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Today’s letters: Readers comment on the term ‘progressives’ and the Democratic plan – Daily Commercial

Posted: March 31, 2022 at 2:52 am

The new liberalism

Since the terms socialism, Marxism and communism carry the stigma of philosophies that have failed, groups who believe in those ideologies started calling themselves progressives in the 1920s. Their goal was to usurp control of the Democratic Party by creating problems and then offering solutions to the problems they created.

In order to create problems, progressives introduced political correctness and diversity. Type Saul Alinsky into any search engine. Read Rules for Radicals. You will then know what progressives have in store for America.

Liberalism does not mean what it used to mean. If Democrats knew what they were really voting for, they would vote for another party.

Todays Democratic Party is not the party of President John F. Kennedy. Since the 1960s, many laws have been for social reform, such as civil rights and environmentalism. Rules then written by Washington bureaucrats in charge of enforcing those laws are regulations that businesses and you and I must obey or risk fines and imprisonment.

Progressives favor policies that promote social progress by using the government to force reforms while promoting submission to the government, because, according to them, the government always knows whats best for everyone.

Progressives believe in collectivism, not individualism. When you think of Social Security, Medicare or the income tax, do you think of individuals?

New laws normally benefit groups or corporations that have lobbied for them, not individuals, while additional regulations add additional costs that are passed on to us. Along with those costs there can be hidden taxes we never see on our sales receipts.

In medieval times, serfs had to give their lord one-third of all they produced. Today, because of embedded (invisible) taxes, every dollar you spend you are unknowingly paying almost 40% for local, state and federal taxes!

What does that make us?

Sonny Heninger, Leesburg

One picture says it all.

I'm talking about Nancy Polosi tearing up the State of the Union address a few years ago. I guess some people think this is an example of class.

Ever notice how Democrats just don't seem to be able to get past Trump? No matter what else is going on, it's always Trump, Trump, Trump.

I guess it's not surprising, after all. You can't expect them to mention the disastrous exit from Afghanistan (Biden ignoring advice from military advisers); the unspeakable situation on our southern border (caused and then ignored by Biden); the surge in crime in so many Democrat-run cities (ignored again); our completely embarrassing and incompetent vice president (ignored again); the skyrocketing inflation (Bidens solution is to spend more); or the systematic destruction of our coal, gas and oil industries (a policy too unbelievable to believe).

Of course, don't remind them of Biden's campaign promise to unite the country, shut down the coronavirus, or never to invoke mask or inoculation mandates. But, the most troubling of all is their plan to remake our country into what they think it should be. Take the country that has achieved the highest level of industrial success, greatest military strength ever achieved and the highest standard of living ever, and turn it into some kind of socialistic state, a system that has been tried in many different forms and has never worked! Could it be that their real and only objective is to gain as much power as they can?

The Democratic plan: Keep the people thinking about Trump, and they will not notice what we are doing behind their back.

Roger Ball, Leesburg

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I refuse to take my kids to the playground after parents were made to sign DISCLAIMERS in case they get… – The Sun

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PARENTS taking their kids to a playground are being asked to sign a disclaimer in case they get injured.

The health and safety-gone-mad rules were brought in by bosses at a Birmingham park after a change of insurance provider.

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New rules at Meriden Adventure Playground dictate mums and dads must sign a waiver agreeing that their kids enter the park at their own risk.

Bosses at the charity-run play area in Chelmsley Wood said in a statement: The playground is a wonderfully free place for children and young people to spend time exploring, gaining independence and taking (calculated) risks.

With all environments like ours, including open playgrounds, there will be bumps and bruises along the way and these are part of the adventure of free play and exploration.

The statement explained that the playground is fully insured, and anyone injured would be covered for any reason, adding their approach to risk is robust.

But due to a swap in insurance provider, documents must now be signed by anyone entering.

The statement said: You will probably all be aware that the environment is changing with regard to managing risk and we are having to make some changes to our operating practices, as required by our new insurers.

From now on, we are asking every person who steps inside the playground to sign a disclaimer that they do so at their own risk.

Some parents were pleased that the park - which had briefly closed while the insurance issue was sorted - was back open, and others suggested the waiver was overkill.

One dad, who did not want to be named, fumed: Im never taking my kids there again.

Children are supposed to rough and tumble, its normal.

This just feels like political correctness gone mad.

The park, which is free to enter, is usually open all year round.

It features a giant rope swing, a giant climbing frame and two slides - as well as regularly hosting activities.

There is also a youth night, and closed SEN sessions for children with special educational needs.

