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'Deplorable' professor fights back against campus politically correct totalitarianism

Mark Tapon
Front Page Magazine
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:56 UTC
An interview with the "Anti-PC NYU Prof."
Michael Rectenwald
Michael Rectenwald
"In the fall of 2016," New York University professor Michael Rectenwald recently told The Daily Caller, "I was noting an increase of this social justice ideology on campuses, and it started to really alarm me. I saw it coming home to roost here at NYU, with the creation of the bias reporting hotline, and with the cancellation of the Milo Yiannopoulos talk because someone might walk past it and hear something which might 'trigger' them."

Rectenwald, himself a leftist, created an initially anonymous Twitter account, @antipcnyuprof, to speak out against that ideology and the "absolutely anti-education and anti-intellectual" classroom indoctrination he was witnessing, as well as the collectivist surveillance state that the campus was becoming, as students were urged to report each other for the sin of committing microaggressions.

Comment: 'I felt unsafe': NYU professor sues colleagues for defamation

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Contrite Facebook executives bow to European censorship rules

Eric Auchard & Douglas Busvine
Reuters
Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:01 UTC
3D-printed Facebook logo EU
© REUTERS/Dado RuvicA 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of the logo of the European Union in this picture illustration made in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 15, 2015.
Facebook executives are fanning out across Europe this week to address the social media giant's slow response to abuses on its platform, seeking to avoid further legislation along the lines of a new hate speech law in Germany it says goes too far.

Facebook's communications and public policy chief used an annual meeting in Munich of some of Europe and Silicon Valley's tech elite to apologize for failing to do more, earlier, to fight hate speech and foreign influence campaigns on Facebook.

"We have to demonstrate we can bring people together and build stronger communities," the executive, Elliot Schrage, said of the world's biggest information-sharing platform, which has more than 2 billion monthly users.

Comment: Forcing Facebook and other social media platforms to police what content is acceptable and what is not is effectively turning them into a media company with an editorial position. While all the talk for now is of Islamist extremism, considering the political stance of silicon valley and the definition of what constitutes hate speech becoming murkier and murkier, this whole move is troublesome. See also:

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Sweden deals with alleged brothels disguised as massage parlors


Sputnik
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:43 UTC
massage parlor
© CC BY-SA 2.0 / Walker Larry
Despite having criminalized the purchase of sexual services almost 20 years ago, Sweden continues to tussle with this problem. A recent trend involves alleged brothels operating under the respectable guise of massage parlors.

Although some legislators in Sweden are intent on making buying sex abroad a crime, it continues to struggle with prostitution issues at home. Suspected bordellos disguised as massage parlors now threaten the country's feminist reputation. In 2017, the police suspected sex trade happening at 30-40 salons in Gothenburg and Malmö alone, Expressen reported.
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ICE jails Polish doctor living in US for 40yrs, family is demanding his release


RT
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:23 UTC
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© Jeff Topping / Reuters
A 43-year-old Polish-born doctor living in the US for nearly 40 years is in jail after being detained by ICE over a misdemeanor charge from his youth. The physician's sister says the man "doesn't even speak Polish."

Dr. Lukasz Niec, 43, was detained after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents came to his Michigan home last Tuesday and led him away in handcuffs to the Calhoun County jail, according to WOOD.
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French jail guards to continue strike until more secure facilities for terrorists provided


Sputnik
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:37 UTC
france prison guard strike
© Agence France-Presse/ Pascal Pochard-CasabianceRiot police officers walk by Borgo prison on January 22, 2018 on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica, as striking prison guards block its access as part of a nationwide movement to call for better safety and wages
The secretary general of the French UFAP-UNSA prison union Jean-Francois Forget spoke to Sputnik amid a nationwide wave of clashes and attacks on guards in detention centers.

On prison Guards' Demands

French prison guards will continue their strikes unless the government offers acceptable proposals regarding better pay and measures for protection of staff members from radicalized inmates, Jean-Francois Forget told Sputnik on Monday.

