"Queen's University, one of Canada's most academically elite schools, admits it has allowed a "culture of whiteness" to take root that fails to welcome visible minority students and professors."
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"Visible minorities" is Canadian for blacks, Eskimos and Asians. The chairwoman (naughty word!) of the university's "equity committee" is Prof. Joy Mighty, who is black and who reports that she herself has encountered no discrimination.
Five Highly Esteemed Texas Teachers Lose their Jobs
And the Principal in charge of the school has now been "reassigned". Why? Because the teachers put on a "roast" (a skit or speech comprised of jocular insults) as part of a school celebration:
"They portrayed students and staff from another campus in our school district as unprofessional, unruly and not motivated to learn," Simmons said. "The teachers in this skit displayed a level of cultural insensitivity that is simply unacceptable."
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According to the Education Wonks, the school that was sent up was "another TISD school made up of minorities and low-income students". Nobody is saying exactly what was in the skit. I doubt that the skit would have been put on if it was very offensive but nobody really knows. A wall of silence has descended.
Nazi Rally Permitted in Michigan
But it was the pro-"tolerance" demonstrators who threw the rocks!
"A heavily patrolled rally on the Capitol steps Saturday drew a noisy crowd of 77 Nazis and some 500 supporters and opponents but led to little more than profane name-calling, 16 misdemeanor arrests and several minor injuries, police said. A city-sponsored diversity rally attracted a crowd of 700. Members of the media covering the Nazi rally outnumbered the activists from the National Socialist Movement, a white separatist group based in Minnesota.
Hundreds of riot-gear-clad police surrounded the Nazi group and 3,000 feet of chain-link fence helped separate Nazi sympathizers and protesters. The 77 activists gathered on the Capitol steps, and supporters and opponents were kept in separate fenced-off areas. Police said they learned from mistakes made at a rally staged by the same group in Toledo in October that devolved into rioting and led to more than 100 arrests. In Lansing, several Nazi supporters were injured when they attempted to leave a fenced area and were attacked by the protesters, who outnumbered the approximately 40 Nazi sympathizers by more than 10-to-1.
The Nazis were brought in on three buses with police motorcycle escort. Metal detectors, bomb monitors, police dogs and mounted police helped keep the peace. Police allowed only foot traffic into the area. Police said rocks were thrown at some officers as protesters left the rally site and windows of a police van were broken out....."
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To me Nazism is an absurdity but respecting their right to free speech did have the slight benefit on this occasion of showing up the "anti-Nazi" Leftists as practicing just another brand of intolerance and aggression.
"Mirror" (Backup) Sites
ALL blogs have some downtime. Blogs hosted on blogspot are well-known for it but other hosting services have their failures too. As any systems expert will tell you, however, the key to system reliability is redundancy and I have taken that onboard as the way to beat all the service outages that regularly have all us bloggers weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth. So what I do is put up extra copies ("mirrors") of my various blogs. As an old computer hand from way back (I wrote my first computer program in 1967), it takes me only a couple of minutes to do, so I do it. It is compiling the blog that takes the time. Putting up another copy of it is no trouble at all.
So if this blog is unavailable when you try to log on, you have an alternative! You can find the posts elsewhere! Bookmark this site and you will always be able to find a second copy of any of my blogs.
