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Public University Seeks General Writing Consultant — Who Actively Fights the Oppressive White Race​

Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree and “extensive experience with academic/scientific writing in undergraduate career and beyond.” A “good faith commitment” and willingness to “continually learn” are also mandatory.

But there are also “Preferred Qualifications”:

• Previous experience as a peer tutor, ideally in a writing center
• Previous teaching experience, ideally with adult learners
• Background in science writing

And:

• Previous antiracist coursework or activism

For an explanation of the term, here’s UCLA Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw speaking to Good Housekeeping:

“Antiracism is the active dismantling of systems, privileges, and everyday practices that reinforce and normalize the contemporary dimensions of white dominance. This, of course, also involves a critical understanding of the history of whiteness in America.”

As relayed by CNN, antiracism erases the following microaggressions:

• “All lives matter.”
• “We’re all one human race/big happy family.”
• “I’m colorblind; I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow, green or purple.

University of Maryland’s application asks for a 250-400-word explanation on how candidates might fight “white supremacy.”


As noted by Campus Reform, the Writing Center’s webpage emphasizes racial conflict:

For students committed to antiracist action in your own professional practices and communities, the rigorous preparation will be a major benefit of this campus job.

And from the Center’s “About Us” section:

We know that writing is way more than words on the page or the arrangement of grammatical units. We approach our work with writers with an antiracist lens.

 

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Anti-Cheating 'Room Scans' During Online Tests Are Unconstitutional, Rules Ohio District Court​

The court was unconvinced by those claims. Calabrese argues that the searches are not routine because they "peer behind walls and make visible places outside the ambit" of previous cases. Further, the court rejected the university's claims that searches conducted using technology in "general public use" is not subject to the Fourth Amendment, writing "the procedural antecedents to a search that the Constitution requires apply even where new technologies make accessible places and information not otherwise obtainable without a physical intrusion." Further, the court rejected the university's attempts to apply case law concerning employment to education, writing that applying this law in new contexts "lies with another court, particularly if doing so pares back constitutional protections across different areas of the law."

This case is a decisive victory for digital privacy advocates. "Traditionally, the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant before the government can search in our homes, and that includes searches by government institutions like a state-run university," Jason Kelley, the Associate Director of Digital Strategy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy and free speech group, tells Reason. "There are few exceptions to this requirement, and none of the justifications offered by the university—including its interests in deterring cheating and its assertion the student may have been able to refuse the scan—sufficed to outweigh that requirement in this case."

According to Kelley, the ruling will likely limit schools' ability to invade students' privacy in the name of cheating prevention. There is now legal precedent that just because examining students' bedrooms might help prevent some forms of cheating doesn't mean it isn't an illegal search that substantially violates students' right to privacy.



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University Tells White Students to Stop Exhausting Everyone Else​

Via the White Antiracism page, the school puts you where you belong. It reiterates — either you’re tired of having to teach white people, or you’re part of the white people problem:

White people have important roles to play in antiracism work. The opportunities and resources below are to assist members of our campus community in learning about race, racism, and the practice of antiracism. Our focus on white antiracism is an institutional effort to relieve pressure often placed on people of color to educate white people about race, as well as to support and be in solidarity with change efforts led by people of color.

Interested parties can access UR’s “white antiracism listserv” — or have a bit of enlightenment for lunch:

The lunchtime discussion series on white antiracism is an informal space to discuss and learn about whiteness, with an emphasis on how white people can be better practitioners of antiracism. All members of the campus community are welcome to participate. No matter where you are in your journey of antiracism, you are welcome. Discussions often begin with a shared reading, and we only ask that participants keep the discussion centered on whiteness and white antiracism. The discussions occur weekly on Mondays from noon-1 p.m.

Know your “bodies” — they are, after all, what define you:

Our themes for the academic year are embodiment and practice. In other words, we are going to lean into (1) reflecting more on the ways that racism is experienced in our bodies, and (2) being more intentional in focusing on putting antiracism into practice, i.e. taking action.

Toward the goal of pre-Civil Rights segregation, education has made staggering leaps. For a culture bashing the binary, we’re apparently still fond of pairs: You’re one sort of person or the other. And the race that dictates your camp — the standard to whom all are compared? According to anti-white warriors…that would be white.

 

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Yale Spends $1,000,000 to Fight the White Supremacy of Video Game Hair​

On the university’s website, its School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced it’ll be putting to good use a “1,000,000 gift from the Bungie Foundation.” With such a donation, Yale’s “For Humanity” campaign will “develop new tools and algorithms to bring inclusivity to the digital screen.”


