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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1449792
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1449792
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As one of the first Black musicians to play on national radio, Jackson is best known for the April 13, 1945, photograph of him that was published by Life magazine, one of the leading publications of its day.
In that image, Jackson, dressed in his U.S. Navy uniform, is seen playing the song “Going Home” on an accordion as the train carrying the body of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt leaves the station in Warm Springs, Georgia, for his burial in Hyde Park, New York.
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“darktown jazzologist.”
There’s so much wrong here and where would I start?
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If passed, the measure would ban any classroom discussions that “an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently privileged, racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or subconsciously.”
Possible Ideas
- Lecture. Don’t discuss.
- Skip individual accusations.
- Refer to “Some people” instead.
- Substitute apparently for inherently.
- Don’t accuse.
- Just say the racist/sexist individual is wrong.
- Require the class to sign an NDA.
- Say you don’t intend to cause discomfort.
- Discuss the meaning of equality.
- Give bonus grades for voting Democratic.
- Discuss racism in other countries.
- Discuss sexism in other countries.
- Put in writing your discomfort with prohibition.
- Resist. Break the law. Then sue the racists.
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As purification proceeds more and more of the people needed to succeed will be excluded.
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The notion that I should never experience discomfort and, if I do, it is someone else’s fault - is utter foolishness. My feelings, identifying them and learning from them, are my own responsibility. That I am incapable of taking responsibility for myself and need government to do it instead is but an insulting protection racket. Civil society cannot prevail in the absence of citizens exercising personal and corporate responsibility with respect to both emotion and behavior.
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That I am incapable of taking responsibility for myself and need government to do it instead is but insulting.
All this from the anti government GOP, RNC, MAGA and of course Christians who want to rule our thoughts, words and deeds.
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I know! Let’s make a list of all the things that make me uncomfortable about protecting white privilege and White Supremacist Ideology, stand your ground laws, open carry, really big pick-ups, TDFFG’s hair and everything about Rudy Giuliani and outlaw any discussion of them in the classroom.
I’d say I’ll start, but I think I already did.
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One Hell of a great start!
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I never knew so many pale people were wimps.
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If I weren’t so distrustful of this corrupt Sup Ct, I’d say this would be a slam dunk violation of the 1st Amendment.
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I’ve told my kids and a few others that this business of growing up
includes learning of both the good and the evil in this world we inhabit for a trice.
Super-sensitive adults are an embarrassment.
Quote:
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same
Excerpt: “Spring and Fall”
--Gerard Manley Hopkins
ETA: I’ve been a fan of Hopkins since college and was pleased to find the entire poem in a widely- used Jr High English textbook. I quoted an except here. Title is “Spring and Fall”.
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I really hope that there are entire battalions of lawyers getting ready to help Black parents, Indigenous parents, and parents of girls of any ethnicity, to sue any time anything makes them uncomfortable. Lionizing the American founders, without make reference to their oppression of their enslaved persons or of the women in their lives, should make all Black kids and all girls intensely uncomfortable, and should be facially illegal under this law. Lionizing American pioneers and frontiersmen without making reference to genocide and ethnic cleansing should make all Indigenous kids intensely uncomfortable, and should be facially illegal under this law.
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See “Jewish physics”.
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Have no fear, if it hasn’t happened already, some lawyer will create case law for “hurt feelings tort” or some similar legal drivel that will become compensable.
My daughter attended university in the 80s. I recall her telling me about a few students making some kind of out-loud “eewwww” sound whenever an instructor mentioned something unpleasant. This is a jr high school level of maturity.
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Would this apply to HS athletics as well?
A Coach saying “You suck” might hurt feelings. Or getting cut from a team might hurt feelings…
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I’ve posted on TPM before a reference to Robert Sapolski’s book entitled BEHAVE in which the author, a neuroscience prof at Stanford, asks, " How do we know to do the right thing?" He then traces in chapter after chapter the ways in which the many elements of the brain interact with each other AND WITH THE ENVIRONMENT to issue in behavior. His point: what one does habitually, what one practices will be what one does in any situation involving no time for serious critical thought. How we ordinarily live our lives, including all responses that don’t include thinking, matters. Blaming someone else for how I respond out of my own emotions is a sick game of Look What You Made Me Do.
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Sounds very worth reading. Add to that Moral Politics by George Lakoff. We humans barely understand consciously what moves our emotions and actions, though we think we do. The right wing did the expensive psych research and has mastered propaganda and manipulation. If we fail to study this as we’re doing now in general, we are truly doomed. I see hope within the young democrats who seem to understand this ‘messaging’ business. Critical thinking is being systematically destroyed by the current fascist ground swell.
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Republican-Approved Science
Albert Einstein was born in a little log cabin in Arkansas.
Nikola Tesla invented the wheel.
Alexander Graham Bell owns Ring Doorbells.
Robert Oppenheimer built the first atom.
Wernher von Braun gave us Oscar Meyer bologna.
Carl Sagan orbits Earth every 90 minutes.
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You can’t believe atoms. The make up everything.
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