By Kitty Testa Until recent years, I had never heard the term cultural appropriation in a political context. The term, as I was familiar with it, was used by anthropologists to explain cultural development. Seemingly overnight it was elevated to a grave, moral, and politically incorrect sin. Suddenly victim groups claimed that usage or adoption…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A college president condemned “hate” after a message surfaced telling white girls to take off their hoop earrings, but took care to avoid condemning the original message. The president of Pitzer University, Melvin L. Oliver, responded to the message, “White Girl, Take OFF Your Hoops!!!” in emails…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A young adult book dealing with the Black Lives Matter movement led the New York Times bestseller list Friday. The Hate U Give, written by Angie Thomas, led the bestsellers list for young adult hardcover books, reports the International Business Times. The book features 16-year-old Starr Carter who…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Aidan Mattis Professors at Santa Clara University have openly rejected the decision of the University Administration to override a previous decision by the Student Senate in a letter to The Santa Clara. Eighty-six professors signed the open letter, claiming that “We all agree that this was a decision that should have been…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A professor at a Canadian university recently told a student who wanted to argue against the existence of the gender wage gap that “the wage gap is very real” and statistics are “NOT analytical.” In an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, Ryerson University student Jane…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock After declaring American grammar “racist” and an “unjust language structure,” the University of Washington, Tacoma has responded by blasting media coverage of the statement as “completely inaccurate.” Along with the previous two assertions, the poster at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UW) states that “racism is the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall White people should pay extra taxes because they are more privileged, an op-ed at Wesplain argues. The article, titled, “It’s Time for White People to Pay for Privilege: The Equality Tax,”argues that all minorities face economic disadvantages. “Racist employers, a disproportionate targeting of minorities by law enforcement,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Bill Nye said Monday that climate change skeptics suffer from a psychological problem preventing them from understanding how so-called man-made global warming affects their daily lives. Climate change skeptics suffer from cognitive dissonance on global warming, a type of psychological disorder that prevents people from recognizing reality,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield A video has emerged of a Trump supporter being physically attacked after her sign was grabbed and torn outside the Oscars awards show Sunday in Hollywood. The woman, whose sign read “Jobs! Jobs!,” is shown walking toward another woman, apparently yelling something in her direction. That was…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A university has suspended a lecturer who was caught on tape assaulting conservative students. Eric Canin, a cultural anthropology lecturer at California State University, Fullerton has been suspended after calling CSUF College Republicans “uneducated,” pushing one of them and a student government member who attempted to intervene,…