Investigation: The University of Virginia paid Ibram X. Kendi $541 per minute for 'antiracist' lecture



The University of Virginia (UVA) recently paid tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of hosting popular critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi for a one-hour lecture on “racial equity,” reveals a new investigation from the Daily Wire.

An investigative reporter at the Daily Wire, Gabe Kaminsky, wrote that UVA paid Ibram X. Kendi “$32,500, or about $541 per minute.”

UVA hired Kendi through the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. The lecture was a free event held in late April of 2021. According to UVA, 876 people attended.

Kendi, author of the 2019 New York Times bestseller “How to Be an Antiracist,” has published several well-selling books through One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

In an interview conducted to promote “How to Be an Antiracist,” Kendi claimed that it was not possible for capitalism and antiracism to coexist.

He said, “I classify racism and capitalism as these conjoined twins … the origins of racism cannot be separated from the origins of capitalism the origins of capitalism cannot be separated from the origins of racism. The life of racism cannot be separated from the life of capitalism, and vice versa.”

Despite Kendi’s disdain for the American economic system, capitalism has enabled him to sell hundreds of thousands of book copies.

Kendi’s books, along with his public and sponsored appearances, have propelled him into stardom. Because of public intellectuals like Kendi, critical race theory (CRT) has infiltrated virtually every aspect of American life.

CRT finds some of its most avid supporters in academia. Public schools teaching curricula predicated on the worldview emphasized by CRT caused an uproar from parents across the nation. In Virginia, parents resisting tax-subsidized CRT indoctrination helped to turn the tide of Virginia’s recent gubernatorial race in favor of Glenn Youngkin.

When asked why the university paid someone with such strongly contested views to speak on campus, UVA spokesperson Brian Coy said, “The University of Virginia welcomes speakers from a broad array of perspectives to our Grounds every academic year and we often do pay speakers fees or other compensation. Offering our community access to a diverse set of speakers and points of views is an important part of our academic mission.”

However, according to the Daily Wire, UVA does not have a record of paying tens of thousands of dollars to host culturally or politically conservative speakers. The university even refused to officially recognize the UVA chapter of Young America’s Foundation (YAF). YAF is known for helping students bring prominent conservative speakers to their campuses.

UVA paid Kendi to participate in the school’s Racial Equity Speaker Series that featured other critical race theorists like Eduardo Bonilla-Silva of Duke University. Silva, who has claimed that America has normalized “the standards of white supremacy,” was paid $10,000 to appear on a Zoom event for the university.

'An act of domestic terrorism': Olympia officials condemn leftist militants who used hatchets, knives, batons to take over hotel



Officials in Olympia, Washington, have condemned leftist militants who used hatchets, knives, and batons to forcibly take over a downtown hotel Sunday.

And Mayor Cheryl Selby went so far as to call their actions "an act of domestic terrorism," the Olympian reported.

What's the background?

Those inside the Red Lion hotel began calling 911 around 11 a.m., saying a group was attempting to forcibly take over the hotel, the city's statement said. The group members were dressed in black and were threatening staff, KING-TV reported, citing court documents. Police were told that the employees felt threatened by the group — and the station said an employee was assaulted but didn't suffer injuries.

The group was identified as Oly Housing Now, a homeless activist outfit, and its members had gas masks, helmets, and goggles, apparently in preparation for a confrontation, the statement noted. Police estimated about 45 members of the group were inside and outside the hotel. The group had occupied the fourth and fifth floors and were placing black tarps on the windows as police arrived, cops told KING.

At the time of the occupation, about 40 hotel rooms were booked with guests — and those guests sheltered in their rooms during the occupation, the statement said. Hotel employees sheltered in the basement through the afternoon and part of the evening.

But before the occupation, a woman identified as its leader booked 20 hotel rooms saying they were for a wedding party, KING reported, citing court documents — which also said the takeover was meant to pressure the city to provide housing for homeless people staying in those booked rooms.

"We were going to say we're not leaving and see if we could get FEMA or whoever to start putting out and getting us housing," Chris Alford — one of those staying in the rooms — told KING. She added to the station that people she did not know paid for them.

Police added to the station that a Thurston County judge granted a search warrant for first-degree burglary, trespassing, and conspiracy to commit burglary. By 6:30 p.m., Olympia police with the Thurston County Sheriff's Office and Washington State Patrol's SWAT team entered the hotel and began making arrests, KING reported.

