticed that there were a number of people who were there as either members of Pittsfield Listens or from The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. The head facilitator was Keith Catone: http://annenberginstitute.org/
As the facilitators began the meeting, I noticed a phrase that was used in the presentation called “student centered learning”. Knowing exactly what this meant, I figured it should be defined so the other people in the room would understand. I raised my hand and asked for a definition. The facilitator asked for help from a Pittsfield teacher who was attending the meeting and she gave the audience her version of “student centered learning”.
I stumbled on this post over at PowerLine – where they had abstracted an entire post by David Horowitz: “How Republicans can win” that talks about the severe differences in how Conservatives / Republicans view life vs how Progressive / Democrats do. Since Horowitz was heavily involved in the New Left in the sixties, he knows intimately how they think and how they act – and why they are starting to take the rest of us to the political cleaners in their religious zealotry in marching with Obama to “fundamentely transforming America.” For this is no “this way is better / no, that way is” battle we face – as Progressives truly believe that they are in a political Civil War to beat and overthrow the Founders / Constitution vision of Liberty and Freedom in which WE get to decide for ourselves and replace it with the Progressive brand of socialism / “social justice” in which Government will provide for all our needs (er, but never mention the “strings chains attached” to allow that to happen). I have abstracted a few paragraphs that point the major differences (emphasis mine):
…The Democratic Party has been moving steadily to the left since the McGovern campaign of 1972. It is now a party led by socialists and progressives who are convinced that their policies are paving the way to a “better world.”
This vision of moral and social progress has profound consequences for the way Democrats conduct their political battles. Unlike Republicans, Democrats are not in politics just to fix government and solve problems. They are secular missionaries who want to “change society.” Their goal is a new order of society— “social justice.” They think of themselves as social redeemers, people who are going to change the world. It is the belief in a redemptive future that accounts for their passion, and their furious personal assaults on those who stand in their way. When he was president, Bill Clinton once told Dick Morris he had “to understand that Bob Dole” – a moderate Republican – “is evil.” It is the same missionary zeal that allows Democrats to justify a campaign ad accusing a decent man like Mitt Romney of causing the death of a female cancer victim.
This should set the table. Take Zandra Rice-Hawkins, Exec Dir. for Granite State Progress for instance (yes, a major Progressive parachuted in with the Colorado Model supported by major Progressive $$ – no native Live Free or Die in her!).
Having laid out the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute as a think-tank puppet for the advancement of taxation and the Democrat parties social and economic justice agenda in New Hampshire, I felt compelled to follow that up with an addendum on the deeper evil that lay beneath the facade of a “well meaning” left wing policy group.
First, the terms Social and Economic justice are redundant. They are the same thing. The redistribution of money by the state through tax policy for some random, current notion of social justice is economic justice and vice-cersa. You can’t have one lie without the other. And as Jonah Goldberg points out in Tyranny of Clichés, Social Justice as a concept can result in dangerously misleading nonsense. On the matter of the injustice of high unemployment (for example) he asks..,
“..who is being unjust? The employers who cannot afford more workers? The consumers who refuse to create enough demand to justify more workers? The government for not taxing innocent parties to pay for labor that isn’t needed and that they did not vote for? Social Justice assumes rights–social rights, economic rights, etc.–that cannot be enforced.”
New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is retiring. His successor was chosen from these three candidates.
William W. Rich, senior associate rector for Christian Formation at Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston; A Homosexual man married to a man.
Penelope Maud Bridges, rector of St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Va.:A divorced woman.
Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, 50, of Grace Church in Amherst (MA): A Heterosexual man.
Not your Fathers Episcopal Church anymore is it? Not even when they choose the heterosexual guy.