The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has launched a new journal, The Lantern.

O.M.G.  I am in shock.  This is RIDICULOUS.  If I saw it on April Fool’s Day, I’d think it was a hoax.

The Supreme Court confirms that individual conscience must be respected:

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)

The Court concluded that “the purpose of the First Amendment to our Constitution” was precisely to protect “from all official control” the domain of individual thought, “the sphere of intellect and spirit.“

As Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote for the Court in Barnette:

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men…. As governmental pressure toward unity becomes greater, so strife becomes more bitter as to whose unity it shall be. Probably no deeper division of our people could proceed from any provocation than from finding it necessary to choose what doctrine and whose program public educational officials shall compel youth to unite in embracing. Ultimate futility of such attempts to compel coherence is the lesson of every such effort from the Roman drive to stamp out Christianity as a disturber of its pagan unity, the Inquisition, as a means to religious and dynastic unity, the Siberian exiles as a means to Russian unity, down to the fast failing efforts of our present totalitarian enemies.

It sounds to me like the UD administration needs a refresher course in civics.

A precursor of OBAMAMERIKA!

FROM THE ARTICLE:

“Hello, Mom? I’m a Racist!

The media focused heavily on one part of the RA training called “Diversity Facilitation Training.“ RAs were trained using definitions like these:

  A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination…

  REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege. Those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give ‘preferential treatment’ to people of color over whites. In the U.S., there is no such thing as “reverse racism.“

DAMX WHITEY!

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