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Netflix’s New Anti-Harassment Rules Prohibit Employees from Looking at Each Other for More than Five Seconds

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Netflix recently re-vamped workplace rules for their employees, adding on some pretty difficult to follow anti-harassment policies. Under those new policies, employees cannot look at each other for more than five seconds and according to the Sun, if you feel bothered by a co-worker, you should shout “Stop! Don’t do that again!”

Also inappropriate: asking for another co-workers phone number, lingering hugs or touching for prolonged periods of time, flirting and asking someone out on a date more than once.

In a statement to the Independent, Netflix said  “We’re proud of the anti-harassment training we offer to our productions. We want every Netflix production to be a safe and respectful working environment. We believe the resources we offer empower people on our sets to speak up, and shouldn’t be trivialized.”

That’s great, but some of these are pretty ridiculous and hard to follow. Who counts the number of seconds you look at someone? What if you are filming something for Netflix and you can’t look at your actors for more than five seconds? How are you going to be able to do your job and follow that rule?

It’s also kind of silly to encourage employees to start shouting at each other on the job. I think a firm response to negative behavior is probably a better one and people are smart enough to know what to do without having to have company rules to tell them so.

And what happens if you need a co-workers phone number for work reasons? Has no one from Netflix ever had to call their boss at home to say they’d be out sick the next day? It’s unrealistic to prohibit employees to exchange numbers for non-dating purposes.

This is probably something a lawyer told them they needed to have in place in the wake of the #MeToo movement and people have a right to feel comfortable in the workplace, but some of these rules are just too silly to take seriously.

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Photo of Immigrant Child in Cage is from a Staged Protest

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You may have seen this photo of an immigrant child locked in a cage circulating on the internet with some sort of caption about Trump’s immigration policies. However, despite what your liberal friends are telling you, this photo is actually from a protest and the child in the cage IS NOT being detained by ICE as others would have you believe.

The photo began circulating on Twitter when filmaker Jose Antonio Vargas tweeted with the caption, “This is what happens when a government believes people are illegal.”

Some followers inquired about the source to which he replied, “saw it on a FB friend’s timeline but looking for confirmation Has anyone seen it elsewhere.”

Even liberal leaning Snopes confirms that the photo was miscaptioned and was actually from a protest on June 10th. In that photo set which was shared on Facebook, the same boy can later on be seen out of the cage and running around.

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Facts matter, people. Don’t share things without first finding out the source.

Could California Be Split into Three States?

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A proposal to split the state of California into three states has received enough signatures that it will make it on to the ballot this fall. Residents of “The Golden State” will vote on the referendum on November 6.

According to the Los Angeles Times, here’s what the state would look like if the referendum passes.

If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three separate states to take the place of California, with one primarily centered around Los Angeles and the other two divvying up the counties to the north and south. Completion of the radical plan — far from certain, given its many hurdles at judicial, state and federal levels — would make history. …

The proposal aims to invoke Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, the provision guiding how an existing state can be divided into new states. Draper’s plan calls for three new entities — Northern California, California and Southern California — which would roughly divide the population of the existing state into thirds.

Northern California would consist of 40 counties stretching from Oregon south to Santa Cruz County, then east to Merced and Mariposa counties. Southern California would begin with Madera County in the Central Valley and then wind its way along the existing state’s eastern and southern spine, comprising 12 counties and ultimately curving up the Pacific coast to grab San Diego and Orange counties.

Tim Draper, a billionaire venture capitalist,  is behind the idea, saying that “Three states will get us better infrastructure, better education and lower taxes.”

He has tried to do this before – and failed –  but last time was proposing that California be split into SIX states, instead of three.

More information about the idea can be found on Draper’s website.

An interesting idea, but what would that mean for the country as a whole? Each new state would get two new senators. That could possibly mean more Democrats in the Senate, which would most definitely have an impact on America for generations to come.

 

 

Candace Owens, TPUSA Facing Backlash After Her #MeToo Tweets

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Following a scathing set of tweets against the #MeToo movement, Turning Point USA’s Communications Director Candace Owens is facing a lot of heat from both sides of the aisle.

