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The super woke students of Cornell University continue to defend a BIPOC-only rock-climbing class after an online uproar.
Various conservative outlets decried the prestigious university’s “Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color rock-climbing course which directly excluded white students when it was first announced for the Spring 2021 semester. After receiving extensive right-wing media backlash, the University finally opened the class up to white students as well. Cornell students, however, continued to defend the original intention of the course, which was described as “designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported.”
In an interview with the Never Trump outlet The Dispatch last week, former President George W. Bush lambasted the current GOP as “a one-person party” that will not succeed due to a lack of racial diversity. Data from the 2020 presidential election refutes that.
When asked by staff writer Sarah Isgur about “Anglo-Saxon traditions” in the Republican Party and whether Bush would ever leave the party, Bush implied the supposed homogeneity of the GOP would make it dissolve.
“No, I’d say there’s not going to be a party,” he said. ” …And the idea of kind of saying you can only be Republican ‘if,’ then the ultimate extension of that is it ends up being a one-person party.”
(AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
This morning, I reported on the results of the TX-06 special election which resulted in a Republican lockout. What that means is that in the jungle primary system there, the top two finishers who will go to a runoff are both Republicans. In a district that went only Trump +3 in 2020, the GOP combined for around 69% of the vote. That’s a massive overperformance, though, as others have pointed out, turnout was low.
I think you can look at this two ways. One, you can assume it means nothing, or two, you can believe it shows Republicans are capable of retaking ground in suburban districts they saw slipping away previously. What is undeniable is that there is no bad news that comes from winning a House seat, so, in that sense, yesterday was a win regardless of whether it portends anything for 2022 or not.
Democrats Disproportionately See America As Exceptionally Racist
Democrats disproportionately see America as an exceptionally racist country, according to a new survey from the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute with YouGov out last week.
Fifty-eight percent of liberals, the Cato Institute 2021 Immigration and Identity National Survey found, think America is “more racist than most other countries,” whereas 16 percent of conservatives and 32 percent of all Americans reported the same.
More liberals, meanwhile, including 58 percent of those who identified as “strong liberals,” also saw themselves more as “global citizens” as opposed to U.S. citizens. Only 28 percent of all Americans said the same.
Researchers interviewed a national sample of 2,600 Americans at least 18-years-old online March 5-15. The survey was completed with a 2.21 percent margin of error.
There was “a chorus of catcalls” from a crowd vexed by Mr. Romney’s two votes to impeach former President
Donald Trump, despite the fact that a resolution to censure the senator for those votes failed on 798-711 vote, according to the Utah Republican Party.
The senator’s encounter with this hostile, lustily booing audience has greater implications, however. It is an indicator that Mr. Trump “is cementing his grip on the GOP and exacting revenge on those Republicans who supported his impeachment,” writes Politico analyst
Tara Palmeri.
Frustration among many Republicans over Rep. Liz Cheney‘s criticisms of Mr. Trump is further evidence along with the news that Trump-endorsed