The university told Fox News on Friday that "parents of all backgrounds" could attend the seminar,  "From Integration to Antiracism," even though it was "principally intended for white parents of public school children."

However, the university went on, "the program's materials and content were not clear enough about it being open to all."

The statement came the same day that NYU was hit with a federal civil rights complaint over the seminar, which a few days before its first meeting had sent participants an email explaining "why we are meeting as white folks." During the program, which took place from February to June, facilitators argued that the racially exclusive workshop would spare minorities the "harm" of "hear[ing] our racist thoughts."

"People of color are dealing with racism all the time," Barbara Gross, the associate director of NYU’s Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative, said in response to a question from one parent, who argued that a whites-only anti-racism training seemed "a little counterintuitive." "The purpose is to create space where we can talk about our racism with each other … without burdening the people of color in our lives."

Every seminar attendee appears to have been white. One parent even said she was "grateful that there weren’t people of color in this space," according to audio and video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, since their presence would have made it uncomfortable for her to speak openly about racism.

"NYU is working with program leadership to ensure that the program conforms with University’s standards and applicable law," the university’s Friday statement said.

NYU general counsel Aisha Oliver-Staley did not respond to a request for comment.

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Those were mainstream media narratives in the last week or so. As usual, I’ve got the receipts.

"We got it wrong."

"More People Actually Moved Out of Florida than New York or California in 2021" was briefly a headline on a prominent news site.

https://twitter.com/desantiswarroom/status/1678824963095031823

Then, Insider, formerly Business Insider, was forced to admit it had the numbers exactly backwards. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's freedom-loving approach to the COVID-19 pandemic actually helped make Florida the fastest growing U.S. state for the past two years.

"We Got it Wrong," read the corrected headline.

Give credit to Insider. CBS's 60 Minutes still won't acknowledge it was wrong about DeSantis’s handling of the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1381404388690960387

"The leading theory remains that it was left by one of the hundreds of visitors"

After the Secret Service closed its investigation into who left a bag of cocaine in the White House, CNN scooped that it totally wasn't President Joe Biden's recovering crack addict son.

According to the report, which relied on two anonymous sources, "the leading theory remains that [the cocaine] was left by one of the hundreds of visitors who entered the West Wing that weekend for tours."

Not convinced? As the media have already explained: Back off!

MSNBC's @clairecmc: "Everybody needs to back off Joe Biden about this. He loves his son. Back off. It is OK for him to love his son & there’s nothing wrong with it. They have no evidence of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden & it infuriates me they’re using this .. against Biden" pic.twitter.com/r7Hj3hwt1m

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 20, 2023

"Militant co-conspirators with white conservatives."

"As the death of affirmative action showed, Asian American conservatives are active, militant co-conspirators with white conservatives," writer Promise Li argued in the Nation.

But we must be clear about one thing: Asian American anti–affirmative action activists have not been simply "used" by white activists and duped into this white supremacist policy. They are active, militant co-conspirators with white conservatives. They are building a key flank for the right wing across the nation, and the left must urgently recognize that right-wing politics precisely gain power by recruiting conservative ideologies among communities of color that overlap with, but retain distinct aspects from, white supremacy. ...

These Asian Americans are those who feel most at ease with the paradigm that Claire Jean Kim observes in her theory of "racial triangulation," which characterizes how Asian Americans have long been recruited into functioning as a "model minority" to reinforce the structural oppression of Black people and the privilege of white people. Despite the fact that they cannot fully assimilate into whiteness, certain Asian Americans do enjoy privileges in Kim’s framework. Indeed, as she wrote in The Nation, "It is the convergence of this nascent, conservative Chinese immigrant nationalism with an older, conservative white nationalism that is driving anti–affirmative action politics today."

The media's big tent of white supremacy just keeps getting bigger.

. @Erika_D_Smith wrote a columm on Larry Elder that went viral earlier in this election. It warns that Elder is the "Black face of white supremacy"https://t.co/YBXzicjMJ3

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 15, 2021

The Rise of Latino White Supremacy | The New Yorker https://t.co/wL7jJ3XRLd

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 30, 2023

"White House Takes a Victory Lap"

Joe Biden gloated after getting some of the best inflation numbers of his inflation-plagued presidency, and the media were here for it.

June's CPI shows inflation has dramatically plunged from its peak, suggesting the end of a crisis that dragged down Biden's approval rating and gave Republicans political ammunition for nearly two years. https://t.co/ucqFBOUXCc

— Axios (@axios) July 13, 2023

The resiliency of the US economy is defying expectations — and the odds of a 'soft landing" are improving, said Lael Brainard, President Biden’s top economic adviser https://t.co/NLoHrjvL2T

— CNN (@CNN) July 12, 2023

White House takes a victory lap after inflation report comes in cooler than expected https://t.co/Nuwd6SvRna

— CNBC (@CNBC) July 12, 2023

Adding context to the coverage would have just been a downer. So what if almost 7 in 10 Americans are unsatisfied with the economy and Biden's handling of it?

.@PuckNews' @WilliamCohan runs cover for the Biden economy: 'I don’t have an explanation for why people think it’s bad because objectively, it is good. It’s hard to imagine it could be much better ... People like being unhappy about a lot of things in America right now" pic.twitter.com/431SWhUfP4

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 13, 2023

That’s enough media for now. See you next week.

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The complaint, filed with the U.S. Department of Education by the Equal Protection Project, alleges that the five-month-long seminar violated four civil rights laws: Titles II and VI of the Civil Rights Act, New York State’s Human Rights Law, and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, which bans racial discrimination in contracting.

It comes as the university is already under a consent agreement with the Education Department over several anti-Semitic incidents on campus, including a violent anti-Israel protest that resulted in two arrests.

The workshop, which cost $360 to attend, argued that white people need to "unlearn racism" without "burdening the people of color in our lives." Facilitators and attendees repeatedly made clear that no minorities were allowed, with one parent stating that she was "grateful" for the seminar’s racial homogeneity. Other parents fretted about the "white supremacy culture" inherent in their jobs as lawyers and editors, according to audio of the seminar obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

While many schools have been hit with discrimination complaints over minority-only fellowships, the NYU workshop, "From Integration to Antiracism," marks the first time in recent memory that a university has faced blowback for excluding people of color. The seminar concluded a few weeks before the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a ruling expected to upend race-conscious programs on campus and beyond.

"Eliminating racial discrimination," the Court’s decision read, "means eliminating all of it."

Though the workshop began four years ago, it did not explicitly bar minorities until 2020, according to archived webpages included in the complaint.

The Education Department "should investigate this blatantly discriminatory program and the circumstances under which the creation and promotion of it was approved," the complaint states. "NYU’s deliberate racial segregation in its FIAR workshop series constitutes invidious discrimination for which there is no legal justification."

