April 28 "Fast and Furious"--not the movie

What if you were ordered by the Canadian government to do something illegal and dangerous. You knew that Canadians and others would be murdered if you obeyed orders? Would you blow the whistle? Talk to the press? Talk to members of parliament to expose what you had been ordered to do?

Sharyl first reports on fast and furious scandal 4:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN_kIE1HpOA

Whistleblower: ATF agent 1:13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p209sIwp8_Y 2 min

Attorney General knew 2:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JaDEShZIvQ

What happened to the whistleblower: 2017 interview with Sharyl  8 mins

https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/06/26/fast-and-furious-whistleblower-says-he-became-an-enemy-of-the-state/

Girls Gone Mild

https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Gone-Mild-Reclaim-Self-Respect-ebook/dp/B000SHDDSG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=girls+gone+mild&qid=1587765807&sr=8-1

Chapter 11 Response

Let's chat with Dennis Prager. Today and maybe tomorrow, we'll listen, pause, talk and listen some more.  It relates directly to chapter 11. I think you'll like this, especially because there is no homework! 

By the way, I'm thinking you might like to create a presentation, maybe a blog, not just a powerpoint and share your topic via Zoom with us for 15 or 20 minutes instead of doing an essay. Let me know what you think.

April 16: Chips, no salsa

In recent weeks, we have seen mayors ban gun sales, in blatant defiance of the Second Amendment. We have seen governors ban church services, in blatant defiance of the First Amendment. We have seen manufacturing brought a standstill in state after state. We have seen police ticketing married couples just for walking together on the sidewalk, and taking down license plates of cars parked at a drive-through church service.

Read more: 
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/just_chips_no_salsa.html#ixzz6Jn3lbL7K

April 15 Sources for your essays

I'll add more sources as we go. 

I highly recommend searching American Thinker and The New American Magazine (Christian). Check out the author archives in American Thinker for Colin Flaherty on the racism topic and New American for Alex Newman. 

Newman and Flaherty also have their own excellent blogs. Newman is a brilliant Christian journalist.

Environmental Scandal from the 60's
https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/15583-ddt-breeds-death

Will the real racists please stand up?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/11/black_violence_the_terror_that_dare_not_speak_its_name.html

A black journalist's perspective
https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/03/29/how-liberal-policies-destroyed-black-families/

Taxpayer funded group exposed for selling baby parts
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/26110-new-undercover-video-shows-planed-parenthood-executives-in-grisly-conversations-about-aborted-babies-selling-body-parts

April 14 Targeting males, fathers, and families: tragic coincidence or despicable agenda?

The Father of Communism, Karl Marx , said he had three goals:

1.To dethrone God

2.To eliminate private property

3.To destroy the family

1.Targeting the family unit: Blonde in the Belly of the Beast   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpKE6I840FM

2.Siege: Cultural Marxists are targeting the American Male

33:56  Brannon Howse, a Christian conservative, claims:

“If you destroy the father as protector and provider of the family, the government steps in and becomes the ‘daddy’.” 

3.The following information focuses on the loss of the father in black American families since the 1960’s.

                

        In the 1950’s, 80 percent of black children were raised in 2 parent families

                

         In the 1960’s, a liberal President Johnson massively expanded welfare payments to single moms. Having several children from different fathers generated a good income. In 2015 it was estimated that a welfare mom received the equivalent of 65 thousand US dollars per year from the government. At that time, the median income in the USA in 2016 was $57,617 .

