Category: Abuse

Idaho Racists Menace Visiting NCAA Basketball Team

Idaho Racists Menace Visiting NCAA Basketball Team

The fundamentalist republicans and maga people keep telling us there is no need to DEI programs because racism, especially systemic racism is gone.  Racism in the US is only against white people says Stephen Miller and his ilk.  But then we have this stuff.  Hugs.  Scottie

March 27, 2024 Racism, Sports

 

NPR reports:

Police in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and the FBI are investigating after a team in the NCAA Women’s basketball tournament said they were racially harassed while staying in the city.

Members of the University of Utah women’s team told police someone in a truck displaying a confederate flag yelled racial slurs and revved the engine in a menacing way as players and staff walked to dinner last Thursday. They say that same truck and a second were waiting as the team returned from dinner and followed them back to their hotel.

Utah’s team, and the women’s team from the University of California, Irvine, were staying in the north Idaho town to participate in the basketball tournament in nearby Spokane, Wash.

CNN reports:

The Utah women’s basketball team had to switch hotels after experiencing what head coach Lynne Roberts called “racial hate crimes” ahead of its first NCAA tournament game. Roberts said the Utes switched hotels after just one night before their games in Spokane.

“For our players and staff to not feel safe in an NCAA tournament environment, it’s messed up, and so we moved hotels,” she explained. “The NCAA and ([host university) Gonzaga worked to get us in a new hotel and we appreciate that. That’s what happened. It was a distraction and upsetting and unfortunate.

Axios reports:

 


Officials in Idaho tried to apologize Tuesday for the racism the University of Utah’s women’s basketball team faced in Coeur d’Alene before an NCAA tournament game at Gonzaga.

They abruptly shut down the news conference when a far-right operative began shouting questions at a human rights advocate. Spokesman Review reporter Alex Duggan identified the agitator as Dave Reilly, a far-right activist and consultant with the powerful Idaho Freedom Foundation.

The harassment “was a distraction and upsetting and unfortunate,” Utah head coach Lynne Roberts said Monday in a news conference following the Utes’ loss to Gonzaga.

 

KoryMarbles 15 days ago

Idaho officials: hold my hood, I have to make a statement.
Also Idaho officials: we feel bad that our racism offended you. See, how welcoming we are?

ECarpenter  RealityBass15 days ago edited

The majority of Idahoans have always been racist, homophobic, misogynistic and xenophobic. Ask any LGBTQ+ escapee from Idaho – I’ve known several.

My dad was raised in Idaho long ago, and while he did get over some of his Idahoan attitudes, others stuck with him his whole life, and damaged him and the people around him.

San_Ban15 days ago

I’ve been the target of an incident similar to the one described: Bigfoot pickup plastered with the usual stickers and full of young white men. As I walked across a nearly empty parking lot, the truck circled me, revving, as the men shouted abuse. I can tell you it scared the crap out of me. Then there was the rolling coal pickup that tailgated me for miles on a rural road. Fun times in Florida!

ECarpenter  San_Ban15 days ago edited

I’m so glad you got through those events in one piece. American violence is so pervasive that most people there don’t notice it anymore. I live in Mexico now, where old people are treated pretty well, and the US seems casually violent in so many, many ways when I visit. I’m no longer used to American levels of violence and constant, continuous, low-level threat.

cheakamus  San_Ban15 days ago

It’s always a huge shock to me, returning to the United States after a few months in Europe. It starts with the omnipresent television screens in all the airports broadcasting CNN and the men with guns patrolling everywhere.

Mark 15 days ago

IMO, way too much white supremacy nonsense in Idaho and Montana for me. I won’t be planning any excursions up there.

sdbphilly  Mark15 days ago edited

I sat at a diner in Billings MT some years ago as an acquaintance explained to me how socialistic health care was destroying Canada. Telling her that since I was a resident of Vancouver B.C., a dual citizen, and a regular user of Canadian health care, that she was dead wrong, made no impression on her or her friends whatsoever. She knew better than me. After all, she was an American Moron, me, WTF did I know?

Octoberfurst  Mark15 days ago

Idaho in general and northern Idaho especially is a hotbed for racist morons. My chiropractor, who’s a middle of the road conservative, took his family on vacation to Idaho last year and when I asked him how it was he said Idaho was beautiful but a lot of people up there are “scary militia types.”

BensNewLogin 15 days ago

“I’m proud to sign this bill and ensure Idahoans are hired or accepted into college based on merit and hard work.”

It is so hard to be white, christian, and male. So hard

amandagirl15701  BensNewLogin14 days ago

Notice the racism? They’re saying that Black people can’t earn their position the way everyone else does. It’s always there under the surface.

