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‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe ‘really sad’ over JK Rowling’s stand against trans agenda

By: Gabriel Hays — May 1st 2024 at 12:27
"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe recently told The Atlantic it's "really sad" that author J.K. Rowling has views critical of the transgender movement.

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NYU Prof.: DEI Eating Itself on Campus, Becoming 'Evil', Campus Antisemitism Most Un-American Act Since Segregation

By: Ian Hanchett · Ian Hanchett — May 1st 2024 at 03:57

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business Scott Galloway stated that the antisemitism on campus is “the most anti-American activity I have seen since they tried to hold that girl out of school

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People Smugglers Using Children as Human Shields Against French Police, Says UK Border Force

By: Kurt Zindulka · Kurt Zindulka — April 30th 2024 at 03:14

Violence from people-smuggling gangs and illegal migrants along the French coastline is escalating, a British Border Force official warned.

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How Biden's new Title IX regulations eviscerate the definition of sex

By: Patrick Morrisey · Riley Gaines — April 29th 2024 at 04:00
Biden's dangerous new Title IX regulations destroy the definition of sex and wreck the opportunities girls and women receive by participating in athletic competition.

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'Homeland' actor argues for White actors playing Black roles: 'Name of the game is acting'

By: Gabriel Hays — April 23rd 2024 at 11:05
Actor David Harewood, who once starred in an all-Black version of "Romeo & Juliet," claimed that actors of any identity should be able to play roles of any identity.

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UK Finally Passes Rwanda Migrant Removal Bill, But No Guarantee Illegal Migrants Will Actually Be Removed

By: Kurt Zindulka · Kurt Zindulka — April 23rd 2024 at 04:00

The bill would theoretically see illegal migrants removed from Britain to Rwanda, however, getting illegals on flights is not a certainty.

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Nolte: David Mamet Ridicules ‘Garbage’ DEI as ‘Fascist Totalitarianism’

By: John Nolte · John Nolte — April 22nd 2024 at 18:01

Davis Mamet, the man who wrote The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Spanish Prisoner, The Edge, Wag the Dog, Ronin, and Heist, can’t get work.

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Planet Fitness Incoming CEO Forced Workers into 'Unconscious Bias Training' at Former Company

By: Amy Furr · Amy Furr — April 22nd 2024 at 17:36

Planet Fitness's incoming boss Colleen Keating also reportedly backed "hiring through a DEI lens" in her former position.

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Black 'Doctor Who' condemns celebration of 'White mediocrity' while 'we have to be absolutely flawless'

By: Alexander Hall — April 20th 2024 at 11:09
Rising LGBTQ actor Ncuti Gatwa spoke out on a variety of identity-based issues from transgender ideology to race in a recent interview with Attitude magazine.

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Lawsuit Claims Al Roker ‘Circumvented' DEI Quotas on PBS Kids Show 'Weather Hunters,' Fired Producer for Objecting

By: David Ng · David Ng — April 19th 2024 at 07:04

Al Roker and his production company have been sued by a producer who alleges he was fired after objecting to the company's failure to implement diversity initiatives for an upcoming PBS animated show.

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Dershowitz: Columbia Hasn't Addressed DEI, Which Causes Antisemitism and Will 'Destroy' Every School

By: Ian Hanchett · Ian Hanchett — April 18th 2024 at 19:21

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz stated that Columbia University President Nemat Shafik should get some credit for her handling of antisemitism on campus, but “she hasn’t dealt with the problem.

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The true story of Nex Benedict's tragic death is nothing like the media’s nightmare spin

By: Ryan Walters — April 18th 2024 at 04:00
The tragic death of nonbinary teen Nex Benedict's has been manipulated by the media to depict her as a martyr. Even the medical examiner's report hasn't placated activists.

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'Go DEI': MSNBC's Reid Calls Black People Prosecuting Trump 'Wonderfully Poetic'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key — April 15th 2024 at 19:36

MSNBC host Joy Reid said Monday on her network's coverage of former President Donald Trump's trial that it was "wonderfully poetic" the prosecutors in several of the cases against former President Donald Trump are black.

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Oscars Double Down on DEI: Alters Long-Standing Humanitarian Award to Include 'Rectifying Inequities'

By: David Ng · David Ng — April 14th 2024 at 05:41

The Academy Awards is doubling down on its embrace of woke social justice activism and DEI. The latest change: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award -- a staple of the Oscars since the 1950s -- will now focus, at least in part, on equity.

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Pompeo warns diversity chief who espoused anti-American 'Marxist dogma' will 'destroy the State Department'

By: Hannah Grossman — April 13th 2024 at 04:00
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the hiring of DEI chief Zakiya Carr Johnson will 'destroy the State Department' and make America 'less safe.'

