New Culture Forum – So What You Are Saying Is: Zuby: Rapper Who Became UK’s Top Female Weightlifter Exposes Transgender Sports & Other Woke Lunacy
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Jan 26, 2020
Zuby, the self-styled “Jordan Peterson of rap”, is this week’s guest on “So What You’re Saying Is…”.
The weight-lifting hip hop artist became an unlikely feminist icon for demonstrating that athletes who are genetically male should not be competing alongside women. In 2019 he was filmed smashing the British women’s deadlift record, in which the weights are raised from the ground to thigh level, while he said he was “identifying as a woman”.
The video went viral on the Internet. The Oxford University graduate beat the UK women’s bench press record too, joking that his work was “strong, stunning and brave”.
Why @Greens @NZGreens @jamespeshaw @greenpeace are not of the left
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in economics of bureaucracy, environmental economics, environmentalism, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: Age of Enlightenment, regressive left, The Great Enrichment, Watermelons
Good definition but does the left include the conflicting concerns of @Greens @NZGreens?
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in environmental economics, environmentalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: regressive left, Watermelons
Applies to the woke too
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in economics of media and culture, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left
Steven Pinker on the wisdom of Richard Pryor @sst_nz @JustSpeaksNZ @NZJusticeIdeas
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in economics of crime, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment
The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
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The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
Introduction
“The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action” is an editorial published by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr. in magazine The Atlantic. Sander is a law professor and economist at the University of California- Los Angeles and has published several works studying the effects of racial preferences. Taylor is a contributing editor for National Journal and teaches news media and law at Stanford Law School. The content of the editorial is a criticism of affirmative action in college admissions and how it is inherently unfair and ineffective.
Summary
To begin the persuasive piece, the authors introduce the audience to a concept called “mismatch”. As they defined and explained, mismatch is a problem wherein students get admitted to incredibly selective universities where they would not have been accepted to had it not been for affirmative action, and thus do not perform or fit in as…
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March 10, 1629: Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
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In January 1629, Charles opened the second session of the English Parliament, which had been prorogued in June 1628, with a moderate speech on the tonnage and poundage issue. Members of the House of Commons began to voice opposition to Charles’s policies in light of the case of John Rolle, a Member of Parliament whose goods had been confiscated for failing to pay tonnage and poundage. Many MPs viewed the imposition of the tax as a breach of the Petition of Right.
When Charles ordered a parliamentary adjournment on March 2, 1629 members held the Speaker, Sir John Finch, down in his chair so that the ending of the session could be delayed long enough for resolutions against Catholicism, Arminianism and tonnage and poundage to be read out and acclaimed by the chamber. The provocation was too much for Charles, who dissolved Parliament on March 10, 1629 and had nine…
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