Here are a pair of clips showing the action outside the hotel. (Content warning: Language):

Olympia PD not messing around tonight. Several arrests so far as they clear the occupied hotel. Businesses were tol… https://t.co/Ks9fDNXBQW
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@(((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio)1612147547.0
They are now chanting to Olympia cops to “choke and die.” https://t.co/EnMh9esHbu
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@(((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio)1612151800.0

The station said the SWAT team conducted a room-by-room search and employees and guests were escorted safely out of the building.

Ten people were arrested Sunday night, KING said, citing police — who previously reported that 12 had been arrested. Seven of them appeared before a judge Monday and faced a number of charges including burglary and assault, the station said, citing court documents.

What did city officials have to say about the occupation?

City council member Dani Madrone said at Tuesday's meeting that she was "appalled" by the hotel occupation, the Olympian reported, adding that others used words such as "reckless," "uninformed," and "infuriating."

Council member Renata Rollins — who advocates for homeless people — called the group's actions "short-sighted, ego-driven, and counterproductive," the paper said.

"The group's demands made no sense," she also said, the Olympian noted. "They read like they were copied and pasted from some other community's struggle because whoever penned them had no context for what's actually going on in Olympia and Thurston County. This wasn't activism; this was nihilism. And it caused so much unnecessary preventable harm."

Mayor Selby said the occupation organizers "exploited and victimized the very group they claim to want to help" and "should be held accountable to the furthest extent of the law," the paper reported.

"This created an active crime scene that necessitated a police response appropriate to the scale of the actions of these terrorists," she added, according to the Olympian.

San Francisco public school teacher: Bernie Sanders in mittens at inauguration embodies 'white privilege, male privilege, and class privilege'



A San Francisco public school teacher just penned an op-ed stating that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wearing mittens at President Joe Biden's inauguration — the popular image so many people had fun with recently — embodies "white privilege, male privilege and class privilege."

Um, okay...

The author of the piece is Ingrid Seyer-Ochi — who's also a former UC Berkeley and Mills College professor and ex-Oakland Unified School District principal. She began her piece for the San Francisco Chronicle by saying a few weeks back she "processed the Capitol insurrection" with her students — notably "images of white men storming through the Capitol, fearless and with no forces to stop them."

Seyer-Ochi recalled she told her students at the time: "This is white supremacy, this is white privilege. It can be hard to pinpoint, but when we see, it, we know it."

Then she said she and her high schoolers "analyzed images from the inauguration."

The question again was, "What do we see?"

Seyer-Ochi's answer was that, "We saw diversity, creativity and humanity, and a nation embracing all of this and more."

And while she acknowledged that Sanders "was barely on our radar" on Inauguration Day, the following day "he was everywhere."

Mittens of 'white privilege'

"What do we see?" Seyer-Ochi recalled in her op-ed asking her students once more. The answer?

"They saw a white man in a puffy jacket and huge mittens, distant not only in his social distancing, but in his demeanor and attire."

More from her op-ed:

We talked about gender and the possible meanings of the attire chosen by Vice President Kamala Harris, Dr. Jill Biden, the Biden grandchildren, Michelle Obama, Amanda Gorman and others. We referenced the female warriors inspiring these women, the colors of their educational degrees and their monochromatic ensembles of pure power.

And there, across all of our news and social media feeds, was Bernie: Bernie memes, Bernie sweatshirts, endless love for Bernie. I puzzled and fumed as an individual as I strove to be my best possible teacher. What did I see? What did I think my students should see? A wealthy, incredibly well-educated and -privileged white man, showing up for perhaps the most important ritual of the decade, in a puffy jacket and huge mittens.

I mean in no way to overstate the parallels. Sen. Sanders is no white supremacist insurrectionist. But he manifests privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege, in ways that my students could see and feel.

Seyer-Ochi noted that when her students saw Sanders "manifesting privilege, when seemingly no one else did, I struggled to explain that disparity. I am beyond puzzled as to why so many are loving the images of Bernie and his gloves."

"I don't know many poor, or working class, or female, or struggling-to-be-taken-seriously folk who would show up at the inauguration of our 46th president dressed like Bernie," she added in her piece. "Unless those same folk had privilege. Which they don't."

