AProudLefty (01-18-2022), ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
Agreed but now the phrase is "the tenets" meaning if you ever say anything about slavery, you'll be fired as an anti-American and a race traitor. Or so I've heard.
IMO the Democrats over-politicized global warming but the Republicans have politicized both a pandemic and our nation's schools. They bitched about "too much liberal crap in schools", but it's they who are imposing controls on what can be learned. They bitched about "activist judges" then stacked SCOTUS with activist judges.
I'm greatly disappointed in both parties and feel it's important that everyone get behind a third effort to change things back to common sense.
Last edited by Doc Dutch; 01-18-2022 at 02:25 PM. Reason: A change in the space-time continuum
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
AProudLefty (01-18-2022), ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
Guno צְבִי (01-18-2022), NiftyNiblick (01-18-2022), ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.new...630953%3famp=1
Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks Books Among Those Banned in Penn. School District
BY TORIA BARNHART ON 9/20/21 AT 4:03 PM EDT
ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
You fucking racists want to erase anything about black people in our history
Fuck you racists
AProudLefty (01-18-2022)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
Agreed the leaders know it. It's the fucking nutjobs and dumbasses who voted for them that are convinced masks don't work and Jesus only takes sinners with the COVID.
Better education is the solution, but We, the People are obviously 30-40 years too late for our nations poorly educated.
Ostensibly, the RW reason to to prevent poor little white kids with being saddled with 500 years of Euro domination of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Obviously an agreeable idea since only fucking morons would want to saddle any kid with the sins of their fathers.
Just like the RW leaders know and their followers don't, the LW has a similar problem; their leaders know the truth but their dumbass followers don't have any more of a clue than their RW counterparts. The result is the harassment of kids over racist issues, Cancel Culture (which even the Left is trying to pull back) and other very racially divisive issues in a tit-for-tat exchange.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...tests-rcna8926
Kaiulani Moses, Brooklyn’s mother, said it was disheartening to see the Johnston County school board focused on a different issue this fall: ensuring that critical race theory, an academic concept that examines how racism is perpetuated through policies and institutions, is not taught in schools. She believes that sent the wrong message to students who bullied their classmates and the teachers and administrators tasked with ensuring safety.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
All the panic and bullshit about CRT goes back directly, IMO, to the changing demographics in this country. A certain segment of our society is terrified that whites will one day soon be the minority in the United States. If we teach kids now about systemic injustice, racism, etc. it means that white kids of the future will be treated badly by angry POC bent on vengeance -- or so their bizarre logic goes.
Seems to me that the opposite is true. Teach kids that all people are worthy of respect, that sometimes we failed as a nation, but we intend to make changes. The kids will learn to treat each other with respect, hopefully, and see each other as equals.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Doc Dutch (01-18-2022)
It's interesting how you constantly ask other ppl questions that you insist must be answered, yet you yourself refuse to answer any yourself. So tell us, is it true that you went around and queried all your black neighbors if they felt "oppressed"? You stated a while back that "None of my black neighbors feel oppressed." How did you know this?
This is the part where you post a nonsensical post screaming about "TDS" and how "this thread is mine."
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Yes, 2050 IIRC. Why do they fear it?
Agreed about teaching kids that all people are worthy of respect. The military desegrated before I was born and I grew up in desegregated schools and family housing. If the military could do it for over 60 years, WTF is the problem with American society in general?
The big divide seems to be between the Republicans who have gone White Supremacist and the Democrats who are bending so far over backwards on racism that they are racially dividing out nation through institutionalized racism by legislation.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
Doc Dutch (01-18-2022), ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
AProudLefty (01-18-2022), ThatOwlWoman (01-18-2022)
I don't need to attend a board meeting. I'm retired from the "front line".... but the ID is forever...
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