The National Center for Health Statistics said that in 2015, 77.3 percent of non-immigrant black births were illegitimate. [Today, the single parent family is reality for almost 80% of black children: exactly opposite the 1950’s before the government became ‘daddy’.] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/77-black-births-to-single-moms-49-for-hispanic-immigrants

Homicide-victimization rates for black men were 3.9 times the national average and 52 percent of all known homicide victims were black (2017 data). He might have added that the perpetrators of these crimes were overwhelmingly African Americans. In 2018, where the homicide victim was black, the suspected killer also was 88 percent of the time. And this is not an exceptional situation. From 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of black victims were killed by other African Americans. https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/22/the-need-to-discuss-black-on-black-crime/

To drill down even further, in 2017, black males accounted for 45 percent of homicides, even though they make up just seven percent of the population. That means they commit murders at a rate eight times higher than whites. https://www.conservativereview.com/news/can-incarceration-rates-racist-reflect-actual-crime-rates/

Look up these terms: political correctness, cultural Marxism, the Frankfurt School

What is political correctness and where did it originate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrx6xU_bwxM

Do university authorities violate free speech rights?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VjaKpjOttw

What are the limits to government authority?
https://youtu.be/87hP9cONk9M?t=705

Social Media platform "Medium" bans doctor's article balancing covid risks with economic risk
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/the-limits-of-free-geach.php

Social Justice:
https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-social-justice/

Do you think one or more of today's examples--colleges restricting free speech, governments ignoring constitutional rights, and social media platforms banning a doctor's argument about Covid are serious? Why, why not? Do you connect this to what Dr. Lind says about "political correctness"?

April 13 Punish them!

https://globalnews.ca/news/6810568/coronavirus-oakville-ontario-rollarblading-fine/?utm_source=AM640&utm_medium=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0qD13I5J4Y-stFS6fqrAO86wvOtCAy9g-9mB4EUgKBqVndXGZDiR-Qgf4

April 13 Anesthesiologist censored for politically incorrect opinion about CCP Virus

We live in a world of liberal intolerance, of which I would never before have believed. Deplatforming, as this is called, is really a modern form of book burning. We must burn books that go against the dogma. I have good credentials and am a physician. My co-authors — four other physicians and a nurse practitioner — also had good credential, and we advocated well-reasoned and duly sourced positions. Unfortunately, we hold the wrong opinion, and a “dangerous” one at that.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/the-limits-of-free-geach.php

And, a quick tour of expert predictions over the decades:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/what-would-we-do-without-experts-3.php

April 16: Thursday Response to Ch. 11 "The Most Important Story You Never Saw on TV"

I'll post this now, in case you have the time and inclination to read Ch 11 today. BUT do not post it until Thursday, after class or later. You need to consider some issues that we'll discuss Tuesday and Wednesday to respond to my particular question below.

300 words or more: main point and one or two examples

Also: how does this relate to anything we've been discussing re 'targeting men'?

April 9 Fair?

Police in Greenville, Mississippi raided the parking lot of Temple Baptist Church during a drive-in prayer service and issued $500 fines to everyone in attendance – including many elderly congregants.

Pastor Arthur Scott told the Todd Starnes Radio Show that he was astonished by the actions of the police department and the mayor’s office. I warned Americans this could happen in my new book, “Culture Jihad: How to Stop the Left From Killing a Nation.”

Here's the article

Homework: April 9th Is it possible to have a discussion with someone who strongly disagrees?

Stephen Crowder: 

Stephen Crowder has a podcast “Louder with Crowder”. One of his features is “Change my mind”. He goes to university campuses, makes a simple controversial statement, and invites anyone to sit down and discuss the issue, with the purpose of changing his mind.

              

Rape Culture is a Myth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dv6G1FWxk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc6gGBCu2ZM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRmGxgxMhO4


Male Privilege is a Myth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pN6ZgGRfQU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fXAYcMIhQ&list=RDE7fXAYcMIhQ&start_radio=1&t=565

Questions: 3 to 5 sentences for each

1.In what specific ways is Crowder’s approach to this student effective or ineffective?

2.Same question in reverse: in what specific ways is the student’s approach to Crowder effective or ineffective?

April 9 Questions about the essay

As we go along, post any questions you have here. It's easier for me to see them all in one place. And we will discuss them in class.

