This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, July 16, 2020.
Today you will hear how the Smithsonian is making people aware of the dominance of whiteness in things like two parent households, hard work, and Christianity, Bari Weiss resigns from the New York Times in Epic style, and the whole world isn’t having enough babies.
The Smithsonian Thinks Hard Work & Science are White Supremacy
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
The National Museum of African American History & Culture of the Smithsonian has a page entitled “Whiteness” which describes how since white people are the majority skin color in the United States, their shared assumptions and culture is the dominant and normalized culture, making other cultures and skin colors abnormal.
They have a handy chart describing key elements Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture in the United States, including things like “Rugged Individualism, the nuclear family , husband as breadwinner and head of household, wife is homemaker and subordinate to the husband, emphasis on Scientific Method, objective, rational linear thinking, cause and effect relationships, quantitative emphasis, the primacy of Western (Greek, Roman) and Judeo-Christian tradition, Protestant Work Ethic, hard work is key to success, work before play, Christianity is the norm, respecting authority, planning for the future, delayed gratification, time viewed as a commodity, holidays based on Christian religions, being polite.”
Jason Whitlock re-tweeted this chart saying, “This is troubling and disheartening. Speaks to an agenda to program black people outside the American norm and into the communist norm. It’s being done by the National Museum of African American History & Culture” that I guarantee relies on non-black money.
The Smithsonian is 62% federally funded – a combination of congressional appropriations and federal grants and contracts – for a total of 1 billion dollars.
Bari Weiss Resigns from New York Times & Blows Up Twitter
https://nypost.com/2020/07/14/bari-weiss-resigns-from-new-york-times-citing-illiberal-environment/
Bruce Golding at the New York Post writes: New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss on Tuesday told the paper to take her job and shove it — because Twitter had become the “ultimate editor” as vicious, progressive staffers there engage in the “new McCarthyism.”
In a nearly 1,500-word resignation letter posted on her personal website, Weiss accused the Times of abandoning its journalistic principles to “satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions.”
“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” she wrote.
“As the ethics and mores of that platform have become those of the paper, the paper itself has increasingly become a kind of performance space.”
She added: “I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative.”
Weiss, one of the paper’s few conservative voices, also said that her “forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views.”
“They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the Jews again,'” she wrote.
“If someone like @bariweiss feels like she can’t do her best work at the@nytimes they should make some real changes over there,” wrote businessman and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
“Wow…. If you read only one thing this week, read this eloquent, profound, incisive—and true—letter,” wrote Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, linking to Weiss’ letter.
Added Donald Trump Jr., “NYT editor @bariweiss resigns in STUNNING fashion & ex