New York University did not respond to a request for comment.

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• Celebrity actress Kristen Bell earlier this week posted a photo on Instagram featuring Tapper and his wife, Jennifer Marie Brown, enjoying a fancy dinner at the South Fork Lodge in Idaho.

• They were joined by a large group of celebrity couples, nearly all of them proud members of the white race.

• Social media users were stunned that the rich and socially enlightened liberal celebs would engage in such a flagrant act of white supremacy.

What they're saying: "Serious question for well-meaning white people. When you show up at a get-together like this, do you notice there are zero Black people, or nah?" wrote Twitter user Jay Perkins, a biracial black man and "antiracist" higher ed lawyer. "If so, do you say or do anything about it? To who? Please be honest. This is a safe space (unless you say something dumb or racist)."

What it means: The racially homogenous partygoers were most likely celebrating the Supreme Court's June 29 decision striking down race-based affirmative action in college admissions, an outcome backed by the vast majority of Americans.

• There appears to have been only one non-white celebrity couple in attendance. David Chang, the Korean-American restaurateur, was spotted at the dinner with his wife Grace, a Korean-born immigrant.

• The Supreme Court's ruling found that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violated the Constitution because it explicitly discriminated against Koreans and other students of Asian descent.

By the numbers: More than 82 percent of Idaho's population is white, according the U.S. Census Bureau, making it one of the whitest states in the country.

• The celebrity dinner party was even whiter. At least 90 percent of the guests were white, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

• Approximately 0 percent of the guests were black, meaning the dinner party was demographically equivalent to a Pete Buttigieg campaign rally.

White power party: In addition to the Tappers, a bunch of other fancy white people attended the now-notorious dinner party in Idaho.

• Jennifer Aniston, star of Friends, one of the whitest shows ever made; Courteney Cox, star of Friends, and boyfriend Johnny McDaid of Snow Patrol, one the whitest bands in the world; Jason Bateman, host of the all-white podcast SmartLess, and his white wife; art gallery owners Heather Taylor and Alex De Cordoba; actress Shiri Appleby and restaurateur Jon Shook; Jimmy Kimmel and wife; Jimmy Fallon and wife; Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard; comedian John Mulaney and his half-Vietnamese mistress Olivia Munn; David Chang and wife; actor Adam Scott and wife; YouTube celeb Mark Rober; improvisational comedian Tim Curcio and wife.

Why it matters: At a time when many of our nation's journalists insist on touting the so-called benefits of diversity and inclusion, we applaud Tapper's courageous decision to reject phony moral values and embrace the "taboo" of "white racial solidarity."

• There's simply nothing wrong with a rich white journalist wanting to hang out with a bunch of rich white people (and a handful of Asians) at a fancy lodge in Idaho. It's a free country.

• The vast majority of Americans oppose the explicit racial preferences struck down by the Supreme Court. If that is indeed what the mostly white partygoers were celebrating, there's nothing wrong with that, either.

Bottom line: For rejecting diversity and refusing to live his life according to the "enlightened" moral code espoused by his colleagues in the corporate media, Jake Tapper is the Washington Free Beacon Hero of the Week.

Go deeper: CNN's Jim Acosta Celebrates Painfully White Staff in Majority Black City

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The all-white seminar, "From Integration to Anti-Racism," cost $360 to attend and met six times between February and June, according to a description of the program that has since been scrubbed from the university’s website without explanation. Organized by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, the workshop was "designed specifically for white public school parents" committed to "becoming anti-racist" and building "multiracial parent communities."

But to promote solidarity with all races, participants were told, it was necessary that the seminar include only one.

A few days before the first session, facilitators circulated a short handout, "Why a White Space," to explain "why we are meeting as white folks for these six months." The handout, produced by the nonprofit Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere, argued that white people need spaces where they can "unlearn racism" without subjecting minorities to "undue trauma or pain."

Facilitators reiterated this argument on day one of the seminar, audio and video of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. When a parent questioned the premise of the workshop—saying it seemed "a little counterintuitive" to exclude minorities from an anti-racism seminar—Barbara Gross, the associate director of Steinhardt’s Education Justice Research group, assured her that it was for their own good.

"People of color are dealing with racism all the time," Gross said. "Like every minute of every day. It’s a harm on top of a harm for them to hear our racist thoughts."

Even before the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, it was illegal for universities to practice other forms of race discrimination. The whites-only workshop, five lawyers said, almost certainly violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which applies to the recipients of federal funds, and—since NYU charged parents for the seminars—also ran afoul of laws banning discrimination in contracting, according to Dan Morenoff, the executive director of the American Civil Rights Project.

"It’s quintessentially illegal," said Ilya Shapiro, the director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. "This episode illustrates the horseshoe theory whereby left- and right-wing radicals end up agreeing on race-based societal balkanization. It’s like that social media meme: ‘woke or KKK?’"

The program took place while NYU was under an ongoing consent agreement with the U.S. Department of Education over a string of anti-Semitic incidents on campus. As race-based programs of all stripes face added scrutiny in the wake of the High Court’s affirmative action ban, the seminar is a stark signal that "anti-racism" doesn’t just mean minority-only fellowships or workforce diversity targets; at one of the top universities in the country, it now includes programs that bear an eerie similarity to Jim Crow.

"They are literally running a ‘whites only’ program in the interest of so-called social justice," said Samantha Harris, an attorney who litigates campus speech and civil rights issues. "I find it inconceivable that the people putting these programs together don’t see the irony."

NYU told the Free Beacon that it would be "reviewing these matters to determine whether they conform to our standards." Gross did not respond to a request for comment.

The seminar is a fascinating study of how one group of white liberals guilt-tripped and self-flagellated their way into segregation.

Participants seemed petrified by the possibility that they could "harm" a person of color with a misplaced comment or anecdote, a fear that made the whites-only training a kind of therapeutic refuge.

Asked when they first "learned about race," one parent recalled how, while she was in kindergarten, a black classmate had been expelled for bringing a knife to school. Later in the session, she expressed relief that there had been no minorities around to hear such a traumatizing tale.

"I was so grateful that there weren’t, you know, people of color in this space to hear me say [that] my first experience learning about what my race was was a black boy with a knife," she said. "That can be harming."

The first session of the workshop, which included approximately a dozen parents and ran for two hours, encouraged that sort of hypersensitivity. As participants filed into the meeting, they were greeted by a rendition of Woody Guthrie’s "All You Fascists Bound to Lose" performed by the "Resistance Revival Chorus," a group of women and "non-binary singers" that "centers women in music."

After participants shared their pronouns—most of which were "she/her"—facilitators performed a brief land acknowledgment and laid out the ground rules for the session.

