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Posts Tagged ‘political correctness’

April 22nd, 2021 - 10:36 pm § in Misc.

Is this climbers’ club getting too politically correct?

The American Alpine Club, one of America’s oldest (founded in 1902) and largest (24,000+ members) organizations devoted to the climbing sports (read about them here; their website is here), is launching an initiative it refers to as “rethinking” route names, which apparently was se[...]

January 8th, 2021 - 9:05 am § in America, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics

Cop union boss defends mob violence

John Catanzara (photo, left), head of Chicago’s 12,000-member police union, went on talk radio Wednesday night, January 6, 2021, to describe the violent mob attack on the U.S. Congress hours earlier as “a bunch of pissed-off people that feel an election was stolen, somehow, some way.R[...]

July 6th, 2019 - 1:15 am § in America, Hypocrisy

Politically Correct Sneakers

Nike’s Fourth of July sneaker controversy, explained I like and admire Colin Kaepernick, but this is absurd. The Wall Street Journal reports. that the  Nike spokesperson Colin Kaepernick advised the company not to release their 4th of July a limited-edition Air Max 1.  The sneaker was supposed [...]

March 23rd, 2019 - 10:02 am § in The Ave Scene

Make Coffee Medical!

Now that we have medical marijuana … the next step should be obvious![...]

November 11th, 2018 - 3:08 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, Religion

THE HUBRIS OF “GOD TOLD ME” OR “GOD WANTS ME”

If your religion fails to accomplish your goals, it is not that your religion has failed you. It is that you have failed your religion. I happened to see something regarding the Florida Senate election of 2018. Governor Rick Scott is trying to unseat incumbent Senator Bill Nelson. He apparently said[...]

September 25th, 2018 - 9:37 am § in America, Hypocrisy

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias”

Knut Robert Knutsen FACEBOOK I trust the universities and their internal oversight to root out professors or teaching staff that misinform students, falsify data or otherwise violate the ethics of the teaching profession. However , I don’t trust these “watch lists” as I suspect th[...]

September 22nd, 2018 - 4:31 pm § in America, Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges

Poltical Correctness Undermines the Kavanaugh Hearings

How another Professor Was Punished for HIS act of Citizenship Amidst the drama of the Senate Judiciary’s abysmal behavior toward Professor Blasely Ford, another story of sex abuse and political correctness is getting too little attention. Michael Fischler is an award-winning professor of educ[...]

July 4th, 2018 - 12:55 am § in Misc.

Arrested for failure to stand during National Anthem.

Three weeks after Donald Trump’s election, twelve people were arrested after they remained seated while the national anthem played at a movie theater last week. The cinemagoers, who were attending an international film festival, were later freed but they face charges of “failure to obey[...]

May 18th, 2018 - 8:02 am § in Misc.

When The Silent Middle is Told to F— Off

Political Correctness[...]

May 4th, 2018 - 5:28 pm § in Misc.

BANNED FROM FACEBOOK

Well, in four days my period of banishment will be past. What happened? One of the people in my timeline posted some pretty over the top antisemitism.  The post was not quite explicit enough to merit reporting to the FB monitors, not a direct death threat against me (though I have had those), nor a[...]