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New Study PROVES Bigoted Leftists Discriminate Against Conservative Academics

According to a new study, 71% of American academics would feel uncomfortable or unsure about sitting next to a colleague who believes men and women have relevant biological differences.
Professor of Politics at Birbeck College, University of London Eric Kaufmann researched political discrimination among university faculty and students in the U.S., Britain, and Canada. In his articles for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, he explained the staggering results of growing fears among conservatives and the evident prejudices launched by the leftist super majority.
Using eight different surveys, Kauffman questioned graduate students and university professors, primarily in the Social Sciences and Humanities departments to determine both how conservative intellectuals felt about their work environments and how leftists perceived their conservative colleagues.
One-third of the conservative graduate students and professors surveyed claimed to have received either discipline or threats of disciplinary action for their political beliefs. 
75% of conservative academics in the U.S. and Britain called their workplace “a hostile environment for their beliefs” 
90% of the Trump supporters surveyed claimed they “wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing their views with a colleague.” As a result, conservatives naturally self censor themselves to avoid risking the very real possibility of losing social and professional opportunities. 
New report by @epkaufm on academic freedom. Among conservative academics in the US, 70% report a hostile climate for their beliefs, 23% have been threatened with disciplinary action for speech. 40% of academics would discriminate against a Trump supporter. https://t.co/VLvUQwkJbu
— CSPI (@CSPICenterOrg) March 1, 2021
Discrimination is particularly problematic in university hiring and funding allocation for scholarly research.
Kaufmann observed that 40% of American scholars would refuse job offers to “a known Trump supporter” and a third of British academics would not hire a “known Brexit supporter.” 
Similarly “[b]etween a fifth and a half of academics would mark a right-leaning grant application lower.”
Among academics
Would discriminate against a Trump supporter-40%
Would support firing someone for finding against diversity-43% (PhDs)
Would be uncomfortable or unsure about sitting
next to a gender critical scholar-71%
next to a Trump supporter- 57%https://t.co/VLvUQwkJbu pic.twitter.com/F3mRSbJPFM
— CSPI (@CSPICenterOrg) March 3, 2021
When it comes to cancel culture, Kaufmann uncovered a small glimmer of hope. 
Less than 12% of academics in the U.S., Britain. and Canada said they would 100% support canceling academic professionals who believe children thrive most in the traditional nuclear family model. 
And less than a quarter of responding academics committed to canceling colleagues who supported immigration restrictions.
The kicker is that about half of those surveyed remained unsure whether or not they would support the cancellation of a colleague based on his or her stance on certain policy issues. This leaves what Kaufmann calls a “permissive climate” for predominantly young activist scholars to push their agendas through the institutions they work for.
New report by @epkaufm on academic freedom. Among conservative academics in the US, 70% report a hostile climate for their beliefs, 23% have been threatened with disciplinary action for speech. 40% of academics would discriminate against a Trump supporter. https://t.co/VLvUQwkJbu
— CSPI (@CSPICenterOrg) March 1, 2021
From his findings, Kaufmann concludes that it’s not so much that conservatives are any less biased than leftists but rather that, as a tiny minority group, their biases don’t matter in the grand scheme of the problem. And, this institutional network of discrimination towards conservatives is likely fortifying itself by deterring conservatives from continuing their education.
As many have suspected for a long time, the problem of political discrimination has grown exponentially worse every year. According to the National Association for Scholars, 2020 saw 66 Canadian and American scholars either disciplined or fired from their positions because of real or imagined beliefs they hold; this is a 300% increase from 2019 cancellations. So far, nine cases have arisen just two months into 2021, with remarkably sparse coverage from major news sources on both sides of the aisle. It’s refreshing to see outlets like Newsweek and WSJ giving a voice to Kauffmann’s groundbreaking study.

