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crandc said:
A group of about half dozen Republican Senators led by Marsha Blackburn and Tom Cotton have formed a Campus Free Speech caucus. Its aim is to ban teaching about racism in college and to demand professors who do so be fired.

Where is George Orwell when we need him?
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Just like the Nazis.
 
Virginia Republican candidate for governor Youngkin has gone full antiSemite. A group supporting him released an ad claiming Jewish money is funding radicals educators (they mean school boards) who are forcing children to learn critical race theory, which is not taught in schools. Also subjecting them to sexual assault, their term for transgender students existing.

Republican strategy for winning back suburban white women, who are pro choice, want equal pay and childcare. Jews and men in skirts and scary brown people are coming for your children!!!
 
Wisconsin state legislature banned use of the word patriarchy in public schools.
It's full on substitute fairy tales for history.
 
Youngkin now running ads showing upset white woman whose son had nightmares after being assigned Toni Morrison's award winning novel Beloved. He promised if he is elected governor white students won't have to read anything that makes them uncomfortable.
The son was an 18 year old senior in advanced placement English and the school required parental consent before students are assigned sexually explicit material.
Beloved can give a person nightmares because slavery was a nightmare. It was not a benign institution of loving masters and faithful slaves.
When I was little I read fairy tales where they lived happily ever after. I also read children's books about polio and migrant workers and the brave children who integrated schools. When I was 12 I read The Children of Vietnam, with explicit photos and descriptions of napalm. At 13 I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, with explicit photos and descriptions of concentration camps and torture. And they gave me fucking nightmares because those things were nightmares.
Millions of Black people lived with slavery for centuries but an 18 year old white boy can't be expected to spend a few hours reading about it because it's too uncomfortable.
 
The campaign ad neglects to mention the traumatic book reading was ten years ago, the mother is a longtime right wing Christian activist, the son graduated from college and law school and is now an attorney for National Republican Campaign Committee.
 
Tyrant of Ants said:
Had a childhood friend that suffered and eventually died from it. I posted a link to a Youtube video of a friend who's also suffering from its effects. Dude's blind but plays the acoustic guitar beautifully.
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I'm sorry, suffered and died from what?
 
crandc said:
Youngkin now running ads showing upset white woman whose son had nightmares after being assigned Toni Morrison's award winning novel Beloved. He promised if he is elected governor white students won't have to read anything that makes them uncomfortable.
The son was an 18 year old senior in advanced placement English and the school required parental consent before students are assigned sexually explicit material.
Beloved can give a person nightmares because slavery was a nightmare. It was not a benign institution of loving masters and faithful slaves.
When I was little I read fairy tales where they lived happily ever after. I also read children's books about polio and migrant workers and the brave children who integrated schools. When I was 12 I read The Children of Vietnam, with explicit photos and descriptions of napalm. At 13 I read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, with explicit photos and descriptions of concentration camps and torture. And they gave me fucking nightmares because those things were nightmares.
Millions of Black people lived with slavery for centuries but an 18 year old white boy can't be expected to spend a few hours reading about it because it's too uncomfortable.
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How can people be so mean that they can't see this? Huh? How?
 
crandc said:
The campaign ad neglects to mention the traumatic book reading was ten years ago, the mother is a longtime right wing Christian activist, the son graduated from college and law school and is now an attorney for National Republican Campaign Committee.
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Stupid assed people.
 
Oklahoma has removed Raisin in the Sun and To Kill A Mockingbird from school libraries. Under their don't make white people uncomfortable law, these classics are now prohibited.

Glen Youngkin's son attends a $40,000 a year private school where curriculum includes books by Toni Morrison. Thoughts and prayers to poor traumatized rich white boy having to read about unpleasant things.
 
crandc said:
Oklahoma has removed Raisin in the Sun and To Kill A Mockingbird from school libraries. Under their don't make white people uncomfortable law, these classics are now prohibited.

Glen Youngkin's son attends a $40,000 a year private school where curriculum includes books by Toni Morrison. Thoughts and prayers to poor traumatized rich white boy having to read about unpleasant things.
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To Kill A Mockingbird? The movie that hit me like a ton of bricks when i was still in high school? The movie I still regard as one of the great movies of all time? A literary classic and Pulitzer prize winner? Tell me you're kidding. They''re taking Pulitzer prize winners off the shelves? Could anything get more stupid? OMG, or as they would say in the deep South which the story is about, Jesus H. Christ! This was also a favorite expression of my father who was raised in rural Alabama. Oh, and he loved the movie. Don't know if he read the book but I'll bet he did. By the way, I'm certain he could relate to the story and he told me stories he witnessed that were similar.
 
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Beloved also won Pulitzer. But if it makes white people uncomfortable....
 
A Texas state legislators released a list of 850 books that might make white people uncomfortable and asked school districts to tell which ones are in their schools and how many copies. Presumably so he will know how big a bonfire to build. They include classes, Pulitzer prize winners, books on issues of race, Nazi Holocaust, LGBTQ issues, factual information on sex, even a book about Navy Seals.
 
crandc said:
I think art should sometimes make people uncomfortable.
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I thought that was the whole purpose, to stretch people's minds.
I know almost nothing about art but here's a print I bought from the student book store when I was 1 7 because it appealed to me for some unknown reason that remains unknown -
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Even someone who knows nothing of art knows about numerous paintings of crucified Christ. They are supposed to convey his agony on the cross. Uncomfortable to say the least.
And yes, learning is uncomfortable.
 
Lanny said:
I thought that was the whole purpose, to stretch people's minds.
I know almost nothing about art but here's a print I bought from the student book store when I was 1 7 because it appealed to me for some unknown reason that remains unknown -
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
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Yep, it's a real mystery what it was that appealed to you, Lanny.
 
Trumpkin, I mean Youngkin, Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, said his first day in office he will ban teaching anything that makes white people uncomfortable. And misquoted Martin Luther King in support of his position. Apparently Dr. King never talked about racism.
 
crandc said:
Trumpkin, I mean Youngkin, Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, said his first day in office he will ban teaching anything that makes white people uncomfortable.
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Yeah I bet that’s exactly what he said.
 
crandc said:
Trumpkin, I mean Youngkin, Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, said his first day in office he will ban teaching anything that makes white people uncomfortable. And misquoted Martin Luther King in support of his position. Apparently Dr. King never talked about racism.
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Well he won, so
 
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