What was the reaction?

When the Chronicle tweeted out Seyer-Ochi's op-ed Monday, it will come as no surprise that not everybody was on board with her perspective:

  • "It was literally almost 2 weeks ago. It's a pair of mittens. Seek help. Please," one commenter requested.
  • "When he turned around and used that moment to raise millions for charity that was also traumatizing for my students..." another commenter said.
  • "I cannot overstate how much I hate this and how damaging s**t like this is to the left," another user noted. "Did they want him to wear a dashiki!?! I mean what the f***!? He is an old man trying not to f***ing freeze to death in DC in January."

And one user made this observation:

Image source: Twitter

Leftist militants armed with hatchets, knives, batons take over hotel in radical hub of Olympia, Washington — and SWAT is called in



Several dozen leftist militants armed with hatchets, knives, and batons forcibly took over a hotel in the radical hub otherwise known as Olympia, Washington, Sunday.

What are the details?

Those inside the Red Lion hotel began calling 911 around 11 a.m., saying a group was attempting to forcibly take over the hotel, the city's statement said. Police were told that the employees felt threatened by the group and that an employee allegedly was assaulted.

The group was identified as Oly Housing Now, a homeless activist group, and its members had gas masks, helmets, and goggles, apparently in preparation for a confrontation, the statement noted. Police estimated about 45 members of the group were inside and outside the hotel.

At the time of the occupation, approximately 40 hotel rooms were booked with bystanders — and those guests sheltered in their rooms during the occupation, the statement said. Hotel employees sheltered in the basement through the afternoon and part of the evening.

But before the occupation, the group had reserved 17 rooms occupied by homeless people. The group had occupied the 4th and 5th floors and were placing black tarps on the windows as police arrived, cops told KING-TV.

Police added to the station that a Thurston County judge granted a search warrant for first-degree burglary, trespassing, and conspiracy to commit burglary. By 6:30 p.m., Olympia police with the Thurston County Sheriff's Office and Washington State Patrol's SWAT team entered the hotel and began making arrests, KING reported.

Image source: KING-TV video screenshot

As of Sunday night, 12 people had been arrested, the station said, adding that the SWAT team conducted a room-by-room search and employees and guests were escorted safely out of the building.

The city's statement noted that the homeless people in the hotel rooms were directed to social services and won't be allowed to stay at the hotel.

"Making sure our unhoused residents have access to safe and affordable housing has been Olympia's priority for more than a decade," Mayor Cheryl Selby said. "Olympia has led on responding to homelessness, on coordinating shelter and other basic needs. The tactics used today by Oly Housing Now are unproductive and won't make the mission more attainable."

Left-wing radio host wants Trump fan Curt Schilling wiped from Phillies' Wall of Fame over 'racist' tweets. Schilling calls host a 'special piece of s**t.'



In our latest episode of the Cancel Culture Chronicles, we find a left-wing sports radio host apparently looking for a little attention — and greasing the skids by zeroing in on legendary pitcher Curt Schilling, who's been making headlines of late.

What is the background?

Earlier this week, Schilling — an outspoken conservative and major supporter of President Donald Trump — claimed that AIG canceled his insurance over his "social media profile."

We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our insurance due to my "Social Media profile"
— President Elect Curt Schilling (@President Elect Curt Schilling)1610511562.0

The alleged insurance cancellation occurred in the wake of the U.S. Capitol riot last week, after which leftists — and the powers that be heeding their words — began vilifying and canceling conservatives at a dizzying pace. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pulled the plug on Trump, while Apple and Amazon took down Twitter competitor Parler.

Schilling posted a tweet hours after the riot — and it had some legs with the media: "You cowards sat on your hands, did nothing while liberal trash looted rioted and burned for Air Jordan's and big screens, sit back, stfu, and watch folks start a confrontation for s**t that matters like rights, democracy and the end of gov't corruption." His tweet was still active Friday afternoon.

Wanna be startin' somethin'?

Enter veteran sports talk radio host Mike Missanelli, a well-known figure in Philadelphia sports circles who was on the airwaves when Schilling and the Phillies were vying for a World Series title in 1993.

