http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/the_corruption_of_climate_literacy.html A recent Wall Street Journal article expressed concern about low math and science standards in the Common Core curriculum, despite President Obama’s frequent speechifying about the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. There are many possible explanations for this sorry state of affairs, but one factor that doesn’t add anything positive […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4120/islamization-france “Who has the right to say that France in thirty or forty years will not be a Muslim country? Who has the right in this country to deprive us of it?” — Marwan Muhammed, spokesman, Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), Paris. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said he was “shocked” by an RTL Radio […]
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4119/israeli-arabs-palestinian-state It is much easier for Palestinians to accuse Israel of racism than to admit they do not want to be part of a Palestinian state. “This is an imaginary proposal that relates to the Arabs as if they were chess pieces that could be moved around according to the wish of the players.” — […]
A version of this column is scheduled for publication Jan. 6, 2014 at worldtribune.com and at http:yeoldecrabb.com Rather suddenly there is a welter of developments turning Asia’s dozen-odd countries into a cat’s cradle of conflicting interests – some new — that could lead to war. Central, of course, is “a rising” China. The Chinese, […]
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-hero-of-zion-turns-100/#ixzz2paFt6HLg By the age of 21 my Great Uncle Max had joined a right-wing European Zionist organization in Europe, infiltrated Hitler Youth and fled Hitler’s grasp to Mandate Palestine with the help of a German police officer. Max’s son, Gershon, told me that Max fought the Syrians during Israel’s War for Independence and later become […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2014/01/more_of_those_dead_european_white_guys.html n his blog post of January 5, 2014, Rick Moran highlights the piece by Heather McDonald concerning the destruction of the traditional humanities course of study. In line with this, at The Chronicle of Higher Education dated December 4, 2014, one is greeted with the title “MOOCs as Neocolonialism: Who Controls Knowledge?” MOOCs stand for Massive Open Online Courses and are “aimed at unlimited […]
Inequality is the condition of being unequal- in size, intelligence etc.
It definitely exits….A President or Mayor of a metropolis, or Senate Majority leader, or Secretary of Defense are definitely unequal to the tasks for which they were elected.
No doubt about it….rsk
Vijeta Uniyal is an Indian entrepreneur based in Germany. He is founder of “Indian Friends of Israel”, an initiative of Indian Diaspora in Europe to promote friendship between India and Israel.
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4553/asian_immigrant_s_disgust_at_european_anti_semitism
With soccer star Nicolas Anelka in mind, the “quenelle” gesture popularized by French “performance artist” Dieudonné says something about anti-Semitism in Europe and why it should bother us, immigrants or not.
The case of French footballer Nicolas Anelka, his “celebratory” quenelle gesture and his subsequent curious defense has once again raised allegations and concerns over the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe.
The quenelle gesture which has been described by some as an inverted Nazi-style salute, has been popularized by the French comedian Dieudonné. Monsieur Dieudonné and his fans defend quenelle as an “anti-establishment” gesture and maintain that it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
The fact that Monsieur Dieudonné has been convicted seven times for his anti-Semitic utterances and may well be on the way to his eighth trial, this time for implying that a Jewish journalist belongs in a gas chamber, hasn’t deterred his supporters from keeping on making that claim.
Monsieur Dieudonné who considers himself as a performance artist does not draw his fan-base from the French Far-Right, but from the mainstream of French society, mainly educated, urban youth.
In the age of Social Media the quenelle gesture has gone viral throughout Europe with people sharing their photographs of joyfully giving quenelle salutes and occasionally with very disturbing backdrops, like the Auschwitz death camp, the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam or the Jewish school in Toulouse where a massacre took place in 2012.
The French Striker Nicolas Anelka has been quick to plead ignorance to the wider implications of his highly public gesture, so did NBA Star Tony Parker before him and other major or minor celebrities like him in the past.
The incident wIll hardly affect Mr. Anelka’s football career and most probably he will be let off with a proverbial slap on the wrist. Considering the nature of Social Media this infamous gesture too may fade away as just another seasonal fad.
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The trouble with diversity is in the name. In every area of human endeavor, we prefer quality over quantity. If quality is not a straightforward measure, we make our selections based on our needs.Diversity has no place in such sensible schemes. The purpose of diversity is diversity. It’s not to make anything better. It’s pure quantity over quality with the quantity being that of exoticism.
If the group of people you have employed or picked out of a stock photo to represent what your company might look like if it consisted entirely of stock photo models, isn’t sufficiently diverse, then it’s bad, regardless of how well it works.
Diversity is not necessarily a bad thing. Different people do have different points of view. You wouldn’t want a company filled only with only employees under thirty or over ninety. Women have different perspectives than men. Europeans and Asians have different perspectives than Americans.
Some of those differences are helpful in some lines of work. Some aren’t. To tell the two apart requires thinking of diversity as a means which is different than thinking of it as an end.
Progressives pay lip service to the idea that diversity can be a means to better things. Diversity to them is an end in and of itself. Diversity is a ritual that expunges white privilege and reinforces the liberal hierarchy of the white man who lets the diverse peoples in all their magnificent diversity through the iron gates of the heteronormative racist patriarchy.
Diversity is a good thing if it’s based on quality, rather than quantity, if you select people with different points of view who can contribute, rather than people with different points of view who can shout at you, demand that you respect their feelings and promote them for being professional victims.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/01/03/more-than-a-gesture-behind-euro-jew-hate/#.Usg41eOXwQg.email
Most of us may not have heard of it until recently, but the quenelle, the name given to a hand gesture that is a downward facing Nazi salute, has become an important symbol of the shift in European culture in recent years. Created by Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, an anti-Semitic French comedian, the quenelle is now all the rage in France. Soccer players do it after scoring goals and the comic’s fans, including soldiers, send him pictures in which it is performed in every conceivable manner, especially at sites like Holocaust memorials, synagogues, and schools. Even Tony Parker, a French citizen and an American basketball star of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs, has had his picture taken performing it with Dieudonné, as he is known on stage, though Parker has since apologized. As such it is an all-too-pertinent example of how Jew hatred has moved from the margins of European society to the mainstream as a result of what the U.S. State Department has termed a “rising tide” of anti-Semitism.
Though M’Bala M’Bala claims the gesture is nothing more than an “anti-system” inside joke, his attempts at humor tend to revolve around resentment against Jews. That allows the jest to be the not-so-secret handshake that brings disaffected Muslim immigrants together with the denizens of the far right in a shared community of hate in which Jewish targets are the punch lines. But while French authorities, including sports league officials, are seeking to discourage its use, the problem here is a lot bigger than one foul-mouthed show-business personality and his followers.
At a time when the efforts of European intellectual elites to delegitimize Israel has frequently crossed the line into anti-Semitism, and the growing population of North Africans and Africans have brought their own brand of traditional animus toward Jews onto the continent, the quenelle is the perfect example of the changed atmosphere in Europe and the way practitioners of Jew hatred have managed to portray themselves as trendy rather than throwbacks to the Holocaust.
