Only a person who scrubs his website of his ‘changed’ opinion on forced birth could believe that lesbian dance theory is an elective course suggested by American universities’ economics departments.
Blake Masters, the GOP nominee for a Senate seat in Arizona, suggested in a sarcastic tweet this week that the sluggish economy and the high rate of inflation were tied to diversity in the high ranks of the Federal Reserve.
"Finally a compelling explanation for why our economy is doing so well," Master, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, wrote Sunday in retweeting an Associated Press article with the headline: "Fed tackles inflation with its most diverse leadership ever."
The article noted that more female, Black and gay officials are now weighing in on interest-rate decision-making than ever before in the central bank's more-than-100-year history.
Masters defended his remarks Monday in a video on Twitter.
“I don’t care if every single employee at the Fed is a Black lesbian as long as they’re hired for their competence and not because of what they look like or who they sleep with,” Masters said. “News for Joe Biden: We are done with this affirmative action regime.”
Of affirmative action, Masters said, "I can't think of a single policy since the end of Jim Crow that's been worse or more divisive for race relations in this country."
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A clip of the high school dropout and Republican Congresswoman complaining that student loan forgiveness will fund “Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory” went viral over the weekend. “Lesbian dance theory” is not, as far as I’m aware, an actual program (though if it were, that would be cool as heck), but it is a popular right-wing talking point; Ben Shapiro was complaining about it as early as 2016.
That it doesn’t exist, though, is not the point. “Lesbian dance theory” is the perfect conservative dog-whistle for everything they loathe about education: it is inclusive and promotes understanding of marginalized groups; it involves complex and nuanced bodies of knowledge known as “theory,” which is a word they usually misunderstand (sometimes intentionally) to mean “guess”; and it sometimes involves a discipline – like dance – which is not immediately understood as useful to capitalism.
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Therefore, when you hear Lauren Boebert or Ben Shapiro complain about “lesbian dance theory,” know that it isn’t actually about lesbian dance theory. It isn’t even about college. After all, some of the most intelligent and compassionate people I know never set foot on a college campus.
What this is about is access to information. Boebert’s brand of bigotry can only survive if people remain ignorant. Arts, humanities, and social science degrees are her natural foe, because they shed light on the realities of the human condition and historic and social injustice.
Conservatives can’t have that, because if they did, their entire hateful and nefarious project would fall apart. They know it. I know it. They just don’t want you to know it.
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Congressman Ron Paul wants to abolish the Federal Reserve and return the United States to a monetary standard backed by gold. He “advocates the abolition of the United States Federal Reserve System "because it is immoral, unconstitutional, impractical, promotes bad economics, and undermines liberty.”
During the dog days of August, there was a brief flurry of partisan excitement when Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert denounced the White House’s student loan giveaway as, “Joe Biden is robbing hardworking Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s degree in lesbian dance theory.” In response, Bill Kristol tut-tutted that complaining about “‘Lesbian dance theory’ adds that frisson of bigotry that really excites your basic semi-fascist.”
It struck me, however, that I, being me, actually have a lesbian dance theory.
Namely, my theory is that lesbians, like straight men, don’t much like to dance and aren’t that good at it, while gay men and straight women tend to adore dancing.
“The 1960s fashion for free-form non-touch dancing was a disaster for American culture that we haven’t recovered from yet.”
This pattern is the mirror image of golf, which is why the big Ladies PGA tournament in Palm Springs each March is known as the “national lesbian spring break.”
Way back in my 1994 article “Why Lesbians Aren’t Gay,” in which I enumerated dozens of behavioral differences between gay men and lesbians, I listed under “Bar Activity” that gays like to dance, while lesbians shoot pool.
Others have noticed as well that lesbians don’t tend to be the most graceful dancers. In one of country singer Kinky Friedman’s detective novels, the protagonist lives in a basement apartment in Greenwich Village under the rehearsal space of a lesbian dance troupe, exposing him to the incessant “semi-rhythmic thudding” of the sapphists.
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Caplan has claimed that anarcho-capitalists have a better claim on the history of anarchist thought than "mainstream anarchists", or "left-anarchists", as he refers to them.[citation needed] However, this claim has been disputed by anarchists.[40][41]
