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Dispute over 'Lingerie' comment persists, as the International Studies Association rejects Professor's appeal

Katherine Mangan
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Richard Ned Lebow of King’s College London

Richard Ned Lebow of King’s College London
The International Studies Association has rejected the appeal of a professor who was found responsible for violating its code of conduct after he jokingly requested that an elevator in a conference hotel be stopped at the lingerie department.

Richard Ned Lebow, a professor of international political theory at King's College London, responded by saying he would meet with his lawyer on Thursday and expects to file a defamation lawsuit. Lebow, who had threatened to sue the association unless it found in his favor, did not immediately respond to a question about who exactly he'd sue.

The association's lawyer, in a letter dated Tuesday, relayed its decision that no steps would be taken against Lebow if he offered an "unequivocal apology" to Simona Sharoni, a professor of women's and gender studies at Merrimack College who filed a complaint about the incident.

If he does not apologize, the letter said, the association will issue a formal, private letter of reprimand.

In an email to The Chronicle on Wednesday, Lebow made it clear he had no intention of apologizing.
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The psychology of hostility among so-called progressives (or lefties)

Matthew Blackwell
Quillette
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Ben Affleck
Recently, I arrived at a moment of introspection about a curious aspect of my own behavior. When I disagree with a conservative friend or colleague on some political issue, I have no fear of speaking my mind. I talk, they listen, they respond, I talk some more, and at the end of it we get along just as we always have. But I've discovered that when a progressive friend says something with which I disagree or that I know to be incorrect, I'm hesitant to point it out. This hesitancy is a consequence of the different treatment one tends to receive from those on the Right and Left when expressing a difference of opinion. I am not, as it turns out, the only one who has noticed this.

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"I was the terrorist" - Veteran of Israeli military gives insightful and explosive interview

Abby Martin
Mint Press News
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Eran Efrati

Eran Efrati
In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine's Hebron City.

Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid. In a rare, candid conversation, Abby Martin interviews a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine's Hebron City.

Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalized, as well as how systematic the oppression against Palestinians really is in a war of conquest that will no-doubt be accelerated under the Trump Administration.

Comment: Efrati is not alone among those with conscience in Israel's military to speak out against the slow-motion genocide of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip:

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The insanity of gender confusion is overtaking the UK


RT
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:49 UTC
all gender restroom sign
© Brian Branch Price / Global Look Press
As schools introduce gender-neutral toilets and uniforms, parents sue over a boy in a skirt and the government considers removing 'male' and 'female' from official forms, gender has become a contentious issue in modern Britain.

Increasing numbers of young Brits are expressing doubt about their gender identities. When the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at London's Tavistock Clinic opened in 1989, it received two referrals. Last year, 1,400 children under 18 were referred there - double the number of the year before. Nearly 300 were under the age of 12, with some as young as three years old.


Comment: Why would anyone think that children of that age can make rational decisions, especially those that will impact the rest of their lives?


Schools are on the frontline of a fierce and polarized debate. This week a Christian couple threatened to sue a Church of England primary school because it allowed a boy in their son's class to wear a dress.

Comment: The insanity of this postmodernist gender-bending nonsense is certainly a sign of a fundamental rot that's taken hold in western society and is a harbinger for its collapse. When people can't figure out what's actually important in life and in the world, let alone what bathroom to use, how does anyone expect the rest of the society to function and be productive? For more information:

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UK govt requests research explaining the large increase in school-age girls seeking gender reassignment


RT
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:15 UTC
trans lives matter
© Joel Goodman / Global Look Press
''Protect Trans lives '' placard, Leeds, West Yorkshire. August 5, 2018.
A huge rise in the number of school-age girls seeking gender reassignment, which has seen an increase from 40 to 1,806 referrals in eight years, has prompted the UK government to request a study into the reasons behind the surge.

Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt has ordered research into the reasons behind the sharp rise in gender reassignment referrals among all children, but particularly girls, the Times reports.

The Tavistock and Portman Trust, the only place in England and Wales to offer a gender identity service in the NHS for 18 year-olds, has witnessed a big surge in girls referred to its gender identity development service for children.

Comment: The transgender ideology has been pushed onto society from the highest levels of academia. Is it any wonder that we are now seeing the effects of this twisted agenda?

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17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, teacher says most are autistic

Sanchez Manning
Daily Mail
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:44 UTC
trans kid
© ITV
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender. Pictured: Anna Friel and Callum Booth-Ford in the drama Butterfly.
An astonishing 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Most of the youngsters undergoing the transformation are autistic, according to a teacher there, who said vulnerable children with mental health problems were being 'tricked' into believing they are the wrong sex.

The whistleblower says few of the transgender children are suffering from gender dysphoria - the medical term for someone who feels they were born in the wrong body - but are just easily influenced, latching on to the mistaken belief they are the wrong sex as a way of coping with the problems caused by autism.

Comment: While the SJW crowd would like you to believe these children are just 'expressing who they really are', the reality is that these are vulnerable kids who are being manipulated for an agenda, taking life-changing steps that most will no doubt grow to regret. The fact that this is being done to children is what is truly horrific. There's a special place in hell reserved for people who manipulate children for an agenda in this way.

See also:

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Psychotherapist predicts in 20 years we'll look back on the rush to change our children's sex as one of the darkest chapters in medicine

Bob Withers
Mail on Sunday
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:51 UTC
Tavistock Centre London transgender

Since 2011, specialists at The Tavistock Centre's Gender Identity Development Service in London have seen more than 1,000 under-18s
Let me be absolutely clear: I am in no doubt there are people who feel they are one gender while having the body of the other.