So Missanelli — who's as outspoken about his left-wing politics as Schilling is about his conservative views — let the former Phillies star have it:

In light of his tweets (racist among other things) following the seditious attack on the Capitol - re: today’s Inqu… https://t.co/71SEzW8ZPl
— Mike Missanelli (@Mike Missanelli)1610643143.0

"In light of his tweets (racist among other things) following the seditious attack on the Capitol — re: today's Inquirer — I call upon the Phillies and John Middleton to immediately remove Curt Schilling from their Wall of Fame," Missanelli tweeted Thursday.

How did Schilling respond?

As you might guess, Schilling was not pleased with Missanelli's declaration and threw down with the radio host: "You know my family, you've known me for almost 30 years. It takes a special piece of s**t to do and say things you know are lies. Esp given you know my wife and her battle with cancer right now. Do me a huge favor, next time we're ftf call me a racist."

Missanelli replied as most folks on social media do — absent any clear and present physical danger, of course: "Your family is great. I sent your WIFE best wishes (it should have read). You turned into a traitorous asshole. There. That more clear for ya?"

He added in another tweet to Schilling, "You should be ashamed of yourself for your ignorant tweet DURING an act of sedition and for supporting it in any way."

It's worth noting that unless Schilling posted and deleted another tweet, the one in question was posted at 11:52 p.m. Jan. 6 — after the afternoon riot was over.

How did folks react?

Commentary on the dust-up has been a mixed bag. Some back Missanelli's wish to cancel Schilling. But others? Not so much:

  • "Let me know when that goes down, Curt. I got your back," one user noted. "Would love to have a front row seat watching you beat the crap out of this bitter lowlife."
  • "Mike is a scumbag Curt you know this already," another commenter offered. "Typical looney liberal."
  • "'Remove all traces of people that disagree with me' is straight from the commie playbook for a reason," another user said.

Schilling's wife, who is battling cancer, even got in on the war of words:

@MikeMiss25 Just what I need right now is to see an old friend trying to take away what clearly was earned with the… https://t.co/1L2pqocWI7
— Shonda Schilling (@Shonda Schilling)1610690259.0

Missanelli sent the following reply: "Shonda, you know you have always had my best wishes. And I pray for your good health. Your husband tweeting what he tweeted, supporting an act of sedition, DURING the act, is disgraceful. He can't now play the victim."

Anything else?

Schilling's outspokenness, particularly with regard to his conservative politics, has led to numerous controversies over the years:

  • His June 2016 blog post in the wake of the terror attack at an Orlando gay nightclub lit into gun control advocates and Muslims.
  • ESPN fired him in April 2016 for a meme he posted that mocked transgender bathroom laws.
  • And the sports network pulled him off the air in September 2015 for the rest of the baseball season over a tweet against radical Islam.

Also it's long been opined that his politics have kept him out baseball's Hall of Fame, but a Philadelphia sportswriter wrote that "Schilling belongs in Hall of Fame even though his views are worthy of nothing but shame."

Just before Trump's 2017 inauguration, Schilling said his support of the president also was keeping him out of the Hall.

"I promise you if I had said, 'Lynch Trump,' I would be getting in with about 90 percent of the vote this year," Schilling told TMZ Sports, a reference to baseball writers' politics as well as their all-powerful votes that grant entrance into Cooperstown.

Sacha Baron Cohen demands YouTube follow leftist playbook and ban President Trump: 'Do the right thing'



Rabid far-left actor Sacha Baron Cohen of "Borat" infamy has demanded that YouTube go along with the progressive crowd and ban President Donald Trump — just like Facebook, Twitter and other online entities.

Virtually every social media company has removed Trump...EXCEPT YouTube.Trump's YouTube channel is STILL showing… https://t.co/c00FhfwSWx
— Sacha Baron Cohen (@Sacha Baron Cohen)1610377207.0

"Virtually every social media company has removed Trump…EXCEPT YouTube," Cohen tweeted Monday. "Trump's YouTube channel is STILL showing videos of his election lies to MILLIONS of people!"

He then pressed his followers to retweet his post and tell Google — which owns YouTube — to "do the right thing!" Cohen added a hashtag that read "BanTrumpSaveDemocracy."

Just days ago Cohen called Trump's bans from Facebook and Twitter the "most important moment in the history of social media."