Would you bet your business, your job, your future on expert predictions?

https://nationalpost.com/news/covid-19-modelling-numbers-are-scary-have-we-mortgaged-our-future-on-an-inexact-science?video_autoplay=true

** On March 16th, British “experts” at Imperial College in Great Britain warned of 40,000,000 global coronavirus deaths if the West did not act and shut down society.

The prediction included  1 million to 2 million deaths in the US.

** On Sunday March 29th the “experts” reduced their estimates to 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the United States.

** On Sunday April 5th the IHME “experts” again dropped their estimates to 81,766 coronavirus deaths in the United States by August.

TRENDING: UPDATE: Dr. Birx Confirms Anyone Who Dies WITH Coronavirus, Regardless of Any Underlying Health Condition, is Being Counted as a COVID-19 Death (VIDEO)

On Wednesday April 8th the IHME dropped their estimates again down to 60,415 deaths by August.

THE “EXPERTS” HAVE DECREASED THEIR US CORONAVIRUS ESTIMATES FROM 2 MILLION DEATHS TO 60,000 DEATHS IN LESS THAN A MONTH.

Applying the social distancing stigma

California sheriff warns he will punish people who don't wear masks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=f2W13LTK6xc&feature=emb_logo

April 8 In our brave new world, you may be guilty of campus and covid violations even if you are proven innocent

We've seen examples of how the anti-male stigma begins in universities, with lies about the gender pay gap and the campus 'rape crisis'. Young men are ruined by sexual assault claims based on the 20% assault myth that continues to be 

• pushed by professors, 
• amplified by the media, and 
• enforced by campus thought police. 

Now, people are being stigmatized who deviate or are claimed to deviate from the COVID 19 'laws'. If you're believed by authorities to not be practicing proper social distancing, you are in deep trouble. 

Too many of us are too quick to give up our human rights in my view. Where is the concern for due process?  It is looking to me that, both on campus and in the Covid world, there is little concern for basic constitutional rights. How is our society different from totalitarian China?

Today's "Men are bad" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlFAd4YdQks&t=1s

Interview with Emily Yoffe:

Q.The simple narrative is, "Trump doesn't think consent is important, so he's changing these guidelines to help people like him get off the hook for sexual assault." What's missing from that story?

A.The problem [with rape adjudications on college campuses] hasn't penetrated the public consciousness. This three-part series of mine just ran in The Atlantic, and as we were working on the first part, which was mostly about due process—how we got here and how things have gone off the rails—I said to my editor, "Isn't this kind of old? Don't people already know this?" But he was right. People don't know that a young man can be expelled from college without ever having received specific written notice of what he's alleged to have done wrong. They don't know that virtually any encounter with a sexual element, including a joke, can get someone in deep trouble.

The next quote is from an article that attacks President Trump for changing the rules to allow 'due process' legal protection for males accused of sexual assault and rape on campus:

The epidemic of rape on campus is getting worse

Feb. 27, 2020, 

By Michael Dolce, lawyer representing victims of sexual abuse, sex trafficking and domestic violence

Members of Congress can't let Education Secretary Betsy DeVos off easy when she testifies Thursday about her department's new budget request. They must use this opportunity to interrogate her about her planned changes to sexual harassment rules on college campuses.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is famous for branding conservative and Christian groups as 'hateful'. Their branding is used by the mainstream media to attack these individuals and groups. Following is a cute video that pretends to teach young people about dealing with hate speech i.e. speech that people like the SPLC disagree with:

Southern Poverty Law Center: Eliminating offensive online speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w1ESBmoI4U

This next video identifies the "speech code virus" that has infected the education system and is particularly enforced in colleges and universities. You will see examples of this from my own Seneca College.

Speech Codes attack free speech on campuses 2.44 from "Indoctrinate U" documentary on our blog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUozX8gu1pQ

Evan Maloney, in the above interview, says that when speech codes are found unconstitutional in court, they are repackaged by colleges and show up in places like "Sexual Harassment Policies" Example from my former college:

Seneca College's Sexual Harassment Policy:

Definition of sexual harassment:

Engaging in a course of conduct of a gender-related or sexual nature that is known, or might reasonably be known, to be unwelcome/unwanted, offensive, intimidating, hostile or inappropriate. Depending on its severity, one action may constitute sexual harassment.

