Thursday, 8 July 2021

American Marxism by Mark Levin

 

This book is applicable for we in new Zealand as well...

 
Blaze Media

The six-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the “timely yet timeless” (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass.

In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism’s threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we’re fully over that precipice and paying the price.

In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture—from our schools, the press, and corporations, to Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the Biden presidency—and how it is often cloaked in deceptive labels like “progressivism,” “democratic socialism,” “social activism,” and more. With his characteristic trenchant analysis, Levin digs into the psychology and tactics of these movements, the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal, and the escalation of repression and censorship to silence opposing voices and enforce conformity. Levin exposes many of the institutions, intellectuals, scholars, and activists who are leading this revolution, and provides us with some answers and ideas on how to confront them.

 
 

As Levin writes: “The counter-revolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored for it is devouring our society and culture, swirling around our everyday lives, and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media, and entertainment.” And, like before, Levin seeks to rally the American people to defend their liberty.

 

Book Depository and Amazon have it.  Amazon has it discounted.    I would be surprised to see it in NZ bookshops.

Monday, 5 July 2021

Words Matter—Or Not: The Biden Vocabulary of the Times

 

 Victor Davis Hanson: "It was a coup attempt to destroy the ...


Professor Victor Davis Hanson provides a lexicon to discern the meaning of the Woke Biden Administration.  I believe Thucydides would understand and approve

 From: https://victorhanson.com/wordpress/words-matter-or-not-the-biden-vocabulary-of-the-times/

Victor Davis Hanson // Private Papers

Armed insurrection—a motley mob riot with no leaders, no firearms, no plans, and resulting in five fatalities, four from natural causes and one shot while unarmed by an unnamed police officer.

Assault—anything but 120 days of rioting, looting and arson, $2 billion in damage, 25 killed, and 14,000 arrested.

Bipartisan—you are if you hate Trump.

Cages—overcrowded border detention “facilities” created by the Obama administration and useful to the Biden team’s open-borders agenda. Otherwise known as “cages” between January 20, 2017-January 20, 2021.

Challenge—engineered utter chaos on the border.

Circling back—just circling and circling…

Collusion—the projection of the crime of the guilty onto those innocent of it.

Diversity—coerced uniformity of thought and expression.

Equity—the plan where everybody ends up the same except those who oversee it.

Gender—what people with degrees call sex.

Herd immunity—once a canon of epidemiology, then taboo, now an inconvenient truth.

Inclusion—mandatory state alienation of a majority of the population.

Infrastructure—borrowing trillions for anything but roads and bridges.

Latinix—unknown, maybe a gladiatorial character in some long forgotten Roman graphic novel.

Noncitizen—now used as if all legal US residents crossed the Southern border illegally.

Root causes—an abstraction used to evade the concrete evidence in front of you.

Scott Atlas—the Nemesis following Dr. Fauci’s hubris.

Unity—uniting half the country against the other half.

Woke—body snatched

 

Friday, 2 July 2021

A Thought for Independence Day

 

What Did Equality Mean for the Founders? | The Nation

Unabashedly American: The Signers of the Declaration of ...

 
 

"And those rights, which of course no human document could ever fully spell out, included the rights to property and speech, assembly and free elections, and the right to defense—because, as James Madison would write in his treatise on property in 1792, “There is a right to property and a property in rights.” So property concerns not just physical things, but even such things as one’s conscience counts as one’s property."

From Ned Ruyan's essay "Of Rights and Laws", American Greatness 1 July 2021: https://amgreatness.com/2021/0....

Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience are ours

Thursday, 1 July 2021

The Mortal Wounding of the Rule of Law by Political Will: The Case of Mr Giuliani

 Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for COVID after Lansing visit

 Rudi Guiliani and co-counsel Jenna Ellis 2020

 

The United State's Marxist Democrat Party proves the adage the socialism arms, and deploys, all the arms and powers of the State in its cause.   The cause, George Reisman tells us,  is "the government's economic plan [which] is part of the supreme law of the land."    The economic plan relies on collectivist Social Justice and its unattainable parent Cosmic justice, and  this  lies behind the current degradation of the  rule of law in the US which is being substituted by political will.

