A Florida senator whom I wish would retire writes about federal tax dollars being funneled to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in western Maskachusetts (I was there once, part of being a houseguest of some Democrats who have a $2 million lake house nearby and who subscribe):
My response to our elderly senator:
The organization’s December 2024 web page proudly describes the federal funds recipient policies of discrimination that is contrary to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of Equal Protection. Here are just some of the ways that they promise to discriminate based on race and gender ID:
- Prioritization of BIPOC Vendors: Conduct focused research and expand the use of BIPOC-owned vendors
- 83% of the 2024 episodes in our monthly “PillowVoices: Dance Through Time” podcast featured BIPOC artists, and 100% featured women.
- All of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive playlists featured BIPOC and women artists.
- off-campus and on-campus programming for low-income, BIPOC Berkshire residents.
How can government money be used to fund activities that should be illegal and unconstitutional if the government itself did it? (I guess we have had government-run race- and sex-discrimination in contracting, with set-asides for women- and minority-owned businesses, but I have never figured out how that is Constitutional.) I have never been able to get a straight answer from any of my lawyer friends as to how the government can operate and fund race discrimination without first repealing the 14th Amendment.
Phil, your posts are seemingly like a broken record. You complain again and again about what the Good Citizens of this country are doing, but you seemingly fail to realize that they want fewer people here like you: a Racist, Genocidal Jew who doesn’t support our Peaceful Hamas brothers, and more generally a Hater of all things Good in America. Why is it you don’t vote with your feet and depart to your new Homeland in Portugal so the remaining Good Citizens of America can get on with enjoying their Homeland without the scourge of you? Allahu Akbar.
Yeah it’s illegal discrimination. Imagine a group “prioritizing” white/euro artists, it would not receive 501c3 yet alone government grants
While pursuing a woman, I once attended a govt funded dance event, with about 500 people. Having previously dated ballet dancers, my expeditions were high. I forget it’s actual name, but it should have been called: “a modern interpretive dance performance by fat people who can’t dance or dress”. The worst part wasn’t the lack of talent, it was that between sets during the “dancers” implored the audience to contact their elected reps and ask for funding more events.
> Having previously dated ballet dancers…the “dancers” implored the audience to contact their elected reps and ask for funding more events.
Well, goody for you. I preferred to date strippers; they weren’t all prissy and conceited. (Ballet dancers always have messed-up feet.) Their funding model was the much more direct “fiver in the g-string”. I haven’t been to a club in a while, I imagine it wouldn’t be pretty (or even “girls”) in modern times.
I think the senator’s and Phil’s points are both important. Bonus: when our nation is running at a deficit, we are borrowing money to pay for this activity.
Your lawyer friends cannot explain how the Civil War Amendments permit race discrimination because those amendments obviously don’t. They were enacted to ensure that the newly freed black slaves were accorded the same rights – “equal protection” under the law, the same “privileges and immunities” and “due process” – as white folk. Though since Marbury V. Madison, the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of what the Constitution means and earlier decided that the Constitution permitted de jure separation of the races and later decided that race discrimination against formerly privileged races is ok. The reasoning behind what the Supreme Court decides on these sorts of political issues is typically contorted and not worth paying a lot of attention to. The best of these political cases is Roe V. Wade, where the Court somehow found that the Civil War Amendments mandated that a woman had a constitutional right to an abortion – though according to the Supreme Court the Constitution placed certain limitations on that right. Even now that Roe has been repealed, Prof. Robert George terrific essay on Roe and Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe, is worth reading as it shows that your average Supreme Court justice is a mediocrity who so long as gets four more votes can do whatever he wants, regardless of what the Constitution says. Found in George’s collection of essays: Conscience and its Enemies. Maybe also available elsewhere.
JDC, I resemble your offensive comment on the “mediocrity” of the average Supreme Court Justice.