Pentagon’s Anti-White Diversity Chief Comes up With a Novel Way to Excuse Her Own Racism It’s all about privileged victimhood status.

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/pentagons-anti-white-diversity-chief-comes-up-with-a-novel-way-to-excuse-her-own-racism/;

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The diversity, equity, and inclusion chief for the Defense Department’s schools is in hot water over what are being termed “racially disparaging” remarks, but Kelisa Wing is no Bull Connor. Wing, who actually describes herself as a “woke administrator,” has indulged in today’s most culturally acceptable form of racism: hatred of white people. She has belatedly drawn the attention of lawmakers for remarks she made back in 2020 and 2021 and is fighting back with an interview published Friday in Military Times. Her defense? She made her hate-filled and racist remarks as a private citizen, not as an employee of the Department of Defense. There, now, don’t you feel better?

Wing said flatly: “No, I did not make disparaging comments against white people. I would never categorize an entire group of people to disparage them.” Really? Let’s see. According to a Sept. 2022 Fox News report, Wing, who has since deleted her rancid Twitter feed, tweeted in June 2020: “I’m so exhausted at these white folx in these PD [professional development] sessions this lady actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist too … I had to stop the session and give Karen the BUSINESS … we are not the majority, we don’t have power.”

Wing was misusing the Left’s insane lexicon here, for “folx,” as Merriam-Webster, which is now as woke as everyone else, tells us is a spelling that is “used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized.” So the exhausting white people in Wing’s meetings couldn’t have been “folx,” but Wing had more than enough racist anti-white tweets to maintain her woke bona fides.

Wing frequently expressed exasperation with how insolently white people dared to behave in her presence. “If another Karen tells me about her feelings,” she exclaimed in one tweet, “I might lose it.” When a critic took issue with Wing’s claim that “racism is ingrained in the very fabric of our country,” the diversity, equity, and inclusion chief’s response was succinct: “Bye Karen.”

Now, however, Wing has tried to explain all this away by insisting that she was not speaking in her official capacity: “I’m speaking now as a private individual, about my private free speech from July of 2020.” She also attempted to justify her remarks by claiming privileged victimhood status:

I was in a space where I was the only person of color. The purpose of that was people wanting to reconcile what was happening at the present time. In the middle of that session, someone just called out, “Well, Black people are racist, too.” It didn’t have any context to what we were talking about, and I started to explain to her that yes, everybody can be racist. But we’re talking about systemic racism and how that impacts people and their ability for housing, their ability for a lot of things. That’s something that I thought we were there to discuss….I can’t advocate for equity and access and opportunity and then not be willing to advocate for myself when an injustice is happening for myself. I have to stand up at some point, and this is the right time.

Well, great. But she is supposed to be the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” supervisor for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which, according to Fox, “provides K-12 education to the DoD community in the U.S. and all over the world.” How will Wing avoid bringing her own racism into her work?

With just that concern, according to Military Times, “20 Republican lawmakers, including members of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, demanding to know whether DoD officials were aware of Wing’s tweets before they placed her in her current position. Lawmakers also asked Austin whether DoDEA endorses ‘the ideology’ in those tweets and whether it’s been incorporated into the curriculum proposed by DoDEA.” These are important questions. Yet the lawmakers sent Austin two letters about this in January and have received no response. The ostensibly marginalized and oppressed, you see, don’t think they have any obligation to address the concerns of their putative oppressors.

In reality, of course, Austin and Wing are cosseted elitists, not oppressed at all. Austin apparently doesn’t deign to answer questions from those who have no power to cause him any professional difficulty. And if they get too close, he, like Wing, can just cry “racism.” Works like a charm.

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Joe Biden’s Brother May Be More Troublesome Than His Son

You Think Hunter Biden Is Bad? Meet Joe Biden’s Brother Jim.

We don't know the extent of corruption in the Biden family: Monica Crowley reports

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/02/15/you-think-hunter-biden-is-bad-meet-joe-bidens-brother-jim-n1670763;

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Is there no end to the corruption of America’s First Family? Hunter Biden’s laptop is certainly more salacious, but when it comes to influence-peddling, Old Joe Biden’s kid brother Jim, who is a sprightly 73, is giving his notorious nephew a run for his ill-gotten money. And in yet another indication that the people who are really running the dumpster fire known as the Biden administration are tiring of their feckless and dementia-ridden mouthpiece, it’s all coming out now.

