We are Citizens of Ontario deeply concerned about identity politics and its influence within public institutions and the illiberal policies that result.
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Good reflection here on @RealKeriSmith journey.
How we can learn to take back civility. @CivilityDinners a great idea. Food is great way to connect.
It was an honor to get to speak with @peterboghossian about how to “Deprogram” people from Social Justice / Woke ideology. I’m still not sure how we scale it but I’m very glad Peter is one of the people thinking about it:
Similarly we need review @tdsb @TDSBDirector @PeelSchools hired DEI consultants, like one who was associated with humiliating Richard Bilkszto in DEI sessions.
The grift is likely in every level of education.
In light of the affiliated nature of these transactions, in order for @MIT to have made these investments in Gorenberg’s wife’s non-profit, the MIT board or a subcommittee designated by the board would have had to approve this investment each year it was made.
But why would they have approved this investment for the last five years and I suspect this year as well?
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How is an investment in a non-profit that promotes DEI tools to corporations consistent with MIT’s stated mission?
Why would MIT fund an increasing amount of money each year to a board member’s wife’s non-profit , let alone the Chairman’s wife’s company, when the organization does not appear to have gained any traction, let alone any other donors over the last five years?
As someone who runs a foundation, I can tell you that it is a big red flag that this non-profit has not been able to raise any funds from other donors.
The above raises a number of important questions:
Did the board approve these investments for each of the last six years including 2023 for which the 990 has not yet been filed?
Was the board provided proper disclosure about the affiliated nature of these transactions?
Assuming the board followed a proper process and approved these annual grants, why did it do so?
It seems incredibly poor judgment to have made these grants to a one-person company run by the wife of the chairman when the grants are not consistent with MIT’s mission.
The size of the investments are de minimis relative to the MIT endowment. Why would the Chairman waste the board’s time and risk his and MIT’s reputation to make these investments in the first place?
According to his bio published on MIT’s website, Chairman Gorenberg is a highly successful venture capitalist.
Why did he need to ask MIT to fund his wife’s non-profit?
Why didn’t he just write the check himself?
One can reasonably assume that the fact that the non-profit had no outside investors other than MIT was due to the fact that it was unable to raise money from other foundations or philanthropists.
Why is Parity.org a non-profit in the first place?
It is ostensibly selling or trying to sell products or services to corporations. There are plenty of other DEI consultants that are for-profits that compete with Parity.org.
It appears based on Parity’s lack of revenues for the last five years that it has been unable to sell its products or services. In other words, Parity.org is either making no sales or it is giving away its products and services for free.
This of course calls into question the quality of the products and services it offers.
In short, this does not look like a legitimate non-profit. Rather it looks like a sinecure for the wife of the Chairman of MIT.
To survive, Parity.org relies on funds from MIT’s endowment that were in turn raised from MIT alumni and other donors who received a tax deduction for the contributions they made, which were in turn subsidized by other unaffiliated taxpayers.
To make matters worse, the non-profit is a DEI organization, an ideology that has contributed to the outbreak of antisemitism on MIT’s campus.
The @PershingSqFdn made a $750,000 grant to an MIT electrical engineer/neuroscientist this year. That’s about the same amount of money that went out the door last year to Parity.org. As a donor, this does not make me feel good.
All of the above begs the following additional questions:
How much did MIT give Parity.org in 2023?
Does MIT make investments in any other non-profits affiliated with its directors or their families? If so, which ones and why?
Why would MIT risk its reputation to be the only funder of a non-profit run by the wife of its Chairman?
What is going on at MIT?
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.@FareedZakaria is spot on. A must watch.
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While I understand the desire to have the presidents of @harvard, @MIT, and @Penn resign/be fired as a result of their outrage testimony, in a sense this is a small and insignificant outcome. The parasitic ideas that led to their grotesque testimony have been festering in academia for decades, and have fully choked the larger culture. Getting rid of one administrator will simply result in another equally cowardly and lobotomized leader taking over. There is a long conveyor belt of such academic administrators. The battle can only be won on the ideological and epistemological battlefields. In the same way that Lysenkoism or blood letting are rejected ideas, the same must occur with all of the idea pathogens that define Woke Progressive Ideology.
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A little rant about American universities, in the light on the recent Congressional testimony debacle:
Today I learned that Harvard President Claudine Gay seems to have published only 11 peer-reviewed journal papers in her entire academic career.
'So what?', you might ask.
Well, that's about the number you'd normally need to get hired as a first-year tenure-track assistant professor at a decent state university.
It's the number I published in the 12 months before I got tenure.
It's about the number that my more workaholic colleagues publish every year, decade after decade, throughout their careers.
And it's less than 1% as many papers as get published by outstanding researchers like behavior geneticist Nick Martin (with over 1,500 journal papers).
The situation at Harvard is not unusual. The leaders of academia are not typically leading academics, in the sense of highly productive researchers or widely respected teachers.
One might say they are career bureaucrats - but that would misunderstand their crucial ideological function.
The American people need to understand that in modern universities, both public and private, administrators function more like party political officers in communist Russian or Chinese universities. They are selected, throughour their careers, largely for their political commitments, and their willingness to enforce them. Like Cold War commissars, their allegiance is to the party, not to academia where they happen to work.
I mean 'party' quite literally: the Democratic party. Most American university administrators are loyal Democrats, and can't really imagine why anyone wouldn't be. Very few are Republicans or Libertarians.
