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Libertas wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 6:36 pm Jim Crow, hell, BECAUSE board cons and cons in general LOVE DeSantis and will RUN to the polls to vote for him, we better hope they dont just start killing LGBTQ...
They’ll start with their own miserable family members. Look how these people treat their own children. :problem:
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Wait for it, " I don't know what the big deal is, they're just posters."
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Cancel culture.

Kentucky’s lone transgender athlete can’t play on the team she helped start - WP
LOUISVILLE — When 13-year-old Fischer Wells signed up for field hockey last fall, she had never played the sport. Her parents were confounded. Fischer had run cross-country before and once tried out unsuccessfully for a street hockey team, but outside of that, the seventh-grader had not expressed much interest in sports.

A month into the season, her parents were fighting for her right to play. The first games had been marred with challenges. First, there were not enough players, until Fischer recruited classmates to fill out the team. Then Fischer’s stick was too short. Finally, through a teary phone conversation with the athletic director, her parents had learned the Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s rules would not allow Fischer to play.

Because Fischer — besides being a middle-schooler with boundless enthusiasm, a bookworm and a novice field hockey player — is transgender. The association had set extraordinarily high hurdles for transgender athletes to play on teams that matched their gender identity. It required that transgender athletes undergo “sex reassignment” before puberty — though it was unclear what that meant. For transgender athletes who underwent sex reassignment after puberty, the association required that “surgical anatomical changes have been completed, including external genitalia changes and gonadectomy,” procedures that are not recommended for young people.
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All this, to harass a microscopic minority of people in this society, while their own people wave Confederate flags and try to overturn elections.

This is fascist ideology and fascist behavior.
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A Texas school board rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/11202393 ... az-stevens

They also rejected another sign that showed the same phrase in rainbow letters.

I guess they only trust in the G-d that speaks English. (I also notice He supposedly likes rainbows. Weird.)
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ProfX wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:36 pm A Texas school board rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/11202393 ... az-stevens

They also rejected another sign that showed the same phrase in rainbow letters.

I guess they only trust in the G-d that speaks English. (I also notice He supposedly likes rainbows. Weird.)
I wish an alien race would land and put a stop to these idiots.
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Libertas wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 7:13 pm I wish an alien race would land and put a stop to these idiots.
Personally, I can’t wait for their miserable, misery-generating asses to finally be raptured out of here.
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ProfX wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 5:36 pm A Texas school board rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/11202393 ... az-stevens

They also rejected another sign that showed the same phrase in rainbow letters.

I guess they only trust in the G-d that speaks English. (I also notice He supposedly likes rainbows. Weird.)
Petty AND eliminationist.

These dirty cons have not changed one iota since their “Governor Faubus Save Us!” days. :problem:

They need a bath.
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carmenjonze wrote: Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:30 pm Petty AND eliminationist.

These dirty cons have not changed one iota since their “Governor Faubus Save Us!” days. :problem:

They need a bath.
It is now clear that anyone who still supports trump wants POC and LGBTQ to be imprisoned or killed. Not sure why any POC or LGBTQ would support him, but there are not many.
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Because of course. Because the next thing we must "protect" our kids from is ... Gandhi.

Watch: Texas school board clashes with angry mom who wants Gandhi banned because of CRT
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-board-of-education/

Members of the Texas State Board of Education heard from an angry mother on Tuesday who said that first graders should not learn about Mahatma Gandhi because she believes it's part of critical race theory. :roll:

[snip]

"This revision wants to teach a first grader who is still putting notes to the tooth fairy under her pillow about following Gandhi's lead to a peaceful protest," Jenna gasped. "A first grader! CRT is already rampant and baked into our curriculum and we don't want to be good little global citizens where our borders are considered a military zone." :roll:

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That's right, if our kids learn too much Gandi, our borders will become militarized ...

I swear, I weep for this country. :|
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ProfX wrote: Sat Sep 03, 2022 6:57 pm Because of course. Because the next thing we must "protect" our kids from is ... Gandhi.

Watch: Texas school board clashes with angry mom who wants Gandhi banned because of CRT
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-board-of-education/

Members of the Texas State Board of Education heard from an angry mother on Tuesday who said that first graders should not learn about Mahatma Gandhi because she believes it's part of critical race theory. :roll:

[snip]

"This revision wants to teach a first grader who is still putting notes to the tooth fairy under her pillow about following Gandhi's lead to a peaceful protest," Jenna gasped. "A first grader! CRT is already rampant and baked into our curriculum and we don't want to be good little global citizens where our borders are considered a military zone." :roll:

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If it's not whites-first/whites-only/whites-rule, it's "critical race theory."

If it doesn't show conservative whites and their infamous past in the most flattering light possible, it's "critical race theory."

