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"Mother Teresa's hate speech"

This illustrates both the problem and the agenda of the entire "hate speech" issue. The intent is to stop right wing and moderate speech. Joseph Goebbels would be so proud of our left wing activists.

#1 Anon on 2019-04-11 09:11 (Reply)

The socialist/communists can only censor speech if they can create a new "hate" category of speech. Social media and the university are the main promoters of the new category and it is no surprise nearly all of them hang out with the socialist/communists who have no use for any of the Bill of Rights.

#1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2019-04-11 14:31 (Reply)

Ref Title IX article

Discussion of 'sex while drunk" in the article

If you are drunk and drive, you are responsible for the crash, Why is it that if you give consent ' while drunk' it's somehow someone else's fault

#2 Jay on 2019-04-11 09:30 (Reply)

Not that I have a lot of sympathy for the movement you're criticizing here, but those situations aren't parallel. If someone catches you when you're blind drunk and gets you to sign a document, a court might well throw the contract out. Driving a car is a different matter, unless someone picks you up out of the gutter and sets you behind the wheel when you're too drunk to resist. There's no consent required from a drunk person in the ordinary driving activity. Sex does require consent, and you can't get effective consent from someone who's out of his mind. Regular people know this, and wouldn't dream of taking advantage of someone too far gone mentally to behave like an adult. You'd be stopped by your own conscience, just as you would be stopped from having sex with an underage mentally retarded person, which is basically what a blind-drunk person might as well be.

#2.1 Texan99 on 2019-04-11 10:06 (Reply)

But let's be honest. If two people are drunk and they decide together to have sex how is that only one person's fault and the liability is a long prison sentence???

And even if only one is drunk and she decides to have sex I still say how is that the other persons fault?

I think too that there is a bigger basic problem with the rape laws. To equate a violent rape by a stranger with two people deciding to make love where one recants the next day and prosecute for similar sentences is absolutely morally and legally wrong. And yet that is what the man hating lesbians, oops I mean feminists advocate for.

#2.1.1 Anon on 2019-04-11 10:14 (Reply)

re But let's be honest. If two people are drunk and they decide together to have sex how is that only one person's fault and the liability is a long prison sentence???

I can only conclude it has been determined that men are capable of making responsible decisions while under the influence but women are not.

That would imply that women are not equal to men, but are in fact less than.

And if that is the case, perhaps it is time to repeal the 19th amendment?

#2.1.1.1 feeblemind on 2019-04-11 13:26 (Reply)

Title IX--Several years ago I actually was on the outskirts of one of these, since the accused's uncle was a friend of mine and he had to help pay the attorneys' costs for the nephew. So I got an earful from him.

Quick summary. One day the nephew opens the door and is arrested by the police for rape. They had a warrant to extradite him to a state on the other end of the country, where he was going to college.

Unbeknownst to him, a woman student had filed a sex assault complaint against him with the college. He then was tried and convicted by the college's disciplinary committee in absentia, without any notice. The college then gave the conviction report to the local police, which started the criminal process, since the conviction was evidence he was guilty of the crime. When he was arrested he was also told he was expelled from the college.

His story was that it was an ongoing boyfriend-girlfriend relationship and they had broken up.

Anyway, they had to hire a high-powered criminal attorney here, as well as in the other state. They then filed civil rights and defamation suits against the college and the accuser as well as fought the criminal case. Eventually, the girl recanted and admitted she was upset because they had broken up.

I don't know what it cost, but I am sure it was substantial. But the nephew faced a ruined future and prison as well as being branded a sex criminal the rest of his life.

#2.2 Jim on 2019-04-11 15:18 (Reply)

Let me guess, the girl that filed the false charges, simply walked away? She should be held criminally liable. What a deterioration of the criminal justice system, and civics in general, when a person can be tried by a kangaroo court, on a college campus no less, in absentia, for such a serious charge. Makes my blood boil.

#2.2.1 B. Hammer on 2019-04-11 17:37 (Reply)

The story about Trump at Mount Vernon reminded me of when Bill Clinton and Al Gore visited Montecello. In one of the rooms, there were several marble busty. Gore asked who they were. Th guide politely replied, "That's Franklin, this one is Washington, this one is Madison..." Bill looked like he couldn't believe what a dumbass he had for a vice president.

#3 mudbug on 2019-04-11 09:38 (Reply)

Why should I care if there's a woman or a man behind the first picture of a black hole? Are women so incapable that we must celebrate when they finally accomplish something?

#4 bobby b on 2019-04-11 10:19 (Reply)

They need woman-positive women in science stories.

Maybe she's interested in holes, was my thought. Maintaining and interest is what prevents women doing well in science compared to men.

#4.1 rhhardin (Link) on 2019-04-11 10:41 (Reply)

The girl didn't even develop the algorithm she is being credited with. A japanese researcher developed it and she simply adapted it to the project.