Calmly Destroying Christian Apologists with Science for an Hour

Another great video destroying anti-trans propaganda, myths, and misinformation.  He talks slow, is methodical, and uses sources he displays and has in his description box to make his points.   Often he will go through the studies that the anti-trans people use to show they either did not say what is claimed, are way out of date, used the wrong methods, or simply were created to be used for anti-trans propaganda.  He shows not only the bad studies and debunks them, but the real modern medically reviewed and approved studies showing that very few detransition and those that do mostly do so because of negative treatment from society, peers, and family.  People who live all their childhood knowing and claiming they are a different gender are not suddenly going to stop saying it at 18 or 21.  If they are going to suffer all that mistreatment and hate growing up, they are what they are telling you.   Hugs.  Scottie

Frank Turek and Sean McDowell make ridiculous pseudoscientific claims about LGBTQ people. Here I debunk them with actual scientific research.

Go to https://ground.news/skeptic to verify your information.

Subscribe using my link for 30% off unlimited access or try it this month for less than $1. Claims I debunk: Abuse and trauma cause non-heterosexuality and gender non-conformity, not affirming queer people is the best way to help them, being gender nonconforming is a social media contagion, rapid onset gender dysphoria is real, gender dysphoria can and should only be treated with therapy or prayer, gender dysphoria is similar to and should be treated in the same way as anorexia, 80% of gender dysphoric youths grow out of it by age 18, medical intervention for gender dysphoria does not help mental health outcomes, and trans s rates skyrocket 10 years after transition.

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A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Deputy has been arrested for crimes against minors after being a menace for decades.

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Oklahoma: EPIC Theft of Public Dollars by For-Profit Online Charter School

Oklahoma: EPIC Theft of Public Dollars by For-Profit Online Charter School

Thank you to politicians are poody heads at https://poodyheads.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/oklahoma-epic-theft-of-public-dollars-by-for-profit-online-charter-school/ for the link.   

Charter schools have long been a scam, a way to get either Christian theocracy into the classroom or for right wing profiteers to get tax dollars.   Remember these schools take dollars from public schools while being exempt from all the same rules.  Including test score rules.    Like church schools, they get to pick and choice which students they take, leaving the most difficult and disadvantaged to the public schools that lost money to the choosy charter schools.  Now it is coming out that most charter schools have horrible results.  In fact, one I read about was a tennis charter school that just had the students play tennis and never did school work.   Yup, those students will get into advanced education easily.   Hugs.   Scottie

We Need to Talk About Nex Benedict Again

PA Drag Story Hour Canceled After Emailed Threats, Two City Blocks Evacuated Over “Suspicious Package”

PA Drag Story Hour Canceled After Emailed Threats, Two City Blocks Evacuated Over “Suspicious Package”

This is government by gang thuggery, or to call it what it is, terrorism.   And driven by religion.  This was again pushed as evil and child abuse by Libs of TikTok who as I recently have posted she is very proud of the violence she promotes.   She also is a rather stupid person who is overjoyed at the all the notoriety and attention she receives for stirring up hate and fear.   This is the attempt by the religious minority to take over the country, force the majority to live by their biblical doctrines / views, and rolling back all the civil rights gained by women, black people, and the LGBTQ+.  The US has never been and shouldn’t ever be a theocracy.  This country must not let bigotry and hate causing fear and targeting people for harm become a legitimate way to govern.  But again the haters win because the show was canceled denying the kids and parents who wanted it to lose out.  The haters are denying the freedom of others to enjoy themselves freely to enforce a religious view of morality on everyone.   We have to stop letting these events be canceled and the haters win.  If there was a bomb let the haters get blamed then found, charged, go to court, and …   Hugs.  Scottie

March 24, 2024 Christianists, Extremists

 

The Associated Press reports:

A scheduled “Drag Queen Story Hour” at a Pennsylvania library that had drawn opposition was canceled Saturday after a suspicious package was found in the building and two blocks were evacuated after threats were reported, authorities said.

Police evacuated the Lancaster Public Library after the package was found. A state police bomb squad later cleared the library, but police said “additional reported threats” were still being investigated. Residents of the block and another block nearby were told to evacuate, an order lifted several hours later.

A city spokesperson later said that a dog had alerted on the package and that the contents were later found to be “benign” but “subsequently, we received additional written threats via email.”

Lancaster Online reports:

 


Lissa Holland, the library’s executive director, said she felt “really sad, very disappointed and angry, that leaders of this county turned this into saving the children from the library and we are having to cancel this event because of safety threats.”

Though the library did not make the decision to cancel Saturday’s event, Holland said it was the right call during a brief interview under the overhang outside the Starbucks at 101 N. Queen St..

“Absolutely. It’s safety first, for everybody involved, For our storyteller, for the staff — and most important for the children that were going to be here and the families. I am saddened to the core” that the event had to be canceled, Holland said.

 

JoeMyGod Moda day ago

As usual, Libs of TikTok is behind this.

Dave B  JoeMyGoda day ago

Terrorist.

bambino  JoeMyGod21 hours ago

It’s time to dive into Libs of Tik Tok personal life. There’s got to be skeletons in her closet that need to be expose.

tempus  bambino20 hours ago

It’s past time to ruin the Raichik CUNT–
by any means necessary.