In case you missed it, here’s what Owens said and it’s victim shaming at its finest.

In fact, the American Conservative Coalition has pulled their sponsorship of Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit, which begins in a few days.

Kimberly Corban, a rape survivor and outspoken 2A advocate, is also speaking at the same conference and has a very different take on the movement.

Many others also criticized Owens for her hot take on the movement.

Things got really interesting when Cameron Wallace, creative director for Lone Conservatives, chimed in.

 

TPUSA Executive Director and founder Charlie Kirk has not weighed in and Owens has said she will not apologize for her insensitive comments. In fact, she’s planning to say even more at the conference during her session.

That might be a mistake. TPUSA has quickly become a huge platform for reaching conservative college students and no doubt many of those young ladies have been sexually harassed, assaulted or even become victims of rape. Allowing someone who is so insensitive and dismissive of their feelings and the movement that has given them courage to speak out about abuse to be a voice for your organization is a risky move and alienates the very people you are trying to reach.

The #MeToo movement like all movements, has its flaws, but overall, it’s been positive for women. There’s a big difference between encouraging women to be aware of their surroundings and victim blaming.

Candace Owens is guilty of the later and it’s not a good look for her or TPUSA.

 

CEO of Twitter Acknowledges Eating Chick-Fil-A during Pride Month was Mistake

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has triggered some liberals when he posted about eating at Chick-fil-A during Pride Month.

Several years ago, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy sparked outrage and a boycott of the fast food chain when he made comments supporting the Biblical definition of marriage.

Delicious chicken temporarily made Dorsey forget the company’s “background”, but after people lost their minds, he sort of apologized for boosting their company on his personal Twitter account.

Not everyone was upset, though.

Surprisingly, Jack hasn’t deleted his tweet even though the LGBTQ community is calling for him to do so.

Comedian Samantha Bee Calls Ivanka Trump Words Not Fit to Print

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Samantha Bee is one of the most vile comedians out there and has said some pretty eyebrow raising things on her TBS show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Now, in the wake of Rosanne’s racist tweet which led to ABC canceling her show, Bee is facing backlash from conservatives after calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c***”.

Here’s the full quote, which was pretty gross without the profanity.

“Ivanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen this week,” Bee said. “You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c***!”
“He listens to you,” she added. “Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to f***ing stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?”

You can also watch the segment below, but be advised, there is some VERY strong language/content and you should definitely NOT listen to this at work.

According to CNN, TBS has not commented or returned messages left for representatives of their network.

So here we are, yet again. Someone from the left says something abhorrent against someone on the right and the network doesn’t seem to care. Rosanne was rightly fired for that tweet and it would also be right of TBS to pull the plug on Bee’s show. But they probably won’t.

Freedom of speech doesn’t come without consequences – sure you have a right to say (or tweet) whatever you want but if it’s vile and damaging to other people, companies or networks also have the right to fire you for it since you are a representation of their brand.

And as Ben Shapiro points out, this was scripted and planned.

Bee’s producer even seemed excited that the phrase was trending on Twitter.

Not sure what imagine TBS is going for but this isn’t a very good one to align themselves with.

 

Rachel Dolezal, the former NCAAP Leader who Pretended to be Black, Faces Welfare Fraud Charges

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Remember Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who was pretending to be black and somehow ended up working for the NCAAP? Well, she’s back in the news, this time for welfare fraud.

Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo, illegally received $8,747 in food assistance and $100 in childcare assistance from August 2015 through November 2017. She faces up to 15 years in prison.

From USA Today:

In February of 2017, she talked about how she was living on food stamps in an interview with The Guardian, saying the only work she’s been offered was in reality TV and pornography. At that time, she said she was worried about becoming homeless. She has two biological sons.

The following month, she published a book, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World, causing Washington State Department of Social and Health Services to become skeptical of her income reports of less than $500 a month.

Bank records indicated she had deposited about $83,924 into her bank account in several monthly installments between August 2015 and September 2017, without reporting the income to the DSHS, according to court documents.

Once a fraud, always a fraud.

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