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In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about.

I first became concerned about @Harvard when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military actions in Gaza, came out publicly in support of Hamas, a globally recognized terrorist organization, holding Israel ‘solely responsible’ for Hamas’ barbaric and heinous acts.

How could this be? I wondered.

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I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment.

Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realized I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large. I came to understand that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was not what I had naively thought these words meant.

I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organization, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing, and more.

What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology.

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Martin Luther King’s most famous words are instructive:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

But here we are in 2024, being asked and in some cases required to use skin color to effect outcomes in admissions (recently deemed illegal by the Supreme Court), in business (likely illegal yet it happens nonetheless) and in government (also I believe in most cases to be illegal, except apparently in government contracting), rather than the content of one’s character. As such, a meritocracy is an anathema to the DEI movement. DEI is inherently a racist and illegal movement in its implementation even if it purports to work on behalf of the so-called oppressed.

And DEI’s definition of oppressed is fundamentally flawed.

must have been looking for the Caddy Shack

I was dong a job at PGA West today.
I walked out of the house and saw this guy.

A little later he was out on the golf course with a few of his honey's mowing the grass.

I was dong a job at PGA West today.
I walked out of the house and saw this guy.

I was dong a job at PGA West today.
I walked out of the house and saw this guy.

A little later he was out on the golf course with a few of his honey's mowing the grass.

Coming back home today, I found my place dry and electricity on! - OMG, thank you so much! The heating works, and so kept my fridge. - I feel for all friends who still keep pumping out water from their basements, nearby. Restaurants especially, which on top have to throw away all their freezed goods... what a loss & mess to clean up after the flood!

Coming back home today, I found my place dry and electricity on! - OMG, thank you so much! The heating works, and so kept my fridge. - I feel for all friends who still keep pumping out water from their basements, nearby. Restaurants especially, which on top have to throw away all their freezed goods... what a loss & mess to clean up after the flood!

Coming back home today, I found my place dry and electricity on! - OMG, thank you so much! The heating works, and so kept my fridge. - I feel for all friends who still keep pumping out water from their basements, nearby. Restaurants especially, which on top have to throw away all their freezed goods... what a loss & mess to clean up after the flood!

Yikes! Hope you and everyone stays safe. Floods are a mess.

Storm flooding the Baltic Sea shores of Germany and Denmark.
Watch the video from 2.12 mins. to get a glimpse of my "front yard". Water is expected to rise another 2-3 yards tonight, which if it happens as projected will flood the whole town.

Evacuated my home moving everything "up" as far as possible. Hope I'll have an apartment to return to after tonight.

That's been an ongoing controversy for quite awhile.
She was there in Palm Springs before leaving to Australia. When she came back... some wanted her... some did not.
Personally, I don't care.
Palm Springs has always been kitsch-fest since I can remember. It's a little too weird for me. I went to high school there in the late 60's early 70's.
I live at the eastern end of the Coachella Valley... 20 miles away from Palm Springs. But I have work in Palm Springs often. 

For lack of a better thread, hope it isn't paywalled...

Marilyn Monroe statue splits Palm Springs after wowing Bendigo

Which side are you on Kurt? 

Maybe we should offer her asylum since for some reason people loved having the statue here.

congrats!!!
i'd love to see palm springs for sure. one day