Williams on The Racial Virus and Identity Warriors. The NFL Continues To Fade. The U.N's Burial Is Overdue.

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According to Walter Williams the racial virus and identity warriors have invaded/effected the sciences.

The demoniacal desire to achieve sameness and inclusiveness at any cost is crippling the nation, creating divisions and resulting in a decline in our values.

When all else fails, lower your standards. (See 1 below.)

Northeastern Univ. Professor challenges women to hate men.

If you think the Hawaii volcano is spewing forth lava read the venom showering from this female professor..  Her views are symptomatic of the spreading sickness noted in Posting 1. (See 1a below.)

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I am not a NFL maven so I do not care what happens to audience participation and the continued success of the NFL.  However, I regret that many of my friends, who do watch the NFL, have been turned off by the politicization of what is entertainment but then the politics of discontent and anger is oozing its way into every facet of American life. (see above. )

What we are experiencing/witnessing is symptomatic of the same crowds on college campuses who oppose free speech, the elitist college professors who are not interested in opening their student's minds but rather seek to fill them with their own warped ideas of how they should think.

Intimidation is the weapon of choice of demagogues and always has been.(See 2 below.)
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The problem with diplomacy is that all too often it is guided by the dictates of hypocrisy and hatred.  Logic is not always allowed to shine through and dictate but eventually, I believe, it does.  So it is after 60 years of intransigence on the part of Palestinian leadership which has failed its people.

The U.N is a prime example of stacked deck diplomacy and this is why it has  proven, among many other reasons, to be worthless and ineffective..

The U.N is a neanderthal organization, a relic of the past waiting to be buried. (See 3 below.)
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Off to Atlanta tomorrow for a weekend wedding.
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Identity Warriors Have Infiltrated the Sciences. Here’s the Damage They’re Doing.

In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians, and race hustlers, it’s not long before the magical words “diversity” and “inclusiveness” drop from their lips.

Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas. We’re told how it’s doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences.”

Mac Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social sciences on American campuses. Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math.

In the eyes of the diversity and inclusiveness czars, the STEM fields don’t have a pleasing mixture of blacks, Hispanics, and women. The effort to get this “pleasing mix” is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated, threatening innovation and American competitiveness.

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Universities and other institutions have started watering down standards and requirements in order to attract more minorities and women.

Some of the arguments for doing so border on insanity. A math education professor at the University of Illinois wrote that “mathematics itself operates as whiteness.” She says that the ability to solve algebra and geometry problems perpetuates “unearned privilege” among whites.

A professor at Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education published an article in a peer-reviewed journal positing that academic rigor is a “dirty deed” that upholds “white male heterosexual privilege,” adding that “scientific knowledge itself is gendered, raced, and colonizing.”

The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are two federal agencies that fund university research and support postdoctoral education for physicians. Both agencies are consumed by diversity and inclusion ideology.

The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health can yank a grant when it comes up for renewal if the college has not supported a sufficient number of “underrepresented minorities.”

Mac Donald quotes a UCLA scientist who reports: “All across the country the big question now in STEM is: How can we promote more women and minorities by ‘changing’ (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?”

Mac Donald observes, “Mathematical problem-solving is being deemphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is being slowed down so that no one gets left behind.”

Focusing on mathematical problem-solving and academic rigor, at least for black students at the college level, is a day late and a dollar short. The 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the nation’s report card, reported that only 17 percent of black students tested proficient or better in reading, and just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math. In some predominantly black high schools, not a single black student scored proficient in math.

The academic and federal STEM busybodies ought to focus on the academic destruction of black youngsters between kindergarten and 12th grade and the conferring of fraudulent high school diplomas. Black people should not allow themselves to be used at the college level to help white liberals feel better about themselves and keep their federal grant money.

