“Political correctness” has prevented authorities from tackling British Pakistani grooming gangs abusing vulnerable white English girls, the home secretary has said. Suella Braverman said that the “systematic and institutional failure to safeguard the welfare of children when it comes to sexual abuse” is one of the biggest scandals in British history. “What’s clear is that…
Braverman Calls Out ‘Silence’ on Child Sex Abuse Involving British Pakistani Men
‘Dilbert’ Distributor Severs Ties With Creator Scott Adams Over Alleged Racist Remarks
Dilbert comic strip distributor Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) has announced it will no longer work with the creator of the cartoons, Scott Adams, following allegedly racist comments he made. In a statement, Andrews McMeel chairman Hugh Andrews and CEO and president Andy Sareyan said Universal is” severing our relationship” with Adams, adding that the “process of this termination will extend to all…
Former VA Tech Soccer Player Gets $100,000 for Protected Speech in Refusing to Kneel for BLM
Ex-Virginia Tech soccer player Kiersten Hening has received a $100,000 settlement for being benched after she refused to kneel for BLM before soccer games. Hening claimed she was benched after head coach Charles Adair became frustrated with her political views, which often differed from those of her teammates. According to Hening, her coach put her…
Minneapolis Public Schools’ Plan to Decide Layoffs by Minority Status Is ‘Unconstitutional’: Legal Experts
A new agreement between the Minneapolis teachers union and Minneapolis Public Schools that could result in white teachers being laid off before minority teachers, regardless of seniority, has sparked criticism among experts. According to the agreement (pdf), initially struck in March, white teachers would be laid off or reassigned before “educators of color” in the event Minneapolis…
Republican Mayra Flores Accuses Democrat Opponent of Paying Blogger for Racist Posts
Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores responded to racial stereotypes and crude language used to describe her by a South Texas blogger paid with campaign money from Congressman Vicente Gonzales, her Democratic opponent in the Texas District 34 midterm election. In a Twitter post on Monday, Flores accused the Gonzales campaign of paying for a blogger to…
Parents Group Sues Tennessee School Board Over ‘Divisive and Destructive’ Critical Race Theory
A Tennessee parents’ advocacy group has announced that it filed a lawsuit on July 8 against a Franklin school board for adopting “divisive, debilitating, and racist” curriculum that teaches some children they are inherently racist based on their skin color. The complaint alleges that a curriculum called “Wit and Wisdom” includes teaching materials that are…
Judge Says UK Schoolboy Terrorist Is Not ‘Dangerous’
A judge has decided against sending a 14-year-old boy—thought to be one of the youngest people in Britain to become a convicted terrorist—to prison, saying he was not “dangerous” in the legal sense. The court heard he expressed racist and far-right opinions online, and hinted about carrying out a school shooting, as well as writing…
Buffalo Suspect, Lonely, Isolated—and a Sign of Trouble
CONKLIN, N.Y.—In the waning days of Payton Gendron’s COVID-19-altered senior year at Susquehanna Valley High School, he logged on to a virtual learning program in economics class that asked: “What do you plan to do when you retire?” “Murder-suicide,” Gendron typed. Despite his protests that it was all a joke, the bespectacled 17-year-old who had…
Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Suspect Was Questioned After Threat Last Year
BUFFALO, N.Y.—A teenager who allegedly killed 10 people in a shooting at a western New York grocery store had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities said. New details, including the previous threat, emerged on Sunday that provided a fuller portrait…
CRT in Schools: Canadians Would Do Well to Discern the Chasmic Difference Between ‘Equity’ and ‘Equality’
Commentary Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive cluster of notions that reduces human beings to cogs in an identity wheel, segregates them according to DNA, and strips them of individual agency and rights. But it has penetrated all our institutions with incredible speed and efficiency—on the horizon one day, ubiquitous the next. The public…
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