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Criminal “Villification”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Australia Court Upholds Conviction, Fine, and Compelled Speech in Transgender Case. We have followed the evisceration of free speech values in the United Kingdom and other Western nations. Australia has been one of the most chilling examples of how a population can be conditioned over time to view free speech as a threat. The country now criminalizes and regulates an ever-expanding range of speech, including political and religious viewpoints. The most recent example is the Supreme Court of New South Wales upholding a conviction for ‘vilification’ after women’s rights campaigner Kirralie Smith and the publication Binary Australia referred to two transgender individuals as men due to their biological sex. That led not only to $95,000 in fines but also to a sentence of compelled speech.

Regulations Are Keeping Families Smaller Than They Want to Be
Topic: Children and Family
Source: City-Journal
A new report finds that in states with more flexible childcare regulations, the fertility gap—the range between a woman’s desired number of children and achieved fertility—is smaller. Vermont, for instance, is the most heavily regulated state. If its regulations more closely matched those of a state like North Carolina, its fertility gap would shrink from 0.78 to 0.68 children per woman—a 12.5 percent change. In other words, “overzealous childcare regulations are one obstacle keeping Americans from having as many kids as they want”

Melania Trump files motion for sanctions against Michael Wolff over tossed lawsuit
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: FOX News
Wolff had his lawsuit against first lady dismissed in March. Wolff unsuccessfully sued Melania Trump to keep her from suing him for $1 billion for alleged defamatory statements he made about her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Earlier this year, a federal judge tossed Wolff’s lawsuit against the first lady, calling it a "contorted" effort and "not how the federal courts work." Melania Trump is now seeking costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in these proceedings, along with other appropriate relief, saying Wolff’s lawsuit was "a fundraising drive and a political spectacle."

The Left Is Using Kids As A Trojan Horse For Total Online Surveillance
Topic: Children and Family
Source: American thinker
The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage... It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is "for the kids," history tells us it is time to do three things: grab your Bill of Rights, lock your wallet, and check your firearms. The political left has mastered the art of semantic camouflage. Because leftists' true intentions - total state control and the systematic dismantling of individual liberty - are entirely unpalatable to the average citizen, they must cloak their radical agendas in the warm blanket of public safety.

Education Department Repeals Harmful Disparate-Impact Regulations
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Liberty Unyielding
On Thursday, the Department of Education repealed some of its disparate impact regulations, which led some school districts to make discipline decisions based on race. Under Obama and Biden, the Education Department used disparate-impact regulations to undermine school safety and pressure school systems to allow more misbehavior by minority students. Race-conscious curbs on suspensions led to violence in some school districts.

Ex-JPMorgan Banker Makes Salacious Claims in Lawsuit
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Reuters
A lawsuit that first grabbed attention for its graphic claims is back, now with broader civil-rights allegations against one of Wall Street's biggest banks. Former JPMorgan Chase banker Chirayu Rana has shifted his case from state to federal court, accusing the firm's leveraged-finance team of systemic racial discrimination and reiterating earlier claims that he was sexually assaulted by a colleague, reports the Wall Street Journal. "We don't believe there's any merit to these claims," says a bank spokesperson on behalf of the defendants, per Reuters. "While numerous employees cooperated with the investigation, the complainant refused."

Federal Court Rules For Woman Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Mimi Weiss worked for Kaiser Permanente for 20 years before being terminated. Kaiser Permanente wrongly fired an employee who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine because she gave proper notice to the company of her religious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, a federal appeals court has ruled. Mimi Weiss, who worked for Kaiser Permanente's The Permanente Medical Group for 20 years before being fired, "plausibly alleged that she provided notice of her religious conflict with the mandate in her initial request for a religious exemption," Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest wrote on July 24 for a unanimous panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Cracker Barrel Dumps CEO After Woke Logo Fiasco
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have yet to fully recover from outgoing CEO Julie Masino's brief "woke" rebranding effort last year. The family-dining chain quickly restored its iconic "Old Country Store" logo and nostalgic aesthetic. Still, the failed overhaul now appears to have cost Masino her job after exposing a serious failure of brand stewardship.

WNBA to launch replay center
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
... after Caitlin Clark was called racist for saying refs were making bad calls. “This is one of the most significant investments we've ever made in our basketball operations, this investments of tens of millions of dollars will help bring greater consistency, efficiency, and transparency to our officiating process while continuing to improve the quality of the game." Speaking during the league’s State of the League press conference ahead of the WNBA All-Star Game, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the replay center is intended to improve consistency and transparency. She added that details are still being finalized.

Professor Hides White Font in Midterm
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Futurism
Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible. "Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response." The hidden prompt told the AI to sneak in random digressions about Madagascar. The midterm, by the way, was about the Industrial Revolution. And apparently none of the indolent cheats put in the bare modicum of effort required to at least check if what the AI wrote made any sense at all. All they did was copy-paste the midterm instructions into a chatbot, then copy-paste the chatbot’s spiel back into the answer window.