Social and Cosmic Justice eliminates and supersedes justice based on the rule of law and the rights of individuals. The Marxist spawn of Critical Race theory eschews and denounces the present legal and constitutional system and has its terms like "White Privilege".  George Reisman says that 'white privilege' is a term that bamboozle[s people] out of paying attention to and valuing the concept of individual rights..' leaving them with a "nebulous and highly destructive concept of white privilege. He adds: "The very concept of privilege implies injustice."

Rights justice and equality according to the law is under serious attack in the USA by the imposition of political will.   Mr Giuliani’s suspension from the  New York bar exemplifies the arbitrary nature of the  weaponising of justice for political ends and is effected by the  imposition of political will.

The degradation is not new for 2021 but has gained greater traction under the Biden Administration.   A series of cases over time from Democrat prosecutors, let alone the Trump impeachments, have shown prosecutorial overreach the Enron fracas and Arthur Andersen (see the 2019 transcript https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/sidney-powell-on-robert-muellers-poster-boy-for-prosecutorial-misconduct).

The Russian Collusion Bot/Troll farming cases-without crimes- against two Russian corporations (US v Concorde Marketing and Consulting LLC and Concorde Catering LLC); The cases, along with 'Bridgegate' (Kelly v US no 18-1059 decision of the US Supreme Court on 7 May 2020 in favour of the appellants' Ms Kelly and Mr Boroni,) have been, like Arthur Andersen ones of an indictment looking for a crime. Lt General Flynn is the last in a line of politically inspired shonky prosecutions: ( see my earlier article: https://viamedianz.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-ham-sandwich-nz-hate-speech-law.html).

Mr Giuliani now joins the list.

Rudy Giuliani has had his lawyer's license suspended for a statement made on television about the 2020 election.   He had earlier in the  year been subject to a FBI search and  seizure at his home.   Previously, New York bar members who aided in cases after the election were threatened with disbarment a sitting Democrat House of Representative's member, Bill Pascrell.

Michigan Governor Whitmer had threatened the disbarment of lawyers as well. Politicians calling for disbarment is not appropriate as it arguably breaches the separation of powers and is a matter for the Courts to address. We are a long way in time from the Star Chamber.

Jonathan Turley on his legal blog noted that: "Such calls have become commonplace. Indeed, during the impeachment trial of President Trump, North Carolina Law Professor Michael Gerhardt predicted that the entire Trump legal team would be disbarred after their representation of the President."

The right to counsel is a fundamental protection of citizens from the arbitrary exercise of the power of the state.

The due administration of justice in New York State and city seems to have problems with the political weaponising of the legal system. New York State's, Democratic Party elected Attorney General, Letitia James, stood on an election platform of sending Mr Trump to jail, before even looking at any evidence.

A predetermination that someone is to go to jail before a case has been investigated and an indictment laid,

speaks loudly of arbitrary process and breach of natural justice in terms of bias.

The Manhattan DA, Mr Cyrus Vance has spent four or five years in the scurrilous chase of an indictment looking for a case and crime in Trump entities. 100 subpoenas (the number is prima facie oppressive), 3 million pages of documents, expansion of the DA's office staff and all that can be scraped up are some fringe benefits to staff and the CFO. The cost of the investigation would probably exceed the amount of tax in issue.

Apparently, this has not met with the DA's vision.However, it is  the State's A-G vision who has sued Mr Trump during his presidency some 70 times and stood on a platform of getting Mr Trump convicted.    Under the rule of law, neither should never have had a predetermined vision but they had the blurred vision of political will instead.

One of Mr Trump's lawyers has been under attack. Mr Rudy Giuliani's licence to practice law has been suspended and falls within the context of the political witch-hunt. The attack and suspension is another example of the weaponising of the law, as in the Flynn and Bridgegate cases and shows the degradation of the rule of law where it is substituted by the imposition of political will- the will of the party.

It is pointed out that this is hypocrisy and that the Democrats have done similar things and Hunter Biden's dealings and Hillary Clinton's email server. What is lost sight of in the call of hypocrisy, which is a traditionalist's touching call for fairness and equal treatment at law but the rules of the game have changed and the hypocrites do not care. Hypocrisy is the very point: It is about power and the imposition of political will by emerging tyranny.

This is the terra horribilis that Mr Giuliani now finds himself in.