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Dr. Phil shuts down DEI guest advocating 'equality of outcome:' 'Been tried, didn't work, called Marxism'

By: Alexander Hall — April 12th 2024 at 18:39
On his new show, Dr. Phil pushed back against HR expert and DEI advocate Rachel Kargas when she argued in favor of DEI policy pushing for equality of outcome.

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Biden Campaign on the Hunt for a DEI Director

By: Hannah Knudsen · Hannah Knudsen — April 12th 2024 at 15:52

The Biden campaign is on the hunt for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) director, according to a recent job listing.

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Critics warn schools are skirting Texas DEI ban after university shuffles DEI officials to other departments

By: Andrew Miller — April 12th 2024 at 03:00
Conservatives in Texas are warning universities may be trying to skirt a new law banning DEI at public universities by reshuffling DEI officials to other departments.

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State Department spox says there are 'different ways to love America' in defense of new DEI hire

By: Hannah Grossman — April 11th 2024 at 19:00
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said there are "different ways to love America" while being asked about new DEI hire Zakiya Carr Johnson.

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House Republicans move to terminate 'rotten' DEI programs in federal government

By: Elizabeth Elkind — April 11th 2024 at 11:20
Rep. Mark Alford is leading a group of Republicans in demanding the federal government defund its DEI programs.

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State Department mandates support for DEI ideology as prerequisite for promotions: 'You are judged'

By: Hannah Grossman — April 11th 2024 at 04:00
The State Department created a diversity, equity and inclusion litmus test for employees to be considered for promotion at the agency following a Biden executive order.

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Romney Allies Push Establishment's Wilson and Curtis in Utah Senate Primary

By: Nick Gilbertson · Nick Gilbertson — April 10th 2024 at 16:57

Outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) allies are flocking to two establishment candidates he admittedly would welcome winning Utah’s Republican Senate primary: State House Speaker Brad Wilson (R-UT) and U.S. Rep. John Curtis (R-UT).

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State Dept stands by DEI chief who bemoaned White feminism, called America a 'failed historic model'

By: Hannah Grossman — April 10th 2024 at 17:00
State Department responds to controversy surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion chief Zakiya Carr Johnson's controversial comments on feminism, race and America.

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NPR's 'obsession' with DEI, diversity 'tracking system' scrutinized following veteran editor's bombshell essay

By: Joseph Wulfsohn — April 10th 2024 at 05:30
Critics are taking aim at NPR after its editor Uri Berliner put a spotlight on the news outlet's "obsession" with diversity in a stunning essay that went viral.

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Texas college students blast school for complying with law to remove DEI: ‘Political conformity’

By: Joshua Nelson — April 9th 2024 at 04:00
University of Texas at Austin students sent statements to Fox News Digital blasting their school for complying with the law to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion offices.

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ABC sitcom star warns of White backlash against minorities following 2024 election: ‘Have us in camps’

By: Gabriel Hays — April 6th 2024 at 09:19
ABC's "Black-ish" star Jenifer Lewis unleashed on "White people" and former President Trump during a recent XM radio show, noting that they are looking to put minorities in camps.

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Dr. Phil rips corporate push for 'equality of outcome:' 'This country was built on hard work'

By: Nikolas Lanum — April 5th 2024 at 17:00
Television icon Dr. Phil criticized the political and corporate push for "equality of outcome" during an appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

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Radio host Charlamagne tha God rips DEI efforts in workplace: 'Mostly garbage'

By: Kristine Parks — April 4th 2024 at 20:00
Popular radio host Charlamagne tha God ripped DEI efforts in the corporate world saying they've made workplaces worse for Black people because of backlash.

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Boston hospital to scale back on child abuse and neglect reports that can perpetuate 'structural racism'

By: Hannah Grossman — April 4th 2024 at 16:27
Mass General Brigham announced it would its update policies on automatically flagging child abuse and neglect reports in cases of mothers testing positive for drugs.

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Watch: Charlamagne Tha God Slams DEI as 'Mostly Garbage' and 'Corporate PR'

By: David Ng · David Ng — April 4th 2024 at 15:25

"The Breakfast Club's" Charlamagne Tha God has devoted an extended segment on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to bashing DEI, calling it "mostly garbage" and "corporate PR."

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UCLA medical school's 'structural racism' class featured 'quite disturbing' prayer to pagan god: Witness

By: Hannah Grossman — April 4th 2024 at 04:00
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA come under fire after hosting a speaker who performed 'non-secular' prayer service to a pagan god during class.

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Raven Symoné defends telling Oprah in 2014 she's not African American: Label 'doesn't align with me'

By: Gabriel Hays — April 3rd 2024 at 15:25
Former Disney child star Raven Symoné recently defended the viral comments on race she made during a 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

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Tennessee educator named Teacher of the Year for creating curriculum that helps diverse students thrive

— April 3rd 2024 at 10:44
A 2nd grade teacher in rural Tennessee has been named the 2024 National Teacher of the Year. Missy Testerman received the award for her diverse curriculum.

