Airline Under Fire For DEI Policies After Nearly-Tragic Crash Landing In Toronto
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Trending Politics
A regional airline operating the Delta Air Lines flight that flipped upside down upon landing on Monday is being criticized for aggressively promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that critics allege may have contributed to the near-fatal incident. Air travel was brought to a standstill over Toronto on Monday after Delta Flight 4819 capsized while attempting to land at Pearson International Airport, where wind gusts were reported to be as high as 65 mph. Video of the harrowing incident shows flames bursting from the bottom of the jet before a wing breaks off, and the intact cabin rolls onto its roof.

The NHS’s cruel witch-hunt of a gender-critical nurse
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Sandie Peggie could be sacked for refusing to get changed alongside a man. Nurse Sandie Peggie is facing a witch-hunt by her employer because, like the majority of the British public, she believes that magic words can’t change a person’s sex. In an extraordinary show of contempt for common sense and the taxpayer, the NHS Fife health board has summoned Peggie to a disciplinary hearing to make her answer charges of harassment. This is while an employment tribunal centred on the same allegations is still ongoing. The outcome of the NHS’s inquisition could lead to the nurse, who had an unblemished 30-year career, being fired.

Punishing pro-Palestine protests
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Al Jazeera
As pro-Palestine protests on US campuses grow smaller, advocates point to increasingly harsh disciplinary measures. It was December, and the end of the quarter was fast approaching at the University of Chicago. Mamayan Jabateh, a fourth-year student, was working on a final paper about the politics of the "carceral state", inside a dorm on campus, when a knock came at the door. Four Chicago police officers were standing on the other side. They presented Jabateh, who uses the pronoun "they", with a printed photograph. It showed them at a pro-Palestinian campus protest two months earlier, on October 11.

CU Boulder ends ‘underrepresented minority’ med school scholarship after being sued
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
The University of Colorado Boulder has revised a scholarship for “underrepresented” minorities following a federal lawsuit from Do No Harm. The medical reform group sued the public university for its med school scholarship focused on radiation oncology. The scholarship now says it is “open to all applicants.” “[T]he Underrepresented Minority Visiting Elective Scholarship was available only to students from groups that are historically underrepresented in medicine,’ excluding white and Asian American students,” according to Do No Harm’s news release.

Trump's IVF Order Is Praised—and Picked Apart
Topic: Women's Health
Source: Newser
A look at the executive order signed Tuesday... President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order intended to expand access to and reduce costs of in vitro fertilization. As Trump put it, "I've been saying we are going to do what we have to do and I think the women and families, husbands, are very appreciative of" the executive order on IVF, which can be extremely expensive, can require multiple rounds, and doesn't always succeed. Axios puts the per-cycle cost at $12,000 to $25,000. Some, like GOP Sen. Katie Britt, hailed the move as a "promise kept"; others swung at that narrative. What you need to know:

The first openly gay Muslim imam is killed in South Africa
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Associated Press
...prompting claims of an assassination. Muhsin Hendricks was ambushed by two men in a pick-up truck while visiting the southern city of Gqeberha on Saturday. Police said the men involved in the killing had their faces covered. A security video of the shooting shows one of them jumping out of their vehicle, running up to the car Hendricks was in and firing a pistol multiple times through a side window. Police said Hendricks was with a driver, who survived.

Colleges celebrate Valentine’s with ‘ethical porn,’ abortion ‘party’ and ‘Genital Diversity Gallery’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
Meanwhile, new government report shows widespread concerns about campus sex ed ‘misinformation’. It’s Valentine’s week, and there is no shortage of bizarre and morally troubling campus events about sex and relationships again this year. In many cases, university health centers and “reproductive rights” groups celebrate “sex week” at the same time. This year’s events include education about “healthy hookups” and an abortion “party.” Here are some of the lowlights:

Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Gender Ideology Websites
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Politico
A federal judge ordered federal health agencies Tuesday to restore pages they removed from their websites last month to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology and extremism,” saying the decision to pull them down could be detrimental to public health. The decision by U.S. District Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, came after a testy Monday afternoon hearing in which he sharply questioned the administration about doctors’ claims that the removal of the pages damaged their ability to care for patients. Bates said Tuesday that the pages’ removal appeared to harm some doctors’ ability to treat patients and was done without any public rationale, recourse or ability to challenge the decisions, despite laws and regulations that typically require them.

TX AG Expands Probe On DEI Officials Circumventing Laws To Protect Women's Sports
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Outkick
The latest tale that led Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to expand his probe of state school districts and officials is about one district DEI officer telling a parent that a male high school athlete would be allowed to share a room with female athletes on a school trip. That and other stories have led Paxton to demand documentation from the Hutto Independent School District and the Richardson Independent School District as he tries to determine if Texas law protecting women's athletics was broken.

PBS Caves to Trump: ‘We Have Closed Our DEI Office’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart News
The PBS office solely dedicated to embracing the disputed ethos of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) – and its associated diversity officers – is no more. The closure is in direct response to President Donald Trump executive orders signed last week targeting wasteful DEI programs across a host of government sectors.