"Resist the urge to intellectualize," Gross said. "We’re not going to get through this without welcoming the feelings."

In what seemed like an effort at self-awareness, another facilitator, Courtney Epton, told participants to avoid virtue-signaling. "Trying to compete with each other to be the ‘good white person,’" she said, is itself a "part of white supremacy."

Epton—a "senior equity associate" at NYU Steinhardt and a board member of the nonprofit Integrated Schools—did not respond to a request for comment.

At least one parent in attendance, Jordan Feigenbaum, had direct say over the governance of local schools. Feigenbaum serves on the Community Education Council for New York City’s District 13, an elected policy body that reviews school curricula and approves district zoning lines. He touted his participation in the program when he ran for office, saying the whites-only workshop would "enhance" his ability to serve the district.

Feigenbaum—who described himself as an "ally" in his candidate statement—did not respond to a request for comment.

Gross indicated that the workshop began four years ago when she heard from white parents with kids in majority-black schools that they felt like "everyone hates me." Since then, she said, the Black Lives Matter movement and the death of George Floyd had made those parents more concerned about systemic racism—and more guilty about their assumed role in it.

She spoke of anti-black bigotry as though it were a genetic condition, passed down biologically as well as socially. "What we know intellectually is very different from what’s in our bones and in our nervous systems," Gross said. "What we have internalized. What we have inherited."

As a result, she added, "young African-American girls face 23 microaggressions every single day."

Instead of just wallowing in shame, however, Gross promised participants they would learn to "love [other] white people" in spite of their collective guilt.

The seminar also included a discussion of Tema Okun’s "Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture," which include "perfectionism," "a sense of urgency," and "worship of the written word." Many parents struggled to reconcile these teachings with the day-to-day demands of their careers, taking the already thin line between parody and reality and smashing it altogether.

"I’ve been correcting grammar a lot and typos," one self-identified editor said, "and reading this I was thinking, ‘Wow, I had no idea.’"

Another parent fretted that the characteristics of white supremacy culture were nearly identical with the values of her law firm. That wasn’t surprising, Gross said, given that American law "was built on racism and white supremacy."

Even Gross admitted that she was not immune to bigotry. One time, she said, several "women of color" in her office were laughing and playing games while they were supposed to be planning an event.

"I was thinking, ‘How can they get anything done,’" Gross said. "I had to catch myself."

At the end of the session, participants were assigned readings for their next meeting, including "Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People about Racism" by Robin DiAngelo and "Qallunology 101: A Lesson Plan for the Non-Indigenous" by Derek Rasmussen. Readings for later sessions included "Internalized White Superiority," "Toward a Radical White Identity," and "4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing White Tears," according to slides from the workshop obtained by the Free Beacon.

Participants were also asked to share what they learned with someone outside the seminar. But there was a catch.

"Share what you learn today with another white person," the slides for each session said, "not a BIPOC."

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According to Mac Donald, disparate impact—in which any negative or disproportionate outcome impacting black Americans is declared to be a "tool of white supremacy"—has been deliberately developed and leveraged as a cultural tool, targeting "the very fundamentals of a fair society."

Today, she argues, meritocracy, fealty to the rule of law, and even respect for our civilizational inheritance stand in the way of achieving so-called racial justice.

Mac Donald describes 2020 as a potentially "pivotal moment in American history," accelerating the notion that racism defines America. This idea, she believes, is tearing the country apart, with any protest rejected by the same "just believe" mandate used by the #MeToo movement.

Not only that, any roadblock to the achievement of "exact racial proportionality"—with the key to disparate impact being the presumption of racial proportionality with no regard for factors such as behavior and ability—is itself evidence of this same systemic racism.

In When Race Trumps Merit, Mac Donald explores three fundamental areas of American life to support her hypothesis that the country is engaging in a fit of "cultural self-cancellation" that is impoverishing the imagination, stunting the capacity for wonder and joy, and stripping the future of everything that gives human life meaning: beauty, sublimity, and wit.

The first two chapters are dedicated to science and medicine, which were hit "like an earthquake" by the "post-George Floyd racial reckoning" unleashed in 2020.

Mac Donald provides the reader with a deep dive into the racialized nature of today’s scientific community, arguing that American elites have simply moved on from failing to close the academic skills gap by deciding to "break up the objective yardsticks that measure it," including dismantling the system of knowledge underpinning modern medicine. "The result," says Mac Donald, "will be a declining quality of medical care and a curtailment of scientific progress."

Mac Donald then moves on from the world of science and explores the abstract world of culture. Across 10 chapters she explores the pursuit of racial proportionality across classical music, opera, and art.

The problem with this section—compared with the former and latter sections—is that the bulk of the book is dedicated to subjective expressions of art sandwiched on either side by the comparatively objective areas of science and crime. While the critiques of certain artists under the "rise of mediocrity" might highlight the breadth of the blind pursuit of racial proportionality and the erasure of Western culture, it must be said that by placing such significance upon subjective areas of human expression—rather than objective fields of pure meritocracy—Mac Donald is in danger of diluting the strength of her overarching argument.

The third and final section is an emotionally stunning investigation of the effect of disparate impact analysis on the American criminal-justice system, "where every disparity in arrest or incarceration rates is now attributed to racism."

Presenting the decline of New York City into a haven for criminal behavior as an example, Mac Donald argues that two decades of successful efforts to combat crime have been voluntarily cast aside, with the spread of violence and predation erupting as a predictable result.

"Acknowledging the vastly higher black crime rate is taboo," Mac Donald points out, with Democrats preferring to blame the supposed systemic racism of law enforcement or—if necessary—focus on the insidious (and often imagined) presumption of white supremacy.

Under "anti-racism orthodoxy," if we are unable to discuss the root causes of higher black crime—"above all, family breakdown," Mac Donald adds—then the only way we can achieve racial proportionality regarding crime is to stop the penalization of criminal behavior.

As a result, "elite ‘anti-racists’ absolve blacks from responsibility for their actions," Mac Donald writes. "This patronizing attitude is today’s real racism."

Providing the reader with an almost overwhelming trove of pure data—including a moving account of forgotten black victims of gang violence deemed unimportant by the mainstream media and the Democratic Party—Mac Donald proves that criminal violence is the main problem afflicting urban black communities, and not police shootings.

Analyzing the areas of science, the arts, and criminal justice, When Race Trumps Merit is not only an enthralling account of the reality of so-called anti-racism efforts in the United States, but a resolute warning of the dangers of unfettered disparate impact analysis.

"Western civilization contains too much beauty and grandeur, too much achievement, and too much innovation—from advances in the sciences to the blessings of republican self-government—to be lost without a fight," Mac Donald concludes. "It will be lost, however, if disparate impact continues to be our measure of injustice."

