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Washington and Lee University wants to teach students to overthrow the state

Andrea Widburg
American Thinker
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University is a small, private liberal arts university in western Virginia. It's named after George Washington and Robert E. Lee, who became its president after the Civil War. As is the case with all small, private liberal arts colleges in America except for Hillsdale, WLU is essentially a leftist indoctrination center for those students who attend.

However, even by liberal arts standards, WLU took things to a whole new level this semester when it offered first-year students a three-credit class called "How to Overthrow the State." WLU is entitled to do so, but it seems appropriate that the taxpayers of this state have a say in the matter. Therefore, President Trump should issue an executive order withholding all federal funds from the university.

The class is one of 18 different choices offered to freshmen for their required writing seminar. All of the seminars stress that their purpose is to teach students to write well, and many of them throw in identity politics.

For example, Seminar 100-01, about "memoir and identity in literature," promises to examine whether a "memoir also challenge[s] and educate[s] us about the identities of marginalized or silenced voices."
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Propaganda

Journalist claims reporters 'don't just make stuff up', gets schooled on all the times media LIED


RT
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
CNN is Fake News protest
© REUTERS/Leah Millis
Following criticism of a story in which anonymous sources claimed Donald Trump called dead soldiers "losers," one reporter pushed back, claiming journalists "don't make stuff up" - which prompted a quick education lesson for her.

"Contrary to popular belief, journalists don't just make stuff up," Louisville Courier Journal education reporter Olivia Krauth tweeted in response to a conservative outlet blasting the use of anonymous sources.

Comment: See also:

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Control Panel

You're Being Gaslighted


Sott.net
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:53 UTC
CNN peaceful protest
© CNN
Actual CNN chyron during the raging riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 2020
What is Gaslighting?

The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light (film adaptations released in 1940 & 44). In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she's insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting she's remembering things incorrectly or delusional when she points out the changes.

The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home but pretends nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimmed lights, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting the lights are the same - and that she is going insane.

These days, we're living in a perpetual state of gaslighting. 'Reality' that the media reports is at complete odds with what we see with our own eyes. When we question the false reality they present, or claim what WE see is actual reality, we are vilified as racist or bigots or just plain crazy.

You're not racist. You're not crazy. You're being gaslighted.
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Bad Guys

At least 60 million people have been displaced by America's 'freedom and democracy'

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:40 UTC
A displaced girl stands in her shelter in Abyan, Yemen, Feb. 9, 2018.
© Nariman El-Mofty | AP
A displaced girl stands in her shelter in Abyan, Yemen, Feb. 9, 2018.
At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since September 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University's Costs of War project. That figure exceeds those displaced by conflict since 1900, the authors say, with the exception of World War II, The New York Times reported.

The findings were published on Tuesday, weeks before the United States enters its 20th year of fighting the so-called "War on Terror", which began with the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001; yet, the report says it is the first time the number of people displaced by US military involvement during this period has been calculated.

The report accounts for the number of people, mostly civilians, displaced in and from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria, where fighting has been the most significant and says the figure is a conservative estimate — the real number may range from 48 million to 59 million.
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Gear

Tens of thousands in Pakistan protest Charlie Hebdo's reprint of Prophet Mohammed cartoon


RT
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:35 UTC
Pakistan protest Charlie Hebdo
© Ruptly
Mass protests, involving tens of thousands of people, have continued in Pakistan after French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark the start of a trial over the deadly 2015 attack.

The protests in the country kicked off last Thursday, attracting large crowds of devoted Muslims to condemn the cartoon parody, the satirical weekly and even France as a whole. On Monday, a massive rally was organized by Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam in Peshawar, when the Islamist party gathered for a congress in the city.

Tens of thousands of its supporters took to the streets venting their anger over the controversial cartoons. Drone footage of the event, taken both during the day and night, shows a massive crowd of people flooding the city.

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Oscar

Oscars announce new 'inclusion' standards for Best Picture revolving around 'underrepresented groups'

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:10 UTC
oscars
© REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences announced that for any film to be nominated for Best Picture starting in the year 2024, new standards of inclusion must be met.

"Those standards require one of the following: at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group; at least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from certain underrepresented groups; or the main storyline, theme or narrative is centered on an underrepresented group," The Los Angeles Times reported, adding:
To be eligible for best picture, a film must meet at least two standards across four categories: "Onscreen Representation, Themes and Narratives," "Creative Leadership and Project Team," "Industry Access and Opportunities" and "Audience Development." Within each category are a variety of criteria ...
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Red Flag

Labor Day in America under Communist-er-COVID restrictions - Tucker Carlson reports

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:02 UTC
tucker carlson

Screenshot: 15 days lockdown is now 170+ days locked down. An exercise of insanity being maintained by Leftists.
The American handling of the coronavirus crisis has been a combination of the best and the worst of our nation. President Trump did an excellent job supporting the nation through this and leading us out of the severe economic and employment problems that the lockdown imposed on citizens in most of the US.

However the fear of the virus has been justification to several tinpot (Democrat) dictators to take over states and restrict their people's freedoms to a level not seen since the Soviet times in Russia. Granted, the virus contains a lot of unknowns, and the actions undertaken in the US were repeated all around the world in various ways - some more strict, some less. But the restrictions in the US are presently absolutely senseless in their nature and this is driving millions of Americans absolutely bonkers.

Comment: The ugly face of dictatorship has shamelessly reared its head throughout the Western world:

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Fire

'Antifa are thrilled to hear this': Portland police ask protesters not to start blazes amid statewide wildfire emergency


RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:04 UTC
Oregon fires
As the state of Oregon burns and Governor Kate Brown has declared a wildfire emergency, police in Portland have asked Antifa and BLM protesters to refrain from starting fires as they continue their nightly demonstrations.

Wildfires in the state have consumed at least two towns, turned the skies red, caused ash to fall like rain and filled the air with thick, acrid smoke.

"This is proving to be an unprecedented and significant fire event for our state," Brown said on Tuesday.

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Fire

A PSA AND virtue signal all in one: Trevor Noah slams 'outdated' gender reveal parties after firework sparks California wildfire


RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:33 UTC
Trevor Noah
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Trevor Noah
Reacting to news that a firework from a gender reveal party triggered a still-raging wildfire in California, comedian Trevor Noah blasted the celebrations as "outdated" because gender isn't always revealed at birth.

The fires in Southern California have caused multiple areas to be evacuated and have spread across thousands of acres, and news that a firework from a gender reveal party is responsible for one of the blazes has many questioning the sense of these parties.

A gender reveal party is held during pregnancy as a way for expectant parents to announce the sex of a child. Social media videos have shown the celebration becoming more and more elaborate in recent years, with parents looking to go viral by upping the ante on their stunts.

Comment: 7k-acre California fire started by fireworks at gender reveal party

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Propaganda

The majority of Western 'journalists' have prioritised winning the 'information war' over covering Russia objectively & it's destroying the media

Glenn Diesen
RT
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:06 UTC
camera lens damage media journalism
© Getty Images/Zanariah Salam / EyeEm
International law has gradually been replaced with trial by public opinion and states have become obsessed with narrative control. Information wars and "fake news" are the natural consequences and trust in the media is collapsing.

Much focus is devoted to the polarisation of media coverage in domestic politics, although what is the state of affairs in the coverage of international politics? In the current information war, all sides appear to have dirty hands. Russian media is constantly criticised, and sometimes the criticism is just. Yet, how has the information war with Russia affected the way Western media obtain, analyse and disseminate information?
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