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Friday, December 15, 2023

Some Diversity News

    Call me a wacky-doodle, but a straight, honky colonizer like me would likely have been beaten into a coma, had a tiki torch shoved up my bahookie, and been fired for allowing such hatred on the campus of a formerly respectable school such as "Hah-vahd." But Gay is -- in the eyes of the pinkos -- quite successful at her job.

    Gay wasn't hired to uplift Harvard in any way. She got the gig because she is a black, female bolshie. And she kept the gig for the same reason.

    The board of Harvard unanimously voted to retain the university’s president Claudine Gay despite her public refusal to say that calls for genocide of Jewish students would contradict Harvard’s code of conduct — and subsequent allegations of past plagiarism.

    “Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing,” the Harvard Corporation announced in a statement on Tuesday.

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    “She assumed leadership with high expectations, but her tenure, which began this summer, has been mired in scandal,” Chris Rufo reported Monday in City Journal. “As dean and then as president, Gay has been accused of bullying colleagues, suppressing free speech, overseeing a racist admissions program, and, following the Hamas terror campaign against Israel, failing to stand up to rampant anti-Semitism on campus.” She landed the top job at Harvard despite having only authored 11 peer-reviewed articles, four of which have now come under allegations of plagiarism.

    Gay, however, is among one of the most protected classes according to the left’s hierarchy of victimhood. Firing not just a woman but a black woman would be blasphemous against the religion of identity politics.

    “A white male would probably already be gone,” observed Carol Swain, a retired professor from Vanderbilt and Princeton whose work was apparently plagiarized by Gay.

  • "Au Revoir, Harvard" by C. Bradley Thompson. Noting that when Gay was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard, and on the short list for President, she drafted a memo in support of BLM and its riots. Thompson relates:

    According to Gay, it is the primary responsibility of Harvard and all institutions of higher learning to combat “systemic racism” and “structural inequality.” More directly: Gay is promoting “racial justice” as Harvard’s primary purpose and “anti-racist action” as its modus operandi. Harvard is to be revolutionized and transformed from an institution of higher learning into an indoctrination center, the purpose of which is to promote an extremist, far-left-wing ideological agenda. Ironically, such ideals and actions are apparently needed—and desperately needed—at of one of America’s most liberal universities. What this means, of course, is that all protests and riots (or, at least, the right ones)—including the ones that took place in the United States in the summer of 2020 when our cities burned from BLM/Antifa riots—are legitimate to combat the greater evil.

    Gay’s memo (we can call it the Gay Agenda) is not only a blueprint but it’s also a call to action, the same kind of action that we’ve seen on college campuses since the October 7 genocide of Jews by Hamas (in the name of the Palestinian people). The memo set the institutional foundation and is an action plan for the recent protests at Harvard and other college campuses around the U.S. calling for the extermination of the Jewish people. The tropes and mentalité of the Gay Agenda should remind us all of Martin Heidegger’s “inner greatness” speech on the need to transform higher education in Nazi Germany.

    In Gay’s mentally dysmorphic worldview, only power and those who wield exist. She therefore reminds her colleagues that “Change is messy work” and that it will make many “uncomfortable.” This is code language, of course, for the notion that eggs must be broken to make the new equity omelette. The Gay Agenda sanctions the identification, objectification, and brutalization of the “oppressor” class (i.e., non-leftists) by those at America’s so-called Ivy League institutions who speak for the “oppressed” class. The end shall justify the means. Violence against the oppressor class is understandable if not simply just.

In modern times, at least, immigrants have generally been expected to respect, if not adopt, the culture into which they have moved. But many Muslims refuse to do this, and their insistence on remaking Europe in their own image is the reason for the conflicts that have convulsed Europe in recent years.

It's not just culture: they have a lower IQ, on average, than the French people. 

"The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was added during Senate debate [wherein] the authors discussed in great detail their purpose and intentions in adding the requirement that a person be born, not just in the United States, but “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Sen. Howard, sponsor and author of the Citizenship Clause, when questioned about the meaning of “jurisdiction,” responded that the phrase was intended to be read as meaning “not owing allegiance to anybody else.” Sen. Trumbull, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, described persons who “are not subject to our jurisdiction in the sense of owing allegiance solely to the United States.” Chairman Trumbull noted that even “partial allegiance if you please, to some other government” is sufficient to disqualify a person under the jurisdiction requirement."