Last Christmas, sick yobs stole 2,000 worth of Xmas toys collected for struggling families in the area that were stored at the playground.

Fundraising efforts saw more than 4,000 raised to buy back the gifts.

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Ukraine devastation puts ‘Partygate’ in perspective | Alex Brummer | The Blogs – The Times of Israel

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The responses are oh so predictable. When Tory grandee and minister Jacob Rees-Mogg had the temerity to suggest what many of us have been thinking, that the war waged against Ukraine put the sins of Downing Street and Partygate in some perspective, there was outrage both faux and real.

No one in the Jewish community could ever take for granted Covid, lockdowns and the fallout. We all lost friends and acquaintances to the pandemic. One of the most disturbing sights for me during Covid was attending a slimmed-down funeral at the New Bushey Cemetery for a friend taken from us by coronavirus, and seeing the serried ranks of newly-dug graves.

Yet to be furious about alleged breaches of lockdown when Europe is under military threat shows how distorted our privileged Western value systems have become. The savage Russian flattening of Mariupol, including a maternity hospital and an arts school providing shelter, is distressing in the extreme. Heart-rending images of three-and-a-half million mainly women and children fleeing war, leaving behind elderly parents and spouses, makes the lockdown deprivations seem minor.

A cousin, an Auschwitz survivor, says she has barely slept since Russia began reducing parts of Ukraine to rubble. It brings back horrendous memories of her own flight from her home in Hungary (now in Ukraine) and separation from her parents (my grandparents) on the train platform leading to the gas chambers.

The brutal war being waged by Vladimir Putin has been explained in many ways. It is sometimes described as Russias desire for a return of lost empire and prosperity. Others say Putin is determined to teach Nato a lesson for daring to remove buffer states and bring its borders so close to the motherland.

His campaign is also seen as a consequence of Western strategic weakness exposed by acceptance of Russias intervention in Syria, the humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan and concessions made to mad mullahs in Iran developing nuclear weapons capacity.

There is an alternate view that the West has brought the war of the worlds upon itself. An obsession with secular consumption, political correctness, the woke agenda and condemnation of anyone who dares challenge peoples right to assign their own gender are all looked upon as evidence of a 21st century decadence.

Writing in The New Statesman, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, suggests Putin is driven by religious and cultural motives and sees himself as theprotagonist for integral Christian culture.

He cites Putins close ally, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, as a source for the self-righteousness with which the Russian leader is pursuing his war in Ukraine.

In a sermon delivered on 6 March, the start of Lent, the Patriarch argued that the campaign was justified because the Orthodox Church has to defend itself against Western corruption. Gay pride marches are singled out as a leading symptom.

Williams writes that, in spite of high recorded levels of prejudice against LBGT+ people in Ukraine, recent policy has liberalised and Kyiv has a high-profile activist community and annual parade. He says the Patriarch particularly is exercised because Kyiv is where Russian Christianity was born.

Launching a barbarous war against the people of Ukraine and their enjoyment of freedoms cannot be justified or accepted. Religion as a weapon of war, as Jewish communities around the world know to their cost, is a fearful and terrible weapon. It is pure evil in the hand of an unbridled autocrat seeking to claim moral cause for indiscriminate death and mayhem.

Alex Brummer is the Daily Mail's City Editor

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The culture of nastiness: insults have replaced arguments in political debate – Stuff

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Andrea Vance is a senior journalist with Stuff.

OPINION: In the last week I received an email from a man who seemed to be deeply angry with me.

It was borderline incomprehensible, but his rage appeared to stem from my failure to respond to previous correspondence.

I have no idea who he is. And by the tone of his note, and the insults he battered into the keyboard, I have no wish to.

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Maybe Michael did write to me before. If his emails didnt end up in my aggressively filtered Spam folder, I probably did take no notice. I have a strict policy of ignoring dickheads.

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One in 10 female journalists have sought medical or psychological help after being abused.

In truth, years and years of online abuse means I rarely read correspondence that stems from my weekly columns. The messages that do have value are lost in the maelstrom of vitriol, misogyny, and xenophobia.

Female reporters get a disproportionate amount of abuse. A Unesco report published last year laid bare a problem that targets every woman journalist. One in 10 sought medical or psychological help, one in three self-censors.

You may have recently become aware of this epidemic of online violence, mainly because Covid-19 has seen it spread to our male colleagues. Now it is a real problem.

