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Monday, February 8, 2021

Tom Brady Called “Racist” For Winning Super Bowl During Black History Month

Yes, really.

Innumerable people took to social media to complain that NFL star Tom Brady winning the Super Bowl during Black History Month was “racist.”

No, this is not the Onion.

Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to victory over the Kansas City Chiefs to claim a personal 7th Super Bowl win, prompting outrage due to the perception that Brady once supported President Trump and the Chiefs’ quarter-back being black.

Many Black Lives Matter supporters scolded Brady for having the temerity to win, suggesting he was “racist” for doing so.

Related: USA Today Op-Ed Denounces Tom Brady For Being White

As we previously highlighted, leftists were also big mad about Brady not...

How ‘Socio-Emotional Learning’ Became Another Vehicle For Anti-White Racism In Schools

A learning focus popular in public schools has been converted into a vehicle for teaching critical race theory to elevate favored students based primarily on race.

Parents normally send their children to school (or park them at the computer for pretend school) to learn academic disciplines, including English, math, science, and history. But in most public and some private schools, more and more time is being redirected from academic instruction to “social-emotional learning” (SEL)—the cultivation not of knowledge but of the “correct” attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and behaviors.

If this weren’t worrisome enough to parents who thought that is their job, SEL proponents such as the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) are now brazenly trumpeting an even more troubling aspect of SEL: the opportunity to turn impressionable students into leftist activists.

To some extent, socio-emotional learning has always been a vehicle for introducing leftist propaganda in the classroom. CASEL counts among its funding partners the NoVo Foundation, which is “dedicated to . . . moving [society] from a culture of domination to one of equality and partnership.” NoVo focuses especially on abortion rights, LGBT interests, and left-wing economics.

Other SEL enthusiast groups include the Arcus Foundation, which is all about LGBT, especially T (transgender). The Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility offers resources for using SEL to develop leftist attitudes about topics such as climate change. These are the types of outfits churning out SEL curricula to shape children’s opinions and behaviors.

Until now, CASEL downplayed the leftist slant of socio-emotional learning, presenting schools and parents instead with a sanitized picture of teaching children compassion and responsibility. But in the era of Black Lives Matter, the mask is off.

In December the president and CEO of CASEL, Karen Niemi, announced that CASEL has revised its definition of and framework for “socio-emotional learning” to highlight the value of SEL as a weapon for social justice. Woke-speak pervades the new direction. In contrast to the previous fairly anodyne definition of SEL, the new one emphasizes student “identities” and “marginalization,” “equity,” “just communities,” and the “collective” rather than the individual.

Consider the focus on equity. “SEL advances educational equity,” the new definition emphasizes, and “can help address various forms of inequity.” To understand what’s wrong with this, you must understand the difference between equity and equality.

Equality was considered a good thing until recently, but now believing in equality proves you’re a racist. Equality means treating people the same; equity, by contrast, means treating some people better than others depending on the level of oppression they can claim for themselves or their ancestors or unrelated people with the same skin color or...

ViacomCBS Drops Nick Cannon After Anti-White, Anti-Semitic Tirade

Cannon Hinnant, RIP: 5-Year-Old Boy 'Executed Point Blank' by Criminal Thug While Playing Outside

I want to raise every voice

At least I've got to try

Every time I think about it

Water rises to my eyes

Situation desperate

Echoes of the victims' cry

If I had a rocket launcher

Some son of a bitch would die

Insurrection? Antifa Mob Threatens to 'Burn Down' Washington, D.C.

On Saturday, a Black Lives Matter march through the streets of Washington, D.C., involved protesters dressed in antifa black bloc and threatening to burn down the nation’s capital if their demands were not met.

“If we don’t get it, burn it down!” the mob chanted, seemingly referring to $2,000 individual checks in the COVID-19 relief bill Democrats are spearheading in Congress.

Protesters gathered at 2 p.m. for a “DC Queer and Trans Black History Month March and Rally” organized by the Total Liberation Collective and the Palm Collective.

In the evening, Black Lives Matter protesters marched north from Dupont Circle, Fox News reported.

Brendan Gutenschwager captured footage of antifa black bloc marchers carrying a red and black “Antifascist Action” flag.

The marchers disturbed the peace of outdoor diners, but police protected the civilians.

After mostly pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol last month, Democrats rushed to impeach outgoing President Donald Trump for supposedly “inciting” an “insurrection.” Yet most Democrats looked the other way or even egged on Black Lives Matter protests that devolved into deadly riots last summer. Those riots destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments in the name of...

I heard about you and that man

There's just one thing I don't understand

You say he's a liar

And he put out your fire

How come you still got his gun in your hand?

Victim of love, I see your broken heart

You got your stories to tell

Victim of love, it's such an easy part

And you know how to play it so well

Biden quietly nixes Trump-era rule combating Chinese Communist-funded 'propaganda' centers

President Donald Trump tried to enact a policy that would put pressure on American universities to reveal cooperation with China’s Confucius Institute.

On January 26, President Biden quietly nixed the policy.

A spokesperson for ICE confirmed to Campus Reform that the policy was rescinded.

The Trump administration attempted to enact a policy that would force American universities to reveal cooperation with chapters of the Confucius Institute. President Joe Biden quietly revoked the policy a few days after his inauguration.

Axios reported that in the final days of his presidency, Trump enacted a policy that would compel primary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions to disclose all contracts and transactions with the Confucius Institute. Under the policy, schools that do not report information would lose certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

Records from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs revealed that Biden nixed the policy on January 26. A spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to Campus Reform that the policy was rescinded.

Seth Cropsey — director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute — told Campus Reform that the policy could be part of the Biden administration recalibrating on Sino-American relations. However, he said hopes that the new administration is not trying to “placate China.”

He expressed hope that the Biden administration is not trying to “make overtures... that make it sound as though the United States is unaware or uninterested in their military buildup, their aggression against neighbors, their militarization of the South China Sea, and their successful efforts to steal intellectual property.”

In terms of Confucius Institutes, Cropsey remarked that it is “not normal practice, and for good reason — namely, academic independence and freedom — to allow an outside organization... to say nothing of a country that is a strategic competitor to the United States, to be able to choose professors in...

An overwhelming majority of Trump voters are concerned about anti-White discrimination, according to a new AEI/YouGov poll.

The poll of 1,000 Trump voters, which was taken between Jan 11-14, found that 87 percent of respondents agreed with the statement, "I worry that discrimination against Whites will increase a lot in the next few years."

The poll also found 80 percent of Trump voters rejected the notion that "White people have an advantage in today's America because of their skin color."

89 percent agreed that "Christianity is under attack in America today," 87 percent agreed Christianity is an "essential part of American greatness" and 77 percent said that they don't feel free to express their political opinions in public.

68 percent of Trump voters rejected the notion that there is "systemic racism" in America and 91 percent said ethnic minorities "have a mostly fair chance to succeed in today's America."