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    In 1875, citizenship was defined by the Supreme Court in the famous women’s suffrage case of Minor v Happersett as membership in a political community, to which the citizen owes allegiance, and from which the citizen is owed protection. The Court further asserted that new citizens may be born or created by naturalization, and “that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

    But it was not until the 1960s, according to Dr. Eastman, that “popular perception” – not a constitutional mandate, sweeping court decision, or executive order – morphed into the “idea that mere birth on American soil alone ensured citizen status.” In the 1950s, children born in the U.S. to migrants in the Bracero work program were not considered U.S. citizens.

    Now, citizenship is perceived to be purely derived by geographical location at the moment of birth, so well-timed travel planning is crucial. For the foreign relatives desiring admission to the U.S., an “anchor baby” birth in the right spot is cause for celebration.

    Birth tourists plan ahead and arrive with legal travel visas. Some merely send their fertilized eggs to a surrogate. Other mothers illegally cross the southern border, hopefully before the due date. And none of the parents were likely eligible or went through the effort to make the U.S. their permanent domicile and to transfer their allegiance. 

    A friend of the victim told local media that 15 people had chased him before the attack. 

    At least two attackers are seen continuing to punch the victim after he was smashed into the ground. 

    Three other teen boys then approach the student and appear to try to help him but he remains unresponsive. 

    Oakland County, just north of Detroit’s Wayne County in the southeast corner of the state, has been the scene of high-profile home robberies by a suspected international crime organization that appears to be drawing members mainly from the South American country of Chile.

    What makes the group particularly dangerous is its practice of using jamming devices to incapacitate security systems and cellular phone communications in the target homes.

    Unlike a grill, fryer, or freezer, there are many more moving parts in an ice cream machine. They also have more arduous cleaning routines that involve removing a handful of parts. Cleaning a grill, by contrast, requires no parts to be removed, cleaned, and replaced. In an ice cream machine, the mixers and several pans must be removed and cleaned, and sanitizing solutions and water must be run through the system.

    When you order ice cream, you don’t want to hear “We’re out” or “It’s broken,” yet it has been happening so often across the United States in recent years that it became somewhat of a cultural meme that spawned considerable media interest. Reports indicate that up to a quarter of McDonald’s ice cream machines are not operational at any given time.

    Ice cream sales make up 3% of total McDonald’s sales (over $22 billion annually), amounting to about a quarter of a billion dollars a year. If the company is losing out on roughly 25% of that, we have a $56 million question on our hands every year.[1]

Houck explains why popular theories blaming the complexity of the machines or even accusing the manufacturer of deliberately designing the machines to break down are wrong. Rather, there is a demographic component. He details how he arrived at his conclusions, but the gist of it is this: "In non-white communities," Vice News found, "the machines are not functional in some places at a rate of double or more the national average, and at least three times the rate of white communities." Houck's conclusion, then, was:

    After traipsing through well over a dozen articles and a video on the subject, as well as my testimonial, my conclusions are as follows. The ice cream machines are rarely ever really broken — maybe once or twice a year. The demographics of the store’s ownership, management, and employees is a more telling indicator of whether or not the ice cream machine functions than any other data point. Commercial restaurant equipment is designed and built to be bulletproof. I’ve been in restaurants with near-ancient equipment that was still functioning well.

    Black and Latinx communities do not have higher levels of “broken” ice cream machines because the machines are racist. It’s because the staff in those restaurants are black and Latinx. The employees in such places are either too lazy, too uninterested, or too unintelligent to keep the ice cream machine up and running, which is truthfully a more complicated piece of equipment than anything else in the restaurant — perhaps a bit too complicated or too much work for the minds of diversity-Americans.

    One of my McDonald’s sources provided some more in-depth insights. He said that at his restaurant, only the manager knows how to clean the ice cream machine and is the only one who does it. If that is also true of the other restaurants, then if the manager is too lazy to clean the machine, it might not get done at all — leading to failure.

A lot more so read the whole thing. But he provides this warning:

    ... There will come a time when the people who cannot run the ice cream machine are running things of a much greater importance. What will society look like when the person who is today a McDonald’s Assistant Manager who can’t or won’t ensure that the fries are hot is tasked with staffing air control towers or repairing bridges and roads? What happens when the worker who decided it “wasn’t his job” to clean the ice cream machine feels the same way about inspecting the brakes on your car? What happens when you very much need something to be done correctly, but everybody at the department in charge of whatever you need are those people who could barely keep an ice cream machine running for a full day?

    How does that society look?

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