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BYU Buckles To Free ‘Taco Tuesday’ Criticism: ‘We Are Very Sorry’

White guilters were the leading critics.

Bigham Young University apologized and deleted an Instagram post that depicted two students dressed in sombreros and taco costumes amid cultural appropriation criticism.

The Melvin J. Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at BYU removed an Instagram post of students dressed in Latin American attire and issued its “sincere apologies” on the website.

Two students in the original photo wore sombreros, dressed as tacos, and held flags from Bolivia, the United States, and Argentina to promote “Taco Tuesday.” The post advertised free tacos for students.

However, comments deemed the display to be “insensitive” to Latin American culture.

BYU’s Ballard Center deleted the photo and posted an apology stating “earlier today, the Ballard Center shared a social media post that was insensitive. We are very sorry and regret creating the post. Thank you to all who have taken the time to reach out. Your comments highlight the compassion you have for others. We appreciate your insights, feedback, and the learning opportunity.”

“They don’t eat tacos in Argentina or Bolivia,” one Twitter user said. “Hispanic/Latino cultures aren’t interchangeable. Y’all should know better than to be this insensitive and dumb.”

Another comment read “I hope Ballard Center and BYU will examine their actions and issue an apology for being culturally insensitive”, and after it was deleted, more remarks were made such as “thank you for taking accountability and apologizing.”

Despite some students and other individuals deeming the incident insensitive, there were others who thought it was “funny” and did not see it as offensive.

On these threads, there were also people from several Latin American countries who commented that they were not offended by the actions of the students. BYU alumnus Elias Flores, a Mexican, said that it was not “demeaning or threatening in any way.”

“In the words of Brigham Young, the person from which our beloved university gets [its name], ‘He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool,’” a BYU student who asked to remain anonymous told Campus Reform.

The student believes that no offense was intended and that the photo was a fun, lighthearted way to celebrate Taco Tuesday. The student added that BYU respects all people and cultures, and stands firmly against discrimination, but this is not one of those cases.

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Men Don’t like Being Told Manliness Is a Malady. WashPost Doesn’t Get Why


Here’s an outside-the-box — not to say crazy (are you allowed to say crazy anymore?) — suggestion for the gang at the American Psychology Association: If you’re going to issue what Washington Post columnist Monica Hess calls an “an indictment … of rigid, traditional masculinity,” you might want to talk to some “traditional” men first.

That way, you won’t be blindsided when some folks think your research belongs under the scientific classification of “crap.”

The APA’s new Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Men and Boys says that men have all kinds of problems at rates women don’t have. Why? “One cause,” Hess explains, is “‘Traditional masculinity’ itself — the term refers to a Western concept of manliness that relies — and sometimes over-relies — on stoicism, dominance, aggression and competitiveness.”

“Traditional masculinity?” That’s kinda general. You want to lay suicide and bad grades on men behaving like men, as men have behaved for thousands or tens of thousands of years? Might get some pushback there …

But, according to Hess, former APA president Ronald Levant is “shocked” that the Guidelines have drawn criticism. Hess also cites Matt Englar-Carlson, director of something called the Center for Boys and Men at California State University at Fullerton. Englar-Carlson worked on the Guidelines too, and he’s mystified that people think the point is “that men were bad, or even that many forms of masculinity were.” He tells Hess:

“The guidelines are about, how do we help men live healthier lives?” he says. “How do we help men live lives that aren’t trapped in straitjackets of gender expectations?”

Well, try not saying things like “straitjackets of gender expectations.” It’ll likely put off any man with more testosterone than PajamaBoy.

Englar-Carlson tells Hess he’s being accused of “not liking” traditional men. His answer is “I do like them! That’s why I don’t want them to suffer!” But it seems a lot of old fashioned guys don’t feel like parsing the APA Guidelines to figure out which part of our personalities need to be medicated or chatted away.

Silly men. There’s nothing really controversial about the APA’s assertions, but Hess deigns to explain what the mouth-breathers are on about:

What’s difficult about the APA’s guidelines is that they ask us to wrestle with a complicated idea: that in a society in which gender roles have historically been rigid — and that rigidity has placed the lion’s share of power in the hands of one of the genders — it’s possible for the rulers to be harmed right along with the ruled. But that’s what bad systems do. They mess up everyone.