When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives
by Heather Mac Donald
DW Books, 320 pp., $28.99

Ian Haworth is a writer, speaker, and former Big Tech insider. He also hosts "Off Limits with Ian Haworth

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That seems like a weird story, right? You wouldn't know it from the tone of mainstream media coverage.

Headlines treated the sit-in like just another anti-gun protest.

NBC News: "1,000 Women Hold a Sit-In at the Colorado Capitol To Push for an End to Gun Violence"

ABC News: "Thousands of women participate in sit-in at Colorado Capitol against gun violence"

CBS News: "Colorado Mothers Hold Sit-In To Demand Ban on All Guns in Violation of Constitutions"

Here's how long it took each network to mention the racial dynamics at play and how those dynamics were described.

NBC News, sixth paragraph:

[Tina] Strawn, 45, who is Black, and [Saira] Rao, 48, who is Indian American, said they were inspired by the 1960s Civil Rights Movement to hold a peaceful sit-in and encouraged women of color to participate virtually in a simultaneous remote campaign.

Black people experience the highest firearm homicide rates in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

White women were specifically encouraged to participate in person "because they have a lot of power within our society and statistically are also least likely to be harmed by police," said Here 4 the Kids

ABC News, second paragraph:

The Here 4 the Kids movement, which advocates to end gun violence, is behind the event. Organizers said roughly 2,000 people were among the first to gather. They are also calling on white women specifically, to participate in the demonstration. ...

Tina Strawn, the movement’s cofounder, told ABC News that Black people have always been on the frontlines for social justice.

"So, it's time for white women to show up. It's time for white women to put their bodies, their privilege and their power on the line to save our kids," she said. "And it is something that they are recognizing that they need to be doing. That's why they're showing up."

CBS News, never.

One cable news channel did highlight the protest's far-left racial ideology, but only positively.

CNN: "Hundreds of White Women Gather at Colorado Capitol After Plea From Women of Color To Use Their ‘Privilege’ To Demand Action on Gun Violence"

The movement has garnered support from the entertainment industry, including from White actresses Amy Schumer, Michaela Watkins and Lake Bell.

Watkins, who showed up at the Colorado Capitol early Monday morning and plans to stay until late in the evening, told CNN her initial response to the call to action for mainly White women to participate was, "What? Just White women? That sounds just exclusive," but she understood what the founders meant.

"White women, statistically, have been the least likely to be arrested, assaulted by police officers and so we just said, ‘OK.’ If marginalized communities have been just traumatized over and over and over again I guess we just come together," Watkins told CNN as cars drove by and honked in support of the protest. "We are the biggest voting block in this country. We do have power, we just forget that and we have been conditioned to forget that."

She also said, "For me, it was very confronting, it was like, ‘I am an activist, but am I really willing to put myself on the line?’" when asked what was her response to other White women who feel uncomfortable with the movement.

"If someone says, ‘I don’t understand why I have to be there,’ they don’t have to be here. But if you feel you are over it, over this incredible horror that we are facing, literally every single day, then you should come here."

None of the outlets mentioned that one of the organizers is infamous for her anti-white racist tweets and questionable monetization of white guilt.

The media have a lot of practice acting as though the latest progressive ideas are totally normal.

These women married themselves. Here's why.https://t.co/rOIqpLM9XZ

— CNN (@CNN) May 29, 2023

For more and more of this couple therapist's patients, the ideas behind Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are leading to breakthroughs at home.

Read this and 10 other stories handpicked by New York Times editors in The Weekender. https://t.co/xPC645oli3

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 21, 2023

The damaging idea of a 'normal' body has long been used to other and exclude, writes Heather Radke https://t.co/eg3UGyMze9

— TIME (@TIME) April 2, 2023

Researchers say Discovery’s programming overwhelmingly featured White men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks.https://t.co/Fs71Qov5WG

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 6, 2022

But when conservatives express traditional American values—like democratic engagement, parental authority, patriotism, and free speech—intense media scrutiny is warranted.

Far-right conservatives have been targeting seats on local boards and commissions, in many cases to gain oversight of elections. The tensions are playing out in one Tennessee county where a local Constitutional Republicans group now controls a commission. https://t.co/uRug5UTEUG

— The Associated Press (@AP) May 21, 2023

House Republicans have approved the controversial 'Parents Bill of Rights" legislation — which outlines what parents have the right to in their children’s education, from access to teacher-parent meetings to curriculum and books. https://t.co/fCAGdApkxz

— POLITICO (@politico) March 24, 2023

NY Times defends Mara Gay for saying she was 'disturbed' by American flags https://t.co/JLEiEBMwmK pic.twitter.com/DZlpg85mP8

— New York Post (@nypost) June 9, 2021

Conservatives are 'weaponizing the First Amendment" to justify unlimited campaign spending, discrimination and attacks on regulations https://t.co/onoBBZirPL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 1, 2018

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Tucker was born in 1985 in Chattanooga, Tenn., to an African-American mother who bore four other children and did not raise any of them. Her biological father did not know about her birth—he was a developmentally disabled man who lived on the streets and made money standing outside of bars selling flowers that were donated to him.

After a brief stint in foster care, Tucker was adopted by a white couple in Bellingham, Washington. By her own account, she had a wonderful childhood with loving siblings and parents. Despite being born partially deaf and with legs turned in such a way that doctors did not expect her to walk (both most likely the result of drug use by her mother), Tucker was a star athlete and musician. Over the years, people have told Tucker she should be "grateful," and she is. But she worries that people don’t really understand that adoption is complicated, that she also wished the circumstances of her birth parents were different.

Her adoptive parents share this view. As she writes: "They fearlessly understood and named the paradox that they were so happy I’d joined their family and also longed for a world in which Deborah could have kept me."

So who thinks adoption is a "simple recipe" where we take a child away from their birth parents and just throw them into another family? Certainly no one who has been adopted or who has placed a child for adoption or who has adopted. Of course, there are people who haven’t given the concept of adoption much thought at all. For them, Tucker’s vivid description of the complex emotions that accompanied her on the journey to finding her birth family will be an education. And maybe it will stop them from saying insensitive things to Tucker and others in her position. But there is a point in all of our lives when we accept that strangers make ignorant comments, and it’s not really worth losing sleep over all of them.

When I was pregnant with my first child, a stranger came up to me at a wedding and asked how I felt knowing that this child (who would presumably have dark skin like my husband) would be "totally alienated" from me. At some point you just shake your head or throw your drink, but you have to move on.

There are complexities to growing up black in a white family in a white town in a white state. But the ones Tucker points to suggest a bizarre understanding of racial identity. For instance, she notes that she was always louder and dressed more colorfully than other members of her adoptive family or people in her town. Is that because she’s black? Another black adoptee tells her that her tastes in food differed from her adoptive parents. And another says she felt at home with her birth parents because they shared her sense of humor and sarcasm. No one doubts these adoptive children sometimes felt out of place in their families. But is this because of their race?

