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'Americans got tired of being ridiculed for values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility,' and now it's backlash time
The anti-DEI backlash is fierce, because so many people were forced to suppress their real feelings.
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 182 min read
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Snitching on your neighbor
"Bias reporting" urges people to turn their neighbors in for "wrongthink."
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 253 min read
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Is DEI doomed?
University DEI programs are losing popularity on campus and off.
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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Teach math! That's hate speech, Dad
Investigating threats against school officials didn't violate parents' freedom of speech, say courts.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Just say 'no' to authority
Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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If the government decides what's 'misinformation,' free speech is dead
Politicians who want to protect us from "misinformation" or "hate speech" want to end free speech.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 29, 20242 min read
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Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter
After a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. at a southern California elementary school, a seven -year-old white girl drew a picture with...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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Conservative students learn to argue in college -- liberals stay in their bubble
Conservative students sharpen their ideas and listen to alternative perspectives -- they learn -- on very liberal college campuses,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 11, 20243 min read
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'Learn to joke,' say teens who faked teacher TikToks with sex, pedophilia
Middle school is the worst. Kids hit puberty and turn deeply stupid for a few years before they learn to handle it. Even so, the seventh...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 7, 20242 min read
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Bobo: Don't talk about Harvard's faults, no, no, no
A Harvard dean wants to punish professors who criticize Harvard.
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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Yale wants science profs to 'promote DEI through teaching'
"Diversity" statements are out for job applicants at MIT: Would-professors won't have to pledge their loyalty to Diversity Equity and...
Joanne Jacobs
May 27, 20242 min read
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Teacher fired for misgendering gets $360K
School district pays $360K to Christian teacher fired for refusing to follow transgender policy on pronouns, restrooms.
Joanne Jacobs
May 17, 20241 min read
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Include Jews -- or dismantle DEI?
The proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act is "profoundly misguided,"argue Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. The bill would allow...
Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20241 min read
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Don't trust the speech police
Jews must defend free speech, including hate speech against Jews, argues an editorial in Tablet, a Jewish publication. Jews "have an...
Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20242 min read
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New university creates space for debate, but it's not 'safe'
The new University of Austin -- the first class of 100 undergrads starts in fall -- wants to be a "pluralistic community" for discussion,...
Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20242 min read
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Backlash: Professors reject DEI 'loyalty oaths'
Universities should stop requiring diversity statements, writes Randall L. Kennedy, a Harvard Law professor, in the Harvard Crimson....
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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Virtue signaling turns nasty at Stanford, silly at Vanderbilt
"Aggression and abuse" are now "an accepted part of campus activism," writes Theo Baker, a Stanford sophomore, in The Atlantic. When...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 28, 20242 min read
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Nude doors at Barnard
Barnard College's new policy banning posters, decorations, dry-erase boards -- anything -- on dormitory doors teaches a bad lesson,...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 3, 20242 min read
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Jewish students feel unwelcome, unsafe on campus
Jewish students at Berkeley had to be evacuated from a building to escape 200 demonstrators who'd shattered glass doors and broken into...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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