And u better tell the first graders that British colonialism benevolently brought the benefits of civilization to ungrateful minorities like Gandhi! Or else we'll start yelling it's "critical race theory"!

The most divisive people in this country say so-called critical race theory is divisive.

They also said southern whites are the negroes' best friends but no integration!

The gays are the groomers and some little kid on a track team is an existential threat, but if you criticize the child-molester men of the cloth you hate the country you hate Gott Im Himmel himself!

Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania!
That's right, if our kids learn too much Gandi, our borders will become militarized ...

I swear, I weep for this country. :|
These white cons and their handful of duped followers will not be happy until this entire country is as ignorant and miserable as they are.
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What a surprise, Moms for Liberty Florida is a revolving door of conservative grift.

Stories like this keep coming out about this Confederacy of Karens.

Exclusive: Moms for Liberty Pays $21,000 to Company Owned by Founding Member’s Husband - The 74
Moms for Liberty, one of the fastest-growing and most recognized conservative parent advocacy groups in the nation, paid $21,357 to a company owned by the husband of one of its founding members, campaign finance records show.
The group doled out the money to Microtargeted Media, founded by Christian Ziegler, a current Sarasota County commissioner and vice chairman of the Florida GOP, in late August.

The group doled out the money to Microtargeted Media, founded by Christian Ziegler, a current Sarasota County commissioner and vice chairman of the Florida GOP, in late August.
Moms for Liberty was founded by three people, Tina Descovich, Tiffany Justice and Bridget Ziegler, Christian’s wife, who served as its director through February 2021. Bridget Ziegler joined the Sarasota County School Board in 2014 and was re-elected this summer.
The revelation that Moms for Liberty used a sizable chunk of its political contributions to benefit the company of its co-founder’s husband provides at least some insight into how the conservative juggernaut used what appears to be its modest campaign finances.
The Federal Elections Commissions lists three committees associated with the group, which claims 240 chapters in 42 states: Moms for Liberty PAC, Moms for Liberty Inc. Political Victory Fund and Moms for Liberty Action. All three reported zero dollars in contribution or expenditures with the exception of a single $500 donation to Moms for Liberty PAC on Aug. 29 from Ohio resident Matthew Palumbo, whose long political career includes working for former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Almost all of the money donated to Moms for Liberty Florida came from a $50,000 donation from Publix heiress Julie Fancelli in late June and nearly half of it went to Microtargeted Media. The contribution from Fancelli, a prominent financial backer of the Jan. 6 rally that led to the attack on the Capitol, accounted for all but $837 of the cash raised by Moms for Liberty Florida. Almost all the rest of the committee’s funds went in $250 donations to dozens of politically aligned Florida school board candidates.
The group, which has strong ties to Republican leadership, has been at least somewhat successful in curbing classroom discussion of race, sex and gender — while also removing civil-rights related texts and LGBTQ literature from school curriculum and libraries, though some schools have brought such texts back.
Moms for Liberty’s leaders have said in the past they’ve raised most of their money through T-shirt sales and have grown through free publicity. Right-wing media celebrate its leaders — they’ve appeared on Steve Bannon’s talk show — while mainstream press have also kept them in the spotlight, if at times offering less flattering coverage of them deriding school board members.
These backlashers are the next generation of anti-busing conservative white women who marched and protested integration and desegregation.

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Now they don’t want their mother’s anti-busing and anti-ERA pictures cropping up in school books. Or their own segregation academy school photos. :problem:

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ProfX wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:50 am This.is.indoctrination.

Some teachers alarmed by Florida civics training approach on religion, slavery
Among other topics, trainers told civics teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation between church and state.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-p ... n-slavery/

Several South Florida high school educators are alarmed that a new state civics initiative designed to prepare students to be “virtuous citizens” is infused with a Christian and conservative ideology after a three-day training session in Broward County last week.

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“It was very skewed,” said Barbara Segal, a 12th-grade government teacher at Fort Lauderdale High School. “There was a very strong Christian fundamentalist way toward analyzing different quotes and different documents. That was concerning.”

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Those dynamics came into full view last week, when trainers told Broward teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation of state and church, downplayed the role the colonies and later the United States had in the history of slavery in America, and pushed a judicial theory, favored by legal conservatives like DeSantis, that requires people to interpret the Constitution as the framers intended it, not as a living, evolving document, according to three educators who attended the training.

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Another slide highlights three U.S. Supreme Court cases to show when the “Founders’ original intent began to change.” That included the 1962 landmark case that found school-sponsored prayer violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which Judd said trainers viewed as unjust. At one point, the trainers equated it to the 1892 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

“Ending school prayer was compared to upholding segregation,” Judd said. In other words, he said, trainers called both those rulings unjust.

