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People mistake liberalism with the current political left/progressive movement. Never confuse the propaganda that exists only to make the poison taste like sugar. It’s never been about “fairness.” This erroneous idea stems from a successful messaging campaign. As soon as we all realize that this poison - “equity,” CRT, BLM - are all vehicles for collectivism that are being fed to a willfully blind liberal mindset - yes, they’re exploiting your goodwill and empathy for extremist purposes - the sooner we can all get back to the ideals of this country. Ideals that have been fought over our short history, making us the greatest melting-pot in history. All the “suburban wine moms” that voted for Biden because he wasn’t Trump, only to see their local schools brainwash their children to believe that being white is evil, are now eyes-wide-open. But all that CRT nonsense was foreseeable. It’s getting incredibly tiresome to read the various stories of liberals getting smashed in the face as a result of their own intellectual laziness. If you vote for actual fascists, shocker, you get fascism. We’re living in crap because we crapped in our own house - it’s our fault. The political left has been telegraphing their complete intolerance for opposing views in universities for decades, and at least since the Obama years within the DNC. The left now searches out and praises the security state and military, while “journalists” harass powerless citizens. But it seems as long as they tell you “it’s in the name of equity/openness/inclusion”, educated white people just fall in line, virtue signaling their way to censorship, racism, and a world we’re cops watch ANTIFA beat citizens, only arresting those citizens that defend themselves. This isn’t some depressing view at a dystopian future - that shit is happening right now. This piece highlights the mindless willingness of the left to be cajoled into servitude. All these pieces seem to include the shock-horror statement of a befuddled democrat that goes something like this, “but I voted for Biden; I consider myself progressive; I marched/organized local BLM action…” As if any of that actually mattered. Hopefully they’re realizing what a useful idiot actually means. CRT, ANTIFA (yes, there’s built in sympathy amongst the left for ANTIFA or they’d not rule Portland for over a year) censorship are not messages that resonate in the slightest with any center/center right individual in the whole of the land. But it’s not designed to convince out-groups. Instead, the propaganda is targeting liberals/democrats; it’s designed for you. It’s designed to sound like it’s all about helping {insert some completely made up shit here}. But in truth it’s just exploiting your good will. You don’t even know that you’re in line for “showers.” Worse yet, you don’t even know that you marched to have the showers built. But I’m sure that you won’t get canceled. Just show them your Instagram feed and all your selfies at this-or-that grievance-of-the-day rally, or your Twitter feed with the latest hashtag campaign - I’m sure you’ll be fine.

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Sorry about what happened to her, but her job title was "Inclusion Officer"? Seems like she was already playing the game. Then she got caught by the rules.

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Based on the title of Mrs. Powers’ old job, it sounds like she was in the business of enforcing racist and sexist policies. The racists’ revolution continues to eat its own.

Ms. Rosenfield writes that “ intersectionality and social justice” are “how high-minded ideals.” No, they are not “high-minded ideals.” They are the ideas, draped in academic jargon, of every savage that ever wanted to bash in his neighbors’ heads for having the wrong skin color, the wrong accent, the wrong ethnic heritage.

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"According to the tenets of social justice, Powers’s lived experience and multiple minority status should have made her unassailable on the topic of her own people’s oppression, and anyone who tried to use Powers’s identity to discredit her should have been roundly condemned."

This right here is the problem. The entire victim identity status hierarchy is BS. No one who participates in it (by, say, taking a job as a diversity inclusion officer) should be surprised when the alligator decides to eat them next.

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Israel and "Zionists"; the great diversion tactic for the fake progressive Muslims like the Muslim who protested Powers' post. Have the useful idiots focus on a few million Israel Jews and the American Jews who support Israel, instead of the 51 Islamic supremacist Apartheid nations that oppress Women, Gays, Christians, Minorities and Journalists. Well played, Muslims.

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This woman took a position so that she could be in charge of distributing victim identity group status points and punishing/demanding apologies from those who were perceived as not sufficiently deserving of these points.

But another victim identity group flipped the script on her. A group that will NEVER apologize, ever.

See how it works? This doesn't end when progressives' preferred policy boxes are checked.

Meanwhile the rest of the culture gets destroyed. Thanks a lot.

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Any organization that can waste their time, money, and energy employing a chief equity and inclusion officer most likely has lost their reason for existing. I include most so called institutions of higher learning.

Most of what passes for “social justice” is simply A taking from B and giving it to C so A can feel better about A

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She absolutely should not have tweeted that and she should definitely have been fired. Or, more accurately, never been hired. And no offense to her, she seems well qualified for the job. It's the job itself. It's just stupid virtue signaling when every company in the universe sends me an email about their opinion on anything frankly. I, and 99% of the world, honestly couldn't care less what 3M or Goodyear Tire think about anything. it's even dumber when it involves what seems to be a union of writers. All of these people can, by definition, write and tweet to their heart's content. And at least diversity officers at companies, in addition to boring us with their inane emails, can hire and fire people based on their race, religion etc to get rid of the straight white men. This writers' union can't even do that. They aren't employees, they are independent workers signing contracts with publishers. There is no way to interfere to break cisgendered people's contracts and substitute transgender authors instead since they have no stake in the writer or publisher. And the dumbest part of this whole dumb fad is that nobody, really nobody, remembers anything a company ever wrote supporting BLM. It's all wasted effort. But everyone will remember, and boycott, and terrorize nestle if someone in their enormous diversity office fires off some anodyne support for an unapproved cause like anti semitism. It's a no win proposition.

