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Archbishop of Canterbury decries cancel culture: 'We can't erase the past... we have to learn from it'


RT
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:20 UTC
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby
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Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
In a rare break with protocol, the Archbishop of Canterbury has defended the right to freedom of speech amid an ongoing row about the showing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

The head of the Church of England, Justin Welby also described cancel culture as a "huge threat" to the future of the institution.

His comments come after a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed was shown at a school in Batley, West Yorkshire, to spur discussion. Instead, it provoked outrage among some Muslims, both locally and further afield, and the teacher responsible has reportedly gone into hiding.
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The Dushanbe Interviews: Christopher Rufo - "Waste management consultant" vs. critical race theory

Niccolo Soldo
niccolo.substack.com
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:19 UTC
Christopher Rufo

Christopher Rufo
Introduction:

The outdated definition of a liberal is that of a person who is tolerant of others, their thoughts, and their way of life. This traditional definition has been discarded in favour of an increasingly narrow one largely due to Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance" in which the intolerant cannot be tolerated as an 'open society' will eventually be seized by the intolerant. Therefore, Enlightened Despotism is the 'proper' way to govern a society.

It is human nature to challenge despotism and authoritarianism, especially as they fall into intellectual, spiritual, economic and personal corruption. So how are those who challenge such a system to be dealt with? Simply label them as 'intolerant', which makes them a de facto outlaw in society.

Christopher Rufo is one of these modern outlaws. Initially a documentary maker, his life recently has taken him down another, much more difficult route: challenging the intellectual basis of today's American elites, that being Critical Race Theory. He has been credited with singlehandedly putting opposition to this trend on the political map by way of influencing President Trump to issue an Executive Order halting its instruction inside of federal agencies. With Biden's reversal of Trump's Executive Order, Rufo is now expanding the front far and wide, and winning key battles along the way.


Comment: Note that Soldo's humor, sarcasm and irony are turned up to the max here. Rufo, a blessedly mature, humorous adult himself, plays right along.

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White professor sues New Jersey college for 'discrimination' after finding out that black colleagues are paid far more than him


RT
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:02 UTC
camden county college
A white New Jersey college professor has sued his employer for racial discrimination after learning that two black co-workers with credentials allegedly inferior to his own were making at least 49% more money than him.

William Lavell's lawsuit against Camden County College was filed on Friday in the US District Court in Camden, New Jersey. The 66-year-old chemistry professor alleged that after obtaining payroll data under the state's open records law, he found "stark racial disparities" between his pay and the salaries of two black engineering professors.

The lawsuit said Lavell suffered "severe emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation and loss of self-esteem" as a result of the disparities. He filed a racial discrimination complaint with Camden County College officials, but his proposal to bring his salary in line with those of his non-white peers was rejected. College officials also declined to investigate Lavell's complaint, according to the lawsuit.
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7-year-old New York boy charged with rape

Jesse O'Neill
New York Post
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC
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A 7-year-old boy from upstate New York has been charged with rape, a report said Tuesday.

The child, of Brasher Falls near the Canadian border, was arrested by state police in connection with an incident that happened on Thanksgiving, according to local station WWNY.

He was charged with third-degree rape on March 23, the CBS affiliate said.
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Official: Brits are NOT racist... woke folk outraged as the narrative around which they've built an entire industry is wrecked

Charlie Stone
RT
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:02 UTC
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© REUTERS/Simon Dawson
A British national flag, known as the Union Jack, with writing on it flutters during a Black Lives Matter protest outside Tottenham police station in London, Britain August 8, 2020
A new report that says the UK "should be regarded as a model for other white-majority countries" due to its lack of structural racism is worth celebrating. But those who make money off the 'racist' myth are predictably unhappy.

Listen? Can you hear that noise? It's the sound of tens of thousands of fingers whacking and clacking away at thousands of keyboards in furious glee.

There's something to attack, you see: the British, they're not especially racist. How can that be? No, no, no! Racism is a MASSIVE problem! How dare they?

Comment: Some quotes from the report:
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said family structure and social class had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out.

The main findings were:
  • Children from ethnic-minority communities did as well or better than white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils the only group to perform less well
  • This success in education has "transformed British society over the last 50 years into one offering far greater opportunities for all"
  • The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority population had shrunk to 2.3% overall and was barely significant for employees under 30
  • Diversity has increased in professions such as law and medicine
  • But some communities continue to be "haunted" by historic racism, which is creating "deep mistrust" and could be a barrier to success
A foreword to the report by chairman Tony Sewell, an education consultant and ex-charity boss, said: "We no longer see a Britain where the system is deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities."

While the "impediments and disparities do exist", it continued, they were "varied and ironically very few of them are directly to do with racism".

