RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/suffer_the_children.html

In 2001, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple wrote Life at the Bottom.  He had “little hesitation in saying that the mental, cultural, emotional and spiritual impoverishment of the Western underclass [was] the greatest of any large group of people he had encountered anywhere.”  This he stated unequivocally despite his work in some of the poorest societies in Africa, the Pacific, and Latin America.

I have damnable empirical evidence that this impoverishment is truly hurting young Americans.

I may grade up to 100 papers per week, and it is getting to me.  It is not because of the poor grammar or awkward syntax.  It is not that the majority of students cannot compose a paper with clear-cut transitions and logical organization.  It is not because they have a limited vocabulary base or that they have no comprehension of the nuance of the language.  No, that has sadly become standard.

It is getting to me because I too often read such items as the following from a young girl who was sexually abused by her stepfather.

Throughout my life I lived without a father figure since my dad left me at a young age for my little sister that he was expecting from another women [sic].  I think I need no man to protect me or keep me safe when I can do that on my own without any help.  I won’t allow any man to get near me to even protect me.

…or this from a young man:

My father is a cruel man, a liar, a cheater and a deserter.  Living without a biological father was difficult but I marched on forward and realized I don’t need him.

…or…

You can never love someone too much because once they [sic] are gone you will lose yourself as well.

…or…

I would like to find a way to have the ability to forget about depression.

…or this from another young man:

I was in a relationship for a year with a person who would abuse me physically and mentally.  There would be times where I would cry because of the pain and she would either slap me or punch me in the chest and tell me to man up.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/11/01/new-report-on-anti-semitism-at-columbia-university-barnard-points-to-a-hotbed-for-hate/
The 33-page dossier “reveals the disturbing truth about anti-Semitism at one of the highest-regarded universities in the United States.”

The American NGO Alums for Campus Fairness released a comprehensive report last week that documents what ACF describes as “systemic anti-Semitism and an ingrained delegitimization of Israel” at Columbia University and its sister school, Barnard College.

The 33-page dossier documents more than 100 incidents that have made Columbia and Barnard “a hotbed for hate” since the 2016-17 academic year.

The catalog categorized each act into one of these categories: anti-Semitic expressions, meaning language, imagery or behavior that would be considered anti-Semitic according to the guidelines outlined by the US State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism; incidents targeting Jewish students and staff; or activity related to the anti-Israel BDS movement.

In one such incident, Students for Justice in Palestine held a “die-in” on the Columbia campus in May and released a statement that condoned terrorism, denied the right to Jewish self-determination, and accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/SJP-has-ties-to-terror-is-antisemitic-force-on-campus-report-606415

BAD, BAD, BAD – Harvard, Columbia, Stony Brook, Georgetown, Brandeis, Penn State, Rutgers, Temple, University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, University of Washington, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Florida State, University of North Carolina, University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at Austin and numerous universities in Canada.DPS

The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is an “antisemitic force on campus,” according to a new 96-page report about the organization. 

The document, published by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) in advance of NSJP’s annual conference being held November 1-3, tracks the history of the organization and highlights how NSJP “promotes antisemitic rhetoric” and is “associated [with] violence and terror, ideologically and politically.”  
The study, titled “National Students for Justice in Palestine and the Promotion of Hate and Antisemitism on the University Campus: The Threat to Academic Freedom,” is authored by Charles Asher Small, David Patterson and Glen Feder.

“For centuries, the most violent antisemitic attacks on Jews, including expulsions and pogroms, were rationalized by a need to bring justice to other groups,” said ISGAP chairman Natan Sharansky. “Today, the new antisemitism is brought to the world of academia under the pretext of justice for Palestinians.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/the_pronoun_police_are_out_to_destroy_children.html

In the olden days, students would learn that avoiding shifts in person is critical in producing clear and cogent writing.

Not anymore.

Instead, October 16, 2019 marked International Pronouns Day, because “asking someone their [sic] lived pronouns and using them affirms that person’s gender identity and is a major way of respect.  Being referred to by the wrong pronouns especially affects transgender and gender nonconformng individuals.”

O Brave New World.

In order to promote the cause of pronoun use, one needs to accept the premise that it is  patently incorrect to think of biological sexual identity as comprising a boy or a girl.

Rid yourself of this view, because according to the purveyors of pronoun plurality, “we also live in a culture that uses ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ interchangeably.  However, these two aspects that contribute [to] one’s sexuality and identity are actually two separate entities.  As we come to understand how different people understand the various facets that make up how we think about gender, we come to realize that there are many ways to look at these aspects of identity.  One way to simplify the many components of gender identity, gender expression, sexuality, and biological sex is by using the Genderbread Person model, created and illustrated [b]y Sam Killerman, author of itspronouncedmetrosexual.com and LGBT advocate.”

https://pjmedia.com/trending/georgetown-welcomes-back-prof-who-doxxed-men-called-for-deaths-of-gop-senators/

The professor who called for the “miserable deaths” of GOP Senators and who doxxed those who sent her hate-mail will return to Georgetown University to teach two classes this semester.

Christine Fair — an Associate Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown — first came to national attention when she called for the “miserable deaths” of GOP Senators in the wake of the Brett Kavanaugh trial last September.

Not long after, PJ Media discovered that Fair was running her own doxing blog (now-defunct for violating Twitter’s community guidelines), where dozens of posts published the names, addresses, phone numbers, and workplaces of men who disagreed with her.

“I do research for a living,” wrote Fair in one doxxing post. “Locating [these men’s] residences… their wives, employers, etc… is a mental sport for me,” she added.