As it turns out, there’s a white supremacist bias in video game rendering among phony follicles:

One of the physical characteristics that is most revealing of algorithmic bias is the representation of human hair. Computer graphics research has historically favored the simulation and rendering of straight hair, which is racially coded as European or Caucasian hair. The tools and algorithms that digital artists deploy treat this form of hair as the baseline. No equivalent model has been developed for naturally kinky hair — also known as Type 4 hair — a characteristic that most commonly occurs in Black communities.

Theodore Kim, associate professor of computer science and co-lead of the Yale Computer Graphics Group, explains his planned project’s mission to manhandle “harm”:

“This research will serve as an example of how to identify the products of systemic racism in computer graphics and demonstrate how to take concrete steps to ameliorate their harm.”

We’re living in an era of “antiracism,” which is the belief that white people comprise an oppressive race. Per UCLA Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, antiracism aims to obliterate the normalization of “white dominance.”


To that end, Yale’s locked and loaded.

Here’s more:

“The tools and algorithms we aim to develop will allow the full range of human hair, in its elegant variation and diversity, to be faithfully represented in film and games,” said [Theodore].
Kareem Shuman, Bungie Technical Dialogue Designer and Co-Lead of Black at Bungie employee resource group (ERG) said [Theodore’s] work to expand representation is inspiring and especially important to younger audiences.

 

[UglyBear]

Oh what BS… (the article above).
White people have the largest diversity of hair types — from straight to wavy to super curly.
Asians, who compose the largest share of people in the world, have super duper straight hair, nary a curl between two billions or more of them.
Also Asians are disproportionately design code and consume video games. Maybe that’s why straight hair is the default? Or it’s just easier to code straight hair?

 

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My hair identifies as naturally kinky.

 

[jrt_ms1995]

My hair identifies as naturally kinky.

While mine insists it's missing!

 

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Project Veritas Update: Assist. Principal Placed on Leave, AG Probes; Teachers Union Tells Teachers to Hush up, Look Away​

The undercover videos reveal that Boland specifically would seek to discover a job applicant’s political or religious affiliations during the hiring process to weed out Catholics and conservatives. He also admitted to having a disregard for parental roles in education and in “shaping” their children. Boland also said he would not offer interviews to older candidates because they were more likely to be conservative.

CT Governor Ned Lamont (D) issued a statement on Wednesday:

“Discrimination of any kind has no place in Connecticut, especially in our public schools. This is not aligned with our Connecticut values. The Connecticut State Department of Education is aware of the incident, has been in contact with Greenwich Public School administrators, and is monitoring the situation’s progress.”

In an email to school community members, Greenwich Schools Superintendent Toni Jones confirmed that Bolen had been placed on administrative leave. In an earlier statement, the district committed to a full investigation, writing:

“We intend to do a full investigation and until that time, we will not make any public statements. We ask that you respect the investigation process during this time. We do not, however, support any opinions that promote discriminatory hiring practices based on race, religion, gender, or age in any way, and we want to remind our entire community that our curriculum policies and procedures are strictly enforced by our Board.”

O’Keefe held a press conference Wednesday evening at Cos Cob Elementary, joined by legislative leaders and CT Senate candidate Loera Levy (R), families, and Catholic community members demanding transparency, accountability, and full investigations. On Thursday, CT Attorney General William Tong announced a civil rights investigation into the district’s hiring practices. CT Democrat U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal has said, “This country was built on religious tolerance. Religious discrimination is inexcusable and illegal. Of course, I support a full investigation.”

 

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Angry Leftist Smashes Pro-Life Club’s Table With Bike Helmet, Targets Other Pro-Life Groups​

The school year has just begun but already pro-life college students are being targets of hostility on campus.

On Wednesday, pro-life students at the University of Iowa said an angry student flipped over the College Republicans’ table and attempted to flip over the tables of two other conservative pro-life groups before smashing some of their materials with a bicycle helmet, according to Campus Reform.

Vandalism and violence against pro-life advocates has skyrocketed in recent months in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. LifeNews has documented more than 165 acts of pro-abortion violence since May.

The latest occurred during the University of Iowa Student Engagement Fair. According to Campus Reform, an angry student flipped over the College Republicans’ table and then made an obscene gesture at a Republican student, calling him a “fascist.”

Then, the student tried to overturn the Turning Point USA chapter table and used his bicycle helmet to destroy materials at the Students for Life table while calling them “fascists” and making obscene gestures, the report states.

 

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American Historical Association president gets schooled by the woke mob​

So what was his offense? In his August column in AHA’s magazine Perspectives on History he questioned whether ‘teleological presentism" was hurting the discipline.

Teleological presentism is a fancy term, but not a complicated one. It means looking at the past through a lens of current moral, social or political judgments. Sweet criticized historical content, like the 1619 Project, which argues slavery is the central and most important event in American history, as being more concerned with contemporary social and political outcomes than understanding the actual past.