The report added that evidence had found that factors such as geography, family influence, socio-economic background, culture and religion had "more significant impact on life chances than the existence of racism".
More on the topic from Dr. Sewell:



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CNN goes there: Claims there's no 'consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth'

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:37 UTC
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A news article posted by CNN claims outright that there's no way to know a baby's biological sex at birth. Yes, this story was classified as news. No, the claim is not even remotely accurate.

The story, by Devan Cole, is about the new executive order signed by Governor Kristi Noem in South Dakota that bars biological males from competing in women's and girls' athletics. It reads:

"The orders also reference "biological sex," a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students' original birth certificates. It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth."
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'Nobody wants a complete ban on foreign social networks,' Kremlin says, but companies must be forced to comply with Russian rules


RT
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:50 UTC
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© Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP
After Russian authorities warned they could pull the plug on Twitter over claims it is being used to spread child porn and pro-suicide posts, the Kremlin has insisted that it doesn't want to see all foreign networks taken offline.

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Moscow's Argumenty i Fakty newspaper on Tuesday that he was optimistic foreign-owned social media giants could learn to live within the country's laws. "It is necessary to find a middle ground between the priorities of media freedom and regulation," he said. "More and more life flows into it. The more life there is, the more rules there need to be. And these should be the rules of the game for everybody, including foreign companies, because the internet has no borders."

However, he argued, while "some companies enter into dialogue [with the Russian government], others do not - this is a difficult and painstaking process. All companies obviously want to operate without restrictions and make massive profits in every possible market." The obstacle to that, Peskov said, is that "not all companies can insure themselves against becoming instruments of influence for other states."

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Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate en route, despite company denial

Ken Klippenstein
The Intercept
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:54 UTC
amazon bottle
© The Intercept, Getty Images
In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders's scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive by Amazon workers there, Amazon executive Dave Clark cast the $1 trillion behemoth as "the Bernie Sanders of employers" and taunted: "So if you want to hear about $15 an hour and health care, Senator Sanders will be speaking downtown. But if you would like to make at least $15 an hour and have good health care, Amazon is hiring."

Rep. Mark Pocan replied via tweet: "Paying workers $15/hr doesn't make you a progressive workplace when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles," echoing reports from 2018 that Amazon workers were forced to skip bathroom breaks and pee in bottles. Amazon's denial was swift: "You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us."


But Amazon workers with whom I spoke said that the practice was so widespread due to pressure to meet quotas that managers frequently referenced it during meetings and in formal policy documents and emails, which were provided to The Intercept. The practice, these documents show, was known to management, which identified it as a recurring infraction but did nothing to ease the pressure that caused it. In some cases, employees even defecated in bags.

Amazon did not provide a statement to The Intercept before publication.

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Despite roll-out, Russians 'in no hurry' to receive Covid-19 vaccines as suspicion is a 'national characteristic,' Kremlin claims


RT
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:11 UTC
vaccination Moscow
© Sputnik / Pavel Bednyakov
One of the vaccination sites in Moscow. March 17, 2021
As countries across the world sign deals to import or manufacture Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccines, many back home in Russia are still skeptical of receiving any form of jab. That, the Kremlin says, is just part of the culture.

Speaking to Moscow-based newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, admitted that distrust in domestically-produced vaccines is still hampering immunization efforts.

"In terms of why people are in no hurry to get vaccinated, it seems to me that this is one of our national characteristics," the spokesman said. "There are still many people who are very suspicious of vaccines in general."

However, he added, Putin's decision last week to roll up his sleeve to receive one of three Russian-made formulas that have been shown to protect against coronavirus may turn the tide of public opinion. "I think his example will add some dynamism to the whole process," Peskov said. "It is necessary to significantly strengthen the promotion of vaccination in the good sense of the word."

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Teacher at elite Virginia school caught on camera forcing controversial race theory on students


RT
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC
classroom
© Pixabay
A Virginia school is under fire after video footage showed a teacher berating a student for refusing to acknowledge racial differences. The teacher's Critical Race Theory sermon is not the only woke scandal to hit the district.

Located on the outskirts of Washington, DC, the Loudoun County Public School District is one of the wealthiest in the nation, with the average household there pulling in $136,000 per year. It's also emerged lately as a hotbed of Critical Race Theory (CRT) - a set of ideas that puts race at the center of every human interaction, views the US as "structurally racist," and maintains that "white supremacy" and "white privilege" permeate every institution in the country.

Video footage posted on Monday shows how this plays out in the classroom. In a bizarre lecture at one of the district's schools in Ashburn, a teacher shows his students an image of two women standing beside each other, one white and one black. "Tell me what this seems to be a picture of?" he asks.
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