This may include, but is not limited to; demeaning gestures, remarks and jokes; slurs; taunting; innuendo based on gender or sexual orientation; unwanted physical contact; leering; inappropriate comments about clothing, physical characteristics or activities; unwanted questions or comments about one's private life, sexual orientation, marital or family status; the display of sexually offensive material; solicitation; unwanted attention; implied or expressed promise of reward or benefit in return for sexual favours; implied or expressed threat or act of reprisal if sexual favours are not given or sexual assault (Criminal Code of Canada offence).

Seneca Student Code of Conduct

• Abusive communication

Any unwelcome words or images received or distributed in person or by telephone, letter, electronic mail or any communication medium, including social media, that intimidate, disparage or cause humiliation, offence or embarrassment to a person.

Seneca Student Code of Conduct Procedures

Highlights: 

• Anyone can make a complaint up to one year after the alleged incident
• The college can immediately suspend the alleged offender
• It will take a minimum of two weeks to begin hearing the complaint
• There are no provisions for the "offender" to have legal representation
• There are no consequences to a person found to be making a 'vexatious' complaint
• The college still may proceed with a trial even if the complaint is vexatious
• The penalties are severe

From the academic world to the rest of the world: how authorities are dealing with Covid offenders:

• Father arrested for playing soccer with daughter in empty park
• Ottawa Man find $800 dollars for walking his dog in a park
• $1546 Fine for Young Woman whose friends wished her a socially-distance happy birthday

Your thoughts?

April 8 Comparing the projections with the actual cases

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/huge-official-imhe-model-coronavirus-used-cdc-just-cut-numbers-half-making-go-along/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=PostSideSharingButtons&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons&fbclid=IwAR3rB9-LimXR9pI78xys6DetMaEC90Q1rnER92rGjs7G3EOs-1Rs1WbxoqY

April 7 Massive confusion in male/female relations: homework due Wednesday

Ours is a terrible era of mixed messages for young non-Christian men and women. 

On the one hand, popular culture is infected with sexual messages. Example: J-Lo and Shakira's Superbowl half-time show. Message: it's so cool to be hot. Example from 'real life': college kids on spring break.

The pop culture message is basically, more sex with more people = more fun!

But the campus message college kids will 'learn' in school is not so free and easy. Message: sex is ok if you follow this basic rule: You need consent. Consent is in possession of females. 

• Is inviting someone to your bedroom, consent? No
• Is asking a female if she would accept a kiss and being told "Yes", consent? Maybe. But if that person has had a drink, it might not actually be consent. 

And the q and a must go on.

The next day if, for whatever reason, the female decides she is unhappy, she may present a 'no consent' complaint to the campus 'rape crisis' center. And that will be pretty much game over for the male.

Nobody knows the rules anymore: Dr Jordan Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=409&v=g8GSlP2yCD8&feature=emb_logo

Are women victims of sexual violence in Canada? The view from Canada's 'official' media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79lFhnIsJ0

Are 20% of Women sexually assaulted during their college years? Prager University
https://www.prageru.com/video/are-1-in-5-women-raped-at-college/


You might be interested:

Allie Stuckey
https://www.prageru.com/video/make-men-masculine-again/


Outrageous child support law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TastJuDJHRg

Your thoughts about anything we discussed today?

Are Christian young men and women affected by the mixed messages we've talked about today? Could you see a way that you might present the gospel to a confused or hurting non-Christian friend in terms of our understanding about sexuality?

April 7 What in the world is going on in our schools?

• At the Edina School District in Edina, Minnesota, all employees, even bus drivers, must take "Equity and Racial Justice Training" instructing them that "dismantling white privilege" is at the core of the district's mission. They must acknowledge their racial guilt, and embrace the district's "equity" ideology.
   
