#separate but equal

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Separate and excelling

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Burt Lancaster and Sidney Poitier in Separate but Equal, 1991. © Republic Pictures, courtesy of the Everett Collection

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“The Conservative effort to destroy public education began the day Brown v Board of Education said they must be integrated.”

“School choice” is a racist dogwhistle for re-segregation.

There should be no such thing as privatized or profitized education, and religious & private schools should not be funded with public tax dollars.

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Trump Defies Judge to Deport Venezuelans to Salvadoran Slave Jail

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Columbia’s Separate-But-Equal Doctrine

Columbia University has settled its first lawsuit with one of the many Jewish students whose civil rights were violated at will over the cou

by Seth Mandel

To put it another way: Columbia cannot or will not pledge to make all open areas of the campus safe for Jewish students. Columbia cannot or will not take measures necessary to ensure that Jewish students will have access to the same educational opportunities that their non-Jewish classmates will have. Columbia cannot or will not even pretend to enforce its own rules evenly.

Look, I don’t blame the student or students who settled. But it’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that Columbia has settled a civil-rights lawsuit by declaring its campus separate-but-equal. (And the “equal” part is pretty clearly still up in the air.)

Jewish students are already able to sneak around campus if they so choose. The entire point is that the school should be required to enact (or enforce) policies that make that unnecessary. Plus, students followed and harassed late at night on their way back to their dorms are still able to get into their building. What is a bureaucrat with a key and a beeper going to accomplish here?

Columbia is notorious for its professors—you know, the ones who hold the educational and thus professional fate of the students in their hands—openly targeting Jews. What’s the fix here? Next time Joseph Massad says that the rapes and murders of Oct. 7 were a “major achievement,” a student should just call the safety liaison to escort them from the building?

You begin to see here just how these safety liaisons can quickly become the Jew-baiters’ enforcers. A Columbia professor said Israelis are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus; if a safety liaison shows up to help Israelis use the back door, whose side does it look like he’s on?

Jewish students feel stigmatized, so Columbia has generously agreed to stigmatize them further.

But that’s OK, because the school’s new separate-but-equal doctrine says those students can just leave campus and watch their classes on Zoom.

Instead of “fostering dialogue” perhaps Columbia can foster some pink slips? The administration has a job to do; this lawsuit settlement acknowledges that that job isn’t being done. The answer isn’t to hire more administrators.

In fact, expectations—of the faculty and of the students—are at the core of the problem here. The entitlement one encounters at Columbia is far from universal.

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Alito: Congress can’t regulate Supreme Court ethics

The conservative justice suggested to the Wall Street Journal that he thinks a Democratic effort to require ethics rules is unconstitutional

This from the guy who cites pre-US witch hunters to make case law oppressing women, who cherry picks what is legitimate and what is not based on his political needs to defend rapists and molesters, and who is chest deep in the middle of what amounts to a decades-long corruption and bribery scandal.

This is the culmination of a century of "separate but co-equal" jibberjabber bullshit theory being spoon-fed to impressionable young minds. Congress is the supreme branch of government. Do I like that? Not really, Congress is mostly incompetent and corrupt. But they absolutely have the authority to regulate the supreme Court just as they have the authority to regulate the president; not without limit, but the authority is there.

Alito's take here will lead, and much sooner rather than later, to a Jacksonian response from both Congress and the executive branch. Is that what he wants? I don't know, but it's what he's going to get if his fellow fashies on the bench follow suit. The hubris of these folks will lead to their downfall, and we can only hope they don't drag the rest of us with them. Though given the Court's history of mostly propping up the worst aspects of the US system, maybe I should be celebrating Alito and Co's myopia.

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Sidney L. Poitier KBE (1927 – 2022)

Actor, director, activist, and history maker as the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1964.

“Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.”