Professor Alan Dershowitz takes the traditionalist line and sets out the position adding a warning:

I taught legal ethics for, I don't know, 35 years at Harvard Law school. I think of myself as a leading expert on legal ethics. I've never ever seen a case where a lawyer was essentially disbarred … without a hearing," Dershowitz outlined. "I mean, the most basic concept of due process is you don't deprive somebody of his living, of his freedom, of his ability to work without a hearing. And then the criteria under which they suspended his law license is so vague. It says in the course of representing a client, a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to a third person. In other words, if he goes on your show, or he goes on my podcast, or he goes on Fox or anywhere else, and he makes a statement which turns out to be false, and he had reason to believe it was false, he could be disbarred. Do you know how many lawyers we'd have left if we applied that standard across the board? … We have case after case after case where prosecutors, defense attorneys, lawyers of every kind, have made statements … which turn out to be untrue, and they're never disbarred. And certainly not without a hearing. And so, this is a first. … The atmosphere is such today that if you defended President Trump in any way, they're out to get you. And they're certainly out to get Rudy Giuliani."

"The idea of holding lawyers to this standard of truth-telling when they're on television is a whole new ballgame. It will chill free speech. It will chill advocacy," he added.

Host John Catsimatidis asked if the words "equal justice for all" are dead.

"I think they are mortally wounded," Dershowitz replied. "I don't think we're seeing equal justice for all. I think we're seeing selective justice. … When a prosecutor runs for office, like the attorney general of New York ran for office on the promise that she will get Donald Trump, is that equal justice?   Or is that show me the man, and I'll find you the crime?" (emphasis added; see Link below)

'Mortally wounded' ultimately means leading to and causing death.  Professor Dershowitz adds that this is an ominous precedent because anyone can become a target.

A salient point to note is that the Democrat Party has the greatest number of lawyers in its ranks of any US party. The rule of law and the rule of lawyers are clearly two separate things. I have seen this with an NZLS Branch and it is chilling to see the derogation from legal norms. Like socialists and communist lawyers think in abstractions and humanity and decency dies in abstraction. 

Robert Mueller's and Andrew Weissman's treatment of defendants in Arthur Andersen was illustarted by Sydney Powell  in her address to Hillsdale College in 2020 on the erosion of the rule of law (see: link below). The present US Deputy A-G, Lisa Monaco was also lead counsel in the Mueller Team.

The US is in the process of a slow cold coup by its elected government.  Yet, arbitrary use and abuse of power- legal power- is more likely to bring about revolt as it did in 1776.  We are hard wired for fairness: it is not a social construct.

Addenda:  The Mark Levin Show for 1 July 2021 played segments from the lawyers for Trump entities and the CFO about the unprecedented- it is without legal precedent- nature of the prosecution, which rightly is normally a civil matter.  Mr Giuliani's case falls into the unprecedented as well.

Graham Hill MA (Hons) LL.B (Hons)

Nelson, 2 July 2021

Links:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/06/27/dershowitz-on-giuliani-law-license-suspension-equal-justice-for-all-mortally-wounded/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTV1Y_QuZOM

 

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

The Cure for the Critical Race Theory Distemper

 

Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, Civil Rights Icon, dies at 88 | The Birmingham Times 

 

Dr Walker (1928 to 2018) was Martin Luther King' jr's right hand man and a great man in his own right..

I cannot think of anything more uplifting, moving and intellectually apposite for our times and an antidote to the toxicity and nihilism of  CRT racism.

The extended quote below comes from a  2015 article co written by Dr Walker with Mr Klinsky.  The learned Reverend's words speak for themselves .


"Even more fundamental, though, is education of the heart: the explicit realization that every person deserves an abiding and equal respect for the spark of divine light inside of them. This light is innate; separate and independent from race, wealth, ethnicity or any other identifier.

Today, too many “remedies” – such as Critical Race Theory, the increasingly fashionable post- Marxist/postmodernist approach that analyzes society as institutional group power structures rather than on a spiritual or one-to-one human level – are taking us in the wrong direction: separating even elementary school children into explicit racial groups, and emphasizing differences instead of similarities.

