Here is a well constructed response for a question that has probably bothered most SDA readers. Read it all. It’s good. If gender and race are artificial constructs, does diversity matter?
To prove that [INSERT MINORITY GROUP] would achieve a perfectly even 50/50 split of opportunities, were it not for the interference of [INSERT MAJORITY OPPRESSOR], we pretend there’s perfect uniformity across groups.
We proclaim that gender and race are social constructs, completely removed from science and reality.
Women, men and people of different races are perfectly uniform in all abilities, interests and aptitudes. This is an incredibly subjective stance to take… but let’s entertain it for a minute.
If this were true, then there’d be absolutely no need for diversity. If we are all uniform, then we are all interchangeable.
Nick Sabin benches Hurt after 1st half… Hurt has had 3 bad games, including Sugar Bowl that was won by the Bama Defense…What ever happened to his talent (14-2) he was almost a BAMA GOD….He was playing chicken Shit 3 and out…The offensive team were not playing well for him…
Bama wins with replacement QB clawing back from a 20-0 deficit and the whole team comes together…
Sabin is a Football genius with unbelievable gonads….Footballs biggest risk taker
Have an extra double of Jackie-D .. and toast Trump & the Tide https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/sports/national-championship-game-alabama-georgia.html
The snake is consuming itself … starting with its own tail
Sir John’s Public House in Kingston Ontario is dropping the reference in its name to Macdonald so as not to offend indigenous people according to the CBC.
We are way overdo for a national federal holiday in February and I shall again propose this as policy resolution for my EDA and for other EDA’s for the national conservative convention in August.
I trust Andrew Scheer won’t wimp out on defending John A. Macdonald? There are limits after all.In fact I call on him to say something right now as this is going to get ugly if someone with backbone doesn’t stop the spread of this trend.
The case of Joshua Boyle leaves so many questions it will take a long time process.
Did he convert to Islam when he married Omar Khadr’s sister? Why is his present wife wearing Islamic garb? Will he use his time in his alleged captivity as an excuse for his behavior since he returned to Canada which has him behind bars?
His story just doesn’t add up to believable…they had three children in captivity. What kind of conditions would allow them to live as a family in some hell hole in the ME they would consider safe to procreate?
Why did our Prime Minister meet with him and his family…why did Boyle want or need to meet with him?
Most Canadians who are enamored with Trudeau are happy to get a selfie, never mind a private meeting!
was he given a large check during that meeting? how much was the check and when are we going to get the money back. Finally when is Justin going to resign for committing treason?
AGW RIP.
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“Recurring snowfalls in Sahara Desert verify global warming, says top Russian meteorologist”
“It is not just my standpoint, but an opinion shared by members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” Vilfand said.” (tass)
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“Manufacturing consensus: the early history of the IPCC
by Judith Curry
Short summary: scientists sought political relevance and allowed policy makers to put a big thumb on the scale of the scientific assessment of the attribution of climate change.
Bernie Lewin has written an important new book:
SEARCHING FOR THE CATASTROPHE SIGNAL:The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The importance of this book is reflected in its acknowledgements, in context of assistance and contributions from early leaders and participants in the IPCC:” https://judithcurry.com/2018/01/03/manufacturing-consensus-the-early-history-of-the-ipcc/
Another way of looking at the James Damore / Google differences: IT was seen as a safe place to be autistic (Asperger’s). Google is systematically harrassing their autistic workers. What would the outrage be if it were presented this way? http://quillette.com/2018/01/05/empathy-gap-tech-interview-software-engineer/
I’ve seen that Damore is starting a class action lawsuit against Google, but I couldn’t find anything in the way of details. Has anyone found a good summary?
Heh. David Thomson has a post two down on the list. Hmm. He anticipated. Are there any strings of 6 (6/49) or 7 (lotto max) numbers coming to mind, David?
MAGA.
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“Standing Ovation as Trump Touts End of Death Tax: ‘Keep Your Farms in the Family’”
“Attendees of the American Farm Bureau Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, rose to their feet with boisterous praise on Monday when President Donald Trump heralded the end of the death tax in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
During his speech at the convention, Trump pointed out that not one Democrat voted for the Republican congressional leadership’s tax cut plan.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/08/standing-ovation-president-trump-touts-end-death-tax-keep-farms-family/
I have family in Australia. They had residential schools over there, that tells me that it wasn’t Sir. John A. Macdonald who devised the system.
