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[Mick Pepper @MickPepper]

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[Ranger Athletics @LPHS_Rangers]

Good luck Rangers:
Baseball opening day at home vs. Vista Ridge at 3:30 pm.

[Mick Pepper @MickPepper]

@CHSAA Only option is to pay $13 for periodic scoring on an APP?

[Pat Simon @PatSimonTV]

I am so proud to be an ROTC distinguished grad at the greatest university in the world: @LSU
Proud to serve.
To my fellow veterans, THANK YOU.
#NeverForget
#veterans
#VeteransDay
@LSUfootball

[Wood Wars @Wood_Wars]

The defending @Wood_Wars champions @LSUBaseballClub start off the tournament with a victory over @CoyotesBasebal1. Caleb Pepper goes 2-3 at the dish and picks up the final out and a save for the Tigers.

🎙️Check out the postgame interview with Caleb below 👇

[Ranger Athletics @LPHS_Rangers]

Good luck Rangers:
Boys tennis day 2 Regionals, Rangers still have # 1 singles, and # 2 doubles alive to try and make it to 4A State Tennis.

[Ranger Athletics @LPHS_Rangers]

Eliminate the blame and excuses... look inward.

[Hannah Mears @mearshannah_]

A picture-perfect moment ⬇️

Brody Pepper (a friend of the Cook family) celebrates Billy Cook’s first big league homer wearing a signed Cook jersey!! 🥹🙌

@SNPittsburgh @Pirates

[Pittsburgh Pirates @Pirates]

Billy Cook's first MLB home run 👏

[ken @The_NCBA]

📢 Division I | Gulf Coast Region | All Region Team

Congratulations to all those taking home All Region honors below!

All winners will be eligible for NCBA Division I All American honors, which will be released Thursday, June 27th.

[Mick Pepper @MickPepper]

@TupperCoach @CalebPepper2 @Burlsworth_Fdn @LPHS_Rangers Awesome

[Mick Pepper @MickPepper]

@epcpio Thanks again for. . . But AGAIN there is 50 yards of open space left and right. I’m starting to think you are doing it on purpose.

[Mick Pepper @MickPepper]

@SpaceX @elonmusk A

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

In 2018, Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) warned that "we all live on campus now." He described the identitarianism that had captured elite schools, and he correctly predicted that it would soon spread beyond campus and change society in ways that make liberal democracy more difficult:

"When elite universities shift their entire worldview away from liberal education as we have long known it toward the imperatives of an identity-based “social justice” movement, the broader culture is in danger of drifting away from liberal democracy as well. If elites believe that the core truth of our society is a system of interlocking and oppressive power structures based around immutable characteristics like race or sex or sexual orientation, then sooner rather than later, this will be reflected in our culture at large. What matters most of all in these colleges — your membership in a group that is embedded in a hierarchy of oppression — will soon enough be what matters in the society as a whole."

https://t.co/bxPRKOGUJ9

In Sullivan's most recent post he shows the direct causal path between campus identitarianism and the new wave of campus antisemitism:

"Freedom of speech in the Ivy League extends exclusively to the voices of the oppressed; they are also permitted to disrupt classes, deplatform or shout down controversial speakers, hurl obscenities, force members of oppressor groups — i.e. Jewish students and teachers in the latest case — into locked libraries and offices during protests, and blocked from classrooms. Jewish students have even been assaulted — at Harvard, at Columbia, at UMass Amherst, at Tulane. Assaults by woke students used to be rare, such as the 2017 mob at Middlebury that put Allison Stanger in a neck brace — but since 10/7, they’re intensifying. If a member of an oppressor class says something edgy, it is a form of violence. If a member of an oppressed class commits actual violence, it’s speech. That’s why many Harvard students instantly supported a fundamentalist terror cult that killed, tortured, systematically raped and kidnapped Jews just for being Jews in their own country. Because they have been taught it’s the only moral position to take. They’ve diligently read their Fanon, and must be puzzled over what the problem is. Palestinians are victims of a “colonial,” “white,” “settler-state” and any violence they commit is thereby justified."

https://t.co/BlrZhamwfn

In other words: The only way to end antisemitism on campus is to end the identitarianism. Don't be satisfied by a university president who promises a new center or commission on antisemitism. It won't have much effect on campus culture as long as a critical mass of students (5-10%?) are taught to see everything through oppressor/victim glasses, in which "punching up" is virtuous, even when the punching is not metaphorical.

