By Patrick McDonald reasonAugust 9, 2024.
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In March 2021, the elementary school student, referred to in legal papers as “BB,” drew a sketch depicting multiple people of different races and “three classmates and himself holding hands,” the family’s lawsuit states. stateOn top of the picture, BB wrote “Black Lives Matter” (chic) slogan with the words “Every Life” written underneath it.
BB then gave the drawing to one of her black classmates in order to comfort him (as she later testified).
words Any life Of course, it’s similar to the phrase “all lives matter.” Controversial rebuttal The Black Lives Matter movement spread following the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
The similarity, whether the first-grader realized it or not, quickly got BB in trouble: On the same day she painted it, she was told by the school’s principal, Jesus Becerra, that the drawing was “inappropriate” and possibly “racist.” (The parties dispute whether Becerra told BB that the drawing was “racist”; the defense argues that BB’s testimony on the matter is contradictory.)
DRH says: Think of the emotional trauma this elementary school student must have felt after being punished for doing something good. Also note that this first grader had a better idea of people than his principal, Jesús Becerra.
Moral of the story: If you are financially able, don’t send your kids to public school. Many of the public schools are harmful.
By Timothy Taylor A conversational economistAugust 9, 2024.
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One of my personal pet peeves when bills are debated is the emphasis on total spending, which is easy to measure, and not so much on how much is gained for what is harder to measure. But intent (how much is spent) is not outcomes (actual results). The estimates in this paper are:
By J.D. Tutchal reasonAugust 9, 2024.
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“The CrowdStrike bug was so devastating because the company’s security software, Falcon, runs at the most central level of Windows, the kernel, so when the Falcon update caused it to crash, it also took out the brains of the operating system.” The Wall Street JournalTom Dotan and Robert McMillan Reported July 21. “A Microsoft spokesman said the company cannot legally block its operating system as Apple has done, because it reached an agreement with the European Commission following complaints. In 2009, Microsoft agreed to give security software makers the same level of access to Windows that Microsoft gets.”
“Mr Bean” talks about freedom of speech in the UK.
Don’t miss this: It’s an impassioned plea against Britain’s strict speech restrictions.
HT2 Dan Klein.
