Category: cancel culture
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Mr. Alderman, prove your innocence!
Or confirm you’re Woke by taking the word of your accusers! Should “someone with multiple allegations of domestic abuse be in public office?” The alleged abuser is Madison Alder Charles Myadze. That question was posted on social media — that on-line kangaroo court where opinions triumph over facts. Two women accuse Ald. Myadze of “physically…
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Are our politics becoming a for-real blood sport?
Can we keep a civil tongue? Did it begin with the 2011 takeover of the Wisconsin State Capitol over Act 10? Or the Antifa-inspired trashing of Madison’s State Street, the burning of Kenosha and Portland in the Summer 2020? Was the seditious routing of Congress on January 6 the following year an escalation or just…
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About those Super Bowl shootings in KC
Can we call a thug a thug? Unlettered Field Hand: Whachoo pissed off about today, oh noble Head Groundskeeper? Blaska: An editorial in the Wisconsin State Journal this morning. Field Hand: But isn’t the WSJ your favorite morning newspaper published daily in Madison WI? Blaska: It is, indeed! Field Hand: And aren’t you most always…
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DEI just flunked out
Plagiarism and critical race theory are both scams! The resignation of the president of Harvard University was overdue, a progressive scold admits in The Atlantic magazine. But not for her moral equivalence over anti-semitism! Claudine Gay’s only sin was plagiarism — what The Nation magazine pooh poohs as “minor academic pilferage” — not her school’s…
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Robin Vos just made the UW less racist
Progressivism causes low achievement. Paul Fanlund hates Republicans more than he loves the Universities (plural!) of Wisconsin. The publisher of The Capital Times will be the last to understand this, but Republican legislative leaders did the Universities of Wisconsin a favor and system president Jay Rothman knows it. That’s why the Board of Regents Wednesday…
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UW regents choose DEI over engineering, free thought
And 35,000 employee pay raises! There is some irony in the presidents of Harvard and Penn defending campus free speech when that speech calls for the destruction of Israel and, by implication, the extermination of Jews. Given that conservative speakers espousing traditional values have been run off our supposedly most enlightened campuses. The school presidents…