Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld

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Glenn Youngkin wants to be the Education Governor but he doesn’t want schools to teach the truth

Possibly because the notion of Critical Race Theory is so vague to most conservative voters, when Republican Glenn Youngkin, then-candidate for Virginia governor, ran for office, he labeled himself as the “parents’ rights candidate” by attempting further to instill fear on the part of the white electorate. He raised his racist bullhorn by declaring not only his intent to ban Critical Race Theory the day he is elected but also to outlaw the reading of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novel by author Toni Morrison, Beloved, which was turned into a major feature film. Beloved, a truthful and painful story of the lives […]

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Forget About ‘Gun Control,’ Let’s Repeal the Second Amendment

So after suffering the effects of yet another mass shooting in our country, this time in Las Vegas, Nevada where currently  58 people have died and approximately 520 others were wounded, let’s look at the firearms laws in the state of Nevada. No permit required to purchase a firearm; No gun registration required; No gun owners’ license required; No permit required to carry concealed long guns; No laws restricting the sale and ownership of assault weapons; No restrictions on the capacity of firearms magazines No restriction on the number of firearms an individual may own! The suspected shooter had with […]

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I am Not a Queer Dinosaur Because I Accidentally Misgendered You

In my university course of 320 students, I try to remember everyone’s pronouns, but I find it impossible. This is the case as well even in my much smaller courses. Whenever I am unsure, I ask students again, or I use the pronoun “they.” But students often get very upset and enraged when I and any of my colleagues unintentionally misgender them. Several of my colleagues have quit the profession of teaching because of what they increasingly see as a “tyranny of language” (a language that is in perpetual flux and changes virtually by the day, with differing preferences and […]

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Hillary Clinton Has Become a True Champion to the LGBT Community

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated that “[t]he arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” We can also view the notion of moral progress as a spiral stretched out. We commence our travels forward, and then we begin to circle up, back, then down, then we continue the process over and over again through time. But as we begin moving forward on each consecutive revolution of the spiral, we stand a bit further ahead, further onward than we did at the previous cycle. The march toward social justice, therefore, cannot be represented as a […]

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