Sen. Loki Tobin, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, may have worn out her welcome in her own caucus of Democrats when she rose to speak agains the confirmation of Kristine Resler to the University of Alaska Board of Regents.
At issue for Tobin was the Regents’ decision earlier this year to comply with the executive order from President Donald Trump, which said any school that continues to push the “diversity-equity-inclusion” agenda of bias and discrimination would lose federal funding.
“After listening to her testimony in Senate Education,” Tobin said, “the entire UA community was caught off-guard about this motion. There is real fear happening amongst our students, our faculty, our staff, our alumni, the diverse peoples of Alaska right now. And instead of ameliorating that fear with transparency and with public discourse, Ms. Resler chose to affirm the motion.”
Tobin went on to personalize it and say that Resler would erase people like her.
“When she was asked in the Senate Education Committee if she would defend the independent integrity of our state’s institutions of higher learning, she said she would do nothing different in the future. Mr. President, I cannot in good conscience vote for somebody who would be willing to violate the public trust so blatantly and willing to erase people like me from the university.”
It was clearly playing the race card. Ironically what she was calling for would jeopardize the higher education funding of the university system, which is a curious move for an “education advocate” like Tobin.
But for the quick action of the Board of Regents, the university might have millions of dollars less than it has today.
Resler’s nomination passed, with several Democrats, including hard-left Rep. Zack Fields, voting in the affirmative. The vote was 40-19, with Rep. Neal Foster not voting.
She wasn’t actually playing the race card. She was saying that low IQ leftists…. oh well.
Trump throw the race card long ago, his English only push, doing away with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion screams of the old America where the government told everyone assimilate into the dominate culture, you “save the child and kill the Indian.” Good for Senator Tobin for speaking her mind.
Stop the racism!
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Currently this planet only has one sentient race, and that race is Human. (Maybe Dolphin) At least until our galactic brethren make their presence known.
She looks like she has several layers of genetic make-up. A mix of Caucasian, Black and Asian, just based on her facial appearance. And judging by her name, part Nordic Marvel Super Villain Trickster Lubricant Salesman.
What part of her is being erased exactly? If she keeps treading down this path of identity politics (which we are all quite sick of), the erasure will be only of her own doing.
If one would get out of under the desk and actually dwell with common society, they would see that we are already a very diverse group of people in Alaska. To push this unnatural diversity is but efforts of redundancy.
Be gone with it all!
Welcome to 2022, Ms. Tobin. Perhaps you could go back. If not you’ll need to find a way to become relevant or erasure is rightfully in your future.
It will be time for you to return when the US has another dementia patient in the White House. In the interim if you’d like to avoid being called out for more of your vacuous remarks remember to keep your pie hole closed. It is the way.
I’ve made remarks to Loki Tobin and she honestly thinks she is smarter than better than everyone and anyone who comes across her agendas. But I never backed down.
Loki, the Norse god of mischief, malice and chaos, living up to her name.
Tobin is an especially nasty leftist.
One can rest that with such a rancid idealogy she will never thrive for long. None of them do.
The only racists are Loki Tobin and her ilk. The race card is their favorite leftist tool. Crybabies all and extremely narcissistic. I am the same ‘shade’ as Tobin and have been mistook for various ‘ethnicities’ my whole life yet never seemed to have any issues with getting my education nor decent employment, without any special provisions or expectations. I have a degree from UAA, long before the race card was even in the deck. Tobin needs a real life I think, and maybe one outside of the legislature. What a piece of work. It is stunning we have such people making important decisions for,our state.
Always playing the race card and finding racism where there are really only facts that do not support Tobin. Really, the race card is so obvious. And so expected.
“There is real fear happening amongst our students, our faculty, our staff, our alumni, the diverse peoples of Alaska right now.”
I’m a UAF alum. I am particularly happy that the Board has acted to S-can the nonsense. As to, “Tobin went on to personalize it and say that Resler would erase people like her,” if by ‘people like me,’ Loki means total morons, I’m not seeing the downside to erasure.
Just one of her constituent’s opinion.
Stupid is not a race, you can’t fix it, you can’t erase it.
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You can, however, wind it up, have a laugh while it bounces off furniture.
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Threaten bad people with having to watch and listen to that one for an hour or so, see how quickly they turn good.