And no one doubts that adoptive children sometimes adapt "people-pleasing behaviors" in order to fit in. But there are a lot of non-adoptive children who share the same race as their parents who also feel they don’t fit in with their families. In fact, for the demographic of mostly teenagers that Tucker is mentoring, one might assume that such discomfort is actually the norm—even among children raised by their biological parents. But when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you view everything through the lens of adoption and race, then you lose sight of all the normal challenges young people face. Indeed, you lose sight of the fact that many people exist in this intersection of happiness and tragedy.

The parents who lose a child to cancer but then decide they want to have another one. The widower who finds love and marries again. There is not a day that these people don’t wish the world could be different, but then they also know that the joy they experience every day would not have been possible without the tragedy that preceded it.

Much of Tucker’s book is devoted to the ways she would fix the world so that Deborah could have kept her. And most of the problem in Tucker’s view is racism. Black people are held, she says, to a different standard than white people when it comes to their behavior, a white standard. She says that the nine children who integrated the elementary school in Little Rock were taught that "acting white" was essential to their success. This might have come as news to their parents and civil rights leaders at the time, who thought practicing nonviolence and acting respectfully was not the exclusive province of white people.

But you can tell where Tucker comes down on the civil rights movement when she describes Malcolm X as "a proponent of nonviolence." That picture of him with a rifle looking out his window is just an aberration?

The legacy of racism and "ancient historical trauma" have caused Deborah’s problems, she writes. When Tucker first approaches her birth mother and Deborah denies that Tucker is her daughter, she speculates that Deborah was experiencing "unmetabolized trauma from the past." This is a grown woman who travels with a doll that she talks about as if she were a real baby. There is no doubt that Deborah has experienced trauma—substance abuse, mental illness, perhaps even abuse and neglect when she was young—but one needn’t go back to ancient times to find it.

Though Tucker knows Deborah could not have raised her, she says she is angry at the child welfare system "that assumes black children must be saved from the social ills of their culture, which is quick to believe glossy social media posts that depict wokeness." She also blames the "war on drugs." Whether or not the war on drugs was a good thing generally has little to do with whether individual parents’ drug use made them incapable of caring for young children. Tucker knows that she was not removed from Deborah’s home because of black culture. She was removed because Deborah couldn’t care for her. One of Tucker’s sisters was initially left with Deborah but was actually raised by a grandmother briefly and then was just bouncing to different friends’ homes.

Much of the book describes her anger at not meeting her birth family sooner. She had what is called a "closed adoption," where information wasn’t provided to her family about her birth mother and she could not access it. But very few adoptions are closed anymore. She believes that open adoptions "end up looking closed" because once an adoption is finalized, the adoptive parents can decide how much contact their child will have with their biological parents.

Tucker dismisses "safety concerns" cited by adoptive parents in limiting the contact with biological parents. But frankly there are real issues here and though lawmakers in New York recently proposed mandating visitation for birth parents even after adoptions are finalized, this would seriously infringe on adoptive parents’ rights to be real parents to their children. And it would probably discourage adoption generally.

You Should Be Grateful is ultimately a mishmash of Tucker’s own story, which is both moving and fascinating, with "research" she has picked up from progressive academics. For instance, she touts "blind removals" whereby agencies decide whether to put a child in foster care without revealing the race of the child to the people making the decision. She says this dramatically altered racial disparities in foster care. In fact, the agency that was doing it just changed the way they were counting kids and when it compared apples to apples, the percentage of black kids removed went up and down in no discernible pattern.

Tucker is right that adoption is not neat. And any policy solutions to the problems of our child welfare system will have to recognize the complexity of these issues. Unfortunately, when Tucker turns from the personal to the political, all her nuance seems to go out the window.

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial Adoption
by Angela Tucker
Beacon Press, 196 pp., $25.95

Naomi Schaefer Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Independent Women's Forum, is the author of No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives.

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The students cited what they described as the "scapegoating" of the school's diversity dean, Tirien Steinbach, for an incident last month in which students disrupted Duncan's remarks and Steinbach egged them on.

"The apology was intimately aligned with White supremacist practices," the group's board wrote in a letter to the administration, which was posted on Instagram earlier this month. "We cannot, in good faith, participate in recruiting Black students into a community more concerned with palliating wealthy, White conservative donors than the 'student-focused and community-inspired' legal education [Stanford Law School] promotes."

As such, the group said it would "boycott official admit events" for the class of 2026 and encourage prospective students to go elsewhere. It's the second boycott to which the law school has been subjected: James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, the circuit court judges who said last year that they would no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, earlier this month announced a similar clerkship moratorium on Stanford, citing the school's refusal to punish the students who shouted down Duncan.

The law school administration laid the blame for those antics squarely on Steinbach, who at one point took the podium from the judge and told him his work had "caused harm." In their apology to Duncan, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Martinez, the law school dean, said that Steinbach's intervention was "inappropriate." Steinbach has been on leave since March, and the law school has not indicated when or if she will return.

"Stanford's administration has actively marginalized its Black community, most recently by scapegoating Dean Tirien Steinbach," the Black Students Association wrote. "Dean Martinez and President Tessier-Lavigne's statements continuously minimize Duncan's behavior and the impact of his work."

The letter is the latest snag in Stanford's efforts to appease free speech advocates without sparking a full-scale revolt from activists. After Martinez apologized to Duncan, as many as 100 students protested her first-year constitutional law course, plastering fliers around her classroom and surrounding her as she exited it. Two weeks later, when the embattled dean outlined the steps Stanford was taking to protect free speech, she acknowledged her course of action would "not please everyone"—"not least of which those who have demanded that I retract my apology to Judge Duncan and those who have demanded that students be immediately expelled."

The riptide from both groups has put Stanford in a tough spot. Dissatisfied with the soft-gloved treatment of the hecklers, law professors, politicians, and state bar associations have all joined Ho and Branch's pile-on, using the powers at their disposal to make life difficult for the elite law school.

But bowing to that pressure could come at a cost. Like undergraduate admissions offices, law schools go to great lengths to boost minority representation. If Stanford's own students begin undermining its admissions efforts—especially those aimed at African Americans—the school may decide that a clerkship boycott is a price worth paying to maintain its diversity.

Black students have "historically contributed an extensive amount of free labor to assist the University" in recruitment, the letter said. "But we are continually overlooked by the administration when it makes significant decisions—as evidenced by the institution's condoning of Judge Duncan's behavior."

The Black Law Students Association, which is led by Ashton Woods and Cheyenne Joshua, and the law school's admissions office did not respond to requests for comment.

