Pretty much everything is ignored – history, speech and religious rights, economic consequences – when they come into conflict with the left’s agenda, so why should science expect to be treated any differently?
Understanding The Left’s Grip On Media
Behind President Barack Obama’s gripe to Bill O’Reilly that Fox News is always unfair to him stood a deeper resentment that has poisoned the soul of progressives for some time: Hollywood and academia might still be firmly in the grip of the orthodox left, but part of the media has managed to wriggle free. Liberals still can’t get over this fact, and their rearguard actions to regain control come in different forms: some, like our President’s objections, are innocuously transparent and amusing; others, like a recent research report on the future of media by the Brookings Institution, are more circuitous and perhaps more worrying.
In the joint paper by two of its heavy hitters, the well-known and influential Washington think tank lays out a plan that would reverse some key media trends of the past few years, such as the growth of partisan commentary, citizen journalism and Americans’ new-found ability to readily find opinions they like. The paper was authored by the Vice President for Governance and founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation, Darrel West, and Web Content and Digital Media Coordinator, Beth Stone. They write in the most academic and detached of tones and if you weren’t careful, you wouldn’t notice how some of their recommendations would silence the new diversity of views.
The Tolerant Left
Alberta Human Rights Commissioner Moosa Jiwaji – “Go into Eastleigh and get rid of all those individuals who are living in Kenya on fake papers. Do DNA tests on all of them.”
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
I would like to propose a more rigorous standard: one of “academic justice.” When an academic community observes research promoting or justifying oppression, it should ensure that this research does not continue.
The power to enforce academic justice comes from students, faculty, and workers organizing together to make our universities look as we want them to do. Two years ago, when former summer school instructor Subramanian Swamy published hateful commentary about Muslims in India, the Harvard community organized to ensure that he would not return to teach on campus. I consider that sort of organizing both appropriate and commendable. Perhaps it should even be applied more broadly.
The Tolerant Left
Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, just said on House floor that he doesn't like Clarence Thomas because "he's married to a white woman."
— Mary Sell (@DD_MarySell) February 11, 2014
More at Hotair.
Of course they did.
Judge Thomas, 65, a conservative, who grew up in Georgia during the tumultuous civil rights protests against racial segregation, also said that “northern liberal elites” treated him worse than whites in the segregated South of his childhood.
“My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school,” he told students at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college in Florida.
Because for “liberal elites”, civil rights has little to do with combating racism and everything to do with enhancing their moral superiority bona fides. I was going to say such people display their solidarity with minority causes like a peacock does his tail feathers – but that’s unfair to peacocks. A peacock brings his tail feathers back home to his neighborhood at night.
The Tolerant Left
Did Melissa Harris-Perry show up for work today?
MSNBC has fired the employee responsible for an “outrageous and unacceptable” tweet that suggested conservatives hate biracial families, network president Phil Griffin said in a statement. He apologized to Republicans who on Thursday announced a boycott of the liberal network.
Feel the love: ‘You f*cking borrowed a black family?’
The Tolerant Left
A new video by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas reveals supporters of Democratic, pro-abortion, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis laughing about the disability of her Republican opponent, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. (h/t Manny)
The Tolerant Left
“Brace yourselves, dear readers. Colette is positively trembling with feminist rage.”
Not A Muslim
NOOoonononono… Obama’s deputies release leftist who collaborated with Twin Towers jihadis
The Tolerant Left
Sadly, as 2013 comes to a close, the long standing war between The Left and Basic Math sees no sign of abating anytime soon. In mid-December, Peter Schiff dared publish this video. Since then, the “caring, loving” folks on the Left have had some interesting things to say to Schiff.
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The panelists start laughing the moment the photo is on the screen, because obviously. Then the first response is Pia Glenn off-camera sing-songing “one of these things is not like the others, one of these things just isn’t the same” and the rest of the panel chuckles along. It’s funny because Romney is white and his grandson isn’t, which is obviously hilarious. Because as everyone knows, the races should not mix.
Video at the link.
The Tolerant Left
“I’ve just flown in from California, where they’ve made homosexuality legal. I thought I’d get out before they make it compulsory.”
The Tolerant Left
Brian Lilley on Duck Dynasty.
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More Pavilions At Folkfest
This could never happen here: Sexist dress codes and other behaviours are being spread and pushed in British universities by retrograde Islamic societies and individuals, most of them men – though there are always willing maidens who say “yes, yes, yes” to such diktats. UUK upholds this apartheid and offers up nauseating justifications. It’s done in the name of free speech. Yes, really.
Above The Law
Why halfway houses need to be relocated to gated communities;
Judges in several provinces are rebelling against the Conservative government’s attempt to make all convicted criminals pay a surcharge to fund victim services.
The mandatory charge is a new flashpoint between the judiciary and the federal government. Two years ago, an Ontario Court judge opposed to The Truth in Sentencing Act – which ended two-for-one credit for pretrial detention – called on other judges to give shorter sentences to make up for harsh jailhouse conditions.
h/t nv53
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Micro-aggression
Is an M-word, which rhymes with N-word, and that stands for racist.
Scratch A Leftist
The main problem I see that Ms. Hernroth-Rothstein has is the mis-identification of her tormenters. Neo-Nazis and Leftists “waving Hamas flags and sporting Palestinian kefiyahs” are not “two extreme and nominally opposite sides of the political spectrum”. They’re two factions on the same side, fighting to be King of the dung hill.
But read them both.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
University: Liberal Academia and My Struggle for Survival
h/t EBD