Living with such constant, internal conflict is horrifying for many of those affected, and it should never be ignored. No one should seek to suppress another person's genuinely held sexual orientation or gender identity.

But the question we must ask ourselves today is this - how do we decide whose needs are genuine? And how, then, should we treat them?
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Transgender parade in Kiev attacked by far-right mob with tear gas and pepper spray

Christopher Miller
RFE/RL
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:01 UTC
LGBT protest Ukraine
© Christopher Miller for RFE/RL
Ukrainian police move on transgender rights activists after their rally in a Kyiv park was disrupted by far-right radicals on November 18.
Activists for transgender rights were forced to disband a demonstration in Kyiv after counter-demonstrators assaulted several protesters and attacked a Canadian journalist trying to cover the event.

The organizers of the event criticized Ukrainian police for failing to protect about 40 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists who had planned to gather in Shevchenko Park on November 18 for a legally sanctioned march through the streets of the Ukrainian capital coinciding with International Transgender Remembrance Day.

Comment: More information from RT:
Ultra-nationalist mobsters thwarted a transgender parade in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, spraying tear gas at participants and brawling with riot police who apparently failed to protect the gathering, local media reported.

Ukrainian LGBT activists planned to march through downtown Kiev on Sunday, but the event - intended to commemorate transgender victims of hate crime - never took place. As people began to gather outside one of the city's metro stations, they were confronted by far-right radicals, who had previously threatened to target the parade.

The standoff became more violent when the radicals began throwing smoke bombs at the activists. The attackers were also heard yelling nationalist slogans such as "Glory to the nation, death to the enemies," and "Ukraine above all."

There was a large police presence at the event, but when the situation became more tense, the security forces seemed incapable of separating the two groups.

Far-right groups, which played a key role in the violent 2014 coup in Ukraine, don't seem to be losing their influence amid worsening economic downturn and radicalization of the country's politics.

The ultra-nationalist thugs have no qualms about using violence against those who they consider enemies, including LGBT activists, ethnic minorities and media representatives, who they claim support Russia.

As Ukraine is seeking closer ties with Europe, the country's authorities have officially pledged their support for sexual minorities, and have advocated LGBT rights.

No LGBT public event in the country occurs without provocation by nationalists. A gay parade in Kiev this June was called off after just 20 minutes, as more than a hundred radicals tried to attack the activists. They shouted "Shame on you" and "Ukraine is no Sodom," as they clashed with police, resulting in more than 50 arrests.
Now watch as the media jumps all over Ukraine for being a homophobic haunt of horrific humans... oh wait, never mind... It takes Russia's foreign-language service to inform the world about it.

Hypocrisy, that's the state we live in!

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Trade war pushes business out of China, but not to America

Michelle Toh
CNN
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:31 UTC
Cal-Comp Technology
© Unknown
Employees at a facility of Cal-Comp Technology, a unit of New Kinpo Group, in the Philippine city of Lipa. The contract electronics manufacturer is expanding in the Philippines and Thailand to keep up with customers' demands to shift manufacturing away from China.
US tariffs are prompting companies to move some production out of China, but it's not going where President Donald Trump would prefer.

The trade war has made more than $250 billion of Chinese exports more expensive for Americans - from leather belts to refrigerators to motorcycles. The disruption to the world's biggest trading relationship has electronics manufacturers, industrial machinery makers and fashion brands working on shifting some of their assembly lines.

"We are flooded by inquiries," said William Ma, group managing director of Kerry Logistics, a Hong Kong-based firm that helps companies around the world manage their supply chains. "It all happens after the trade war."

Many firms are keeping much of their operations in China, which offers a giant domestic market and advantages that businesses struggle to find elsewhere. But those that are moving aren't flocking to the United States. Instead, they're looking to transfer work to other Asian countries.

In a recent survey by two American chambers of commerce in China, one third of the companies who responded said they were looking to switch to production outside of China as a result of the trade war. Only 6% said they were considering moving business back to the United States.

Comment: Did Trump shoot America in the foot? No one is hoofing back to the USA.

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From 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to 'Ballet Shoes', a plea goes out to save children's literature

Carla Wilson
Quilette
Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00 UTC
Edgar Degas La Classe de Danse, 1874

Edgar Degas: La Classe de Danse, 1874
The Peel District School Board straddles the outskirts of the Greater Toronto Area, with more than 150,000 students enrolled in its elementary and secondary schools. Visible minorities make up more than half of this culturally and linguistically rich catchment area. And occasionally, local controversy erupts when the progressive mandate of the provincially-run education system accelerates headlong into the more conservative attitudes of local parents, especially when it comes to sex education. Indeed, Ontario Premier Doug Ford campaigned successfully on a promise to roll back the most progressive elements of the curriculum put in place by the previous (Liberal) government.

But the problem runs deeper than discussions of birth control and safe sex: A recent Peel District controversy over Harper Lee's classic 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird shows how wide this gulf has grown between ordinary parents and the professional class that presumes to oversee the educational system.
"To Kill a Mockingbird may only be taught in Peel secondary schools, beginning this school year, if instruction occurs through a critical, anti-oppression lens," declared the School Board in a recent memo. "When To Kill a Mockingbird is taught outside of this context, the novel has the potential to cause hurt and harm. As educators, we have an obligation to provide learning environments that are safe and inclusive - that honour staff and students' identities, cultures and lived experiences, including those of the Black community. Of this, there can be no debate."

Comment: Wisdom found...and lost - the undermining of a long, arduous and meaningful human journey.

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