The whole issue was most likely decided in London.
Good or bad, it should be put to rest by now. Justin Trudeau knows that. I don’t agree with everything in this article, however it does reiterate that Canada did not not make the decision to remove indigenous people from their homes and place them in ”Rez.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/indigenous-australians-and-canadians-destroyed-by-same-colonialism
Check out the article on iPolitics regarding the ‘vetting’ process bongo claims he put GG Julie Payette through.
It looks like there was none.
Good on iPolitics for their reporting on this
AGW RIP.
“We kindly ask you to stay at home.””
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“13,000 stranded in Swiss ski resort of Zermatt
Tourists unable to leave resort because of heavy snowfall and exceptional risk of avalanches”
““numerous large and, in many cases, very large natural avalanches”.
It said such avalanches could reach “an exceptionally long way” and that exposed buildings and transport routes were endangered.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/09/thousands-stranded-without-electricity-in-swiss-ski-resort-of-zermatt
Math, not only is real math hard but apparently it is also oppressive. At least, if you are getting the right answers it is oppressive. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5247129/CUNY-professor-claims-meritocracy-tool-whiteness.html
Take a look at her bio, all that education and still she can’t put 2 and 2 together! http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=441
Some quotes from the article
“The truth, according to Rubel, is that equating effort expended with success achieved for everyone ‘ignores systemic barriers and institutional structures that prevent opportunity and success’ for racial minorities.”
“Rubel also advocates against ‘color-blindness’ in teaching mathematics.
‘Teachers who claim color-blindness—that is, they claim to not notice the race of their students—are, in effect, refusing to acknowledge the impact of enduring racial stratification on students and their families,’ she said.
‘By claiming not to notice, the teacher is saying that she is dismissing one of the most salient features of the child’s identity and that she does not account for it in her curricular planning and instruction.'”
The stupid, it hurts…….
Sir John’s Public House in Kingston Ontario is dropping the reference in its name to Macdonald so as not to offend indigenous people according to the CBC.”
It will apparently be known as “The Public House” henceforth. A good part of the place’s cachet comes from the fact that it used to be Sir John A. Macdonald’s law office. It will be interesting to see whether a more anonymous name will effect the tourist trade or not. Alas, probably not, given the level of knowledge in the most basic aspects of our country’s history these days.
Personally, I doubt I’ll be in much of a hurry to frequent the place now, not if the ownership is that craven about the city’s most illustrious former resident.
How long before the guides at Bellevue House are no longer allowed to even mention whose house it was and why it’s a historic site, I wonder?
Canadian history, as it’s taught nowadays, appears to consist of the following:
– life in Canada was all peace, tranquility, and prosperity before the arrival of all those evil white heterosexual males,
– Wolfe stole Quebec from Montcalm,
– Louis Riel was the first prime minister, and
– Pierre Trudeau was the saviour of Canada.
“I have family in Australia. They had residential schools over there, that tells me that it wasn’t Sir. John A. Macdonald who devised the system. The whole issue was most likely decided in London.”
No.
For better or worse, the residential schools were the brainchild of the dominion authorities in both Canada and Australia. By the way, New Zealand had similar mission schools for Maoris.
However, it would not be wrong to say that these schools reflected commonly-held British Imperial ideals though, which involved bringing civilization to the indigenous peoples.
Not to defend the residential school systems, but it seems too often conveniently forgotten that paedagogical methods weren’t that terrific for “white kids” in the 19th Century either. In those little one-room schools that still dot the Ontario rural landscape, discipline was strict and corporal punishment was a given. You towed the line.
The crueler teachers* in residential schools didn’t invent their methods just to be nasty to the natives; they simply brought those practices with them.
Charles Dickens had the measure of the conditions in schools – such as they were – back in those times.
* And I say “crueler” because it has also been conveniently forgotten that many of the teachers were well-meaning and dedicated to their charges. That doesn’t fit the modern narrative though.
“Wolfe stole Quebec from Montcalm”
Historical revision precedes the British conquest. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in Québec mentioning the exploits of Madeleine de Verchères these days.
Sorry UCF is the de facto NATIONAL CHAMPION … 13-0 … including a bowl win over Auburn in the Peach Bowl. Auburn beat BOTH Alabama and Georgia this season. And UCF beat Auburn in the season capping Bowl Game.
