California Schools ‘Anti-Bigotry’ Initiative Partnering With Group Known For Bigotry

In the midst of a pandemic drastically impacting California students’ ability to receive an education, state schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond has launched an initiative focusing on bigotry… One component features a questionable institution with a deeply dubious agenda…

California schools head Tony Thurmond and Wiesenthal Center founder Rabbi Marvin Hier.

By Alison Weir: Under the guise of ‘anti-racism,’ a proponent of what many consider a supremely racist ideology is “educating” California teachers and students.

This is part of a new California schools initiative entitled “Education to End Hate.” The multipartite project is intended to confront what California Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond says is an “epidemic” of antisemitism, discrimination against LGBTQ people, violence directed at people of color, and Islamophobia. The project will consist of educator training grants, partnerships with community leaders, and virtual classroom sessions.

Response To UK Law Commission Consultation On Hate Crime Laws

'Should a Hate Crime Commissioner be introduced in England and Wales? No.'

By MRA-UK: The Law Commission published a Consultation on proposals for new hate crime laws and hate speech laws in September’20 (deadline for submissions 24th December’20). Below I refer to both the main Consultation report (a snappy 533 pages) and also the Summary report a mere 22 pages), which between them have 82 questions which respondents are asked to consider. I address just a selection of questions in my submission (reproduced below). However, I preceeded my submission with an “essay” response which addresses generic issues, not least the intrinsic undesirability of hate crime laws. I have posted previously on this Consultation and misogyny hate crime.

(Un)desirability of Hate Crime Laws

I note that the Law Commission write “although not everyone agrees with hate crime laws, we have not been asked to review the fundamental question of whether they should exist at all”, but I cannot regard this as an acceptable prohibition because the matter is too serious.

Being ‘Chosen’ v Being ‘Ordinary’ In 2020s America

'To be progressive is practically a severe form of self-love. As such, progressives and liberals do believe themselves to be on the right side of history and this belief legitimises their hardcore authoritarianism.'

By ex-Jew Gilad Atzmon: America is divided and the rupture is so deep that Americans can’t even see across that which splits them in the middle. If there was a hope at one point that someone could unite the nation, this hope has faded away. In fact, the American mainstream media works relentlessly to sustain that cultural and even metaphysical separation. It is reasonable to determine that rather than delivering something that resembles news, the American media operates as propaganda outlets. Like in the Soviet Union, American mainstream media manufactures stories that sustain premeditated narratives.  The commitment to impartiality, truthfulness, honesty or any journalistic standard has been replaced with blind adherence to a ‘party line,’ an ‘ideology,’ a ‘worldview.’