Upsettingly for my correspondents, I do not self-censor. I am emotionally numb to the abuse. I care not that you are a man (they are always men) with a strong opinion and a keyboard. Your long, potty-mouthed tirade was in vain, it was most likely never read.

In my small way, I am breaking the cycle. Being rude to someone generally provokes a bad-mannered reply, setting in motion a sequence of increasingly discourteous interactions.

Social media is an accelerant, spewing this anger out into the world. Platforms make it easy for users to instantaneously hurl insults, and difficult to hold them to account. People are sucked into a vortex, arguing politics that spirals from mean-spirited to ugly and then plain nasty. Its at once addictive and exhausting.

The spite is so casual, Im not even sure these wannabe politicos and supporters even recognise it as such. They malign, denigrate and defame without a second thought. There is something dehumanising about their behaviour.

The disrespectful dialogue is reflective of real-life politics. Insults have replaced arguments in debate.

Last week alone, ACT leader David Seymour made a nasty personal attack on microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles. Te Pti Mori called ACT bigots. Christopher Luxon characterised the poor as bottom feeders.

Hamilton City Council is redrawing its code of conduct after one councillors inappropriate online comments and personal insults drew a slew of complaints.

Politicians abuse each other and in turn are abused by their rivals supporters. Weve seen recent debate about the slow-burning hatred directed at Jacinda Ardern. The conversation was largely sparked by venomous language used by the protesters who occupied Parliaments grounds last month.

But its not just women Nationals Chris Bishop receives eye-watering levels of abuse from those on the Left. Simon Bridges wrote movingly about how criticism of his accent affected him.

Politics has always been a nasty sport. But today it seems brutish. And what does all this toxicity achieve - apart from more ad dollars in the bank accounts of tech moguls?

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Former National Party leader Simon Bridges was reduced to tears by digs about his accent.

It doesnt take a huge leap of imagination to see the tangible effects of this hostility. The hatred spilled from online accounts onto the placards displayed on Parliaments lawns during the anti-mandate protest.

The sheer strength of their malice seemed to justify and embolden their extreme behaviour. The ugly mood has awful consequences: 40 police officers were injured restoring order.

We have already seen violence against public figures: James Shaw was punched in the face in 2019. MPs have had to increase their security. The murder of British MP Jo Cox is a terrible reminder of the darkness of politics.

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The area around Parliament was the scene of violence as police removed protesters.

So what can be done? Likely nothing. Social media normalises hatred and yet plays a larger and larger role in political processes. Given Mark Zuckerberg created a website to rank hot women, I dont think we can look to him or his company to dam this torrent of horrid.

Mainstream political reporting thrives on conflict. Protesting in dramatic and disruptive ways captures attention. There is no incentive to break out of incivility, to recalibrate politics. To be nice.

And there is a paradox. Any culture shift whether it be political correctness or Arderns bid to restore kindness to politics has backfired. Attempts to police behaviour or avoid offensive or inflammatory language has further fuelled the nastiness: the snowflakes hating on the boomers. The Deplorables attacking The Woke.

On it goes the venting and ranting, no matter how irrational or hurtful in order to ensure a healthy debate and the maintenance of free speech.

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‘Politically incorrect’ | Fred Clark – Patheos

Posted: March 21, 2022 at 9:12 am

Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today according to an aggressive, blunt report published yesterday by Christianity Today.

Heres the beginning of that report, written by Daniel Silliman and edited by Kate Shellnut, published without prior review from executives at the magazine:

For more than a dozen years, Christianity Today failed to hold two ministry leaders accountable for sexual harassment at its Carol Stream, Illinois, office.

A number of women reported demeaning, inappropriate, and offensive behavior by former editor in chief Mark Galli and former advertising director Olatokunbo Olawoye. But their behavior was not checked and the men were not disciplined, according to an external assessment of the ministrys culture released Tuesday.

The behavior of these two men was gross, and just as disturbing was the apparent culture of retaliation that silenced, shamed, or stymied anyone who tried to report it. For years.

Olawoyes harassment of women at Christianity Today only ended in 2017 because he was arrested in a federal sting and wound up serving three years in prison for trying to pay for sex with a teenage girl. Gallis crude and creepy behavior continued unchecked for years until August 2019, when Galli was accused of inappropriately touching three women in three days. That led to his first workplace reprimand, after more than a decade of impunity despite numerous complaints. Galli announced his retirement two months later.

This long article is an unpleasant, icky, and appalling read, but Silliman deserves credit for his candor and thoroughness. And CTs new leader, Tim Dalrymple,* deserves credit for introducing accountability, bringing in an external investigator, and going public with this report rather than a total spin job.

