westernjournal--2020-09-30--Congress Hits China Again Over Forced Labor of Uighur Minorities

For the second time in two weeks , the House on Wednesday approved a bill aimed at cracking down on U.S. imports of goods made with the forced labor of detained ethnic minorities in China .
The bill would require publicly traded companies in the U.S. to disclose whether any of their goods — or any part of their supply chain — can be traced to internment camps or factories suspected of using the forced labor of Muslim Uighurs or other ethnic minorities in China .
The bill , sponsored by Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia , was approved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Its passage follows approval last week of a bill aimed at barring U.S. imports of goods produced in the vast Xinjiang region of northwestern China on the presumption that they were likely made with forced labor .
That bill , authored by Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts , was approved Sept. 22 on a 406-3 vote .
If enacted into law , the two proposals could significantly impact global trade by forcing companies to avoid a region that produces 80 percent of the cotton in China , as well as tomatoes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ measures are needed to press China to stop a campaign that has resulted in the detention of more than 1 million Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups under brutal conditions .
“ If America does not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interest , we lose all moral authority to speak about human rights anywhere in the world , ” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a floor speech last week .
Wexton , whose northern Virginia district is home to one of the largest Uighur communities in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inform investors and markets about active exploitation occurring in one of the largest ongoing human rights violations in the world .
“ For years , the government of the People ’ s Republic of China has been engaged in the mass internment of religious minorities in the Xinjiang region , ” Wexton said .
The camps supply materials for some of the largest companies in the world , “ and some of these products are finding their way to U.S. consumers , ” including cellphones and T-shirts , Wexton said .
While the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forced labor , traditional human rights monitoring efforts are thwarted in tightly controlled regions such as in northwestern China , Wexton and other lawmakers said .
Travel to the area is restricted .
Auditors have been detained and threatened , and workers intimidated , they said .
Wexton ’ s bill directs the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to issue rules requiring publicly traded companies to issue yearly reports disclosing imports that originate in or are sourced from Xinjiang .
RELATED : Pompeo to Vatican : China Snuffs Out Religious Freedom on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposes both House bills , arguing they would likely cause U.S. companies to cease doing business in Xinjiang altogether .
That outcome would harm legitimate producers and manufacturers because there is no effective way to inspect and audit suppliers in the region , the chamber said .
The group urged Congress to develop “ targeted foreign policy tools and to work with the business community to combat these abuses.
” Lawmakers from both parties have called for penalizing China amid increasingly bitter relations between the two nations over a wide range of issues @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a region-wide decree because it puts the burden on private enterprises to ensure an often complex , global supply chain is free of materials that have been produced with forced labor .
A non-governmental organization , the Worker Rights Consortium , says about 1 in 5 cotton garments sold in the U.S. contain content from the Uighur region .
The two House bills will likely “ require some dislocation , ” Democratic Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer said .
“ We may even pay a dime or two more for a pair of socks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Since 2017 , more than a million people have been swept up into vast Chinese internment camps where they are subjected to brutal conditions and forced sterilizations and abortions .
The Chinese government has described its activities in Xinjiang as part of a campaign against a violent separatist movement .
It calls the camps vocational training centers and denies allegations by U.S. officials and human rights groups that the camps amount to modern slavery .
Earlier this month , the U.S. blocked four companies and a manufacturing facility in northwestern China from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their suspected reliance on forced labor .
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For the second time in two weeks, the House on Wednesday approved a bill aimed at cracking down on U.S. imports of goods made with the forced labor of detained ethnic minorities in China.
The bill would require publicly traded companies in the U.S. to disclose whether any of their goods — or any part of their supply chain — can be traced to internment camps or factories suspected of using the forced labor of Muslim Uighurs or other ethnic minorities in China.
The bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia, was approved 253-163 and now goes to the Senate.
Its passage follows approval last week of a bill aimed at barring U.S. imports of goods produced in the vast Xinjiang region of northwestern China on the presumption that they were likely made with forced labor.
That bill, authored by Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, was approved Sept. 22 on a 406-3 vote.
If enacted into law, the two proposals could significantly impact global trade by forcing companies to avoid a region that produces 80 percent of the cotton in China, as well as tomatoes and manufactured goods.
Lawmakers say the measures are needed to press China to stop a campaign that has resulted in the detention of more than 1 million Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups under brutal conditions.
“If America does not speak out for human rights in China because of commercial interest, we lose all moral authority to speak about human rights anywhere in the world,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a floor speech last week.
Wexton, whose northern Virginia district is home to one of the largest Uighur communities in the U.S., said her bill would inform investors and markets about active exploitation occurring in one of the largest ongoing human rights violations in the world.
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“For years, the government of the People’s Republic of China has been engaged in the mass internment of religious minorities in the Xinjiang region,” Wexton said.
The camps supply materials for some of the largest companies in the world, “and some of these products are finding their way to U.S. consumers,” including cellphones and T-shirts, Wexton said.
While the U.S. has long banned imports made with forced labor, traditional human rights monitoring efforts are thwarted in tightly controlled regions such as in northwestern China, Wexton and other lawmakers said.
Travel to the area is restricted. Auditors have been detained and threatened, and workers intimidated, they said.
Wexton’s bill directs the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to issue rules requiring publicly traded companies to issue yearly reports disclosing imports that originate in or are sourced from Xinjiang.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes both House bills, arguing they would likely cause U.S. companies to cease doing business in Xinjiang altogether.
That outcome would harm legitimate producers and manufacturers because there is no effective way to inspect and audit suppliers in the region, the chamber said.
The group urged Congress to develop “targeted foreign policy tools and to work with the business community to combat these abuses.”
Lawmakers from both parties have called for penalizing China amid increasingly bitter relations between the two nations over a wide range of issues.
Some companies and trade groups oppose a region-wide decree because it puts the burden on private enterprises to ensure an often complex, global supply chain is free of materials that have been produced with forced labor.
A non-governmental organization, the Worker Rights Consortium, says about 1 in 5 cotton garments sold in the U.S. contain content from the Uighur region.
The two House bills will likely “require some dislocation,” Democratic Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer said. “We may even pay a dime or two more for a pair of socks or a T-shirt,″ he added.
Since 2017, more than a million people have been swept up into vast Chinese internment camps where they are subjected to brutal conditions and forced sterilizations and abortions.
The Chinese government has described its activities in Xinjiang as part of a campaign against a violent separatist movement. It calls the camps vocational training centers and denies allegations by U.S. officials and human rights groups that the camps amount to modern slavery.
Earlier this month, the U.S. blocked four companies and a manufacturing facility in northwestern China from shipping their products to the U.S. because of their suspected reliance on forced labor.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Trump Blasts Biden’s Brains – You Graduated Last in Class, Don’t Use the Word ‘Smart’ with Me

Biden wasn ’ t very last in his class , but his poor performance hasn ’ t been a mystery @ @ @ @ @ best to make sure the rest of the world knows too .
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Woman Lying on Beach Dies After Tractor Driving Through Sand Crushes Her Body