The NCAA is as corrupt as the Obama/Hillary Administration. Their “National Championship” is a JOKE. A 4-team playoff is window dressing for the “beauty contest” voting system that installs whichever teams are deemed “worthy” for completely capricious reasons. The NCAA football Nat. Champ. is the equivalent of Ice Dancing … with equal “weight” given to “costumes” and “artistry” by the Judges. And the East German (PAC 12) Judges scores are always thrown out.
Sorry, but a 2-loss Ohio State had NO BUSINESS even being part of the “Natty” discussion … and the two best teams didn’t play last night. Alabama STRUGGLED with every decent team they faced all season.
MAGA.
POTUSVSG “very stable genius”.
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“The White House struggles to silence talk of Trump’s mental fitness
For the past week, news shows could talk of nothing but Trump’s possible instability after his response to Michael Wolff’s book, claiming to be ‘like, really smart’ and ‘a very stable genius'” (wapo-np)
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Scott Adams: Trump’s ‘Very Stable Genius’ Tweet Was ‘Absolutely Genius’
Dilbert creator Scott Adams explained in a Periscope video Saturday that President Trump’s latest string of tweets was an example of his absolute genius. He said the president had been backed into a corner by the left’s framing of him as “crazy and stupid.”
The least persuasive thing a person can do to fight such attacks, according to Adams, is to protest that he’s not crazy and stupid — because the only words people will remember are “crazy and stupid.”
So what does the president do to avoid being branded by the left as crazy and stupid?” https://pjmedia.com/trending/scott-adams-trumps-stable-genius-tweet-absolutely-genius/
PET POT Cemetery Report.
Stupid Liberal Justine say, Moi am not a quacky, weavy duck; nor, have Moi ever been a quacky, weavy duck.
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“Trudeau ducks, weaves over talking to committee about trip to Aga Khan’s island
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wouldn’t commit Tuesday to testifying at a special meeting of the House of Commons ethics committee about his controversial trip to the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.
During an appearance on CBC Radio’s “Information Morning” in Halifax, Trudeau was asked directly whether he’d be willing to appear before the committee. He ducked the question, largely dismissing the idea as little more than an Opposition effort to score political points.” http://www.timescolonist.com/trudeau-ducks-weaves-over-talking-to-committee-about-trip-to-aga-khan-s-island-1.23139321
I am not sure what a “vetting process” for Payette would consist of. What would you want vetted? Who does the vetting?
Why, were the indiginous people not frequenting Sir John’s and do we want to encourage them to do so? If I were a regular customer there, I would protest this silly gesture by going elsewhere.
Quebecers are not disowning their historic leaders. Why are anglophones expected to do so? I think it is criminal to smear someone’s name like this long after they are dead because of politically correct notions that are highly questionable and which certainly were not relevant at the time. The smearing of John A. is just shameful.
Could it be el Nino and el Nina? Why yes, yes, that must be it.The weather patterns …Pineapple express and the currents etc. In Canada it’s so cold up here that Nick Sluzick’s snot would freeze like a silver thread, if you’ve ever read Gabrielle Roy’s book about Manitoba, you’d think you’re a “Stranger in a Strange Land” too, up here. I would love the warmer climate of California.
Seriously though, why did Jerry Brown come back as Govenor? Maybe he just couldn’t resist fixing a better cut the second time and now understands more about Al Gore.
☆☆☆☆ re: remarks @ 12:32 PM ☆☆☆☆
Yepper; Way to go ignorant Canadian, sucking up to the Biased Central Canada Media, ignoring the truth to make a few more Royalty Cheques come to your pocket.
I have a suggestion; at some time in the future, when I will not be looking down at the grass but under it;, an Honest Historian will provide documented, not biased self-interest, of how Donald J.Trump rescued the American Sovereign Citizen from the loss of Their “Great Experiment”.— It will be a sequel to the present film “Darkest Hours”; when Sir Winston Churchill beat down the already supplicant Viscount Halifax’s betrayal of the British People and Western Enlightenment based Culture and Values.
The residential schools are the best thing that ever happened to the native people of Canada. It was the only way to educate the children of roaming bands of stone age hunter gatherers. The alternative was to not educate them at all. I would also guess that the average kid who came out of the one room school house of rural Canada a hundred years ago was at least as well educated as the kids coming out of the school system now.
