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Today in the News – 02/05/2021

Student Group Pledges to Re-Up Yale Lawsuit Tossed by Biden DOJ
https://freebeacon.com/campus/student-group-pledges-to-re-up-yale-lawsuit-tossed-by-biden-doj/

This is of course an immoral and unjust decision by the Biden DOJ, but I would have been more surprised if they decided to continue this lawsuit. As Blum says “…[it] had exposed Yale’s illegal use of quotas to achieve racial and ethnic proportionality…” We know from some of Biden’s first words as President that he and his administration are big fans of racism. “We need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government…” So therefore, not only does Biden not care to prosecute what Yale is doing, he will probably give them more federal funding if they promise to increase their racial quota efforts.

What the left does with our language is immoral, but genius. Everyone inherently understands, to an extent, that “equality” is a principle of The United States. Because of the leftist massacre of language, however, “equality” and “equity” are sometimes used interchangeably, and both suffer from semantic overload, meaning that when you say them, we must ask you to clarify what YOU mean.
Conservatives would say that “equality under the law” is the ideal toward which we strive because we correctly hold that each individual human being is a unique creation with inherent dignity, worth and God-given rights. Those rights must be protected by law. Leftists say “equality of outcome” is more desirable because they believe we should be considered as merely cogs in a machine, members of an identity or victim group differentiated only by skin color, ethnicity, sexual preferences, etc. To them, it is the “outcome” for the broader group that matters, and the just treatment of the individual falls by the wayside.

Edward Blum and the Students for Fair Admissions do have a good legal argument, and I would say a good moral argument as well. The issue we face now, with the radical leftists in power, is not simply an executive branch that refuses to enforce laws that were written with the proper understanding of racism and its evil, but worse than that we have an executive branch that openly proclaims that its “business” IS racism and the furthering of racist ideology.

Today in the News – 02/03/2021

CNN Prime-Time Ratings Crash 44% In First Week Of Biden Era
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/02/02/variety-cnn-prime-time-ratings-crash-44-first-week-biden-era/

Yes, this story is satisfying simply because of the headline, but there is more to this than meets the eye, more that conservatives especially need to take from this piece as a lesson.

  1. Rage/outrage porn is a strong temptation. The CNN and MSNBC audience has lived off it for 4 years. Let us not fall for the same temptations now.
  2. It is relieving, in a way, that we will play offense now against an evil ideology instead of constant defense of a just ideology being acted out by a flawed man. We must never forget our principles even in the heat of justified, provoked (rhetorical, peaceful) counterattack.

When I say we must avoid the outrage temptation, I am not saying we should not be angry. There is plenty already about which to have righteous anger regarding the Biden Presidency. He is sending our money over sees again to murder babies, he is deleting women’s sports by allowing men into them, Fauci is still on TV, etc. The CNN and MSNBC folks were so enraged for 4 years that they lost the ability to hear a piece of news and then simply to take a split second “step back” from the emotion and consider “hmmm, I wonder if that is 100% true in exactly the way in which it is being told to me?” We must never lose that instinct, no matter how much evil is perpetrated in front of our eyes by useful idiots and confused leftists.

We must never lose our Christian instinct to give those people the benefit of the doubt. Until they prove to us otherwise, we should regard them as misled, philosophically incorrect, and logically weak, but not evil. They are the ones who regard us as evil people with evil ideas at times, at least on their news stations. We are better than that. We know they are not inherently evil people but have been convinced of false ideas with incredibly evil logical endpoints and outcomes.