But She Wasn't 'Standing Up For Her Neighbours', Was She?

The mischaracterisation of the Minnesota shooting continues apace:

That a white woman can be killed on camera, with impunity, and be demeaned and ridiculed in her death for standing up for her neighbors shows just how far down the road of violence the nation has gone.

She wasn't standing up for het neighbours, she was standing up fot illegal immigrants that ICE were looking for in order to boot out of the country, a policy many of her neighbours would have voted for after years of Democrat tolerance of them.

It is a road most Americans do not want to continue on – recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates.

I'd like to see the questions that poll was actually asking!  

But to truly stop the damage requires going further – it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make them safe.

Gosh, whatever could have given them that idea? Could it possibly have been all the rapes and murders committed by illegals, perchance? Not to mention the terrorism that was the basis for the very creation of ICE:

Formed in 2003, during the embarrassing and disastrous national excesses of the post-9/11 era – when the nation launched two ill-fated forever wars, and demonized Muslim immigrants – ICE’s mandate was overwrought and ill-considered. Its formation was part of the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which – as illustrated by its name – formally adopted the idea that immigrants were an inherent security threat to Americans.

Well, having launched the biggest ever terrorist attack on US soil it's really no surprise.... And it's not just one political party with that view, either:

In 1986, Ronald Reagan coupled the country’s only amnesty program with a seven-fold increase in border enforcement – beginning an arms race that would shape border violence for decades. But it was Bill Clinton’s 1996 signing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) set the stage for our current mass deportation system, by making deportation easier, and making more people deportable, even for nonviolent crimes.

Immigrants - even legal ones - are guests in your country and you have the absolute right to set the rules by which they come to rhe country and live there. Who on earth would ever think you didn't?  

Heba Gowayed is an associate professor of sociology at Cuny Hunter College and Cuny Graduate Center and author of the book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential Victor Ray is the F Wendell Miller associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and author of the book On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

Ah. I see. 

The Wackademics Are At It Again...

Exams and essay writing should be ditched because they unfairly favour white students, according to a report from an elite university. Birmingham University says the traditional methods of assessment are measures of ‘smartness based on white privilege’, adding that it is harder for students from ethnic minorities to do well.

It's harder for white men to play basketball, there was even a film about it, but I didn't see any universitoes worrying about that.. 

And in a commentary released with the report, Prof Sally Everett, from another renowned university – King’s College London – waxed lyrical about the ‘unearned advantages of being white’ and ‘the privileges of whiteness’ and advocated ‘decolonising assessment’. She claimed that traditional assessment methods ‘perpetuate systemic inequalities’ and suggested ‘low-stakes assessments’ such as ‘writing reflective journals’ should replace them.

The report concluded that assessment practices, such as in-person, timed exams or graded essays, should go because they are potentially ‘tools of exclusion’. It said these ‘marginalise knowledge’ and devalue skills from ‘non-Western traditions’.

Unfortunatly, those lead to skills like performing under pressure and timekeeping that Western businesses prize in their employees, so where are you expecting yout alumni to get jobs? Or doesn't that matter to you?  

But Chris McGovern, of the Campaign for Real Education, said he was ‘saddened to see academic integrity being brought into disrepute in this way’.

Bit late to the party aren't you, Chris? The devaluing started long, long ago and has reached critical mass now, as David Thompson has repeatedly pointed out. 

A University of Birmingham spokesman defended the project as ‘a product of academically rigorous research and discussions with academics within and outside of Birmingham Business School’. 

‘This report from colleagues in the business school suggests a range of actions that may help students understand and explore those different perspectives.’ 

‘Birmingham Business School is a global business school educating students who come from all over the world. Understanding the world from multiple perspectives is a critical skill that we teach our future business leaders.’

Which rather explaines why the quality of world business leaders has been going downhill for years, doersn't it?