"The world's largest platforms have banned the world's biggest purveyor of lies, conspiracies and hate," he added. "To every Facebook and Twitter employee, user and advocate who fought for this--the entire world thanks you!"

Hollywood mob hops to it

Indeed, fellow left-wing celebrities took to Cohen's appeal like joyous puppies and did as they were told:

How did folks react?

As you might guess, Cohen has a fair number of admirers among his 760,000 Twitter followers — but certainly not all commenters on his post were aligned with his way of thinking:

  • "Do you like censorship?" one user asked. "If you do your comedy might also be next."
  • You Nazi moron! F*** your censorship! We should call for the banning of your unfunny BS you call art," another user exclaimed. "You suck!
  • "An artist that's for censorship," another commenter said. "Wow."
  • "You are ... absolutely clueless on what Democracy means," another user declared. "Amazing that more s**ts comes out of your mouth than your ass."

Another commenter had a visual message for Cohen:

@SachaBaronCohen @Google @sundarpichai @YouTube @SusanWojcicki @ADL @ColorOfChange @CommonSense @LULAC @mozilla… https://t.co/3kXLnOdJ1O
— Ex_Citizen_BuckTweet (@Ex_Citizen_BuckTweet)1610395104.0

This story has been updated

NY Times writer who gained woke fame for blasting 'dumba** f***ing white people' targets 'dangerous' conservative reporter Andy Ngo



Readers of TheBlaze might remember Sarah Jeong, a New York Times editorial board member who made headlines in 2018 when the "paper of record" hired her despite Jeong's history of relentless social media attacks against — as she termed them — "dumbass f***ing white people."

Now what?

Well, Jeong is back in the news and endearing herself to woke hearts far and wide for going after conservative journalist Andy Ngo.

"NYT Reporter Warns Conservative Writer Andy Ngo is a ‘Real Threat’, Should Be Censored on Twitter" https://t.co/Dgi3cQPzTH
— Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1610454011.0

As you probably know by now, Ngo is an expert on the inner workings of Antifa and has written extensively about the physically violent, far-left insurrectionists who claim they're fascism fighters while wantonly practicing fascism at every turn. In fact, Ngo became one of Antifa's victims while he was reporting on it. Check out video of the militants ganging up on and brutally beating Ngo in June 2019.

Now while conservatives everywhere are getting canceled, banned, and accused in the wake of last week's U.S. Capitol siege, Jeong apparently saw a prime opportunity to go after Ngo, whom she called "dangerous" and a "very real threat" while touting a Twitter thread calling for the social media giant to ban him:

I know people at Twitter follow me. Please read this thread. The people who live in this city with me have long kno… https://t.co/3mhRTbMdY8
— sarah jeong (@sarah jeong)1610165757.0

"The only reason I have not brought up Andy Ngo in the past is that after the whole thing where people were sending me nonstop death threats and rape threats and the MAGA bomber threatened me on Twitter, I have a low appetite for scrapping with right wing provocateurs on Twitter," Jeong explained before adding that Ngo's "entire MO is to post your name, your mugshot, your place of work and tie you to 'radical Antifa' if you're arrested — even if while working as a journalist or legal observer — at a protest."

She also said that "Ngo is dangerous. The chilling effects of his intentional misframing and misreporting are well-known in this city. If he puts your face out there, people — dressed exactly like the people who stormed the Capitol — show up at your house."

How did folks react?

Given the shaky state of things on social media, you might want to check out the angry reactions to Jeong's attack on Ngo before they vanish forever:

  • "You are the racist, right?" one user asked. "I remember your tweets."
  • "Calling out Antifa violence is threatening?" another user wondered. "If you people didn't have double standards, you'd have none at all."
  • "Yes silence more people!!" another commenter said. "This is great. Hopefully we can get to a point where we only have voice of the state."
  • "You really out here trying to be the moral compass?" another user asked. "You wrote politically divisive, abusive, and racist tweets."
  • "She's okay with engaging in racism and troll-like behavior," another user noted. "Why on Earth is anyone still listening to @sarahjeong?"

Anything else?