The UK’s Daily Mail reported Tuesday that young Jim “was hired to engage in secret negotiations with the Saudi government on behalf of a US construction company because of his relationship with the then vice president, legal documents claim.” Jim got the nod for this task because, according to an affidavit, the Saudis “would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal.” All this involved Jim’s role in a 2012 “$140 million settlement negotiation between Hill International,” the American construction firm in question, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Jim was reportedly completely up-front about his role in the negotiations, telling Thomas Sullivan, a former senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department, that Hill International hired him to conduct their negotiations with the Saudis “because of his position and relationship” with Old Joe, who was vice president at the time. According to Sullivan, Jim Biden said happily, “Of course, the name didn’t hurt,” that is, the Biden name, and Sara Biden, Jim’s wife, added that Joe and Jim “told each other everything.” Heartwarming.

This appears to be a classic case of influence-peddling. “The Saudi government owed Hill $140 million for their work building desalination plants in the Middle Eastern kingdom dating back to the 1980s.” To collect the dough, Hill reportedly hired Jim Biden “around 2011 to fix a back-door settlement for $100 million.” According to V. Thomas Lankford of Lankford & Reed, a law firm involved with the negotiations, Hill sent Jim Biden to a meeting with the Saudis: “After many delays, a meeting was finally scheduled for mid-February, 2012, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia….Hill, acting through [its CEO, Irvin] Richter, sent Jim Biden – the then sitting Vice President’s brother. Richter confided that he selected Biden because KSA [the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia] would not dare stiff the brother of the Vice-President who would be instrumental to the deal.”

Lankford added: “Mr. Biden further confirmed that Richter used Biden as a settlement intermediary in order to capitalize on the influence and orchestration of the settlement by the then Vice-President.” When Sullivan questioned Jim Biden about all in 2017, Sara Biden told him ingenuously: “He doesn’t like us talking to people.” Who doesn’t like them talking to people? The Big Guy, of course: Old Joe Biden himself.

Lankford adds that all this was taking place in an ominous atmosphere: “I didn’t ask for a further explanation since I was looking at two large men in dark suits, in a big black sedan parked on a side street looking directly into their house down the walkway I had just exited. I thought they were some type of security, probably Secret Service.” The Daily Mail notes, however, that “Joe Biden’s family were not entitled to Secret Service protection at the time, as he had ended his term as Vice President.” Lankford continues: “Sara and I walked to my car. She told me that her husband and his brother were very close and that they told each other everything. I reached inside to give her a card, and just as I did, a blue sedan, with a single male driving, pulled quickly into their driveway. She said ‘See what I mean?’”

Related: The Biden Administration Is Already Obstructing Investigations

Yeah. It’s even clearer when one recalls another news item related to Jim Biden, from back in Dec. 2019. The Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee reported that the FBI was “investigating the delivery — via the mail — of a terroristic threat to a McMinnville couple who are suing the brother of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden.” A few days after “Knox News publicly revealed their claims of fraud and deception against Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, in a federal lawsuit,” the couple, Michael and Natalie Frey, received an envelope in the mail. “Inside the envelope was what appeared to be blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country commonly known as a haven for terror groups and a ‘torture ticket’ — a voucher for the infliction of torture.”

What has become of the Freys and their suit since then? Nothing public. That Knoxville News Sentinel story from Dec. 2019 is the most recent one mentioning them. Did a blue sedan pull into their driveway?

Investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield concludes: “James Biden has been a lot bolder in cashing in on Joe’s name and saying so. Hunter, if anything, was actually a good deal more discreet, even in the throes of his drugs and prostitution escapades leaving behind less of a trail tying in Joe than James did. And it’s James who may ultimately prove more dangerous to Joe.” Indeed. As long as those looking into all this can keep the blue sedans at bay.

Pakistan: Muslim throws acid on Christian when she won’t convert to Islam and enter into a relationship with him

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/02/pakistan-muslim-throws-acid-on-christian-when-she-wont-convert-to-islam-and-enter-into-a-relationship-with-him;

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Acid attacks of this kind happen all too often to women in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are a manifestation of the culture of violence that is created by the divine sanction Islam gives to beating disobedient women (cf. Qur’an 4:34). Celebrate diversity!

