[Hot Air] In July the Chronicle of Education published a story about University of Toronto psychology professor Yoel Inbar. The short version is that Inbar’s partner was offered a job at UCLA and she asked if they might be interested in hiring him as well. Partner hires are fairly common in academia and Inbar was invited down for an interview. It all seemed to go well but there was one out-of-the-blue question about his views on diversity statement, something he’d talked about four years earlier on a podcast called Two Psychologists Four Beers. Inbar is a progressive who supported diversity but said he wasn’t sure diversity statements were accomplishing what they were supposed to.
Inbar was expecting an offer from UCLA but instead a group of 66 grad students signed and circulated a letter saying he should not be offered a job because of his views on diversity statements. And sure enough, the school caved and declined to make him an offer.
Today the NY Times published a story which uses Inbar’s story as a kind of case study of the kind of debates taking place about DEI statements on college campuses. The paper summarized the arguments for and against in fairly simple terms. Supporters see the statements as a way to attract minority applicants. Critics see it as a way to enforce "ideological orthodoxy." But what’s most interesting is what comes next under a subtitle that reads "How it Started."
[Gateway] The Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl title defense got off to an inauspicious start Thursday night after falling to the Detroit Lions 21-20. But an arguably bigger story before the contest has Americans across the country up in arms.
The National Football League (NFL) made the decision to play "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is considered the "Black National Anthem." To add insult to injury, they decided to do so before the "Star Spangled Banner" as Fox News reported.
In the NFL’s eyes, pandering to woke radicals is more important than promoting simple racial harmony and patriotism. The league began this ridiculous tradition during the 2020 season following that summer’s BLM and Antifa riots after George Floyd was killed by a white police officer.
This rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was performed by The Kansas City Boys and Girls Choir, according to KCTV-TV. It’s possible the league thought they would insulated from criticism if children were performing the song.
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But I would also support NOT playing the national anthem before all professional sports events. Then we have the MLB, NHL, and even the NBA with plenty of non-[North] Americans.
It's a tradition that's probably not going away, I get it, but playing this 'black national anthem' was simply absurd, and I doubt it'll be the last time, but after the reaction of the KC fans, let's hope the message was sent.
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An NFL viewers and ticket buyers numbers will again decline in 2024.
Note: We haven't watch a game since "Take Knee" and social politicization started up, can't even say who won or played in a Super Bowl without googling.
QUESTION: What next... maybe having the Bud-Lite "IT" sing the national anthem?
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Have they given Marvin Lewis his participation induction into the Hall of Fame yet?
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Every person in the stadium needs to stand up and turn their backs the next time they do that. Silent shunning the whole disrespectful insult to national unity.
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Until all the corporate nabobs have had the urge to school us proles stomped out of them via economic pimp-slap, this sort of crap will continue.
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Somebody oughta write decent, inoffensive parody lyrics that gently point out the ridiculousness of the situation, something easy to remember, something any halfway normal American could belt out loud and proud with minimal preparation, regardless of race, creed, or national origin. In the meantime... have I mentioned my innocent idiot joy at discovering how much fun it is to sing the Chinese anthem Meow Mix style?
[Gateway] It seems as though the COVID pandemic broke Howard Stern.
The famous shock-jock has made it clear in recent years that he is terrified of getting COVID, to the point where he began doing his radio show from his Long Island home, rather than venturing in to New York City.
His second wife, who is younger than him, apparently does not share his neurosis and this is causing friction between the two.
Radio host Howard Stern recently admitted that his paranoia over a new strain of COVID-19 has gotten him into a fight with his wife.
During a Wednesday segment of his Sirius XM radio show, the shock jock conceded that he’s paranoid and "neurotic," especially when it comes to the virus, and noted that his wife, Beth Ostrosky Stern, is less so.
As he explained, this has led to tension and arguments with her as media outlets have been warning about a new coronavirus strain and his wife wants to go out and socialize.
The topic came up when a guest caller asked the radio host whether he thought it was risky to return to the studio for his show amid the new warnings about another COVID-19 outbreak.
Stern admitted the fear of getting sick has been weighing on him and his relationship.
He said, "I’m going crazy with this. My wife yelled at me last night. We got into a fight."
He added, "You know how paranoid I am about getting COVID. I haven’t gotten it, and I’m pretty safe, and I really don’t want to get it."
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You can correct me. However, the numbers I saw show that unless you were medically compromised already, most people who actually got, recovered from it. Those who got it now have better resistance than those who got the jabs without the side effect of weaking their immune systems.
[Aljazeera] It’s been nearly 80 years since the end of World War II. Johanna Hoes examines the fragility of historical memory and a rise in Holocaust revisionism in Europe.
Politicians have long had a tendency to frame the past in a way that suits their political agenda in the present and the Holocaust is no different.
In this special episode of The Listening Post, Johanna Hoes reports on historical revisionism in Poland; the governing right-wing Law and Justice party’s attempts to portray all Polish people as heroes or victims while concealing an uncomfortable truth: that some Poles collaborated with the Nazis and were complicit in crimes against Jews.
Al Jazeera can preen itself on never having denied the Holocaust, rather bemoaning the fact that Hitler did not complete the job.
[GEO.TV] A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hit the southwestern part of Morocco Friday sparking mass panic among the residents as they rushed to leave buildings for safety, according to US Geological Survey.
