Tag: diversity

Biden Just Signed “The Declaration of North America.” One North American Country?

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Jeff Thompson On January 10 of this year, Biden met with Trudeau and the president of Mexico at the 10th North American “Leaders” Summit. While there, Biden signed the Declaration of North America. Here is what was inside it. This is verbatim text, as found at WhiteHouse.gov. Our comments are below each segment in bold and italics. Today, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Joseph R. Biden, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City for the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS). The leaders are determined to fortify our region’s…

Ron Unz, American Meritocracy Revisited: Elite Admissions, Asian Quotas, and the Free Harvard/Fair Harvard Campaign

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RON UNZ    The Disappearance of American Meritocracy For at least the last two generations, American conservatives have been loudly complaining about the racially-based employment and admission policies widely described as “affirmative action.” I know this to be true because as a youngster in the 1970s, strong opposition to affirmative action was the primary issue that gradually drew me towards the Republican Party, until I finally cast my first presidential vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980. Yet although Republicans have held the White House and Congress during much of this…

The Diversity Problem on Campus | Opinion

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DORIAN S. ABBOT AND IVAN MARINOVIC , PROFESSORS Students sit on a bench in front of the library at the University of South Carolina on August 10, 2020, in Columbia, South Carolina (above). SEAN RAYFORD/GETTY IMAGES American universities are undergoing a profound transformation that threatens to derail their primary mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge. The new regime is titled “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” or DEI, and is enforced by a large bureaucracy of administrators. Nearly every decision taken on campus, from admissions, to faculty hiring, to course content, to teaching…

Merrick Garland—Antifa Attorney General Plans to Crush Dissent

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JOHN DERBYSHIRE Of the sixteen persons nominated for a cabinet position, as listed in the January 23rd issue of The Economist [After the chaos of the Trump era, what can Joe Biden hope to achieve?] nine have now been confirmed by the U.S. Senate and have assumed office. So we are better than halfway through the confirmation process.   You can’t help but notice the diversity. Not one of them—not one of the sixteen—is a non-Hispanic white Protestant heterosexual male. To put that another way: Not one of the sixteen comes from the same slice of the diversity…