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Friday, February 26, 2021

Despicable Liz Cheney Must Explain Why She Thinks The GOP Is A White Supremacist Party

Cheney has defamed tens of millions of Republicans as white supremacists. I want to see her evidence.

Rep. Liz Cheney seems to think the Republican Party is the party of white supremacy. She is so convinced of this that she feels the GOP needs to make clear this is not the case. CNN and other progressive outlets could barely contain their joy. Here is how the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party down in Atlanta covered Cheney’s remarks: “In a speech on Tuesday in Washington, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said something remarkable.”

“It’s very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we aren’t the party of white supremacy,” she said at an event at the Reagan Institute. Of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney added: “You certainly saw antisemitism. You saw the symbols of Holocaust denial. … You saw a Confederate flag being carried through the rotunda. We, as Republicans in particular, have a duty and an obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection.”

It is important to understand that the mere fact that Cheney is spewing this nonsense is an obvious invitation to the left to conclude that the GOP is racist. Just the fact that she is raising the question, they say, is evidence that something deeply wrong is afoot. But in fact, Cheney’s claims are utterly baseless, and quite frankly, if she really believes the GOP is a racist party, the moral thing to do is to quit the party immediately.

But she’s not doing that because, of course, she does not really believe what she is saying. Were there racists who rioted at the Capitol in January? Yes. Was the riot immediately, roundly, and completely denounced by nearly every Republican in America within minutes? Also yes. Nobody is defending the racists at the Capitol riots. None are even so much as giving excuses as the left regularly does for antisemites like Louis Farrakhan.

If Cheney really believes that huge swaths of Republicans are white supremacists, she should provide evidence today. Right now in fact. Does she think the record number of Hispanic voters who pulled the lever for Trump are so stupid as to vote for white supremacy? It would seem so. How remarkably condescending.

Cheney’s words are the very definition of useful idiocy. She knows very well exactly how her comments will be used. She knows they will be used to smear her colleagues and any American who dares to speak out against the excesses of the left. She doesn’t care because she foolishly thinks...

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Two years after ‘eating while black’ incident debunked at Smith College, the nation learns the truth...

This week, the whole nation learned it, too, thanks — surprisingly — to an expansive new report in The New York Times that has gone viral.

In the summer of 2018, then-Smith College student Oumou Kanoute, a teaching assistant and RA, had claimed that while she ate lunch in the cafeteria, she was confronted by a campus security guard who demanded to know what she was doing there.

On social media, Kanoute, who is black, accused those involved in the incident of racism and being racist. It became known as the “eating while black” incident.

In reality, the investigative report found, Kanoute was relaxing in a Smith building closed to the campus community as it was hosting a kids summer camp.

An old janitor with poor sight who saw the room in use called campus security — as he had been advised to do if he saw anyone in the building as it was for young guests. The security guard who spoke with Kanoute was kind and polite the entire time, video shows.

Smith College costs Over $54,000 a year to attend.

But the damage from Kanoute’s false claims continue to have repercussions to this day, as the Times piece illustrates:

This is a tale of how race, class and power collided at the elite 145-year-old liberal arts college, where tuition, room and board top $78,000 a year and where the employees who keep the school running often come from working-class enclaves beyond the school’s elegant wrought iron gates. The story highlights the tensions between a student’s deeply felt sense of personal truth and facts that are at odds with it. …

The atmosphere at Smith is gaining attention nationally, in part because a recently resigned employee of the school, Jodi Shaw, has attracted a fervent YouTube following by decrying what she sees as the college’s insistence that its white employees, through anti-bias training, accept the theory of structural racism.

The Times piece notes how the university’s reaction to Kanoute’s false claims — it never apologized publicly to the falsely accused employees and enacted massive anti-racism and bias programs — created a tense and sometimes racially charged environment on campus.

It also details how the four employees trashed by Kanoute’s allegations have continued to suffer from them in various ways.

“We were gobsmacked — four people’s lives wrecked, two were employees of more than 35 years and no apology,” Tracey Putnam Culver, a Smith graduate who recently retired from the college’s facilities management department, told the Times. “How do you rationalize that?”

Kanoute’s attorney saw it differently, telling the Times: “It’s troubling that people are more offended by being called racist than by the actual racism in our society. Allegations of being racist, even getting direct mailers in their mailbox, is not on par with the consequences of actual racism.”

But Shaw sees it differently. She recently resigned from Smith College, alleging years of discriminations — because she is white.

“I can no longer continue to work in an environment where I am constantly subjected to additional scrutiny because of my skin color. I can no longer work in an environment where I am told, publicly, that my personal feelings of discomfort under such scrutiny are not legitimate but instead are a manifestation of white supremacy,” her...

One of the fastest-growing careers in America is that of diversity officer, according to data from LinkedIn.

From LinkedIn:

Protests sparked by the police-involved shootings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor caused organizations around the world to reckon with systemic racism and a lack of diversity in positions of power. Companies -- large and small -- turned to diversity experts who could help them bring new voices into their organizations. Hiring for these roles increased more than 90% since 2019.

Top job titles: Diversity Manager, Diversity Officer, Head of Diversity, Diversity Coordinator | Skills: Community Outreach, Teaching, Organizational Development | Top Locations Hiring: New York City, San Francisco, Chicago | Education: 99% of hires have a bachelor’s degree or higher | Salary Range: $72,900 - $97,000 | Remote job availability: Low

This is basically what the job consists of:

This is the type of "training" diversity officers provide:

Teaching Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) can be extremely lucrative.

Robert Sellers, the chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan, is paid $407,653 a year.

Jabbar Bennett, vice president/chief diversity and inclusion officer at Michigan State University, is paid around $300,000 a year and gets a $700 "monthly vehicle allowance."

Antonio Farias, chief diversity officer at the University of Florida, is paid around $280,000 a year.

Liz Tovar, executive officer for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Iowa, is paid...