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A "Right of Access to Information"?

In its fight to keep pro-Cuban propaganda in Florida school libraries, the ACLU is arguing that students have a "right of access to information".

They say that the right is found in the First Amendment. Their copy of the Constitution must be an odd one because I see no such right there but I sure hope they win their case anyway.

If they do, all conservatives should immediately demand of schools that their kids have a right of access to "A Patriot's History of the United States". That should REALLY put the cat among the pigeons. Decades of academic misrepresentation of U.S. history would fall away rapidly.




The Race Card Again

No-one ever treats a black in a critical way because the black is belligerent. They only treat a black in a critical way because the black is black. That seems to be the reasoning in this story, involving fat black entertainer "Mo'Nique".

The story concerns a confrontation between "Mo'Nique" and flight attendants on United Airlines and I am certainly in no position to judge the rights and wrongs of the matter, though given what flight attendants regularly put up with uncomplainingly, I know where my presumptions would lie.

The point I see, however, is that as long as blacks keep blaming all their problems on racism, they will forever be making THEMSELVES second-class citizens. Let them just talk about the behavior concerned -- as whites do.




"Him" Incorrect in the British Police

We read:

"A 19-year-old female candidate for the police service recently learnt a hard lesson in diversity awareness. She had passed her written tests, and in her interview was asked what she would do if she needed advice. She replied: "I would go to my sergeant and ask him for help." She failed the interview for referring to the sergeant as "him", thus revealing her lack of gender awareness".

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