For the record, “residential school” is just another term for “boarding school”. The most exclusive schools in Canada, Upper Canada College and the like, are “residential schools”.
The Brown Family has governed this State for most of my lifetime … Edmund Brown Senior 1959-1967 Edmund Brown Junior (Moonbeam) 1975-1983 & 2011-20xx. The only reason that Jerry is serving FOUR TERMS as Governor is that his team of crack lawyers argued that his first terms were served PRIOR to the enactment of the term limits passed by the voters. They completely destroyed the original INTENT of the law by arguing against the “vague” language in the bill. Cheaters and Liars … the whole bunch of em. But even WORSE than the Brown Family political cartel … is the SUPERmajority leftist Democrap majority in both State Houses. Combined … they are turning the State into Mexifornia … where white people have to erect walls and gates to keep out the riff raff. All the leftists, who are importing poverty to the State, are living in compounds like Osama Bin Laden … or huddling together in upper middle class communities far too expensive for their gardeners to sleep-in.
Yes … I must say that snow country is a nice place to visit (white Christmas and whatnot) … but a hard place to live. But perhaps that’s why MY PEOPLE learned to “tame” nature … rather than be crushed by it. Soon enough though … Canadians won’t be able to AFFORD to “tame” the elements … and will have to return to igloos. I feel for ya.
AGW RIP.
“System likely to produce a layer cake from hell frozen over.”
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“‘Disruptive’ winter storm spans 50% of the country: Timing”
“The first attempt at a blissful January thaw will come to a crashing and hectic end as a major winter storm takes aim at eastern Canada, from southern Ontario to Atlantic Canada late this week.” (weathernet)
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“Forecasters: Another major winter storm to pound US East
coast -ETA Saturday” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/09/forecasters-another-major-winter-storm-to-pound-us-east-coast/
Liberal Wynnetario.
Bolshevik Wynne’s next campaign? Hang* the kulaks.
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“The Conference Board of Canada believes countermeasures implemented by businesses could result in the loss of 42,000 jobs by the end of next year”
“Ontario’s minimum wage hike off to rocky start as employers slash hours, benefits to compensate” (FP)
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Hang* the kulaks.
“Lenin’s hanging order against the kulaks was sent to commissars in Penza, about 300 miles south-east of Moscow, in August 1918:
“(Send this to Penza – to Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists.)”
“We need to set an example. You need to hang – hang without fail, and do it so that the public sees – at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. Publish their names. Take away all of their grain. Execute the hostages – in accordance with yesterday’s telegram.” http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/lenins-hanging-order-kulaks-1918/
We are so, pardon me, screwed. Thanks for your insights.
PET POT Cemetery Report.
Stupid Scheer joins Stupid Liberal Justine.
Scheer is a Stupid Justine Liberal.
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“Conservative leader Andrew Scheer going to Washington in support of Canada’s trade agenda
Scheer’s staff have been co-ordinating with Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office to identify stakeholders they can meet with while in the U.S.” (NP)
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“Trudeau Team Targets Pro-Nafta Republicans Ahead of Fresh Talks
Justin Trudeau’s lead Nafta minister is reaching out to many of the Republican senators urging the Trump administration to stave off the trade pact’s collapse.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/trudeau-team-targets-pro-nafta-republicans-ahead-of-fresh-talks
uhuh. and like I put to the primary school teachers federation here in ontariowe, did ANY of these people actually CONSULT with aboriginal leaders? groups? interested locals?
prob not.
Stalin also obliterated people from photos, soviet history books, and walking around.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Scheer to fight this Soviet style revisionism.
Here is a well constructed response for a question that has probably bothered most SDA readers. Read it all. It’s good.
If gender and race are artificial constructs, does diversity matter?
To prove that [INSERT MINORITY GROUP] would achieve a perfectly even 50/50 split of opportunities, were it not for the interference of [INSERT MAJORITY OPPRESSOR], we pretend there’s perfect uniformity across groups.
We proclaim that gender and race are social constructs, completely removed from science and reality.
Women, men and people of different races are perfectly uniform in all abilities, interests and aptitudes. This is an incredibly subjective stance to take… but let’s entertain it for a minute.
