Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Her “welcome here “ poster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxRtjma7lc

 

LifeWise Academy: The Project 2025 Connected Religious Release Program in Public Schools (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad interviews activist and parent Natalie Hastings, LifeWise Academy, a religious release program in public schools that takes children out of their school day for Bible study. Hastings provides insights into the program’s growth, its impact on students, and its connections to larger political movements such as Project 2025. The discussion highlights concerns about the program’s effects on school resources, inclusion, mental health, and the push for policies mandating such programs in different states.

Natalie Hastings is a public school parent who began tracking the efforts of national extremism on public schools when her own district elected four new board members who promised to “fight CRT,” canceled an opt-in Racial Diversity Awareness Day, and passed a “Culture of Kindness” resolution to restrict teaching and discussions on race, gender identity, and inclusion. She educates and activates local communities to protect the rights of every student through Honesty for Ohio Education, an alliance of 70+ nonprofit organizations and its Honesty Teams Network, a partner in HEAL Together Race Forward’s #PublicSchoolStrong initiative. Hastings also manages research for Ohioans Against Extremism, (OHAgainstExtremism.org) a new website launching in August 2024.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/lifewise-academy-the-project-2025-connected-religious-release-program-in-public-schools/

LifeWise Academy: The Project 2025 Connected Religious Release Program in Public Schools (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad interviews activist and parent Natalie Hastings, LifeWise Academy, a religious release program in public schools that takes children out of their school day for Bible study. Hastings provides insights into the program’s growth, its impact on students, and its connections to larger political movements such as Project 2025. The discussion highlights concerns about the program’s effects on school resources, inclusion, mental health, and the push for policies mandating such programs in different states.

Natalie Hastings is a public school parent who began tracking the efforts of national extremism on public schools when her own district elected four new board members who promised to “fight CRT,” canceled an opt-in Racial Diversity Awareness Day, and passed a “Culture of Kindness” resolution to restrict teaching and discussions on race, gender identity, and inclusion. She educates and activates local communities to protect the rights of every student through Honesty for Ohio Education, an alliance of 70+ nonprofit organizations and its Honesty Teams Network, a partner in HEAL Together Race Forward’s #PublicSchoolStrong initiative. Hastings also manages research for Ohioans Against Extremism, (OHAgainstExtremism.org) a new website launching in August 2024.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/lifewise-academy-the-project-2025-connected-religious-release-program-in-public-schools/

Opinion | If Kamala Harris Is a D.E.I. Candidate, So Is JD Vance - The New York Times

Vance's entire business and political career has flowed from his life story, which is embedded in identities he did not choose: Born a "hillbilly," of Scottish-Irish descent, he grew up in poverty, son of a single mother who was addicted to drugs. Overcoming this adversity, these disadvantages, lies at the core of his personal narrative. His ascent would hardly be so remarkable if he started from a life of middle-class comfort. But no one is portraying Vance's elevation to the Republican ticket as the outcome of some kind of illegitimate identity politics, nor is Vance perceived as having benefited from a political form of affirmative action. 

And yet he almost certainly did. Race is not the only kind of diversity that gets noticed and embraced. Elite institutions love up-by-your-bootstraps Americans, and that archetype is all over Vance's life story. A promising white candidate from a county that sends few students to an elite college like Yale would get a strong look, even if that person's grades and test scores were less impressive than other applicants'. (To be clear, I have no idea what kind of grades or scores Vance had.) Regardless of race, applicants from working-class backgrounds, especially if they were the first in their family to attend college, are deemed to add class diversity…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/opinion/jd-vance-kamala-harris.html

A farm-supply chain vowed to cut DEI roles amid pressure. Outcry followed. (Washington Post)

One of the country’s largest farm-supply retailers announced Thursday that it would cut diversity-focused positions and withdraw its carbon-emissions goals in a response to right-wing pressure that sparked an uproar from other customers and advocacy groups. 

Tractor Supply Company made the changes after fielding criticism from customers about some of its programs, the Tennessee-based business said in a statement. It also vowed to stop submitting data to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ+ advocacy group, and to no longer sponsor Pride festivals and voting initiatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/30/tractor-supply-diversity-dei-climate/

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade - The New York Times

"In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education," Mr. Klingenstein wrote in August 2021. "No we don't. We want our politics. All education is political."…

"Our sexual culture will not heal until 'faggot' replaces 'bigot' as the slur of choice," or "Our sexual culture will not be healed until we once again agree that homosexuality belongs in the closet and that a healthy society requires patriarchy." … 

In another email to Dr. Yenor, Ms. Mac Donald reflected on a further "curse of feminism": the proliferation of "nannies of color" in her Manhattan neighborhood and the "bizarreness" of women entrusting their children to caregivers from "the low IQ 3rd world" while devoting themselves to making partner at a law firm...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/20/us/dei-woke-claremont-institute.html

Opinion | Critics of D.E.I. Forget That It Works - The New York Times

When Mr. Larson and his research team compared the decision quality of individuals versus teams, they found that all-male teams outperformed individuals nearly 60 percent of the time, but gender diverse teams outperformed individuals almost 75 percent of the time. Teams that were gender and geographically diverse, and had at least one age gap of 20 years or more, made better decisions than individuals 87 percent of the time. If you've ever called a grandparent for advice or tested an idea with a skeptical teenager, you get what this research was trying to quantify. We often learn the most from people who think most differently from us...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/opinion/diversity-equity-inclusion-dei.html

When and How to Respond to Microaggressions

In U.S. workplaces — and around the world — people are finally engaging in real conversations about race, justice, diversity, equality, and inclusion. That’s a good thing, hopefully paving the way for meaningful anti-racist action from both individuals and organizations. But those discussions will in all likelihood be very uncomfortable — not just for white employees and leaders who might be confronting their privilege for the first time but also for people of color, especially Black Americans, who know that candid talks with colleagues will mean they either face or need to call out “microaggressions.”
https://hbr.org/2020/07/when-and-how-to-respond-to-microaggressions