#4.1.1 Rusty on 2019-04-11 11:51 (Reply)

Re. Ms. Bauman:

My years of experience and observation have taught me this:
yes, she is smart. Yes, she has an average understanding of a difficult subject, which puts her in an elite female category. But, most likely her primary contribution to "the team" is scheduling, budgeting, data management. Why, oh why, isn't the rest of "the team" named as individuals? oh--I'll bet they are men. Most probably white male. This is INCOMPLETE NEWS.

#5 faculty wife on 2019-04-11 10:22 (Reply)

My understanding of IQ is that it's education-independent; it's for geneticists not educrats.

They form the test so as to get rid of education etc as a confounding variable.

I don't know how they in fact do it but it's easy to imagine ways, like asking education-dependent questions and lowering your IQ score if you get them right, in just the right amount so that IQ winds up independent of education.

#6 rhhardin (Link) on 2019-04-11 10:38 (Reply)

Do you folks remember Eisenhower? Do you remember his warning about the military industrial complex? What Ike could not foresee was the Boeing/Microsoft complex. The power of WA state and the inborn/inbred arrogance is best understood
here

https://qz.com/1584233/boeing-737-max-what-happened-when-one-us-pilot-asked-for-more-training/

#7 faculty wife on 2019-04-11 10:44 (Reply)

World Faces "Uphill Battle" With Average IQ Of Just 82!

Oops: Maxine Waters grills banks on student loan crisis even though feds took over in 2010

#8 coldeskimo on 2019-04-11 10:58 (Reply)

Maybe African nations are ruled by Maxine Waters's. Maybe that's what passes as a smart person there.

It's either that or clever dictators.

#8.1 rhhardin (Link) on 2019-04-11 11:45 (Reply)

Funny thing not mentioned in this article, the migrant influx. Some 5 million migrants, legal and illegal now live in the state. Huge swaths of my city, Tampa, now look like South America where few speak English. Other parts look like Tehran or Mumbai. But Hispanics far outnumber all other migrant communities, with Indians running a clear second.

This has pushed many out of the city into the new urban sprawl neighborhoods all the way into other counties.

The migrants are not environmentally friendly. There is no such thing in their native countries, and they have kids, lots of kids.

Throw the huge demand for services combined with a declining tax base on top of that and you have much of the urban landscape now in Florida.

Rich people on the water, urban decade just inland packed with migrants and minorities, and then middle-class sprawl on the outskirts as far as the eye can see.

Perhaps we need a wall on the Florida border, for both Yankees and migrants.

#9 Fools State on 2019-04-11 11:00 (Reply)

It was good to see another article that gives some detail on how "packaging and plastics" is a complicated issue, with trade-offs.

@rhhardin - if you look at Ravens Progressive Matrices you will see one way they do it. You'll like it. Many tests do require one practice session to make sure the intent is understood by the subject. Extensive practice on IQ-equivalents like the SAT do raise the score somewhat, but not as advertised. Practice teaches you to avoid a few mistakes, raising your score. It does not make you better at the SAT questions.

#10 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-04-11 11:04 (Reply)

re Case closed: Charter schools deliver more education ‘bang’ for the buck

Once upon a time, all schools were charter schools.

#11 feeblemind on 2019-04-11 11:59 (Reply)

Would somebody please post a website that clarifies the expansion of Title IX into what it has become today. Also, a site that explains why/how men can be found guilty without trial, or evidence. I need to send this to great dads who have daughters and cannot understand how this has evolved. Thank you

#12 faculty wife on 2019-04-11 16:17 (Reply)

This "FIRE" organization seems to talk about it:
https://www.thefire.org/?s=title+IX

If you go through their materials, it seems that a lot of this was forced on universities and colleges by a threat letter sent out by the Obama administration called the "Dear Colleagues Letter."

One method apparently adopted is that the school simply does an "investigation," and a "report" is then issued that determines whether the allegations are "more probable than not." Of course, the main person talked to is the accuser, they don't talk to the accused. The accused is not aware this is going on.

If the report is approved by the school, the accused is presented with the report and the punishment and told if they don't like it, they can "appeal." Sometimes the identity of the accuser is not even revealed, they are just called "Complainant A" or something like that.

Of course, even if you have the right to an "appeal," the damage is already done.

#12.1 Jim on 2019-04-11 21:19 (Reply)

Re: Charters.
A friend of mine taught for many years in the New York City Schools. His last two stops were Bronx Science and Willamsburg Charter. In his opinion the charter was by far the best to teach at because the disruptive kids could be easily sent back to the regular system.

#13 AlaskaTeacher on 2019-04-11 19:27 (Reply)

Plastics? We are now headed back to "clean, modern" incineration, which reduces these hydrocarbons to... carbon, indistinguishable from what's left after a forest fire and taken back up into the cycle of nature.

In other words - progressives drove us crazy for 50 years and their restrictive "solutions" were worse than what we were doing before they came along and wrung their hands.

#14 Ben David on 2019-04-12 08:16 (Reply)

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