Religion News Service interviewed Galli after the piece. Hes piously unrepentant, offering only a stock non-apology:

Galli said he was deeply troubled by the allegations in the story, which he denied. Several of the incidents in the story were taken out of context, he said, or were simply false.

My initial reaction is that I am shocked at how many of the statements made in the article were simply not true, he said.

Galli also said he was deeply troubled if he did anything that offended or intimidated other people and would be open to meeting with people he had offended and apologizing.

Thats about how youd expect Galli to react based on the creepily indignant and entitled portrait painted of him by lots of women he used to work with. Sillimans report includes some particularly vivid and skeevy snapshots of the mans character:

When [one] woman was hired on as an editor in the mid-2000s, someone joked that she was only brought on because a senior editor wanted to have sex with her. She didnt report that to HR, but a colleague did. After that, the woman heard regular comments from men at CT about how she was too quick to see sexual harassment in everything.

Galli in particular began asking her if she was offended when he held a door open for her, she recalled. He would make a banal statement about gender, she said, and then add, Are you going to report that?

None of the women saw Galli suffer any repercussions, and several said he seemed to brush the complaints off as a minor annoyance, a generational difference, or a problem of politically correct culture.

I dont know Mark Galli personally,** but I know that guy. You probably do too. The guy who extravagantly makes a point of holding open doors and pulling out chairs and other chivalrous behavior toward the ladies while always aggressively joking that hes sure theyre offended by his doing so because its politically incorrect. The guy who is constantly pushing for a reaction in the hopes of being able to tell women theyre over-reacting. That guy.

The politically incorrect bit there is a tell. Im not saying that every man who repeatedly recites variations of that 40-year-old joke will turn out to be a smarmy, handsy sex-pest seething with resentment toward women for their failure to grant him the deference he believes hes entitled to. But Politically Incorrect was the name of a show by Bill Maher. So.

These not-really-jokes about political correctness (or, more recently, wokeness or cancel culture) are a form of mockery directed at moralistic scolds. Or, to be more precise, theyre an attempt to evade legitimate moral condemnation by portraying the sources of that condemnation as legalistic, hyper-sensitive, tyrannical moral scolds.

They are, in other words, part of the bitter and bewildered backlash against the moral revolution of the Civil Rights Movement and the wave of feminism that accompanied it. That revolution didnt topple the old regime its power structures and systems mostly remain in place. But it completely demolished, forever, the prior claim that those structures and systems were morally legitimate.

So The Powers That Be retained their power, but no longer enjoyed any pretense of moral authority. The fact that uppity women and people of color no longer defer to their alleged moral superiority is something they cannot abide. So they hide the past, or try to rewrite it while they whine about their context by inventing an imaginary tyranny of political correctness and wokeness and cancel culture, portraying themselves as victims.

This imaginary victimhood shows that they still dont fully understand what changed. It shows they never fully heard, or understood, or examined the moral arguments that overwhelmed their objections. All they took from the Civil Rights Movement and from feminism is some vague, dim sense that those people who had been perceived as the victims of injustice somehow thereby gained some kind of moral authority. And since they refuse to examine either justice or injustice itself, they guess this must be due to some magical property of victimhood. And so they try to claim the power of that magic for themselves by portraying themselves as the real victims. (Are you going to report that?)

This attempt to evade well-earned disgrace by a claim of victimhood is unconvincing even to themselves unless theres at least some tiny shred of evidence that those uppity inferiors really are the over-reacting, vindictive moral scolds that all those jokes about political correctness and cancel culture make them out to be. So that guy needs to get a reaction from them.

And if those people with all their talk of equality and decency and justice dont initially provide the reaction he seeks, then he will goad and needle and grope and harass and offend until finally somebody cracks and gives him the reaction and the pretext he so desperately needs to paint them all as uptight, hyper-sensitive jackbooted stormtroopers attempting to impose moral tyranny from the bottom up.

Thats why Mark Gallis long response to Christianity Todays article doubles down on his defensive defiance. Its not an apology, its a victory lap in which he savors the opportunity to portray himself as the victim.

Is it full of pious humble-bragging and sanctimonious faux lamentation? Of course. Does he play the weaselly Matthew 18 card that every evangelical abuser plays? Of course. But the main sense one gets from his ill-advised screed is that Galli perceives that article as a kind of vindication. It all just proves that he was right and that the politically correct gazpacho were out to get him. That makes him the real victim here and according to his garbled misunderstanding of the magical power of victimhood that must re-establish his moral legitimacy and moral superiority, right?

