OT: PC Police is now PC Gustapo
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Star soccer player Edinson Cavani, a Uruguayan striker who plays for Manchester United, was fined and suspended after publicly thanking his friend Pablo Fernandez by using his childhood nickname, “negrito.”
The problem for Cavani came when people in British media who had not grown up in South America used a singular, narrow contextual view of Cavani’s use of the word to paint him as a racist. Cavani was fined about $135,000 by the English Football Association and suspended for three games for the alleged infraction. As Dariela Sosa explained on Persuasion:
To us Latin Americans, the story was just short of incomprehensible. “Negrito”—the diminutive of the word for “black”—sounds aggressive in English. But, as Uruguay’s National Academy of Letters noted, in Spanish it’s not offensive; it’s a term of endearment. It’s not even particularly racialized: Plenty of white people are nicknamed negrito, including, as it happens, Cavani’s friend. (His hair is black.)
The Uruguayan Players’ Union released a statement regarding Cavani’s punishment, writing, “Unfortunately, through its sanction, the English Football Association expresses absolute ignorance and disdain for a multicultural vision of the world.” The South American Football Confederation released its own statement of support for the striker, saying the EFA did not “consider the cultural characteristics and the use of certain terms in everyday speech in Uruguay.”
As Sosa explained, this incident goes far beyond misunderstandings between particular audiences, it “shows how America’s racial debates are being globalized via the export of a radical form of antiracist ideology that sees appeals to context or cross-cultural understanding as excuse-making for bigots.”
She went on to say that race in Latin America is different than how it is seen in American and Europe. In Latin America, race is “context dependent,” she wrote, describing how people may choose to identify differently depending on where they are or who they’re with.
“Race isn’t fixed for us—which is one reason that racialized terms in Spanish don’t carry anything like the sting they do in English,” Sosa wrote.
She went on to explain how “banning a given word regardless of the context in which it is used assumes that words exist in isolation from how we use them” makes no sense linguistically, yet this is exactly why Cavani was punished.
“Applied without regard for social, cultural and linguistic context, antiracism efforts risk becoming a caricature of themselves, driving a wedge between people of different cultures rather than bringing them together, as soccer does so impressively around the globe, engaging people of all origins and colors in team efforts. The English Football Association, with its over-the-top sanction of Cavani, managed instead to show only mindless adherence to a brand of maximalist Anglo-American antiracism ideology that does little to combat racism itself,” Sosa wrote.
In addition to the context being ignored in regard to Cavani’s statement of gratitude to his friend, intent was also ignored. The New York Times has been grappling with this issue for two weeks now, first insisting a white reporter should have resigned for using a racial slur “regardless of intent” only to walk the statement back, saying “of course intent matters.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/soccer-pl…
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Fifth Graders Forced To Celebrate ‘Black Communism,’ Hold Mock ‘Black Power’ Rally, Honor Angela Davis
Fifth graders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were subjected to a celebration of “black communism,” complete with a mock Black Power rally to honor devout communist Angela Davis.
Christopher Rufo, contributing editor at City Journal, reported on the classroom activities after receiving whistleblower documents and speaking to a school source. Students at William D. Kelley School were forced to participate in a social studies curriculum that celebrated Davis, “praising the ‘black communist’ for her fight against ‘injustice and inequality.’” Students were required to “‘describe Davis’ early life,’ reflect on her vision of social change, and ‘define communist’—presumably in favorable terms,” Rufo reported.
At the conclusion of the unit, the teacher led the ten- and eleven-year-old students into the school auditorium to “simulate” a Black Power rally to “free Angela Davis” from prison, where she had once been held while awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder. The students marched on the stage, holding signs that read “Black Power,” “Jail Trump,” “Free Angela,” and “Black Power Matters.” They chanted about Africa and ancestral power, then shouted “Free Angela! Free Angela!” as they stood at the front of the stage.
Davis is a militant activist praised by the Left. She joined the Communist Party and has won the International Lenin Peace Prize, an award from the Soviet Union named after Vladimir Lenin. She has also been accused of anti-Semitism over her support for Occupy Wall Street and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
As Rufo noted, the William Kelley School is one of the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania, with just 3% proficient in math by sixth grade and 9% proficient in reading. “By graduation, only 13 percent of Kelley students will have achieved basic literacy,” Rufo reported.
The school, however, appears to have given up on improving academic performance, instead focusing more on “political radicalism.”
“Even the school’s newest public artworks illustrate this politicization. Administrators recently commissioned a mural of Davis and Huey P. Newton, who represent the Communist and Black Panther revolutionary movements of the 1960s; both figures stood trial for various crimes, including the murder of a police officer,” Rufo wrote.
William Kelley is not the only school in Pennsylvania turning toward political activism. As Rufo reported, the superintendent of the Philadelphia public school system announced the district would be working to “[dismantle] systems of racial inequity” and advertised racially segregated training programs for teachers.
As The Daily Wire has reported, the “antiracist” movement has been spreading across schools, teaching students that America is inherently racist, as are white people. This new school of thought also teaches that concepts like objectivity and individualism are part of “White Supremacy Culture.” In Oregon, students will now be taught that finding the right answer in math is a symbol of white supremacy. In San Francisco, schools are more focused on renaming buildings and declaring acronyms to be a “symptom of white supremacy culture” than on getting kids back into school, even as suicides in the city are increasing.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fifth-gra…
Very nice, point out the hypocrisy in their race baiting.
A free speech organization filed a lawsuit against the University of Central Florida (UCF) alleging that the school has “discriminatory” policies in place that chill students’ speech.
Speech First, a nonprofit membership organization working to combat campus civil rights restrictions, filed a lawsuit against the university over its “discriminatory” harassment policy, its computer policy, and its “Just Knights Response Team” (JKRT), which is the school’s version of a Bias Response Team.