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Alleged Financial Benefits of Diversity Vanish Under Scrutiny, Study Shows

By: Sean Moran · Sean Moran — April 2nd 2024 at 15:40

The road to riches may not be paved with diversity, equity, and inclusion after all.

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Texas university clears DEI offices, fires employees in light of new state law: report

By: Joshua Nelson — April 2nd 2024 at 20:09
The University of Texas at Austin reportedly fired 60 employees who worked in their diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, in compliance with state law.

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Seattle public schools replacing gifted students program to be more 'inclusive,' citing diversity concerns

By: Kristine Parks — April 2nd 2024 at 20:00
Seattle Public Schools is doing away with its programs and schools for gifted students and replacing it with a more "inclusive" model, citing diversity concerns.

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Harvard Law professor urges university to 'abandon' DEI statements: 'Ideological pledges of allegiance'

By: Nikolas Lanum — April 2nd 2024 at 18:00
Harvard Law School Professor Randall L. Kennedy said the university must get rid of mandatory DEI statements, which he claimed challenge academic freedom.

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Blinken appoints new chief diversity and inclusion officer to build 'workforce that reflects America'

By: Kyle Morris — April 2nd 2024 at 13:00
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday that Zakiya Carr Johnson will serve as the State Department's next chief diversity and inclusion officer.

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Biden could permanently bench female athletes

By: Robert Eitel — April 2nd 2024 at 04:00
Don’t believe the spin that its proposed Title IX regulations won’t harm athletics for women and girls. Biden's new rules could permanently cripple sports for female athletes.

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'This Is Abuse': Latino Radio Host Slams Joe Biden on Easter Transgenderism

By: Neil Munro · Neil Munro — April 1st 2024 at 16:44

President Joe Biden's religious-themed celebration of transgenderism during Easter weekend may further damage his tepid support among the many American voters who are Hispanic and Christian.

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Are All DEI Officers Bigots?

By: John Hinderaker — March 10th 2024 at 21:31
(John Hinderaker)

I think the answer to that question is Yes. In reality, the whole point of DEI is bigotry, so the fact that its exponents keep getting outed as haters is not at all coincidental. The latest case comes from Johns Hopkins, where the Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine has resigned following a hateful outburst:

The Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine resigned on Tuesday after criticism stemming from her distribution of a list of groups she believes have “privilege.”

As Campus Reform reported, Dr. Sherita Golden sent the list of groups in a January email sent to staff members, which defined “privilege” as “a set of unearned benefits given to people who are in a specific social group.”

Of course she wasn’t referring to welfare recipients, public employees or beneficiaries of political influence like “greens” or DEI officers.

Golden went on to name nine groups in the country that have been “granted” privilege “at the expense of members of other groups.”

According to Golden, these “privileged” groups are: “White people,” “Able-bodied people,” “Heterosexuals,” “Cisgender people,” “Males,” “Christians,” “Middle or owning class people,” “Middle-aged people,” and “English-speaking people.”

Doesn’t that cover almost everyone in the United States? The only “non-privileged,” apparently, are crippled, gay, female, Muslim illegal immigrants below the age of 40 who just arrived and haven’t yet learned English. That is a niche constituency, to say the least. It includes maybe three people.

“Privilege is characteristically invisible to people who have it. People in dominant groups often believe they have earned the privileges they enjoy or that everyone could have access to these privileges if only they worked to earn them. In fact, privileges are unearned and are granted to people in the dominant groups whether they want those privileges or not, and regardless of their stated intent,” she claimed.

The privilege fairy just hands them out. Work is superfluous.

Golden resigned as Chief Diversity Officer on Tuesday, but remains on the faculty at Johns Hopkins. After her email caused controversy, she apologized:

The “privilege” list was retracted shortly after it was sent out, and Golden said she “deeply” regretted her definition of privilege, adding it “did not meet [the] goal” to “inform and support an inclusive community at Hopkins. . . . In fact, because it was overly simplistic and poorly worded, it had the opposite effect of being exclusionary and hurtful to members of our community.”

Her email wasn’t “poorly worded,” but it certainly was “exclusionary.” Actually, it set out the DEI ideology very clearly, and exclusion of politically disfavored people is the whole point of DEI. But sometimes people notice, and a liberal needs to be sacrificed. So our condolences go out to Sherita Golden: she said what the Democratic Party believes, not poorly but too well.