“Muslim Throws Acid on Young Christian Woman in Pakistan,” Morning Star News, February 6, 2023:

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A Muslim in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday (Feb. 1) threw acid on a 19-year-old Christian woman for refusing his pressure to enter into relationship and convert to Islam, sources said.

Sunita Masih, who lives with her sister after the death of her parents, left the house in Masoom Shah Colony, in Karachi’s Kala Pull area, to go to work that morning. After getting off a bus at Cantt station, her Muslim neighbor, Kamran Allah Bux, threw acid on her and fled, said her uncle, John Masih.

“Sunita is just 19, but now her whole life has been physically and mentally scarred by Kamran,” her uncle said. “Even if he is convicted for his crime, will Sunita be able to live a normal life again? We all know how our society treats acid attack survivors, even though they are the victims of this heinous crime.”

Sunita Masih suffered 20 percent burns in the attack.

“My eyes, face, arms, and legs started burning as soon as Kamran threw the acid on me,” she told police from her hospital bed. “The pain was so excruciating that I collapsed on the road.”

Bux had been pressuring her to enter into a relationship with him, John Masih said.

“He would try to force her to renounce her Christian faith, assuring her that he would marry her once she became a Muslim, but she refused to surrender to his illegitimate demands,” Masih said. “Sunita had informed her siblings about Kamran’s harassment, and they had repeatedly complained to his parents, urging them to stop him, but that did not work.”

The family had registered a complaint with police to stop the harassment, but they did not act on it, he said. When all efforts failed, Sunita’s brother-in-law beat Bux, which also did not deter him, John Masih said.

The family, members of a Salvation Army church, was seeking justice for Sunita Masih, whose face and other parts of her body were disfigured in the attack.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Sagheer Ahmed of the Frere Police Station said officers had registered a case against Bux for hurt by corrosive substance (Section 336-B of the Pakistan Penal Code) and had taken him into custody.

“We obtained his two-day physical remand from a court during which he confessed to the heinous crime,” Ahmed told Morning Star News. “In his statement, Kamran claimed that he had fallen in love with Sunita and had attacked her with acid in retaliation after she rejected his marriage proposal.”…

Biden’s Non-Binary Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief Appears In Court

'Why Would You Want Some Lady's Dirty Clothes?': Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court

'Why Would You Want Some Lady's Dirty Clothes?': Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court

Biden’s ‘Nonbinary,’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Czar Luggage Thief Learns Its Fate in Minnesota Courthouse

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/02/15/why-would-you-want-some-ladys-dirty-clothes-bidens-non-binary-ex-nuclear-waste-chiefs-rough-day-in-court-n1670948;

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Just a few months ago, Sam Brinton was a rising star in the universe of the woke. Back on June 29, he announced, with considerable fanfare, his new role as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy and tweeted happily about being “one of if not the very first openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership.” But it all ended ignominiously less than six months later: on Dec. 12, a Department of Energy spokesbeing announced tersely: “Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters.”

Brinton turned out to be carrying too much baggage: his firing came after he was caught purloining that baggage from airports in Minneapolis and Las Vegas. On Wednesday, he appeared in a Minnesota court on luggage theft charges, and it wasn’t exactly like facing Old Joe Biden’s sycophantic, far-Left press corps in Washington.

Brinton likes to parade around in women’s clothes, but the seriousness of the charges he faces was apparently sobering; for his court appearance on Wednesday, he left his skirts in the closet and dressed quite conservatively (for him) in a suit and black button-down shirt. The suit’s burgundy color, however, did make it an outfit more suitable for a Batman villain than for a conventional government official. Brinton, according to the UK’s Daily Mail, “could face up to five years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine if found guilty.” As a cosseted member of the Leftist elite, Brinton is unlikely to be sentenced even to a fraction of that, but there is no doubt that his day in court was not the inspiring demonstration of how “diversity is our strength” that the Left would like all the public appearances of “non-binary” people to be.