Rulers and the ruled. Hess thinks social organization and the relationship between the sexes is a zero-sum power game. And if you’ve spent your time at Bryn Mawr and the Washington Post, who could blame you? (One recent Hess column was titled, I swear, “Take your sons to see the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg movie — to show them how a powerful man can be a partner.”) Heck, she doesn’t even write for a serious part of the paper (stop laughing!). Her piece on the Guidelines appears in the Post’s “Style” section, which is obviously hurting for content these days without Michelle Obama’s arms around to worship.

But like the APA guys, Hess might want to get out and meet an actual traditional male. It seems she had a grandfather who was a “soldier, then a bait-shop owner, then a garbage collector,” and in her telling an admirable bad*ass who never complained. But the only living, breathing guys she mentions she encountered at a “men’s rights activist conference.” They “had flown to a Detroit suburb to talk about how they felt men were under attack. Worse, they said, nobody was paying attention to their suffering.”

So that’s a representative sample right there.

“These able-bodied straight white men were, as a group, the most privileged class in America — the Founding Fathers demographic — but they were convinced they were oppressed.” They also were “desperate, begging, for someone to pay attention and find a solution.”

They don’t sound very “stoic” or “dominant” or even “competitive.” Quite the opposite. It’s not that they don’t have a point. Think about the reaction to the APA Guidelines: Single mothers raising sons is one of the biggest contributors to violence and lawlessness in huge swaths of society, but we’re not allowed to stigmatize out-of-wedlock birth or suggest boys need fathers. Meanwhile the elites eschew the religion that has traditionally tempered and helped tame masculinity, while they celebrate homosexuality and the other 31derful flavors of sexuality popular this week.

But griping about the world and feeling sorry for yourself isn’t on anyone’s list of prototypical male characteristics. So here’s a question: does Hess include these whiners because she’s confused about actual traditional male traits, or does she mean to equate them with everyone who’s not ready to roll over and allow the APA to classify 5,000 years of civilizational order as a malady? Probably both.

As for that cool old grandfather of hers, Hess says she “wanted everyone in the world to be like my grandfather. But I also wanted everyone to know they have the option not to be.” Mission accomplished. She loves him, but she shows that she’s incapable of understanding him: “[O]ur family stories centered on him being a good provider and a good man. But … I couldn’t remember anyone asking my grandfather how he felt about that.”

 

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For Shame! Atlantic Council to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Khomeiniist Regime in Washington DC With Iranian FM Javad Zarif


For Shame! Atlantic Council to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Khomeiniist Regime in Washington DC With Iranian FM Javad Zarif

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by Jim Hoft
January 14, 2019

Guest post by human rights activist Banafsheh Zand

Javad Zarif has come to be one of the most recognizable faces of the Khomeiniist regime. His swagger exhibits his aspiration to high office. Having also lived abroad for several decades, Zarif is regarded by many Westerners, as a more sensible and worldlier personage; he certainly comes across as more relatable to Westerners, than the musty old Mullahs and their IRGC goons. Over the years, Zarif has mingled in major international settings and has made plenty of power contacts, many of whom have eventually become collaborators.

Zarif’s veneer however is reserved only for allies such as John Kerry and Frederica Mogherini to name a couple. A majority of Iranians actually regard him as an ambitious ‘captain’ of the regime that has peddled big lies, the world over and threatened one and all, in order to stay in power. The mantra of the Kerrys and Mogherinis is, for all intents and purposes, forget what the Iranian people want and allow the Khomeinist regime to run rampant around the globe, because “America…or any other outside force for that matter does not do regime change very well.” As if the Iranian people asked the international jet-set politicos who make huge messes in their wake in their own countries, to get involved.  Iranians have stood up to this regime decade after decade, making it crystal clear through relentless and courageous protests, that they want nothing more than to be (and can be) the architects of a progressive Iran.

