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EEOC Sues NYT for DEI-Related Race and Sex Discrimination
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: EEOC
Federal lawsuit alleges news publisher failed to promote a white male employee because of his race and sex. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, The New York Times chose not to promote a well-qualified white male employee because of his race and/or sex. The New York Times has a well-documented commitment to enacting race and sex conscious decision making in the workforce through its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. In The New York Times’s 2021 “Call to Action” and throughout numerous other publications, the company stated goals and action plans to increase non-white and female representation in its leadership positions.

House sexual harassment payouts exceeded $300,000
Topic: Sexual Harassment
Source: Just the News
Nancy Mace promised accountability for the victims and the House paid out approximately $338,000 to settle the cases. One former lawmaker was targeted in sexual assault lawsuits three times and the House cumulatively paid out $115,000 to dismiss them. The House Oversight panel subpoenaed information detailing the government payouts after a March committee vote, seeking a full accounting of payouts made before the settlements ended in 2018, according to Politico.

Education Dept. Opens Title IX Investigation Into Smith College
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Associated Press
Administration will look at whether all-women's school is in violation for admitting trans women The US Department of Education opened an investigation Monday into Smith College, an all-women's institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. The probe by the department's Office of Civil Rights will look at whether the college violated Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education. The move is the latest by the Trump administration—whose rhetoric has frequently included attacks on trans people—to limit transgender rights in the US, reports the AP. The administration has said that Title IX prevents trans women from participating in women's sports, suing several states and launching investigations into schools for not complying. Smith College, a private liberal arts school founded in 1871, has admitted trans women since 2015, along with many other elite women's colleges.

Posting Video of 10-Year-Old Hockey Player's "Tantrum"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Isn't Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. In Mufarreh v. Google, Inc., decided Friday by the Illinois Appellate Court (Justice Raymond Mitchell, joined by Justices Sharon Oden-Johnson and Thaddeus Wilson), a 10-year-old hockey player and his parents sued an anonymous video poster, and sought to discover the poster's name: "[i]n a competitive youth hockey game[,] Mufarreh missed the final penalty shot, losing the game, and had a severe emotional response on the ice. Among other things, he screamed, threw his hockey stick, gloves, and helmet, and fell to the ground."

Moms for Liberty takes New York for America's 250th birthday bash
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Post Millennial
The group of happy warriors have had 565 school district wins across the US since their founding just five years ago. The guests all met in their finery at Battery Park while regular New Yorkers in their Saturday afternoon best glanced at the parade, the signs waved by the Liberty crown-wearing guides, and smirked away. The 600 guests were gathered to board a boat for Ellis Island, where the non-profit was hosting a bash to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The British took the harbor in 1776 and used New York City as their base of operations for the Revolutionary War, but Saturday night, it was all about Moms for Liberty.

Horrifying "Rape Festival" Sparks Worldwide Outrage
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Zero Hedge
Videos circulating on social media out of Nigeria have ignited shock and horror after appearing to show groups of men chasing, stripping and sexually assaulting women in broad daylight during a traditional “fertility" festival in the country’s southern Delta State, according to news.com.au. The incidents unfolded on March 19 during the Alue-Do festival in Ozoro, a triennial rite in the Uruamudhu community of the Ozoro Kingdom. Intended to invoke blessings for married women struggling with conception, the event involves processions to a community shrine. Local customs reportedly advise single women to remain indoors. However, footage depicted young women fleeing through crowded streets, pursued by mobs who tore at their clothing, groped them and subjected them to public humiliation while bystanders filmed and, in some cases, appeared to cheer.

Taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark announces...
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Daily Mail UK
... 'Muslim only' day featuring modest dress and Halal-slaughtered meat. A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash by organizing a Muslim-only day to celebrate Eid. Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a 'modest dress code' and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat. Posters for the event say it will be 'for Muslims only' to create a 'family-friendly environment', with tickets starting at $55 each. [Ed: a private company can screen customers in a discriminatory manner; a public (tax funded) one cannot.)

Actor Rob Schneider brings star power to lawsuit
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
,,,demanding UC Berkeley comply with records request. Actor Rob Schneider is lending his star power to a new lawsuit filed against the University of California, Berkeley, demanding the public institution hand over documents pertaining to a Turning Point USA event last November that faced aggressive protests. The event took place two months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated and featured Schneider, but it was preceded with protests filled with mayhem, as demonstrators banged against barriers, set off a smoke grenade, and screamed at attendees waiting in line. “I am suing the University @CalBerkeley for violating Free Speech,” the actor and comedian stated in a post on X on Thursday. In a video accompanying the post, he said “unfortunately the university allowed Antifa rioters to interfere with our event, to prevent people from entering.”

Second ‘Detransitioner’ Wins Settlement for Life-Altering Double Mastectomy
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Benjamin Ryan
Camille Kiefel sued the two Oregon mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped for her a referral letter for a mastectomy after a single telehealth appointment. The malpractice lawsuit, in which Ms. Kiefel, 36, sought $3.5 million, had been set to enter what would have been a historic jury trial in the Circuit Court in Multnomah County, Oregon, in January. But the parties entered a confidential settlement just days before the trial was slated to begin.

