New Tolerance Campaign’s President, Gregory Angelo, was quoted in a Washington Times article about two new dating apps; one that welcomes conservatives and another for members of the LGBTQ community. Read more in The Washington Times here.
Update (07-19-22): Twitter has reinstated Paul Rossi’s account! Thank you to all of the advocates who stepped up and sent hundreds of messages to Twitter’s CEO in support of this outcome! See Paul’s message of thanks here: Feels good to be back, folx. Too bad for you @NAISnetwork. I have many many people to thank for their support & advice over the past two months as I addressed this suspension: @parentsunite_ @CBHeresy @ConceptualJames @New_Tolerance @peterboghossian & so many more. Onward! — Paul Rossi (@pauldrossi) July 20, 2022 Twitter had suspended Paul Rossi’s account. The longtime educator’s infraction? He exposed the woke curriculum being taught in classrooms across the country — and the school associations that encourage it. Rossi already lost his job for speaking out — Grace Church School ended his employment last year. Now, Twitter is trying to take his voice away, too. First, Rossi was locked out of his account after posting a clip of a critical race theory training for kindergarten teachers from the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). Then, after sharing a 90-second video from the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) in which an educator stated, “the Pythagorean Theorem doesn’t mean anything by itself,” Twitter suspended Rossi’s account — and ignored all his appeals for reinstatement. NAIS is infamous for imposing a highly politicized and divisive social justice agenda in its membership network of more than 1,600 schools; NYSAIS then distributes this content to its schools in an “indoctrination-in-exchange-for-accreditation” model. Rossi is just one man who put it all on the line to stand up for students; when the odds were agains him NTC supporters stood up.
The New Tolerance campaign was created to insure consistent tolerance across the political spectrum in the USA. Listen to the rest on The Future of Politics with Ariella Scarcella.
This year’s Pride Month shift toward transgender advocacy, “family-friendly” drag shows and sexualized advertising is dividing some LGBTQ advocates as June draws to an end. “Big Business’ celebration of sexual orientations and transgender identities during the month of June is largely performative,” Mr. Angelo said. “It’s become required of any corporation that wants to do business in the United States.” Read more about what New Tolerance Campaign President, Gregory Angelo said in The Washington Times here.
Given the news that broke of drag shows being presented to children as well as ongoing debate over Disney’s opposition to the Florida ban on teaching gender reassignment to 5 year-olds, New Tolerance Campaign President Gregory T. Angelo joins David Webb to discuss this issue and the fact that actions like this do NOT have the support of all gay people. Listen to David Webb’s show here.
Update (6-15-22) The verdict is in: actress Amber Heard was found guilty in a court of law for defamation — and the ACLU has been found guilty in the court of public opinion for helping her. At the core of the case: a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which Heard implied her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, abused her. Depp denied the allegations, and a jury agreed the cost to his career was worth a $15 million judgement against Heard. The driving force behind the op-ed: the ACLU. The organization was “involved in conceiving, drafting and placing” the piece, according to testimony from ACLU Chief Operating Officer Terrence Dougherty. “As a longtime ACLU member and a supporter, I am totally appalled that the ACLU saw this very dysfunctional marriage as a tool to promote its own message, and further its own policies,” Richard Klein, the husband of a former ACLU Director, stated. “The ACLU is a legal organization, and one which is now, it pains me to say, a disgraced group of attorneys.” NTC advocates asked ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero to publicly apologize for orchestrating this defamation, but the ACLU has yet to take responsibility for its role in the trial. [Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)]
Update (6-7-2022): NTC advocates rallied to support Shaprio and emailed Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor asking him to accept Ilya Shapiro’s apology and uphold Georgetown’s policy on freedom of speech. Sadly, Georgetown fell short of its own stated policies about free speech. After Georgtown Law’s “investigation” into Shapiro’s tweet they allowed him to stay on faculty, but made it clear that they could monitor his social media. Following that, Shapiro joined the Manhattan Institute as their Director of Constitutional Studies. On January 21, constitutional law scholar and expert on the Supreme Court Ilya Shapiro was announced by Georgetown Law as executive director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Shapiro’s role was set to begin on February 1 — until a tweet about President Biden’s insistence that his next SCOTUS pick will be a black woman. “Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, who is solid prog & v smart. Even has identity politics benefit of being first Asian (Indian) American,” Shapiro tweeted on January 26. “But alas doesn’t fit into the latest intersectionality hierarchy so we’ll get lesser black woman.” Shapiro deleted the tweet and apologized. Soon thereafter, Georgetown’s Black Law Students Association demanded that