Communist regimes have never promoted LGBT rights. They have, instead, cracked down on homosexuals and transgender people, pretty horrendously. The liberal West might not have a perfect record, but it consistently does far better:
“When people refer to “the Black experience,” they are, in effect, telling you who I am, what I’ve been through, and how I interpret the world. But they have no right to do that…” Director of
@ilvalues
& co-founder of
@FreeBlckThought
@Rhetors_of_York
When we emphasize ethnic studies or any kind of ideological "studies" over more (and diverse) history, literature & art, we end up with bigotry, hatred, the conflation of terrorism with resistance and other narrow perspectives that limit our kids' education, curiosity, critical
How does critical social justice affect psychotherapy? Cynical Therapies, edited by Val Thomas of
@TherapyAntidote
, exposes the infiltration of CSJ into the universities, professional bodies, and training programs which shape the discipline of therapy.
@dissidentdelite
reviews
Join us for our May Liberalism in Practice Panel Discussion - Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice - w/
@HPluckrose
on her forthcoming book, The Counterweight Handbook.
@PitchstoneBooks
Register 👇
Tomorrow
@Hebro_Steele
will share his story of the censorship attempts on his latest film, Killing America. Join us for this live event and be a part of the conversation.
w/
@76brandy76
, Ken Pope of
@VoCommunism
&
@truth_inbetween
Register 👇
We support the Dream Coalition letter promoting the vision of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Please join us in signing the letter and register for our co-sponsored livestream event w/
@FreeBlckThought
on 8-28.
Join us for our new monthly Laboratory where we offer a brief lesson from a pro on a Liberal Values idea before opening it up for discussion and debate. The 1st Lab is on Nov 14 at 7pm ET.
Register for Psychologist Elizabeth Spievak’s exploration of the habits of thinking that
In Feb we start our monthly Liberal Values in Practice Discussions. Feb Convo: Lessons from Harvard & the Claudine Gay Affair with
@Rhetors_of_York
of
@FreeBlckThought
, Ken Pope of
@VoCommunism
, Winkfield Twyman, Jr. & Elizabeth Spievak.
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This week
@truth_inbetween
&
@76brandy76
speak with
@IzaTabaro
on the Soviet origins of antisemitic & antizionist propaganda, both the right & left’s adoption of these ideologies, its influence on American education & media, and how Hamas used the same protocols put forth by the
On Apr 24 we are starting an online & live course on
@jon_rauch
's book The Constitution of Knowledge, with a guest appearance from Rauch. Join us for 4 weeks of learning and discussion w/
@ilvalues
Fellow, Dr. Brian Russell Graham.
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W/
@FreeBlckThought
, we are starting a "this week in black history" section of the Black Institute for Liberal Values. This week we look at the life of poet Langston Hughes, born on Feb. 1, 1901.
"When a man starts out to build a world, he starts first with himself." - Hughes
w/
This week we remember Cripus Attucks who died on March 5, 1770, as one of the first casualties of the American Revolution. Born into slavery, Attucks became a symbol of courage, resistance, and sacrifice.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
This week's Black Institute for Liberal Values (w/
@FreeBlckThought
) weekly lesson is on Frederick Douglass, born on February 14, 1818.
Find out more about this towering figure born into slavery, who later became an advisor for President Lincoln. 👇
Do you know about Lemuel Haynes, the pioneering first black ordained minister? There is so much to his story. As part of our new Black Institute of Liberal Values w/
@FreeBlckThought
, we are collecting stories of black excellence.
Find out more 👇
Tomorrow
@HPluckrose
will join us for our May Panel Discussion - Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice - based on her forthcoming Counterweight Handbook (
@PitchstoneBooks
).
Register & join us 👇
In 2024, a philosophically conservative outlook would regard bigotry, and discrimination on the basis of gender identity as anathema to individualism and the prevailing social norms,
@Mike_Burke_UK
writes in his latest piece for
@QueerMajority
. Thoughts?
Hamas’ recent terrorist attack in Israel has garnered the support of the
@LiberatedESC
(CLES), a group that is actively involved in teacher training & designing curricula for K12 education, funded in large part by CA taxpayers. In this episode
@76brandy76
&
@truth_inbetween
Join us tomorrow night for a conversation with best-selling author
@PeterZeihan
on America's political transition.
Register on Circle and be a part of the conversation 👇
LGBT people are people, and as people, they can hold to a range of viewpoints, from far left, to far right, in all likelihood however, the vast majority of them will be in the distinctly liberal middle, which should always be the null hypothesis, hence the term "majority".