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Cancel Culture Backfires as Dr. Seuss Books Shoot to the Top of Sales Charts

Dr. Seuss’s estate announced this week that six of the late author’s books would cease being circulated over claims they were racist, but the rest of his body of work has since taken over Amazon’s bestseller list. The six canceled books — “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It on…

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Former Shell President: ‘Hostile’ Biden Admin Is Going to Negatively Impact Gas Prices

Gas prices are on the rise nationwide, and former Shell Oil president John Hofmeister is concerned that they may go even higher with the Biden administration now in office. Crude oil prices are currently rallying, driving the national average for gas prices to $2.75 as of Thursday morning, based on AAA reports — and that…

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Newt Gingrich Says Twitter Censored Him for Tweet on COVID, Illegal Immigration

Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that Twitter suspended his account for speaking out against the folly of deliberately allowing illegal immigrants to cross the border freely in the time of COVID-19.
Gingrich appeared on Fox Business Mornings With Maria March 5 show to talk to host Maria Bartiromo about a bill before Congress. During the interview, he said that Twitter had just suspended his account. He explained that he was being punished by Twitter because he tweeted “that having illegal immigrants come in without any controls is a public health issue in the time of COVID.”
Standard Twitter policy has been to lock the user’s account so he or she cannot “engage in actions such as Tweeting, Retweeting, or liking” until the offending tweet has been deleted. Gingrich told Bartiromo that he would be appealing the decision in an effort to get Twitter to explain what was wrong with the tweet. 
Bartiromo appeared astonished by Gingrich’s comments on censorship. She wondered, “Who put these companies in charge of being the arbiter of truth? What you tweeted is absolutely true.”
Gingrich explained that the result of Big Tech’s wanton censorship would be “a real populous backlash that will either make them liable to lawsuits, or have real controls over them or break them up.” Congress has been considering what to do about Big Tech for some time, with hearings and bills that so far have all gone nowhere. 
Gingrich summed up the state of Twitter censorship, saying, “Twitter’s behaving as though it’s a dictatorship, and it’s not.”
Twitter began taking down what it deemed to be COVID-19 misinformation in April, and decided to censor dissent about vaccines starting this year. In October, Twitter flagged a post from President Donald Trump in which he said that COVID-19 was less lethal “in most populations” than “the flu.” Twitter also censored a separate post from Trump in which he said that he was “immune” from COVID-19 after he contracted the virus.
When reached for comment, a Twitter spokesperson said that Gingrich’s account was "temporarily locked for violating our hateful conduct policy," though the spokesperson did not specify which tweet violated the policy or in what way.
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Absentee ballot fraud, voter intimidation alleged as judge orders new Democratic election in Mississippi town

A Mississippi judge last week ordered a new election after allegations of absentee ballot fraud and voter intimidation surfaced in connection with a Democratic runoff last June for an alderman seat in Aberdeen, the Monroe Journal reported.

What are the details?

The final vote tally was 177 for Nicholas Holliday and 140 for Robert Devaull, the Journal reported.

Devaull challenged the election in court, and Judge Jeff Weill said 66 of 84 absentee ballots cast in the runoff were invalid and should never have been counted, WCBI-TV reported.

Weill also issued a bench warrant for notary Dallas Jones, who admitted during a hearing to violating notary duties, WCBI said.

Lydia Quarles, attorney for Devaull, told the station that "when you have an absentee ballot, there’s an envelope, and you vote, and then you fold the ballot up, and you put it in this envelope, then you lick the flap, and then you sign across the flap, and then the notary signs your election certificate, and she essentially testified that she didn’t sign in front of anybody, she didn’t see anybody sign … she just notarized them, she just stamped them."

What’s more, Jones testified that she was called to the home of then-Alderwoman Lady Garth in June to correct her father’s absentee ballot paperwork — and while there, Jones testified that she notarized "about 30 something ballots," the station said.

Jones was arrested and charged with voter fraud, WTVA-TV reported. The judge set her bond at $500, the Journal said. WCBI reported that Jones has since been released.

The filing also stated that testimony from a second notary public, Lu Stephens, was not believable, the Journal said.

