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Top ‘Educator’ Weingarten Sends Ignorant Tweet About Founders’ Slavery Views

By Selwyn Duke

“Childless Randi has a child's understanding of US history.” So said columnist Derek Hunter, joining others in criticizing teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten for sending a tweet so historically illiterate that many find it unfathomable she’s an educator.

The Post Millennial reports on the story, writing that “Weingarten, the progressive president of the second-largest teacher's union in the country [American Federation of Teachers] and a former history teacher, displayed her lack of historical knowledge on Wednesday when she falsely claimed that ‘if America’s founders questioned slavery’ the three-fifths compromise wouldn't have been added to the US Constitution."

“Weingarten's faulty claim [tweet below] was in response to a clip of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in which he asserted that ‘It was the American Revolution that caused people to question slavery,’” the site continued. “‘No one had questioned it before we decided as Americans that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights.’”

The American Revolution was about leaving Britain. If America’s founders questioned slavery there would not have been the heinous “3/5 compromise “ in the US Constitution, which was drafted and enacted AFTER the American Revolution. This is basic history… https://t.co/QkwBFF7CkX

— Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓 (@rweingarten) September 28, 2022

The three-fifths-compromise canard — the notion that the standard’s origination lay in a desire to dehumanize black people — is one of those lies that got halfway around the world before the Truth could get its boots on. Yet it has been debunked repeatedly.

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How About Some Real History for a Change?

By Selwyn Duke

The video at the bottom of this article was in my YouTube suggestions a while back, and it truly is interesting. It's an audio-book presentation of the testimonial of Fanny Kelly, a woman held captive by American Indians in the 19th century.

Titled Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians, such material is invaluable because it's not from a textbook compiled by college professors who serve up revisionist history, filtered through the lens of their own biases. It's a firsthand account provided by someone who was actually there.

“My Religion Made Me Do it,” Bragged Would-be Cop Killer

By Selwyn Duke

“And my religion made me do it” said the man, while claiming to have killed two police officers. Given all we hear nowadays about “Christian nationalism,” a New York Times reader might fancy the perp a follower of Jesus. Or, in light of Joe Biden’s recent blood-red-background speech in which he warned about MAGA “extremists” threatening “the very foundations of our republic,” a CNN watcher may think the attacker was a Trump supporter.

They’d both be wrong, however, just as illegal alien Dzenan Camovic, who viciously attacking three police officers during NYC’s George Floyd riots, was wrong: All three of his victims survived. For Camovic didn’t yell “Christ is King!” during his attack; in fact, interestingly, we don’t hear anyone committing crimes or terrorist acts and shouting “Christ is King!”

But Camovic did yell “Allahu akbar!” during his attacks — three times.

As for the establishment and its pet media, it has yelled nothing about the case; rather, its coverage is better described as a whisper, with the bare minimum of ink expended before returning to woke narratives.

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My Latest Appearance on Talkback with Chuck Wilder — 9/23/22

By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 52:20. 

Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

Talkback-09-23-2022

Lib View Host With Fake Name Slams Nikki Haley for Using a Real One

By Selwyn Duke

Talk about a lack of self-awareness. Last week on ABC’s The View, host Sunny Hostin criticized former United Nations envoy Nikki Haley for going by “Nikki” and not her first name, Nimrata, in an effort to, by Hostin’s lights, hide her ethnicity. Yet maybe the host should go by Glass House Hostin.

After all, Nikki is Haley’s actually middle name.

While Sunny is for Hostin a fake one — her real first name is Asunción.

What’s more, unsaid in the ensuing debate is that while Haley may not be hiding her ethnicity, assimilating by adopting names congruent with your new land is status quo in culturally cohesive (i.e., healthy) nations and could even be considered good manners. Whatever the case, politeness certainly isn’t reigning between the two women: Haley responded to Hostin’s hostility by calling her a “racist.”

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Stacey Abrams Repeats Pro-abortion Professors’ Fetal-heartbeat Fake Science

By Selwyn Duke

The woman some people in 2020 wanted to see a heartbeat away from the presidency has just claimed that six-week-old unborn babies with beating hearts don’t have a heartbeat. In fact, Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams (D) claimed Wednesday that the fetal heartbeats in question are just an illusion foisted on America by a patriarchy bent on controlling women’s bodies.

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Damning Video: Vanderbilt Medical Center is Mutilating Kids for Money

By Selwyn Duke

Is there anything more evil than mutilating kids for money? Some may ask this question after videos and other evidence surfaced indicating that Vanderbilt Medical Center (VMC) — despite no doubt knowing that the body mutilation euphemistically known as “gender reassignment surgery” has no scientific basis — will happily perform it on youth, anyway. And why?

Money appears a big part of the reason, one video reveals.

What’s more, a VMC professor can be seen in another video indicating that conscientiously objecting doctors who refuse to mutilate kids should be punished.

And VMC has tacitly indicted itself, too, as it has scrubbed or blocked the damning material.

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Not Just Pronouns: Now ‘Trans’ Activists Want to Control Your Bathroom Habits

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not enough for “transgender” activists to control how you speak with their pronoun prescriptions (e.g., ze, zir, zem). Now ze want to control your bathroom habits, too. Seriously.

This came to light after men attending a recent American Political Science Association (APSA) conference were asked to refrain from using urinals “out of respect for” others. The issue?

“Transmen” — meaning, women masquerading as men — may be triggered, offended, or disturbed because they can’t perform the nature call in question standing up.

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Has “Gender Ideology” Revealed Media and Their So-called Experts as Fools?

By Selwyn Duke

“Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” observed George Orwell. Making it worse today is that intellectuals are in short supply (and perhaps always were), leaving nonsense of the now to be propounded by pseudo-intellectuals. But, asserts one writer, the embrace of a certain fashionable absurdity — misnamed “gender ideology” — “has broken the media and their so-called ‘experts,’” robbing them of credibility.

At issue for Washington Examiner commentator Zachary Faria, writing Monday, is an Atlantic article titled “Separating [School] Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense.”

In it, one Maggie Mertens claims that “though sex differences in sports show advantages for men, researchers today still don’t know how much of this to attribute to biological difference versus the lack of support provided to women athletes to reach their highest potential.” She later adds that maintaining “this [sexual] binary in youth sports reinforces the idea that boys are inherently bigger, faster, and stronger than girls in a competitive setting — a notion that’s been challenged by scientists for years.”

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Bill Maher Slams Woke “Presentism” — Then Presents His Own Presentism

By Selwyn Duke

It’s no longer fashionable in the West to fancy your civilization superior and those beyond its borders “barbarians.” Yet this phenomenon has been replaced by another type of chauvinism — the chronological variety — the idea that our time is superior and those in the past were barbarians (at least if they were European) to be held in utter contempt.

Pushing back against this Friday was a man now known for being selectively red-pilled, liberal comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher. On his HBO show Real Time, Maher criticized a chronological chauvinism phenomenon known as “presentism.” Ironically, though, inherent in Maher’s defense of the past was his own brand of presentism.

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