Category: Culture wars
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DEI by Any Other Name Is Just as Noxious
Did UVA eliminate DEI or merely rebrand it? by the Jefferson Council For over a decade, successive UVA administrations spent millions of dollars building one of the most extensive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracies in American higher education. A 2021 survey ranked UVA second among major universities in the number of DEI employees, and…
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On the Table: Deleting Christmas as a Student Holiday in Fairfax Schools
Students in Fairfax County are in the classroom five days a week for less than half the school year. Instead of eliminating the administrative throwaway days that have created this problem, district leaders asked families whether they could eliminate Christmas and other holidays instead. by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraRepublished with permission from IWFeatures This year, fewer than…
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School Abortion Claims Found Baseless
Following up on allegations made in a previous column in Bacon’s Rebellion, we bring an article in FFX Now to readers’ attention. A Senate committee and Virginia State Police have concluded their separate investigations into a Centreville High School teacher’s claims that school staff facilitated abortions without parental consent, Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid said…
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The Cultural Purge Continues
We can be grateful, I suppose, that this action won’t melt down the statues and recast them into disfigured artifacts for anti-colonialist museum exhibits.
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And in Other Gun-Related News…
The Daily Signal reports: On Wednesday, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced a firearms manufacturer will leave the state of Virginia over new “anti-gun legislation” and relocate to Georgia, bringing a $22 million investment and employing hundreds of residents. … “This relocation was not something we originally planned to pursue. The reality is that recent anti-gun legislation in…
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Busted: Loudoun Teacher Uses School Email to Shield Superintendent from Congress
Radical activist teacher comes to the rescue of Superintendent Aaron Spence. by Victoria Manning A Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) teacher who admits to political activism in her classroom and defying school board policies is now using school resources to lobby Congress. Jessica Berg is soliciting signatures from her colleagues and others in defense of controversial…
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Sometimes You Have to Create the Racism in Order to Defeat It
More details have emerged about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s funding the right-wing extremism it purported to fight. Here’s the updated account, contained in a superseding indictment filed by the Department of Justice, of SPLC Employee-3 who helped organize the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. — JAB The SPLC Secretly Paid F-37 More…
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Guess Why Norfolk Spent $57,000 to Renovate a Women’s Locker Room
The Norfolk Police Department added toilet and shower partitions in its women’s locker room after a trans-identified recruit ogled an undressed female officer. by Jordan JantzRepublished with permission from IWFeatures Instead of protecting female-only spaces, the Norfolk Police Department in Virginia has spent $57,424.95 to “provide toilet partitions, shower drying area partitions and related finish work…
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“Reinterred and Reinterpeted” Needs Revision
by Kamron M. Spivey A quick walk across Washington and Lee University’s campus — or a skim through recent museum publications — reveals a troubling pattern of factual inaccuracies, weak sourcing, and careless historical interpretation. These problems are not isolated mistakes. They raise legitimate concerns about the reliability of the university’s forthcoming chapel galleries and…
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Lies, Damned Lies, and VPAP: the Myth of Nonpartisan Institutions
There’s a reason why nonpartisan anything is the most partisan voice of all, because it always defends a status quo. — “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.” — Hannah Arendt by Shaun Kenney I’ll start with WTKR 6…
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Fairfax Prosecutor Torched in Capitol Hill Hearing
by Kerry Dougherty It’s time we talked about building a wall. A big, beautiful wall. No, not on the southern border. Around Fairfax County. If Fairfax voters are determined to elect and re-elect officials who coddle violent illegal aliens and shield them from deportation, let them live with the consequences. We don’t want their deportable…
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Coming Soon to a 2nd Grade Classroom Near You – Critical Whiteness
by James C. Sherlock Marx believed the economic system determines the nature of social, political, and intellectual life. The University of Virginia (Main Campus) School of Education and Human Development has established itself as a leader in Marxist thought in education. This author thinks that Virginians will learn from that school’s “Critical Whiteness Study…
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“Death to America”
The event was not registered as required by university policy. But Virginia Tech allowed it to proceed unimpeded at McBryde Hall, Room 202.
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Classrooms or Campaigns?
Virginia legislators have passed three bills this year to dilute and politicize history and civics instruction in public schools, accelerating the undeniable trend of indoctrination in the state’s public schools. by Stephanie Lundquist-AroraPublished originally in IWFeatures Last week, a Fairfax County mother said her twin 14-year-old sons were each encouraged by two public school civics teachers to urge their…
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Left-Wing Money Paid For Deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Hate Rally”
by Scott Dreyer On April 21, when many Virginians were focused on the gerrymander election, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) made a bombshell announcement: The innocuously-named Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which for decades has posted a “Hate Map” where they targeted many right-wing individuals and groups, often including those holding pro-life, biblical, and/or conservative views,…