In addition, the judge found that 83 regular ballots were counted without being initialed by election workers — another violation, the station reported.

Weill also said there was clear evidence of voter intimidation and harassment at the polling place on Election Day, the station said. While state law says candidates and supporters must stay at least 150 feet away from polling places, Weill said in his ruling that Holliday — as well as Police Chief Henry Randle and former Mayor Maurice Howard — acted as if they were above the law, repeatedly violating criminal statutes, WCBI reported.

What did the candidates have to say?

Devaull hopes the judge’s order for a new election will mean a fair contest for the Ward 1 seat, the station said.

"It was always a lot of distraction in Ward 1 … I would like to see going forward that … be cleaned up, people be able to come and go as they like, to vote, and vote for who they want to," Devaull told WCBI.

Aberdeen City Attorney Walter Zinn represented Holliday and said he and his client "are left offended in part and befuddled by the ruling of the court. While we respect this legal process and the days of deliberation of each party, the findings of fact are grossly inconsistent with testimony of the witnesses and reflect more of the ‘copied and pasted’ sentiments of the Defendant than what the record from the proceedings would affirm," the station reported.

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Border Official Warns Of Flood Of Unaccompanied Minors, Families Coming To US: Most ‘In Over 20 Years’

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official warned officers that the agency expects the highest number of children crossing into the U.S. from Mexico in over two decades. The warning comes as the Biden administration plans to convert immigration facilities along the border into processing hubs in order to fast-track illegal immigrant families through to releasing […]

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WALSH: The Cuomo Sexual Harassment Scandal Is Distracting From His Far Worse Scandal

The media is reporting with frantic urgency about a scandal involving the Democratic governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. This is the same governor who instated a policy in the spring of 2020 requiring nursing homes to admit COVID patients. Many thousands of elderly perished because of that policy. The alleged cover up — Cuomo’s aides […]

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Watch: Ben Carson Derides Dr Seuss Witch-Hunt: “This Is Poison In Our System”

Watch: Ben Carson Derides Dr Seuss Witch-Hunt: "This Is Poison In Our System"

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Former secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson described leftist attempts to cancel Dr Seuss books as ‘poison’ Thursday, adding that cancel culture on the whole stems from the fact that “socialists believe that everything comes from government.”

Carson made the remarks in response to Ebay’s announcement that it is banning the sale of the books as “offensive material,” following pressure from a leftist group.

Carson recited his own Dr Seuss type poem:

I do not like to cancel books. I do not like how that looks.

I do not like it here, nor there, I do not like it anywhere.

I do not like it in the store, I do not want it anymore.

I do think it’s time past, no longer to have thought a crime.

I do hope one day to see across my country ’tis of thee, books used to read and learn instead of set ablaze to burn.

Our heritage for all to share, little patriots everywhere.

Our nation’s story rich and vast, our true history taught in class.

A special place for all to be, a place known for its liberty.

Carson, founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute, further added “it’s appropriate that we’re talking about children’s books. Because as a society, we’re acting like children.”

He continued, “Like a child who is in charge who doesn’t like peas. So he says let’s ban peas, anybody eating peas or growing peas shall be killed. That’s childish thinking. That’s what we’re doing right now and it’s absolutely absurd. And I think the rest of the world is having a good belly laugh.”

“It’s time for us to mature to grow up to recognize, you know, America was the beacon of liberty,” Carson urged, adding America “was the place where people came so that they could express themselves, so they could believe what they wanted to believe so they could have religious freedoms.”

“It was a place where we believed that our liberties and freedoms came from God, and not from government. You know, the socialists believe that everything comes from government,” Carson emphasised, adding “We can’t abide it.”

In the wake of the farce, The New York Public Library as well as numerous other libraries across the country are refusing to cave to the woke mob, saying that the Seuss books will remain on the shelves because libraries do not censor books.

The absurd attempt to cancel the books has also prompted a huge increase in online sales.

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