Things liberals may struggle to explain

**Legion** · 05-20-2019, 12:37 PM

**Legion** · 05-20-2019, 12:42 PM

Police are investigating messages sent to Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson at Anderton Park Primary School.

There have been seven weeks of protests outside the site from which "hundreds" of pupils were kept away on Monday.

Birmingham MP Jess Phillips has called for an exclusion zone at the school to limit where people can demonstrate.

Ms Hewitt-Clarkson has branded the protests aggressive.

The city council is looking into Ms Phillips' request, with the authority's leader saying some outside the school are "peddling hatred".

The complaints at Anderton Park, mainly from Muslim protesters, focus on lessons for which pupils have been given books featuring cross-dressing children and gay families.

The protests' leader says that amounts to "social engineering".

Shakeel Afsar is the leader of the protests, although he has no children at the school.

He said the school had pulled "the shutters down" on parental engagement and was promoting LGBT lifestyles to children.

He said 600 pupils were kept from school on Monday "to make it crystal clear we will not have our children indoctrinated or participating in any social engineering programs which undermine our family values by promoting child sexualization"

Afsar was involved in a stand-up disagreement with Ms Phillips, Labor MP for Birmingham Yardley.

She said protesters could not "pick and choose" which equality they could and could not have.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-48339080

**Legion** · 05-20-2019, 01:18 PM

LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER

A couple of teachers at Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina, decided to enlist the help of some local drag queens to celebrate the unique differences between the school's students.

Taylor Schmidt, an eighth-grade teacher at the school, and his colleague, Schara Brooks, pitched a school-wide event to help students understand "what it means to be different".

"Our drive was to remove barriers to success, belonging and the ability to thrive for all students," Schmidt said. "It called for a hard look at the roots of these behaviors and intentional actions to liberate not just the bullied from oppressive acts, but the bully from the oppressive root causes of their actions."

Thus, the Pride and Liberation Event was born, and with it the styling of social activists and drag queens of color "Vivica C. Coxx" and "Stormie Daie" of the "House of Coxx".

The "House of Coxx" has been an "advocate for social and racial issues" in the Durham area for years. They are often asked to events around the community advocating for "racial and social justice", but for "Vivica" and "Stormie", the idea of a middle school wanting to bring them in to be celebrated was a new one.

"Stormie" said she hoped the children would take the event to heart. "You hope that the children listen to this," she said, "so that they know we didn't have this when we were growing up. We weren't seeing people like us being celebrated."
The event lasted two hours and featured a panel with a city council member, a performance by the school's step team and a drag show.

"Vivica" said the school was intentional about the message. "Central Park didn't water it down, but they made it age-appropriate to give a depth to social justice and activism, which is the core of the queer experience."

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/17/us/drag-queens-recruited-to-help-with-pride-event-trnd/index.html