Save an animal; kill a baby
From the stranger-than-fiction file is the report of a Beastie Boys member creating a vegan shoe which will profit the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. In other words, it’s a product that eschews killing animals in order to kill babies.
The shoe supposedly was inspired by the desire by Adam Horovitz, also known as Ad-Rock, to have a shoe that would keep him warm in winter months.
“Winter’s cold,” he said, “and I couldn’t find a warm sneaker to walk around in. Given the outcome of our current election, it’s gonna get a lot colder before we can feel that summer sun again.”
So what’s a liberal rapper to do?
Horovitz said by having the shoe made by the company called Keep he is supporting small businesses, women-run businesses, Asian-American-run businesses, and, apparently, animals. But as for standing up for innocent lives, he said he supports “a woman’s right to choose and feel that women should not be punished for making decisions about their own lives and bodies.”
Costly flag two-step
When North Carolina high school teacher Lee Francis repeatedly and intentionally stomped on the United States flag in September, he was immediately suspended for 10 days. Instead of taking his punishment – desecrating the flag is against the law in the state – he appealed.
After a nine-hour, closed-door meeting with the teacher and other witnesses, the suspension was upheld 5-2. But it didn’t end there. He was not allowed to return to the classroom but must work out of the school warehouse until at least January.
Francis’s defenders admitted his move may not have been “the best judgment,” but the school superintendent said the decision came down to something a little more basic.
“The core issue for me that we presented,” he said, “is that we have a curriculum and that stepping on the flag was not a part of the curriculum.”
Francis said he’s also been told when his contract is up next year it will not be renewed. Further, he’s been told his teaching license could be revoked. He plans to seek legal counsel.
Being safe from Santa
Oregon’s Hillsboro School District is attempting to dial back Santa Claus because he may be too religious.
That’s right.
“We will not be holding a door decorating contest this year,” a memo to principals from the school district read. “You may still decorate your door or office if you like, but we ask that you be respectful and sensitive to the diverse perspectives and beliefs of our community and refrain from using religious-themed decorations or images like Santa Claus.”
That memo attracted a good bit of pushback, so district spokeswoman Beth Graser walked the memo back a little.
“We were NOT banning Santa, nor were we going to be the ‘decorations police,’ and scold people if they happened to have decorations up that might be too Christmas-y,” she said in a follow-up memo, “unless they were totally over the top.”
Apparently, past door decorating contests became too spirited and, according to Graser, some of the decorations “had gotten excessive” and had made “some staff members and visitors to our building uncomfortable and not welcome due to the overwhelming Christmas atmosphere.”
Of course, the Christ child, banned long ago, had no place in this conversation. Now it was the entire festive atmosphere and commercialization of the holiday that had to go.
“We need to create inclusive and welcoming spaces for all of our students,” Graser said.
Shining the light
Turns out, those who discriminate in the classroom don’t like being called on it.
Turning Point USA, a conservative organization of students, has compiled a website of more than 200 teachers at universities across the country who “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
That the number is 200 and not 20,000 may indicate the newness of the website.
Just any professor who didn’t give a student a good grade can’t be listed at Professorwatchlist.org, though; profiles of teachers who make the website require “incidents that have already been reported by a credible source,” the website states.
It’s also not attempting to silence the professors – just warn students of “specific incidents and names of professors who advance a radical agenda in lecture halls,” the website reads
Of course, the left is outraged. How dare they be outed. Critics have termed the website part of “a time of fear on this continent,” as attempting to “inflame the tinder-dry, gasoline-soaked pitchforks of a mob” and being a function of the election of Donald Trump as president.
However, TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, said he’s simply letting the buyer beware.
“If the professors are so scared of what’s going on in their lecture halls being made public, then that is their problem, not ours,” he said. “We’re not trying to prevent teachers from saying anything. All we want here is to shine a light on what’s going on in our universities, and the response has been incredible.”