Mifepristone Returns to the Shadow Docket UPDATE
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Drug makers seek interim relief after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocks FDA rule allowing mifepristone prescriptions via telemedicine. In 2023, the Supreme Court stayed a district court order undoing the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone (aka RU-486), a medication used (in combination with misoprostol) to terminate pregnancies. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit had partially stayed the district court's decision, but had left portions that would have restricted mifepristone's availability in place. One year later the case returned to the Supreme Court, only to be dismissed unanimously due to a lack of Article III standing in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. UPDATE Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito on Monday issued an order pausing a ruling that would restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone amid an appeal by the manufacturer.

Connecticut lawmakers pass bill to ban female genital mutilation
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Connecticut Post
The ritual mutilation of female genitals could result in five years in prison and $5,000 fines under legislation that took years to finally win approval in the Connecticut General Assembly, when the House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday night. The legislation, which recently won a 36-0 vote in the state Senate, next heads to Gov. Ned Lamont's desk for review. If signed into law, Connecticut would become the 42nd state to enact criminal penalties for female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision.

UN says Israel’s death penalty law perpetuates ‘racial discrimination’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Andolu Agency
Statement urges Israel to end policies, practices that amount to racial discrimination against, segregation of Palestinians. Israel’s newly adopted death penalty law perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians and amounts to a grave erosion of human rights, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said Friday. CERD expressed alarm about the law mandates, and urged Israel to immediately repeal it. "Those courts have exclusive jurisdiction over Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while Israeli citizens and residents are explicitly excluded from its application," it said in a statement.

Iraqi Father Arrested In Sweden For Beating, Imprisoning Daughter In Italy
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix
Over Forced Marriage Plot. Italian police say the 52-year-old demanded his daughter marry a Kurdish man chosen by the family and threatened to kill her if she tried to escape. The 52-year-old man was tracked down by Taranto State Police after the authorities in southern Italy opened an investigation into domestic abuse and forced marriage following a complaint from the young woman last November. As reported by Il Giornale, prosecutors say the victim told officers her father had demanded she marry a Kurdish man selected by him and had threatened her with death if she resisted or tried to flee abroad. [Ed: it is important to recognize how destructive some cultural attitudes are to Western values and women's safety/rights.]

Texas sues schools for not displaying 10 Commandments
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: News Nation
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing two school districts for “openly refusing” to display donated copies of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms, a new state requirement. The lawsuit was filed against Round Rock Independent School District Leander Independent School District. “These rogue ISD officials and board members blatantly disregarded the will of Texas voters who expect the legal and moral heritage of our state to be displayed in accordance with the law,” Paxton’s office said in a news release. “Round Rock ISD and Leander ISD chose to defy a clear statutory mandate, and this lawsuit makes clear that no district may ignore Texas law without consequence.”

Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Amsterdam Bans Advertisements Featuring Meat and Fossil Fuels. In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed similar limitations on advertising for products in the United States, from alcohol to tobacco. However, the Dutch law reflects how this tendency can metastasize into shielding citizens from unhealthy choices or influences.

Elites And Their Contempt
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Brownstone Instiute
We live in a world where the elites view the common man as a problem to be solved... The elites themselves seem to view the common people with at least implicit contempt. They desire entire blocks to be shut down for their own amusement. The common man, including those who wait upon them, should be relegated to buses or walking so as not to encroach upon their experience. This is their party, and the city is lucky to have them there. We live in a world where the elites view the common man as a problem to be solved and the leaders elected by the common man anxiously present themselves as lapdogs to these elites, forgetting any sense of duty or obligation to those who placed them in power.

Is ‘Mission-Aligned Selection’ the New Workaround for Race-Based Admissions?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Do No Harm Medicine
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is changing the language it uses to refer to its preferred admissions strategies, potentially offering a fig leaf to medical education programs intent on engaging in ideologically motivated or racial admissions policies. Previously, the AAMC had touted the admissions practice of “holistic review,” which prioritizes softer attributes such as personal background and deemphasizes objective measurements of merit and academic aptitude. But, as Do No Harm has shown, many medical schools that promote holistic review are also admitting minority students at much higher rates than a merit-only review process would typically produce. Specifically, some of these students are less academically qualified than their peers. This raises questions about whether these schools are using holistic review to engage in racial discrimination. It is especially troubling as the AAMC was long a proponent of racial preferences in admissions, even submitting a brief to the Supreme Court to argue that the practice should continue.

Animal Farm Film A Hollywood Perversion Of Orwell's Anti-Communist Classic
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Hollywood twisted the story into an attack on capitalism, ignoring the book's stark warnings about left-wing collectivist ideology... Animal Farm, first published in 1945, is a tale specifically written as an allegory for the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Soviet Communism. Despite the characters being talking animals, the themes are dark and disturbing. It is a story about the naivety of the "underclass", the exploitation of the "have-nots" by communists seeking to use gullible people as weapons against their "imperialist" and capitalist enemies. It is a grotesque tragedy composed like a children's novel, which makes it all the more effective. It destroys the notion of "equity" and exposes the truth: There is no such thing as a socialist Utopia, there can only ever be socialist dystopia. And to get it, leftists are happy to sacrifice you and everything you love. Not only that, but they expect you to applaud them for it.

EU Wages Censorship Jihad on Social Media Emojis
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Armageddon Prose
Unsatisfied with merely censoring words, or combination of words, the current overlords of the continent and civilization that birthed the concept of free speech, in their endless quest for totalitarian control over hearts and minds, have moved on to combating problematic emojis.