That post from Galli reminds us of another unfortunate side-effect of choosing to become that guy the guy seething with downward-focused resentment and indignant entitlement vented off in a steady stream of jokes about political correctness and wokeness and cancel culture. Choosing to become that guy makes you incapable of listening to anyone who might care enough about you to tell you to choose better. It turns you into someone who lacks the trust of friends or family members who might tell you that the best thing to do right now would be to shut up for at least a day or two rather than firing off a narcissistic, obtuse tribute to your own imagined martyrdom.

* Yes, thats the same Tim D. who purged us liberals from Patheos evangelical channel, thereby inadvertently popularizing the term progressive Christian. And who once blamed me, by name, for the popularity and influence of Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and Billy James Hargis. And who once seriously suggested that Wendell Berry needed a deeper understanding of the meaning of marriage and should turn to Focus on the Family for their wisdom on the subject (which is exactly like suggesting that Berry should turn to Monsanto for greater wisdom on farming).

In this case, though, hes acting responsibly.

** I have, over the years, interacted quite a bit with Gallis writing. See, for example:

Galli was also the source of a long-time running gag here, and the butt of that joke. He wrote the CT editorial that sought to define that magazine, in perpetuity, as: a publication that believes gay and lesbian couples are destructive to society.

Read through the links in this footnote and then re-read Sillimans report and, well, its all rather consistent, isnt it?

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The EU’s Shameful Treatment of Poland and Hungary | Opinion – Newsweek

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As the Russian army was mercilessly bombarding Mariupol and Kyiv earlier this month, the European Union adopted new sanctions against Russia. European heads of state and governments met to elaborate a common response to the worst menace they have faced since 1945. In the meantime, millions of refugees (mostly women and children) fled to neighboring countriesprimarily to Poland, which has opened its doors to almost two million refugees, the equivalent of 5 percent of its population, while Hungary has welcomed an additional 282,000.

Yet the day after it announced a new round of sanctions on Russia, by a large majority, the European Parliament called for immediate financial sanctions against Poland and Hungary for alleged violations of the rule of law.

While the world holds its breath in the face of a possible world war, the members of the European Parliament found the time to demand financial sanctions against the two European countries most exposedand those welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees. It was disheartening.

This vote reveals much about the EU's schizophrenia in light of Putin's aggression. The war marks the end of "the end of history" for Europea brutal awakening to dire geopolitics after decades of free riding on cheap energy (mostly from Russia) and free-of-charge defense under NATO's umbrella.

To be sure, the EU reacted quickly to Russia's invasion and, against all expectations, it rose to the occasion. By swiftly adopting unprecedented sanctions that suffocate Russia (but for which Europe will also pay a price), the European Union has shown that it is ready to stand on its own two feet and play hard power games. Russian aggression woke the old continent from its lethargy and led it to make more progress in two weeks than it had in 40 years, including on defense matters. Promising? Certainly, but we should remain cautious.

Although Putin underestimated European unity, we should not take it for granted. The European Parliament's vote to sanction Hungary and Poland shows how willing some Europeans are to stoke division even in the midst of a war. As in the United States, European elites are blinded by the cult of political correctness and willingly subordinate political priorities to dogmas and mantras that are as simplistic as they are harmful.

Who is spearheading wokeism in the EU? The European Parliamentan elected assembly with real legislative powers but largely unknown to European citizens, totally disconnected from their real concerns and hardly reflective of the political diversity of the continent. Over time, this supposedly representative assembly has come to think of itself as a zealous moral authority, even if that means interfering in areas in which the European Union does not have an ounce of a competence.

Europe's dogmatism largely explains the recurring conflicts between the EU and the two most openly conservative countries on the continent, Poland and Hungary. These two enfants terribles have the insolence to defend an alternative model and to oppose head-on, without apology, the dogmas that the Brussels intelligentsia seeks to impose upon them.

And they pay the price. Neither Hungary nor Poland received their share of the Recovery Fundthe EU initiative to relaunch the European economy after the pandemic. Moreover, Poland has been fined one million euros per day since October. Now they are also under the threat of "conditionality"a new mechanism conditioning EU funds on compliance with its conception of the rule of law. Were this notion not overly politicized, it could be reasonable, but as it stands it leaves too much room for bureaucratic reinterpretation.

