The Woke Street Journal
I hear there was a Republican debate last night, didn’t watch it. Seems like Nikki has moved into the number 2 spot. Not sure at this point what that does for her, if anything. Meanwhile Ivy league colleges are trying to justify what’s going on at their campuses.
But a university has no capacity to eliminate “hate,” nor should that be its mission. In the name of rejecting hate, colleges built their DEI bureaucracies in the first place and allowed bureaucrats and their faculty sympathizers to put certain facts and ideas off-limits. In the name of rejecting hate, colleges started requiring faculty—even in the hard sciences—to justify their research in the name of “inclusion” and “belonging.” Protected identity categories have constantly expanded while the haters shrank to an ever smaller subset of white males.
Ivy League hypocrisy: Free speech activists highlight history of censorship-Washington Examiner
The leaders of the nation's most elite universities are facing accusations of hypocrisy for defending free speech in the face of anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests while censoring conservative views on campus.
The death of woke capitalism The win over woke capitalism results from a strong coalition of organizations-Fox Business
This has always been my criticism, kudos to them for calling out the proxy issue, but from an investment standpoint they are buying the same stocks BlackRock is. Vivek Ramaswamy made a name for himself as the ‘anti-woke CEO’–but the fund manager he co-founded has been marketing funds packed with Democratic-leaning holdings-Fortune
BRADY: Don’t Fall For Corporations’ Fake Retreat From DEI-Daily Caller
That’s because, like much of the corporate “retreat” from ESG, this withdrawal appears to be in name only. While companies are toning down the rhetoric and reducing headcount, they’re turning up the policies — to the detriment of shareholders.
Crime and homelessness are rampant, so this is your issue? Gavin Newsom: Toy Retailers Must Have ‘Gender Neutral’ Sections or Face Fines-Breitbart
Oh, and drugs also. Nolte: Democrat-run San Francisco Faces Worst Year Ever of Overdose Deaths-Breitbart
In the category of I don’t understand why this is news, Taylor Swift was named Time’s Person of the Year. Of course it was met with criticism, but this one took the cake. Saira Rao says Taylor Swift is Time's person of the year because white people love 'black and brown genocide'—The Blaze
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