Companies May Soon Be Able to Stop Reporting Employees’ Race
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: City-Journal
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rescinds its requirement that employers report their workforces’ demographic makeup. Every year, going back to the latter half of the 1960s, many American employers—including private companies with at least 100 workers—have had to report the racial and sexual makeup of their workforces to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). That requirement may soon come to an end, thanks to a 2–1 vote from the EEOC and a new proposed rule.

Kansas agrees to halt in-state tuition law for illegal immigrants in DOJ settlement
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Campus Reform
The Justice Department says Kansas violated federal law by giving illegal immigrants tuition and scholarship benefits unavailable to some U.S. citizens. The DOJ announced June 24 that it filed a lawsuit against Kansas in federal court and simultaneously submitted a proposed consent decree with the state that would permanently prevent enforcement of the challenged laws. If approved by the court, the agreement would resolve the federal government’s claims that Kansas unlawfully discriminated against U.S. citizens by offering reduced tuition rates and scholarship opportunities to illegal immigrants.

The myth of medieval childhood
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Works in Progress
Growing up, I acquired a vague idea that medieval people did not view childhood as we do. I was told they saw children merely as defective or incomplete adults, and that they did not love their children as we love ours, perhaps as a way of coping with high infant mortality. As I grew older, I came to associate this idea with the name of Philippe Ariès, a French historian who argued in the 1960s that medieval childhood was profoundly remote in these ways. Ariès’s work never attained complete acceptance in academia, but it was vastly influential on the wider public.

League of Women Voters Declares War on Women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daniel Greenfield
In 2020, Bryce ‘Lindsay’ Hecox, who is a man, sued Idaho over the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, demanding to be allowed to compete against women playing for the Boise State cross-country team. After graduating high school, Mr. Hecox, who had a mediocre high school track record as a man, decided he was really a woman and sued to play on the women’s team. His lawsuit contended that playing against other men “would be inconsistent” with his gender identity, while playing against women was part of his “treatment plan for gender dysphoria.” Speaking in defense of women’s sports were over 100 female athletes and coaches, dozens of female Olympic athletes, Women’s Declaration International, the International Consortium on Female Sport, the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, and the Women’s Liberation Front while arguing against the existence of women’s sports was the League of Women Voters.

The ‘Patriarchy’ is Long Gone, But the Matriarchy is Alive and Well
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: End to DV
Social narratives can be powerful tools for change. One of the most widespread narratives has been the purported existence of a “patriarchy” that systematically oppresses women. For years, feminists have invoked this framework to explain gender disparities. A careful examination of the facts, however, reveals a different story. Claims such as the “gender wage gap,” for example, largely dissolve when accounting for the facts that men work longer hours, in more dangerous occupations, and with different qualifications. Meanwhile, on a broad range of social indicators, men are lagging behind women to a striking degree (1). No serious observer can plausibly claim that a “patriarchy” continues to dominate modern Western societies.

They Are Not Rape Gangs but Something Much Worse
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Lew Rockwell
Jordan Peterson reminds us of the euphemisms such as “grooming” that white liberals use to avoid reality. What is really going on is black domination over white people via sexual conquest in order to prove the cultural depravity of the white society that is too indoctrinated against itself to be able to protect its women and children. Speaking of the 250,000 raped ethnic British girls covered up for 30 years by white governments paralyzed from acting by belief in their white racism, Peterson points out that the rapes were not for sexual pleasure of the rapists, but were hate crimes racially and religiously motivated to destroy British cultural norms, while white authorities anxious to protect “community relations” and fearful of being called racist for prosecuting a black refused to act.

Race politics Universal Principles of Liberalism and the Politics of Race
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Mises Institute
In attempts to rectify what are seen as historical wrongs against certain groups of people, western governments have embarked on programs to engage in wrongs against other groups of people. The universal principles of liberalism are supplanted by policies sure to make matters worse.

The ‘Sex Recession’ is Real
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Quillette
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Debra Soh, author of ‘Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy,’ about neuroscience, hypergamy, elephant seals, politicised sex research, the perils of polyamory, and the sex-repellent scourge of ’phubbing.’

Left-Wing Rushes To Defend Islamic Migrants After Attack On Berlin Pride Parade
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Is the multicultural agenda so vital to the political left that they're willing to sacrifice their own people to protect it...? Is "suicidal empathy" the real cause of the western world's immigration crisis? Or, is the political left completely devoid of empathy? Is the multicultural agenda so important to them that they're willing to sacrifice their own people to protect it? The problem of "intersectionality" and engineered mass immigration is that progressive ideals are not shared or respected by most cultures. Leftists envision a sweeping coalition of socialist and minority groups joining forces to destroy the "evil colonial west", but they seem to be ignoring the fact that foreign elements entering Europe and the US hate liberals as much as they hate conservatives.