Mac Donald answers the question of whether scientific progress depends on diversity. She says: “Somehow, [National Science Foundation]-backed scientists managed to rack up more than 200 Nobel Prizes before the agency realized that scientific progress depends on ‘diversity.’ Those ‘un-diverse’ scientists discovered the fundamental particles of matter and unlocked the genetics of viruses.”

She might have added that there wasn’t even diversity among those white Nobel laureates. Jews constitute no more than 3 percent of the U.S. population but are 35 percent of American Nobel Prize winners.

One wonders what diversity and inclusion czars might propose to promote ethnic diversity among Nobel Prize winners.

1a) Northeastern professor asks, ‘Is it really so illogical to hate men?’

By Prof. Susanna Walters

A sociology professor at Northeastern University is raising eyebrows with her new op-ed arguing that it’s logical for feminist women to hate men.

Suzanna Walters, director of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the editor of the gender studies journal Signs, wrote in her op-ed for The Washington Post last week that in order for men to atone for “all the millennia of woe” they have inflicted upon women, they must stop running for office and resign from power.

“Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down,” she wrote. “Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power. We got this. And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win.”

Ms. Walters admitted that while the blanket condemnation of all men could pose some ethical problems, there are several “universal facts” about the sexes that cannot be ignored.

“Pretty much everywhere in the world, this is true: Women experience sexual violence, and the threat of that violence permeates our choices big and small,” she said. “In addition, male violence is not restricted to intimate-partner attacks or sexual assault but plagues us in the form of terrorism and mass gun violence. Women are underrepresented in higher-wage jobs, local and federal government, business, educational leadership, etc.; wage inequality continues to permeate every economy and almost every industry; women continue to provide far higher rates of unpaid labor in the home (e.g., child care, elder care, care for disabled individuals, housework and food provision); women have less access to education, particularly at the higher levels; women have lower rates of property ownership.”

Ms. Walters said that even in the era of #MeToo and #TimesUp, there hasn’t been “a mass wave of prosecutions or even serious recognition of wrongdoing” that she feels would be necessary to make things right.

“On the contrary, cries of ‘witch hunt’ and the plotted resurrection of celebrity offenders came quick on the heels of the outcry over endemic sexual harassment and violence,” she wrote. “But we’re not supposed to hate them because . . . #NotAllMen. I love Michelle Obama as much as the next woman, but when they have gone low for all of human history, maybe it’s time for us to go all Thelma and Louise and Foxy Brown on their collective butts.”

Ms. Walters‘ op-ed has been met with backlash on social media, with some going so far as to characterize it as hate speech.

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2)The NFL

NFL History...history not often reported or leaked to the ticket holders.  I hope this helps you; it opened my eyes, to understand just when the public’s respect for the NFL organization started to crumble....

* In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his eye-black to avoid glare, and made him take it off.

* In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders.

* In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said "Know Jesus Know Peace" but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.

* In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing "Find the Cure" eye black for breast cancer awareness.

* In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (Not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem...).

*In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.

* 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression, all of a sudden... It seems quite clear based on these facts that the NFL has taken a position against any action by NFL players demonstrating RESPECT for any issue: For God, social causes such as mental health, cancer, domestic violence, for cops killed arbitrarily for being cops, for the Memory of 9/11...

BUT they will allow demonstrations of DISRESPECT for our National Flag, our National Anthem, for America , and for the American People, if it will help mollify a particular Group and its supporters. That is who and what the NFL now is shown itself to be.

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3)UN Assembly blames Israel for Gaza violence, but not Hamas

By Edith M. Lederer 

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly approved a Palestinian-backed resolution Wednesday blaming Israel for violence in Gaza and deploring its “excessive use of force,” after narrowly rejecting a U.S. demand to add a condemnation of attacks on Israel by Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

The votes reflected wide concern in the 193-member world body that the resolution sponsored by Arab and Islamic nations was one-sided and failed to even mention Hamas, which has fired over 100 rockets at Israel.

