Inclusiveness

What ever happened to the razzmatazz about artistic independence, integrity, what have you? It seems that it only works one way: Author questions ‘racism’ in U.K. theatre. Suppose the House of Lords had talked about the need to ensure X, Y and Z in a discussion of the theater’s “institutional licentiousness”?

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One can only speculate about why they do it: Professor challenges racial myths. The professor in question, George Armelagos, is said to be president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. My favorite passage in the article:

Armelagos also discussed how race has been used to directly oppress people. Many scientists thought African-Americans were

No safe haven for bigotry: Nannies in Britain to sue for racial bias. When you’re choosing someone to be alone with your kids for hours on end day after day, the burden will be on you to prove you acted in a nondiscriminatory fashion. I wonder whether this will apply to sexual orientation too?

Conservative optimists who claim that the arrival of millions of Latin Americans and orientals isn’t all bad, because after all they bring their family values with them, should consider the case of California, a state in which the “new immigration” has recently made whites a minority. Somehow, the arrival of the Third World hasn’t done … More ...

An Englishman who insulted a Muslim neighbour who had hailed September 11 as a “great day”, praised Osama bin Laden as a “great man”, and thought all Americans “deserved to die” was convicted and could get seven years under the new U.K. Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act.… More ...

What does it mean that sixty percent of Berkeley students are children of immigrants? Apparently, that “‘Berkeley really is an integral part of the American dream'”—which now involves being an immigrant.

Isn’t it illegal to impersonate a black person? Essex woman rants against ‘whites’ as she takes over a snatched Zimbabwe farm.

The cure for the problems of the managerial liberal state is always more of the same. Europeans wary of ‘political Islam’ provide an example. European ruling elites have noticed that there are more and more Muslims in Europe, they cluster together and don’t assimilate, their presence means crime and terrorism, and ordinary Europeans are beginning … More ...

A little while ago I wondered aloud what an “expert on racism” is. Now we know: it’s someone who says “Slam them hard and slam them now” and can then testify as an expert at the trial of those to be slammed.

This seems to add a piece to the puzzles regarding the comparative weakness of the ties between black men and women worldwide: Public policies promoting marriage may not benefit all children, Cornell social policy expert finds in study. What the study suggests is that white children are affected more by broken homes, black children … More ...