Like everything else, Tehran’s overall approach to leaders of other countries, international bodies, etc. has been either one extreme or another; if the charm offensive does not have the desired effect, throw a tantrum and adopt the intimidator stance. These days with the ever escalating and relentless demonstrations against a regime that has run its course, Zarif is not hesitating to threaten and intimidate; he either meddles in other countries or accuse their leaders. Slowly however, he and the rest of Tehran’s chain of command, are being called out by world leaders who finally recognize their behavior as unconcerned with international laws and the sovereignty of nations around the world.

To illustrate, last week, while in India he told the NDTV reporter: “I think it would be impossible to have a future Afghanistan without any role for the Taliban…”

The day after his interveiw, Waheed Omer, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Italy tweeted: “Our Iranian friends; we may or may not bring in Taliban. But thank you for your advice. To reciprocate, the neighborly goodwill, I call on you to share power with the Mujaheddin Khalq and NCRI, release Karobi and Musavi and make peace with Saudi. Because we believe it is good for you.”

Zarif’s comment is quite consistent with the agenda of a regime that clearly backed the Soviet-installed regime in Afghanistan. Iran under the Khomeinist regime was the only Muslim country to allow them to have an embassy in their capital. The Khomeinist regime’s authorities, and certainly Zarif being no exception, have always relied on – and have never been disappointed by – ir international amnesia.

Then on Friday, Secretary Pompeo announced that on February 13th and 14th, an international summit to promote stability and freedom in the Middle East, focusing on Iran’s regional influence, will take place in Poland.

In a matter of hours, Tehran had conveyed its protest message to the Polish Chargé d’Affaires, Wojciech Unolt, calling Poland’s willingness to host the event as a “hostile move”.  Zarif then followed the accusation with a tweet that partly read: “Poland Govt can’t wash the shame: while Iran saved Poles in WWII, it now hosts desperate anti-Iran circus.”

This time, Zarif was confronted by Iranians who deftly took him to task, for taking credit for the mandates of the Pahlavi dynasty’s Shahs, the very same kings whom he and his masters overthrew and claimed as “spreading corruption on earth.”

Zarif, who has been invited to join the Atlantic Council’s bizarre February 12th event that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the tyrannical regime, via Skype, is facing other serious problems inside Iran, as one of his advisors (who is also a member of the Islamic Parliament) is exposed for raping and then intimidating girl into suicide, to keep it all covered up.

Finally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland issued a response to Zarif’s office on Sunday, January 13th that read: “In our view, the international community has the right to discuss various regional and global issues and Poland – to co-organize a conference, whose goal is to develop a platform for actions promoting stability and prosperity in the Middle East region.

We now live in a world where a regime which indiscriminately imprisons, tortures and executes its own citizens, takes any foreigner who’s unlucky enough to somehow cross its path hostage, invades, terrorizes, manipulates and brazenly meddles in other countries (around the world), dares to lecture world leaders on how to conduct themselves.

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EYEROLL: Now Gillette Razors Are Talking About ‘Toxic Masculinity’

As if we needed another thing in our lives to be politicized, now men can’t even get a cheap razor without being told their gender sucks and they’re to blame for other men’s actions.
In a new commercial for Procter & Gamble’s Gillette razor brand, images of men are shown as audio from news clips about the “#MeToo movement” and “toxic masculinity” can be heard.
A narrator asks: “Is this the best a man can get?”

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Flashback: Never Forget – Democrats BOOED American Victims of Illegal Immigrant Criminals (Video)

As the government shutdown for border security continues…
Never Forget–

Democrats booed the American victims of illegal alien criminals.

President Trump invited Elizabeth Alvarado, Robert Mickens, Evelyn Rodriguez, and Freddy Cuevas to his 2018 State of the Union Address. They are the parents of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, two girls and close friends who were chased down and brutally murdered by MS-13.

In January 2018 when President Trump honored the parents of Kayla and Nisa and the victims of illegal immigrant violence, the Democrats groaned and booed.

This was a shocking display – even for today’s Democrats.

Just awful.

