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Women’s Studies Professor Accuses Trump Supporters of ‘Terrorism’

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

 

Donald Trump’s supporters are not “equal” to Democrats, a University of New Hampshire professor said in a Facebook post blaming Republicans for “terrorism” against women, gays and minorities.

Professor Siobhan Senier, a member of the core faculty of the UNH Women’s Studies program, criticized Trump supporters in a message to university officials demanding punishment of students who counter-protested at an anti-Trump walkout rally on the campus. The Nov. 15 walkout was supported by the Women’s Studies department which encouraged students to use their facilities to make anti-Trump signs.

Two counter-protesters turned out at the UNH protest in costumes depicting former president Richard Nixon and Harambe the Gorilla. This provoked Professor Senier’s letter to UNH President Mark W. Huddleston and Provost Nancy Targett, posted on Facebook.

“I applaud your recent affirmation, in your post-election letter to the community, of ‘our university’s commitment to diversity, inclusion and mutual respect,” Professor Senier wrote:

At the same time, many of us who received that letter were concerned that it treated “all sides” as equal. And yet no critically thinking person can say that people supporting and people opposing Donald Trum are “equal.” Trump’s campaign traded on an unprecedented and indeed uncivil level of racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism and xenophobia. As the College Democrats so astutely pointed out on their event Facebook page, this does not mean everyone who voted for Trump are themselves bigots, but it is to point out that Trump supporters are not remotely vulnerable to the kinds of terrorism already being leveled against women, people of color, LGBTQ people, Muslims and others. . . .
President Huddleston and Provost Targett, I would urge you not to take refuge behind the kind of bland “we’re-all-in-this-together” line that is currently so prevalent in public discourse. I implore you, instead, to take a strong stand on behalf of our most vulnerable students, faculty and staff.

 

Professor Senier’s message was echoed by another member of the UNH Women’s Studies faculty, Professor Robin Hackett, who posted on Facebook: “Time to call for an investigation leading to the expulsion of these students.” The attempt by faculty to suppress support for Trump on the UNH campus follows in the wake of complaints that university officials violated New Hampshire state law by supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Emails obtained by Wikileaks showed Michael Ettlinger, director of UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy, contacted Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in March 2015 offering to be “helpful” to the Democrat’s campaign.

A UNH spokeswoman said the Facebook postings by the women’s studies program were inappropriate.
“UNH is troubled by the partisan nature of many social media posts by the women’s studies department. UNH encourages its students, faculty and staff to be engaged citizens but as a university we do not advocate for particular candidates or political parties. Those posts will be taken down,” said Erika Mantz, UNH director of media relations, on [Nov. 16]. . . .
The UNH women’s studies Facebook page was also used to urge people to attend UNH campus visits by Gov. and U.S. Sen.-elect Maggie Hassan, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Planned Parenthood national executive Cecile Richards and NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilye Hogue.

More at Campus Reform and from Milo Yiannopoulos.

 

Category: Education, Sex Trouble

Rape Hoax at University of Alabama

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | Comments Off on Rape Hoax at University of Alabama

 

Feminists keep telling us college girls never lie about rape:

A University of Alabama student who claimed to have been raped [Nov. 13] by two men was not attacked, authorities said [Nov. 18].
The student, 18-year-old Emma Mannion, made up the incident and now is under arrest, said Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Capt. Gary Hood. Mannion is charged with filing a false report, a Class A misdemeanor.
The teen told police she was forced inside a red Jeep Cherokee in or near the parking area of Solomon’s parking lot at 650 Wallace Wade Ave. at 2 a.m. Sunday. She reported the assault occurred inside the vehicle by two men, one of them a Hispanic male with a wiry build.
Hood said today detectives interviewed witnesses and recovered video surveillance of the area which did not support Mannion’s initial account of the incident. After confronting Mannion with this evidence, Mannion admitted to investigators she falsified her report.
“She confessed to making up the report,” Hood said. He declined to go into the reason gave for doing so.
Mannion was with a group of people around the time of the alleged incident. Investigators spoke with people she was with immediately before and after she said the attack happened.
Fortunately, Hood said, there are multiple surveillance cameras throughout Tuscaloosa, both on and off campus. “It disputed what she told us early on,” Hood said.

It’s not her fault. The oppressive patriarchy made her do it.

