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This year’s University of California Students of Color Conference unproductively devolved into something of an “oppression Olympics” between different minority groups, prompting arguments between participants and ultimately leading to some canceled sessions at the annual event.

‘I’m more oppressed!’ ‘No, no, I’M more oppressed!’

” There are constructive things that we can do to prevent this happening in the future.”

Yeah, quit looking under every rock for a Victim Card to play. But I suppose that’s not an option for Students of Color.

The crux of the debate centered around the conference theme: “Fighting Anti-Blackness.” Apparently it was not communicated to students that the conference would have a particular theme this year. At the event, held at UC Irvine, students of different minority groups began arguing when it became known that the conference would focus almost exclusively on discrimination against the African American community.

‘I’m more oppressed! ‘No, no, I’M more oppressed!’

In one of the larger workshops, one of the students raised a question about why the only issues being discussed were those involving anti-blackness, prompting an African-American student to respond that black students are the most oppressed, to which a Muslim student made a comment about her people being bombed in the Middle East, according to Alvarez.

Hey, black people get bombed every day, usually on Controlled Substances. What is YOUR oppression compared to theirs? (African-American students might point out to Muslim students that they are also the people doing the bombing, but that might be in poor taste.)

“I am very unhappy about how this conference was ran.”

I am very unhappy that a student at UCLA apparently can’t write grammatical English. Students of Color might want to investigate how their being aggressively ignorant contributes to ‘anti-Blackness’.

Students of Color Conferences in years past have not chosen a particular theme, but have instead brought together many types of minority groups including Chicano/Latino, South Asian, African American, and Muslim students for the purpose of establishing dialogue and solidarity, Alvarez told The Fix.

Rather, the theme was ‘How can Students of Color leverage our Victimness into power and privilege?’ Everybody knew it, nobody had to say it.

The conference typically ends with a demonstration and protest in the community surrounding the school where it takes place, however Alvarez said that this year students felt conflicted about participating.

Most conferences have ‘break-out sessions’, this one apparently has ‘break-up sessions’.

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The 2016 presidential election has taken an emotional and personal toll on many Americans, affecting their relationships and alienating them from relatives and close associates, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found.

The country is apparently full of Special Snowflakes.

God help us if we ever get attacked by, say, Russia or China.

Clinton voters were more likely to get crosswise with family and friends over the election: 42% said they avoided talking politics with family, compared with 24% of Trump supporters, and 40% of Clinton backers said they had gotten into a heated argument about the campaign, compared with 26% of Trump backers.

Backing an incompetent deranged crook will do that.

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Though many things have changed in American political life over the past couple of years, one aspect remains a comforting constant: Democrats never lose an election. Not really. Not fairly.

Elections can be stolen. Americans can be misled. Big Oil or big business can buy elections, because these institutions possess the preternatural ability to control human actions. Whatever the case, something fishy and nefarious must also be going on, because there’s absolutely no way voters could reject Democrats.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

On the other hand, I have a hard time getting excited about this.

The Gore Effect is real.

About 10 “Keep It In The Ground” activists waved signs next to a busy road in the Denver area, calling for the Obama administration to stop issuing leases so companies can drill on public lands. Activists say drilling only exacerbates global warming.

The irony, however, is activists stood outside about 4 inches of snow with temperatures hovering in the 20s — in degrees Fahrenheit. The official low temperature was negative 10 degrees early Thursday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Enviro-Nazis, of course, say that local weather doesn’t disprove their Globalclimate Warmingchange position, conveniently ignoring their own predilection to cite local hot weather in their own support.

This phenomenon is called the “Gore effect” — coined after a global warming rally held by former Vice President Al Gore in 2004 was met with frigid weather. A similar rally held by Gore in 2006 in Australia was also hit by cold weather.

It’s not just Gore who’s held freezing global warming rallies. Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners postponed a protest in early 2015 due to “unfavorable weather conditions and other logistical issues.” New Haven witnessed a negative 9 degrees when the event was canceled.

This cold snap was suspiciously close the the trip AlGore made to visit the Trumps only days previously.