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LAURA LOOMER and Illegal Aliens From Mexico Storm Pelosi’s Yard – Set Up Sanctuary Camp (LIVE STREAM VIDEO)


Laura Loomer and ‘Illegal Alien’ Actors Storm Pelosi’s Yard – Set Up Sanctuary Camp (VIDEO)

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January 14, 2019

Welcome to Casa de Nancy!

Laura Loomer and ‘illegal alien’ actors showed up to Nancy Pelosi’s lawn and set up a sanctuary camp on Monday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants open borders so certainly she will welcome the new squatters!

This is hilarious.

Loomer and gang set up a canopy on Pelosi’s lawn with the word “Immorality” emblazoned in red letters.

Pelosi regularly says walls are ‘immoral’ when arguing against President Trump’s proposals for stronger border security which includes a wall.

The government shutdown has entered week three, the longest in US history because Schumer and Pelosi refuse to compromise on border wall funding.

Loomer and her friends were chanting “Everyone is welcome here!”

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Youngest Black Legislator in America’s Philosophy? God, Guns, and Babies

The West Virginia House of Delegates convened Wednesday with a record-setter in its midst—freshman Del. Caleb L. Hanna, who became the nation’s youngest black legislator following his election at age 19 in November 2018.

“I always knew that I was not satisfied with the leadership I was getting within my own house district,” Hanna told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “I told myself if I ever had my opportunity to take that, I would give it my shot.”

At first, his small Republican campaign was designed to push Democratic incumbent Dana Lynch to be “more proactive in the legislature,” Hanna told The Daily Caller News Foundation. But things shifted when Hanna realized he could win the Republican primary—even if he was running his campaign from his dorm room at West Virginia State University, where he studies economics.

Leading up to the general election, Hanna faced doubts about his age and experience, a shoestring budget, and one instance of racist flyers he reported to law enforcement. But Hanna defeated Lynch by roughly 25 points in West Virginia’s House of Delegates District 44 in November, with results reported as 60.3 to 35.7, according to Ballotpedia.

Making It to Charleston

Hanna is in the state capital, Charleston, as a member of the majority party in the House of Delegates. He said he’s ready to get to work on the economic issues that motivated West Virginia voters in 2018 and stand for his principles, which he sums up as “God, guns, and babies.”

Gun rights is one of the first issues Hanna wants to dive into as a legislator by co-sponsoring a campus carry bill. It’s an issue that has attracted the attention of party leadership in the House of Delegates, reported West Virginia Public Broadcasting.

“The Constitution clearly lays out our constitutional right to keep and bear arms, not just in our homes but also in our places of work and our places of study,” Hanna told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I live in my college dorm while I’m at the legislature. … I consider that to be my home. I feel like I should have the right to protect myself in my home.”

Help Along the Way

Learning the ropes of being a lawmaker hasn’t been easy, but Hanna said his colleagues, including those in leadership, are always ready to answer his questions.

“Not far from my office is Del. Ben Queen, who is only 23. He’s served a term here already, and he’s also a young member, so he kind of was in the same shoes as me. He was a great inspiration for me to learn from,” Hanna said.

Queen said he first met Hanna when the younger man was in high school. They were both fired up over the success of former West Virginia Del. Saira Blair, who upset a Republican incumbent in the primaries and became the youngest lawmaker in the U.S. at age 18 in 2014.

Hanna is eager to listen to others and learn about issues, which are qualities that make a young lawmaker successful, Queen told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Putting your name on the ballot is intimidating enough, let alone going through with a campaign,” Queen said of Hanna. “It’s really nice to have a seat at the table. I think that’s what young people are looking for here in West Virginia.”

Hanna’s district is rural and spread out. He recalls driving for hours to cover enough ground while door-knocking. At least 70 percent of voters in each of the four counties in Hanna’s district voted for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, according to Politico.

“For them to elect a young African-American goes to show that I don’t think racial discrimination in Trump supporters is actually there,” he said.

Generation Z Enters the Political Arena

Hanna traces his interest in running for office to former President Barack Obama.

“It had nothing to do with policies,” Hanna told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I was in third grade at the time, but I knew that that was something new. That wasn’t something normal, to have an African-American hold the highest office in the United States. I kind of thought to myself in that moment, ‘If he can do it, I can do it.’ That’s when I started following politics.”