Trump signs executive order restoring plastic straw use in government
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Hill
“We’re going back to plastic straws,” he said, adding that paper straws “don’t work.” The move comes after former President Biden set a goal of phasing out the government’s use of single-use plastics. While it’s not totally clear what type of straws, if any, would have replaced plastic in federal use under the Biden directive, other types, including paper, may also pose environmental and health concerns. A 2023 study found that compounds known as PFAS, which make materials water resistant but can be toxic, were found in almost all types of straws, including paper and bamboo.

French Far-Left Leader Mélenchon Calls For Great Replacement In Shock Speech
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Remix News
“We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better...” In two speeches given less than 24 hours apart in the French city of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivered some of the most shocking yet brutally honest words from a European politician, openly calling for the older French to be replaced by a “Creole” generation of mixed races and cultures. The leader of France’s far-left LFI is calling outright for replacement of White French people, conjuring up the Great Replacement term that has been demonized as a conspiracy theory by the left for years.

#Bodypositivity Roundup: ‘Plus-Size Hoppers’ + Dank Demoss
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Armageddon Prose
Documenting the meatiest, juiciest cuts of “fat acceptance” propaganda from corporate and social media. ‘Thinsplaining’...It’s frankly remarkable this term hasn’t been mainstreamed in Social Justice™ rhetoric long ago. “Thinsplaining” — a variation of the cancer intersectional feminist invention of “mansplaining” — is when you explain to a fat, as a non-fat, that obesity is a health risk.

Under-Reported Trump Order Has Sweeping Implications For DEI At Univs
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Wirepoints
A sea change is at hand... Little noticed in the blizzard of executive orders issued by President Trump is this provision in Executive Order No. 14173 for getting federal money:
(iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws is material to the government’s payment decisions for purposes of section 3729(b)(4) of title 31, United States Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.

Of course all cultures aren’t equal
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Kemi Badenoch’s comments weren’t controversial in the slightest. Once again, UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has restated her view that not all cultures are created equal. And, once again, this statement of obvious fact has been greeted with predictable outrage. This week, Badenoch made a speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in east London, in which she criticised cultural relativism. She warned that some migrants who come to Britain bring with them ‘behaviours, cultures and practices’ that undermine Western civilisation and ‘the values that helped make us great’.

There Is No Antisemitism Crisis In Australia.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Lew Rockwell
It’s A Carefully Constructed Lie. The Murdoch-owned Daily Telegraph has been caught trying to orchestrate what can only be described as a mass media psyop to inflame public hysteria about antisemitism in Australia. In a project internally titled “UNDERCOVERJEW” supposedly designed to show “what it’s like being Jewish in Sydney”, a man wearing a Star of David hat and video glasses went around targeting Muslim and Arab businesses trying to instigate hostility from staff members trailed by a video producer and a Telegraph reporter. The man, who is reportedly associated with the Australian Jewish Association, entered an Egyptian cafe called Cairo Takeaway and postured with his Star of David hat without getting any reaction from anyone. He then started making comments to cafe staff, who caught on to what he was doing and started recording him. Police were then called and it caused a big scandal.

The Weak, Weird Case Against a Supposed 'Orgasm Cult'
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Reason
Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult. When Nicole Daedone co-founded OneTaste in 2004, she presented it as a facilitator of female pleasure and power. OneTaste emphasized "orgasmic meditation," or OMing—a 15-minute partnered clitoral stroking practice meant to foster focus, connection, and mindful sexuality. OMing can help people "discover richer relationships, an embodied sense of self and the uncompromised feeling of wholeness," the OneTaste website advertised in 2009. To OM, "one person strokes another person's clitoris for 15 minutes with no goal other than to feel the sensation," it said in 2018.

This new health minister thinks you can identify as a llama
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Ashley Dalton’s promotion proves that trans extremism is as rife as ever in the UK Labour Party.. t may sound like a tired punchline, but it really is true: the new junior health minister in the UK Labour government actually believes that people should be able to self-identify as llamas. Ashley Dalton, drafted in to replace the now cancelled Andrew Gwynne as the minister for public health and prevention, revealed her apparent support for trans-species self-identification back in 2016. During an exchange on Twitter, when asked if people should be taken seriously if they declare themselves to be llamas, Dalton said: ‘Yes. And treat [them] with respect and dignity.’

Crimson Tide
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Only One-Third of Harvard Students Feel Comfortable Speaking About Controversial Subjects. Harvard has long been accused of fostering an anti-free speech environment and quelching viewpoint diversity. That was the subject of my recent debate with Law Professor Randall Kennedy at Harvard. A new report confirms many of the objections raised in that debate, including a chilling environment where only a third of Harvard’s most recent graduating class expressed comfort in discussing controversial subjects.

Why Labour still can’t be trusted on trans
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Starmer’s self-ID u-turn speaks to a fear of populism, not to a sudden appreciation for women’s rights. Is Labour finally seeing sense on trans? According to this weekend’s Sunday Times, Keir Starmer’s UK government is mothballing its plans to streamline the process of legally changing gender. Labour’s reforms were floated before last year’s General Election, but party sources have now revealed that the plans are being quietly dropped. Still, we shouldn’t mistake this about-turn for a genuine change of heart. The trans activists at the top of the Labour Party have not suddenly recognised the importance of women’s rights. As the report in The Sunday Times makes clear, the reforms have been shelved not as a matter of principle, but in a fit of panic over the rise of the populists.