The letter also aired a number of grievances that it said predated the Duncan incident. Stanford, the Black Law Students Association argued, had hobbled the group's ability "to create a safe space for its members," and—despite black students' "free labor"—the school's admissions policies "reproduce and reify White supremacy, classism, and colorism."

The group also slammed Stanford for allowing "internet harassment" and the "doxxing of fellow students"—apparently a reference to the Washington Free Beacon's reporting, which included the names of several students, such as Denni Arnold, who organized the protest.

"Based on the administration's handling of DEI, we unequivocally share a vote of no confidence in the current state of the administration's ability to the administration's willingness to adequately consider and respect the needs of Black students and administrators," the group said. "We hope this letter will urge the administration to restructure its processes, lend credence to marginalized communities, and truly acknowledge and combat its practices of exploitation and domination moving forward."

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The quiz was a part of Professor Kirsten Bradbury’s Personality Psychology course and asked students which demographic is most likely to be diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder.

After stipulating the disease itself is "a racist diagnosis in the way that it has been applied," Bradbury’s quiz stated: "Neither race nor gender is determinative in Antisocial Personality Disorder. However, if we must go there, which sociodemographic group is most likely to repeatedly violate the rights of others in a pattern of behavior that includes violence, deceit, irresponsibility, and a lack of remorse?" The answer: wealthy white men.

After distributing the quiz to students, Bradbury, who has been celebrated as one of the university’s most outstanding teachers, then backtracked, telling students that "given the current rate of sociocultural and scientific change" the quiz had "grown too stale to use." She did not indicate what scientific changes had rendered the quiz obsolete or what scientific research had at one point served as the basis for the question.

Bradbury did not respond to a request for comment.

Bradbury was the recipient in 2017 of the University of Texas Board of Regents’s highest teaching honor, which comes with a $25,000 cash prize. Her biography on the university’s website indicates that her academic interests include "parenting stress," "firearms and firearm safety," and "firearm-related parenting."

The syllabus for her Personality Psychology course, University of Texas-Austin’s psychology 309, indicates that the class aims to teach students about the "normal and abnormal development of personality across the life span" and includes open-note quizzes and self-graded "experiential writing assignments" at the conclusion of which students assign themselves a "journaling grade."

It also includes a diversity statement voicing the department’s commitment to "a journey of inclusion and justice for all students from groups that are marginalized or minoritized." It goes on to state, "Our department is in the process of diversifying and creating identity safety for all students."

"In keeping with the department’s values, I am committed to creating a learning environment that is safe and supportive of the identities and perspectives of all marginalized and minoritized people," Bradbury wrote.

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Democrats, meanwhile, threw a tantrum over the vote, with Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) accusing Republicans of promoting "white supremacy."

The vote is a "blatantly Islamophobic and racist attack on congresswoman Omar," the "Squad" acolyte said on the House floor.

Please enjoy our montage of the Democrats' meltdown, accompanied by the dulcet tones of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

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"We have one political party that traffics in the same talking points as white supremacists, be it on immigration, be it on Muslims, be it on any number of issues, where the mainstream political rhetoric could be written by avowed racists," Lowery said Jan. 24 during a National Press Club panel on the journalistic challenges of covering extremism.

Journalists need to be brave enough, he argued, to describe the Republican Party as a white supremacist movement without fear of being called "not objective" by critics who are also white supremacists. (Lowery is a vocal opponent of objectivity in journalism.) "I'll be honest, I don't think very much about the mantle of neutrality," he said. "It's either raining outside or it's not raining outside. I'm not particularly interested in sounding neutral about which it is."

The Republican Party is a "movement that is a mix of nativism, of anti-urbanism, of anti-cosmopolitanism, a fear of immigrants," Lowery explained. "It's the exact same things that drove the Klan movement of the 1920s. But to say that in public—the way that Newsbusters is going to headline the write-up of this panel is going to be that I compared Donald Trump to the Klan. Right? Now this is a literal true factual description. How can we understand our moment if we are not allowed to make any comparison or add any context?"

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When violent riots erupted across the country in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, however, many of the same media pundits were quick to identify the race of the white officer who murdered Floyd as the most important detail of the case.

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Jackson and Rao are the founders of an organization called Race2Dinner. For $5,000 the two women will attend your eight-person dinner party and bring along "Lisa Bond, our Resident White Woman." For that price, they will berate you about your racism. They will share their own experiences with racism, which sometimes don’t sound like actual racism. But if you object or even if you agree, they will tell you that’s what white women do and you’re part of the problem. The two have a lot of observations about "what white women do." White women are mean to each other, for instance. When they are accused of racism white women accuse black women of being "angry" or "crazy." White women also say they’re not racist. White women like dinner parties. And they like to say they’ve donated money to the ACLU. If you suggest that black women may be mean to each other or that they may like dinner parties, you’re also a white supremacist. Because how would you know? Don’t say you have black friends because that too would be a sign of white supremacy.

Questioning whether spending $5,000 to have people call you names is also "white supremacy," and the authors explain, "we are tired of it." The fact that you are complaining about the price is evidence that you "see this work as charity. You doing us a favor. … White supremacy culture has you believing that you are doing us a favor by even caring about racism or antiracism. This results in your incessant demands that we educate you—on your own racism, on a system you created to harm us for your benefit. For free."

Too often, the authors explain, black and brown women have "provided free labor for you." It used to be slavery but now they are brought into boardrooms to discuss diversity, "tagged in Facebook conversations where white women are ‘listening and learning.’" And that’s basically just a different kind of slavery. But Rao and Jackson have had enough. They are no longer going to criticize you for free. They are going to be the McKinsey of diversity training. Only instead of coming to your workplace, they are going to partake of your red-pepper hummus and Pinot Grigio and lecture your friends in the privacy of your Restoration Hardware dining room.

But the money barely pays for the horrors that these two women have to endure. "We decided to write this book after more than a dozen dinners. Different White women, different dining rooms, different cities. SAME CONVERSATION. You are nothing if not consistently WHITE." Just suffering the tedium of the dialogues. I mean they are clearly not getting paid enough.

In that sense, I’m probably more sympathetic than I should be. I can’t imagine having to spend two hours with the kind of women who would pay these grifters. There is not enough wine in France to get me through all that virtue-signaling. Look at us. We have a "Hate Has No Home Here" sign; we posted pictures of our kids holding up Black Lives Matter signs on the school Facebook page. No matter what they say it will not satisfy Rao and Jackson because if it were enough then they’d be out of work.

