Wokism
The details have become clearer about the incident in Minneapolis since John posted this on Wednesday, but the important point remains: Despite the Democrat monopoly in our state, Rhode Island has avoided the worst of the craziness progressives have pursued around the country. Maybe the reason is like the old cliché that mob neighborhoods tended…
In the motte-and-bailey strategy, the activist or debater speaks loosely and advances more-radical ideas when the audience or opponent feels safe (bailey) and retreats to the fortified castle of an easy-to-defend argument that is superficially similar when on defensive (motte). This article in the Providence Business News shows the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) crowd is…
CJ Mitchell draws this summary of the circumstances of the Brown investigation from a Jesse Waters clip: – Brown’s head of campus security was fired from his last job for not having the proper credentials. – Brown’s President may have removed security cameras from the campus at the behest of Palestinian activists. – Providence’s City…
I don’t want to be overly critical. The following quotation from the leadership of the Rhode Island Senate is generally harmless and, I’m sure, well intentioned. Something about it just bothers me — as if it expresses a dangerous naivete: As small as the Ocean State may be, an entire state is simply too large…
The world is now getting a taste of Rhode Island’s Democrat leadership, like Attorney General Peter Neronha, that locals have been gnawing on for years. Neronha can chastise the world for calling out strange coincidences, but he and his associates have, at a minimum, created an environment that invites that level of distrust, both in…
Nicole Solas reports from the school committee meeting following Barrington’s reinstatement of social studies teacher Ben Fillo. Fillo was suspended (with pay, naturally) after TikTok videos surfaced of him ranting with hatred against those who mourned the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Sickeningly, the only ire expressed at the meeting was from Brown University English professors…
What would be the practical effect if the request Chariho High School social studies teacher Aimee Blanchette were honored? OMG. Aimee Blanchette, a teacher at @CharihoRegional in RI, showed up to a school board meeting and accused board members of using “derogatory” language for referring to “trans girls” as biological boys. This teacher thinks it’s…
While commenting on the curiously non-Republican qualities of the lead Young Republican of Salve Regina University, I mentioned the experience of being ushered quickly past the Catholic institution’s chapel on a tour with a prospective student. Whereas the website of Providence College states “pride in being a Catholic and Dominican institution,” Salve is more-softly “inspired…
When it was roiling the awareness of in-the-know Rhode Islanders, I warned that the facts of an alleged antisemitic “hazing” incident might turn out to be different than had been alleged by an angry mother and the Jewish activist groups to which she had appealed. Details from a complaint now filed by the families of…
Rhode Islander and father Bob Chiarado gave a short presentation to the North Providence School Committee, urging members to revise their transgender policies, particularly with respect to athletics: He doesn’t quite go so far, but to my ear, Chiaradio hints that the state Department of Education has offloaded risk onto school principals should a student…