Beachgoers at Oceanside Harbor Beach in San Diego , California , were met with tragedy Monday morning when a tractor accidentally drove over a woman and killed her .
The construction worker responsible for the incident was operating a front loader Caterpillar Tractor and was working on a dredging project .
The particular project had been in effect for two weeks , and on Monday morning the tractor was moving sections of large pipe off the beach .
The driver reportedly didn ’ t see the woman , who was described as being in her 40s or 50s and small @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with her and was lying alone and fully clothed on the sand , sleeping .
According to Tom Bussey , the Public Information Officer for the Oceanside Police Department , the operator thought he ’ d run over a hole .
“ He hit a hole – what he thought was a hole – in the sand , ” Bussey told KFMB-TV .
“ He turned the tractor around and came back and looked and he had accidentally ran over a female who was sleeping on the beach.
” Visitors to the beach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to one of them , a surfer named Jay Burneo , she had been looking poorly that morning .
“ I was going surfing around 8:30 this morning , ” he told KSWB-TV .
“ There was a woman who was leaning against a wall , she looked like she was going to pass out.
” “ I went surfing and then I walked out and saw her laying on the beach passed out.
” “ I think she was intoxicated or coming down off of something .
She weighed about 90 pounds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and she looked like she ’ d been up for a while.
” He asked another surfer to check on her , and according to KNSD-TV , surfers had checked on her that morning prior to the accident and confirmed she was breathing .
The woman was later identified as 68-year-old Carol Aguirre , a local transient , according to KFMB-TV .
The driver of the tractor did not seem impaired , was very shaken up over the ordeal and has cooperated with police .
According to Bussey , the driver doesn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that doesn ’ t mean there couldn ’ t be some down the road.
” This is not the sort of incident that anyone can really prepare for , but it ’ s always good to keep an eye out for our fellow men and women so we can do our best to avoid heartbreaking accidents like this .
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Beachgoers at Oceanside Harbor Beach in San Diego, California, were met with tragedy Monday morning when a tractor accidentally drove over a woman and killed her.
The construction worker responsible for the incident was operating a front loader Caterpillar Tractor and was working on a dredging project.
The particular project had been in effect for two weeks, and on Monday morning the tractor was moving sections of large pipe off the beach.
The driver reportedly didn’t see the woman, who was described as being in her 40s or 50s and small. She had no belongings or identification with her and was lying alone and fully clothed on the sand, sleeping.
According to Tom Bussey, the Public Information Officer for the Oceanside Police Department, the operator thought he’d run over a hole.
“He hit a hole – what he thought was a hole – in the sand,” Bussey told KFMB-TV. “He turned the tractor around and came back and looked and he had accidentally ran over a female who was sleeping on the beach.”
Visitors to the beach had noticed the woman earlier. According to one of them, a surfer named Jay Burneo, she had been looking poorly that morning.
“I was going surfing around 8:30 this morning,” he told KSWB-TV. “There was a woman who was leaning against a wall, she looked like she was going to pass out.”
“I went surfing and then I walked out and saw her laying on the beach passed out.”
“I think she was intoxicated or coming down off of something. She weighed about 90 pounds. She didn’t look good and she looked like she’d been up for a while.”
He asked another surfer to check on her, and according to KNSD-TV, surfers had checked on her that morning prior to the accident and confirmed she was breathing.
The woman was later identified as 68-year-old Carol Aguirre, a local transient, according to KFMB-TV.
The driver of the tractor did not seem impaired, was very shaken up over the ordeal and has cooperated with police. According to Bussey, the driver doesn’t currently face charges, “but that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be some down the road.”
“It’s a very tragic accident,” he added.
This is not the sort of incident that anyone can really prepare for, but it’s always good to keep an eye out for our fellow men and women so we can do our best to avoid heartbreaking accidents like this.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Trump Gets Biden To Freak in First 30 Minutes, Has VP Snarling ‘Will You Shut Up, Man?’

The heated exchange happened almost right out of the gate .
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Bradley Cooper's latest role has not gone down well with everyone, particularly with regard to his use of a prosthetic nose.


westernjournal--2020-09-30--Trump Addresses Proud Boys ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Debate Comment

President Donald Trump addressed the controversy regarding his call for the Proud Boys group to “ stand back and stand by ” during Tuesday night ’ s presidential debate , telling reporters he doesn ’ t even know who they are .
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden , in fact , named them at the debate first , calling on Trump to condemn them specifically .
The Wall Street Journal has described the Proud Boys as a far-right group , noting the Anti-Defamation League has found some among its ranks to hold white supremacist and anti-Semitic views .
“ In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with people protesting police treatment of Black people in Portland , Ore. , and other cities , ” The Journal reported .
Moderator Chris Wallace introduced the subject of white supremacy , saying , “ You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out antifa and other left-wing extremist groups.
” “ But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Portland ?
” he asked .
Trump answered , “ Sure , I ’ m willing to do that.
” “ I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing , not from the right wing , ” the president continued .
Both Wallace and Biden then pressed Trump to condemn white supremacists .
“ Give me a name .
Who would you like me to condemn ?
” the president asked Wallace .
RELATED : Commission Announces Format Changes Coming After First Debate Fiasco “ Proud Boys , stand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said , turning toward Biden and employing the same “ stand down ” language Wallace had used in the question .
“ But I ’ ll tell you what , somebody ’ s got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem , this is a left-wing problem , ” Trump added .
“ Antifa ’ s an idea , not an organization ” Biden responded .
A reporter asked the president on Wednesday at the White House what he meant when he said the Proud @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by.
” “ I don ’ t know who the Proud Boys are , ” Trump answered .
“ You have to give me a definition because I really don ’ t know who they are.
” “ I can only say they have to stand down .
Let law enforcement do their work , ” he added .
“ Law enforcement will do the work more and more as people see how bad this radical liberal Democrat movement is and how weak.
” A reporter followed up , asking if he had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should “ stand by.
” Trump reiterated , “ Just stand by .
Look , law enforcement will do their work.
” “ They have to stand down .
Everybody — whatever group you ’ re talking about.
” The president was also questioned whether he denounced white supremacists .
“ I ’ ve always denounced any form of any of that , ” he answered .
Last week , Trump designated both the Ku Klux Klan and antifa as domestic terror groups , while introducing his black empowerment “ Platinum Plan ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Atlanta .
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President Donald Trump addressed the controversy regarding his call for the Proud Boys group to “stand back and stand by” during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, telling reporters he doesn’t even know who they are.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, in fact, named them at the debate first, calling on Trump to condemn them specifically.
The Wall Street Journal has described the Proud Boys as a far-right group, noting the Anti-Defamation League has found some among its ranks to hold white supremacist and anti-Semitic views.
“In recent months, Proud Boys have fought with people protesting police treatment of Black people in Portland, Ore., and other cities,” The Journal reported.
Moderator Chris Wallace introduced the subject of white supremacy, saying, “You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out antifa and other left-wing extremist groups.”
“But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland?” he asked.
Trump answered, “Sure, I’m willing to do that.”
Chris Wallace: “Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down…” Trump: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left.” pic.twitter.com/4vrPocKzcu — Axios (@axios) September 30, 2020
“Do it,” Biden interjected.
“I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing,” the president continued.
Both Wallace and Biden then pressed Trump to condemn white supremacists.
“Give me a name. Who would you like me to condemn?” the president asked Wallace.
“Proud Boys,” Biden called out.
“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” Trump said, turning toward Biden and employing the same “stand down” language Wallace had used in the question.
“But I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left-wing problem,” Trump added.
“Antifa’s an idea, not an organization” Biden responded.
A reporter asked the president on Wednesday at the White House what he meant when he said the Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by.”
“I don’t know who the Proud Boys are,” Trump answered. “You have to give me a definition because I really don’t know who they are.”
“I can only say they have to stand down. Let law enforcement do their work,” he added.
“Law enforcement will do the work more and more as people see how bad this radical liberal Democrat movement is and how weak.”
A reporter followed up, asking if he had misspoken when he said the Proud Boys should “stand by.”
Trump reiterated, “Just stand by. Look, law enforcement will do their work.”
“They have to stand down. Everybody — whatever group you’re talking about.”
The president was also questioned whether he denounced white supremacists.
“I’ve always denounced any form of any of that,” he answered.
Last week, Trump designated both the Ku Klux Klan and antifa as domestic terror groups, while introducing his black empowerment “Platinum Plan” speaking before a group of African-American supporters in Atlanta.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Commission Announces Format Changes Coming After First Debate Fiasco