Bias Response Teams are measures deployed by universities to combat “hate speech” on campus. The teams ask students to tattle on their peers to Bias Response Teams, such as UCF’s JKRT, which proceeds to monitor and investigate students and faculty with “problematic” speech. Some teams use law enforcement and student conduct administrators to enforce their rules.
“The University of Central Florida and its administrators have created a series of rules and regulations that restrain, deter, suppress, and punish speech about the political and social issues of the day,” Speech First said in a press statement.
According to the lawsuit, the university’s harassment policy claims that “harassment” can occur virtually anywhere, at any time, and by any medium. The school’s policy applies to incidents on and off-campus and refers to an “incident” as anything that has “continuing adverse effects on or create[s] a hostile environment for students.”
Under the school’s policy, if Student A explains why they support police officers and Student B is offended by this idea, then Student A could face punishment for speaking about something that has an “adverse effect” on Student B.
Once a student’s speech is reported to the university, an investigation is immediately launched and students are subject to disciplinary action. The lawsuit argues that such policies have a chilling effect on student’s speech.
The school has similar speech codes imposed on their technology as well. Students “who use university information technology resources” are subject to the same harassment speech codes. The university prohibits using its network to send messages “that reasonably could be perceived as being harassing, invasive, or unwanted.” Though, it offers no examples of what behavior is included in these descriptions. Students can be punished by being stripped of network and computer access privileges.
Under these policies, students at UCF are reportedly scared to express views that may be considered “biased” for fear they will be reported to the JKRT, which acts as a “clearinghouse for any bias-related incidents that may occur on UCF campuses.”
According to university policies, responses to accusations of bias by the JKRT “involve a variety of activities including discussion, mediation, training, counseling, and consensus building.” Community members more broadly involved or offended may also enter JKRT sessions, even when an incident happens between two parties.
Under the university’s code of conduct, failure to participate in JKRT interventions is considered “disruptive behavior.”
“UCF’s disciplinary measures associated with their bias response team resemble reeducation camps, forcing adult college students to sit through patronizing lectures on which types of speech the university considered acceptable,” said Speech First founder Nicole Neily. “Unfortunately for the school, the Constitution does not give UCF the authority to judge the content to student speech.”
The organization has asked for a permanent injunction barring UCF from enforcing the three bias response rules.
Speech First recently won a similar lawsuit against the University of Illinois over its bias reporting systems.
The Daily Wire reported:
The University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign will be forced to amend a handful of policies that were allegedly used as mechanisms to silence on-campus speech, ending a nearly two-year legal battle with a free speech organization.
Speech First, a legal group that tackles campus speech issues, filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois in May 2019 for upholding policies they claim were prejudiced against students with unpopular beliefs. Shortly before the Illinois Supreme Court was set to review the case, the university settled and agreed to amend or remove the dispute policies.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/free-spee…
U.K. Education Secretary: Prioritizing ‘Emotional Safety’ Over Free Speech Is ‘Dangerous’
In a report on free speech in higher education, the U.K. Secretary of State for Education decried the chilling effects of “cancel culture” on free speech.
At the beginning of a free speech report presented to Parliament, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson penned a letter dubbing the current culture of “emotional safety” to be counterproductive. “There are some in our society who prioritize ‘emotional safety’ over free speech, or who equate speech with violence. This is both misguided and dangerous,” Williamson said.
The report cites a study from King’s College in London that found that a quarter of students see violence as an acceptable response to speech they dislike. The same study found that 59 percent of “Conservative-supporting” students said that they were reluctant to share their views on campus.
Williamson claims that British society has turned a “blind eye” to the “creeping culture of censorship.” “A culture has been allowed to develop in which it is seen as acceptable, even virtuous, for an academic to sign an open letter that calls for another to be dismissed or defunded,” he wrote.
The report breaks down new laws that the education department believes will champion a newfound culture of free speech. The laws will provide a new legal avenue for those who have faced retribution for their speech, will widen and enhance academic freedom protections, and will require universities to set high standards for free speech codes.
A growing body of evidence has shown that the current “cancel culture” is having a “chilling effect” on students and staff at universities who feel unable to express religious and political views without fear of retribution. The report also cites evidence that a minority of students and academics are having a disproportionate influence on censoring campus speech.
In response to the report, the nation’s largest student union organization, The National Union of Students, said that there is “no evidence” of a free speech crisis on campuses.
The union’s response appears antithetical to the many high-profile “cancelations” of professors and students, some of whom hold moderate-to-left-wing viewpoints.
Selina Todd, a history professor at Oxford University, faced online threats and was uninvited to appear at the Oxford International Women’s Festival after transgender activists pushed to have her removed for “transphobic” comments. Jo Phoenix, a criminology professor at Open University, had a lecture at Essex University canceled by trans activists as well. The activists accused Phoenix of being a “transphobe” for citing the safety concerns of putting trans women, who are biological men, in the same prisons as women.
Other examples include Professor Noah Carl and Felix Ngole. Carl was dismissed as a research fellow at St. Edmund’s College in Cambridge after sustained attacks from a politically-correct mob who disliked his articles expressing right-wing dogma on issues of race and immigration.
Ngole was a social work student at Sheffield University. He was removed from his class after a peer snitched on him for saying that “the Bible and God identify homosexuality as a sin.”
Williamson issued a final warning to those actively working to perpetuate cancel culture while denying its existence.
“Those who have never known authorities that were not broadly aligned to their values should be more cautious: today’s orthodoxy can become tomorrow’s oppression, and powers granted today to silence ideological opponents will inevitably be turned against them in the future.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-k-educa…
^ I hope he now doesn't get cancelled