PJ Media reviewed hundreds of posts on Fair’s doxxing blog and identified at least 11 accounts of full-blown doxxing, during which full names, addresses, aliases, and even family members’ phone numbers were made public.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-schools-flunk-11572475768

The highest-achieving students are doing better and the lowest are doing worse than a decade ago. That’s one depressing revelation from the latest Nation’s Report Card that details how America’s union-run public schools are flunking.

The results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, which is administered to students around the country every two years, were published on Wednesday. There isn’t much to cheer. Only 35% of fourth graders rated proficient in reading, which is about the same as in 2009. Worse, students have backslid in reading over the last two years.

While median math and reading scores have stayed about the same over the last decade, achievement gaps are increasing. Since 2009 scores for the lowest 10% of students fell by about as much as they improved for the top 10%. The 90th percentile of eighth graders in math scored about four points higher while the bottom tenth scored five points lower.

https://zoa.org/2019/10/10426206-zoa-praises-u-mass-chancellor-for-condemning-bds-as-polarizing-and-anti-semitic/

DPS Note: Every win in Academia is a big one because that’s where the Jew haters are breeding their followers and every kid we lose to their lies and hatred will be out there tomorrow while we ask ourselves “How the hell did this happen?”

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy today for his statement condemning an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) event that will take place on campus on November 12, 2019, entitled “The Attack on BDS and American Democracy.”  A private foundation has, as many non-UMass organizations regularly do, rented space on campus to host the event.

Chancellor Subbaswamy wrote that despite university concerns about the event, “as a public institution UMass is bound by the First Amendment to apply a content-neutral standard when making facilities available to outside organizations” and therefore would not prevent the event from proceeding.

Importantly, however, the Chancellor made it clear that:

UMass “remains firmly opposed to BDS and academic boycotts of any kind.”  The Chancellor pointed out the irony that BDS supporters rely on academic freedom to promote their views, yet advocate for the BDS movement, which seeks to suppress academic freedom by shutting down pro-Israel speakers and voices.
UMass condemns the upcoming event as “one-dimensional” and “polarizing”; it “fails to acknowledge the humanity on the Israeli side of the conflict.”  The Chancellor wrote, “A panel discussion where only one perspective is shared does little to increase the understanding of such a complex topic like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Many consider the anti-Israel BDS event to be anti-Semitic and alienating to Jewish and other members of the campus community.
UMass opposes the anti-Israel BDS event and its sponsors; their values are not ours:  “When outside organizations come onto our campus and give a high-profile platform for one-sided and divisive political positions that some view as deeply offensive, they are saying to valued members of our community that they don’t belong. This is the antitheses of our commitment to inclusion, and we will not hesitate to speak out against efforts to divide our campus community.”

Responding to Chancellor Subbaswamy’s eloquent statement, ZOA National President Morton A. Klein and Director of ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. said:  Thank you, Chancellor Subbaswamy, for your leadership and for making it clear that anti-Semitic and anti-Israel BDS activities are divisive and polarizing, and discourage the free exchange of ideas. They violate not only university values but also human, moral values.  Particularly given the serious problem of anti-Semitism in this country, including on our college campuses, you are a role model for other university leaders.”

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/press-release-jew-hatred-exposed-umn-during-natl-david-horowitz-freedom-center/

In a stealth campaign to reach students directly, the David Horowitz Freedom Center today distributed 2000 newspapers containing its new report on the “Top Ten Colleges that Promote Jew Hatred and Incite Terrorism” as well as posters condemning the Hamas-funded BDS movement against Israel on the University of Minnesota campus. The University of Minnesota is one of the schools named in the report.

The newspaper distribution coincides with the National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference, a highly controversial event known for promoting Jew hatred and anti-Israel terrorism, which will take place this weekend at the University of Minnesota.

Titled “From Campus to Congress: Allied with Terror,” the report documents the malignant spread of Jew hatred in our nation’s academic institutions. “Jew hatred is no longer solely the purview of academic outliers, those institutions known for radical activism and absurdist teachings,” the report explains. “The Jew hatred promoted by Hamas through its front group Students for Justice in Palestine has now trickled down to infect less typically activist campuses in the heartland—including the University of Minnesota which will host this year’s National Students for Justice in Palestine conference.”

A poster included in the pages of each newspaper highlights the role that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, whose district includes the University of Minnesota, has played in promoting the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The poster features images of Rep. Omar and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, accompanied by a notorious tweet from Omar stating “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” The caption above this image states “BDS: Finishing the Work that Hitler Started.” These same posters were also hung in public locations on the Minnesota campus.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/what-the-left-tells-young-americans/

Here are some of the messages the Left has been giving America’s young people:

Your past is terrible, and your future is terrible.

The American past is a story of genocide, slavery, racism, patriarchy, and colonialism. You should be ashamed of it.

As regards your future, your very existence is in jeopardy. You may well die at a young age unless society completely shifts from fossil fuels to wind and solar power. In fact, your future is so bleak you should probably not consider getting married and having children.

If you are a girl, you should know that American society has contempt for you. You will be paid less than a man for the exact same work and exact same number of hours of work. You will have between a 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 chance of being sexually assaulted if you attend college. There is a glass ceiling that will prevent you from professional success. And professional success, not marriage and family, is what you should concentrate on.

That none of the above is true is irrelevant to the Left. What is relevant to the Left is that these messages make young women into leftists — because they make them angry (virtually all leftists are angry), sad (there are happy liberals and happy conservatives but very few happy leftists), and lonely (singles are overwhelmingly on the left).

If you are a young black, the most important thing for you to know is that this country loathes you — that racism is “part of our DNA,” as President Barack Obama put it — and that just being black gets you suspended or expelled from school, shot by police, denied the vote whenever possible, and disproportionately imprisoned.