The other reason they need to be well-compensated is because this work is dangerous. While the white women are "feverishly getting lunches ready and kids off to school, know that we are doing the same plus hoping one of the many white folks who have threatened to commit bodily harm to us and our families is not hiding in a bush outside, ready to shoot our kids and grandkids." Really Rao and Jackson are more like Navy SEALs than diversity consultants. Come on, though. I mean I get that they’re spoiling a lot of perfectly nice evenings for busy moms, but hiding in a bush with a shotgun? These people have pickleball matches to get to—who has the time for that kind of revenge?

Perhaps the most devastating part of Rao and Jackson’s critique for the attendees at Race2Dinners is the fact that their feminism is apparently part of the problem. "One of the reasons white feminism is so insidious—and why white feminists might more often claim colorblindness (compared with white women who don’t necessarily care about feminism)—is that white feminists like to think they live in a fantasy where ever women [sic] is equally oppressed. You like to believe you are fighting for the rights and well-being of all women, and want to consider all women as equitable in that fight. … Saying you are colorblind helps support your myth of equitability."

This is the kind of logic that will be devastating to anyone who owns a pussy hat. And Chelsea Handler, who blurbed the book, just cannot get enough of this flagellation. "I am always looking for ways to learn, grow, shut the F up and listen," she writes. Anyone who has watched one of the crudest and least funny women on television knows she is always looking for ways to learn and grow and listen.

But as everyone involved realizes or should, this is all part of an act. Rao and Jackson don’t really believe that all these women are racist or that attending Race2Dinners will make them any less racist. And the women attending these dinners don’t really believe they are racist either. And no one thinks Chelsea Handler can be made to shut the F up.

In an article for the Wall Street Journal a few years ago, Shelby Steele wrote: "White guilt is not actual guilt. Surely most whites are not assailed in the night by feelings of responsibility for America’s historical mistreatment of minorities." Indeed, he explained, "White guilt is not angst over injustices suffered by others; it is the terror of being stigmatized with America’s old bigotries—racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia. To be stigmatized as a fellow traveler with any of these bigotries is to be utterly stripped of moral authority and made into a pariah. The terror of this … pressures whites to act guiltily even when they feel no actual guilt. White guilt is a mock guilt, a pretense of real guilt, a shallow etiquette of empathy, pity, and regret."

If the only effect of this guilt were rich liberal women wasting their money on this shallow etiquette, I would say, well that’s the free market at work. (And also there’s a sucker born every minute.) But unfortunately it’s not.

In what is perhaps the closest the authors come to grasping the real problems with what they are saying, Jackson tells the story of her son’s sixth grade teacher calling her to say "she could not get him to behave in class." When Jackson asked her son why he was giving his teacher a hard time, he said, "because she lets me." Jackson then explains, "From that point on I understood … white women educators have zero expectations of Black children. … What I know is that children live up to your expectations. If you expect nothing of them (as white teachers did), you will get nothing."

After years of explaining to white people that anything black children do wrong is the result of racism, that racial disparities in school discipline are the result of racism, that black students underperforming on tests is the result of racism, what are white teachers supposed to do? Their hands are tied. Disciplining a black student is, of course, white supremacy. And no doubt Jackson’s "gifted" son has figured that out. Jackson concludes that "white teachers don’t care about me." But the truth is that they care too much about you and what you will do to them and their reputations, and not enough about what your bigotry and shaming are doing to black people.

White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Penguin, 174 pp., $16

Naomi Schaefer Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Independent Women's Forum, is the author of No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts, and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives.

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Barnes sat down for at least six interviews with RT, the Kremlin-funded network formerly known as Russia Today, while he was serving as a state representative in 2015 and 2016, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Thursday.

RT was forced to register in 2017 as a foreign agent in the United States under Department of Justice guidelines. The State Department said the network "provide[s] disinformation and propaganda support for the Kremlin's foreign policy objectives."

The appearances could fuel perceptions that Barnes's views are out of touch with mainstream voters.

In one 2016 interview about police violence and Black Lives Matter, the outlet spoke to Barnes alongside Richard Spencer, one of the best-known white nationalists in the United States at the time.

Spencer, who advocated for a white ethnostate and "peaceful ethnic cleansing," was described in 2013 as the "sym­bol of a new gen­er­a­tion of 'intel­lec­tual' white suprema­cists" by the Anti-Defamation League.

During the interview, Barnes described violent anti-police protests as a "human reaction when you feel that your rights have been infringed upon, when you feel your safety could be in jeopardy for a simple traffic stop or any run-in with the law, this is how it boils over."

Spencer argued that the Black Lives Matter movement was a "Black identity movement" that was "using police violence as, you could say, an excuse or as a spark, as a way of expressing their bigger agenda."

In another interview in 2016, after five police officers were killed during an anti-police ambush in Dallas, Barnes criticized law enforcement officers for "over-exercising their badges."

Barnes's opponent, Republican senator Ron Johnson, slammed the Democrat for appearing on the Russian TV network.

"Trashing American law enforcement on Russian state TV and allowing himself to be used by Vladimir Putin's propagandists is as bad as it gets," Alec Zimmerman, communications director for the Johnson campaign, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "Lieutenant Governor Barnes knew he was being used as a puppet for a foreign dictator in a Russian disinformation scheme and he should apologize to law enforcement in Wisconsin and across America. Mandela Barnes isn’t fit to represent anyone in the United States Senate."

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"This is a white supremacist country," Ryan Deitsch told the Global Times, which is operated by the Chinese Communist Party. "Our constitution was written by slave owners and white supremacists. We continue to uphold these doctrines."

"This is a white supremacist country. Our constitution was written by slave owners and white supremacists. We continue to uphold these doctrines." @Ryan_Deitsch, a survivor of Parkland shooting massacre, told @WenwenWang1127 what he thought of the Buffalo attack in #ITalk show. pic.twitter.com/qmv9aWpdTj

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) May 18, 2022

After the shooting, Deitsch made multiple media appearances, including a confrontation with Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) at a 2018 CNN town hall, and has since became a left-wing activist. He says he was a delegate on the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee, appointed by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.). His LinkedIn profile says his work on the committee was focused on "clarifying language around sex worker protections."

China for years has been carrying out a genocide against the ethnic Uyghur minority. In December, Congress passed a bill sanctioning China for its human rights abuses and banning imports from Xinjiang, where a large Uyghur population lives and works.

Left-wing pundits and Democratic politicians have frequently accused their opponents of "white supremacy." In August, a Minnesota Democratic official celebrated the rioters who burned down the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct during the summer of 2020, saying that "fetishizing decorum … is a hallmark of white supremacy." Activists have similarly overwritten traditional educational curricula and abolished admissions tests as vestiges of "white supremacy."

While Deitsch talked about the Saturday shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, in which an 18-year-old white nationalist gunman on Saturday shot and killed 10 black people, he did not mention the separate racially motivated shooting that occurred the next day. A gunman on Sunday shot up a California church filled with Taiwanese congregants. The local sheriff's office reported the shooter was a Chinese immigrant motivated by his hate for the Taiwanese.

