Some victories against modern leftist oppression
Increasingly, the overbearing and sometimes violent effort by the left to squelch dissenting views is being met by legal action, and increasingly it appears that legal action is producing positive results. In just the last few days, we have just a few examples:
- Lindsay Shepherd sues Wilfrid Laurier University, claiming ‘attacks’ have ‘rendered her unemployable in academia’
- SPLC agrees to $3.3 million settlement over its ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’
- Washington University agrees to pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit from conservative students
- Jordan Peterson’s threatened lawsuit forces Pennsylvania University professor to back down over tweet calling him an incel [involuntary celibate], a misogynist, and a white nationalist
- Judge: City officials can be held liable in Confederate statue lawsuit
The last story is especially interesting. The city councillors of Charlottesville are being sued for their decision to remove two Confederate statues. The judge ruled that these councillors could be personally liable should they lose the case, especially because their action appears to directly violate a state law.
In the nine-page letter, Moore says that he thinks the council “was acting beyond its authority” and that it was not a “legitimate” legislative activity when the council voted to remove the statues, in contravention with a state law that prohibits the disturbance or removal of war memorials.
The left has for decades been able to violate laws like this with impunity. All of the cases above are examples of that kind of nonchalance to the law and to the truth. In the past no one would challenge them on their acts, and they would get away with it. It appears now that the right is beginning to finally push back, and with some success.
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Increasingly, the overbearing and sometimes violent effort by the left to squelch dissenting views is being met by legal action, and increasingly it appears that legal action is producing positive results. In just the last few days, we have just a few examples:
- Lindsay Shepherd sues Wilfrid Laurier University, claiming ‘attacks’ have ‘rendered her unemployable in academia’
- SPLC agrees to $3.3 million settlement over its ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’
- Washington University agrees to pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit from conservative students
- Jordan Peterson’s threatened lawsuit forces Pennsylvania University professor to back down over tweet calling him an incel [involuntary celibate], a misogynist, and a white nationalist
- Judge: City officials can be held liable in Confederate statue lawsuit
The last story is especially interesting. The city councillors of Charlottesville are being sued for their decision to remove two Confederate statues. The judge ruled that these councillors could be personally liable should they lose the case, especially because their action appears to directly violate a state law.
In the nine-page letter, Moore says that he thinks the council “was acting beyond its authority” and that it was not a “legitimate” legislative activity when the council voted to remove the statues, in contravention with a state law that prohibits the disturbance or removal of war memorials.
The left has for decades been able to violate laws like this with impunity. All of the cases above are examples of that kind of nonchalance to the law and to the truth. In the past no one would challenge them on their acts, and they would get away with it. It appears now that the right is beginning to finally push back, and with some success.
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
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Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
As someone once noted ‘The law is such an inconvenient thing’.
The Lindsay Shepherd Affair: Update
Jordan Peterson channel
June 20, 2018
https://youtu.be/PkNv4LFpGf4
37:28
“I’m sure many of you remember Lindsay Shepherd, the teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University who was subjected to an unwarranted inquisition after showing a video of me debating Nicholas Matte about Bill C16. In her statement of claim (which I read in its totality in this video), Shepherd notes that her mistreatment continued unabated at Wilfred Laurier, despite the university’s hypothetical apology and offer to mend its ways. She also claimed that she has been rendered unemployable as an academic (a claim I believe, having served on many university search committees, and knowing full well that any whiff of scandal is enough to disquality a candidate entirely). I talked to her lawyer after reading her claim, and decided that I would also pursue Wilfred Laurier and the professors and administrators directly responsible for this debacle. I am not convinced that Wilfred Laurier learned what needed to be learned even after being dragged through the national and international press, in what was the biggest scandal that ever hit a Canadian university.
Maybe two lawsuits will help rectify that. We’ll see.”
Dr. Jordan Peterson
June 20, 2018
You’re always accusing people of being fascists. The one thing the fascists and the Confederacy had in common was a deep and abiding love of human slavery. Hundreds of thousands of Southerners went to their deaths fighting so that human bondage — the right to own other human beings as property — could so long endure. There was no other reason they seceded.
Think about that when you judge efforts to remove monuments to that awful inhuman cause.
D.Messier. Yup. The southerners were fascists also. My complaint here has nothing really to do with them. It has to do with the behavior of today’s extreme leftists, who often consider themselves above the law, who often appear to not respect election results (as did the rebels in the south), and frequently commit acts of violence against those they disagree with.
The fourth story here is about government officials who did not obey the law. Interesting that you have no concern about the other four stories.