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“…Hailed as heroes who were taking a principled Never Trump stand by the Democratic Party’s unofficial media activist arm, the Lincoln Project is quickly going the way of Michael Avenatti; having served their anti-Trump purpose, the media that built them up is busily tearing them down.
And as with Avenatti, the damage to the Lincoln Project is self-inflicted; now that the election is over, the second sham impeachment circus wrapping up, their vileness is no longer being ignored, buried, and/or spun by a TDS-afflicted media willing to embrace any scourge to score points against President Trump…”
“…The Oregon Department of Education is promoting a course for teachers that links math lessons to racism and a culture of “white supremacy.”
The department last week sent out an online pamphlet for a course called “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” which includes a section on “Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction.” The pamphlet includes materials that are essentially a course for spreading wokeness inside of classrooms.
The ODE-promoted course brands itself as “an integrated approach to mathematics that centers Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity, and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards.” The course challenges the reality that some answers are simply wrong while broadly challenging America’s founding principles.
According to the course syllabus, there are five “strides” that can help educators banish “racism” from math in their classrooms. In the dismantling racism section, the course asks teachers to examine their “actions, beliefs, and values around teaching mathematics” with the apparent goal of shaming them into making lessons about identity politics.
“White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions. Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on [minority] students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics,” the section states.
The course section also identifies “ways in which white supremacy shows up in math classrooms.”
According to the teaching materials, too much focus on asking students to get the “right” answer when solving math problems is connected to white supremacy, as is working independently. The course favors group math work for students…”
https://twitter.com/ryanlongcomedy/status/1358786037519175682
Turns out I might just be a credible source on many things. Including the weather. https://t.co/GcidfgPMFX
— Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) February 12, 2021
Gina Carano Rehired By Disney After She Identifies As An Abusive Male Director https://t.co/rDmXjBoZzC
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 11, 2021
In case you don’t know what that is about:
BREAKING: Actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano has been fired from the cast of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian for suggesting that conservatives could get fired these days for voicing their opinions in public. (Yep, really happened.)
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 11, 2021
— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) February 12, 2021
Is a comment required? You know what the media response would be if this was a Republican administration.
“I will destroy you”
“…Deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo lashed out at journalist Tara Palmeri, spurring conversations between Politico’s brass and the White House—and raising questions about behavior tolerated in the Biden administration…”
Related:
Biden promises appointees he will fire them ‘on the spot’ if they disrespect others
“…During a virtual ceremony from the White House, President Biden had a stern and honest message to his appointees: respect others…”
I thought that Democrat senator from Arizona Kyrsten Sinema was a lightweight airhead incapable of individual thought or actions.
I was wrong. Senator Sinema appears to be a strong individual with independent policy positions and the internal fortitude to stand her ground.
I congratulate her.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.