Ngo also is dealing at the moment with Antifa making a valiant effort to bully Portland's famed Powell's Books into not selling his upcoming book on the leftist militants, aptly titled "Unmasked." Ye olde First Amendment can be pesky at times:

"STOP SELLING ANDY NGO'S BOOK""HELL NO, WE WON'T NGO"A crowd of #antifa have gathered outside @Powells bookstore… https://t.co/63xPZmhdyR
— Andy Ngô (@Andy Ngô)1610403874.0

While Powell's said it will keep Ngo's book on its website, the store noted it would not stock it on shelves or promote it.

Horowitz: The question everyone should be asking about the Big Tech fascist purge of conservatives



That monopolies are odious, contrary to the spirit of a free government and the principles of commerce, and ought not to be suffered. ~Art. 41, Maryland Declaration of Rights

What are they afraid of?

Imagine a 250-pound boxer being so petrified of a 100-pound woman that he had to get his entire motorcycle gang and the local police department to hold her down while she was unarmed so he could beat her.

Well, if you are having trouble conjuring up such an image, you likely don't realize that is what is happening to conservatives today.

One would think that with control of nearly every single government agency (regardless of who is president), media, academia, corporate America, Big Tech, Big Science, Big Pharma, and every platform and venue of information flow across the entire internet, leftists wouldn't feel threatened by the presence of some dissenting views. If the landscape of information flow on politics between the right and the left were two sides of a battlefield, it would be the equivalent of the U.S. military fighting a Rwandan militia. So why does the left feel it must crush every last vestige of conservative news, analysis, and debate even on off-the-beaten-path platforms?

The answer is as troubling as it is obvious. They are fascists. But they are also cowards. Their views are so puerile and fickle that they cannot withstand the scrutiny of a dissenting view that is powered by even one millionth the online presence they already have created. Just as a door opened a crack in a dark room can bring in a disproportionate amount of light, so too the dissemination of self-evident truths against the corrupt ruling elite will completely destroy the lies of the left if it is allowed to coexist with the left, even in such a weak and diminutive presence.

This is why, unlike the totalitarian left, we are not scared of darkness coexisting alongside our light. I've written thousands of columns and posted countless videos and audio podcasts passionately making the case for my beliefs on many issues. Never once have I called for anyone espousing views I regard as repugnant and even dangerous to be silenced — and that includes those who supported last year's rioters.

Thanks to BLM and the anti-policing agenda, thousands of buildings have been burned, thousands of civilians have been attacked in addition to cops, thousands more individuals have fallen victim to homicide, and to this day, rioters are rampaging through residential neighborhoods in the middle of the night. It's estimated that between $1 and $2 billion in damage was incurred just from May 26 to June 8 of last year.

We have fought their ideas and warned about the consequences, but never have we called on their supporters in politics and media to have their lives destroyed. We debate, expose, debunk, and dispel, but we never attempt to silence. Censorship is the weapon of first resort for authoritarians and cowards, but is not even the weapon of last resort for those confident in the truth of their views.

It's not the bias of what they do report that makes the media and Big Tech so insidious. It's what they obfuscate, censor, and remove. If people were to see the extent of the damage BLM has done to this country – and continues to do up to this very day – they would realize that the unprecedented FBI and DHS clampdown on people who attended the rally is not coming from a good place. It's not coming from a sense of ordered liberty, security, and justice. It's coming from a sadistic plan to crush and persecute any opposition, for if they truly cared about safety and justice, they would have done this every day last year, beginning on May 26, which was quite literally our night of broken glass.

None of these measures were taken against BLM. The 2020 equivalent of what the corporate-government complex is doing now to all of Trump's supporters would be censoring anyone who ever supported "police reform" or abolishing the police and criminalizing anyone caught on the ground near where BLM was rioting, even if they were not indicted for a particular crime.

Not only did the most prominent Democrats of our time decline to condemn the rioters, much less the broad movement surrounding them, they offered to help those arrested, who, by definition, weren't peaceful protesters. None other than incoming Vice President Kamala Harris used Twitter to help fund bail for those "protesting" in Minnesota during the week that they burned down a police station and over 1,500 public and private businesses.

If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnes… https://t.co/Ni0yMyjD0F
— Kamala Harris (@Kamala Harris)1591043641.0

Thus, while they want to criminalize even those who protested peacefully on our side, these same leftists deemed criminals of their own ranks to be peaceful protesters — and still do to this day. They have deemed all of our speech as violence and all of their violence as speech.