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DEI Destroys CHIPS

By: John Hinderaker — March 10th 2024 at 16:11
(John Hinderaker)

DEI (racial and other quotas) is intrinsically evil. At The Hill, Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson reveal a shocking, practical downside to DEI hysteria: “DEI killed the CHIPS Act.”

The issue is critical because Taiwan now produces 90% of the world’s advanced microchips, and China has indicated its intention to annex Taiwan in the near future. So the CHIPS Act sought to incentivize chip production in the U.S. Unfortunately, that isn’t what is happening.

Handouts abound. There’s plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as “justice-involved individuals,” more commonly known as ex-cons. There’s plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. …
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Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity’s most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as [the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company] discovered to its dismay.

Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren’t skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.

Now TSMC has revealed plans to build a second fab in Japan. Its first, which broke ground in 2021, is about to begin production. TSMC has learned that when the Japanese promise money, they actually give it, and they allow it to use competent workers. TSMC is also sampling Germany’s chip subsidies, as is Intel.

It isn’t only TSMC that is being stymied by DEI:

Intel is also building fabs in Poland and Israel, which means it would rather risk Russian aggression and Hamas rockets over dealing with America’s DEI regime. Samsung is pivoting toward making its South Korean homeland the semiconductor superpower after Taiwan falls.

In short, the world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns in the CHIPS Act’s political games. They’ve quietly given up on America. …

[C]hipmakers have to make sure they hire plenty of female construction workers, even though less than 10 percent of U.S. construction workers are women. They also have to ensure childcare for the female construction workers and engineers who don’t exist yet. They have to remove degree requirements and set “diverse hiring slate policies,” which sounds like code for quotas. They must create plans to do all this with “close and ongoing coordination with on-the-ground stakeholders.”

No wonder Intel politely postponed its Columbus fab and started planning one in Ireland.

Access to microchips is a national security issue, as well as being fundamental to a modern economy. And yet Congressional majorities care more about DEI shibboleths and feeding pork to their constituencies than about American security and prosperity. Of course, that isn’t really an irony. The whole point of DEI is hating America, and if it imperils our security and our prosperity, so much the better.

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Death to DEI

By: Steven Hayward — March 1st 2024 at 22:30
(Steven Hayward)

Bryan Caplan, professor of economics in George Mason University’s excellent economics department, has a long article out today with the James Martin Center about the attempt to impose a mandatory “Just Societies” course for all students at George Mason starting next fall, and the course is a total ideological DEI wokefest. He also has a separate Substack article that goes into lengthy detail.

Partly because Caplan blew the whistle on this Orwellian outrage, the course requirement is on hold for the moment, pending “review” by the administration. And naturally the DEI campus Stasi is threatening to “review” Prof. Caplan for this offense.

One passage from his Martin Center article deserves special highlight:

This is quixotic, I know, but let me try to break through the woke academic echo chamber with some harsh truths. If you promote DEI for a living, the reality is that normal, apolitical people see you as a racist, sexist, censorious fanatic. They don’t say so publicly … because they are afraid of you. They don’t tell you privately … because they are afraid of you. But when they’re speaking to people they trust, they vehemently disagree with you—and yearn to see you all fired.

Well, it appears that the University of Florida has figured this out. Today the University (where Ben Sasse is now president) summarily closed down the entire DEI apparatus, and is summarily dismissing, rather than “reassigning” DEI staff to other offices. It has also canceled all outside contracts for DEI consultants. It will save $5 million right away, which Sasse says will be diverted to new faculty recruitment.

Here’s the note that went out:

More of this please. Burn them all down.

Related: Harvard announced today that it is appointing . . . a white male as interim provost. I didn’t think that was allowed any more at Harvard. But not just a white male, but a somewhat conservative white male—John Manning of Harvard Law School. Manning clerked for both Robert Bork on the DC Circuit and Nino Scalia at the Supreme Court. How he snuck onto Harvard Law’s faculty is something to ponder.

Harvard must really be badly rattled if it is willing to violate current progressive dogma and appoint a white male to such a senior position.

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Sweden Seeing the Reality of “Diversity”

By: Steven Hayward — February 25th 2024 at 11:13
(Steven Hayward)

This morning I stumbled across a Tweet linking to an Australian “60 Minutes” segment about the unassimilable migrants that are causing the crime rate and other social dysfunctions to soar in Sweden. Turns out the episode is seven years old, but since we don’t see Australia’s “60 Minutes” here (and our CBS “60 Minutes” won’t touch this subject with a ten meter pole), I doubt little has changed in the last seven years, so here’s the complete seven minute segment—watch to the very end:

I still contend that sooner or later, European nations are going to institute mass deportations of migrants. (If it wants to survive, anyway. It may not have the will to do so any more.) Germany has already said it is going to step up deportation proceedings against recent migrants whose asylum claims are unfounded, but look for other countries to ratchet up from there.

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