SCOTT JOHNSON: After Last Night. “Wyoming and Alaska held primaries yesterday. Pollsters in Wyoming had the direction of the Liz Cheney-Harriet Hageman race for Wyoming’s at-large House seat right. Cheney was going to lose. But was she going to lose by nearly 40 points? Pollsters vastly understated the magnitude of Cheney’s pending loss. She was not merely repudiated. She was crushed.”
Related: The Morning Briefing: Liz Cheney’s Concession Speech Was a Mentally Ill Cry for Help.
THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT IS STARTING TO RACK UP SOME SUCCESSES: It represents shareholders who sue corporations that engage in thoroughly “woke” but plainly illegal activities.
Here’s this week’s success: Each summer, for the past two years, Lowe’s has been conducting an annual small business promotion called “Making It … with Lowe’s.” Small businesses are invited to submit their new products to an in-house “shark-tank” panel. The winner is rewarded with nationwide publicity, inclusion among Lowe’s vendors, and sales through Lowe’s 1,728 locations as well as over its website. The catch: In order to participate, the business owner had to be a racial minority, female, LGBT, disabled, etc. After receiving formal notice from the ACR Project that this arrangement in a violation of Section 1981 (as to race) and an assortment of other laws, Lowe’s initially sounded like it was going to be uncooperative. But when the project was renewed for the summer 2022 under a new name, it was open to small businesses generally. Good.
Next up for the ACR Project: Starbucks and then McDonald’s, JPMorgan Chase, and Dropbox. And plenty more are in the works. It warms my heart to have an organization to push back against corporate wokeness.
The ACR Project also has a few much bigger anti-woke projects in the works. I’ll tell you about those as they materialize.
(Full disclosure: I am chairman of the board, but the bulk of the work is being done by our sole employee Dan Morenoff.)
“SELF-PLAGIARISM” IS A MYTH. YOU CANNOT PLAGIARIZE YOURSELF ANY MORE THAN YOU CAN KIDNAP YOURSELF. Pre-Publication Publications: SSRN And Self-Plagiarism.
Some thoughts of mine on plagiarism, here.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Letter to Politifact. “Not one of your statements above is a fact. Each is a highly contestable legal claim, argument, or intuition.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: Large Display Kitchen Timer. #CommissionEarned
ROD DREHER: Trans Totalitarianism: Time For Moral Panic.
When I was reporting Live Not By Lies, I talked to a senior physician at a major US hospital in a conservative state. The man only talked to me if I agreed not to use his name. His family emigrated to the West from the USSR when he was a child. Now, he said, he is seeing things that didn’t even exist in the Soviet Union. He told me that at his hospital, the management instructed all the physicians to give to any patient, including children, any gender-transition assistance they asked for — even if it violated the physician’s best judgment about that particular patient. There was no other health care issue in which doctors were told by the hospital to suspend their medical judgment to give a patient what he or she wants. Why do you think that is, reader? When the lawsuits begin, I wonder if “just following orders” will protect doctors?
By the way, this particular physician told me that the HR department at his hospital monitored their social media accounts, looking for wrongthink. He said that if he didn’t have a social media account, that would cause HR to flag him as a potential problem. So he kept his account up, but only put happy-clappy “wellness” things on it. This man is a top doctor at one of the country’s biggest hospitals, and he has to live in that kind of fear. Why doesn’t he quit? Because he has a family, and tuition to pay, and all the usual reasons. The other day in Vienna, I talked to a young Muslim from Canada, a man who works in IT. We agreed that the Canadian government is insane, and that trans ideology is destroying children and families. “Why don’t people stand up?” he said. I asked him if he would stand up, knowing that it would probably cost him his job. He thought for a second, and said, no, he guesses that he wouldn’t.
I understood. This is the condition most people are in. You maybe start to see why there were so few dissidents in the Communist world. It really and truly cost you a lot. Everybody likes to think that they would stand up, but when it comes right down to it, almost everybody conforms.
Rod has written an incredibly important essay and I can’t urge you strongly enough to read the whole thing — and to share it, and to speak up.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: To be fair, it’s not as though they’re learning anything at school anyway.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Kissinger says U.S. is heading aimlessly toward brink of war against Russia and China.
ALL YOU CAN DO IS KEEP GOING: Dancing on the Edge.
BUT IT DOESN’T SIGNAL VIRTUE NEARLY AS MUCH: Ice cream is better for you than granola: surprising snack study.
BECAUSE IT MAKES SENSE: This is the leading MAL-raid theory, shared by many.
THEY CAN NAME THE SPIN-OFFS “TWEEDLE-WOKE” & “TWEEDLE-WOKER”: Daniel Loeb’s Third Point suggests spinning off ESPN after taking stake in Disney.
BEING FAT IS NOT A MORAL FLAW BUT IT IS NO VIRTUE, EITHER: Woman sparks uproar by declaring that being fat is not beautiful.
What she actually said, though, is that it’s not okay to be fat. I’d like her to take a flying leap. Like all the skinny minnies who assume everyone’s metabolism is like theirs, I’d like her to consider she might be wrong.
THEY’D BETTER LEARN TO SWIM OR THEY’LL SINK LIKE A STONE: The Mar-a-Lago Wave.
SMILING WHEN YOU SAY THIS WON’T SAVE YOU: You’re Un-American.
THIS IS THE SORT OF THING THAT CALLS FOR NUREMBERG TRIALS: Report: 44 Percent of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Lost Their Babies; FDA and CDC Recommended Jabs For Expectant Mothers Anyway.
Genocide isn’t somehow more acceptable if done for profit and to steal an election.
And before anyone kicks, I had six years of infertility. If this had happened to me when I finally got pregnant, they’d have taken two lives. Do you know how many of those women were in the same position? To all the *ssholes who hate people: Prove it. Go first. Leave the rest of us alone.
NO. ONLY CIVILIZATION: Green Fascists Are Destroying the World.
I PERSONALLY NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE INCLUSION OF THE T IN THAT: Trans Activists Shout Down 80-year-old Woman Who Spoke Out Against Biological Male In Women’s Changing Room.
BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE! Liz Cheney Goes Down In Defeat, Primary Called Soon After Polls Closed.
What will she learn? Nothing.
I’LL BELIEVE IN ACADEMIC FREEDOM WHEN THE UNIVERSITIES DO: The double-edged sword of “academic freedom”.
WELL, THERE’S NO DEMOCRAT-MANUFACTURED “CRIME” THAT WOULD DO THAT, WHICH IS ALL WE’VE SEEN SO FAR: WaPo’s Catherine Rampell: Is there no crime Trump could commit that would lose him GOP support?
And they hate that they can’t manufacture stuff that will cause GOP voters to flinch anymore.
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