Last week, it emerged that the newly appointed head of America’s NPR (National Public Radio) hates the US Constitution. Speaking in 2021, she described the First Amendment which safeguards free speech as “a challenge.”
How could it be that the head of America’s public broadcasting service, established by an act of Congress, has such contempt for the US Constitution? In her previous role running Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, Katherine Maher rejected a “free and open internet” as a guiding principle. Such principles are, in her words, a “white male Westernized construct,” according to reports. Katherine Maher, reports say, supports efforts to censor opinions that do not conform with her leftist world view. She spoke of the truth as being “a distraction.” Sadly, Katherine Maher is not a one off. She is typical of the sort of people now running many of America’s institutions, HR departments, government agencies, and universities. Ms. Maher’s social media posts might read like parody., but there is nothing funny about the way that people with Maher’s outlook and opinions are subverting America’s Founding principles, replacing them with grim leftist dogma that risks destroying America and the West. Conservatives need to push back, but how? Until now, many conservatives have been better at identifying the problem than at tackling it. To defeat DEI, we need to pass laws, reform institutions, appoint the right people, and set the right incentives. Most of all, however, we need to counter bad ideas with good ideas. If we are serious about restricting DEI dogma, we need to ensure that your tax dollars cannot be spent promoting this divisive ideology. Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, has shown that states can take the lead against DEI by signing an Executive Order that restricts the use of public money for DEI programs. State leaders in Oklahoma, Utah, and Texas have also done something similar. We need to see similar action here in Mississippi. Did you know that some Mississippi public universities use your tax dollars to promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) programs? One of our leading public universities has an “institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion plan” governing every aspect of campus life. DEI shapes not only university admissions, administration, and faculty hiring. It also shapes what young people are taught via the development of an academic equity scorecard. Instead of more DEI hires, the University of Florida recently decided to eliminate all DEI employee positions. Last month, the University of Texas at Austin fired dozens of employees who used to work in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Mississippi needs to do the same. The best way to defeat bad ideas is with good ideas. Teaching young people the following truths about America will give them immunity against the ‘woke’ mind virus. • America is built on liberty. • The US Constitution is the best system of government in the world. • America is a force for good. On three occasions – World War I, World War II and the Cold War - the United States intervened to save the free world. • Americans are inventive. From the first flight to the advent of the iPhone, there is one country that has proved extraordinarily inventive: the USA. • Judeo-Christian ideals have shaped America. A generation ago, the conservative movement focused on things like tax cuts and red tape reduction. Those things remain essential, but we also need to ensure that we are promoting America’s Founding principles. This is a fight that we can win. One day we will look back and think it absurd that someone with Katherine Maher’s outlook could be put in charge of producing public service broadcasting content. But there is a great deal that we need to do right now to get there!This post was authored by Douglas Carswell and sponsored by the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Mr. Carswell is the President of MCPP.
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So, have I missed our Congressmen and U.S. Senators stepping up to the microphone and saying: "Let's defund this crap." They're quick to issue press releases bragging about every grant or appropriation that funds pet projects.
As long as Red state voters keep sending weak, so-called conservative Reps and Senators to DC, nothing will change.
Representative Thomas Massie summed it up best recently:
"The Republic is in trouble.
Congress is full of people who are happy to rubber stamp whatever the pentagon, state department, DOJ, FBI, FED… want.
Most are not compromised or bribed. They’re just going along to get along as long as you re-elect them and let them wear the pin."
If this doesn't sum up Michael Guest, Mike Ezell, Trent Kelly, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Roger Wicker, I don't know what description would. Hey, but your "special interest" just got another couple million, so all is well, right? Red State voters have got to start electing folks who will go to DC to change the status quo in an effort to preserve the Republic, rather those wimps who just go to get along with the status quo.
Ole Miss has one of the most vigorous and taxpayer expensive DEI program in the country.
Everyone loves free speech until it's speech they don't want to hear.
Not sure how that is actually free speech.
You're losing the youth. You won't get it back with riot shields and gas masks.
Remember Kent State
I would not be surprised if Governor Reeves or the IHL adopts a policy for halting the investment of public funds in DEI programs. To combat the DEI mentality on campus, Ole Miss has created the Declaration of Independence Center. It promotes an educational program that follows what DL is advocating.
Maher ran Wikamedia, not Wikapedia. Large difference.
She is the very opposite of what we need to get this country back on track.
I don't give a rat's what her organization does as long as my tax dollars don't fund the liberal bias.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/npr-ceo-katherine-mahers-life-is-like-a-woke-elite-bingo-card/
@4:52
There is no such things as wikamedia or wikapedia.
10:58 - You haven't heard from Mississippi's senators because we have two of the most pronounced back benchers in the entire Congress. With the exception of Bennie Thompson (yuk), our House members are also back there on that last bench. Senators like John Kennedy of Louisiana are on a national network every night, but not our esteemed Members of Congress.
Meanwhile our Republican Governor, Republican Senate, and Republican House continue to annually increase funds for Public Radio in Mississippi to spew this hatred.
Does anyone think the Democrats would fund an outlet of all conservative reporters? Mississippi Republicans are the epitome of useful idiots.
Soros and other leftist elites fund DEI entities with the intent of creating terrorist groups to promote instability within our nation and other free nations. Our colleges and universities support these organizations out of fear from being attacked by them. Many of the leaders in these universities agree with them.
This is a leftist nation we live in today and Christian, conservative values are openly being attacked. The attackers are disguised with labels like DEI, courage, etc.. Unfortunately, today, the greatest threat to Americans are its elected officials, who fill their pockets with our tax dollars and do nothing but tear down our protections under the guise of security and equity.
NPR gals said the first amendment was the biggest issue in combatting disinformation because people can lie and make up shit using AI and it’s protected free speech.
Get a life, Doug, and stop listening to Elon.
Forrest was better. This guy shouts at clouds all day like DL.
At 10:54. These Republicans aren't stupid. They are very aware of the Marxism that NPR pumps out. That is why the governor, House and Senate are happy to fund Public Radio and Public TV in the state. Sad to say, there is not a lot of difference between a Mississippi Democrat and a Mississippi Republican.
It is all a matter of a uniparty. They point fingers and yell at each other on the extremes, but on the core issues they are all the same. That is why Brandon Presley versus Tate Reeves was largely a coin flip. The same applies when you vote for House and Senate races. They care about two things: getting (re)elected and supporting the uniparty.
“ This is a leftist nation we live in today and Christian, conservative values are openly being attacked. The attackers are disguised with labels like DEI, courage, etc.”
LOL the brain worms have truly taken hold. Christianity is under attack?? What’s one example of a real threat to Christians? And what on earth would that have to do with trying to help minorities get more jobs and representation? Absolute lunacy in these opinions, if these collections of angry buzzwords can even be called that.
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