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							<title><![CDATA[The Absurdity of Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/zohran-mamdani-reveals-the-absurdity-of-affirmative-action/ar-AA1IqcFf</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On her 64th birthday, in 2012, the conceptual artist Adrian Piper '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'retired from being black.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' She posted a digitally altered portrait of herself, rendered in gray scale, and included a message underneath: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Henceforth, my new racial designation will be neither black nor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/is-wokeness-one-big-power-grab/ar-AA1ucyPG</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his 2023'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Netflix comedy special,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Selective Outrage, Chris Rock identified one of the core contradictions of the social-justice era: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Everybody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s full of shit,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Rock said, including in the category of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'everybody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' people who type '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'woke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' tweets...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Blindness of Elites]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-blindness-of-elites/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One afternoon in the mid-1980s, while on scholarship at the University of Oxford, Walter Kirn came upon a bulletin announcing that Jorge Luis Borges was visiting the campus and wished to meet students informally. Kirn, the future writer and critic, then in his early 20s and a recent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Target Partners w/Satanist Designer for Pride Collection]]></title>
							<link>https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2023/05/22/target-partners-with-satanist-designer-abprallen-for-gay-pride-collection/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Woke Target Corporation has partnered for its new Pride clothing line with UK-based designer Abprallen, which insists that Satan loves you.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Learned in 2022]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/what-we-learned-in-2022</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sebastian Junger on underdogs. Thomas Chatterton Williams on self-restraint. Masih Alinejad on freedom. Jennifer Sey on marriage. And more.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do Americans Understand How Badly They're Doing?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/do-americans-understand-how-badly-they-re-doing/ar-BB16fK5n</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I returned to Paris with my family three months after President Emmanuel Macron had ordered one of the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most aggressive national quarantines, and one month after France had begun to ease itself out of it. When we exited the Gare Montparnasse into the late-spring glare, after...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Silence Surrounds the Massacre of Christians]]></title>
							<link>https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/17/media-silence-surrounds-muslim-massacre-of-christians/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Media vehemently condemned the mosque attacks in New Zealand Friday while ignoring the Muslim slaughter of Christians in Nigeria. Media]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Extraordinary Night for Populists -- This Time, in Italy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/05/populists-sweep-italian-national-elections-5-star-movement-big-winner/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Populist-nationalist parties hammered parties identified as being part of the old guard in elections, radically altering Italy's political landscape.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UPenn Law Prof Pushed Out for Politically Incorrect Views]]></title>
							<link>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/18/upenn-law-professor-told-take-leave-absence-politically-incorrect-views/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A UPenn Law School professor received a condemnatory open letter signed by 33 of her colleagues denouncing her politically incorrect views.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Black Privilege]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0103-williams-black-victim-self-definition-20160103-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I participated in an Aspen Institute symposium on the state of race. During the roundtable that followed the panels, as I spoke about my experiences growing up black in the 1990s, I was interrupted by a Latino sociologist and former gang member from UC Santa...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gospel According to Nancy Pelosi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/30/the-gospel-according-to-nancy-pelosi/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jesus and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)seem to have different ideas of what it means to be a good Catholic. On Friday evening,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Pelosi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' lashed out at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)for being a "polarizing" figure and not a good "mainstream" Catholic like her.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inviting Common to the White House Is Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/05/11/2011-05-11_by_inviting_common_to_the_white_house_barack_and_michelle_obama_miss_a_golden_op.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conservative backlash against the Obama administration's decision to invite Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., the rapper known as Common, to the White House on Wednesday night for a poetry slam is both overblown and off the mark.Citing the lyrics of a poem that Common recited during an HBO...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's 'Rap Palate']]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859204575526401852413266.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What's on President Obama's iPod? A wide range, he  told Rolling Stone magazine last week, from the jazz of John Coltrane to  the ballads of Maria Callas. And more: "My rap palate has greatly  improved," Mr. Obama noted. "Jay-Z used to be sort of what predominated,  but now I've got a...]]></description>
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