Brinton was in court to face charges related to accusations that he stole a woman’s bag from the baggage claim area at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on Sept. 16. Speculation has persisted since then that Brinton’s grab-bag style when wearing women’s clothing resulted from his practice of wearing whatever he found in the bags he carried off. It’s tough to be essentially the only disgraced official of a spectacularly disgraceful administration, and Brinton had tried to dodge having to make this humiliating public appearance. His lawyers repeatedly requested that he be allowed to appear remotely, but Judge Gina Brandt stated that “the current District Policy does not allow for remote appearances to be conducted for Felony 1st Appearances on the Property Drug Calendar.”

Once he was in court, however, Brandt took pains to make him feel comfortable, accommodating his delusions by referring to him not as “Mr. Brinton,” but as “Mx Brinton.” According to the Daily Mail, which also fed Brinton’s delusions by ridiculously (and confusingly) referring to him using plural pronouns, “Mx is a common gender-neutral title given to non-binary people who do not wish to have a gender referred to in their title.”

Reporters on the scene, however, were less deferential. Brinton was peppered with questions, all of which he ignored, as he left the courthouse and walked to a waiting limo: “Are you here for an interview with the [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz administration?” That was a good question, as Walz would likely love to have a “gender-fluid, non-binary” individual prominently on staff. Another impertinent scribbler asked Brinton: “Did you visit the Larry Craig restroom?” Larry Craig was the U.S. senator who, in 2007, was arrested in a restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for soliciting an undercover police officer for sex.

Related: Biden’s ‘Gender-Fluid’ Nuclear Waste ‘Puppy’ Makes a Mess in Minneapolis

Brinton was also asked: “Do you have any comments on the train disaster in Ohio? You’re an expert in these things.” Brinton is indeed touted as an expert in nuclear waste disposal, but the material poisoning the atmosphere in Ohio is apparently not nuclear; was the reporter implying that Brinton himself was a train wreck? In any case, another asked Brinton: “Why would you want some lady’s dirty clothes?”

There’s the rub. Why indeed would Brinton have wanted to steal women’s luggage in the first place? That question gets to the heart of the problem: the very thing for which the Biden regime celebrated Brinton appears to be exactly the same thing that led him to commit acts that have gotten him charged with felony theft. That was the biggest message of his court appearance Wednesday. Whether anyone among the political and cultural elites will grasp that message, however, is an entirely different matter.

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Florida, Tennessee Move to Protect Kids From “Transing”

BY C. MITCHELL SHAW

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/florida-tennessee-move-to-protect-kids-from-transing/;

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Reports out of Florida and Tennessee are encouraging news in the battle against radical LGBTQ ideology — especially as it relates to the “transing” of kids. Two medical boards in Florida recently affirmed that state’s ban on genital and chemical mutilation of minors, and the Tennessee Senate passed a piece of legislation that would ban such barbarous practices in the Volunteer State.

While Republican Florida Governor — and assumed presidential candidate — Ron DeSantis prepares for legislation in the Sunshine State to statutorily ban “transgender” medical procedures — both surgical and chemical — for minors, the state has been moving in that direction for months. In April, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, released guidance warning against such practices. That guidance stated:

Based on the currently available evidence, “encouraging mastectomy, ovariectomy, uterine extirpation, penile disablement, tracheal shave, the prescription of hormones which are out of line with the genetic make-up of the child, or puberty blockers, are all clinical practices which run an unacceptably high risk of doing harm.”

Further, the document released by Ladapo referenced “a lack of conclusive evidence” for “gender transitioning,” noted “the potential for long-term, irreversible effects,” and stated that an analysis of the benefits of hormonal interventions shows “a trend of low-quality evidence, small sample sizes, and medium to high risk of bias.”

In October, the Florida Board of Medicine voted to ban transgender drugs and surgeries for minors but failed to close a loophole for state university experimentation. A new move by both the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine and the Florida Board of Medicine closes that loophole. As LifeSiteNews reports, citing an article by Florida’s Voice:

The February 10 joint meeting vote by the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine and the Florida Board of Medicine closes a loophole that allowed universities to give kids “puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery to treat gender dysphoria,” as part of clinical trials.