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The biter bit. Pass the popcorn.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

A progressive non-profit suppressed evidence of anti-white hate crimes following Donald Trump’s presidential victory, apparently in favor of promoting a narrative that exclusively reported violence and racism by Trump supporters.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the results of a survey on Nov. 28 that purports to find a “Trump Effect” in American schools. SPLC noted that, of the 10,000 teachers who responded to the survey, about 40 percent reported they had “heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, immigrants and people based on gender or sexual orientation.” Eighty percent reported heightened anxiety by “marginalized” students, and 90 percent said the election had a generally negative effect on students.

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Virginia Tech students collaborated to create a list of fifty “microaggressions” that students have experienced.

Students groups such as the NAACP, Muslim Student Association and Jewish Student Union collected statements that students found triggering.

The resulting campaign, called “Microaggressions: #hokiesspeakup,” started in the spring semester. Posters are strewn throughout the campus to warn students about triggering statements.

I find the whole concept of ‘microagressions’ to be triggering.

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My liberal friends sometimes ask me why I don’t devote more of my science journalism to the sins of the Right. It’s fine to expose pseudoscience on the left, they say, but why aren’t you an equal-opportunity debunker? Why not write about conservatives’ threat to science?

My friends don’t like my answer: because there isn’t much to write about. Conservatives just don’t have that much impact on science. I know that sounds strange to Democrats who decry Republican creationists and call themselves the “party of science.” But I’ve done my homework. I’ve read the Left’s indictments, including Chris Mooney’s bestseller, The Republican War on Science. I finished it with the same question about this war that I had at the outset: Where are the casualties?

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Did the guy die? Yes? Then how was it ‘botched’?

Lockett’s brother, Gary Lockett, sued Gov. Mark Fallin (R-Okla.) and other state and prison officials saying the drawn out death of his sibling was “barbaric” and that the fumbled execution violated the inmate’s constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Lockett, imprisoned at an Oklahoma state penitentiary for fatally shooting and burying alive a 19-year-old woman in 1999, was administered a cocktail of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride, a mix of lethal drugs never before used in Oklahoma.

Oddly enough, I don’t think I’ll lose a lot of time worrying about how long it took somebody who fatally shot and buried alive a 19-year-old woman to die. Perhaps if they were to have shot him and buried him alive it would have been better, but that’s all I can think of.

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Nazi is as Nazi does.

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Bernie supporters are sexist? Who knew? Off to the re-education camp with them!

‘Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.’

Maybe I need another Category: Circular Firing Squad.

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Two green energy companies contributed a quarter of a million dollars to the American Indian tribe spearheading a months-long demonstration against an oil pipeline in North Dakota.

Standing Rock Sioux voted unanimously April 5 to accept two $150,000 donations from ConEdison Development and Fagen Inc., both of which have partnered up to build windmills in the North Dakota area, according to internal documents kept by the tribe.

I guess there aren’t enough dead birds in North Dakota to suit the skraelings.

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Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

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Ivy League students feeling triggered by Trump’s victory on Tuesday are in luck: the University of Pennsylvania has a created a “breathing” space for them to do some coloring, hug a puppy, and recuperate.

UPenn’s Fisher Hassenfeld College House hosted the event, according to The Statesman.

You can’t make this shit up.

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And the freakout keeps on comin’….

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A Canadian radio station is offering free first-class plane tickets to celebrities who wish to flee the country as a result of Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election — except Lena Dunham.

I know how they feel.

“We know it’s not easy being famous, living in a free country, and NOT liking the President elect,” Jordan Mercier, one of the station’s hosts, said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to them. We’re happy to open our homes and wallets to help these inconvenienced stars.”

I say, by Jove, that’s very white of them.

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Numerous celebrities have vowed to leave the U.S. if Trump were elected. Sadly, they all will most likely disappoint us once again. But the street artist Sabo is making it easy for them with these real estate ad benches, scattered around southern California.

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And the hits just keep on comin’….

Steve Sailer is Keepin’ It Real.