In April we start our live course with
@ilvalues
Fellow Dr. Brian Russell Graham on The Knowledge Industry w/ a guest appearance from
@jon_rauch
. If you haven't read his book, Constitution of Knowledge, now is your chance. Join us!
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Winkfield Twyman Jr., former law school professor, writer, and
@Harvard
law school graduate, joins Elizabeth Spievak for a discussion about Claudine Gay in this week's pod. Wink questions the moral courage of Harvard's president and has called for her resignation. Gay's recent
.
@GlennLoury
calls
@Counter_Weight_
conference speaker
@Dr_RolandFryer
the most gifted economist of his generation. And he is using his talents to do something amazing in the world of diversity. Register to hear more at
Come join in the discussion with
@Hebro_Steele
today at 3pm PT & find out more about the film, its message and the subsequent attempts to silence it.
(Anyone can watch but please do join
@ilvalues
on Circle to be a part of the convo).
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In the eight years that Sequoia Union High School District (
@SeqUHSD
) spent removing the honors classes from its schools behind the backs of parents, what did they do to improve the academic performance of its worst performing feeder school in East Palo Alto?
Approximately 14%
We are building up our new Black Institute for Liberal Values w/
@FreeBlckThought
. Check out our Remember Us page on Circle to learn about the unsung stories of black pioneers. Today we honor Samuel Jones Bampfield who passed the bar in Charleston in 1872.
Join us for our next Liberal Values Laboratory, Empty Shelves: Book Bans and Censorship in Schools and Libraries with Librarian Pameal Hayes-Bohanan.
Read her recent piece with Elizabeth Spievak in the
@HdxAcademy
blog, Utopia in the Stacks:
And Register
Join Dr. Brandy Shufutinsky
@76brandy76
for her live online course Teaching Through Controversy, starting on Nov. 2 at 7pm (for 3 weeks). This PD will help educators build Constructive Ethnic Studies curricula in their schools.
Register 👇
Attn
#teachers
, our upcoming course, Communism Exposed, with
@VoCommunism
offers a 12 hour Completion Certificate. Learn more about communist ideology and how it is slipping into U.S. educational pedagogy.
w/
@11Drtlee11
&
@76brandy76
+++
Register 👇
Working to counter illiberalism w/ liberalism takes its toll. What helps in these exchanges is strengthening our emotional & mental fitness to improve our well-being & remain engaged. Zander Keig walks thru how to do this in our March Liberal Values Lab - Know Thyself.
Find out
"Let us hope that the horrors of the moment will not only be a turning point in the battle against antisemitism, but in the larger fight against radicalism and illiberalism in the West."
ILV's
@DavidLBernstein
writes in
@Quillette
Today we remember Josiah T. Walls, the 1st black Congressman from Florida & secured 90,000 acres of public land at Tallahassee for the establishment of Florida A&M college.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
Today we honor William H. Brisby, a man who helped to free more slaves than Harriet Tubman. And yet, this Justice of the Peach led a conflicted life that was anything but peaceful at home.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
We support viewpoint diversity & free discourse, "in the conviction that freedom has a million authors but no single authoritative source, we seek here to model the fearless, pluralistic, good-faith sharing of ideas."
@FreeBlckThought
@braverangels
On Oct 5
@76brandy76
,
@DavidLBernstein
&
@Mike_Burke_UK
discussed the growing problem of antisemitism on both the left and right. Little could any of them know what was about to happen just a couple of days later on October the 7th...
In this week's pod
@ArminNavabi
,
@DavidLBernstein
&
@Mike_Burke_UK
discuss homophobia, Palestine, Israel & the role that religion plays in how different cultures conceive of power and weakness.
In this week's pod,
@HPluckrose
&
@RVeradonir
(
@QueerMajority
) discuss the ideology that unfairly targets some LGBTQ groups & the challenges to liberalism, past, present, and future.
Happy Birthday, Pearl Bailey! This week in history we celebrate an extraordinary entertainer and civil rights trailblazer.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more about this American icon 👇
Today we remember Archibald Henry Grimke, the 2nd black graduate of Harvard law school, U.S. Consul in Santo Domingo, President of the American Negro Academy & President of the NAACP.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
This Sat at 11am ET
@ilvalues
director
@truth_inbetween
& advisor
@JasonTheeHuman
start our monthly ILV sponsored Reformation Radio talk show. Join our conversation on how Jason uses Empowered Humanity Theory to combat dogmatic and ideological trends.