Shapiro’s job offer be rescinded. More generally, Shapiro was expressing a sentiment shared by an overwhelming majority of Americans, 76% of whom want Biden to consider “all possible nominees” for the highest court according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll released on January 30, rather than play identity politics and further politicize what should be an objective body. And as Dan McLaughlin framed it in National Review: “Ilya’s use of the words ‘lesser black woman’ in this context was not the ideal way of phrasing this critique, but then, Twitter is fast-moving, space-constrained, and has no edit function, so it is hardly unusual to see things phrased there awkwardly.” Contrast this with Georgetown’s handling of Georgetown professor Carol Christine Fair, who wrote in 2018 that all “entitled white” Republicans supporting the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme court deserved to be killed: “All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps,” she declared. “Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.” Georgetown’s response to inquiries about Ms. Fair? “Our policy does not prohibit speech based on the person presenting ideas or the content of those ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable,” the university said in a statement to Fox News. “While faculty members may exercise freedom of speech, we expect that their classrooms and interaction with students be free of bias and geared toward thoughtful, respectful dialogue.” Georgetown’s Human Resources Policy Manual states that “it is not the proper role of a university to insulate individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive. Deliberation or debate may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or ill conceived. It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to judge the value of ideas, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting those arguments and ideas that they oppose.” In the case of Ilya Shapiro, Georgetown Law will show whether these are genuine values or simply hollow words.
Out Leadership — an LGBTQ business network with 94 corporate members including Amazon, American Express, Bloomberg, Citi, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Microsoft, Nike and Walmart — says it’s good business to embrace those gender identity trends. But Gregory T. Angelo, president of the conservative New Tolerance Campaign, says businesses lose longtime customers by celebrating ever more-marginalized “sexual orientations and identities.” “Gay has become boring, so the left needs to find new oppressed identities to feed the cash cow,” said Mr. Angelo, who is gay. “When you embrace a wide array of nontraditional identities, you’re going to alienate traditionalists.” Read more in The Washington Times here.
Grassroots supporters across the United States demanding accountability from ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero Washington, DC — The New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) today launched a campaign drawing attention to the key role the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) played in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation case. On June 1, a jury found Heard guilty on all counts, concluding she was responsible for libel and awarding Depp with a $15 million judgement. At the core of the case: a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which Heard implied her ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, abused her. Depp denied the allegations, and a jury agreed. The driving force behind the op-ed: the ACLU. The organization was “involved in conceiving, drafting and placing” the piece, according to testimony during the trial from ACLU Chief Operating Officer Terrence Dougherty. “The ACLU has been accused of a leftward drift in recent years, but it would be more accurate to say the organization is careening downward,” New Tolerance Campaign President Gregory T. Angelo stated. “The Depp-Heard trial made it clear that the ACLU is willing to use a dysfunctional relationship as a crass tool in pursuit of its own agenda. In the aftermath of this high-profile trial, questions about the ACLU’s disgraceful role remain. The campaign NTC launched today is empowering grassroots activists to demand answers.” About the New Tolerance Campaign: The New Tolerance Campaign (NTC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit watchdog organization mobilizing Americans to confront intolerance double-standards by establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially conscious brands. NTC campaigns empower everyday Americans to hold accountable self-proclaimed arbiters of tolerance when they betray their own stated values. For interview requests and additional comment, email communications@newtolerance.org. [Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)]
Washingtonian magazine’s new “Most Influential People” annual list highlights the head of CAIR — despite the extremist group’s exposure by NPR for an organizational culture of widespread misogyny and sexual harassment. CAIR leader Nihad Awad has been condemned by the ADL for a history of anti-Semitic remarks, including claiming that Israel “is the biggest threat to world peace and security.” The Washingtonian ignored this intolerance when recognizing Awad. He and his organization’s long track record of extremism, bigotry, and misogyny should have disqualified him from any recognition. Send a message to Washingtonian CEO Catherine Merrill here! [Photo credit: Voice of America – M. Elshinnawi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)]