If this were true, then there’d be absolutely no need for diversity. If we are all uniform, then we are all interchangeable.
Wrong Way Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9o5sYBuQk
Kill shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJaU8KmNfRQ
Fighting the good fight. This case has huge implications for all conservatives in the US who use social media.
http://gotnews.com/breaking-charles-c-johnson-sues-twitter-landmark-free-speech-case/
CBC seemed to miss this one. Iranian Canadians love Donald Trump and hate Justin Trudeau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=76&v=5hAisGtl3-g
Nick Sabin benches Hurt after 1st half… Hurt has had 3 bad games, including Sugar Bowl that was won by the Bama Defense…What ever happened to his talent (14-2) he was almost a BAMA GOD….He was playing chicken Shit 3 and out…The offensive team were not playing well for him…
Bama wins with replacement QB clawing back from a 20-0 deficit and the whole team comes together…
Sabin is a Football genius with unbelievable gonads….Footballs biggest risk taker
Have an extra double of Jackie-D .. and toast Trump & the Tide
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/sports/national-championship-game-alabama-georgia.html
The snake is consuming itself … starting with its own tail
Sir John’s Public House in Kingston Ontario is dropping the reference in its name to Macdonald so as not to offend indigenous people according to the CBC.
We are way overdo for a national federal holiday in February and I shall again propose this as policy resolution for my EDA and for other EDA’s for the national conservative convention in August.
I trust Andrew Scheer won’t wimp out on defending John A. Macdonald? There are limits after all.In fact I call on him to say something right now as this is going to get ugly if someone with backbone doesn’t stop the spread of this trend.
The case of Joshua Boyle leaves so many questions it will take a long time process.
Did he convert to Islam when he married Omar Khadr’s sister? Why is his present wife wearing Islamic garb? Will he use his time in his alleged captivity as an excuse for his behavior since he returned to Canada which has him behind bars?
His story just doesn’t add up to believable…they had three children in captivity. What kind of conditions would allow them to live as a family in some hell hole in the ME they would consider safe to procreate?
Why did our Prime Minister meet with him and his family…why did Boyle want or need to meet with him?
Most Canadians who are enamored with Trudeau are happy to get a selfie, never mind a private meeting!
was he given a large check during that meeting? how much was the check and when are we going to get the money back. Finally when is Justin going to resign for committing treason?
AGW RIP.
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“Recurring snowfalls in Sahara Desert verify global warming, says top Russian meteorologist”
“It is not just my standpoint, but an opinion shared by members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” Vilfand said.” (tass)
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“Manufacturing consensus: the early history of the IPCC
by Judith Curry
Short summary: scientists sought political relevance and allowed policy makers to put a big thumb on the scale of the scientific assessment of the attribution of climate change.
Bernie Lewin has written an important new book:
SEARCHING FOR THE CATASTROPHE SIGNAL:The Origins of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The importance of this book is reflected in its acknowledgements, in context of assistance and contributions from early leaders and participants in the IPCC:”
https://judithcurry.com/2018/01/03/manufacturing-consensus-the-early-history-of-the-ipcc/
Another way of looking at the James Damore / Google differences: IT was seen as a safe place to be autistic (Asperger’s). Google is systematically harrassing their autistic workers. What would the outrage be if it were presented this way?
http://quillette.com/2018/01/05/empathy-gap-tech-interview-software-engineer/
I’ve seen that Damore is starting a class action lawsuit against Google, but I couldn’t find anything in the way of details. Has anyone found a good summary?
Heh. David Thomson has a post two down on the list. Hmm. He anticipated. Are there any strings of 6 (6/49) or 7 (lotto max) numbers coming to mind, David?
Normans Rare Guitars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCqoNL3p5oI
Comment:
“How about that guy @ 15:40?
Oh wait, that’s me throwing my guitar in the trash…”
fortunately we were not created equal.
MAGA.
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“Standing Ovation as Trump Touts End of Death Tax: ‘Keep Your Farms in the Family’”
“Attendees of the American Farm Bureau Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, rose to their feet with boisterous praise on Monday when President Donald Trump heralded the end of the death tax in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
During his speech at the convention, Trump pointed out that not one Democrat voted for the Republican congressional leadership’s tax cut plan.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/08/standing-ovation-president-trump-touts-end-death-tax-keep-farms-family/
I have family in Australia. They had residential schools over there, that tells me that it wasn’t Sir. John A. Macdonald who devised the system.
