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Minnesota public school implements English class to eradicate 'white privilege'; white male students complain of humiliation

Edina High School Minnesota
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Edina High School in Minnesota, where the ideology of English classes is being questioned by the Center of the American Experiment.


A public high school in Minnesota implemented a required, race-based English course aimed at eradicating "white privilege," but it wasn't billed that way to students or parents, according to a public policy organization.


"Pre-AP English 10 constitutes an abuse of parents' trust, taxpayers' money and - most importantly - vulnerable children," Katherine Kersten, a senior policy fellow for the Center of the American Experiment, told Fox News. "Edina citizens should hold district leaders accountable for substituting political indoctrination for a real education."

The Minnesota-based think tank started researching Edina public schools after they heard students, parents, and teachers in Edina complaining about the aftermath of the 2016 election, when 80 staff members - most teachers - co-signed an editorial in the student newspaper bashing President-elect Donald Trump and aligning themselves with the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton.

"Many of you [students] have made clear ... that right now, you don't feel physically safe," the article read. "Know that we will do all that we can ... to fight for you," and that "we will teach rebellion against a broken world."

Comment: What future can a country have if their educational system has been infested by this madness? The young people who are currently in highschool will then go on to replicate what they have learned. For example:

Racist and sexist is the new PC: DNC staffer under fire over job ad which said 'don't forward to white straight males'


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UK police investigate fresh sexual assault claims against Kevin Spacey

UK police investigate fresh sexual assault claims against Kevin Spacey Actor Kevin Spacey  Joshua Lott / Reuters
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Kevin Spacey faces 8 sexual assault claims
British police are investigating fresh claims that Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey assaulted an unconscious aspiring actor more than a decade ago.

The alleged victim, aged 23 at the time, claims he was sexually abused at the Oscar winner's London home.

The fresh allegations come just a week after Spacey was accused of drunkenly assaulting 'Star Trek: Discovery' actor Anthony Rapp, who was aged 14 at the time of the alleged assault.


2 + 2 = 4

What's really driving social discord in America: So-called Russian social media meddling - or the soaring inequality of wealth and power?

Boris and Natasha

Boris and Natasha
The nation's elites are desperate to misdirect us from the financial and power divide that has enriched and empowered them at the expense of the unprotected many.

There are two competing explanatory narratives battling for mind-share in the U.S.:
  1. The nation's social discord is the direct result of Russian social media meddling-- what I call the Boris and Natasha Narrative of evil Russian masterminds controlling a vast conspiracy of social media advertising, fake-news outlets and trolls that have created artificial divides in the body politic, or exacerbated minor cracks into chasms.
  2. The nation's social discord is the direct result of soaring wealth/power inequality-- the vast expansion of the wealth and power of the nation's financial elites and their protected class of technocrat enablers and enforcers (the few) at the expense of the unprotected many.

Comment: How long before the lied to, experimented on, cheated and poisoned people of the U.S. are moved to act on such a realization as the author mentions - and resist in such a way so as to make Antifa's antics look like a Sunday picnic?


Stop

How to cut sex abuse? UK politician says MPs should be banned from boozing at work

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All MPs should be banned from the Commons bar to prevent sexual harassment in Westminster going any further, a Labour MP has proposed. His suggestion comes as Tory MPs were handed a new code of conduct calling on them to act with "probity."

Writing for the LabourList blog, MP for Bassetlaw John Marr set out his list of proposals for Parliament to "clean up its act" as the Westminster sexual harassment scandal widens. As allegations of sexual harassment by MPs crop up left, right and center, Marr said: "MPs should not be allowed to use the Sports and Social bar in parliament."

He also called for anyone found guilty of misdeeds to "have the whip withdrawn" - meaning suspended - and to be forbidden from standing as parliamentary candidates in elections and party membership. "We in the Labour Party have always been the party at the forefront of speaking out and standing up against abuses of power. It's on us to take the lead once again," the Labour MP said.

Attention

'All underage sex is abuse': Oregon school district to report suspected students to police

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Teachers and staff at an Oregon school district were told they had to inform on students suspected of having sex to police. District officials said it is for teenagers' safety, but parents, teachers and teens are fighting back.

The new policy directive came up during a training session for teachers and staff in the Salem-Keizer school district. District officials said it is required to comply with Oregon's mandatory reporting and child abuse laws. Under state law, any person under the age of 18 is unable to give consent, so any sexual activity is considered abuse.