With Black Lives Matter seemingly on ice until after the election, Hillary’s campaign made it through October without America’s monthly riot (although I’d forgotten the big black flash mob attack on white Temple University students in Philadelphia). But Chicago, America’s role model for one-party Democratic rule, remained vibrant.

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Mayor Rahm released video of a dubious police shooting late last November. Ever since, blacks have been blasting away at blacks in vast numbers, because Black Lives Matter. Or something.

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On October 18 Diana West, the author of American Betrayal, was scheduled to give a lecture about Political Correctness in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. However, the local Progressive/Muslim alliance got wind of what she was up to, and tried to shut her down.

The event was sponsored by a group called Issues Confronting Our Nation (ICON), and was billed as part of the ICON Lecture Series: “Where Did “Politically Correct” Come from and What Is It Doing?” (Cultural Marxism in America). The title was enough to send the lefties into paroxysms of high dudgeon, and they exerted pressure on the venue — an outfit called Extraordinary Ventures — to cancel the lecture.

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In this case the venue did not cancel, and the event went ahead as scheduled. Ms. West’s talk may be seen in its entirety in the video below. In addition to the fracas over her lecture, she talks about Marx, Lenin, the Fabians, the Frankfurt School, SDS, and the communist infiltration of America in the 1930s and ’40s.

Yet more eye surgery. Look up macular hole and vitrectomy and despair….

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You knew it had to happen.

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I am not making this up.

Barnard College is hosting “The Barnard BLUE Collective” this October, a weekly “social justice education” themed dialogue series.

Barnard College is one of the ‘Seven Sisters’ colleges, the one that is attached to Columbia University.

On October 17, attendees will discuss the supposed role exercise classes have in “cultural appropriation” with the topic: “Health at the Cost of Cultural Appropriation: Yoga and Zumba.”

I’m curious as to how long its going to take before ordinary people rise up and tell these clowns to Just Shut Up.

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And your victim status can be redeemed for valuable prizes….

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Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black man to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, is practically absent from the new National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Anita Hill, the woman who accused Thomas of sexual harassment, however, is given prominent billing in the museum.

It’s all about the Narrative, Larry.

Steve Sailer reads the tea leaves for you.

From USA Today, big news in the ongoing Flight from White as more opportunists lobby to get out from under the burden of being considered officially white in contemporary America.

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Think of how much inconvenience Syrian immigrant Tony Rezko had to go through to qualify for minority set-asides. Barack Obama’s real estate adviser had to recruit African American frontmen, like Black Muslim founder Elijah Muhammad’s son, to qualify for minority set-asides in order to get contracts to run Chicago park hot dog stands and O’Hare Panda Expresses.

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For example, this federal move could help ease the #OscarsSoWhite crisis. Jerusalem-born Natalie Portman, who won Best Actress in 2011 for The Black Swan, would be officially reclassified as nonwhite, which I’m sure will make Spike Lee and Nate Parker much happier. (Somebody should ask them.)

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One thing you can count on after an act of terrorism: the blood won’t be dry before worries about a “backlash” take center stage. So it is with last night’s terrorist attack at a St. Cloud, Minnesota shopping mall. The Minneapolis Star Tribune headlines–rather bizarrely, under the circumstances–“Anti-Muslim tension isn’t new in St. Cloud.”

Think about it.

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I’ll take a gallon, please. I have a little list….

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Well, we can hope.

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Oops.

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Philadelphia officials can’t ban political or religious speech at the airport just because it might make some visitors uncomfortable, says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The decision is a victory for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been told that city policies prohibited its ads from appearing at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

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The bulls paw the ground and shake their horns to determine who is to be the Alpha Victim.

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Of course they will. SPLC are themselves a hate group.

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Nothing promotes ‘inclusion’ than being surrounded by people just like you.

Maybe I’m missing something here, but that sure looks like racism.

Maybe Obama knows. We’ll ask him, once he gets back from playing golf.

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The Michigan State Employees Association (MSEA) and its President, Kenneth Moore, were faulted with improperly handling its dealings with its own central office employees. Those employees are actually represented by a union within a union, called the Central Office Staff Association (COSA).