"The prison staff and the prison syndicates will not put an end to this movement until our demands are heard, unless the government comes up with acceptable proposals, for now they are not... We are asking for specialized facilities of a very high security level to guard the Islamist terrorists, for now there was no offers regarding this matter," Forget said.
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Mr. Potato

The stars who promised to move to Canada when Trump won (and didn't)

Ashifa Kassam and Benjamin Lee
The Guardian
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:25 UTC
stars trump canada
Snoop Dogg and Lena Dunham were among a host of celebrities who pledged to move north under a Donald Trump presidency - yet stayed put

It is a longstanding tradition of American politics: at some stage in the electoral cycle, prominent citizens from the world of art and entertainment declare that if their preferred candidate is not victorious, they will move to Canada.

In the last presidential campaign, the threat - or promise - started to surface during early in the primaries. And this time, as Donald Trump pledged to build a wall along the Mexican border and temporarily ban Muslims from the country, it seemed some might actually follow through.

Comment: Nothing more than celebrity virtue-signalling.

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SOTT Focus: Damore Lawsuit Exposes Extremist Ideology And Social Intolerance at Google

D. Rodriguez
Sott.net
Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:22 UTC
James Damore Google
Remember when students at Evergreen state college took over their school last year, hurling racist abuse at their teachers and staff? Downright petulant and obnoxious, it was an expression of ultra-liberalism come full-circle: bigoted and racist.

But now imagine a place where such kids are a little older and not only have their way, they have the ability to influence one of the most powerful corporations on Earth.

For a multi-billion dollar outfit that has so much control over information, whose biases are expressed in the algorithms at the heart of its search engine, and is neck deep in state collusion from censorship to demonetization, it's pretty scary to learn what the culture at Google is like.

With its heavily progressive (like, crazily progressive) views, it's no surprise that anything resembling a conservative viewpoint is punished at Google, as a matter of policy.
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New Jersey man facing 15 years in jail for catching ex-wife cheating


RT
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:38 UTC
Sean Donis, Nancy Aguero
© Sean Donis / Nancy Aguero / Facebook
A New Jersey man is facing 15 years in jail after he used an iPhone app to track his wife which led him to her boss' bedroom.

Sean Donis, 37, says he was minding his kids in April 2016, while his wife went to dinner with friends and he went searching for his son's iPad. When he couldn't locate it, he used the 'Find My iPhone' app to track the device and saw it traveling toward the New York state line.

Suspicious that the iPad was with his wife of six years, Nancy Donis, 38, Sean tracked the device to an unknown location and arrived at his wife's parked car outside a house he didn't recognise.
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University student charged with setting fires on campus tells police "you're lucky I don't know how to build a bomb"

Tad Vezner and Sarah Horner
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:33 UTC
Tnuza Jamal Hassan
Tnuza Jamal Hassan
A former St. Catherine University student charged with setting fires on the college's St. Paul campus told police she did it because she'd "been reading about the U.S. military destroying schools in Iraq or Afghanistan and she felt that she should do exactly the same thing," according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.

"You guys are lucky that l don't know how to build a bomb because l would have done that," Tnuza Jamal Hassan, 19, of Minneapolis allegedly told investigators after being arrested Wednesday afternoon in a campus dorm lounge.

Hassan was charged in Ramsey County District Court with a single count of first-degree arson. No injuries or major damage were reported in the fires, all of which occurred in the middle of the day Wednesday.

Ramsey County prosecutor Margaret Galvin said in court Friday that Hassan had "substantial ties" to the local community and added that authorities were investigating whether she had any international ties as well.
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Study: Russia's the safest country in Europe for Jews

Alexander
RussiaFeed
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:58 UTC
Putin Rabbi Berel Lazar
© EPA/MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV /SPUTNIK/KREMLIN MANDATORY CREDIT: SPUTNIKRussian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (R) meet with representatives of the European Jewish Congress in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 19 January 2016. Others are not identified.
Norwegian study confirms far lower incidents of anti-semitic violence in Russia than France, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark

The present controversy stirred up by the Russia Insider article on the subject of the relationship of the Jewish people and Russia (about which see my discussion here) by reviving old stories about the attitudes towards Jews of the tsarist authorities and during the Russian Civil War, has diverted attention from the actual reality, which is that Jewish people in Russia are safe and welcome, are now significantly safer in Russia than in the supposedly mature democracies of Western Europe, and that there is no climate of hostility in Russia towards Jews at all.

Confirmation of this comes not from 'Russian state propaganda'. It comes from a recent (June 2017) and detailed academic study of instances of anti-semitism in Russia, which also looks into similar such instances in France, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
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