Friday, November 13, 2020
'All she needs to be qualified is a black p***y': Former Google director resigns from school board after his wife posted vulgar tweet about Kamala Harris
He was responsible for what his wife said?
A former Google executive and president of a Menlo Park school district has stepped down after his wife made vulgar comments about Kamala Harris on Twitter, alleging she is only qualified for office because she's a black woman.
Jon Venverloh resigned on Sunday as president of the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in Menlo Park stating he needed to focus on his family.
His wife Mehridith Philips Venverloh had tweeted about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris: 'All she needs to be qualified is a black p****! No brain needed!'
She later deleted the post and account. However, screenshots of the post have been shared on social media, sparking outrage and prompting calls for Venverloh's resignation as school board president.
'I stood for election to be a trustee because I care about doing the right thing for ALL of our kids in our District,' Jon Venverloh said in the statement according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
'However, given my wife’s social media posts, which expressed reprehensible views that I do not agree with, I know that my continued service would be a distraction from the work that needs to be done in the District over the two years remaining in my term,' he added.
Biden Appoints Free-Speech Antagonist to Sell Free Speech Abroad
When Rick Stengel left his job as managing editor of Time magazine to take the job of Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in 2013, he became the 24th journalist to officially join the Obama administration. The most notable of them was Jay Carney, the longtime Washington bureau chief for Time who would become director of communications for Joe Biden and then White House press secretary, but many journalists — and we’re not talking about pundits — took the short journey from political journalism to Democratic Party advocacy. And, as George Stephanopoulos can attest, if you’re a Democrat, there is always a road back into journalism.
Stengel is now on Biden’s transition team to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which I just learned is an agency that oversees “public service media networks that provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted.”
Considering Stengel’s animosity towards free expression this seems quite a poor fit. You might remember his infamous 2011 Time cover piece, featuring a picture of the Constitution with the headline “Does It Still Matter?”
In it he argued:
We can pat ourselves on the back about the past 223 years, but we cannot let the Constitution become an obstacle to the U.S.’s moving into the future with a sensible health care system, a globalized economy, an evolving sense of civil and political rights. The Constitution does not protect our spirit of liberty; our spirit of liberty protects the Constitution. The Constitution serves the nation; the nation does not serve the Constitution.
This malleable view of foundational law, one that allows partisans to reimagine the Constitution in any way that suits them, is pretty popular these days. It is, in essence, an acknowledgment that the contemporary left-wing can’t function under traditional American principles.
12 November, 2020
Soccer chief RESIGNS after he referred to 'coloured footballers' and claimed South Asians and Afro-Caribbean people have 'different career interests'
Greg Clarke has resigned as FA chairman following a disastrous parliamentary appearance in which he made reference to 'coloured footballers' among a host of other offensive gaffes.
As MailOnline revealed on Tuesday afternoon the 63-year-old immediately came under pressure from inside Wembley to quit and after canvassing the opinions of other Board members came to the conclusion that he had no option but to stand down immediately.
In his resignation statement Clarke admitted that comments in which he also stereotyped south Asians and described homosexuality as a 'life choice' were 'unacceptable,' but claimed to have been considering the FA for some time.
Clarke was instrumental in the FA's development of the code, which includes specific targets for inclusive recruitment policies and has been adopted by 19 Premier League clubs, but his words failed match his actions.
In an extraordinary appearance via video link in front of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee yesterday morning Clarke used the phrase 'coloured footballers' when discussing online racial abuse and claimed that South Asians and Afro-Caribbean people have 'different career interests' by citing the make-up of the FA's IT department.
He was also criticised for saying a coach had told him that the lack of women's goalkeepers was due to girls not liking the ball being kicked at them, while Stonewall UK was among those who condemned his suggestion that being gay was a 'life choice'.
Clarke offered an apology for the 'coloured' remark soon afterwards after being prompted to do so by Kevin Brennan MP, but this apparent contrition was not enough to assuage the anger of FA Board members and staff who have increasingly come to view the chairman as an embarrassing liability.
Top Biden aide accuses Facebook of 'shredding the fabric of our democracy' in latest sign that Big Tech's regulatory woes could grow WORSE under Democrats
A top aide to President-elect Joe Biden has accused Facebook of 'shredding the fabric of our democracy' in the latest signal that the Democratic administration may be tougher on Big Tech than Republican President Donald Trump has been.
Bill Russo, a deputy campaign communications director for Biden, lashed out at Facebook in a series of tweets on Monday night, blasting the company led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allowing what he called 'debunked conspiracy theories'.
'If you thought disinformation on Facebook was a problem during our election, just wait until you see how it is shredding the fabric of our democracy in the days after. Look at what has happened in just the past week,' Russo said, going on to list examples that he said showed Facebook was too slow to delete certain dangerous right-wing content.
While Trump has talked tough about harsher regulations on Big Tech, accusing social media platforms of censoring conservatives, his administration has taken little concrete action.
Russo's tweets are among a number of signs that a Biden administration will take a harder line, pursuing Democrats' opposite complaint that social media companies don't delete enough material that they deem questionable.
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