If Mort Divine ruled the world

In my experience it's usually been a left-wing talking point but I'm not at all surprised that something like this would come from Richard Spencer. The video doesn't play for you? Plays for me. Try this one.

The whole virtuous pedophile meme comes directly from the left also, specifically those now deleted (but luckily archived) Salon articles written by a "non-active pedophile."
 
Good way of putting it. Family values politicians are usually caught with children or male prostitutes in a hostel, "get big money out of politics" politicians are usually caught up in some financial scandal.
 
I certainly do not want to see Kavanaugh get confirmed, but he probably will despite the new allegations. He's an extremist that thinks a sitting president is above the law.
 
Kavanaugh's probably not a great pick, but if Sonya "Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging." Sotomayor is qualified, may as well have Kavanaugh in.
 
I'd prefer to have someone who is more of a centrist as the deciding vote than a fringe pick for either side honestly.
 
Is there such a thing as a centrist to be found these days? Even Kennedy has been blasted since his announced retirement as a "far-right" judge. Fringe is in the eye of the beholder more than ever.

ION:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...emocracy-is-in-crisis/570394/?utm_source=feed

:lol:

It's like the article writer found every weak point regarding Hillary Clinton and then wrote about Trump, and had her sign off on it.
 
Kennedy wasn't on the fringe but he certainly wasn't left leaning either. He has certainly fucked the democrats as hard as possible by retiring now and he'll always be remembered for that.
 
Dems are lucky Ted Kennedy got McCained before it was cool, otherwise he'd be grabbing his crotch and staying silent just as he did during the Thomas hearings.
 
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/

Upon discovering that the journal had published my paper, Professor Farb had written a furious email to Steinberger demanding that it be deleted at once. “Rivin,” he complained, “is well-known as a person with extremist views who likes to pick fights with people via inflammatory statements.” Farb’s “father-in law…a famous statistician,” he went on, had “already poked many holes in the ridiculous paper.” My paper was “politically charged” and “pseudoscience” and “a piece of crap” and, by encouraging the NYJM to accept it, Rivin had “violat[ed] a scientific duty for purely political ends.”

Unaware of any of this, I wrote to Steinberger on November 14, to find out what had happened. I pointed out that if the deletion were permanent, it would leave me in an impossible position. I would not be able to republish anywhere else because I would be unable to sign a copyright form declaring that it had not already been published elsewhere. Steinberger replied later that day. Half his board, he explained unhappily, had told him that unless he pulled the article, they would all resign and “harass the journal” he had founded 25 years earlier “until it died.” Faced with the loss of his own scientific legacy, he had capitulated. “A publication in a dead journal,” he offered, “wouldn’t help you.”

And Trump is the threat to science.

Which is to say that I understand the importance of the causes that equal opportunity activists and progressive academics are ostensibly championing. But pursuit of greater fairness and equality cannot be allowed to interfere with dispassionate academic study. No matter how unwelcome the implications of a logical argument may be, it must be allowed to stand or fall on its merits not its desirability or political utility. First Harvard, then Google, and now the editors-in-chief of two esteemed scientific journals, the National Science Foundation, and the international publisher Springer have all surrendered to demands from the radical academic Left to suppress a controversial idea. Who will be the next, and for what perceived transgression? If bullying and censorship are now to be re-described as ‘advocacy’ and ‘academic freedom,’ as the Chicago administrators would have it, they will simply replace empiricism and rational discourse as the academic instruments of choice.
 
The ostensible reason for this request was that our paper was unrelated to Sergei’s funded proposal. However, a Freedom of Information request subsequently revealed that Penn State WIM administrator Diane Henderson (“Professor and Chair of the Climate and Diversity Committee”) and Nate Brown (“Professor and Associate Head for Diversity and Equity”) had secretly co-signed a letter to the NSF that same morning. “Our concern,” they explained, “is that [this] paper appears to promote pseudoscientific ideas that are detrimental to the advancement of women in science, and at odds with the values of the NSF.”

Every single federal employee with "Diversity" anywhere in their job title should just be canned, they're useless.

EDIT: Damn, that story keeps getting worse the deeper I go.
 
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