For his trouble one fellow historian wrote of Sweet that he is "a privileged white man condemning what he sees as everyone else’s obsession with’ identity politics.’" The debate on the AHA Twitter account became so ugly and contentious that comments were disabled. Then came the simping apology.

There are really two questions here, one legitimate, one illegitimate. Let's start with the former. The rational and important question in play here brings us squarely back to Herodotus and Thucydides. Herodotus was first and foremost a storyteller, one of antiquities’ most gifted. He was less interested in accuracy than painting the picture of how people in different parts of the Aegean world and beyond lived; he was almost a proto-sociologist.

 

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Communist Classroom: Professor Will Nearly Nix the Final if Students Wear Surgical Masks All Semester​

“Face-to-face,” in this case, may be less than literal. Noses and mouths are but weeds in the garden of exemplary education:

If the entire face to face class –- everyone –- properly wears a surgical grade mask during the entire class session (over the nose and mouth, not taking it off to talk) there [will] be a 15% extra credit boost (one percentage point per week).

It’s an interesting idea: A particular grade will relate to American film; but if all partake in the modern update to bringing the teacher an apple, a wholly different letter grade might await.

As for the scale of 15 percent, that’s only five less than each of the class’s two exams:

• Weekly short responses: 30 percent
• Research paper: 30 percent
• Midterm: 20 percent
• Final: 20 percent

Is current COVID the killer that was heralded in 2020? Are infected college students substantially at risk? Such questions may be more appropriate in virology class. And such a uniform requirement might be at home in communism class — individual pressure to suffer for the sake of the group could be considerable.


Of course, if the teacher is critically vulnerable, it seems he shouldn’t take chances. Yet, chances are on the docket. What if all in the class but two agree to mask? What if one holdout prohibits total compliance?

Professor Drew reiterates — it’s all or nothing:

If 19 out of 20 students do it? There will be no extra credit.

 

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California teachers union caught 'monitoring' parents who advocated school reopening​

Public records posted by grassroots group Reopen California Schools show the California Teachers Association (CTA) launched a research effort in spring 2021, in coordination with allied parents, to sniff out the "ideological leaning" of funding sources for the Parent Association, which had sued to reopen schools that February.

Reopen California Schools dubbed the effort "opposition research" in a tweet thread Monday documenting the discussions initiated by CTA Strategic Research Specialist Ann Swinburn, who first protected and then deleted her Twitter account following the publicity.

"In case anyone was still wondering ... the total amount of dark-money collected since we were founded in June of 2020 is a whopping $0," the group tweeted.

"To suggest us parents were part of some dark-money conspiracy is not only absurd and insulting, but shows how far removed the California Teachers Association's priorities are from serving students and their families," founder Jonathan Zachreson wrote in an email.

 

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Unexpectedly, the Public Education Bureaucracy Is Finding That Parents Don't Trust Them and No One Likes Them​

A good friend of mine closes all of his emails with this line:

UNEXPECTEDLY: ADV. FREQUENTLY USED BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, TO DESCRIBE UNPLEASANT EVENTS OR SITUATIONS THEY HAVE CREATED.

That definition kept going off in my brain as I read this next story about the dire straits in which the public education system finds itself. According to a Washington Post story headlined, Trust in teachers is plunging amid a culture war in education; the more parents know about public schools, the less likely they are to support them.

New polling suggests that fierce debates over what educators should be allowed to do and say in classrooms, an ascendant parents’ rights movement seeking control of what children learn at school, recent criticism of teachers from conservative lawmakers and news outlets and the lingering aftershocks from the pandemic have all sapped public confidence in the teaching profession.
In January, a Gallup poll found that Americans’ belief in grade-school teachers’ honesty had dropped to an all-time low, with 64 percent of adults reporting they believe those instructors are truthful and have ethical standards, down from a high of 75 percent in 2020, during the tensest days of the pandemic. In July, another Gallup poll found that just 28 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in public schools — the second-lowest this figure has been since Gallup began asking this question in 1973.

One of the most significant findings was not that barely a quarter of Americans had any confidence in public schools; it was that they couldn’t marshal a majority approval by the Democrat core constituency.

 

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An excerpt from Ana Leblanc’s book Sex Education for 8-12 Year Olds: Kids Book for Good Parents was tweeted Thursday by Courage Is a Habit. Per the organization’s Twitter page, it creates “tools & strategies for the average parent so they can defend their child from indoctrination in the K-12 system.”

“This is what sex education means now,” the post asserts. “The next time you meet someone that says ‘it’s just about safety/inclusion/empathy,’ show them this and watch them break their groomer spine trying to justify it.”

A page from the book is displayed, and it urges parents to put to bed their reservations about sexually educating their kids.

As it turns out, Show and Tell isn’t just for the classroom; especially “show.”