 

Category: Crime, Education, Sex Trouble

‘F–k Your Fascist Beauty Standards’

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

Part of what is wrong with feminism is that feminists are never required to account for their blatant selfishness and dishonesty:

What I have described as “aesthetic egalitarianism” — the feminist claim that distinctions of beauty are irrelevant or oppressive — is never applied to men. Tall, handsome, muscular men obviously enjoy advantages over short, ugly, fat men, especially in terms of their romantic opportunities, but this reality is unacknowledged in feminist discourse. One does not find young feminists choosing Danny DeVito lookalikes over Gerard Butler lookalikes. . . .
When feminists denounce “double standards” as sexist, they do not mean to expose their own preferences to criticism. Every guy knows that women always prefer a rich guy to a poor guy, for example, and there is nothing the short bald guy can do that will ever make him equal, in women’s eyes, to the tall guy with a full head of hair. This is simply the way life is, and no intelligent man spends much time worrying about it. Life is unfair. Get over it.
In 1996, a 23-year-old woman living in Portland, Oregon, decided to create a T-shirt with the slogan “F–k Your Fascist Beauty Standards.” Jill Portugal’s company, “One Angry Girl,” has sold many thousands of feminist T-shirts in the past 20 years, without explaining what the phrase “beauty standards” is supposed to mean, or why such standards are “fascist.” Instead, this kind of sloganeering functions as an anti-male insult, a way for the feminist to denounce heterosexual men for preferring beautiful women to ugly women. . . .

Read the rest at The Patriarch Tree.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Politico ‘Journalist’ Resigns After Doxing Trump Supporter Richard Spencer

Posted on | November 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

Our Neutral Objective Media:

National editor at Politico Michael Hirsh resigned after publishing the home addresses of alt-right figurehead Richard Spencer Tuesday morning and advocating for serious violence.
Politico confirmed his resignation following requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Stop whining about Richard B. Spencer, Nazi, and exercise your rights as decent Americans,” Hirsh wrote in a public Facebook post. “Here are his two addresses.” . . .
“These posts were clearly outside the bounds of acceptable discourse, and POLITICO editors regard them as a serious lapse of newsroom standards,” Politico Editor-In-Chief John Harris and Editor Carrie Budoff Brown told TheDCNF. “They crossed a line in ways that the publication will not defend, and editors are taking steps to ensure that such a lapse does not occur again.”
While Hirsh’s initial post could have been charitably interpreted to imply advocacy of a non-violent protest outside of Spencer’s home or other similar non-violent actions, a subsequent question and answer clarified Hirsh’s intentions.
“Completely agree we should mobilize against his hateful ideas, but what does knowing his home addresses do?” one Facebook user asked Hirsh. “Send a letter? Confront him in person? . . .”
Hirsh responded in an unhinged manner: “I wasn’t thinking of a fucking letter, Doug. He lives part of the time next door to me in Arlington. Our grandfathers brought baseball bats to Bund meetings. Want to join me?”

(Via Memeorandum.) Full disclosure: I’ve known Richard Spencer since 2007, when he and I participated in a panel discussion about the Duke lacrosse case, and he published some of my columns in 2009 when he was editor at Taki’s Magazine. Richard enjoyed some of my gonzo stuff, and I was hate-listed by the SPLC before being hate-listed by the SPLC was cool, so we had that in common.

Any conservative who is willing to think outside the box — to speculate about root causes of our cultural decay — is apt to attract this kind of controversy, and I sometimes have to remind myself that I’m neither an activist nor an “intellectual,” but merely a journalist. The difference between me and most conservative journalists is that I was a journalist before I was a conservative. Earning my living as a reporter and editor covering local news for small-town Georgia newspapers wasn’t about ideology or partisan politics, it was about facts, and that experience gave me a point of view that is different from most others.

By “different,” I don’t mean better, just . . . different. And so when other journalists start freaking out over someone like Richard Spencer, it amuses me. People have freaked out over me, after all, and knowing that I’m basically harmless, I always figure that whoever is this week’s Scary Right-Wing Personality is less scary than his reputation would suggest. This is doubly true when I actually know the person who is at the center of the firestorm of controversy. As I have often said, Richard Spencer is a young guy who has read too much Nietzsche. He is highly intelligent and, because he was a graduate student at Duke during the carnival of hate and lies surround the false accusation of rape against members of the university’s lacrosse team, Richard saw the academic Left at its absolute worst. He reacted harshly against this, which hardened his commitment to a sort of mirror-reverse of the “By Any Means Necessary” mentality that prevails on the Left. Is Richard Spencer wrong to think this way?

That’s not really a question I’d care to examine. Instead, I think we ought to ask what facts — what objective reality — Richard Spencer has perceived that led him to adopt his controversial opinions. He is highly intelligent, as I say, and it is therefore a mistake to dismiss him as an ignorant bigot, or to react to him as a neo-Nazi cartoon stereotype.

For years, I have covered the “extremist fringe” of politics, both Left and Right. This was what attracted my attention to radical feminism, after all, and when you have gay Marxists protesting Donald Trump, it is wrong to suppose the Right has a monopoly on “extremist fringe” politics.

We need more balance in journalism — more honesty, more facts, more truth. We are not going to get that from the liberal media, and so we must roll up our sleeves and continue doing it ourselves. Selah.



