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Just now, B-Man said:

Why College Is Never Coming Back. 

 

“It’s great for families, who’ll save money and take on less debt putting kids through school.

 

It’s great for kids, who’ll no longer be lured into the socialist indoctrination centers that many American campuses have become.”

 

 

 

If only there had been some sort of warning.

 
 
 
 

My son is going back for senior year of college.  Found out today his classes are all online.  We had already committed to an off campus apt at $600/month, but it sure would have been nice if they made a decision about distance-learning a month or so ago.  

 

I also read where the Excelsior scholarship may not be funded for the coming year.  This begs the question...child was gifted year one and two by the benevolent guardians of NYS virtue, lose it this year, child cannot afford to attend, loses interest and pursues another career.  At that point, they are $20k deep and owe the full boat as i understand it. 

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APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT? 

 

Fordham Demands Apology For Student’s Tiananmen Protest. 

 

“Fordham University administrators are demanding that rising senior Austin Tong submit an apology letter to the school by July 23 after he posted to Instagram a photo that shows him holding a firearm in honor of the Tiananmen Square protests, according to a disciplinary letter from the school.

 

Tong risks suspension or expulsion if he refuses to apologize.”

 

 

Austin Tong is refusing to back down after posting a photograph in which he criticized China’s Tiananmen Square massacre. Fordham’s insistence on a public apology here must mean they get a lot of money from the PRC or something. As I say, it’s easy to tell who’s on the payroll, or at least on the team.

 

Fordham University President Joseph McShane needs to be called to account for this bullying.

 
 
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2 hours ago, B-Man said:

THEY’RE UTTERLY IGNORANT OF HISTORY, BUT THEN AGAIN THEY GO TO DUKE: 

 

Saying policing is rooted in ‘slave patrols,’ Duke students demand all campus policing be abolished.

 

 

Student “demands” should be ignored, especially when they represent the views of a tiny fraction of students.

 

Which they pretty much always do.

 
 
 
 

Attention all rapists: Duke is wide open!

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FDNY official defends excluding famed 9/11 firefighter from procession for being white

 

A top FDNY official says it’s “most definitely” acceptable to exclude a white firefighter from a ceremonial unit based solely on his skin color, The Post has learned.

 

Cecilia Loving, the department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, is defending a decision to kick Lt. Daniel McWilliams — one of three firefighters in the iconic 9/11 Ground Zero flag-raising photo — off a color-guard procession so it would be all-black.

 

Loving testified at a state Divsion of Human Rights trial on McWilliam’s complaint that he was the victim of racial bias.

 

When McWilliams showed up at a 2017 memorial mass to honor deceased members of the Vulcan Society, a fraternal group of black FDNY firefighters, he was barred from holding a flag in the color guard.

 

Regina Wilson, then Vulcan Society president, asked McWilliams to “help in a different capacity” because he is not black.

 

Loving, who is black, testified there is nothing wrong with that.

 

“So, a request for an all-black color guard is not discriminatory?” McWilliam’s lawyer, Keith Sullivan, asked in the trial.

 

“No, it isn’t,” Loving replied.

 

Asked if it’s acceptable to request an all-black color guard, she said, “Most definitely.”

 

Loving said it’s okay to replace a white member with an African-American to “uplift our identities and our separate ethnicities in order to instill a sense of pride and community and support for one another.”

 

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

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What happened to an America where you could freely speak your mind?

by John Kass

 

Original Article

 

The angry left-handed broom of America’s cultural revolution uses fear to sweep through the our civic, corporate and personal life.

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Last week, with violence spiking around the country, I wrote a column on the growing sense of lawlessness in America’s urban areas. In response, the Tribune newspaper union, the Chicago Tribune Guild, which I have repeatedly and politely declined to join, wrote an open letter to management defaming me, by falsely accusing me of religious bigotry and fomenting conspiracy theories. Newspaper management has decided not to engage publicly with the union. So I will. For right now, let’s deal with facts.

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Individuals with a cervix....................?

 

 

 

 

What if they only self-identify as having a cervix, and you are a cis-gendered patriarchal tyrant if you question their assertions?

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DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE K-12 IMPLOSION AND THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: 

 

Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Eliminate History Classes.

 

“Leaders in education, politics and other areas gathered in suburban Evanston Sunday to ask that the Illinois State Board of Education eliminate history classes at schools statewide.”

 

 

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GOOD: Black conservative documentary ‘Uncle Tom’ reaping raves on major film sites — and profits. 

 

“Mainstream movie critics have mostly avoided ‘Uncle Tom,’ but social media users are raving about the indie film project.

 

The film’s ‘fresh’ rating from RottenTomatoes.com hovers at 97% from site users, while visitors to IMDB.com give the film an average of 9.5 out of 10 from nearly 2,400 reviews.”

 
 
 
 
 
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A prominent psychiatric journal has issued a correction about transgenderism, and the news is sure to snag lightning.

Last October, the American Journal of Psychiatry published “Reduction in Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Transgender Individuals After Gender-Affirming Surgeries: A Total Population Study.”

 

The investigation — conducted by Dr. Richard Branstrom and Dr. John E. Pachankis — assessed the impact of gender-related cosmetic surgery on the mental health of those who identify as the opposite sex.

 

{snip}

 

But now there’s a problem: As reported by The Daily Caller, an early-August correction states that the study’s conclusion — based on data from Sweden — was “too strong.”

Too strong, as in not right at all.

As per the correction, the authors were contacted with questions about their methods, which resulted in a re-examination:

Upon request, the authors reanalyzed the data to compare outcomes between individuals diagnosed with gender incongruence who had received gender-affirming surgical treatments and those diagnosed with gender incongruence who had not.

Wouldn’t that have been the whole point of the study to begin with?

Nope:

While this comparison was performed retrospectively and was not part of the original research question given that several other factors may differ between the groups, the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery…

So at first, they said, “Yes, it helps.” And now: “Doesn’t help.”

 

That’s quite the correction.

 

As it turns out, the subjects experienced no difference “in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts in that comparison.”

 

Don’t stand too close to the new article, folks. The lightning’s on its way.

 

https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2020/08/05/american-journal-psychiatry-gender-reassignment-study-wrong-impact-paywall/

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WELL, THAT OUGHT TO FINISH OFF HER CAREER: 

 

Ellen DeGeneres Fat-Shamed An 11-Year-Old Boy In The ’70s: Report.

 

Seriously though, if careers are cancelled because a standup comedian was rude to someone in the 1970s,

best to stock up now on physical copies of Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Cheech & Chong, and George Carlin’s CDs.

 
 
 
 
 
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40 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

I FELT A GRAVE DISTURBANCE IN THE NARRATIVE: 

 

Transgender Surgery Does Not Improve Mental Health, Academics Belatedly Admit.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is amazing about this "revelation" is that this was known 20 years ago when I was I college but somehow the new info changed the results. The physically changing your body part does not change how other see you, and if you get validation from others you will never be happy 

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