The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced changes are on the way to its format for the next two debates following Tuesday night ’ s raucous matchup between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden .
The commission issued a statement on Wednesday noting that a number of debate format changes would soon be unveiled .
“ The Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate .
Last night ’ s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commission stated .
The commission added , “ The CPD will be carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly.
” It is unclear what those changes might be , or exactly when they will be announced .
The CPD also went out of its way to thank Fox News host Chris Wallace , who moderated the Cleveland debate Tuesday , for the way he conducted the debate .
“ The Commission is grateful to Chris Wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last night @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that additional tools to maintain order are in place for the remaining debates , ” the CPD wrote .
Wallace of course is being criticized by people on both sides of the aisle for the way he moderated the debate .
Wallace had vowed before Monday that he intended to be “ invisible ” as he fostered an environment for the candidates to talk out the issues .
“ I ’ m trying to get them to engage…to focus on the key issues…to give people at home a sense of why they want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” he told Fox News .
“ If I ’ ve done my job right , at the end of the night , people will say , ‘ That was a great debate , who was the moderator ?
’ ” The opposite occurred for the “ Fox News Sunday ” host .
Wallace found himself trending number one on Twitter following the event .
While Trump interrupted Biden frequently , it was a two-way street , as the Democrat directly challenged the president a number of times , while also interrupting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ felt that Biden was given preferential treatment by the Fox News host .
Many of Wallace ’ s own colleagues at Fox News were moved to share their displeasure with him online .
Other viewers chided the debate for being generally unruly .
Ratings for the debate also indicated a lack of enthusiasm for the debate when compared to the first presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016 .
Deadline reported Tuesday ’ s debate only attracted roughly 27.3 million viewers for ABC , NBC , CBS and Fox News .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ channels and other viewing methods were factored in , the audience totaled more than 65 million viewers .
By contrast , the first debate in 2016 drew in 84 million people .
The next presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami , Florida .
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The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced changes are on the way to its format for the next two debates following Tuesday night’s raucous matchup between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
The commission issued a statement on Wednesday noting that a number of debate format changes would soon be unveiled.
“The Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate. Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues,” the commission stated.
The commission added, “The CPD will be carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly.”
It is unclear what those changes might be, or exactly when they will be announced.
The CPD also went out of its way to thank Fox News host Chris Wallace, who moderated the Cleveland debate Tuesday, for the way he conducted the debate.
“The Commission is grateful to Chris Wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last night’s debate and intends to ensure that additional tools to maintain order are in place for the remaining debates,” the CPD wrote.
Wallace of course is being criticized by people on both sides of the aisle for the way he moderated the debate.
Wallace had vowed before Monday that he intended to be “invisible” as he fostered an environment for the candidates to talk out the issues.
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“I’m trying to get them to engage…to focus on the key issues…to give people at home a sense of why they want to vote for one versus the other,” he told Fox News.
“If I’ve done my job right, at the end of the night, people will say, ‘That was a great debate, who was the moderator?’”
The opposite occurred for the “Fox News Sunday” host.
Wallace found himself trending number one on Twitter following the event.
While Trump interrupted Biden frequently, it was a two-way street, as the Democrat directly challenged the president a number of times, while also interrupting him dozens of others.
Many viewers felt that Biden was given preferential treatment by the Fox News host.
Many of Wallace’s own colleagues at Fox News were moved to share their displeasure with him online.
Other viewers chided the debate for being generally unruly.
Ratings for the debate also indicated a lack of enthusiasm for the debate when compared to the first presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Deadline reported Tuesday’s debate only attracted roughly 27.3 million viewers for ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News. However, CNN reported that when cable channels and other viewing methods were factored in, the audience totaled more than 65 million viewers.
By contrast, the first debate in 2016 drew in 84 million people.
The next presidential debate is scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami, Florida.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Mask-Mandate Pusher Dianne Feinstein Caught Without a Mask in Washington Airport

Trump Challenges Biden To 'Name One ' Law Enforcement Group That Supports Him - Met with Total Silence


westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Report – Biden Reneges, Now Won’t Submit to Search for Earpiece Before Debate

‘ It seems pretty obvious that the Biden team is looking for any safety net they can find in the @ @ @ @ @ debate.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Top Trump Adviser Reveals the President’s Debate Game Plan

Trump will also seek to ‘ expose how he has cozied up with China.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Leftist Prof Calls for Cops To Be Strangled with Intestines of Capitalists, Offers Pathetic Defense

Leftist Prof Calls for Cops To Be Strangled with Intestines of Capitalists, Offers Pathetic Defense of Quote

Many young people have taken to America ’ s streets and committed unthinkable acts of violence amid the country ’ s four months of civil unrest .
When you take a look at some of the educators responsible for teaching our students , it ’ s no surprise so many wayward youths have turned to violence .
Take leftist philosophy professor Nathan Jun at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls , Texas , for example .
Last week , Jun took to Facebook to call for the murder of the country ’ s police officers , and he opined that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brutal and violent fashion .
“ I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist , who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician , ” Jun wrote on social media , according to KFDX-TV .
The Sept. 25 post was made by a professor who teaches courses such as “ Ethics ” and “ Introduction to Philosophy , ” according to his official university bio page .
Despite the shocking post , though , Jun was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in fact , he was tacitly praised by administrators at MSU .
“ As a public university , we recognize and protect individuals ’ free speech rights under the First Amendment so that ideas and information may be freely exchanged and examined without the threat of censorship or retaliation , ” the school said .
“ Occasionally individuals will express opinions that may be offensive and even shocking , but are nonetheless entitled to First Amendment protection .
When our faculty members speak or write as citizens within the confines of the law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or discipline.
” “ Though we take advantage of every opportunity to encourage all members of the campus community to express their opinions in a civil , respectful manner , we view avoidance of censorship as an important part of maintaining the culture of diversity of opinion and academic freedom that is so important to our role as a public university , ” the school concluded .
While the school did not come down on Jun , apparently the public has .
The post was deleted , along with Jun ’ s social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is that someone with these kinds of violent fantasies is still teaching kids in Texas .
RELATED : Princeton Declares Itself Racist for PC Points , So Trump Admin Opens an Investigation Jun was not let go , set straight to otherwise reprimanded , as far as we can tell .
The professor with homicidal ideations about cops and capitalists did release a statement to KFDX in which he more or less shrugged off the controversy and the death threats he says he ’ s received since publicly fantasizing about the intestinal lynchings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ role of victim , claiming his life had been threatened and his home had been vandalized .
“ There ’ s no way that I can make those sorts of expressions publicly around here without this kind of thing happening again and again and again and again .
I ’ m just tired of it , ” Jun told the outlet .
The professor added he feels obligated by his job to “ speak out fearlessly and unapologetically on matters of public concern according to the dictates of my [ conscience ] .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a world in which we no longer have cops , which we no longer have capitalists and which we no longer have politicians .
Because those are my political beliefs and I own them and I make no apologies for those beliefs.
” During B-roll footage shared by the TV station , Jun wore a shirt associated with the radical left group antifa and also affiliated himself with the Black Lives Matter movement .
God help the future of America .
A cavalier attitude regarding violence is growing more prevalent in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four months of rioting , looting and ambushes on police officers .
With teachers like Jun , some of the young people perpetuating the violence apparently never stood a chance .
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Many young people have taken to America’s streets and committed unthinkable acts of violence amid the country’s four months of civil unrest.
When you take a look at some of the educators responsible for teaching our students, it’s no surprise so many wayward youths have turned to violence.
Take leftist philosophy professor Nathan Jun at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, for example.
Last week, Jun took to Facebook to call for the murder of the country’s police officers, and he opined that their deaths should be carried out in a brutal and violent fashion.
“I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician,” Jun wrote on social media, according to KFDX-TV.
The Sept. 25 post was made by a professor who teaches courses such as “Ethics” and “Introduction to Philosophy,” according to his official university bio page.
Despite the shocking post, though, Jun was not reprimanded by the school, and in fact, he was tacitly praised by administrators at MSU.
The school released a statement to KFDX-TV:
“As a public university, we recognize and protect individuals’ free speech rights under the First Amendment so that ideas and information may be freely exchanged and examined without the threat of censorship or retaliation,” the school said.
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“Occasionally individuals will express opinions that may be offensive and even shocking, but are nonetheless entitled to First Amendment protection. When our faculty members speak or write as citizens within the confines of the law, they are free from institutional censorship or discipline.”
“Though we take advantage of every opportunity to encourage all members of the campus community to express their opinions in a civil, respectful manner, we view avoidance of censorship as an important part of maintaining the culture of diversity of opinion and academic freedom that is so important to our role as a public university,” the school concluded.
While the school did not come down on Jun, apparently the public has.
The post was deleted, along with Jun’s social media presence.
But the scary thing is that someone with these kinds of violent fantasies is still teaching kids in Texas.
Jun was not let go, set straight to otherwise reprimanded, as far as we can tell.
The professor with homicidal ideations about cops and capitalists did release a statement to KFDX in which he more or less shrugged off the controversy and the death threats he says he’s received since publicly fantasizing about the intestinal lynchings of cops.
Jun actually played the role of victim, claiming his life had been threatened and his home had been vandalized.
“There’s no way that I can make those sorts of expressions publicly around here without this kind of thing happening again and again and again and again. I’m just tired of it,” Jun told the outlet.
The professor added he feels obligated by his job to “speak out fearlessly and unapologetically on matters of public concern according to the dictates of my [conscience].”
“I do long to live in a world in which we no longer have cops, which we no longer have capitalists and which we no longer have politicians. Because those are my political beliefs and I own them and I make no apologies for those beliefs.”
During B-roll footage shared by the TV station, Jun wore a shirt associated with the radical left group antifa and also affiliated himself with the Black Lives Matter movement.
God help the future of America.
A cavalier attitude regarding violence is growing more prevalent in the country, as evidenced by more than four months of rioting, looting and ambushes on police officers.
With teachers like Jun, some of the young people perpetuating the violence apparently never stood a chance.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Teacher Gives Student 15 Seconds To Take Down Trump Flag or He’ll Be Kicked Out of Class

‘ You can sit up , remove the flag or reposition your camera within the next 15 seconds or I @ @ @ @ @ of class , ’ the teacher said during the virtual class .
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Grand Jury Reaches Decision on Hero Who Stopped Texas Church Shooting

