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Don't pick up a news paper very often any more but sitting on the airplane now I am going through one. Here are just 3 articles from todays National Post.
I can't decide which one is he nuttiest. Can you?
I can't decide which one is he nuttiest. Can you?
Barbara Kay: Delaware students can now choose their own race. This should end well
Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are. Too late for Rachel Dolezal, alas. Dolezal identifies as 'transracial' a belief that would have been affirmed if she were a Delaware student today.
Rachel Dolezal, a former leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in the United States, has white parents but identifies as being transracial. She is seen on the set of NBC's Today show on June 16,
The state of Delaware is poised to adopt what is known as “Regulation 225.” Approved both by the Delaware State Education Association and Gov. John Carney, Regulation 225 would safeguard children’s “protected characteristics,” such as gender, age, race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Section 7.4(1) of 225’s Prohibition of Discrimination Code states, “All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race, which is maintained in the school.”
Gender isn’t news. But race? Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are....
Canadian airlines’ rules on comfort animals range from dogs to miniature horses
Miniature horses, monkeys and pigs can legally fly as emotional support animals on at least one Canadian airline...
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Unusual animal encounters at the airport have been making headlines in recent weeks.
United Airlines turned away a passenger who tried to board a flight with an emotional support peacock last month, and a Florida woman claimed last week that an airline employee told her to flush her dwarf hamster down a toilet after refusing to let the pet on the plane...
Vancouver man banned from club for 'mansplaining' denied human rights hearing
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal won't reconsider its refusal to hear a Vancouver man's complaint that his dance club banned him for being "creepy'' and discriminated against him on the basis of age, sex and race.
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Gichuru claimed new evidence from a club member's March 2017 Facebook post supported his request for reconsideration because he said it revealed the swing club refuses to consider harassment complaints raised by men and won't listen to "a man's side of the story.''
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Gichuru alleges 'blatant stereotyping'
Gichuru initially complained that he was accused of "mansplaining,'' or explaining something in a condescending way, and was unfriended on Facebook by a club member after posting an opinion about United States politics, but the exchange degenerated to complaints he had harassed a female club member.
After those details surfaced, Gichuru was banned from volunteering or attending swing society events for the rest of that year,
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(this article (a variant), was in the National Post but I could not find it online so I posted this CBC one instead)
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