The fact that BLM was exalted as the most noble cause by these same media, governmental, and corporate figures is not a reason to excuse any violence on the right. Indeed, anyone involved in the murder of Officer Brian Sicknick, in my view, should get punished more severely than any liberal believes in punishing second-degree murder. But what this sickening double standard does show is where this growing crackdown is coming from and where it is headed. This is not about security. This is about crushing constitutional rights. And what better time then nearly 10 months into a new "COVID constitution," where constitutional rights have been suspended at the drop of a hat by executive fiat.

Nobody is excusing what happened at the Capitol the way the left excuses an entire year of violence. However, it cannot be allowed to be used like the Reichstag fires in 1933 to crush all political opposition to very undemocratic policies they keep implementing.

Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution gave the president the power "to suspend any or all individual rights if public safety and order were seriously disturbed or endangered." Well, following the fire, they declared an emergency and suspended freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, and habeus corpus and crushed the opposition. They argued they needed to suspend democracy to save it. Sort of like what we saw this year with the suspension of liberty and property rights for an "emergency" virus, the suspension of election law for that same virus, and now the suspension of all political norms and even the First Amendment because of the "emergency" of unprecedented right-wing violence the likes of which we've never seen before from the left since … three minutes ago.

Anyone who thinks that trajectory charted from the Reichstag fire cannot happen again is clearly not paying attention. Those who seek not just to defeat an opposition but to silence the opposition always have an ulterior motive. And it's never a good one.

Bozell & Graham: The war on gender identity

The Political Correctness Police, starting with the perpetually victimized GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and a group called 50/50 by 2020, are trying to impose quotas on everything Hollywood does.

Leftist fascism is not on the march. It is galloping.

They are part of an open letter signed by titans of the Hollywood left that demands an "unprecedented cultural moment." They demand the entertainment elite "use its power to improve the lives of trans people by changing America's understanding about who trans people are." GLAAD claims there were no transgender characters in 109 movies released by major studios in 2017, and that there were only 17 recurring and regular TV characters out of 901. Hollywood is always lagging behind its idea of diversity.

Both major Hollywood trade publications — first the Hollywood Reporter and now Variety — have run major cover-story packages in the last month stacking up bleeding-heart anecdotes of the terrible injustice done to "trans actors," starting with the idea that "cisgender" actress Scarlett Johansson was going to play a transgender woman in the movie "Rub & Tug." The outrage caused the movie star to withdraw.

Stop for just a second. No one gives a damn about this except them.

"Transparent" series creator Jill Soloway, who identifies as "nonbinary" and prefers the personal pronouns "they" and "them," is now horrified that she cast Jeffrey Tambor to star in her transgender show. That decision "was born out of my ignorance," Soloway lamented. "I had to have my education in public."

Stop again. Are you following this?

We're all apparently in need of education, and the rules change daily. No one is allowed to oppose "trans-inclusive" casting and propaganda. This campaign for the "normalization" of this attack on nature is also extending to our social media experience.

See Facebook's hate-speech handbook: "We define hate speech as a direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics — race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, and serious disease or disability." What's an attack? "We define attack as violent or dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion or segregation," it says.

When they start judging what's "dehumanizing" or "exclusion," it's easy to understand how traditional values — not to mention traditional biology and grammar — will be punished. Catholics, that means you. But then again, wouldn't that be an attack based on religious affiliation?

The same punitive urge drives Twitter. Conservative Kathleen McKinley recently wrote on The Federalist that Twitter suspended her account and directed her to delete a tweet opposing transgender troops in the military. McKinney tweeted against "normalizing a mental disorder (gender dysphoria) (called "distress" now) which has no place in our military. Certainly not our $$ for surgery."

Twitter also flagged a tweet in which she insisted you can't ignore "extreme Muslim beliefs that condone honor killings!" Twitter said, "You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease." These tweets were not promotions of violence, threats or harassment. They were dissent.

These tech giants claim to care about religious affiliation, but they seem more fixated on someone criticizing Islam. They don't care about criticism or exclusion of religious majorities.

Christians are apparently offensive when relying on Scriptures that states the Creator "made them male and female." In their unholy writ of Political Correctness, our Creator needs to be educated. God needs to be corrected in an "unprecedented cultural moment." Christians will be ostracized by media outlets based on their faith — not just in TV and movies but on their social media.

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