When gunfire erupted less than a week after Christmas at a rural Texas church , the violence quickly ripped two members of the congregation from this world .
The gunshots were fatal for both men .
But before the bloodbath could take any more of the West Freeway Church of Christ ’ s flock numbering more than 250 , an armed citizen stopped the chaos with a gun of his own .
Jack Wilson , head of the voluntary church security team , was able to end the attack with some well-placed shots .
His quick and decisive action was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were thankful that the armed man was able to foil a massacre against defenseless targets .
“ Today , evil walked boldly among us , ” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said shortly after the December shooting .
“ Let me remind you , good people raised up and stopped it before it got worse.
” Wilson was also recognized by Texas Governor Greg Abbott , who awarded the 71-year-old firearms instructor the state ’ s highest civilian honor : the Governor ’ s Medal of Courage .
Despite Wilson ’ s undeniably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his killing of another person remained .
Now , more than nine months after the shooting , a Tarrant County grand jury has decided that Wilson was justified in his actions that December day , according to KXAS-TV .
The Monday decision only further reinforced that Wilson acted within his legal rights during the firefight .
“ Today the Grand Jury in Tarrant County reviewed information related to that shooting and made the decision to take no action , ” Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney ’ s Office prosecutor Tim Rodgers said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ when they witness somebody placing others at risk of serious bodily injury or death , to act with deadly force to protect the other individuals .
Mr. Wilson did just that .
He did it responsibly and , as a result , he was justified under the law in his actions.
” With no further law enforcement action needed or planned , it looks like this decision is final .
RELATED : Kamala Harris Spotted Being Protected by Type of Gun She Wants Banned Wilson maintains that he is not a hero , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” by killing the gunman .
Thankfully , Wilson ’ s expert use of firearms and willingness to jump into action ended what could have been a very deadly massacre .
He is currently campaigning to become the Hood County Commissioner for Precinct 3 .
With “ soft ” targets like churches increasingly taking defense into their own hands , expect future attacks against worshipers to end as the West Freeway Church of Christ shooting did .
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When gunfire erupted less than a week after Christmas at a rural Texas church, the violence quickly ripped two members of the congregation from this world.
Gunman Keith Thomas Kinnunen, a 43-year-old with a long criminal history, initially shot church deacon Anton Wallace and church security team member Richard White.
The gunshots were fatal for both men.
But before the bloodbath could take any more of the West Freeway Church of Christ’s flock numbering more than 250, an armed citizen stopped the chaos with a gun of his own.
Jack Wilson, head of the voluntary church security team, was able to end the attack with some well-placed shots.
His quick and decisive action was praised by law enforcement and politicians who were thankful that the armed man was able to foil a massacre against defenseless targets.
“Today, evil walked boldly among us,” Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said shortly after the December shooting. “Let me remind you, good people raised up and stopped it before it got worse.”
Wilson was also recognized by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who awarded the 71-year-old firearms instructor the state’s highest civilian honor: the Governor’s Medal of Courage.
Despite Wilson’s undeniably heroic actions, the legal question over his killing of another person remained.
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Now, more than nine months after the shooting, a Tarrant County grand jury has decided that Wilson was justified in his actions that December day, according to KXAS-TV.
The Monday decision only further reinforced that Wilson acted within his legal rights during the firefight.
“Today the Grand Jury in Tarrant County reviewed information related to that shooting and made the decision to take no action,” Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office prosecutor Tim Rodgers said.
“Texas law allows an individual, when they witness somebody placing others at risk of serious bodily injury or death, to act with deadly force to protect the other individuals. Mr. Wilson did just that. He did it responsibly and, as a result, he was justified under the law in his actions.”
With no further law enforcement action needed or planned, it looks like this decision is final.
Wilson maintains that he is not a hero, and simply stopped an “evil threat” by killing the gunman.
Thankfully, Wilson’s expert use of firearms and willingness to jump into action ended what could have been a very deadly massacre. He is currently campaigning to become the Hood County Commissioner for Precinct 3.
With “soft” targets like churches increasingly taking defense into their own hands, expect future attacks against worshipers to end as the West Freeway Church of Christ shooting did.
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Missing Woman Found Floating Alive in Sea, Credits God for Saving Her

Rolando Visbal and his friend Gustavo had plans to go fishing near Puerto Colombia on Friday .
When they got down to the boat , though , it had some spark plug issues .
Foiled , they decided to set out the next morning instead after the issue was resolved .
Even though the delay was annoying , it became clear it had happened for a reason .
At around 6 a.m. on Saturday morning , they were a little over a mile offshore when they spotted something in the water .
Visbal thought it was a log , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a person .
“ Gustavo warned me to be careful with the trunk and I began to turn about 15 degrees to the right , then to my surprise the trunk moved , ” Visbal said , according to The Sun , a British news outlet .
“ I thought it was something supernatural.
” The woman seemed unresponsive as they drew closer and hauled her up onto the boat , and once she was on board she didn ’ t answer any questions , only cried .
They took her to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the hospital , where she was diagnosed with hypothermia after being in the water for eight hours .
But who was she ?
What was her story ?
How had she ended up at sea ?
The woman was Angelica Gaitan , 46 , and according to her daughter , Alejandra Castiblanco , she ’ d been missing for two years .
According to Gaitan , she suffered at the hands of an abusive husband for 20 years .
She said he isolated her from family and friends , locking her in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the garden as a bathroom .
“ The abuse began in the first pregnancy , he beat me , he violently abused me , ” she told Colombia ’ s RCN Radio , according to the U.K. Metro .
“ In the second pregnancy the abuse continued and I could not get away from him because the girls were small .
“ Many times I reported him but the police took him for 24 hours and when he was in the house again , the assaults returned.
” In 2018 , she said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had enough , she managed to escape and took to living on the streets for six months until she found Camino de Fe rescue center .
There , she said , she experienced more abuse in the form of being forbidden to shower and people putting soap in her drinks .
She said when her husband moved , she was no longer protected by the shelter , and the police moved her out .
At her wit ’ s end , she borrowed money for a bus ticket to the sea , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she jumped in , hoping to end it all .
RELATED : Woman Lying on Beach Dies After Tractor Driving Through Sand Crushes Her Body But it didn ’ t end there .
She floated for hours , recalling a second close brush with death .
“ I knew there are many sharks in that area and , I don ’ t know if in a hallucination I felt that a fin passed very close to me , but it didn ’ t stop , ” she said .
She seems happy to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it as a mercy of God that the fishermen found her when they did .
“ I was born again , thank God , ” she said .
“ If I had had an opportunity or a help , I would not make that decision .
Now I am very grateful because God gave me a new opportunity to move forward.
” Her daughter tells a different story .
According to the Metro , she said the tale about her mother being suicidal “ due to a past relationship ” is just that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that her mother has had a heart condition for years , and began experiencing problems with her mental health after a heart attack .
Castiblanco said she ’ s currently working to raise money to get her mother to Bogota , where Castiblanco and her sisters live and can better care for their mom .
Though the reasons behind Gaitan ’ s journey may never be known , the fact of the matter is that she was in the water in rough shape , and those fishermen saved her .
“ If we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the spark plug on Friday , we would have gone fishing that day and the woman would be dead at sea , ” Visbal said .
“ So it turns out that I didn ’ t catch any fish that day either , but I fished a life .
I think this was God ’ s purpose.
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Rolando Visbal and his friend Gustavo had plans to go fishing near Puerto Colombia on Friday. When they got down to the boat, though, it had some spark plug issues.
Foiled, they decided to set out the next morning instead after the issue was resolved. Even though the delay was annoying, it became clear it had happened for a reason.
At around 6 a.m. on Saturday morning, they were a little over a mile offshore when they spotted something in the water. Visbal thought it was a log, but as they got closer they realized it was a person.
“Gustavo warned me to be careful with the trunk and I began to turn about 15 degrees to the right, then to my surprise the trunk moved,” Visbal said, according to The Sun, a British news outlet. “I thought it was something supernatural.”
The woman seemed unresponsive as they drew closer and hauled her up onto the boat, and once she was on board she didn’t answer any questions, only cried.
They took her to shore, and she was eventually taken to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with hypothermia after being in the water for eight hours.
But who was she? What was her story? How had she ended up at sea?
The woman was Angelica Gaitan, 46, and according to her daughter, Alejandra Castiblanco, she’d been missing for two years.
According to Gaitan, she suffered at the hands of an abusive husband for 20 years. She said he isolated her from family and friends, locking her in the house and forcing her to use the garden as a bathroom.
“The abuse began in the first pregnancy, he beat me, he violently abused me,” she told Colombia’s RCN Radio, according to the U.K. Metro. “In the second pregnancy the abuse continued and I could not get away from him because the girls were small.
“Many times I reported him but the police took him for 24 hours and when he was in the house again, the assaults returned.”
In 2018, she said he tried to kill her. Having had enough, she managed to escape and took to living on the streets for six months until she found Camino de Fe rescue center.
There, she said, she experienced more abuse in the form of being forbidden to shower and people putting soap in her drinks. She said when her husband moved, she was no longer protected by the shelter, and the police moved her out.
At her wit’s end, she borrowed money for a bus ticket to the sea, and when she got there, she said she jumped in, hoping to end it all.
But it didn’t end there. She floated for hours, recalling a second close brush with death.
“I knew there are many sharks in that area and, I don’t know if in a hallucination I felt that a fin passed very close to me, but it didn’t stop,” she said.
She seems happy to be alive, though, and sees it as a mercy of God that the fishermen found her when they did.
“I was born again, thank God,” she said. “If I had had an opportunity or a help, I would not make that decision. Now I am very grateful because God gave me a new opportunity to move forward.”
Her daughter tells a different story. According to the Metro, she said the tale about her mother being suicidal “due to a past relationship” is just that: a tall tale.
Castiblanco explained that her mother has had a heart condition for years, and began experiencing problems with her mental health after a heart attack.
Castiblanco said she’s currently working to raise money to get her mother to Bogota, where Castiblanco and her sisters live and can better care for their mom.
Though the reasons behind Gaitan’s journey may never be known, the fact of the matter is that she was in the water in rough shape, and those fishermen saved her.
“If we hadn’t had the problem with the spark plug on Friday, we would have gone fishing that day and the woman would be dead at sea,” Visbal said.
“So it turns out that I didn’t catch any fish that day either, but I fished a life. I think this was God’s purpose.”
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--Video: Nancy Pelosi Prepares the House for Possible Vote on the Presidency

