Plus: Twitter Bans Conservatives, Including Heritage Foundation Expert, One Week Before Midterm Elections
November 1 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Supreme Court ponders whether race-conscious college admissions are constitutional. In yesterday’s arguments, some justices seemed to justify such discrimination, GianCarlo Canaparo writes. Twitter acts to silence conservative voices just before the election, Tyler O’Neil reports. On the podcast, Virginia Allen chats with an author who says we’ve got race all wrong. Plus: why the new boss at Twitter freaks out the Left, and the Welcome Wagon isn’t exactly greeting a relocated abortion clinic. On this date in 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line to mass-produce an entire automobile, reducing the time required to build a Model T from over 12 hours to about an hour and a half.
Oral arguments in two cases yesterday challenging colleges’ racial admissions policies suggest that some justices are willing to turn a blind eye to present-day anti-Asian discrimination.
“In the middle of the night, Twitter removes conservative political activists and ordinary Americans … to further silence conservative voices,” says Jake Denton of The Heritage Foundation.
The Bristol Women’s Health clinic relocated from Tennessee to Virginia when abortion became largely illegal in Tennessee after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
Fe Bencosme, author of “You Are Not Your Race,” says her writings on race will offend people, but the reality is “there’s no black race, there’s no white race, there’s no yellow or red race.”
A University of Pennsylvania doctor appears to compare crisis pregnancy centers to “terrorists” during a hearing, accusing the pro-life centers of harming and targeting mothers.
The Left controls much of civil society and the flows of information. It is quite willing to use government agencies to further manipulate social media companies to censor American citizens.
