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The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white.
As an undergraduate studying calculus at Stanford University in the mid-1990s, Candice Jackson “gravitated” toward a section of the class that provided students with extra help on challenging problems, she wrote in a student publication. Then she learned that the section was reserved for minority students.
“I am especially disappointed that the University encourages these and other discriminatory programs,” she wrote in the Stanford Review. “We need to allow each person to define his or her own achievements instead of assuming competence or incompetence based on race.”
Although her limited background in civil rights law makes it difficult to infer her positions on specific issues, Jackson’s writings during and after college suggest she’s likely to steer one of the Education Department’s most important — and controversial — branches in a different direction than her predecessors. A longtime anti-Clinton activist and an outspoken conservative-turned-libertarian, she has denounced feminism and race-based preferences. She’s also written favorably about, and helped edit a book by, an economist who decried both compulsory education and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
There's a lot more messed up stuff in the link and I suggest reading it all.
Honestly and truly ********** woman, screw Devos, the whole damn administration. I say this with so much hatred but I honestly and truly hope nothing but ruin for these people as long as they draw breath, financial, mental, physical ruin. If you about to throw an MLK quote or talk about reaching out, don't cause I'm not here for the bull.
I say this with so much hatred but I honestly and truly hope nothing but ruin for these people as long as they draw breath, financial, mental, physical ruin.
Sounds like you have hypertension. They have medicine for that.
She sounds like another typical Trump appointee's appointee: someone who will dismantle equal opportunity reforms that have been made and put conservative Christianity first
There's a lot more messed up stuff in the link and I suggest reading it all.
Honestly and truly ********** woman, screw Devos, the whole damn administration. I say this with so much hatred but I honestly and truly hope nothing but ruin for these people as long as they draw breath, financial, mental, physical ruin. If you about to throw an MLK quote or talk about reaching out, don't cause I'm not here for the bull.
I don't see anything wrong with her views or this article. They're just her own views and everyone is entitled to an opinion.
(And, no, I'm not conservative.)
I don't see anything wrong with her views or this article. They're just her own views and everyone is entitled to an opinion.
(And, no, I'm not conservative.)
She is charged with running the civil rights division of the dep of ed. Her personal views don't over ride the law of the land despite her publicly aired wishes.
In 2005, Jackson wrote a book on the allegations of sexual misconduct against Bill Clinton, titled “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.” She gained national attention last October after she arranged for several of Bill Clinton’s accusers to attend a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Jackson sat with the women in the front of the audience. A few days before the debate, Jackson established Their Lives Foundation. In registration documents, she described two of its purposes as “giving public voice to victims of women who abuse positions of power” and “advocating for and against candidates for political office.”
Less than a week after the debate, Jackson posted on Facebook that her foundation “supports all victims of power abusers,” but labeled Trump’s accusers “fake victims.” Since the initial announcement of her Education Department role, her Facebook page has been taken offline.
What a double standard -Trump's victims are *fake?* Of course, she took down the comments once she had her coveted job from the administration. We are being totally screwed by the appointees of this administration with each of them willing to take down the department they are supposed to be leading.
Well, since she has denounced feminism, perhaps she should spend her time baking cupcakes for the PTA bake sale.
No, that's not offensive at all.
Just to be clear, this is what makes her "anti-feminist":
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In another article Jackson penned for the Review during her senior year, entitled “How I Survived Stanford Without Entering the Women’s Center,” she condemned feminism on campus.
“In today’s society, women have the same opportunities as men to advance their careers, raise families, and pursue their personal goals,” she wrote. “College women who insist on banding together by gender to fight for their rights are moving backwards, not forwards.”
In the article, she encouraged women to choose conservatism over feminism. “I think many women are instinctively conservative, but are guided into the folds of feminism before discovering the conservative community,” she wrote.
She concluded, “[t]he real women’s issues are conservative ones.”
This was written in the mid-90's and is not saying in any way, form, or manner that she wants to be baking anything, let alone cupcakes for the PTA. I also agree that there comes a point if you want to claim equality you have to quit claiming victim status that needs special rules and protection. As long as you are claiming you have to be treated differently to be successful, you can not claim to be equal. I too denounce the concept of feminism as it is often politically practiced, simply because I denounce any philosophy that needs to demean and/or castigate another group as part of its basic tenets.
I have no idea whether she was a good choice or not, I remain a serious non-fan of DeVose, but THIS cutesy little quip is insulting to any woman who does not want the definition of what it means to be a strong woman with a successful life dictated to them.
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To denounce feminism is offensive. It is saying that women should know their place. And in my view, a woman's place is any damn place she wants to be.
I've worked with as many female as male administrators, and while their were "ringers" among both groups, overall I found pretty equal rates of success or downright excellence on both sides. Same with teachers.
I have known and worked with men who denounce feminism, and that's where they think women belong -- in the kitchen, in the home, raising their kids. And that's hooey. If that's where an individual woman wants to be, that's fine. But women should not let the "denouncers" put them there or hold them back.
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