The whole issue was most likely decided in London.
Good or bad, it should be put to rest by now. Justin Trudeau knows that. I don’t agree with everything in this article, however it does reiterate that Canada did not not make the decision to remove indigenous people from their homes and place them in ”Rez.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/25/indigenous-australians-and-canadians-destroyed-by-same-colonialism
Check out the article on iPolitics regarding the ‘vetting’ process bongo claims he put GG Julie Payette through.
It looks like there was none.
Good on iPolitics for their reporting on this
AGW RIP.
“We kindly ask you to stay at home.””
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“13,000 stranded in Swiss ski resort of Zermatt
Tourists unable to leave resort because of heavy snowfall and exceptional risk of avalanches”
““numerous large and, in many cases, very large natural avalanches”.
It said such avalanches could reach “an exceptionally long way” and that exposed buildings and transport routes were endangered.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/09/thousands-stranded-without-electricity-in-swiss-ski-resort-of-zermatt
Math, not only is real math hard but apparently it is also oppressive. At least, if you are getting the right answers it is oppressive.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5247129/CUNY-professor-claims-meritocracy-tool-whiteness.html
Take a look at her bio, all that education and still she can’t put 2 and 2 together!
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=441
Some quotes from the article
“The truth, according to Rubel, is that equating effort expended with success achieved for everyone ‘ignores systemic barriers and institutional structures that prevent opportunity and success’ for racial minorities.”
“Rubel also advocates against ‘color-blindness’ in teaching mathematics.
‘Teachers who claim color-blindness—that is, they claim to not notice the race of their students—are, in effect, refusing to acknowledge the impact of enduring racial stratification on students and their families,’ she said.
‘By claiming not to notice, the teacher is saying that she is dismissing one of the most salient features of the child’s identity and that she does not account for it in her curricular planning and instruction.'”
The stupid, it hurts…….
Sir John’s Public House in Kingston Ontario is dropping the reference in its name to Macdonald so as not to offend indigenous people according to the CBC.”
It will apparently be known as “The Public House” henceforth. A good part of the place’s cachet comes from the fact that it used to be Sir John A. Macdonald’s law office. It will be interesting to see whether a more anonymous name will effect the tourist trade or not. Alas, probably not, given the level of knowledge in the most basic aspects of our country’s history these days.
Personally, I doubt I’ll be in much of a hurry to frequent the place now, not if the ownership is that craven about the city’s most illustrious former resident.
How long before the guides at Bellevue House are no longer allowed to even mention whose house it was and why it’s a historic site, I wonder?
Canadian history, as it’s taught nowadays, appears to consist of the following:
– life in Canada was all peace, tranquility, and prosperity before the arrival of all those evil white heterosexual males,
– Wolfe stole Quebec from Montcalm,
– Louis Riel was the first prime minister, and
– Pierre Trudeau was the saviour of Canada.
“I have family in Australia. They had residential schools over there, that tells me that it wasn’t Sir. John A. Macdonald who devised the system. The whole issue was most likely decided in London.”
No.
For better or worse, the residential schools were the brainchild of the dominion authorities in both Canada and Australia. By the way, New Zealand had similar mission schools for Maoris.
However, it would not be wrong to say that these schools reflected commonly-held British Imperial ideals though, which involved bringing civilization to the indigenous peoples.
Not to defend the residential school systems, but it seems too often conveniently forgotten that paedagogical methods weren’t that terrific for “white kids” in the 19th Century either. In those little one-room schools that still dot the Ontario rural landscape, discipline was strict and corporal punishment was a given. You towed the line.
The crueler teachers* in residential schools didn’t invent their methods just to be nasty to the natives; they simply brought those practices with them.
Charles Dickens had the measure of the conditions in schools – such as they were – back in those times.
* And I say “crueler” because it has also been conveniently forgotten that many of the teachers were well-meaning and dedicated to their charges. That doesn’t fit the modern narrative though.
“Wolfe stole Quebec from Montcalm”
Historical revision precedes the British conquest. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in Québec mentioning the exploits of Madeleine de Verchères these days.