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Foreign fighters from at least 35 neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and ultranationalist groups based in the United States, Canada, and Europe "have members fighting on both sides in [the] Russia-Ukraine conflict," according to an analysis from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which has been tracking the flow of extremist groups into the region.

The groups are seeking to give their allies "combat experience, saying that the training and materials given to volunteers who travel to Ukraine will be useful in a future civil war in their home countries." Americans who have joined the conflict include residents of Texas, Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee, according to the report.

Though the extremists account for a small fraction of the total fighters on each side of the war, their involvement could provide members with battlefield experience and help these groups commit more sophisticated attacks in their own countries. The presence of U.S. and European extremists in Ukraine shows that these groups are taking a page from the jihadi playbook, in which foreign fighters are sent into regional hotzones to develop critical combat experience. With this knowledge, North American-based Nazi groups could amplify their efforts state-side, making MEMRI's report a vital source of information for U.S. law enforcement organizations and others. Photographs and videos unearthed by MEMRI show neo-Nazi and other white supremacist groups in Ukraine with AK-47s and other munitions.

For U.S. fighters on each side of the conflict, their participation is less ideological and more practical, according to MEMRI's analysis. One American neo-Nazi posted in an online chat group in late March that he and others are "focused on the benefits of gaining combat experience, [and called] for people to 'join a paramilitary so you can learn to make explosives and become a soldier like a boss.'" The comments further lend credibility to claims that these extremist groups are hoping to bring their battlefield experience back home.

Reporter Nolan Peterson posted an image in mid-March of two "American militants, one with tape showing the neo-Nazi Totenkopf symbol on his rifle butt, on the eastern Kyiv front," according to MEMRI. "It is unclear which units the Americans are fighting with."

Additionally, "the former leader of a U.S.-based accelerationist group announced in an interview published on March 15, that he is fighting for Ukrainian forces against Russia with an unidentified 'local militia,'" according to MEMRI's report, a full copy of which includes identifying information about these individuals that is being withheld for security reasons.

"Neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and antigovernment extremists in North America have volunteered to fight with Ukrainian forces for various reasons: to defeat 'mongoloid' Russia, gain experience in combat, or to install a 'pro-white' government," according to the report.

Other North American neo-Nazis say they are fighting to depose Russian president Vladimir Putin.

A Canadian volunteer included in MEMRI's report announced on Telegram, a social media site used by extremists, that he traveled to Kyiv and "is fighting in the neo-Nazi 'Bratstvo' Battalion in Kyiv. In the accompanying video, the Canadian stated: 'If I kill any Russians, know that, to the Russian soldiers, that I love you. This is not about you. I am battling your terrorist government. Putin needs to be taken down.'"

These fighters are also sharing information on social media, such as instructions on the best routes into Ukraine so foreign allies can join the front lines.

Europe-based "pro-Russian neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and ultranationalist groups" also have joined the fight and are backing Moscow.

One such group "called for individuals to support the Russian war effort to support the Russian 'empire,' Orthodox Christianity, and to fulfill their 'duty,'" according to the report. "A Hungarian ultranationalist group posted a call for members to support a neo-Nazi pro-Russia militant group, stating: 'Tradition, Christian religion, Empire! The correct image of Russian propaganda looks exactly like this.'"

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It all began as a conversation among behavioral ecologists at UCLA: "They saw how COVID-19 was highlighting health disparities and other inequalities around the world," the Times reports. "The scientists began to wonder if they could learn more about inequality by studying it in animals."

The experts began searching for examples in the animal kingdom of human concepts such as privilege, inequality, and intergenerational wealth. "When we started looking for it, we found lots and lots of examples," Dr. Jennifer Smith told the Times. "To see this across so many different species was quite surprising. And we're just touching the surface."

In other words, a bunch of woke nerds discovered the survival instinct and natural selection. Their findings include examples of "species that share resources such as territory, tools, and shelter between generations." For instance, baby red grouse who aren't abandoned by their fathers "are more likely to succeed in establishing their own territories." Baby squirrels whose mothers hoard food for winter "are much more likely to survive until the spring." No shit.

"Those young, pine-cone-rich squirrels, the scientists say, are children of privilege," the Times reports. Those same scientists are eager to expand their so-called research by examining thousands of species across the animal kingdom. They did not elaborate as to whether future studies will incorporate other concepts, such as "whiteness," "rape culture," and "voter suppression," among animals in the wild.

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Speaking at the event on Capitol Hill, the speaker praised Lin-Manuel Miranda as "one of the great creative talents of our time" before introducing a pre-recorded video of Miranda and his fellow Hamilton cast mates performing the song "Dear Theodosia" from the hit musical. According to Pelosi, the Broadway bad boy was "very honored to be asked to participate today."

Social media users and other observers were appalled, however, given that Miranda has been credibly accused of being a white supremacist, or at least of being adjacent to white supremacy, in light of the controversy surrounding the 2021 film based on his musical In the Heights.

Journalists and other racism experts panned the musical for its "glaring lack of Afro-Latinx representation." The Washington Post dismissed it as "more of the same whitewashed Hollywood," arguing that the absence of dark-skinned actors in leading roles made Miranda's film debut "part of a long tradition in the Americas of Black erasure."

Miranda has also been credibly accused of fostering a transphobic workplace environment. A transgender Hamilton cast member reports being fired after requesting a "gender-neutral dressing room." The cast member also described experiencing "frequent incidents of discrimination and harassment … including being purposely misgendered."

Political experts instantly assailed Pelosi's judgment on social media. "What on earth," wrote journalist Josh Barro. "Who thought this was a good idea[?]" Several pointed to a recent Vox article that explains why Hamilton (and other cultural artifacts of the Obama administration) "feels so cringe right now."

Alas, the 81-year-old Pelosi is presumably not woke enough to understand why the decision to include Miranda in the ceremony was tantamount to committing violence against vulnerable communities.

That's no excuse.

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Over the weekend, CNN's Jim Acosta got in on the action by posting a photo of himself posing with a bunch of white staff members. Most alarming of all, the photo was taken at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, a mecca of racial diversity. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, just 38 percent of Atlanta's population is white; 51 percent is black. Now compare those demographics to the demographics of Acosta's staff:

Yikes. For a lib journalist whose entire show consists of corny jokes about how Republicans are white supremacists, you'd think Acosta would be more accepting of racial diversity in the workplace. You'd also expect a lib journalist and his colleagues to believe in science. Alas, this maskless photo suggests a reckless disregard for human life amid a surge in COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant.

Do better, CNN.

We are literally shaking right now.

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