The European Court recently affirmed the legality of this "rule of law" mechanism, although its ruling also comes with a strict framework for triggering it. The European Commission, finally showing signs of discernment, appears ready to wait for a better time to trigger the mechanism. Such welcome prudence would doubtless face fierce resistance from the European MPs, who keep ignoring that Europe is at war and that Poland and Hungary are on the front line. The resolution calling for sanctions might not be the final episode of the Parliament's crusade.

How far will this frivolous exercise of virtue signaling go? Will war definitely close the chapter of European innocence, or will Europe jeopardize its internal cohesion on the altar of political correctness? The European Parliament's dogmatic attacks on Poland and Hungary are symptoms of the same mindset that led Europeans to condescend to the rest of the world on climate change and universal values, to close nuclear power plants and cut military expenses, all while the drums of war were rumbling. The emperor is nakedand the problem is that some prefer him to remain so.

History did not come to an end. On the contrary. And over time it will put the European Parliament in its place and reveal whether this resolution will merely be a source of shameor also of infamy.

Rodrigo Ballester, former EU official, leads the Centre for European Studies at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

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‘This is the game: you’re an employee’ – Maverick Viales and political correctness – Motorcycle Sports

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As well as being a MotoGP rider and being known for his Moto3 title, those in the paddock know that Maverick Viales is a straightforward person who prefers to be sincere but assertive in his interventions. However, riders nowadays have to filter what they say and how they say it, which in Viales' case is a process that does not come 100% naturally to him.

In an interview made by journalist Niki Kovacs for her YouTube channel, Viales stated that it is part of the rules of the game for riders to have this much more careful and thoughtful stance on the words said and how they are uttered. Although the Spaniard is not entirely a fan of this way of being in the paddock, the #12 understands why a more cordial posture is adopted.

'You always have to think about what you say. Sometimes it's hard to say what you think because you have to respect quite a few people, you have to respect a brand, you have to respect a lot of things. And sometimes you can't say things the way you want to. Basically you have to think, be much more cordial than you would like to be, but that's the game. In the end you're an employee, you have an image, and you work for a brand,' replied the rider, when asked if he can become an actor when in contact with the media on MotoGP weekends.

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Woke Pat Forde Remains Silent On Lia Thomas Winning A National Title Over His Daughter & Her Olympic Friends – OutKick

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Woke Sports Illustrated writer Pat Forde has been poked and prodded since Thursday over his daughter, all-American swimmer Brooke Forde of Stanford, finishing fourth in the 500 freestyle national championship race against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.

Pat wont say a thing. He hasnt congratulated Lia on beating his daughter. He hasnt said that Emma Weyant is the real national champion. Nothing.

In fact, Pat hasnt said anything on Lia Thomas since a January Yahoo college football podcast where he blamed the Thomas hysteria on people who dont give a damn about womens sports while not ruling out that he might have a problem with the transgender swimmer competing against his daughter and other biological females.

I think the expectation is that this would be very late to change the rules of the game and to put her out of thatThere is major questions of inclusivity, fairness. Is this damaging to womens sports? Do we ever get to a point where we have a third category at the college level, mens swimming, womens swimming and transgender swimming? Forde said during a conversation with sportswriter Dan Wetzel.

It is funny. Some of the folks who are really wound up about this and screaming about the fairness about womens sports really dont give a damn about womens sports. They are using this as a political wedge issue, and they are using it as a sign the country has absolutely run amok and has lost its mind to political correctness and blah blah blah. There are a lot of political opinions about this, but some of them are cloaked, I think, in bogus terms.

And then Pat went silent. Hes remained silent and it doesnt appear that the normally vocal blue checkmark will make a stand for biological women as the NCAA Championships come to a close Saturday night in Atlanta.

Instead, Pat has spent his time playing swimming rules cop against his haters.

Remember when Pat Forde had strong takes about COVID and seemed to enjoy coaches losing because they refused to be double-masked like Pat? Those were the days.

With takes like these, youd think Pat would have a current take on a biological male beating his daughter and her Olympic teammates (Weyant, Sullivan and Forde won silver medals at the Tokyo Games) in the 500 freestyle. Youd think a womens swimming defender like Pat would have a tweet for the swimmer who was in tears after she missed the NCAA Championships because a spot went to a biological male.

Crickets from Pat.

Does Pat care about the future of womens sports? It sure doesnt seem so after so much silence this weekend. If he did, this was the weekend to use his platform. Instead, he just sat there and let a biological male beat his biological daughter and her Olympic friends.

Its not a good look, Pat.