 

Category: Media Bias, Racism

In The Mailbox: 11.22.16

Posted on | November 22, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: I’m Not Saying It’s UFOs, But It’s UFOs
Twitchy: Olbermann, Perez Hilton Play Nazi Card Against Ann Coulter, She Punches Back Hard
Louder With Crowder: Texas Professor Pens Hilarious Letter To Anti-Trump Student Snowflakes


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Openly Racist
American Power: Anarchists Promise Inauguration Disruption – Bikers For Trump To Ride
American Thinker: Watching The Snowflakes Melt
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Science Tuesday News
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Secret Service Dogs by Maria Goodavage
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Where The True Line Is Drawn, also, Oleg Atbashian Vs. George Mason U – Analysis: True
Don Surber: How To Talk At Thanksgiving This Year
Dustbury: Reversal Of Course
Jammie Wearing Fools: Trump’s Supposed “Muslim Registry” Is Just More Fake News
Joe For America: Obama Halts Homeland Security Border Surveillance Program – Border Officially Wide Open
JustOneMinute: Identity Politics As A Dead End For The Left?
Pamela Geller: NBC Busted On Bias, Cuts Priebus “Registry Based On Religion” Remark
Power Line: Desperate Democrats Turn To Death Threats, also, The Trouble With Keith Ellison
Shark Tank: DOJ Fines Denver Sheriff Dept. For Only Hiring U.S. Citizens
Shot In The Dark: Death From Taxes
STUMP: Dallas Police And Fire – The Pension That Ate Dallas
The Jawa Report: Shitball Arrested In Murder Of Detective Marconi, also, Uber-Terrorist Arrested In NYC
The Political Hat: Dissolving The Last Remnants Of The Old Republic
This Ain’t Hell: Ignoring The Lessons Of The 2016 Elections, also, David Shumock – Air Force PJ With The Peshmerga
Weasel Zippers: Politico Editor Resigns After Doxxing Alt-Right Leader, Suggesting People Visit Him With Baseball Bats, also, Protesters Planning “Largest, Most Disruptive Protest Ever” In 340 Cities
Mark Steyn: Jingle Bells


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Category: Linkagery

In The Mailbox: 11.21.16

Posted on | November 21, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was The Play?
EBL: Lefty Rocker Steven van Zandt Defends Pence – Hamilton Cast Should Apologize
Twitchy: Here’s Today’s Reminder That Hillary’s E-Mail Troubles Didn’t Disappear With Her Presidential Ambitions
Louder With Crowder: SNL Hilariously Mocks Clinton Supporters Living In A Bubble


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Best Clint Eastwood Pickup Lines
American Power: Why Jeff Sessions Has Conservatives So Fired Up
American Thinker: The High-Water Mark Of Progressivism
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – The Earl by Katharine Ashe
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Media Insanity Over Trump Win Continues
Don Surber: President Trump Doesn’t Need The Waterboy To Coach Him, AP
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, No Sense Of Perspective
Jammie Wearing Fools: Keep Up The Tantrums, Kids – Trump’s Approval Up Nine Points Since Election Day
Joe For America: Anonymous Goes Live – “The Takedown Of George Soros Has Begun!”
JustOneMinute: Did Anyone See This Coming?
Pamela Geller: NY Governor Unleashes War On Law & Order – “We Are All Immigrants”
Power Line: Are All Liberals Rude And Arrogant?, also, Can Trump Recruit Tulsi Gabbard?
Shark Tank: Wassermann Schultz On “Trying To Rig The Outcome Of The Primary”
Shot In The Dark: The Strib – Lowering Their Own Bar?
STUMP: California Consequences – Turns Out Pensions Can Be Cut
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In Moderate Jordan, also, War Porn – US/Russia Vs. ISIS Tag Team Edition
The Political Hat: Segregation As Social Justice At UC Berkeley
This Ain’t Hell: GMAFB, Part…Aw Hell I Lost Count, also, Mattis For Defense Secretary
Weasel Zippers: Trump Releases Video Outlining Plans For First 100 Days, also, University Officials Declare America-Themed Parties “Harmful” And Offensive
Mark Steyn: Going Ape Over The Monkey


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Category: Linkagery

You Did It! Thank You!

Posted on | November 21, 2016 | 1 Comment

Daughter Reagan working on the thank-you card list.

Late Friday, I put up an appeal for $900 to enable our family to travel to our oldest daughter’s home for Thanksgiving. By Saturday afternoon, I could report to the family that we would meet that goal. Our youngest daughter, 13-year-old Reagan, has been assigned to send thank-you cards to folks who hit the tip jar during this weekend campaign.

“You should be thankful for this opportunity,” I told her. “This is a hands-on lesson in online fundraising. Capitalism works.”

One of my daughter’s friends is a huge Trump fan, and I explained to my daughter that I first met Donald Trump’s chief of staff Steve Bannon when I interviewed him in June 2011 about his Sarah Palin documentary.