LifeSite News had previously reported on a January 31 news conference at which DeSantis decried the practice of medical professionals “giving teenagers, kids puberty blockers,” saying, “They’re doing sex change operations. And so we actually have, you know, young adults who went through this when they were minors, and they’re saying this is a huge mistake. And, in fact, it’s not evidence-based.”

This move by the two medical boards puts Florida in a position to protect children from being little more than political fodder in a liberal political salvo against the traditional family. And Governor DeSantis is prepared to give this decision by the boards' teeth. He repeated what he has said before to those who practice such “treatments,” saying, “If you’re performing those procedures on these minors, you’re gonna lose your medical license here in Florida.”

This move may also embolden Florida lawmakers to codify into law protections for minors where surgical and chemical mutilations are concerned.

That process is already underway in Tennessee, where the Tennessee Senate voted 26-6 Monday to pass the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act. As LifeSite News reports, the act — which still faces passage in the Tennessee State House — would prohibit “doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones or performing gender-related surgeries on minors for the purpose of ‘gender transition,’ as well as allow patients and their families to sue a health practitioner for knowingly violating the law, and enable minors to bring a civil cause of action against parents who helped facilitate their ‘medical transition.’”

If it passes the House, the Protecting Children from Gender Mutilation Act will certainly face obstacles from the Left. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has stated that it plans to challenge the law in court if it passes.

The depths to which the Left is willing to stoop to strip vulnerable, confused minors from barbarous — and often irreversible — sexually mutilating “procedures” is astounding. This is especially true given that while there is no evidence of the medical or psychological benefits of such procedures, there is much evidence of their harm. As LifeSite News reported in a previous article about Florida’s move to protect kids from “trans” procedures:

Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence, and that even full “reassignment” surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide — and may even exacerbate it by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.

On top of those issues, experts outside the medical establishment further warn that surgically or chemically reinforcing gender confusion imposes irreversible harm on children such as infertility, impairment of adult sexual function, and reduced life expectancy, as well as the psychological toll of being “locked into” physical alterations regardless of whether they change their minds when they mature, as attested to by many individuals who “detransitioned” back to their true sex.

The issue grimly illustrated in the story of Yaeli Martinez, a 19-year-old to whom “gender transitioning” was touted as a possible cure for her depression in high school, supported by a high school counselor who withheld what she was going through from her mother. The troubled girl killed herself after trying to live as a man for three years.

The Left, though, appears so committed to “transing” kids for political gain that the tragedies suffered by Martinez and countless others are little more than “collateral damage” in the building of their “brave new world.” Thankfully, states such as Florida and Tennessee are challenging the building of that dystopian world.

Train Derails Near Detroit, Highway Shut Down for Hours

Train Derails Near Detroit, Highway Shut Down for Hours

BY KEVIN DOWNEY, JR.

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2023/02/16/breaking-train-derails-near-detroit-highway-shut-down-for-hours-n1671209;

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A train — including one tanker carrying hazardous material — has derailed west of Detroit in Van Buren Township, Mich.

Police claim there are no injuries and no threats to the public, though traffic has been stopped on a nearby interstate for several hours.

TRACK-O-RAMA! The train that derailed outside of Detroit is owned by Norfolk Southern, the same company that owns the train that derailed near East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is on the scene and also claims that there are no health threats to the community. No hazardous materials leaked.

Local Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) released a statement that included;

My team and I have been in touch with Supervisor Kevin McNamara, the Van Buren Fire Department, and other local officials regarding the train derailment in Van Buren Township. We are also in touch with the relevant federal authorities, including the EPA. At this time no one is aware of the release of any hazardous materials, the car carrying hazardous material has been put upright and is being removed from the area of the other derailed cars, and EPA is dispatching a team to ensure public safety. We will continue to monitor the situation very closely and remain in touch with federal, state, and local officials, and release additional information as it becomes available.

This is the third train to derail this week and the fourth this month.

The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio has released chemicals into the air and water. Thousands of pets and livestock have dropped dead from the fumes. More than 3,500 fish have died in local waterways.

The dangerous chemical plume is floating down the Ohio River at about one mile per hour. Experts suggest the chemicals could dissipate before getting to Cincinnati.

Pete Buttigieg, the secretary of transportation, remained mute on the Ohio catastrophe for ten days but broke his silence to — astonishingly — blame Trump.