Don’t Seek Impossible From Politicians

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, but it is also a reflection on us. When people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only in the short run.

Thomas Sowell

Public School Tyrants Push Identity Politics

Teachers and administrators in those institutions are pushing sexual identity politics on children as young as two years old not just because it’s a current leftist fad, but because eliminating the family wipes out any competition. The gradual transitional elimination of the family is rapidly picking up speed. Now the plan is to destroy the family by destroying the children.

Children have an inherent need for a family. Totalitarian regimes have fought the family in the past by turning children against their parents. And yet even in the face of the monstrous propaganda of the USSR, Communist China and Nazi Germany, the family has persisted. The Left has come to realize that the only way to destroy the family is to destroy the children.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Sexual Identity Politics

At the heart of sexual identity politics is an obsession with dismantling the family. The embrace of transgenderism by the state is no accident of politics. The family, like race and religion, is the chief rival to the state. The state set out to neuter its rivals through identity politics, using race, religion and finally sexuality to define new identities and use them to make the state supreme.

Daniel Greenfield, Whose Children? Our Children

Identity Supremacy

White supremacy isn’t the issue, identity supremacy is. Generations have been told by the Democrats, by their educational systems and entertainment that they are defined by identity politics and that positive change will come when they narrowly fight for the interests of their group, while suspecting the worst of members of other groups, especially white people.

Non-white people are taught to believe that white people are hoarding power. In San Francisco, black people are being urged to demand slave reparations from the Asian population. Women are encouraged to resent men. Transgenders are told to hate women. Within the LGBTQ movement, gay men have become scapegoats. California just passed a ban on “caste discrimination” among Indians. This is what the utopia of the perpetually aggrieved looks like.

This isn’t white supremacy: it’s identity supremacy. And if we don’t move beyond it, there will be no nation, only one long endless civil war across the fractured territories of what was America.

Daniel Greenfield, THE MYTH OF WHITE SUPREMACY

"African-American"?

Let's stop with the stupid, condescending, divisive, insulting term "African American." I am an AMERICAN who is Black. Congress banned importation of new slaves in 1808, 212 years ago. Why do I have a descriptive for the continental origin of my ancestors but whites who came to America later do not?

Larry Elder, Random Thoughts On and Around Election Night

To Make Schools Better #3

Every school should be re-oriented toward academics and away from politics. Schools should stop expending efforts on issues like racism, sexism, Islamophobia,  homophobia, global warming, tobacco and gender identity; they should devote no more classes that teach students how to wear condoms and treat sexual relations as nothing more than a health issue. Most importantly, there should be no more attempts to convince anyone that he or she is a victim because he or she is not white, male, heterosexual, or Christian. (Conversely, students should not be told they have an unfair advantage because they are white, male, or Christian, either)

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.216, 217

To Make Schools Better #1

No principal should promote clubs that divide students based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whatever other characteristic becomes en vogue. Clubs like these promote narcissism; if you join a club based on your own demographics, what you are really saying is that little interests you outside of you own self. Since the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself, school clubs and activities should instead be based on common interests and passions--clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you don’t already speak, and more.

Prioritize the English language. Every student should leave high school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. Any school that doesn’t ensure students leave with excellent English language skills is remiss in its duty to prepare graduates for the job market.  … 

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.215

Identity Politics

Smearing opponents as homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, racist, sexist, bigoted, or otherwise misguided is becoming as common off campus as it already is in the identity politics that dominate higher education. Leftists reduce people to their membership in groups based on superficial characteristics like race, gender, or sexual orientation. Those characteristics are assumed to determine what people believe, and how they vote.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.186-187

College and Identity Politics

The whole point of college used to be expanding the mind. Academia gave you the opportunity to think about things in brand new ways. And yet today, walk onto many of America’s most prestigious university campuses, and you’ll find a culture that is the complete antitheses of open-minded intellectual inquiry.

Identity politics and political correctness have taken over. Leftist mobs are enforcing a strict code that defines acceptable speech and thought, and rules anything else out of bounds. “Trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” shield students from any concepts the might upset this delicate construct. Dissenters from the new orthodoxy are ostracized, vilified, threatened, and even physically attacked. Opposing viewpoints are shut down; visiting speakers are shut out. Faculty and administrators, whose job it is to help enlighten younger minds, act as hapless enablers, giving free rein to student activists whose passion outreaches their emotional maturity.

The values that supposedly define academia—the pursuit of knowledge and the open exchange of ideas—have become sad casualties. Free thought is not allowed if it broaches concepts deemed “problematic.” When you enroll at a college or university today, you can expect four years of being told what to think—and precious few opportunities for critical thinking.

No Safe Spaces, edited by Dennis Prager and Mark Joseph, pg.6-7