Inclusiveness

This seems funny: Bovine Badinage, on animal rights demands. The problem is that nothing the Left does is funny, especially if it seems really crazy. “Crazy” means that the concepts are different from the ones you’re used to, and you’re just starting to see the consequences. As time goes on you’ll see more, much … More ...

Here’s the Boston Glob on the “No Place for Hate” to-do I mentioned a couple days ago: Debate of hate. Nice title!

John Leo discusses Vanderbilt’s decision to boost their academic standing by recruiting Jews: A big mess on campus.

The mess he’s talking about is worse than he is aware. He starts off complaining how offensive it is to say Jews are “lively, interesting, and hardworking,” because it’s “close to conventional stereotypes”—not to mention “the … More ...

Quandaries of multiethnicity in a post-9/11 world: in Texas they’re worried about maintaining privileges for illegal aliens at state universities when the feds are after them to crack down on foreign students here legally with visas.

And in France there was rioting in a camp for illegal immigrants near the channel tunnel after authorities tightened security. The French say they’ll close the place—eventually.

And in Canada, another traditionally Anglican country, the other side of the process becomes clear. The church may want to disentangle itself from the state, but the state won’t leave the church alone: Canada becoming anti-religious. Forcing a Catholic school to let a homosexual couple attend the prom was only the beginning. How … More ...

September 11 does seem to have put immigration reform somewhat back in play—a report by the Center for Immigration Studies on weaknesses in the system and their effect on terrorist activities has been covered straight by wire services. The Center is even described as a “think-tank that favors reducing immigration” rather than an “anti-immigrant group.” … More ...

Most Britons believe their own society is racist, according to a recent poll. Does the statistic mean they think they have to be behavior-modified?

Another sign that social issues are now a matter of international legal norms to be applied by jurists and other experts: the US State Department report on US compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. It lists “lingering disparities,” Rodney King and Amadou Diallo as examples of how far … More ...

American public life today: a Massachusetts town declines to sign on to an ADL re-education campaign so there’s a national outcry capped by the appearance of 8th grader on the Today show. A Bid to Legislate Love Splits a New England Town includes an account of someone who thought he had been a victim of … More ...