Posted on 03/03/2021 3:26:42 PM PST by Rummyfan
I was a mere 70 pages into Donald McNeil’s brief about his firing from The New York Times when I emailed a dozen of my friends to demand they read it immediately. But they don’t have my perseverance, so here are the highlights.
Two years after McNeil chaperoned a group of high schoolers on a trip to Peru to learn about rural health care, The Daily Beast published an article detailing the students’ list of denunciations against him, including the career-ending claim that he’d used the “N-word.”
Days later, it came out that he had used the word in response to a student’s question about a high school girl who’d been suspended from school for using the infamous word. He repeated it in order to ask how she’d said it.
This paragraph, particularly the parenthetical, is all you need to know about McNeil’s misadventure in Peru:
“At some point, a student took issue with my having said the U.S. wasn’t a colonial power, saying something like: ‘Don’t you realize what the CIA has done? Don’t you realize that the United Fruit Company interfered in central America to protect its banana monopoly?’ … (This student herself was white, from Greenwich, CT and went to Andover but mentioned multiple times over the week that she had a Latino boyfriend and he had opened her eyes to a different view of the world …)”
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
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When I was in high school a local church youth ministry sent students to rural Peru to give vaccinations to villagers. I was offered a spot to go but bailed after the first training session.
Render unto Caesar
We let the deep state f##k around in other countries...
Now we are finding out...
Many of these “woke feminists” will end up with venereal diseases, drug addiction, alcoholism, dead-end jobs, single, lonely, suicidal, and society’s ragdolls.
Just goes to show that a college education doesn’t mean that you can’t “be stuck on stupid for the rest of your life”, “learn how to be stuck on stupid the rest of your life”, or end up with a shorten life, alone and forgotten.
Liberalism, like its’ master teacher Communism/Marxism, devours its own. I can’t even feel too sorry for them any more. If you offer someone advice that you think will help benefit them in terms of getting through life, and they call you “fascist, Zionist, deplorable, Neanderthal, racist, etc.”, then you’ve done your best. Say goodbye to them and walk out of their lives.
I knew Vietnam vets who knew the CIA was doing the same thing with heroin back in the late 60’s in Vietnam.
It was going to minority neighborhoods in New York and LA and then all across the country. It was one of the reason’s the war went on for so long.
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