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When the Twitterati go all agog over some innocent or meaningless statement, I find that the phrase "go fuck yourself" is vastly underutilized. I realize that's an improbable response in this particular example for obvious reasons, but since she had to resign anyway I'd bet that Ms. Rosenfield wished she had used it. Good post to share, Bari, though it does make me quite sad.

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The whole “social justice” model is built on sand. A continual battle as to who is most oppressed and victimized. How about we go back to a race for merit and excellence!! Level the playing field as much as possible (SCHOOL VOUCHERS!!) and encourage everyone to SUCCEED!!

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I'm a member of SCBWI and my membership is up for renewal next month. I forwarded your article, Bari to the membership director and stated I will NOT be renewing.

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This is yet another example of what is only the “first act” in a long war to destroy Western European values of autonomy and individualism. God created each person - not groups of people all identical to each other.

These are the true haters - the “victim supremacists”. To them, each individual is a group member and any sin committed by any group member must rightfully be assigned to all other member (past, present and future). This applies to everyone except for them and their group.

These people will not be satisfied short of blood….

They offer no hope, no reconciliation, no future - only partisanship and hate…. Theirs is a broken world where peace, hope and reconciliation are despised values…

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This is what happens when a liberal, enlightened society turns on itself, grinds to a halt, backs up the car, and floors it right, smack off the cliff. Sorry for the messy metaphor. Our degraded culture and educational system stoke ancient tribalism, racial hatred and the epically depraved notion that “positive discrimination” against certain groups is desirable. Bydint of identity group some among us are centers of the universe who may not, ever, no matter what, be challenged. The result is that they believe it, and act out accordingly. That is why they detest individualism. The malevolent and artificially enhanced Twitter effect must be ignored. These – twits – revel in their power. This dark ideology divides and destroys everything it touches. Its cities are violent cess pools –but the schools are renamed, the statutes toppled, the flag spit upon, and that’s what counts. Here’s a clip from a revolting, anti-semitic incident on an escalator in London: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9758831/Man-accosted-anti-Semitic-thugs-says-one-people-victimised-Jew.html

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Perhaos the proper push back would have been to request Palestinain society to become less anti-Semitic. I know, its a big ask. After all, the 3 leading candidates in the recently canclled election all had strong feelings towards Jews. 1 paid for their murders and called these murderers "Holy". Another was in prison for murdering 5 Jews. And the third faction calls for an endless religious war against Jews and had a government minister explain how to slit the throats of Jews on their TV station.

Recall the entire premise, a very reasonable premise, for Black Lives Matter. It was the 'home on fire 'metaphor'. Yes, everyone's home matters, but it was the Black homes which were on fire and so that is where the help was needed. When it is the Jews "home on fire", there is push back from what is, pathetically, the most predictable of bigots. I found the part about the person objecting to the e-mail accepting her resignation because it came from someone Jewish who identified with Israel indescribably petty. A simple administration function, handling membership dues, is somehow now a political position? Sorry, but the bigotry one has to have to buy that premise is absurd.

So yeah, this "what about us" is BS. This actually is about the allowance of the bigotry against Jews. And that no offense is too petty or too small for the bigots to jump on board and get their cancel culture supporters to show up and scream.

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I am a YA author of Jewish heritage, and I absolutely agree with this analysis. I did not renew my membership this year because I saw the writing on the wall long before this. It's such a shame—this beloved organization completely lost the thread and has caved to the euphoria of being part of a world-changing movement that is beginning to eat its own in a very tragic and gruesome way. I could cry if I weren't so bewildered over it.

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"Neighborhood Bully" by Bob Dylan said it all....

Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man

His enemies say he's on their land

They got him outnumbered about a million to one

He got no place to escape to, no place to run

He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive

He's criticized and condemned for being alive

He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin

He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in

He's the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land

He's wandered the earth an exiled man

Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn

He's always on trial for just being born

He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized

Old women condemned him, said he could apologize

Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad

The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad

He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it, and the odds are slim

That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him

'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back

And a licence to kill him is given out to every maniac

He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he got no allies to really speak of

What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love

He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied

But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side

He's the neighborhood bully.

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace

They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease

Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep

They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep

He's the neighborhood bully.

Every empire that's enslaved him is gone

Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon

He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand

In bed with nobody, under no one's command

He's the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon

No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on

He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth

Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health

He's the neighborhood bully.

What's anybody indebted to him for ?

Nothing, they say. He just likes to cause war

Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed

They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed

He's the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars ?

Does he change the course of rivers ? Does he pollute the moon and stars ?

Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill

Running out the clock, time standing still

Neighborhood bully.

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