‘ The Constitution says that a candidate must receive a majority of the state delegations to win .
We must @ @ @ @ @ or keep the Republicans from doing so , ’ Pelosi wrote .
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westernjournal--2020-09-30--John Stossel: Look at the Headlines the Media Gave Ginsburg vs. Scalia

That was The Washington Post ’ s headline about Ruth Bader Ginsburg .
But when Justice Antonin Scalia died , the headline was , “ Supreme Court conservative dismayed liberals.
” When the founder of ISIS was killed , the headline was : “ Austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State , dies.
” But when President Donald Trump ’ s brother died , the headline was , “ younger brother of President Trump who filed lawsuit against niece , dies.
” At news conferences , Vice President Biden gets softball questions .
After an article in The Atlantic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ losers , ” one reporter asked Biden , “ What does it tell you about President Trump ’ s soul ?
” “ It ’ s not even softball !
” complains The Hill ’ s media reporter , Joe Concha .
“ It ’ s T-ball , except when you put a beach ball on the tee !
” What we used to call “ mainstream media ” is now “ woke ” media .
Many don ’ t even try to be objective .
That ’ s the topic of my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during this summer ’ s protests , I noticed that reporters kept calling protests “ mostly peaceful , ” even when reporting violence .
CNN posted the words , “ Mostly peaceful protests ” on the screen when flaming cars were on the street behind their reporter .
CNN defended itself , citing a study that said “ 93 % of protests were… peaceful.
” But that ’ s silly .
When planes crash , we don ’ t put “ 99 percent landed safely ” on the screen .
As Concha puts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and losing their businesses , that ’ s your story !
” I push back : “ Most people who work there consider themselves journalists .
They try to get it right.
” “ I don ’ t know if I agree with that , John , ” Concha replies .
“ More and more are playing to a crowd.
” RELATED : Victor Davis Hanson : The Media 's Treatment of Trump 's COVID Adviser Dr. Scott Atlas Is Out of Line CNN once tried to look like a neutral news network @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever it can to scare people or make Trump look bad .
In March , CNN sneered at the president for misleading people by claiming the U.S. did more COVID-19 tests than any other country .
They , correctly , pointed out that per capita , “ South Korea and Italy tested many times more.
” CNN was right to adjust for population .
But then , to make Trump look worse , CNN suddenly stopped adjusting for population .
They scolded the president , saying , “ The U.S. had more coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
” But that ’ s just wrong !
Adjusted for population , 28 countries , including France , England , Ireland and Norway had more cases .
I asked their spokesperson if CNN considers its reporting objective .
No response .
During the Democratic National Convention , CNN didn ’ t bother fact-checking Democrats ’ speeches .
But during Trump ’ s speech at the Republican Convention , CNN suddenly put up a black ticker tape “ fact-check ” across the screen .
Why not fact-check the DNC , too ?
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t fact-check Democrats !
” said CNN ’ s Chris Cuomo .
“ They are not lying the way Trump does.
” But they lie , too .
Democrats were deceitful enough that the AP and BBC found a need to fact-check .
For example , Michelle Obama complained that under Trump , “ children are torn from their families and thrown into cages !
” But that border-control policy began under her husband ’ s administration .
CNN ’ s Van Jones admitted that CNN overtly favors Biden , saying after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As long as he didn ’ t embarrass himself , we were going to come out here and praise it.
” “ Maybe CNN ’ s just being honest , ” I say to Concha .
When I was at ABC , everyone pretended to be apolitical ( but nearly all were on the left ) .
Concha replies , “ CNN ’ s prime-time lineup , Anderson Cooper , Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon , have the title of anchor , not opinion maker.
” Fox at least calls its prime-time anchors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like Chris Wallace and Bret Baier play it pretty straight .
It ’ s clear that most reporters don ’ t like Trump — or even Republicans .
Last election , 96 percent of journalists ’ political donations went to Hillary Clinton .
“ Our national media are in two cities , New York and Washington , ” says Concha .
“ When you ’ re surrounded by everybody else in a city and newsroom that goes the other way , it ’ s almost impossible not to start to conform.
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“A pioneer devoted to equality.”
That was The Washington Post’s headline about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
But when Justice Antonin Scalia died, the headline was, “Supreme Court conservative dismayed liberals.”
When the founder of ISIS was killed, the headline was: “Austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies.”
But when President Donald Trump’s brother died, the headline was, “younger brother of President Trump who filed lawsuit against niece, dies.”
At news conferences, Vice President Biden gets softball questions. After an article in The Atlantic claimed Trump called fallen military members “losers,” one reporter asked Biden, “What does it tell you about President Trump’s soul?”
“It’s not even softball!” complains The Hill’s media reporter, Joe Concha. “It’s T-ball, except when you put a beach ball on the tee!”
Trump does get nastier questions.
What we used to call “mainstream media” is now “woke” media. Many don’t even try to be objective. That’s the topic of my new video this week.
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Watching CNN during this summer’s protests, I noticed that reporters kept calling protests “mostly peaceful,” even when reporting violence. CNN posted the words, “Mostly peaceful protests” on the screen when flaming cars were on the street behind their reporter.
CNN defended itself, citing a study that said “93% of protests were… peaceful.”
But that’s silly. When planes crash, we don’t put “99 percent landed safely” on the screen. As Concha puts it, “When people start dying and losing their businesses, that’s your story!”
I push back: “Most people who work there consider themselves journalists. They try to get it right.”
“I don’t know if I agree with that, John,” Concha replies. “More and more are playing to a crowd.”
CNN once tried to look like a neutral news network. No more. Now it does whatever it can to scare people or make Trump look bad.
In March, CNN sneered at the president for misleading people by claiming the U.S. did more COVID-19 tests than any other country. They, correctly, pointed out that per capita, “South Korea and Italy tested many times more.”
CNN was right to adjust for population. But then, to make Trump look worse, CNN suddenly stopped adjusting for population.
They scolded the president, saying, “The U.S. had more coronavirus cases than any country in the world!”
But that’s just wrong! Adjusted for population, 28 countries, including France, England, Ireland and Norway had more cases.
CNN sneers at Trump all day.
I asked their spokesperson if CNN considers its reporting objective. No response.
During the Democratic National Convention, CNN didn’t bother fact-checking Democrats’ speeches. But during Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention, CNN suddenly put up a black ticker tape “fact-check” across the screen.
Why not fact-check the DNC, too? “There’s a reason we didn’t fact-check Democrats!” said CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “They are not lying the way Trump does.”
But they lie, too.
Democrats were deceitful enough that the AP and BBC found a need to fact-check.
For example, Michelle Obama complained that under Trump, “children are torn from their families and thrown into cages!” But that border-control policy began under her husband’s administration.
CNN’s Van Jones admitted that CNN overtly favors Biden, saying after Biden’s acceptance speech, “As long as he didn’t embarrass himself, we were going to come out here and praise it.”
“Maybe CNN’s just being honest,” I say to Concha. When I was at ABC, everyone pretended to be apolitical (but nearly all were on the left).
Concha replies, “CNN’s prime-time lineup, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, have the title of anchor, not opinion maker.”
Fox at least calls its prime-time anchors “opinion” hosts. News hosts like Chris Wallace and Bret Baier play it pretty straight.
It’s clear that most reporters don’t like Trump — or even Republicans. Last election, 96 percent of journalists’ political donations went to Hillary Clinton.
Why?
“Our national media are in two cities, New York and Washington,” says Concha. “When you’re surrounded by everybody else in a city and newsroom that goes the other way, it’s almost impossible not to start to conform.”
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westernjournal--2020-10-02--Op-Ed: Believe It or Not, God Just Blessed America Right Out of the Blue in a Most Ingenious Way

