Tag: Critical Race Theory / Identity politics
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‘Drowning in whiteness’
Not to mention self-pitying victimhood Roll over Beethoven, Lincoln, and Einstein One of our current Madison school board members is promoting an essay to further her indictment that White People are the Problem! Too many of the wrong kids stealing cars and busting each other in the cafeteria? Blame Whitey! The Policy Werkes excerpts liberally from…
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Mainstream news media pivots from Russian collusion to ‘Trump is a racist’
Advocates and the media deemed Mr. Trump’s non-racial denunciation of Baltimore’s leadership racist. Never mind that the victims of the city’s almost daily drive-by shootings are black. Race shields minority politicians from criticism. — Heather Mac Donald It’s the page one story in today’s (08-19-19) New York Times: “What the reactionary politics of 2019 owe…
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Believe women … or else!
It’s 2019 and Atticus Finch still isn’t enough UW-Madison still has the long knives out for Quintez Cephus Quintez Cephus has been exonerated of criminal sexual assault in Dane County Circuit Court. Not just presumed innocent but — mindful of the Mueller Report’s contentious refusal to “exonerate” the President — adjudged innocent after a full,…
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Satya is the Progressive Dane mayor Madison deserves
Attention Madison Professional Police Officers Assn. You endorsed Satya Rhodes Conway for mayor of Madison. Now you got her. What did you expect? Madison’s new mayor has taken a page out of Jennifer Cheatham’s playbook. Like the outgoing school superintendent, Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway has rushed to judgment. No sense waiting for the full investigation.…
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Dear Dr. Gee: can we teach responsibility instead of guilt?
Want to reduce racial disparities? Do your homework! If we do not get answers to our questions, Blaska Policy Werkes will issue subpoenas. Sure, they are crypto-subpoenas but they should produce about the same result as Jerry Nadler’s. We question the utility of racial conscience-raising which, in Madison today, is a popular pastime rivaling Pokeman…
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Cap Times demands more school security while getting rid of cops!
Only in Madison! If The Squire’s forehead is reddened, it is because I have been smacking it all morning. The object of Blaska’s pique: a Capital Times editorial headlined “Madison schools need to get serious about school safety.” Whack! Of the six candidates on the ballot this Spring election, only one candidate talked about school…