Since near-weekly mass protests began March 30 along the Israel-Gaze border, more than 120 Palestinians have been killed and over 3,800 wounded by Israeli army fire. The overwhelming majority of the dead and wounded have been unarmed, according to Gaza health officials.

Israel’s use of potentially lethal force against the protesters has drawn international criticism. Israel accuses Hamas of trying to carry out attacks and damage the border fence under the guise of the protests.

Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon told the assembly that Hamas is conducting “a violent assault on Israel” and aims to seize its main cities of Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. “We want to make sure that doesn’t happen,” he said.

For the Palestinians, the resolution’s key provision is a request to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days “on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation,” including on “an international protection mechanism.”

In the General Assembly, the confrontation over Gaza, reflecting decades-old divisions between Israel and the Palestinians, played out with a few new twists.

Algerian Ambassador Sabri Boukadoum, representing Arab nations, first sought to block a vote on the U.S. amendment, saying it wasn’t relevant to the resolution. He said it also undermined reconciliation efforts between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah as well as the “remote prospects” of reviving peace negotiations with Israel.

His motion to take “no action” on the amendment was defeated by a vote of 59-78 with 26 abstentions, allowing the U.S. amendment to be put to a vote.

The U.S. amendment was approved by a 62-58 vote, with 42 abstentions. But General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak declared that under an assembly rule, a two-thirds majority was needed so the amendment failed.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley appealed, citing another rule that says only a majority vote was required. After a short break, Lajcak put the U.S. appeal to a vote. The U.S. narrowly lost that vote 66-73 with 26 abstentions.

Finally, the assembly voted on the original Palestinian-backed resolution, approving it 120-8 with 45 abstentions.

Haley said in a statement afterward that “in the face of Hamas terrorists routinely inciting violence ... today the U.N. made the morally bankrupt judgment that the recent Gaza violence is all Israel’s fault.”

“But the common practice of turning a blind eye to the U.N.’s anti-Israel bias is changing,” she said. “Today, a plurality of 62 countries voted in favor of the U.S.-led effort to address Hamas’ responsibility for the disastrous conditions in Gaza.”

Israel’s ambassador accused “anti-Israel elements” of blocking condemnation of Hamas.

“This was a badge of shame for the U.N.,” Danon said. But “thanks to the combined efforts with our American friends and our allies from around the world, we proved today that the automatic majority against Israel in the U.N. is not destiny and can be changed.”

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour urged the assembly before the vote to address the escalating violence in Gaza and “the crisis” of protecting civilians. He called the U.S. amendment a “bad-faith attempt” to shift the focus away from “the core objective of protecting civilians and upholding international law.”

“We need action. We need protection for our civilian population. ... Is that a crime to ask for?” he said.

“We cannot remain silent in the face of the most violent crimes and human rights violations being systematically perpetrated against our people,” Mansour said.

The resolution deplores “any excessive use of force” by Israeli forces, particularly in Gaza, and demands that Israel “refrain from such actions.” It “deplores the firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip against Israeli civilian areas,” but doesn’t say who is doing the firing.

The Palestinians had initially sought a Security Council resolution after Israel’s military killed civilians during the mass protests in Gaza against the border blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt in 2007 after Hamas overran the territory. The U.S. vetoed that resolution June 1, with Haley calling it “grossly one-sided” for criticizing the use of force by Israel while not mentioning Hamas.

Arab and Islamic nations then decided to seek a vote on virtually the identical resolution at Wednesday’s emergency meeting of the General Assembly, where there are no vetoes.

They followed the same route they took in December after the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution calling on President Donald Trump to renounce his recognition of Israel as Jerusalem’s capital.

The General Assembly largely ignored Trump’s threats at the time to cut off aid to any country that went against the U.S. and voted 128-9 to denounce the president’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and declare it “null and void.”

While Security Council resolutions are legally binding, General Assembly resolutions are not, although assembly spokesman Brenden Varma stressed Wednesday that they do reflect “political will” as well as international opinion.

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