Presidents , both Democrats and Republicans , still finish speeches with “ God bless America !
” Right now , it looks like God really does bless America — sometimes right out of the blue and in a most ingenious way .
For this “ one nation under God , ” something remarkable has popped up .
The Creator , still recognized solemnly and faithfully in the Constitution , seems to have fashioned an astonishing pro-life rescue plan that is not without some humor , impeccable timing and the winning tactical element of surprise .
No one saw this coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seven young Americans with their mom and dad step out into the Rose Garden at the White House .
We all saw the president of the United States of America nominate their mom to the Supreme Court , the highest court in the land .
In that moment , the false narrative of fifty years of radical feminist pro-abortion ideology was shattered .
Gone at last was that founding dogma of an errant ideology — that pregnancies are nature ’ s “ unjust ” constrictions on our equality with men .
It sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ irony and sheer genius — this sudden elevation of Amy Coney Barrett , this mother of seven , to Supreme Court candidacy .
Widely recognized to be at the top of her legal profession , this real-life mom — and her presence with her husband and family in the Rose Garden — is living proof that her Supreme Court predecessor was wrong about one thing .
The late Justice Ruth Baden Ginsburg was wrong in her advocacy of abortion “ choice ” for women as “ necessary ” for successful competition with men @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to teach that even up to birth “ the unwanted ” can be aborted because they are terrible burdens , unfair obstacles impeding women ’ s progress .
No Repudiation of Pregnant “ Mothers ” in Judge Amy ’ s Lexicon Justice Ginsburg ’ s radical judicial activism was epitomized in her dissent in the Gonzales v. Carhart case in 2007 .
She asserted that any restriction on partial-birth abortion was an “ alarming ” interference with a woman ’ s “ control over her destiny ” and with her right to “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life of the Nation.
” In advancing this dubious pro-abortion dogma , Justice Ginsburg finally reached the silliest ideological statement of her mostly impressive Supreme Court legacy .
In Box v. Planned Parenthood in 2019 , Justice Ginsburg objected to Justice Clarence Thomas ’ use of the term “ mother ” in regard to a pregnancy .
With superbly fatuous illogicality , she opined : RELATED : Op-Ed : Who Is Behind All of This ?
“ [ A ] woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in Judge Amy ’ s understanding of constitutional law , there has been none of this negativity toward mothering a child from conception to birth — no repudiation of pregnant “ mothers ” and of our constitutional duties to secure the same blessings of liberty for “ our Posterity ” as for “ ourselves.
” Fortunately too , in the upcoming confirmation process , no amount of hostile interrogation of Judge Amy will find any trace of racism or discrimination against immigrants or people with special needs .
Not just her academic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heart-warming evidence present within the composition of her own family attests to her good nature and generous capacity for inclusion .
( She and her husband adopted two black children from Haiti and of the other five of their children , the youngest has Down syndrome . )
Regrettably , an asinine new woke theory smearing interracial adoptions as racist makeovers has already been trotted out to besmirch the love and generosity that formed this family .
But the integrity of Judge Amy ’ s respect for every child will not be pierced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1973 , Supreme Court progressives have doubled down on the misjudgment that to abort “ the unwanted child ” is a woman ’ s “ right.
” Such intransigence denies the reality that her child is a human being “ created equal ” to love and to be loved .
Righteous law has no business in legalizing the brutal termination of these smallest human lives present and thriving ( through no fault of their own ) in the benign natural and normal human process of pregnancy .
How Much Longer Are Abortion Politics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Warp ?
The Biden/Harris pro-abortion policies stubbornly continue to misrepresent restrictions on abortion as a “ war on women ” — another nonsense phrase lifted straight from the 1970 ’ s pro-abortion ideologues ’ handbook .
It ’ s sad that the “ war on women ” is actually a cover-up of the real war — a war on unborn children whose only “ crime ” is to be “ unwanted.
” Democrats stubbornly reject the truth that the child at risk of abortion is a human being , a member of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to life as “ ourselves.
” We all know in our hearts that no genuine rule of law can tolerate lethal harm deliberately inflicted on a mother or her unborn daughter or son , who both have an unalienable right to life .
No , says the Democrats ’ legal team , “ it ” is “ only a fetus ” with no rights except what is allowed by the pregnant woman .
Her allegedly superior right to control her own body confers ownership and killing rights over this other new little body @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This “ superior right ” for pregnant women promoted on the false grounds that their pregnancies are childless is ideological propaganda .
Both reason and science confirm that the unborn child is already in existence , being protected and nurtured in her or his mother ’ s womb .
In beautiful detail , fetal science and technology can now locate and record her child ’ s lively existence in utero .
Her child is not a generic , anonymous “ fetus.
” We can identify the child ’ s father and whether the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We can ascertain long before birth that her child is a unique member of the human family , biologically , genetically and genealogically .
Judge Amy understands this , as Justice Ginsburg did not .
Time To Restore the Constitution ’ s Principle of Unalienable Rights Sadly , Justice Ginsburg did not respect the founding principle of unalienable rights set out in the American Declaration of Independence .
As the Founders understood , the right to life is bestowed by the Creator on each human being .
It is protected under God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and this protection extends to both ourselves and our “ posterity , ” our descendants , the unborn children of all succeeding generations .
Created in their mothers ’ wombs , the unborn are “ endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
” The legal principle of inalienability recognizes that no one may destroy their right to life , or deprive them of that right , or transfer that right or renounce it — that ’ s what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the human rights of the unborn child from the protection mandated by the rule of law established by the Constitution .
The term “ no one ” means no president , no state , no legislature , no judiciary and not even the U.S. Supreme Court — none of these has the authority to de-recognize the human rights of any individual human being or any selected group of human beings or to remove legal protection from them .
Human beings can not be deprived of the substance of their rights , not in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mothers ’ request .
With the appointment of a new justice who holds a deeper understanding of these truths , the Supreme Court may be ready to rethink the injustice of aborting small innocent human beings prejudged to have “ lives of negative value.
” But as the Founders of the great United States of America understood from the start : “ [ A ] ll things are possible with God.
” ( Mark 10:27 ) The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this website .
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Presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, still finish speeches with “God bless America!”
Right now, it looks like God really does bless America — sometimes right out of the blue and in a most ingenious way.
For this “one nation under God,” something remarkable has popped up.
The Creator, still recognized solemnly and faithfully in the Constitution, seems to have fashioned an astonishing pro-life rescue plan that is not without some humor, impeccable timing and the winning tactical element of surprise.
No one saw this coming!
Last Saturday, we all watched seven young Americans with their mom and dad step out into the Rose Garden at the White House. We all saw the president of the United States of America nominate their mom to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land.
In that moment, the false narrative of fifty years of radical feminist pro-abortion ideology was shattered. Gone at last was that founding dogma of an errant ideology — that pregnancies are nature’s “unjust” constrictions on our equality with men.
A Providential Stroke of Genius?
It sure looks like a stroke of divinely exquisite irony and sheer genius — this sudden elevation of Amy Coney Barrett, this mother of seven, to Supreme Court candidacy.
Widely recognized to be at the top of her legal profession, this real-life mom — and her presence with her husband and family in the Rose Garden — is living proof that her Supreme Court predecessor was wrong about one thing.
The late Justice Ruth Baden Ginsburg was wrong in her advocacy of abortion “choice” for women as “necessary” for successful competition with men.
Justice Ginsburg was just plain wrong to teach that even up to birth “the unwanted” can be aborted because they are terrible burdens, unfair obstacles impeding women’s progress.
No Repudiation of Pregnant “Mothers” in Judge Amy’s Lexicon
Justice Ginsburg’s radical judicial activism was epitomized in her dissent in the Gonzales v. Carhart case in 2007. She asserted that any restriction on partial-birth abortion was an “alarming” interference with a woman’s “control over her destiny” and with her right to “participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation.”
In advancing this dubious pro-abortion dogma, Justice Ginsburg finally reached the silliest ideological statement of her mostly impressive Supreme Court legacy. In Box v. Planned Parenthood in 2019, Justice Ginsburg objected to Justice Clarence Thomas’ use of the term “mother” in regard to a pregnancy. With superbly fatuous illogicality, she opined:
“[A] woman who exercises her constitutionally protected right to terminate a pregnancy is not a ‘mother.'”
Happily, in Judge Amy’s understanding of constitutional law, there has been none of this negativity toward mothering a child from conception to birth — no repudiation of pregnant “mothers” and of our constitutional duties to secure the same blessings of liberty for “our Posterity” as for “ourselves.”
Inclusive Rights: All Human Beings Created Equal
Fortunately too, in the upcoming confirmation process, no amount of hostile interrogation of Judge Amy will find any trace of racism or discrimination against immigrants or people with special needs.
Not just her academic output and current judicial record but the heart-warming evidence present within the composition of her own family attests to her good nature and generous capacity for inclusion. (She and her husband adopted two black children from Haiti and of the other five of their children, the youngest has Down syndrome.)
Regrettably, an asinine new woke theory smearing interracial adoptions as racist makeovers has already been trotted out to besmirch the love and generosity that formed this family.
But the integrity of Judge Amy’s respect for every child will not be pierced by such attacks.
Since Roe in 1973, Supreme Court progressives have doubled down on the misjudgment that to abort “the unwanted child” is a woman’s “right.” Such intransigence denies the reality that her child is a human being “created equal” to love and to be loved.
Righteous law has no business in legalizing the brutal termination of these smallest human lives present and thriving (through no fault of their own) in the benign natural and normal human process of pregnancy.
How Much Longer Are Abortion Politics To Remain Trapped in a 1970s Time Warp?
The Biden/Harris pro-abortion policies stubbornly continue to misrepresent restrictions on abortion as a “war on women” — another nonsense phrase lifted straight from the 1970’s pro-abortion ideologues’ handbook.
It’s sad that the “war on women” is actually a cover-up of the real war — a war on unborn children whose only “crime” is to be “unwanted.”
Democrats stubbornly reject the truth that the child at risk of abortion is a human being, a member of “our Posterity” with the same right to life as “ourselves.”
We all know in our hearts that no genuine rule of law can tolerate lethal harm deliberately inflicted on a mother or her unborn daughter or son, who both have an unalienable right to life.
No, says the Democrats’ legal team, “it” is “only a fetus” with no rights except what is allowed by the pregnant woman. Her allegedly superior right to control her own body confers ownership and killing rights over this other new little body so vibrantly alive in her care.
This “superior right” for pregnant women promoted on the false grounds that their pregnancies are childless is ideological propaganda.
Both reason and science confirm that the unborn child is already in existence, being protected and nurtured in her or his mother’s womb.
In beautiful detail, fetal science and technology can now locate and record her child’s lively existence in utero.
Her child is not a generic, anonymous “fetus.” We can identify the child’s father and whether the child is a son or a daughter. We can ascertain long before birth that her child is a unique member of the human family, biologically, genetically and genealogically.
Judge Amy understands this, as Justice Ginsburg did not.
Time To Restore the Constitution’s Principle of Unalienable Rights
Sadly, Justice Ginsburg did not respect the founding principle of unalienable rights set out in the American Declaration of Independence.
As the Founders understood, the right to life is bestowed by the Creator on each human being. It is protected under God and under the Declaration and the Constitution, and this protection extends to both ourselves and our “posterity,” our descendants, the unborn children of all succeeding generations.
Created in their mothers’ wombs, the unborn are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The legal principle of inalienability recognizes that no one may destroy their right to life, or deprive them of that right, or transfer that right or renounce it — that’s what unalienable means.
No one may remove the human rights of the unborn child from the protection mandated by the rule of law established by the Constitution.
The term “no one” means no president, no state, no legislature, no judiciary and not even the U.S. Supreme Court — none of these has the authority to de-recognize the human rights of any individual human being or any selected group of human beings or to remove legal protection from them.
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Human beings cannot be deprived of the substance of their rights, not in any circumstances, not even at their mothers’ request.
With the appointment of a new justice who holds a deeper understanding of these truths, the Supreme Court may be ready to rethink the injustice of aborting small innocent human beings prejudged to have “lives of negative value.”
Who knows?
But as the Founders of the great United States of America understood from the start: “[A]ll things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27)
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westernjournal--2020-10-02--Fred Weinberg: BLM & the Left Are Using One of Joseph Goebbel’s Favorite Tricks