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It also provides a snapshot of how national groups, including Hillsdale College, a politically influential private Christian college in southern Michigan, are working with the DeSantis administration to reshape education in the state. The goal is to put a greater emphasis on civics than on socially divisive issues such as race and gender identity, which DeSantis has said is an effort to reorient teaching away from “indoctrination and back towards education.” But to several educators who went through the state’s training, it felt like a broader effort to impose a conservative view on historical events.

“We are constantly under attack, and there is this false narrative that we’re indoctrinating children, but that is nothing compared to what the state just threw in new civic educators’ faces. That’s straight-up indoctrination,” said Segal, a 46-year-old teacher with 19 years of experience.

The Florida Department of Education is leading the workshops, which were developed with the help of Hillsdale College and other groups. The Bill of Rights Institute, founded by Charles Koch in 1999, is one of those groups. The state aims to train about 2,500 teachers in 10 sessions across the state. The three-day sessions are voluntary, but teachers get a $700 stipend and the possibility of a $3,000 bonus as an incentive to attend.

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Several presentation slides emphasized that it was a “misconception” that the “Founders desired strict separation of church and state and the Founders only wanted to protect Freedom of worship.” During breakout sessions, the state’s presenters repeatedly mentioned the influence Jesus Christ and the Bible had on the country’s foundation.

“There was this Christian nationalism philosophy that was just baked into everything that was there,” Judd said.

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Not one word about Deism on the influence of many of our Founders?
Claiming - without any supporting evidence - they all wanted legislation to end slavery despite most being slaveowners?
Letting HILLSDALE COLLEGE write the state curriculum focus for the state of Florida?

What a pantload of bullcrap. DePutin is trying to turn FL educators into indoctrinators.
Cancel culture.

DeSantis-backed school boards begin ousting Florida educators - Politico
New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis put his weight behind dozens of conservative school board candidates across Florida during the midterms. Now they’re in office — and are purging some educational leaders who enforced Covid-19 mandates.

New board members in two GOP-leaning counties essentially sacked their school superintendents over the span of one week. The ousters were spurred by how the superintendents carried out local policies like efforts to support the rights of parents, an issue inflamed by schools imposing student mask mandates last fall in defiance of DeSantis.
Both Sarasota and Brevard’s school boards put the superintendents on the chopping block the same day that new members endorsed by DeSantis and conservative organizations like Moms for Liberty were sworn into office.
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carmenjonze wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:55 am Cancel culture.

DeSantis-backed school boards begin ousting Florida educators - Politico
All of this because of electing dumbshit and making unpatriotic, stupid criminals into heroes and presidents and Senators and House etc.
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http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/espn/ste ... lture.html

Stephen A Smith about to get hit by the cancel culture

In fact it has already started

https://thegrio.com/2022/11/28/stephen- ... google.com
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:29 pm http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/espn/ste ... lture.html

Stephen A Smith about to get hit by the cancel culture

In fact it has already started

https://thegrio.com/2022/11/28/stephen- ... google.com
Smith doing the corporate thing, protecting Jones. Probably for better access to Jones and the Cowboys. Jerry won't forget having a black man defend him so he can say blacks support him.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:29 pm http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/espn/ste ... lture.html

Stephen A Smith about to get hit by the cancel culture
Conservative whites and your violent, vindictive, excommunication culture invented so-called cancel culture.

The only Black people you guys like for a hot second are people who defend white supremacist behavior and policies like Jerry Jones’s.

But at the end of the day, “good negroes” are just more Herschel Walkers. We all are, to you.

Nobody has so-called cancelled Smith. Criticism for what one says is not canceling or persecution, unless you have a flimsy ego.

Smith doesn’t need the temporary validation of segregationist conservative whites.
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Just another term the right can use to complain when they are held accountable for their hate, racism, misogyny etc.

One does or says something bad/harmful, society shuns you either temporarily or permanently, is only a problem if it is happening to righty. Or in the case of Cosby, a minority that will play along to get acceptance.
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A Florida mom was told she couldn't even make a presentation on Hanukah to her kid's 5th grade class.

Banning of Hanukkah Discussion in Florida School Sparks Outrage
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/banni ... r-AA14MkQu

Social media users responded with outrage following a report that a Florida school denied a mother permission to give a presentation about Hannukah to her son's fifth-grade class.

Pasco County Schools reversed that decision as of Wednesday evening and said they would allow Rachel Long to do her presentation about the Jewish Festival of Lights once she's met with teachers and relevant faculty.

Nonetheless, there has been anger about the initial refusal online and some Twitter users took aim specifically at Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

A Longleaf Elementary School teacher cited Florida's Parents' Bill of Rights when speaking to Long, which was signed into law by DeSantis on June 30, 2021.

