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Oregon Man Can’t Get Back to Normal After Being Wrongfully Convicted of Child Sexual Abuse
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In 2017, Josh Horner was found guilty of sexually abusing a child. Sentenced to 50-years in prison – essentially the rest of his life – he only served 18 months after the Oregon Innocence Project looked into his case and found multiple errors, which resulted in his exoneration. Even though he received numerous apologies, his previous life is ruined. The National Registry of Exonerations tells the story of 42-year old Josh Horner who was wrongly convicted of sexually abusing a child by a non-unanimous jury – a practice every state but Oregon has banned – and sentenced to l...
NYC Commission on Human Rights Outlaws Hair and Hairstyle-Based Discrimination
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On Monday, the New York City Human Rights Commission released new guidelines protecting New Yorkers from being discriminated due to their hair texture or style. The guidance gives New Yorkers the right to “maintain natural hair or hairstyles that are closely associated with their racial, ethnic or cultural identities” and classifies any attempt to single people out based on their hair or hairstyle as racial discrimination. The protections apply to everyone but were prompted largely by what the commission calls “racist stereotypes that black hairstyles are unprofessional....
Check Your “Privilege List”: New York School Gives Points for Being White, Male, or Straight
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A New York public high school recently gave students in one class a “privilege reflection form” that’s turning more than a few heads. Thus, if you are an overweight black blind gay transgender woman from the Middle East and are planning to become a “scientist,” you’ve got zero chance of being among the “privileged” few… Saratoga Springs High School students have recently been asked to score their “privilege status” based on a variety of factors using a special “privilege reflection form,” which raised concerns among parents worried about the assignment’s underlying messag...
“This Is America” Reveals a Shocking Vision of the United States
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The Grammy Awards are the second of the three most significant musical achievement awards in the United States. Two of the anticipated awards that many fans of this event look forward to learning are the Song of the Year and the Record of the Year. The Song of the Year is awarded to the songwriters of a given song, where the Record of the Year goes to the artists, producers and engineers involved in crafting the recording (the “record”) of a song. Both categories are huge and both usually go to an artist or organization responsible for a pop song. It also happens to be t...
“M”, “F”, “U” or “X”: Airlines to Provide New Gender Options on Passengers’ Tickets
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In a move to be more “inclusive” to the transgender community, some airlines are planning to add more gender options for their ticketed passengers. Air travelers in the U.S. will soon be able to select gender options other than “male” or “female” when booking their flights. The shift toward more inclusive gender options comes after two major trade organizations, Airlines for America (A4A) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), adopted more inclusive international standards for all fliers. Moreover, from June 1, A4A and IATA will allow member airlines to...
Utah House Passes Bill to Save Lives of Babies with Down Syndrome
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In an uphill battle to prevent discriminatory abortions, Utah passed a bill to protect unborn babies with Down syndrome from abortions. Following Ohio, Utah could become the fourth state in the Union to ban abortion on Down syndrome babies in response to news out of Iceland and Denmark claiming that Down syndrome has been “eradicated” in those countries. According to a report by CBS News, nearly 100% of pregnancies diagnosed with Down syndrome resulted in abortion in Iceland. “Unborn babies with Down syndrome and other disabilities are discriminated against at astronom...
Contrary to Claims, Planned Parenthood Is All About Abortion
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WASHINGTON - February 18, 2019 While some may accuse the media of unreliable information, Planned Parenthood is no longer hiding the fact that their main task is not women’s health but rather to respect their rights if they want an abortion. It’s not a propaganda campaign--this is what Buzzfeed previously wrote and later rewrote as untrue. The president of PP denied the report, saying the journalists were confused. Now the President of the country's largest abortion provider has had to come to terms with the ugly truth of Planned Parenthood: Providing abortion to women...
"White Is Stupid ...": Аnti-White Racism Epidemic Spreads to Europe
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NEW YORK - February 18, 2019 We live in an era of black racism. In the US, and in Europe too, white people have long been oppressed, becoming a minority in some places. It is completely unacceptable to be a white racist in the US: To make even the mildest statement about the races not being the same is an act of political and professional suicide. Meanwhile, black racism is such a significant phenomenon that dissertations are even being written about it. In this context, the article by Gilles William Goldnadel in “Le Figaro," in which he comments on the statements of th...
Middle School Apologizes to Soldier’s Daughter Who Was Asked to Cover up “Offensive” Shirt
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A seventh-grade student wearing a T-shirt that prompted teachers to tell her to cover it up because it contained an “offensive message” – but was actually intended to oppose discrimination – received support from her family, ultimately leading to an apology by administrators. On Friday, seventh-grader Emery, who attends Fort Bragg’s Albritton Middle School, was asked to cover up her favorite shirt – which reads, “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet?” — because some of the teachers found it to be “offensive,” Emery’s mother, Katie...