Hanna is in the vanguard of Generation Z politicians. He chuckled at a comparison between himself and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a millennial who became the youngest woman to be elected to Congress at 29. Before Ocasio-Cortez, Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik held the record for youngest woman elected to Congress.

“I’m not a huge fan of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s policies, the way that she goes about things, but I respect that she is a young person who set out to make a difference. I think you’re starting to see that throughout the country,” Hanna told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We realize we have to stand up as Americans to do what’s best. That’s one thing I ran on in my campaign. We may be Republicans, and we may be Democrats, but we’re all West Virginians, so we all have to come together.”

Hanna is wary of making a career out of politics, however. He envisions starting a family and doesn’t think that’s something he wants to do in the public eye.

“I didn’t come from a political family,” he told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I’m living it one thing at a time.”

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Wyoming Republicans Push to Eliminate Gun-Free Zones in Public Places


Wyoming State Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R-Cheyenne) is pushing to eliminate gun-free zones on college and K-12 campuses as well other public areas that currently ban concealed carry.

KOTA reports that Bouchard’s bill, Senate File 75, would not impact the ability of private property owners to set their own policies, but it would prevent publicly funded entities from restricting the exercise of Second Amendment rights.

Part of the motivation for the bill came from the University of Wyoming’s continued ban against concealed carry for self-defense.

The Gillette News Record reports that SF 75 would mean concealed permit holders in Wyoming could carry “anywhere in the state” that is public. “Nearly half of the Senate” is co-sponsoring SF 75, as are “23 members of the 60-person House.”

Bouchard commented on his efforts to secure state preemption of the myriad gun-free zones in the state, saying, “I think the anti-gun crowd has kind of kicked the hornet’s nest a little bit. This is an enumerated right that needs to be protected. The number of sponsors shows some movement in that direction.”

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Exclusive–Michael Cutler: Immigration ‘Crisis’ a ‘Delivery System’ for Elites


Former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) official Michael Cutler says the current “crisis” of mass illegal and legal immigration to the United States is the direct result of “globalists going back decades.”

In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Cutler argues that the country’s immigration system — which imports more than 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants a year — is not “broken” as Democrats and Republicans often claim, but actually operating “exactly” how politicians and their billionaire donors intended it to work.

Cutler said:

Both sides of the aisle have been globalists going back decades. And that’s how we’ve gotten ourselves into this mess. [Emphasis added]

…

When people say ‘The immigration system is broken,’ I’m going to shock you and tell you it’s not broken. It’s doing exactly what the elite want. It is a delivery system and what it delivers is an unlimited supply of cheap, exploitable labor … it delivers an unlimited supply of foreign tourists. That’s why we have 28 visa waiver countries on 9/11, today we have 38 visa waiver countries. There should be zero visa waiver countries if you look at the findings of the 9/11 Commission. [Emphasis added]

It also delivers an unlimited supply of foreign students and for the immigration lawyers … an unlimited supply of clientele. [Emphasis added]

Listen to Cutler’s full interview here:

Cutler also called out Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) record on wanting to increase penalties for Americans who trespass on federal property while opposing the enforcement of immigration law that penalizes illegal aliens for trespassing into the U.S.

“Chuck Schumer in 2014 … wanted a federal law that would make trespassing on critical infrastructure a five-year federal felony,” Cutler said.

“The same Schumer says when you trespass on America, however, you’ve earned citizenship of the highest honor that we can bestow upon a foreign national,” Cutler continued. “It’s outrageous beyond words.”

“This is a crisis that has been festering far too long because you’ve had far too many immoral, greedy politicians willing to sell America to the highest bidder through campaign contributions,” Cutler said.

Currently, the federal government has remained partially shut down as House Democrats block any funding for physical barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border. A handful of Senate Republicans, meanwhile, crafted a plan to give amnesty to illegal aliens that ultimately failed to gain traction.

President Donald Trump has said he is reviewing a plan to deem the border and illegal immigration a national emergency in order to fund a wall along the southern border.

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John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

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