And an increasing proportion of them are fully woke identitarian Leftists: they often launched their careers with a short series of papers on woke topics, using woke ideological frameworks, published in woke journals - before turning to the administrative track that offers much more political power to propagandize, indoctrinate, and control.
'So what?', you're might ask.
I've seen many calls for university administrators to enforce the rules of classical liberalism and free speech more fairly. This is like asking a Soviet-era commissar to abandon their Communist party allegiance, and to develop an entirely new identity and ethos grounded in an ideology that they have spent their entire career fighting.
It will not happen. Political animals do not change their spots.
University presidents who have prioritized amassing ideological power over producing academic research will not suddenly rediscover the merits of open inquiry.
They need to be fired, and replaced with academic leaders who are actually leading academics - rather than party political officers.
mindingthecampus.org/2022/12…
RT @bariweiss: Free speech should be the standard at MIT, Harvard and Princeton.
Instead, we've got double standards.
Using the wrong pr…
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Progressives once asserted that speech was violence. Now some claim that violence should be protected as speech. Latest in @theatlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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I've been accused of implying that people who believe in gender ideology are of lower intelligence, lack critical thinking skills, etc. Allow me to clarify.
I'm not implying these things — I'm stating them, unequivocally.
Only a deeply impressionable mind could accept and perpetuate this glaringly obvious con.
You've abandoned your mental faculties in favor of a mass delusion, and are now complicit in the sterilization and mutilation children, the abolition of sex classes and of sex-based rights, and the destruction of humanity as we know it.
Congratufuckinglations, idiots.
Is anyone really surprised that the judge in this case is a supporter of a woke Statement of Principles for all lawyers in the @LawSocietyLSO? Free speech is at risk, unbiased treatment for citizens of Ontario under the law is at risk.
The Trudeau-appointed judge who ruled against my appeal re The Ontario College of Psychologists is
Surprise
Surprise
an advocate of progressive/DEI policies and tried to impose them on the Law Society of Ontario
Paul Schabas
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Interested in ESGs and how they affect large companies?
Have you been duped by the ESG scam?
Check out this Real Talk with @AndyPuzder who took Carl's Jr. and Hardee's from the brink of bankruptcy to a billion dollar company.
He warns that ESG is one of the most dangerous things going on in America right now: prageru.com/video/esg-is-rui… @prageru
DEI is a huge money making industry with no standards or accountability. And, they have access to kids in schools when they are brought in by woke teachers. Parents need to continue asking questions about what is going on in classrooms.
Here are federal gov contracts with @KojoInstitute totalling $96,196.90 since Oct 2021.
This does not include their contracts with @hmcanada, @cdnwomenfdn, @CMA_Docs, @ETFOeducators, @camhfoundation, @TorontoStar, @McMasterU, @YorkUniversity, @UofT, @mylakehead, @CBC, @CityNewsTO, various school boards (@tdsb, @YRDSB, @TVDSB, @PeelSchools, @HCDSB, @YCDSB, etc.), and the list goes on and on.
“Oppressed” my ass. You are race grifters and bullies, and I hope you never earn another dollar pushing your divisive ideology on decent Canadians.
.@christopherrufo
.@ConceptualJames
.@LionAdvocacy .@ChrisWNunn
DEI training works?
Principal Bilkszto bullied for his “male white privilege” in largest @tdsb board of 250K students during @TDSBDirector approved DEI “training” ;now dead by suicide
hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/07/…
This #onpoli education issue needs discussion by .@CTVNationalNews
.@globeandmail .@TorontoStar .@TheTorontoSun .@CBCToronto @TheSpec @LFPress @OttawaCitizen .@CBCAlerts
@TheAgenda needs a followup to interview with Richard. His vision of anti-discrimination, merit.
I could write so much about this story, and about my friend Richard. But a lot has already been said.
So this week's column focuses on what mattered to him: better education for all our students.
#Justice4RichardBilkszto #tdsb #education
nationalpost.com/opinion/pri…
change.org/justice4richard
Everywhere is talk of creating well-being, Safe spaces for students, school employees. But in reality, it’s a mockery. @TDSB_MHWB
@fordnation @Sflecce need inquiry
into Richard’s passing. Circulate this petition.
What a loss for students & educators. R. Bilkszto RIP
I ask @TDSB_MHWB to investigate role of misguided DEI policies of .@TDSBDirector @tdsb_cebsa @KojoInstitute in Educator’s public bullying/shaming then death?
TDSB not Safe for educators.
.@sarkonakj .@nationalpost
His case was described in this recent piece in the National Post: nationalpost.com/opinion/pri…
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This is such awful news. Richard was a guest on @TheAgenda less than 3 months ago on a topic he cared deeply about: merit AND equity in education. The cause of his death should prompt a thorough investigation. #education @tdsb
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Political correctness is not simply a minor inconvenience.
I'd argue it is a crude lobotomy of society's intellectual capacity for discourse on the complex social issues of our day.
If you constantly have to frame your perspective in line with what's decided as "acceptable" within some arbitrary, myopic consensus, you won't be able to think cohesively let alone present your views honestly.
It dooms our socio-cultural dialogue to a cancerous caricature.
How long until @LawSocietyLSO asks the same of all Ontario Lawyers?
"The Law Society of Alberta has now declared that in order to be fully professionally competent, a lawyer must be a social justice advocate. This can't be allowed to stand." westernstandard.news/opinion…