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The Indians Are Coming! The Indians Are Coming! – Watson – GoLocalProv

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Raymond Two Hawks Watson, MINDSETTER

I didnt know there were anymore Indians left in Rhode Island. That ones always fun. Particularly given the fact that in the early 1900s Providence was the third largest community of American Indians in the U.S. Additionally, Rhode Island is home to a federally recognized American Indian Tribe. This isnt ancient history; this is here and now. How could they not know? It doesnt make any sense.

You dont look like an Indian. This ones even better because it shows a complete lack of understanding about what an American Indian actually is. For those who may be unaware, in American law American Indian is a political status, not a racial designation. See Morton v Mancari (1974). From this perspective, You dont look like an Indian. is equivalent to stating You dont look like a diplomat; a foreign national; a political refugee; an asylum seeker; etc . . . . Sounds outrageous, right? But apparently not right when it comes to the Indians . . . and it makes no sense.

How much Indian are you? This is definitely one of my favorites. I recall having a fantastic conversation on Facebook with a self-proclaimed English-Irishman who was adamant that I needed to take a DNA test to prove that I was an actual Narragansett. In true Two Hawks fashion, I responded that given the history that the English and the Irish have with one another, I imagined that his Irish ancestors must be rolling in their graves to hear him proudly proclaim to have English blood. He didnt like that much; I didnt much care. I dont have much of a stomach for trying to rationalize willful ignorance . . . especially when it makes no sense.

Are you federally recognized? This one is probably the most sensible. First and foremost, no Im not. Theres only one federally recognized Tribe in the State of Rhode Island, and I am not an enrolled member of it. That being said, and with all due respect, What does being federally recognized have to do with being an Indian?

True, there are over 500 Indian Tribes that have established such relationships with the Federal government. But there are also several hundreds of Tribes across the US that have established state recognition relationships instead. Does that somehow make those state-recognized Tribes less Indian than the federally recognized Indian Tribes? What about Tribes like my Tribe, the Mashapaug Nahaganset Tribe. My Tribe hasnt officially formalized any relationship with the U.S. Federal Government or the State of Rhode Island. Are we somehow less Indian than the other Indian Tribes? If youre following my logic, then Ill ask again; What does being federally recognized have to do with being an Indian?

In fact, lets go deeper. The federal recognition process was established in 1978. If we are to use federal recognition as the sole determinant for who is a real Indian, then the logical question is Who was a real Indian before the federal recognition process was established? It cant be that real Indians magically appeared in 1978 after hundreds of Indian treaties, numerous Indian Wars, a 1924 Indian Citizenship Act, and a 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act. Clearly, there had to be real Indians around before the federal recognition process was established in 1978. If so, then Im at a complete loss to understand; What does being federally recognized have to do with being an Indian? Indians were around before federal recognition was established. It makes no sense.

I share these sentiments because a bill was recently introduced into the General Assembly2022 - H 7471to create a process for Native American tribes to be recognized by the State of Rhode Island. Let me be the first to say that this is a great step in a positive direction. I take my hat off to the legislators who have taken the first step towards trying to make things right with the local Indian Tribes. That said, theres still work that needs to be done.

First, the Tribes are American Indian not Native American. As previously expressed, American Indian is a political status in American law reserved for individuals whose blood heritage predates European colonization of the Americas. Native American doesnt mean the same thing or hold the same political status in American law. Contemporarily the terms have been used interchangeably for the purposes of political correctness; but from a legal perspective, theres really no space for the two to mix. Properly, if youre going to call me anything other than an American Indian, then call me a Narragansett, from Mashapaug. But please, with all due respect given to the intentions of the act, many of the Tribes dont want to be recognized as Native American, It doesnt make any sense.

Secondly, many of the Tribes are concerned that the current bill inappropriately places the decision to determine who is a legitimate Indian Tribe at the foot of the Governor of Rhode Island. The Tribes see that as very problematic primarily because we all know how politics in Rhode Island can go. There is a real concern that even if the Tribes had faith in such a process, there would be some element of favoritism or Rhode Island political might that would eventually force its way in to muddy up the waters. Furtherand Ill just say it flat outI really dont think the Governor wants to be in the mix of trying to determine who a real Indian is in Rhode Island. Its ugly business and can even have unnamed parties stooping as low as to spread rumors that youre not actually who you say you are; that your mothers not your actual mother, that your familys not your actual family, and that you were adopted as a child . . . all in an effort to prove that youre not a real Indian; or at least not as real of an Indian as they are. SMH. With everything else going on in the State, and with people acting like that, why would the Governor want to proactively be placed in such a position? To me, it just doesnt make any sense.