The answer is to go deeper than race, deeper than wealth, deeper than ethnic identity, deeper than gender. To teach ourselves to comprehend each person, not as a symbol of a group, but as a unique and special individual within a common context of shared humanity. To go to that fundamental place where we are all simply mortal creatures, seeking to create order, beauty, family, and connection in a world that – on its own – seems to bend too often toward randomness and entropy.

The large answer emerges from a million small acts of private understanding, private kindness, private creativity – acts that nobly succeed, or that nobly fail." 


Dr Walker and Stev Klinsky, 'A light Shines in Harlem,  Real Clear Politics, 24 September 2015.  

The article was about Charter Schools that Dr Walker and Mr Klinsky had set up in Harlem.  Those who mowed down Charter Schools in NZ committed an atrocity in learning.

 

Monday, 28 June 2021

Something new for the Ministry of Education to try? - English Grammar is Racist

 The languages of Babel - creation.com

 The Tower of Babel

 

 

Submitted by Graham Hill on Tue, 2021-06-29 13:11 Submitted by Graham Hill on Tue, 2021-06-29

 Every day brings forth something bizarre from Wokedom's ideologues. Today it is the assault on grammar as being part of structural- systemic - racism from some US academics. It is always disappointing to note a lot of this comes from unaccountable tenured university pseudo- intellectual ideologues. 

Ultimately they decry the system and want it destroyed but as long as that destruction does not touch them all is well. Dan Bogino Ep 1551 (28 June 2021) has a clip from Thomas Sowell who makes the salient point that these pseudo-intellectuals are unaccountable for the real-world consequences of their ideas. These so-called intellectuals, generally Neo Marxists string words, new terms, theories, ideas and make untenable connections and conclusions from predetermined positions: "never mind the reality let's see how it works in theory" is their creed. 

Karl Marx spent most of his days writing and reading in the British Museum Libary relying on secondary sources and avoided empirical- real-world facts and data- research. Marx suffering from body odour and painful boils could howl at the world, and the cosmic forces of history, from the safety of a cloistered book-lined room. He never in his lifetime had his ideas tested and held to be accountable for their failure.

The Blaze carries this story:https://www.theblaze.com/news/professors-say-proper-grammar-is-racist-perpetuates-whiteness?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210628Trending-ProfsGrammarRacist&
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The title is "Professors say Proper Grammar is racist and perpetuates "whiteness." The forum was also, in the typical Woke pablum, to address 'linguistic justice." Any differentiation in the indiscriminate world of Wokedom is inequality and thus injustice. Making justice the preeminent and sole social touchstone, following Rawls, has been exploded as errant by Sowell in Intellectuals and Society.

The focus was on what is perceived as the marginalising of Black students who use an English patois which is considered inferior and thus racist. Bear in mind this is a university where a high standard of English is required as thought is contained in words and precision is needed. Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Jason D Hill seemed to have mastered good English and are brilliant scholars. All students entering university have to conform to its standards. Many first-year students, irrespective of race or ethnic background, struggle with getting on top of written English. 

The Delgado and Stefencic, DiAngelo, Kendi critical race theory influence is pronounced and imbibed without scrutiny as Delgado and his co-author state CRT is an activist programme. The ultimate aim is to tear down the system.

The forum's proponents argue:

     "The way black language is devalued in schools reflects how black lives are devalued in the world,"       Baker-Bell said, "[and] the anti-black linguistic racism that is used to diminish black language and         black students in classrooms is not separate from the rampant and deliberate anti-black racism and         violence inflicted upon black people in society.

    Also present was Cristina Sánchez-Martín, English  professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,     who said that she is working hard to undo "whiteness" in her students' writing “The repeat              references to 'correct grammar' and 'standard language' reinforce master narratives of English only         as  white and monolingualism and a deficit view of multilingualism," Sánchez-Martín insisted                 during the  symposium.”

April Barker Bell's assumption does not appear to be backed by any evidence: how about some forms of patois/argot are not easily understood. The Parisian langue de verlan is an example as is some elements of Cockney argot. Are these women- and the article only cites women- saying a Tower of Babel situation is preferable. That would predict a relativism in language at a time where good clear communication is required for "conversations."