• To enhance "cultural diversity," students at Maryland's La Plata High School were ordered to copy the Islamic creed "Shahada" which states in part, "There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." One worksheet distributed by the school states, "Most Muslims' faith is stronger than the average Christian."
   
• As part of transgender instruction in Rocklin Academy in Rocklin, California, a male kindergartener was reintroduced to classmates as a girl. A first grader at the school was sent to the principal's office after she called the student by his given name on the playground – apparently unaware that the five year old had changed gender.

These horror stories are not exceptions to the rule. As our important new pamphlet (co-authored by Sara Dogan and Peter Collier), Leftist Indoctrination In Our K-12 Public Schools, shows, they are happening every day in schools all across our country. You can access this work which provides crucial documentation of the indoctrination crisis in our schools here or read the full text below.

April 2 Hot off the press...

APRIL 2, 2020 BY STEVEN HAYWARD IN FEMINISM, HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD IGNORAMUSES STRIKE AGAIN

Save up for this! The Hulu streaming channel is debuting a nine-part series called “Mrs. America” on the 1970s-era clash between Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly chiefly over the Equal Rights Amendment, and given that it’s Hollywood’s take you can be sure it is fully “nuanced.”

You know you are in trouble when the very first sentence of the review of the show in the Hollywood Reporter today begins as follows:

A century after female suffrage became the law of the land, there is still no federal ban on legalized discrimination against women.

So, I’m guessing the writer of this review has never heard of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (it was kindof a big deal at the time), which includes:

It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

The rest of the article doesn’t get any better, but if you’re a glutton, you can click at the link  above and be alternately amused and infuriated.

And I’ll predict that the number of Power Line readers who decide to stream this pathetic excuse for a dual biopic will asymptotically approach zero.

April 2 A note about notes

Please keep an old fashioned paper notebook handy. Put the date at the top of each class notes page. Often, when I show a short video, I'll give you a few minutes to record some thoughts on paper. Sometimes, I'll have specific questions; sometimes, I'll ask you what caught your attention and why. 

April 2 Essay topics: Media Bias

Bias by omission. What the mainstream news media does not tell the public is, in many cases, much more harmful than the often slanted 'fake news' like the AIDS epidemic that they do present.

In the essay topics document, I give you six different issues that most of the public has never heard of. Do some googling in the next few days and see which one looks most interesting. 

If you have any questions, ask them in the Teams Journalism chat...@MrTopalian.

By this time next week, choose one.

April 2 Males and females: false claims, double standards

How are women doing relative to men?

https://www.prageru.com/video/the-myth-of-the-gender-wage-gap/

Professor Sommers explains that, “…I routinely encounter students who have fully accepted the feminist propaganda. American college women are arguably the most fortunate, liberated beings on the planet -- yet in their feminist theory classes they are likely to learn that they are put upon and tyrannized by men.” Why do you think this is the case? Why do some people believe the propaganda, when the evidence doesn’t support it? What fundamental conditions precipitate young people being ‘duped’ into embracing the victim mentality, even people who have not experienced such victimization first hand?

April 1st...not April fools'

This sold 100 million dollars worth of t-shirts.

April 1 Is school helping boys?

Normal boys are targeted in school: 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4


Today's Schools are Toxic to Boys: 6 Stossel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQnSLeCNhXY

Boy plays with pencil: suspended 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73AZbC1E1Q

ADHD: children, mostly boys, are punished for having an invented disease: 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFc67ZiZ2M0

Is any of what you've seen today about public schools and boys a surprise or a shock? How would you relate the general treatment of boys (if this is common in the education system) to Ch 6: Targeting Men? What can or should be done?

April 1 So cute

Imagine this is on a popular kids' t-shirt. Let's say lots of kids are wearing the shirt and big stores like Walmart are selling it.

You're a mom or dad, big brother or sis; how do you feel about this?

What might you do?

Who or what would you be angry with?