“Steve’s a friend of mine,” I told my daughter. “When we go to the inauguration, maybe you can meet him.”

Last year, for her seventh-grade history project at school, my daughter did her presentation as — who else? — President Ronald Reagan.

 

My daughter has studied the history of Reagan’s career and presidency, including his famous 1981 inauguration speech in which he declared:

“It is time for us to realize that we’re too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”

That optimism — a refusal “to limit ourselves to small dreams” — is what has inspired me to believe that I could step out into thin air, as it were, and make blogging a career. Reader contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund have enabled me to keep going despite all obstacles and opposition. Who knows what adventures may await in the future? Thank you for your support, thank you for your prayers, and may God bless you.



 

 

Category: Shoe Leather Fund

Step One: FAIL

Posted on | November 21, 2016 | 2 Comments

This feminist bumper sticker — “Hillary 2016, Michelle 2014, Chelsea 2032, Sasha 2040, Malia 2048” — was designed by Karin Hildebrand Lau. It was posted to Tumblr in July by a “non-binary queer intersectional feminist” who said “Reblog this to make Conservatives angry.” Oops.

Believing themselves to be On The Right Side of History, progressives have been losing a lot of elections lately. The hubris that has led them to these disasters originates in the Left’s certainty of their own moral and intellectual superiority. The Left is essentially totalitarian, and does not believe that it should have to prove its claims in open debate. The bias of the media, and the progressive consensus that dominates academia, means that the college-educated young liberal has likely never encountered a conservative antagonist whom he was required to take seriously. The Right has no prestige, no influence, no power on the 21st-century university campus, and so the young liberal is never confronted by an intelligent and articulate adversary during his collegiate career.

“But all the smart people agree with me!” the progressive young person says to himself, when he encounters opposition in the real world. The liberal doesn’t see that this apparent consensus of Smart People™ is a manufactured product, the result of epistemic closure in academia. As early as 1951, with the publication of William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale, it became evident that there were deep problems in American higher education, if Yale — then widely considered a conservative “establishment” institution — was promoting socialism in its economics curriculum. The Left’s takeover of academia since the 1960s (see Roger Kimball’s Tenured Radicals) has resulted in an unofficial policy of discrimination that prevents Republicans from being employed in the faculty of humanities and social sciences at most universities.

This bias in our education system has replicated itself in the fields of journalism and entertainment, where “progressive” politics now results in, e.g., Broadway actors presuming themselves qualified to lecture the next Vice President of the United States. The cast of Hamilton cannot admit the possibility that intelligent people could look at politics and reject their progressive philosophy. The Left never considers that their own ignorance is the basic problem. One doubts that Lin-Manuel Miranda has ever read Buckley, or Richard Weaver, or Friedrich Hayek, or Thomas Sowell, ad infinitum. In fact, Lin-Manuel Miranda is a partisan hack:

On July 12, Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda stood up at his show and welcomed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to his show.
“This November, the difference could not be more stark, who do you think is going to get closer to those ideals?” he asked, referring to the Constitution and the founding fathers. “Are you going to vote for the guy who wants to build a wall, or for someone who’s building bridges?”
Miranda introduced Clinton as “the forty-fifth president of the United States” as she took the stage to address the crowd.
Why? Because it was a private fundraiser. Miranda hosted a special performance of the show exclusively for donors to Clinton’s presidential campaign. Tickets ranged from $2,700 to a whopping $100,000.
“I have now seen it three times, first at the Public and twice here, and I cry every time,” Clinton said.
Miranda tweeted a photo of himself with both Bill and Hillary Clinton urging America to “include women in the sequel” of the American story.

Well, so much for that plan, eh?

What liberals cannot understand is that their politics is a form of prejudice, a set of unexamined assumptions about how the world works, and unrealistic ideas about how the world could or should work.

So the feminists who thought they could “make Conservatives angry” — elect Hillary, and taunt Republicans with the result — were guilty of the same kind of smug self-righteousness that led Lin-Manuel Miranda to think he was promoting “the forty-fifth president of the United States” in July, and to think he was qualified to lecture Mike Pence last week.

Meanwhile, young “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer says Trump’s election makes him and his colleagues the new establishment:

“The Alt-Right has been declared the winner [of this presidential election],” Spencer said on the night Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. “The Alt-Right is more deeply connected to Trumpian populism than the ‘conservative movement.’”
“We’re the establishment now,” he concluded.

The Left has failed. Maybe they should think about why they failed.

UPDATE: Typical “humor” from Feminist Tumblr:

http://beavesaintmarie.tumblr.com/post/153070911355/procyonvulpecula-shittyidea-reverse-robin

 

Gosh, I wonder why people hate feminists so much?

 

Category: Election, Sex Trouble
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