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.
White people are getting very tired of all this anti-white “woe is me” racist b.s.
If America is this bad for you – go to whatever s//thole country your ancestors are from.
As an African from Nigeria told me – if you can’t make it in America, you can’t make it anywhere…
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.
Ha! Smoking something good, aren’t you.
Verb conjugations are hard.
Blah, blah, blah ….. blah
News flash AfF:
The Europeans came to this country, conquered the natives and took the land. The conquerors owe the conquered NOTHING. That any person with lineage tracing back to the native Americans still draws air is a clear demonstration of the benevolence of the conquerors.
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Want to be successful as a conquered society? Adapt and integrate publicly. Do what you want at home, but take on the language and customs of the conquerors. Stop demanding those that now rule the land cowtow to your wants.
“English” is not a race. Getting rid of racist DEI is the opposite of racist.
Cultural assimilation is a good thing. Otherwise there’s no point in having different countries.
What language are you writing in?
Clearly, it is not English.
I’m guessing that his native language is ASSyrian.
That made me spit milk out my nose
..and I didn’t drink milk.
Stop the racism!
Boy, wouldn’t that be nice. Nobody gives one fat rat’s backside what color you are. What have you done?
That’s exactly what removing DEI does.. remove’s racists polices.
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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.
Loki?
Low Key dummy.
Wonder us she took the experimental gene therapy – like her masters instructed her to do?
UAF graduate. Honors? Nothing more to say.
Hey now!! That’s not fair to those of us who earned our degrees over 40 years ago. And with High Honors.
Sorry. I was actually referring to the downtrodden, indigent, and poorly educated souls from the UAF who get pampered daily. Grade inflation, lack of academic competition, and fraudulent achievement respective to race is the UAF hallmark for many of their indigenous programs. Everyone on campus knows it but afraid to utter a word for fear of being called a racist.
Say.. isn’t that what DEI is?
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.
And she has the trademark birthing person big, ugly, thick-framed glasses to prove her radical leftist credentials (as if they were in any doubt).
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.
It is ironic for that Senator to be trying to play the race card, when the deck she is working from contains nothing but Jokers.
Hey now, there’s the rules for playing games.
“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.
What do you say we all pitch in and buy Resler a huge eraser?
I dont think too many sane people will miss her.
Guess “white-out” is not an option?
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No …don’t even think about saying it.
This is what it sounds like when the logical conclusions of woke ideology are voiced for all to hear.
The people who would be “gotten rid of” by ending DEI programs are:
1. Racists
2. Uneducated
3. Ignorant
4. Lazy
So, what is Tobin admitting about herself?
A relevant question: Until she slipped into the Senate seat of her boss after her boss decided on the last possible day not to seek re-election — who had EVER heard of Löki Tobin? What has she ever done?
Considering what district she ran in, the only qualification she needed was a D in front of her name.
I’d like to remind everyone reading this. Democracy does not select the smartest, most capable or the most effective. It selects the most likely to win a selection process where half the electorate has an iq under 100
I am totally stealing that.
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Damn… that is perfect.
DEI
Diversity: putting four different tires on your vehicle
Equity: flattening the three remaining tires when one goes flat
Inclusion: Putting the bicycle spare onto one of the flats to see how far you can go
Wonderful analogy!
Why do folks are aren’t “white” free to do as they please, consequences be damned? Do they think they are entitled to more rights, more pull, more compensation than “whites”? Talk about racist.
Nobody and nothing is stopping anyone of any race from succeeded through hard work and dedication except for the race hustlers that think they get something for nothing.
Thanks for playing.
She’s another whiner who uses racism as a weapon to get what she wants. Ignore her and her stupidity.
Communist isn’t a,race,either
Erase away DEI permanently – we don’t need special priviliges in the University of Alaska education system for any one group. Whether you succeed or not at the University of Alaska must be based on merit and hard work, not special treatment due to the color of your skin or membership in a minority group. I am also a UAF Alumni.
Loki is a prime example of why I would cut the University budget by one third..
Paying Liz Cheney $100K to come to UAA and spew hatred for Trump is another example.
Loki Tobin is not stupid, but her beliefs are. And that is by design.
There was a senator recently who stated this about AOC. “She is the reason they put instructions on a shampoo bottle!” The same statement can be applied to any DEI democrat!
Yeah, John Kennedy out of Louisiana. He’s a national treasure.
Oh… the Board of Regents is going to erase people like her.
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I could not possibly care less. Seriously. I do not care one bit at all.