Mark your calendars and be
This week
@76brandy76
&
@truth_inbetween
speak with David Smolansky, a mayor in exile from Venezuela, on the Radical Roots of Ethnic Studies series of the Dissidents Podcast. David tells his personal story living through the transition from democracy to socialism in VZ. His
We are proud sponsors of the
@Counter_Weight_
conference on liberal approaches to D&I. Speakers include
@EllieAvishai
Got tickets? Don’t miss out, register here:
Today we honor W.H. Bell, a prominent local leader in Clinton, MS where he practiced law and later was the secretary for the board of registration. His idea to hold a political rally led to the Clinton Riot where he almost lost his life.
Find out more 👇
If you missed our May panel discussion with
@HPluckrose
on Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice, you can find it now on YouTube 👇
(Long Live Texas Tea and All Hail Milk-Firstians...
#tut
)
Good talk & we go into a lot of detail about the purpose of the Counterweight Handbook with practical application examples. Also went into the concept of liberalism as the opposite to authoritarianism (not conservatism) on which it works.
HOWEVER
After podcast guest Winkfield Twyman's Opinion in
@Newsweek
- Claudine Gay Made a Career of Attacking Black Scholars. Don't Defend Her for Being Black - we are revisiting his Dissident's podcast discussion with Elizabeth.
On Feb 24 at noon ET we will hold another Liberal Values Lab. This month our guest is Winkfield Twyman, Jr - Defining Black History: The Story of Lemuel Haynes.
Is Blackness only and always oppression? When someone spoke these words to Winkfield Twyman, Jr., he was shocked. That
What is the difference between classical and critical social justice in social work? Join us for this month's Liberalism in Practice Panel Discussion with
@76brandy76
, Zander Keig & Matt Watson to find out.
Register 👇
Did you miss
@RVeradonir
of
@QueerMajority
's Liberal Values Lab on a liberal approach to queer diversity? Fear not, it is now up on our YT with a link to his presentation.
Today we remember Thomas E. Miller - too white for some and too black for others - Miller served in the US Congress as a black congressman in post-Reconstruction South Carolina, dedicating himself to civil rights.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
Board of Advisors
@StrangelEdweird
writes, “we shouldn’t just be willing to hear the arguments of those with whom we disagree, we should be eager to.” 🔥
Today we remember Sugar T. George, a Black Creek who fought w/ Chief Opthole Yahola against the Confederates and later enlisted in company H of the 1st Indian Home Guards.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
“Stubborn racial disparities in outcomes are what fuels the idea that race matters most. But are these phenomena occurring because of skin color? Or are disparities driven by factors more consequential than race?”
My review of three intriguing books on color blindness.
Join us on Dec 2 at 4:30pm for our livestream, What's Woke Got to Do With It? Statism & Compliance: Defining Liberal Values in our Schools in the Age of Covid. Register here for an email reminder 👇
w/
@AndrewGutmann
@Smith_Surge
@IM_ArtLand
We want to invite you to join our
@ilvalues
Circle community. We are starting to host our events - panel discussions, labs and our new Black Institute for Liberal Values resources here (w/
@FreeBlckThought
).
Join us 👇
On Nov 14 we are starting our "Liberal Values Laboratory". Dr. Elizabeth Spievak kicks this off at 7pm for a lesson & discussion titled: Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Habits of Thinking that Impact Everyday Life.
Join us and register here 👇
Channy Laux joins
@truth_inbetween
& Elizabeth Spievak to discuss her perspectives on communism, free speech, individual rights and responsibilities, and contemporary challenges to liberal values. Channy was just 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia in 1975. She endured 4
Did you miss our livestream panel discussion - Liberalism in Practice: Lessons from Harvard w/
@Rhetors_of_York
(
@FreeBlckThought
), Ken Pope (
@VoCommunism
), Elizabeth Spievak (
@ilvalues
) & W.F. Twyman, Jr?
You can find it on our Circle page here 👇
Tomorrow our Liberal Values Lab is with
@DavidLBernstein
(
@jilvorg
) on his book Woke Antisemitism. We invite you to join in and be part of the conversation.
Register 👇
Today we honor Samuel J. Lee, a Judge, a Brigadier General of the South Carolina militia, & a Trustee of the University of South Carolina who was responsible for integrating the school.
w/
@FreeBlckThought
Find out more 👇
The Dissidents Pod has a new series on the Radical Roots of Ethnic studies with
@76brandy76
&
@truth_inbetween
. In the first show they lay out the indoctrination that is creeping into our K-12 education.
In this week's podcast Elizabeth and
@Mike_Burke_UK
talk w/
@PsychRabble
about the new "Princeton Principles for a Campus Culture of Free Inquiry." The document addresses the special and honorable duties of universities to foster freedom of thought and to actively avoid