Sorry UCF is the de facto NATIONAL CHAMPION … 13-0 … including a bowl win over Auburn in the Peach Bowl. Auburn beat BOTH Alabama and Georgia this season. And UCF beat Auburn in the season capping Bowl Game.
The NCAA is as corrupt as the Obama/Hillary Administration. Their “National Championship” is a JOKE. A 4-team playoff is window dressing for the “beauty contest” voting system that installs whichever teams are deemed “worthy” for completely capricious reasons. The NCAA football Nat. Champ. is the equivalent of Ice Dancing … with equal “weight” given to “costumes” and “artistry” by the Judges. And the East German (PAC 12) Judges scores are always thrown out.
Sorry, but a 2-loss Ohio State had NO BUSINESS even being part of the “Natty” discussion … and the two best teams didn’t play last night. Alabama STRUGGLED with every decent team they faced all season.
Just saw this video on educayshun
Not sure if this is a sales pitch by CUNY or a joke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=418&v=iKcWu0tsiZM
MAGA.
POTUSVSG “very stable genius”.
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“The White House struggles to silence talk of Trump’s mental fitness
For the past week, news shows could talk of nothing but Trump’s possible instability after his response to Michael Wolff’s book, claiming to be ‘like, really smart’ and ‘a very stable genius'” (wapo-np)
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Scott Adams: Trump’s ‘Very Stable Genius’ Tweet Was ‘Absolutely Genius’
Dilbert creator Scott Adams explained in a Periscope video Saturday that President Trump’s latest string of tweets was an example of his absolute genius. He said the president had been backed into a corner by the left’s framing of him as “crazy and stupid.”
The least persuasive thing a person can do to fight such attacks, according to Adams, is to protest that he’s not crazy and stupid — because the only words people will remember are “crazy and stupid.”
So what does the president do to avoid being branded by the left as crazy and stupid?”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/scott-adams-trumps-stable-genius-tweet-absolutely-genius/
PET POT Cemetery Report.
Stupid Liberal Justine say, Moi am not a quacky, weavy duck; nor, have Moi ever been a quacky, weavy duck.
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“Trudeau ducks, weaves over talking to committee about trip to Aga Khan’s island
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wouldn’t commit Tuesday to testifying at a special meeting of the House of Commons ethics committee about his controversial trip to the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas.
During an appearance on CBC Radio’s “Information Morning” in Halifax, Trudeau was asked directly whether he’d be willing to appear before the committee. He ducked the question, largely dismissing the idea as little more than an Opposition effort to score political points.”
http://www.timescolonist.com/trudeau-ducks-weaves-over-talking-to-committee-about-trip-to-aga-khan-s-island-1.23139321
I am not sure what a “vetting process” for Payette would consist of. What would you want vetted? Who does the vetting?
Why, were the indiginous people not frequenting Sir John’s and do we want to encourage them to do so? If I were a regular customer there, I would protest this silly gesture by going elsewhere.
Quebecers are not disowning their historic leaders. Why are anglophones expected to do so? I think it is criminal to smear someone’s name like this long after they are dead because of politically correct notions that are highly questionable and which certainly were not relevant at the time. The smearing of John A. is just shameful.
Could it be el Nino and el Nina? Why yes, yes, that must be it.The weather patterns …Pineapple express and the currents etc. In Canada it’s so cold up here that Nick Sluzick’s snot would freeze like a silver thread, if you’ve ever read Gabrielle Roy’s book about Manitoba, you’d think you’re a “Stranger in a Strange Land” too, up here. I would love the warmer climate of California.
Seriously though, why did Jerry Brown come back as Govenor? Maybe he just couldn’t resist fixing a better cut the second time and now understands more about Al Gore.
☆☆☆☆ re: remarks @ 12:32 PM ☆☆☆☆
Yepper; Way to go ignorant Canadian, sucking up to the Biased Central Canada Media, ignoring the truth to make a few more Royalty Cheques come to your pocket.
I have a suggestion; at some time in the future, when I will not be looking down at the grass but under it;, an Honest Historian will provide documented, not biased self-interest, of how Donald J.Trump rescued the American Sovereign Citizen from the loss of Their “Great Experiment”.— It will be a sequel to the present film “Darkest Hours”; when Sir Winston Churchill beat down the already supplicant Viscount Halifax’s betrayal of the British People and Western Enlightenment based Culture and Values.