And if these new centers try to incorporate Jews as a new victim class, as some of them will, it will just make things worse, and it will harm Jewish students. Young people who embrace identitarianism become disempowered, depressed, and difficult to work with. See:
https://t.co/HZK7YM9dGB
https://t.co/EantHLcztZ
https://t.co/1VLixVMF2o

Sullivan's prescription is much more challenging than just endowing another center:

"End DEI in its entirety. Fire all the administrators whose only job is to enforce its toxic orthodoxy. Admit students on academic merit alone. Save standardized testing — which in fact helps minorities, and it’s “the best way to distinguish smart poor kids from stupid rich kids,” as Steven Pinker said this week. Restore grading so that it actually means something again. Expel students who shut or shout down speech or deplatform speakers. Pay no attention to the race or sex or orientation or gender identity of your students, and see them as free human beings with open minds. Treat them equally as individuals seeking to learn, if you can remember such a concept."

Whether or not you agree with all of these measures, I think Sullivan's insight is the key to getting this right: Antisemitism will sprout wherever the soil supports it. It always has, it always will. The spores are everywhere, especially in the age of TikTok. The cure is to change the properties of the soil, not just to plant a new center for the study of antisemitism in soil that is fertile ground for antisemitism.

I expect that none of the Ivies will do much to improve their soil. But please don't give up on the entire higher ed sector. The cultural revolution that swept across the academy in 2015-2016 may have met its Waterloo on December 5, in that congressional hearing room. Now is the time to support schools that break from the pack, under bold leadership. Now is the time to support organizations that are supporting reforms and reformers.

Things on campus look dark today, but I am excited by the new possibilities for positive change.

https://t.co/BlrZhamwfn

[Pikes Peak Newspapers @NewsPikesPeak]

The Rangers made the postseason last year with a 15-11 record and had a seven-game win streak.
https://t.co/3vwIL9d4hA

[Ranger Athletics @LPHS_Rangers]

Congrats to Coach Pepper for getting her first win with Lewis-Palmer HS softball over Mullen. @gazettepreps @CHSAA @newspikespeak #COPreps

[Saint Mary's Belles @smcbelles]

News: Nearly Seventy Student-Athletes Earn @MIAA1888 Honor Roll Accolades

https://t.co/yPI6rubWEQ

#GoBelles | #BelleYeah

[Mick Pepper @MickPepper]

Gotta love #United canceling my 5AM flight to a Houston from Denver for weather a full day before. No other options for connection to Costa Rica. Hold time over an hour. No explanation or accountability or concern. New #SWA? 80 and clear in Denver. 80 and clear in Houston.

[#D3MIAA Sports @MIAA1888]

⭐ #D3MIAA Student-Athlete Spotlight ⭐

@smcbelles softball player Mackenzie Pepper sat down with the MIAA earlier this year to discuss pursuing a career in elementary education, participating in SAAC, volunteering in Uganda, and more! 🥎

WATCH -- https://t.co/ycwaCvcs5t

[Ranger Athletics @LPHS_Rangers]

Rangers baseball gets the win in 6 inn. over DCC. C. Pepper with a 2 run home run to finish it out. @CHSAA @NewsPikesPeak @gazettepreps

[Ranger Athletics @LPHS_Rangers]

Rangers retain General Palmer’s plate with a complete game by C. Pepper (8 strikes outs). C. Highs in with a 3 run home run. Congrats Rangers Baseball. @newspikespeak @CHSAA @Gazettepreps