I grew up in a Reform Jewish household where the joke was that our Temple was so reformed that we were practically Unitarian .
Like most other 13-year old Jews , I studied for and was Bar Mitzvahed .
And however reformed we were , I can tell you that if I ever said anything similar to what Dianne Feinstein said about ( and to ) Amy Coney Barrett during her first confirmation hearing for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals , my father would have slapped the snot out of me .
Probably in front of one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ ve wondered in the past few years how my late father would have reacted to the political insanity of the 2020 election .
TRENDING : Trump Challenges Biden To 'Name One ' Law Enforcement Group That Supports Him - Met with Total Silence On one hand , he probably would not have approved of the president ’ s “ in your face ” persona , although he did grow up in New York and occasionally had his own similar persona .
On the other hand , this was the guy who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Peoria , Illinois , for two reasons .
One , so he could watch Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. and two , to allow Sesame Street to be seen in Central Illinois where it could ( and did ) do some good .
When he was told by politicians that he needed government money , he took the position that people don ’ t appreciate things given to them by the government nearly as much as they do when they pay for it themselves and that was the model he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years , thousands of Peorians donated $ 13 a month to pay for that station .
He never let us forget where we came from .
He taught us about the Holocaust at a very early age and , concurrently , how important it was for Jews to have a homeland like Israel .
I remember going with him to small Illinois towns where he sold Israeli war bonds prior to the 1967 war .
He was really good at it .
I ’ m sure he would be in the front row @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s peace efforts as historic .
And I ’ m pretty sure he would have sliced and diced the left ’ s notion that somehow , the president is an anti-Semite .
The left hates President Trump so much that if he were to cure cancer tomorrow , CNN ’ s headline would be “ Trump Overpopulates the World.
” RELATED : Walter Williams : Do n't Be Fooled - The Left Has Always Embraced the Evils of Marxism As I have said many times in this space , I have great faith @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that nobody is going to accept riots and looting as a proper response to imagined grievances .
I don ’ t believe that skin pigment confers any privilege on anybody for any reason .
That Black Lives Matter wants to overturn the nuclear family would probably have horrified my parents .
What that position does is almost guarantee what BLM calls “ systemic racism.
” You wonder why black children underperform white children academically ?
How about the fact that so many of them are raised in one-parent families ?
You can not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that you don ’ t really want to fix because they allow you to raise money .
As they found out in Minneapolis , defunding the police doesn ’ t work .
And people complaining that the police didn ’ t come when called are not , somehow , people of white privilege .
The proper term for those people is “ taxpayers.
” What the left is doing is the equivalent of Joseph Goebbels ’ big lie theory — that is , if you tell a lie big enough and repeat it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But this is America , not Nazi Germany .
Simply put , we ’ re smarter than that .
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I grew up in a Reform Jewish household where the joke was that our Temple was so reformed that we were practically Unitarian.
Not quite.
Like most other 13-year old Jews, I studied for and was Bar Mitzvahed.
And however reformed we were, I can tell you that if I ever said anything similar to what Dianne Feinstein said about (and to) Amy Coney Barrett during her first confirmation hearing for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, my father would have slapped the snot out of me. Probably in front of one of the Catholic friends I grew up with.
I’ve wondered in the past few years how my late father would have reacted to the political insanity of the 2020 election.
On one hand, he probably would not have approved of the president’s “in your face” persona, although he did grow up in New York and occasionally had his own similar persona.
On the other hand, this was the guy who founded and built a public television station in Peoria, Illinois, for two reasons.
One, so he could watch Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. and two, to allow Sesame Street to be seen in Central Illinois where it could (and did) do some good.
When he was told by politicians that he needed government money, he took the position that people don’t appreciate things given to them by the government nearly as much as they do when they pay for it themselves and that was the model he used to pay for it. For years, thousands of Peorians donated $13 a month to pay for that station.
He never let us forget where we came from. He taught us about the Holocaust at a very early age and, concurrently, how important it was for Jews to have a homeland like Israel.
I remember going with him to small Illinois towns where he sold Israeli war bonds prior to the 1967 war.
He was really good at it. I’m sure he would be in the front row today, cheering on the president’s peace efforts as historic.
And I’m pretty sure he would have sliced and diced the left’s notion that somehow, the president is an anti-Semite.
The left hates President Trump so much that if he were to cure cancer tomorrow, CNN’s headline would be “Trump Overpopulates the World.”
As I have said many times in this space, I have great faith in the American voter.
I think that nobody is going to accept riots and looting as a proper response to imagined grievances. I don’t believe that skin pigment confers any privilege on anybody for any reason. That Black Lives Matter wants to overturn the nuclear family would probably have horrified my parents.
What that position does is almost guarantee what BLM calls “systemic racism.”
You wonder why black children underperform white children academically? How about the fact that so many of them are raised in one-parent families? You cannot wave a magic wand to fix problems that you don’t really want to fix because they allow you to raise money.
Criminals are criminals.
Rioting is rioting.
Looting is looting.
As they found out in Minneapolis, defunding the police doesn’t work. And people complaining that the police didn’t come when called are not, somehow, people of white privilege.
The proper term for those people is “taxpayers.”
What the left is doing is the equivalent of Joseph Goebbels’ big lie theory — that is, if you tell a lie big enough and repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
But this is America, not Nazi Germany. Simply put, we’re smarter than that.
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westernjournal--2020-10-02--Report: California School District Launches ‘Anti-Racism’ Training Because a Rope Swing Was Spotted