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BTW, I bet there has been zero peep about the Christmas decorations that I'm sure are everywhere around the school.
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ProfX wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:10 am A Florida mom was told she couldn't even make a presentation on Hanukah to her kid's 5th grade class.

Banning of Hanukkah Discussion in Florida School Sparks Outrage
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/banni ... r-AA14MkQu

Social media users responded with outrage following a report that a Florida school denied a mother permission to give a presentation about Hannukah to her son's fifth-grade class.

Pasco County Schools reversed that decision as of Wednesday evening and said they would allow Rachel Long to do her presentation about the Jewish Festival of Lights once she's met with teachers and relevant faculty.

Nonetheless, there has been anger about the initial refusal online and some Twitter users took aim specifically at Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.

A Longleaf Elementary School teacher cited Florida's Parents' Bill of Rights when speaking to Long, which was signed into law by DeSantis on June 30, 2021.

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BTW, I bet there has been zero peep about the Christmas decorations that I'm sure are everywhere around the school.
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Glennfs wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 12:29 pm ... the cancel culture ...
This is literally "the cancel culture."

White-conservative cancel culture is violent, mass-murderous, revanchist, and lethal as ever.

You guys are even worse now than in the 50s-60s, and you're doing it week after week after week at library at gay bar at church.

When do you dirty militant Jan. 6thers start going Kristallnacht at the library, the gay bar, the church? Or simply just burning them down like you guys did throughout the 20th century. :problem:
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These are the people who showed up outside of a drag show in Columbus, Ohio and caused it to be canceled. This is terrorism. Where is the DoJ? This is a clear violation of civil rights by neo-nazi orgs.

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Gonna require hard bashing. HARD
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carmenjonze wrote: Sat Dec 03, 2022 9:04 pm This is literally "the cancel culture."

White-conservative cancel culture is violent, mass-murderous, revanchist, and lethal as ever.

You guys are even worse now than in the 50s-60s, and you're doing it week after week after week at library at gay bar at church.

When do you dirty militant Jan. 6thers start going Kristallnacht at the library, the gay bar, the church? Or simply just burning them down like you guys did throughout the 20th century. :problem:
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These are the people who showed up outside of a drag show in Columbus, Ohio and caused it to be canceled. This is terrorism. Where is the DoJ? This is a clear violation of civil rights by neo-nazi orgs.

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https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1599235284671295488
This is what republicans mean when they say they're "exercising their Second Amendment Rights." IOWs, the right to frighten, intimidate and terrorize others.
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Number6 wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 6:09 pm This is what republicans mean when they say they're "exercising their Second Amendment Rights." IOWs, the right to frighten, intimidate and terrorize others.
And murder.
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carmenjonze wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 6:16 pmAnd murder.
Yes.

I like the way Number6 described it
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I hate academic cancel culture of all kinds.

An Academic Is Fired Over a Medieval Painting of the Prophet Muhammad
The dismissal of an instructor at Hamline University on baseless charges of 'Islamophobia' raises concerns about freedom on campus
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/academ ... -muhammad/

On Nov. 18, Hamline University’s student newspaper, The Oracle, published an article notifying its community members of two recent incidents on its campus in Saint Paul, Minnesota, one indubitably homophobic and the other supposedly Islamophobic. Both occurrences were placed under the same rubric as “incidents of hate and discrimination.”

Islamophobia — which involves hate speech against Islam and Muslims and/or physical violence or discrimination against Muslims — has indeed proven a blight in the United States, especially after 9/11, the rise of the militant far right and the recent political empowerment of white supremacy.

The “Islamophobic incident” catalyzed plenty of administrative commentary and media coverage at the university. Among others, it formed the subject of a second Oracle article, which noted that a faculty member had included in their global survey of art history a session on Islamic art, which offered an optional visual analysis and discussion of a famous medieval Islamic painting of the Prophet Muhammad. A student complained about the image’s inclusion in the course and led efforts to press administrators for a response. After that, the university’s associate vice president of inclusive excellence (AVPIE) declared the classroom exercise “undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic.”

Neither before nor after these declarations was the faculty member given a public platform or forum to explain the classroom lecture and activity. To fill in the gap, on Dec. 6, an essay written by a Hamline professor of religion who teaches Islam explaining the incident along with the historical context and aesthetic value of Islamic images of Muhammad was published on The Oracle’s website. The essay was taken down two days later. One day after that, Hamline’s president and AVPIE sent a message to all employees stating that “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.” The essay’s censorship and the subsequent email by two top university administrators raise serious concerns about freedom of speech and academic freedom at the university.

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Respect for freedom of religion should not mean art history can't be taught. The image in question shows Muhammad, but his face is behind a veil, so theoretically it might not even be 'haram'.
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