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âThe fog comes on little cat feetâ
Just more evidence that a Republicanât accusation (âCancel Culture!â) is often actually a CONFESSION!! Projection, Projection, Projection!
I could barely get past this:
In Texas, the lieutenant governor and conservative donors worked with the state universityâs flagship Austin campus to start an institute âdedicated to the study and teaching of individual liberty, limited government, private enterprise and free markets,â according to The Texas Tribune.
And now with Roe overturned women in every state may not have individual liberty, because govât wants to control her uterus, even if she goes to Planned Parenthood a non-governmental agency, to remove a few cells.
Rep. Mary Miller said it correctly overturning Roe solidified âwhite lifeâ. Maybe theyâll ask her to Boise State as a speaker?
This is maddening. The lies and bad faith. Especially the claim by the winger legislator that he had âseenâ a video that doesnât exist, that purportedly portrayed a cancel culture incident that was directly at odds with the actual facts. He should personally be forced to reimburse the 1300 students for the classes they were deprived of when the course was suspended during the pendency of the investigation. And he should have to swear, on penalty of perjury, that all funds used to reimburse the students were his personal funds, and he was not subsidized by any other individual or entity.
All the oppressed white people in Idaho⌠What sort of mental gymnastics competition is this anyways?
Free speech doesnât mean what the GOP thinks it does, and free inquiry doesnât mean a thing to them. They wear their ignorance as a badge of honor when it is in fact a desperate attempt to flee a reality in which they have no right to the privileges of easy dominance that they crave.
Most of the stuff that got canceled was pretty useless and inflammatory to begin with. âScholar activistsâ are too often the worst people, the left counterpart of MAGA. A little pushback on their nuttery doesnât bother me too much. Itâs frickinâ Idaho, after all. Read the room, people.
Paranoiac delusion or outright lying comes to the same thing with conservatives generally it seems: The point is to justify preservation of a system that favors them and not âothersâ or, as Frank Wilhoit phrases it, a core proposition exists that âthere must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.â
The wrinkle in the United States of course is ongoing racism, so deeply seated and institutionalized that it defends the perps (almost) completely. The GOP currently is now the primary defender and promoter of that national stain and, as Paul Krugman wrote recently, most closely compares to the rise of the KKK in the 1920s, which was a new movement, not the post-Civil War terrorist org. It was all there: nativism, anti-intellectualism, hatred of âelitesâ âŚThe seamless melding of conspiracy theorizing and financial grift âŚ
The problem here is Liberals and Rational people are allowing the Right to run them down without a fight. Same behavior that allowed Hitler, Mussolini, etc. Fight Back!
A very long articleâthank you, though I confess I skimmed some of itâwhich reveals, essentially, that white supremacists and newly energized Know-Nothings can not be placated by teachers and college administrators into accepting a middle position. This group of people insist on seeing âdiversityâ as a threat, and some of them lie about what they see. Will we reclaim the culture from these avatars of ignorance? Hard to say.
Please tell us specifically what you think was justifiably cancelled and why it was âuseless and inflammatory.â
Too much to recapitulate, but the âland acknowledgmentâ, obvs. What a fatuous, pointless, ahistorical, self-serving exercise that is.
And Pennsylvania Republicans make Pitt bow to their anti-abortion rules.
A reminder
If America does have a clearance sale on history, itâll be on account of events like the above categorized as âwhy are we talking about this? Itâs Idahoâ.
Tell me about it. Itâs right up there with that âOberlin student complaining about the food in the cafeteria being cultural appropriation and also sucking âŚâ!!!
In other news, the SCOTUS Shadow Docket reinstated Louisianaâs gerrymandered congressional map last night in Robinson v Ardoin.
So you think acknowledging the US governmentâs policy of ethnic cleansing is useless and inflammatory?
Did you say âŚ
If thereâs one thing thatâs a clearer violation of FREEDOM than having to follow grazing laws, itâs not being able to starve your baby to death.
The Bundys are going to keep going till they kill someone.
Itâs was standard procedure. Find a small group of Native Americans and pretend they speak for everyone. But itâs not just Americans. The Dutch were the real masters, buying Manhattan from an entirely different group from the ones who lived there.