Report: California School District Launches ‘Anti-Racism’ Training Because a Rope Swing Was Spotted in a Yard

According to a report , a California school district has announced the launch of far-left “ anti-racism ” training because what “ appeared to be a noose ” was spotted in front of a home within the district .
As it turns out , the “ noose ” was actually a rope swing for children .
Regardless , administrators and staff at the Piedmont Unified School District sent an email to students and parents from both high schools in the system noting that although the rope was found to be “ innocuous , ” students would still be taught controversial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ systemic racism ” and “ identity privilege , ” The Federalist reported .
“ While it is unlikely that most of us will replicate this particular act , it is likely that those of us with identity privilege have caused harm ‘ unintentionally ’ to those with non-dominant identities , ” the district wrote , according to the report .
“ Rather than absolving ourselves of responsibility , we must listen , reflect , apologize , and do better when we are told that the impact of our actions does not align with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the statement continued .
“ Any reminder of the history of lynching and the abuses and murders of Black people in the United States causes harm and trauma to the BIPOC community.
” The email sent out to parents went on to explain that the administrators believe systemic racism has been an impediment to minority success within the district and that teaching the tenets of “ anti-racism ” should be a priority going forward .
“ Systemic racism has a long history in our country and in Piedmont .
Recognizing the positions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , our goal is to use our power to lead for equity and change .
This incident highlights the importance of continuing and improving the educator training and district policy-making centered around anti-racism , ” the email said .
Ideas such as systemic racism and “ anti-racism ” come from a highly theoretical framework developed by far-left academics known as critical race theory .
Critical race theory is not based on a scientific analysis of evidence but rather through interpretive personal perceptions based on the assumption that America is inherently racist and every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by asserting and maintaining racial dominance .
Moreover , teaching that “ equity , ” or equality of outcomes , is the same as equality of opportunity is a highly troubling proposal .
Different cultural groups act differently .
Different outcomes among those groups can not be automatically attributed to racism or a lack of equal opportunity .
Both possible causes of inequity should always be explored , but they should also never be outright assumed .
Having equity as a goal rather than equality of opportunity leads to proposals such as affirmative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over others .
In the end , such policies have actually been shown to hurt the very people they are supposed to help .
Another example of equity gone wrong is the 2008 housing crisis .
Do to equity policies , lenders were pressured into lending to minority communities more often , despite the fact that members of those communities were often unable to pay back their loans .
Equality of opportunity means lending to people based on the same qualifications regardless of their race .
Equity , which was the policy used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to all communities regardless of whether they could pay them back or not .
Well-known economist Thomas Sowell explained as much in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Daily News in 2008 .
“ In our personal lives , common sense leads us to avoid some neighborhoods .
If you want to call that “ redlining , ” so be it .
But places where it is dangerous to go are often also places where it is dangerous to send your money .
As for racial differences in mortgage loan application approval @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much if you are comparing apples and oranges .
Income , credit history and net worth are just some of the things that are very different from one group to another , ” Sowell wrote .
“ Laws and regulations pressured lending institutions to lend to people that they were not lending to , given the economic realities .
The Community Reinvestment Act forced them to lend in places where they did not want to send their money , and where neither they nor the politicians wanted to walk .
Now that this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s face , the government intervention that brought on this disaster in is supposed to save the day.
” Despite what we know about equity and critical race theory , all of these uniformed ideas are now becoming part of the curriculum for Piedmont students .
And why , exactly , are these ideas now being taught to young students ?
All because someone thought a rope swing looked like a noose .
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According to a report, a California school district has announced the launch of far-left “anti-racism” training because what “appeared to be a noose” was spotted in front of a home within the district.
As it turns out, the “noose” was actually a rope swing for children.
Regardless, administrators and staff at the Piedmont Unified School District sent an email to students and parents from both high schools in the system noting that although the rope was found to be “innocuous,” students would still be taught controversial “anti-racism” philosophies such as “systemic racism” and “identity privilege,” The Federalist reported.
“While it is unlikely that most of us will replicate this particular act, it is likely that those of us with identity privilege have caused harm ‘unintentionally’ to those with non-dominant identities,” the district wrote, according to the report.
“Rather than absolving ourselves of responsibility, we must listen, reflect, apologize, and do better when we are told that the impact of our actions does not align with our intentions or perceptions of ourselves,” the statement continued.
“Any reminder of the history of lynching and the abuses and murders of Black people in the United States causes harm and trauma to the BIPOC community.”
The email sent out to parents went on to explain that the administrators believe systemic racism has been an impediment to minority success within the district and that teaching the tenets of “anti-racism” should be a priority going forward.
“Systemic racism has a long history in our country and in Piedmont. Recognizing the positions we hold as site and district administrators, our goal is to use our power to lead for equity and change. This incident highlights the importance of continuing and improving the educator training and district policy-making centered around anti-racism,” the email said.
Ideas such as systemic racism and “anti-racism” come from a highly theoretical framework developed by far-left academics known as critical race theory.
Critical race theory is not based on a scientific analysis of evidence but rather through interpretive personal perceptions based on the assumption that America is inherently racist and every personal decision each individual makes is motivated by asserting and maintaining racial dominance.
Moreover, teaching that “equity,” or equality of outcomes, is the same as equality of opportunity is a highly troubling proposal.
Different cultural groups act differently. Different outcomes among those groups cannot be automatically attributed to racism or a lack of equal opportunity.
Both possible causes of inequity should always be explored, but they should also never be outright assumed.
Having equity as a goal rather than equality of opportunity leads to proposals such as affirmative action, which favors certain racial groups over others. In the end, such policies have actually been shown to hurt the very people they are supposed to help.
Another example of equity gone wrong is the 2008 housing crisis. Due to equity policies, lenders were pressured into lending to minority communities more often, despite the fact that members of those communities were often unable to pay back their loans.
Equality of opportunity means lending to people based on the same qualifications regardless of their race. Equity, which was the policy used in this case, means giving loans to all communities regardless of whether they could pay them back or not.
Well-known economist Thomas Sowell explained as much in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Daily News in 2008.
“In our personal lives, common sense leads us to avoid some neighborhoods. If you want to call that “redlining,” so be it. But places where it is dangerous to go are often also places where it is dangerous to send your money. As for racial differences in mortgage loan application approval rates, that does not tell you much if you are comparing apples and oranges. Income, credit history and net worth are just some of the things that are very different from one group to another,” Sowell wrote.
“Laws and regulations pressured lending institutions to lend to people that they were not lending to, given the economic realities. The Community Reinvestment Act forced them to lend in places where they did not want to send their money, and where neither they nor the politicians wanted to walk. Now that this whole situation has blown up in everybody’s face, the government intervention that brought on this disaster in is supposed to save the day.”
Despite what we know about equity and critical race theory, all of these uniformed ideas are now becoming part of the curriculum for Piedmont students.
And why, exactly, are these ideas now being taught to young students?
All because someone thought a rope swing looked like a noose.
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