The University of Melbourne is set to finalise its new “Gender Affirmation Policy,” which will ban speeches, behaviours, or activities suspected of posing “potential harm” to transgender people at the university. The policy, which was introduced some months ago as part of the school’s Diversity and Inclusion policy and is now open for feedbacks, aims to…
Melbourne University’s New Gender Affirmation Policy a ‘Violation of Conscience’: Expert
California Republicans Denounce ‘Divisive’ Identity Politics
June 19, 2021
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After a year of social justice protests and identity politics leading to the 2020 election, Orange County Republicans say it’s time for Americans to turn down the heat on rhetoric and focus on commonalities rather than differences. But how Republicans should approach such a hot-button topic depends on who you ask within the party. Costa…
Australians Don’t Want Critical Race Theory in Classrooms
May 25, 2021
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Most Australians do not support the presence of Identity Politics in classrooms, a poll reveals, as concerns grow the newly proposed national curriculum will inject critical race theory into schools. The Critical Race Theory Poll (pdf), commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), asked 1121 Australians four questions and found 82 percent disagree with…
Legislatures: It’s Time to Defund Universities
Commentary Our universities have been uniformly corrupted by neo-Marxist political ideology. They no longer teach the great wealth of knowledge of Western Civilization, or engage in research to advance that knowledge. Instead, they indoctrinate their students in “postmodern” nihilism, postcolonial anti-West vilification, and identity politics of sexism and racism. Postmodernism teaches that there is no…
We Must Never Surrender the Truth to Identity Politics: Australian PM
April 29, 2021
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has appealed for Australians to embrace values such as individual responsibility, agency, and community to safeguard against the harmful spread of identity politics and cancel culture in Western society. The prime minister made the comments during a speech to a United Israel function in Sydney on Thursday night, saying “human dignity”…
Opinion: Identity Politics Is Destroying the Social Fabric
Commentary Identity politics—the formation of exclusive alliances based on racial, religious, ethnic, or social identity—is manifesting in all cultural corners. It has seeped into school curricula and overtaken traditional Western individualism as the new dominant lens for interpreting one’s place in society. Entire university departments have been rededicated to examining so-called intersectionality, defined as the complex way…
Hate Speech Laws Take Away Freedom of Speech: Arthur Milikh
Arthur Milikh, executive director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, told The Epoch Times that policies and laws regulating hate speech are really about silencing opinions and thus take away freedom of speech, leading to tyranny. “The public view is that to criminalize hate speech really is to rid the…
Video: A Growing Tyranny Over the Mind—Arthur Milikh
February 23, 2021
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“Tyranny is trying to tread into somebody’s mind to distort it and to form it to reflect what you think is good,” says Arthur Milikh. Milikh, the Executive Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, argues that identity politics and critical race theory are a new form of tyranny over…
Should Shakespeare Be Purged From English Curricula?
Commentary A recent article in School Library Journal (SLJ) titled “To Teach or Not to Teach: Is Shakespeare Still Relevant to Today’s Students?“ reports that many English teachers want Shakespeare removed from school curricula to “make room for modern, diverse, and inclusive voices.” After all, “Shakespeare’s works are full of problematic, outdated ideas, with plenty…
Identity Politics Is a Tool to Break Down America: Expert
February 19, 2021
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Identity politics is the reimagining of America as not a united country or a united nation but as a confederation of identity groups, according to Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow on E Pluribus Unum at Heritage Foundation. “Some of these groups are considered to be oppressed and then one of these groups is the oppressor,”…
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