The NLRB determined MSEA violated the collective bargaining rights of COSA employees when it suspended and then fired an administrative assistant. The NLRB found Moore wrongfully fired the administrative assistant because he relied on a unilateral directive as grounds for her termination. It also found that Moore “unlawfully reprimanded” an employee for what amounted to union activity.

Thus demonstrating that unions aren’t about the rights of workers, or even benefits for workers, but about power for union offilials. Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy is validated once again.

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No chances to loot and burn since it’s all underwater.

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And the beast begins to devour itself.

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I’m still not shopping at Target.

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Some animals are more equal than others.

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is finalizing a rule stipulating that homeless shelters must allow transgender women to stay in women’s areas and transgender men to stay in areas designated for men—setting off “a firestorm [that pits] LGBT groups against religious organizations that operate many homeless shelters,” The Hill reports. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is introducing a rule guaranteeing that transgender people can use bathrooms consistent with their gender, rather than biological sex, when in federal buildings. The new regulation, which will be posted in the Federal Register this week, covers 9,200 properties owned by the General Services Administration (GSA), including federal courthouses, Social Security offices, and other spaces across the country.

Let us sit back and watch our civilization crumble into a vast seething mass of quarreling special interest groups, all supported at taxpayer expense.

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An Oberlin College student has taken to the page of the Washington Blade — the nation’s oldest newspaper specializing in news for gay people — to tell America why she “chose the gayest college in America” and why she is really sad that some students won’t stop using anatomically-correct pronouns.

Oh, the humanity!

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’ — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

 

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A prominent Black Lives Matter activist said celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Chrissy Teigen are misappropriating black style and disrespecting the black community when they wear their hair in “boxer braids.”

The horror!

“Banking on blackness is a shameful enterprise, and the Kardashians are no better than racist judges, prison officials and corporations who make money off the incarceration of black bodies,” Matthews told The Daily Caller.

Matthews said black hair is “ritualistic, a sacred experience black women share with one another dating back to pre-colonial times.”

Hey, she’s married to a black guy. Maybe she’s ‘passing’.

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“We seen what went on with City Hall. We’re not happy about it. We’re not knocking Black Lives Matter. We’re not knocking anybody … We don’t care about your color. We don’t care about where you come from — all lives matter,” post Commander Dave Chamberlain told the Boston Herald.

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) recently enacted a policy redefining the legal category of “sex” in Title IX to “gender-identity.” The DOJ and DOE was empowered to make this change based on the premise that it does not constitute a substantive reinterpretation of the original legislation. Women’s Liberation Front disagrees with this premise, asserting that the change presents a radical departure from the core of the legislation’s meaning and function, writing on their fundraising campaign page:

“This [redefinition] effectively renders Title IX meaningless, as females can no longer be recognized as distinct from males. Indeed, Title IX, the legislation used to champion the very creation of female sports, is now being used to dismantle them, as male athletes demand access to female teams, dominating the competition.

Squabbling over the spoils.

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“While helping my son register for college at Moraine Valley Community College, we noticed that the required course College 101 has two sections limited to African-American students,” one concerned parent told The Chicago Tribune. “He wants to know why there are not two sections limited to Asian-American students? How about Native American students?”

This segregation of students by race seems odd, especially considering the course’s emphasis on diversity.

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During Monday’s edition on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, co-host Mark Halperin and guest Donny Deutsch tackled one of the day’s hard hitting questions, “Okay Mark, when it comes to the publishing industry, why is this counterintuitive in certain ways, why are Clinton bashing books out there versus zero Trump?” Deutsch was curious about it because, “At this moment, the top three nonfiction books on the New York Times Best Seller list are all [about Hillary Clinton].” And neither one of them could figure it out.

Yeah, that’s a real head-scratcher, all right.

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The barely veiled implication, whichever version you consider, is that the people undergoing these travails deserve relatively little sympathy — that they maybe, kinda had this reckoning coming. Either they are layabouts drenched in self-pity or they are sad cases consumed with racial status anxiety and animus toward the nonwhites passing them on the ladder. Both interpretations are, in their own ways, strikingly ungenerous toward a huge number of fellow Americans.