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What is so special about her that I want to preserve it? She expects me to do… what exactly? Elevate people based on their skin color above those that earned a place in the University? Oh… how gallant of her.
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And, where is this erasure coming from? Did this confirmation of the Board President mean the school system is now going to deny entrance to anyone that is not white?
Is it so difficult for people with non-European backgrounds to actually earn entrance to the education system? If it is, how about fixing that, instead of demanding the standards get lowered?
I love the new battle cry from the left: “(fill in policy here) will erase people like me”.
Trouble is, there is not one policy or executive order that calls for the erasure of anyone’s existence.
When you ask they/them for the specific policy in question… they call you a: “Bigot” “Racist” “Nazi” or some sort of “phobic” person.
It is no different than declaring anyone who disagrees with your policy as a “hater.”
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Do not want to force Catholic priests to conduct gay marriages, obviously you hate all gays.
Want people to actually immigrate to the US legally, instead of wading across the southern border? Obviously, you hate immigrants.
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There is no in-between. Either agree with them, or racist, bigot, hater, whatever.
I’m gay and I find most the arguments from the Gay Alphabet Mafia such as you posted are prime examples of their lack of self awareness.
That’s what is dragging us respectful gays back in the closet.
The moment a side weaponized the victimhood status is the moment any rational discourse stops.
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Declarations from one side that are stark black/white comparisons harm everyone. People are people, they have faults, they have varying opinions, and they are often biased. But, to assume someone that disagrees is a hater is the problem.
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Why do they disagree is the correct question to ask in response. But, when you are dealing with children, instead you get “you are trying to erase me…” garbage.
I lost friends that I’ve known since Jr. High over this. Specifically, I tried to explain to them about the Baker in Colorado who offered to make them a generic cake.. but refused to say “Happy Gay wedding”. My ‘friends” say this is a violation of their rights. I say it’s a violation of the Baker’s rights. I brought up a comparison: Should a Jewish baker be forced to make a Swastika cake?
Their response to this day is “it’s not the same” and “You’re the Nazi’… etctera.
Stupid is as stupid says.
She and Forrest Dumbar are in the same canoe rowing upstream in Shi* Creek when they both claim our constitution is “Shot full of Racism”
Isn’t it amazing when the left has no real truth, they always whip out the race card like some badge of honor. Give me a break.
Thanks to all who have commented here. The comments are at least as interesting and entertaining to read as the article!
The community is scared. Omg. Not sure what sort of cowards (these) hollow empty sacks of flesh are?? And what exactly are they scared of.?? These people are nuts.
Don’t judge all minorities by this crybaby; many don’t want or expect special treatment based on their race. These programs assume those targeted are unable to compete on their own. How insulting is that! When a teacher asked my wife why our kids were not in a program for native kids (which was basically remedial math and English), she replied that our kids were expected to be on the honor roll. You usually get what you expect from people.
p.s. I have nothing against helping people. We helped kids who needed it. But we did not expect government money for this. It could be a volunteer program, upperclassmen helping new students.
4 years under the communist administration of joey potato was trying to erase people like me!
Leftists doing leftist things.
We went from a country of strong survivors to a country of obese ignorant lazy mooches.
Tobin’s rhetoric is callous and truly sad. We are all Alaskans. Nobody is try to erase anyone. To even suggest such a thing should be disqualifying for holding public office.
Obama put DEI in place to stir up racism. What DEI is for is to discriminate against the white male in order to set the Oppressed/oppressor model of Marxism. Loki is displaying a victim mentality that is handy for her. Pray for our country and Trump’s effort to get us back on the Rule of Law and Bill of Rights.
Obama put DEI in place to stir up racism. What DEI is for is to discriminate against the white male in order to set the Oppressed/oppressor model of Marxism. Loki is displaying a victim mentality that is handy for her. Pray for our country and Trump’s effort to get us back on the Rule of Law and Bill of Rights.
Well, I’ll bite: what are people like you? I can’t actually tell. Anyways perhaps they are trying to erase you. I for one do not believe you should be erased. No one should be erased. I do tend to disagree with you one most things. But I do believe “they” are trying to erase you. It is their hobby. It helps them get through the long winters picking who qualifies for erasure. When one is sincere as you are it is annoying to deal with erasure. There should be a law against it. Those cranks wouldn’t follow the law anyways. I’m rooting for you!! Nobody erase her! I mean it. How would YOU like to be erased? It isn’t funny! And it is against the law, ethics and civil society norms!
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