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By Selwyn Duke Just two weeks ago I warned, to echo Mark Twain, that rumors of DEI’s death are greatly exaggerated. While “the label ‘DEI’ is new, the product it identifies is more than half a century old,” I stated. … And make no mistake, its predicates are still embedded in our culture.” For this…
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By Selwyn Duke What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast,…
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By Selwyn Duke What do you think of the following information about the hiring of air traffic controllers? Candidates “whose worst subject in high school was science [and who played a lot of sports] and candidates who are unemployed receive the most points possible on the test” (for the position), wrote The Blaze in 2018. “In contrast,…
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By Selwyn Duke Ah, those carefree days of youth, when kids feel so bulletproof that they may seem oblivious to their own mortality. Well, that’s the way it was, anyway. If a new study is to be believed, however, this has changed, with Gen Z young people being more mother hen than rowdy rooster. In…
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By Selwyn Duke Question: How do the following college courses grab you? “The Phallus” “Queer Musicology” “Border Crossings, Borderlands: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Immigration” “Whiteness: The Other Side of Racism” “Native American Feminisms” “Sex Change City: Theorizing History in Genderqueer San Francisco” “Lesbian Pulp Fiction” No, the preceding are not from the film PCU (Politically Correct U),…
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By Selwyn Duke President Trump has made clear that he aims to trump Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) schemes. Democrats aim to trump him and keep them alive. And while the president will very likely win the current battle, in the federal political realm, what of the war? Is this just a matter of killing…
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By Selwyn Duke Methinks the man doth protest too much. This twist on a Shakespeare line could come to mind while pondering the story of one Darrin Bell, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist. Bell is famous for, among other things, drawing anti-Trump cartoons in which he portrays the president as a vile sex offender. He also often…
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By Selwyn Duke It was Benjamin Franklin, it is said, who noted that “[g]uests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” If this is true, what would the stench be like after more than a month? Well, the left-wing Gaîté Lyrique theater in Paris, France, ought to be able to tell you. After all,…
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By Selwyn Duke Is it that they have the emotionalism of a woman and the aggression of a man, as an observer once suggested? Or is it that, as poet William Blake put it, the “eye altering alters all”? Or is it both — or something else? Whatever the explanation, there’s been another case of…
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By Selwyn Duke “I was anxious. I felt guilty constantly. I couldn’t stop thinking about the whole white privilege thing.” This is what Lucy Kross got for her money as a Stanford University student (yearly tuition, room, and board: $76,312). She would eventually realize she’d been deceived and, it could be said, intellectually abused —…
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