My wife likes to use a Cantonese expression: "One eye open, one eye closed," meaning you are aware that something is true but pretend it isn't for the sake of appearances and to avoid conflict. So it is for ideologically-inspired antisemitism on the left. https://quillette.com/2021/09/17/how-social-justice-extremists-spawned-a-generation-of-progressive-antisemites/
Our White Paper in summary: How Social-Justice Extremists Spawned a Generation of ‘Progressive’ Antisemites https://quillette.com/2021/09/17/how-social-justice-extremists-spawned-a-generation-of-progressive-antisemites/
Not sure how to voice your concerns about diversity & inclusion initiatives going too far at work? We've created some example letters you can use.
http://ow.ly/ujBd50G8rb3
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Caption from Chicago Daily News (1952):
"Sleepy Explorers: Tuckered out alter exploring Chicago via a midnight elevated train ride, five-year-old James Davis fell asleep in a police station while his pal Ronald Sullivan, 8, kept a drowsy watch. (Con't, 1/2)
In this week's podcast, @hold_mydrink and @BlogUnwoke spoke with @TheFIREorg's Bonnie Snyder about ideological indoctrination in K-12 education and her new book Undoctrinate.
https://youtu.be/W7AMJn0hrmw
"Demand for social justice rhetoric—esp. involving black pain & trauma—leads to a supply of victimhood narratives. The conditions for the victimhood economy are in place, & some black people benefit from it, as do white antiracists, as it legitimates them as ‘the good guys’." 1/2
"I never felt 'oppressed.' This idea that I’m oppressed is one of the most backward ideas I've encountered. At best, it’s an overdramatization of inequalities ever-present in human civilization."
Thx for the shout-out in your great new post, @quincylsb!
https://medium.com/i-brought-receipts/why-a-good-number-of-black-conservatives-have-white-husbands-and-wifes-4040414ee5a4
In this week's podcast, @hold_mydrink and @BlogUnwoke spoke with @TheFIREorg's Bonnie Snyder about ideological indoctrination in K-12 education and her new book Undoctrinate.
https://youtu.be/W7AMJn0hrmw
Journal of Free Black Thought has published or aspires to publish in these genres:
Dialogue
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Read about the genres in our updated intro essay & subscribe:
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No comment on the controversy that kicked this off, but holy sh*t, we LOVE this tweet from @NICKIMINAJ!!!
😂❤️🔥
Right. I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. Ppl aren’t human any more. If you’re black & a Democrat tells u to shove marbles up ur ass, you simply have to. If another party tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1438251243936227329
New post in the Journal of Free Black Thought:
"There's justice and then there’s the victimhood economy. These two models have different motives."
THE ECONOMY OF VICTIMHOOD
By Aaron Fenton-Hewitt @afentonhewitt
https://freeblackthought.substack.com/p/the-economy-of-victimhood
In this week's @hold_mydrink + @Counter_Weight_ pod we speak with @TheFIREorg's Bonnie Snyder on the ideological indoctrination that has become mainstream in K-12 education, and her new book Undoctrinate.
w/ @DavidLBernstein @truth_inbetween
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-47-undoctrinating-the-classroom-bonnie-snyder/id1537516628?i=1000535494300
My latest with @JeffreyASnyder: "By contributing to a misguided safety-&-security model of education, trigger warnings ultimately deprive all students of the most powerful learning opportunities." cc: @AdamMGrant @emzanotti @jonathans_tobin @DebMashek
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work
First black woman to enlist in the US Army:
Cathay Williams (1844–1893) posed as a man, William Cathay, to enlist. *May* have been in Civil War. Definitely active as a Buffalo Soldier 1866-1868 in the 38th US Infantry Regiment.
She was born in slavery.
https://www.buffalosoldier.net/CathayWilliamsFemaleBuffaloSoldierWithDocuments.htm
First black woman to enlist in the US Army:
Cathay Williams (1844–1893) posed as a man, William Cathay, to enlist. *May* have been in Civil War. Definitely active as a Buffalo Soldier 1866-1868 in the 38th US Infantry Regiment.
She was born in slavery.
https://www.buffalosoldier.net/CathayWilliamsFemaleBuffaloSoldierWithDocuments.htm
"Acknowledging differences between the sexes does not constitute or necessitate the disempowerment of one sex in favour of the other..."
http://ow.ly/1OO050G8r9D
In the final teaser for this week's @hold_mydrink + @Counter_Weight_ pod, @TheFIREorg's Bonnie Snyder tells us one of the problems with some educators is that they are working backwards from conclusions instead of encouraging open inquiry.
w/ @DavidLBernstein @truth_inbetween
Increasingly, students who disagree with the CSJ narrative are likely to feel isolated from their lecturers and classmates. If you're experiencing this problem and you feel alone, check out our latest video: https://youtu.be/5-GIHMfk91U
A true comic and artist unencumbered by orthodoxy of any kind. A unique voice that will be sorely missed, not the least because we need all the help we can get to save Western culture from the grip of woke. #NormMacdonald #freethinkingartists #Newtown
https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/norm-macdonald-snl-star-dead-at-61/
Performers and portrayers (some of whom actual aristocrats), aided by their consorting politician friends, embark on an orgiastic virtue-signaling fest telling the rest of us what to think/do/feel. True decadence and a sign that Western culture is declining fast.
Happy book release day to @TheFIREorg's Bonnie Snyder! Grab a drink and join us on Thurs for our podcast with Bonnie on how to Undoctrinate the classroom.
https://www.amazon.com/Undoctrinate-Politicized-Classrooms-Schools_and-About-ebook/dp/B099BT79KY/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=undoctrinate&qid=1631642378&sr=8-2
Yom Kippur Is the Antidote to Cancel Culture | Opinion
Yom Kippur is the antidote to cancel culture | Opinion
In this social media age of public shaming and the rigorous policing of a new moral purity, the values of Yom ...
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"The resulting toxic environment echoes the hyperpartisanship of the wider culture wars: everyone becomes defined by solely by their identity and ideological allegiance."
Culture Wars in a Galaxy Very, Very Nearby - Areo
Since the 1977 cinema premiere of A New Hope, the Star Wars franchise has left an indelible mark on popular cu...
areomagazine.com
What California tells us about the New Wave of Antisemitism on the Left @CalEthStudies
What California tells us about the New Wave of Antisemitism on the Left
From the blog of David Bernstein at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
In the 2nd teaser for this week's @hold_mydrink + @Counter_Weight_ pod, @TheFIREorg's Bonnie Snyder notices a dispiriting trend of lying just to go along to get along. Stay tuned!
w/ @DavidLBernstein @truth_inbetween