Christina Sanchez-Martin freely discloses her activist orientation- she is "working hard to undo whiteness." Hers is the Kendi antiracist racism made manifest. Our grammar rules and apprehension of grammar are hard wired according to Noam Chomsky. The Neo Marxist are anti biology and the implicit thesis of these academics is that 'proper grammar' is merely a social construct, as articulated by Berger and Luckmann, that is determined by the Marxian economic base or power base in Neo-Marxism. The economic bases have altered over time but the immutable nature across the entire human species for grammar has not.

What is lost sight of is that US Black students don't speak another language they  speak English.  The patios or argot is derived from English.

The consequences of this theory entering the minds of students, who don't have university tenure, and have to get a job real world is sure to set them up to fail. Would this work for lawyers in a Court of law where words and phrases and sentences are examined? Or for surgeons or pilots? There is often enough misunderstanding and disputes of meaning in one language without compounding the problem in a Tower of Babel.

If the theory were put into practice it is a recipe for systemic failure and ultimately social failure. The academics will not be on the scrap heap of failure and be subject to its harsh ensuing prejudices and disadvantages but will remain unaccountable for ideas that will have real-world consequences. It is a serious, serious issue for Marxism- Socialism owing to its ongoing real-world failures.

We shall never ever see these academic pseudo-intellectual worms of Wormwood do something practical such as give up their tenured positions for the socially and racially disadvantaged. That would have real-world consequences...to their power, status and wallets.

Graham Hill
Nelson, 29 June 2021

Thursday, 24 June 2021

The Application of Critical Race Theory may Offend Civil Liberties and Human Rights.

 

 Why free speech matters - spiked
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted by Graham Hill on Fri, 2021-06-25 12:57 edited 26 June

Our Ministry of Education has a proposal for the School's History curriculum that hints at the application of Critical Race theory.

In the United States where CRT has a firmer hold, there have been instances of proposed discrimination in the provision of medical services based on skin colour which is said to be justified as a form of reparation.

Recently a Court struck down a CRT inspired policy of paying Federal Covid relief funds for restaurant owners based on colour and gender. Law Professor Jonathan Turley in The Hill stated:

…So a ruling by a federal district court in Texas this week was particularly jarring: Judge Reed O’Connor found that the Biden administration engaged in systemic gender and race discrimination to implement COVID-19 relief for American restaurants. Café owner Philip Greer had claimed in a lawsuit against the Small Business Administration (SBA) that, while white, he needs the same rescue as minority restaurateurs under the newly enacted American Rescue Plan Act. (see link below)

Another  restaurant case in Tennessee set off difficulties in distribution of funds.  An Italian restaurant owner 'challenged the race based preferences.'    The Federal Court divided 2 to 1 and that 1 judge   dissented is astonishing given the legislation:

Judge Amul Thapar said the policy's use of race violated equal protection principles. It was enough, Thapar  wrote, for the administration to point to general social disparities to justify a discriminatory policy. It has to—and failed to—point to some specific prior discriminatory incident and show the government had a hand in those events.

                    The decision ordered the agency to stop using race- and sex-based criteria and said Vitolo's application should be approved, provided he met the qualifications.

In an arbitrary Oregon policy, Latinos were excluded. Professor Turley cites a comment by the Chief Justice from a 2007 case who “..stated that position most succinctly by declaring that the "way to stop discriminating based on race is to stop discriminating based on race."

In February 2021 a Federal Covid relief bill for farm owners was said to be for the socially disadvantaged- thus a CRT social justice Federal Bill. "The bill is an affront to the American ideal of equal treatment under the law — and a slap in the face for people who want everyone helped fairly.” The New York Post’s headline read: “Biden’s COVID relief bill is chock full of anti-white reverse racism”: https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/...

In another farmers’ relief case on 13 June 2021 interim relief was granted:

“…another federal court appears close to ruling that his Administration is engaging in raw racial discrimination. Milwaukee District Judge William Griesbach issued a temporary restraining order in Wisconsin halting Biden’s controversial $4 billion race-based federal relief program for farmers. The awarding of relief based on race immediately raised objections of racial discrimination. The ruling is based on the court’s view that the white farmers challenging the program are likely to prevail.”

Then MSM, which doesn’t know any better, errantly chimed in by saying the case was’ baseless’ with the NBC saying the case “was part of a “war against equity” by Trump supporters.” As Professor Turley puts it:

“The Court found that the program was unambiguously discriminatory since “the only consideration in determining whether a farmer or rancher’s loans should be completely forgiven is the person’s race or national origin.” As such, “Plaintiffs are excluded from the program based on their race and are thus experiencing discrimination at the hands of their government.”