The earthquake hit 44 miles (71 kilometers) southwest of Marrakesh at a depth of 18.5 kilometers at 11:11pmlocal time (2211 GMT), according to AFP report.
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6.8 7.2 strength, over 1000 killed.
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[Gateway] Dominic Pezzola’s wife, Lisa, called The Gateway Pundit with an update on what happened to Proud Boys in the middle of the night:
I just got word that they guys were taken down to the transport area of the jail and sat there for over five hours. They were supposed to be transferred to Philadelphia. However, the word is that the Philadelphia prison did not want them in their facility. We have no idea why. They will be transferred to Lewisburg next week. They never left the building. They just held them down at the bottom of the jail in the transport unit for five hours.
This is hell going through this. The majority of us, their families, got no sleep last night wondering where they will be taken. Not only are they torturing these guys for hours on end but they are torturing their families for hours on end.
Now I am hearing that they lost their transfer paper work. Philly did not want them there, they are too high profile. Why are they urgently yanking them from their cells, like it was an emergency for them to?
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Friday morning, the Biden regime moved the Proud Boys defendants on Friday morning at 5 AM from the DC Gulag in Washington DC.
Dominic Pezzola told his wife this morning that the guards woke him up at 5 AM.
[RT] Try to guess BEFORE you click the link
XX is also the worst when it comes to freedom of speech, according to a Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) survey released this week.
The rankings showed the institution at zero, with the cumulative score actually standing at negative 10.69, FIRE’s director of polling and analytics Sean Stevens told the New York Post.
“I thought it would be pretty much impossible for a school to fall below zero, but they’ve had so many scholar sanctions,” Stevens said.
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The one with the biggest endowment to avoid outside pressures. It's almost like they're financial institutions with a school attached. Not to be confused with those who operate professional sports teams with a school attached.
A Soviet retrieval?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A laughing Kim Jong Un stole a Navy Admiral's hat to manic applause as he heralded the launch of North Korea's first nuclear attack submarine.
In scenes uncomfortably reminiscent of a children's birthday party, the dictator removed his own hat and giggled as he plonked Admiral Kim Myong Sik's one on instead. The move prompted his other naval chiefs to break out in a round of enthusiastic clapping, beaming like excitable infants as they lauded the tyrant.
The clip perfectly encapsulates the cult of personality surrounding Kim and cut a sharp juxtaposition with the seriousness of the event at which it unfolded.
Kim described the launch of the new submarine as a crucial step in his efforts to build a nuclear-armed navy to counter the United States and its Asian allies.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the vessel - named 'Hero Kim Kun Ok' - is designed to launch tactical nuclear weapons from underwater but did not specify the number of missiles it could carry and fire.
South Korean officials were sceptical that the submarine would work as North Korea described and said it likely wasn't ready for operational duty.
But its launch underscored the North's commitment to extending the range of its nuclear arsenal with systems that are harder to detect in advance.
Based on Kim Jong Un's comments and photos by North Korean state media, it's likely the submarine is the same one Kim inspected in 2019 while it was under construction, which experts then assessed as an effort to convert an existing Romeo-class submarine. The submarine appears to have at least 10 launch tubes - four of them apparently larger than the other six - that are possibly designed for missiles.
North Korea previously had only one known submarine capable of firing a missile, but that vessel has a single launch tube and analysts had considered it a test platform.
North Korea has an estimated about 70-90 diesel-powered submarines in one of the world's largest submarine fleets. But they are mostly ageing subs capable of launching only torpedoes and mines, not missiles.
'This submarine, though heavily modified, is based on 1950s Soviet-origin technology and will have inherent limitations. Nevertheless, in terms of complicating the targeting challenges that the U.S. and its allies will face, the submarine will serve North Korea's purposes,' said Ankit Panda, an expert with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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The move prompted his other naval chiefs to break out in a round of enthusiastic clapping, beaming like excitable infants as they lauded the tyrant.
"Give the Governor Tyrant a harrumph laugh!"
Mike
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No big deal. Just don't be the first one to stop clapping.
[ZERO] The Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has threatened to subpoena the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after they refused to produce information on an illegal Chinese lab that was "caught red-handed conducting dangerous research related to COVID-19 and other deadly diseases without a license by FBI agents and California officials."
Originally identified in the archives as Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada whose president is Xiuquin Yao, we subsequently learnt that Prestige was funded by California’s Office of Business and Economic Development’s GO-Biz initiative under the name of Universal Meditech.
In Thursday letters to the agencies (FBI letter, HHS letter), Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) noted their failure to respond to prior requests for information, and says that if they fail to comply with oversight, "we will be forced to evaluate the use of the compulsory process."
The letter also puts the agencies on notice that the Subcommittee may request that employees sit for voluntary transcribed interviews.
As we previously noted, the lab was found in what was thought to be a empty storage building in Reedley, California - located in the central San Joaquin Valley. An event definitely orbiting the Memory Hole.
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I know it sounds conspiratorial, but is Reedley the new Wuhan? How many more Reedley's are there awaiting discovery? Is there a Mexican cartel connection? Is there a USG contract connection ?
What is known about the supervisors and employees, banking, communications, mail, package deliveries, etc. ?
Is Eric (Fast & Furious) Holder somehow involved ?
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Every day now we read how some _ _ _ agency seems to have become a Shadow Government looking to control, NOT follow the US Constitution, and/or SERVE & PROTECT US Citizens.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
