Social Justice Fail? Affirmative Action and the ‘Diversity’ Dilemma
CBS News | Exploring the issue of Affirmative Action within the present polarized political climate in the US.
CBS News | Exploring the issue of Affirmative Action within the present polarized political climate in the US.
21WIRE | American education is being destroyed by woke ideology, and some academics have decided to fight back.
JP Sears | Two left-wing Americans, sharing what they really think about freedom of speech.
JP Sears | How to undermine morality and society through the weaponization of political correctness.
From the Manhattan Institute…
What do young progressives believe? In the popular vernacular, they are described as “liberals” or “leftists,” but these familiar labels obscure what is novel about the ideology many young activists are trying to advance in our universities, cultural institutions, media outlets, and even corporations. On issues of race, diversity, gender, and sexual expression these activists have made a clean break with their liberal forebearers.
IMAGE: Woke Hypocrisy: California governor Gavin Newson has single-handedly destroyed the state’s economy in order to appear virtuous and ‘woke’ to a national audience during the COVID crisis, as he prepares his 2024 Presidential run.
How do you define ‘racism’? Is slavery a legacy of the historic Empires? Has wokeness become the new secular religion for this generation of youth? One thing is certain: wokeness, rabid identity politics are now creating a toxic culture of division. Whose got it right, and whose got it wrong?
Could the current antisocial climate of political intolerance in the West lead to future violence, or even civil war? Historian Neil Oliver warns of this possibility.
“We forget how close war is. War is almost a natural state of human beings and we’ve lived in relative piece in much of Europe for a long time and we can trick ourselves into thinking that it won’t happen to us.”
In EP 315 of the SUNDAY WIRE host Patrick Henningsen is joined by SUNDAY WIRE Roving Correspondent for Culture & Sport, Basil Valentine, to discuss how weaponized identity politics is ruining public discourse in America and Europe and how politics is no longer a forum for debate – it’s where special interest groups issue ultimatums, which invariably opens the door for more oppression as undemocratic forces enter the vacuum created by censorship.
A Cartoonist – Ben Garrison had his invitation to the White House recalled after one of his cartoons [pictured above] was “labeled anti-Semitic,” Politico reported.