Lastly, the Tribes are primarily concerned that most of the Tribes werent effectively engaged when the bill was created. Thats not to say that the legislators intentionally chose to leave any of the Tribes out. It is to say that most of the Tribes were not effectively engaged.

Well chalk it up to a general misunderstanding of the politics among the local Tribes. As a general rule of thumb, and for future reference, nobody should be looking to any one Tribe to speak as an authority for all of the Tribes that inhabit Rhode Island. Nor should anybody be looking to a nonprofit as any legitimate authority to speak on behalf of any Tribe unless you have confirmed with the Tribe itself that the nonprofit has the right to speak on its behalf. Each Tribe is an individual, autonomous entity and should beand by law must bedealt with on an individual basis and with the same care and nuance as the State deals with any of its Cities and Towns. In short, dont try to find the Indian; go and speak to the Indians. Anything else just doesnt make any sense.

Ill close my commentary this week by saying this. Governor McKee; Representatives Vella-Wilkinson, Williams, Amore, Barros, Baginski, Solomon, Kazarian, Morales, McEntee, and Marszalkowski; Rhode Islanders in general . . . the Tribes are still here (Eniskeetompoag!) and they are open to engaging with you if this is indeed a sincere effort. Please do not hesitate to proactively reach out.

Thats my three cents.

Raymond Two Hawks Watson

Watson is a civil rights leader in Rhode Island. He has an accomplished career in business. He is the founder of the Providence Cultural Equity Initiative.Watson holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Union College in NY, a Master's Degree in Community Planning from the University of Rhode Island, and is a current Juris Doctorate Candidate at the Roger Williams University School of Law. Watson is also the recipient of the Rhode Island Foundations 2016 Innovation Fellowship.

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Why did Jeff Garlin leave The Goldbergs? – GEEKSPIN

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Jeff Garlin, who had played Murray Christian Goldberg in The Goldbergs since its 2013 launch, abruptly left the ABC sitcom at the end of last year.

Garlin exited the series in December following a human resources investigation stemming from several complaints about his on-set behavior, including alleged lewd language and unwarranted touching.

In an interview with Vanity Fair prior to his departure from the show, Garlin shared that HR had come to him three years in a row to discuss his behavior.

When asked what HR had brought to him, Garlin said, I am sorry to tell you that there really is no big story. Unless you want to do a story about political correctness.

There is no story, the actor reiterated. And Im saying that in all sincerity, because thats the thing that has me confused. Even with [series producer] Sonywe have a difference of opinion, Sony and myself. Okay. My opinion is, I have my process about how Im funny, in terms of the scene and what I have to do. They feel that it makes for a quote unsafe workspace. Now, mind you, my silliness making an unsafe workspaceI dont understand how that is. And Im on a comedy show. I am always a kind and thoughtful person. I make mistakes, sure. But my comedy is about easing peoples pain. Why would I ever want to cause pain in anybody for a laugh? Thats bullying. Thats just uncalled for.

While Garlin refused to specify any of his allegedly problematic on-set behavior during his interview with Vanity Fair, Deadline reported that the actor retaliated after a female camera assistant who made an HR complaint. According to the trade publication, Garlins frequent use of the word vagina to try and get a laugh out of the crew disturbed the camera assistant, which led the latter to make a complaint to HR.

After the actor found out, he reportedly put his hands around her and kept saying vagina in her face over and over again, read a portion of Deadlines report.

Despite Garlins departure from the show, his character, Murray, remains a part of the shows ongoing season 9. Though Garlin has not filmed any new episodes, the sitcom has been using the actors body double in order to film his incomplete scenes, and superimposing his face during post-production.

This move, however, led to some criticism online, including a tweet from journalist Noel Murray, which prompted a response from The Goldbergs star McLendon-Covey.

They should either cancel The Goldbergs or kill off Jeff Garlins character because the workarounds theyve been using this season aint working, Murray tweeted on Monday, alongside a Goldbergs clip in which Garlins superimposed face and pre-recorded dialogue are particularly obvious.

McLendon-Covey, who plays Beverly Goldberg in the sitcom, replied to Murrays tweet, writing: Thanks for the great suggestion Noel! This season threw us for a loop because a.) its hard to incorporate someone who doesnt want to be there and wants to leave mid-scene, and b.) we werent about to re-write the 2nd half of the season. Were doing our best.

The Goldbergs season 9 airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Though season 9s episode count was recently upped from 18 to 22 half-hour installments, the Adam F. Goldberg-created comedy has yet to be renewed for a season 10.

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