This statement
“[An event last week] advocated for the exclusion of trans people in athletics … I applaud the students, staff, and faculty who rallied quickly to … protest peacefully.”
— San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney, in a statement Tuesday
We say: No wonder students graduate with distorted worldviews.
The event was not about banning trans people from athletics but letting those born male compete in girls’ sports. SFSU’s prez called the discussion “traumatic” for the trans community.
But it was the event’s speaker, Riley Gaines (who once competed against formerly male swimmer Lia Thomas), who was verbally and, Gaines says, physically attacked and forced to barricade herself in a room in fear of the mob.
This was no “peaceful” event, nor was it, as Maloney claims, a victory for free speech.
These remarks
“In the last 20 years, the US had a GDP shortfall of $16 trillion due to discrimination against black Americans.”
— WH adviser Susan Rice, Wednesday
We say: Rice thinks uttering nonsense makes it true.
Don’t buy it.
And this was just one of her many whoppers Wednesday.
“Let’s stand together in defense of facts,” Rice said, just before rattling off a string of bizarre lies (as Tom Elliott flags on Twitter): Today “we’re seeing bans on innocuous children’s books just because they feature prominently black or brown characters. We’re seeing black history erased from our classrooms. …
Those who are doing this are trying to tell us that [blacks] do not matter and that perhaps we should not exist.”
What a sick, divisive and untrue slur.
Spot the difference
vs.
We say: When President Biden uses executive powers to push through his agenda, AP paints that as a positive.
Yet when Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis (Fla.) does so, he’s “aggressive,” “brash” and “unilateral” — clearly a threat to democracy.
So much for objective reporting.
This comment
“I’ve never seen them go after a man who was sick in the Senate in that way.”
— Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Wednesday
We say: Pelosi suggests calls for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to resign due to her age and health problems are sexist.
Hello?
Critics have gone after a man who is president, Joe Biden, given his apparent cognitive decline; at 89, Feinstein is nine years older than him.
They’ve targeted other men, too, like John Fetterman (D-Pa.), suggesting he’s unfit for the Senate after a stroke left him with cognitive issues.
Yet most ironic: It’s supposedly pro-women Democrats, like Reps. Ro Khanna (Calif.) and Dean Phillips (Minn.), now calling for Feinstein to quit.
This tweet
We say: Has Atlantic editor David Frum gone completely off the deep end?
There was nothing true about the Trump-Russia collusion hoax or fake about the Twitter Files.
If this is supposed to be self-parody, Frum hit the nail on the head.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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