The administration is "punting" on effecting social justice to intertemporal (bewteen epochs of time) cosmic justice. That is not justice in the normal sense of rights-based justice, dealing with the here and now, with individuals not collective stereotypical abstractions with the Marxist predetermined assigned roles of oppressor and oppressed. There is no correlative duty with social justice.

In an article in The Epoch Times 22 June 2021, ‘Is CRT Legal: Critical Race Theory may violate Civil Rights Act, the Constitution: Dr Carol Swain' (link below).

Dr Swain states that CRT organises people into oppressors and oppressed groups and in the USA and elsewhere "all white people are considered oppressors who benefit from undeserved advantages [privilege]." She adds that whites are deemed- not proven- guilty of systemic racism.” She properly points out that:

"The demonization of one group of people because of the colour of their skin is discriminatory.'

There is no basis for the “deeming” and it is used as a rhetorical device to avoid a logical and fact bases argument to get to the conclusion.

The demonization involves abstraction of a group of people, then stereotyping followed with prejudicial behaviours as Gordon W Allport set out in The Nature of Prejudice in 1954.

Dr Swain goes on to say “that people forced into CRT-based training, who are to confess to being racist”- and we can add to do of privilege walks of shaming or the mandatory reading of Kendi and DiAngeloe’s flawed books- “are protected by the US Civil Rights Act 1964. That Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race colour, national origin, religion and disability...”

In New Zealand, the same protection against discrimination is contained in section 19 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 and sections 21 and 22 of The Human Rights Act 1993.

The question is whether the new Ministry of Education's history curriculum with its CRT flavouring- Equity, social justice, decolonisation- breaches or will breach the legislation?

Then other questions are :

1. Whether our Human Rights Commission is up to the task?

2. In terms of the proposed hate speech legislation  does the application of  CRT involve “stirring up” through the “deemed” stigmatising and demonization -prima facie case of 'stirring up'-  of people based on the immutable fact of skin colour? 

3. How does this work for mixed families?

A case in Seattle pessimistically indicates the partiality of Human Rights Commissions. There the Seattle Human Rights Commission dismissed a claim which required whites to pay ‘Reparation Fee’s to enter a Pride event:

“Promotional material for Taking B(l)ack Pride was posted on Facebook as a “BLACK AND BROWN QUEER TRANS CENTERED, PRIORITIZED, VALUED, EVENT.” The Facebook page adds: “White allies and accomplices are welcome to attend but will be charged a $10 to $50 reparations fee that will be used to keep this event free of cost for BLACK AND BROWN Trans and Queer COMMUNITY.”

The Capital Pride organisers in their complaint argued that:

“We consider this reverse discrimination in its worse (sic) form and we feel we are being attacked for not supporting due to disparaging and hostile e-mails. Please review this event’s stated admission policy as we feel this event is violating Seattle, King County, State and Federal equality laws.”

What is astonishing was the reaction, and actions, by the Human Rights Commission in dismissing the claim. Professor Turley comments:

It would seem a fair complaint since the event was engaging in open racial discrimination. After all, the Seattle Human Rights Commission advises the city “in order to educate them on methods to prevent and eliminate discrimination city-wide.” Lipson and Le Fevre however received a letter that shamed them for even raising a racially discriminatory practice.

The Commission not only shamed them but posted the response so others could read. The Commission advised them, if possible, to “educate yourself on the harm it may cause Seattle’s BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) in your pursuit of a free ticket to an event that is not expressly meant for you and your entertainment.” (emphasis added).

As they say, as regards the questions posed, ‘watch this space.’

Links:
https://thehill.com/opinion/ju...

https://freebeacon.com/courts/race-based-bailouts-in-covid-stimulus-bill-face-legal-setbacks/

https://jonathanturley.org/202...

https://jonathanturley.org/202...
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/...

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/06/22/educate-yourself-seattle-human-rights-commission-dismisses-complaint-over-requiring-whites-to-pay-reparations-fees-for-parade/#more-174745

 

Graham Hill MA (Hons) LL.B (Hons)
Nelson, 25 June 2021

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