Tag: James A. Bacon
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Free Speech and Advocacy of Genocide
๏ปฟ by James A. Bacon Chanting “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea,” hundreds of pro-Palestinian students held a protest on the Lawn at the University of Virginia yesterday. As reported by The Washington Free-Beacon, they demanded the Biden administration defund aid to Israel. The event was part of a national “walkout”…
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“Hate” Speech Does Not Make Students “Unsafe”
by James A. Bacon There is a widespread notion among militant leftists at the University of Virginia, as there is in universities across the Commonwealth, that exposure to objectionable ideas causes “harm” to those who hear them and, thus, should be suppressed. This logic is a totalitarian wolf in sheep’s clothing. While I do not…
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Transgender Issues — Whose “Centerpiece,” Youngkin’s or the Post’s?
by James A. Bacon The latest Washington Post spin on its recent public-opinion poll about transgender issues in Virginia schools is a window into the unconscious biases of WaPo reporters and editors. Here’s the lead (my emphasis): Education is an important factor for many Virginia voters this fall, but transgender issues, one of Republican Gov.…
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The Incomplete Case for Higher Tuition at UVa
by James A. Bacon As the Board of Visitors ponders how much to raise tuition & fees in the next two academic years, the University of Virginia is grappling with strong inflationary pressures and a long-term shortfall in state aid, senior university administrators said Wednesday. Even so, administrators told the Board’s Finance Committee, UVa offers…
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Quote of the Day: Abigail Spanberger
โFor me there is no equivalence between armed, individual militants going into a home, shooting parents in front of their children, killing children, lighting babies on fire, burning down entire kibbutz and military action going after military targets, terrorist perpetrators of a horrible massacre. Those are different things.โ So said Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger in an…
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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up…
Hmmm…. Gendered negotiation of urban spaces among transgender persons in Pakistan: dismantling the colonial binary. Sounds interesting. Actually, I’d be more interested in gendered negotiation of rural spaces among transgender persons in Pakistan…. as in, rural spaces controlled by the Taliban. I’d also like to know more about dismantling the pre-colonial binary. You know, the…
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“Seeking a Better World” by Defending the Beheaders of Babies
by James A. Bacon A week ago the Students for Justice in Palestine at UVA created a furor by publishing a statement defending Hamas’ attack on Israel. “Yesterday’s rebellion was not ‘unprovoked,’ as many have claimed, but is the consequence of years of mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and oppression from Israel,” the group wrote. “The…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of UVa’s Transgender Movement
by James A. Bacon I learned a lot about transgender activists and advocates at the Abigail Shrier event at the University of Virginia last night. Some are bitter, angry people who hurl non-stop invective. Some are close-minded but willing to engage in rational conversation. But at least one is courteous, friendly and willing to engage…
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Be Careful What You Ask For, You Just Might Get It
by James A. Bacon Welcome to the new normal. In 2020 the General Assembly enacted a law giving local school districts the right to engage in collective bargaining. Our friends at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy warned that much mischief would ensue, an assessment I shared. On November 2022 the Prince William County…
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Transgender Man Sues LGBT Life Center
by James A. Bacon A transgender man has filed a lawsuit against the LGBT Life Center in Virginia Beach, which provides health, housing, and other social services to the LBGQT community, on the grounds that it maintained a toxic work environment. Alexia Kaelber, reports The Virginian-Pilot, had “dreams of helping the marginalized community and uplifting…
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University Boards’ Primary Duty is to the Commonwealth, AG Says
by James A. Bacon The primary duty of board members of Virginia’s public colleges and universities is to the commonwealth, not to the individual institutions, Attorney General Jason Miyares wrote Monday in response to an advisory opinion requested by Governor Glenn Younkin. According to Miyares’ missive,ย Youngkin asked whether Virginia law imposes upon boards of visitors…
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Things Fall Apart: Virginia Homeownership Rate
From an email from search-intelligence.co.uk attributed to RubyHome Luxury Real Estate: Virginia experienced the largest declineย in homeownershipย of any state during the new millennium. In 2000, the homeownership rate sat at 73.9%; it declined to 67.4% in 2022. This makes for a percentage-point change of 8.8% since 2000 in 2020 — the most of any state.…
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The Transgender Contagion
*** Sponsored Content *** by James A. Bacon Abigail Shrier deserves a Pulitzer Prize for her 2019 work of journalism, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.” She’ll never get the recognition she deserves from the literary establishment, though, because her conclusions transgress some of the holiest orthodoxies in the progressive canon. Despite the…