Remember how you always wondered “how daddy and mommy do it”? Don’t curse your kids with the same unquenched curiosity:

[W]hile the higher mysteries and deeper intimacies of sexual union should be reserved for later years, a child should be gradually introduced to the ordinary mechanics of lovemaking and allowed to enter into the parent’s circle of love; instead of being shut out completely and left to wonder how daddy and mommy do it.

What follow are “tips to get you started with educating your child about his/her sexuality”:

• Couples can deliberately leave the bedroom door open or ajar while expressing intimacy.
• Call upon your child to bring or take something away while you are expressing intimacy.
• Take your child into bed with you and allow him or her (to) watch as you share intimacy.
• A mother should feel relaxed breast-feeding her baby while her husband makes love to her.
• A couple should have no inhibition having their child watch as they share intimate embrace.

Sex Education Book for 'Good Parents' Says to Let Your Children Watch

redstate.com

 

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School District Reportedly Shares Video Of Nutritionist Who Works For Oreo Maker, Blames Obesity On ‘Food Apartheid’​

A major school district’s diversity and equity office reportedly shared a video of a nutritionist for a massive junk food company who tells her tens of thousands of social media followers that the idea of eating healthy is racist.

Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Human Relations Diversity and Equity (HRDE) shared the video on its Instagram story, according to a tweet posted Monday by the parent advocacy group LA Parent Union.

In the video, corporate nutritionist Kéra Nyemb-Diop blames “fatphobia and systems of oppression” for creating “false hierarchies of food” that suggest some foods are healthier than others. She also tells her audience that people should “eat without guilt, regardless of what society says.”

Nyemb-Diop is a senior scientist in nutrition and ingredient research for Mondelez International — the multinational company behind Chips Ahoy!, Oreos and Sour Patch Kids. On Instagram, she uses the handle @black.nutritionist to suggest that “nutrition standards are rooted in whiteness.” Mondelez is worth more than $80 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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In another video, Nyemb-Diop instructs her over 55,000 Instagram followers to “decolonize [their] plate” because “Black people’s health status has way more to do with food apartheid and environmental racism than whether the chicken on the plate is fried or not.”







The PG County Council is going to be surprised, they want to limit or ban fast food restaurants

 

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Ontario High School Teacher Seen Wearing Massive Prosthetic Bust to Class​

Photos and videos out of a Canadian High School are going viral as they show a male teacher wearing what appears to be large, prosthetic breasts in full view of young students.

Shocking media first began to circulate on Twitter earlier this week, with multiple accounts sharing a mobile phone video and stills of a shop teacher demonstrating how to use a circular saw.

The teacher is seen wearing an extremely prominent prosthetic bust, one which clearly outlines the nipples through his tight shirt. He is also donning a bright blonde wig and short-shorts.

Multiple photos and videos have surfaced of the same individual instructing young students, and in all of them he is wearing the oversized bust.

The media has been confirmed as originating from Oakville Trafalgar High School in Oakville, Ontario.

The man seen in the photos and videos is a Manufacturing Technology instructor who allegedly began identifying as a woman last year. The teacher now goes by the name Kayla Lemieux.

 

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[Hijinx]

On him they look good LMAO .What is between his to prosthetic breasts? His navel.

What kind of fool is this? They allow this insane person in a school?
They don't need a gun free school they need a nut free school.
If possible a LIBERAL FREE school.

 

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Your dreams have come true, kids: French fries and pizza are now good for you, so eat up, or else: if you don’t, you might be suspected of “white supremacism.” If you thought things couldn’t possibly get any crazier, forget it: a “nutritionist” has proclaimed that “nutrition standards are rooted in whiteness,” and so like Robert E. Lee and Bull Connor, they’ve got to go. Nor is the nutritionist in question, Kéra Nyemb-Diop, some nut raving on the streetcorner; she works for Mondelez International, which is so concerned about nutrition that it produces Oreos and Chips Ahoy!. She is so well respected that the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Office of Human Relations Diversity and Equity (HRDE) just shared her eating-right-is-racism video on its Instagram account. Oh yes, they did.

It comes as no surprise, really, now that women are men and men are drag queens in primary schools, that someone who calls herself a “nutritionist” would tell us something like this and, instead of being laughed out of her profession, would be held up by what is supposed to be an organization of sane and sober educators as someone who actually has something to tell us. The video that the L.A. school district wanted those who are foolish enough to follow it on Instagram to see begins with one woman offering another a plate of doughnuts, and being absolutely baffled when they’re refused. “Are they moldy? I mean, are they poisoned?” The woman who refused a doughnut is speechless, whereupon the fatty snack pusher scolds her: “Hmm. You’re judging my food choices based on a false standard of ‘health,’ again, aren’t you?”

L.A. School District Shares Video from ‘Nutritionist’ Who Says Eating Right Is Racist

pjmedia.com