A native wildflower that typically begins to make itself seen here by mid-May is the horsemint, Monarda citriodora. The species was on schedule in Great Hills Park on May 15th when I took these pictures showing a formative and a more developed stage.
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Last year I mentioned that the incidents of institutions clamping down on freedom of expression have become so common in what used to pride itself as "The Land of the Free" that I could probably report a new suppression-of-thought incident every single day. I'm beginning to wonder if I was too modest: I might well be able to report two a day now.
I recently read about an incident in the Minding the Campus article "Free Speech Under Fire at St. Vincent College," by Mike Sabo. If you read it, you'll see it's yet another instance of the DIE gang (diversity, inclusion, equity) working to kill off opinions they don't like—hence the acronym DIE.
I studied a lot of linguistics in college and graduate school, along with a bunch of specific languages in varying degrees, from years down to several months. With that kind of language background, I figured I should do a little translating for you from Religion into English. "Diversity" means uniformity of ideas. "Inclusion" means exclusion of any person with an idea that contradicts current dogma. "Equity" means forced sameness of results, regardless of the competence or efforts of the people involved. Another way to say it is that "equity" means treating people unequally, with some getting favored treatment based on immutable characteristics like skin color or ethnic heritage and others being penalized for those immutable characteristics. Still another way to put it is that equity means inequality before the law.
© 2022 Steven Schwartzman
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