"We felt like we hadn't made it clear enough," Superintendent Christy Perry told The Statesman Journal.

Sherlock

NYPD reportedly finds Weinstein rape allegation 'credible', is putting together criminal case

Harvey Weinstein
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Harvey Weinstein
New York City Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce has said that a 2010 rape allegation against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is "credible."

Paz de la Huerta, an actress best known for her role in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," was interviewed by detectives who corroborated parts of her allegations, Boyce said Friday, WABC reported.

NYPD detectives are reportedly putting evidence together for a criminal case.

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Ten dystopian films that mirror our Orwellian reality

1984 movie
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We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by such science fiction writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell's Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move.

Much like Huxley's A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who "have their liberties taken away from them, but ... rather enjoy it, because they [are] distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing."

Much like Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, the populace is now taught to "know their place and their duties, to understand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform, and to think so poorly of themselves that they will accept their assigned fate and not rebel or run away."


Dominoes

Freshmen at ultra-liberal Reed College revolt against mini-fascist student group's divisive racial rhetoric and attacks

reed college lecture protest
© Laura Swann
At Reed College, a small liberal-arts school in Portland, Oregon, a 39-year-old Saturday Night Live skit recently caused an uproar over cultural appropriation. In the classic Steve Martin skit, he performs a goofy song, "King Tut," meant to satirize a Tutankhamun exhibit touring the U.S. and to criticize the commercialization of Egyptian culture. You could say that his critique is weak; that his humor is lame; that his dance moves are unintentionally offensive or downright racist. All of that, and more, was debated in a humanities course at Reed.

But many students found the video so egregious that they opposed its very presence in class. "That's like somebody ... making a song just littered with the n-word everywhere," a member of Reedies Against Racism (RAR) told the student newspaper when asked about Martin's performance. She told me more: The Egyptian garb of the backup dancers and singers-many of whom are African American-"is racist as well. The gold face of the saxophone dancer leaving its tomb is an exhibition of blackface."

Such outrage has been increasingly common in the course, Humanities 110, over the past 13 months. On September 26, 2016, the newly formed RAR organized a boycott of all classes in response to a Facebook post from the actor Isaiah Washington, who urged "every single African American in the United States that was really fed up with being angry, sad and disgusted" over police shootings to stay home on Monday. Of the 25 demands issued by RAR that day, the largest section was devoted to reforming Humanities 110.

USA

For leftists, crime in America is only wrong when white people do it

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Exactly a month ago I recall vividly being told by nearly every mainstream media news network, every leftist activist with a social media account, and every finger-wagging do-gooder that white people had to answer for Stephen Paddock unleashing hell on innocent victims in Las Vegas. You see, it wasn't some "lone wolf" theory; it wasn't a radicalized individual, despondent and detached; it was a result of white supremacy, white people, and our culture of guns, violence, oppression, bigotry, and whatever other buzz-words they could fit in a run-on sentence.

Then on Halloween, when a "lone-wolf" disgruntled doesn't-matter-that-he's-Muslim individual drove his truck over a crowd of people in NYC, killing eight, those same people told me the exact opposite.

You can't blame "Muslims" for this. This isn't a reflection on any group. This was a despondent, detached individual, probably disgruntled and angry because of Trump's policies.

A white person kills people: Every single white person in America must answer for it! A Muslim kills someone: Wait! You can't say it's a "Muslim" problem. You're being racist, white people!

Stormtrooper

Megaupload founder agrees to settlement with New Zealand after FBI "military-style raid" on home

Kim Dotcom
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Kim Dotcom
Kim Dotcom and his ex-wife have reached a confidential settlement with police in New Zealand over the "military-style" raid and arrest at his home as part of an FBI plot.

Dotcom said he agreed to settle for the sake of his children and because he felt the New Zealand government had recently changed for the better.

The Megaupload founder sought damages in the High Court for the raid on his home that was part of a global FBI operation to bring down the popular file-sharing website.

The Special Tactics Group raided Dotcom's mansion in 2012, using what he described as "unreasonable" use of force in a "military-style raid." The anti-terrorism squad arrived by helicopter at dawn, in what Dotcom said was, "a Hollywood-style publicity stunt tailored to appease US authorities."