The residential schools are the best thing that ever happened to the native people of Canada. It was the only way to educate the children of roaming bands of stone age hunter gatherers. The alternative was to not educate them at all. I would also guess that the average kid who came out of the one room school house of rural Canada a hundred years ago was at least as well educated as the kids coming out of the school system now.
For the record, “residential school” is just another term for “boarding school”. The most exclusive schools in Canada, Upper Canada College and the like, are “residential schools”.
The Brown Family has governed this State for most of my lifetime … Edmund Brown Senior 1959-1967 Edmund Brown Junior (Moonbeam) 1975-1983 & 2011-20xx. The only reason that Jerry is serving FOUR TERMS as Governor is that his team of crack lawyers argued that his first terms were served PRIOR to the enactment of the term limits passed by the voters. They completely destroyed the original INTENT of the law by arguing against the “vague” language in the bill. Cheaters and Liars … the whole bunch of em. But even WORSE than the Brown Family political cartel … is the SUPERmajority leftist Democrap majority in both State Houses. Combined … they are turning the State into Mexifornia … where white people have to erect walls and gates to keep out the riff raff. All the leftists, who are importing poverty to the State, are living in compounds like Osama Bin Laden … or huddling together in upper middle class communities far too expensive for their gardeners to sleep-in.
Yes … I must say that snow country is a nice place to visit (white Christmas and whatnot) … but a hard place to live. But perhaps that’s why MY PEOPLE learned to “tame” nature … rather than be crushed by it. Soon enough though … Canadians won’t be able to AFFORD to “tame” the elements … and will have to return to igloos. I feel for ya.
AGW RIP.
“System likely to produce a layer cake from hell frozen over.”
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“‘Disruptive’ winter storm spans 50% of the country: Timing”
“The first attempt at a blissful January thaw will come to a crashing and hectic end as a major winter storm takes aim at eastern Canada, from southern Ontario to Atlantic Canada late this week.” (weathernet)
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“Forecasters: Another major winter storm to pound US East
coast -ETA Saturday”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/09/forecasters-another-major-winter-storm-to-pound-us-east-coast/
Liberal Wynnetario.
Bolshevik Wynne’s next campaign? Hang* the kulaks.
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“The Conference Board of Canada believes countermeasures implemented by businesses could result in the loss of 42,000 jobs by the end of next year”
“Ontario’s minimum wage hike off to rocky start as employers slash hours, benefits to compensate” (FP)
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Hang* the kulaks.
“Lenin’s hanging order against the kulaks was sent to commissars in Penza, about 300 miles south-east of Moscow, in August 1918:
“(Send this to Penza – to Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists.)”
“We need to set an example. You need to hang – hang without fail, and do it so that the public sees – at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. Publish their names. Take away all of their grain. Execute the hostages – in accordance with yesterday’s telegram.”
http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/lenins-hanging-order-kulaks-1918/
We are so, pardon me, screwed. Thanks for your insights.
PET POT Cemetery Report.
Stupid Scheer joins Stupid Liberal Justine.
Scheer is a Stupid Justine Liberal.
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“Conservative leader Andrew Scheer going to Washington in support of Canada’s trade agenda
Scheer’s staff have been co-ordinating with Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office to identify stakeholders they can meet with while in the U.S.” (NP)
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“Trudeau Team Targets Pro-Nafta Republicans Ahead of Fresh Talks
Justin Trudeau’s lead Nafta minister is reaching out to many of the Republican senators urging the Trump administration to stave off the trade pact’s collapse.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/trudeau-team-targets-pro-nafta-republicans-ahead-of-fresh-talks
Children Aren’t Going to Know What Snow Is
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/zermatt-avalanche-risk-13-000-tourists-stranded-ski-resort-after-n835996
This guy is a one man show, He is Canadian & should be getting more publicity than Bieber.
Son of Dave
Shake a bone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxDV4urtREg&index=2&list=PLWf5KX9HxkuuiCcjBraKxS2lL7yDbPGBm
uhuh. and like I put to the primary school teachers federation here in ontariowe, did ANY of these people actually CONSULT with aboriginal leaders? groups? interested locals?
prob not.
Stalin also obliterated people from photos, soviet history books, and walking around.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Scheer to fight this Soviet style revisionism.
Check out the iPolitics
Article.