NPSTL  bambino19 hours ago

How about her finances and tax returns. There has to be fraud there. She can’t Xitt from prison.

Taino E.S.L.  JoeMyGod21 hours ago

This is what those terrorists are demonizing. I don’t why we didn’t start protesting at churches every time a pedo was found, lost opportunity to show where the real threat to children was coming from.

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Nic Peterson  Taino E.S.L.19 hours ago

Even truly religious people won’t protest churches, even their own when the ugly truth is revealed.

Elagabalus  JoeMyGoda day ago

Dumb question: why did they called themselves Libs of TikTok when they’re anything but liberal?

Makoto  Elagabalusa day ago

I figure it’s a play on “People of Walmart” and other similar things – the pictures and profiles being posted are of the people the profile is against, not something they identify with.

Wintercat  Elagabalus a day ago edited

What do you want her to call herself, Cunts for Christ?

They exist to Other.

Nic Peterson  Wintercat19 hours ago

It would be a bit of truth in advertising, you have to admit.

You Again?  Elagabalus21 hours ago

They thinks it’s a witty putdown.

Like “Let’s Go Brandon!”.

Dramphooey  Elagabalus21 hours ago

Makato is right. Her account started as something else and her career basically shifted because of the attention that was focused on her. There are several of these accounts on Twitter and what they do is collect other peoples posts from any social media–Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, et cetera–and post it in their timeline. They have names like Whatever Posting Ls or something similar. LisbonTikTok (I like that typo and I’m keeping it) started posting stuff from TikTok.

Do you hate some group but don’t want to be bothered searching the Internet for things to hate and laugh at? Do you want reinforcement of your own biases? They’ve got you covered.

Wintercat  Elagabalusa day ago

Same reason every fascist ironfisted christofascist law GQPs pass is a “freedom act”.

Sam_Handwich a day ago

That’s called terrorism

JackFknTwist – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ a day ago

Trump lifted the rock and the scum have all crawled out.

Wintercata day ago edited

More Raichik shit. Library in Reading, Massachusetts just got a bomb threat, too.

She needs to be ended. Once upon a time, we had a CIA, didn’t we?

clay  Wintercat21 hours ago

CIA FBI. The CIA is forbidden from running operations within the US, except for LSD experiments and selling crack and guns in red-lined neighborhoods.

Wintercat  clay21 hours ago

That, then. How is this not a domestic terror threat? She got our leading childrens’ hospital shut down with her terrorism. Kids missed pedi chemo treatments.

Octoberfurst  Wintercat 20 hours ago

She would claim this is a free speech thing and point out that she never actually tells people to do the terrible things they do. It’s a cop out of course because she gets her viewers enraged over BS. It would be like me saying, “Mr X is a terrible danger to society and someone should do something about him” and then when said person gets attacked and blames me I can say “I didn’t tell anyone to attack you!”

Ann Kah21 hours ago

Enough, enough, enough! This is no way to maintain a society, permitting the sickest among us to call the shots by threats of violence. There must be stronger penalties for those bullies, those who terrify others with their threats, those who shut down the normal activities of society, those who cost thousands-to-millions of dollars for law enforcement and lost business. We must not allow them to make us all live in fear.

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Hate Crimes Against Queer and Trans Students Quadrupled in States With Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

https://www.them.us/story/hate-crimes-against-queer-and-trans-students-quadrupled-in-states-with-anti-lgbtq-laws

It is what the laws were meant to do, stop the teaching of tolerance and acceptance and vilify LGBTQ+ kids with the goal of trying to return to when LGBTQ+ kids were scared to be found out so were invisible.  These laws have to go, it is a horrible attempt to install a fundamentalist religious view on everyone else and their children.  Hugs.  Scottie

The data comes amid an ongoing explosion in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

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According to a new report, anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in K-12 schools have quadrupled in U.S. states that have laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ students.

A Washington Post analysis of FBI data on anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes taking place in K-12 schools and on college campuses, published on March 12 found that anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes “serious enough to be reported to local police” more than doubled across the country in recent years. The Post found that while an average of 108 anti-LGBTQ+ school hate crimes were reported between 2015 and 2019, that average rose to 232 between 2021 and 2022. According to FBI data, the most common hate crimes reported at schools were intimidation, simple assault (assault where no weapon was used), and vandalism.

However, this rise in school hate crimes was more pronounced in the 28 states that have enacted policies restricting LGBTQ+ students’ self-expression and/or limiting how teachers can talk about gender and sexuality in school. In these states, reported anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes on K-12 and college campuses more than tripled from an average of 28 per year between 2015 and 2019 to an average of 90 between 2021 and 2022.

 

As the Post points out, this increase is even more staggering when you remove college campuses and look at the anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in K-12 schools only. In states that have enacted restrictive laws, there were more than four times the number of anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes across elementary, middle, and high schools, per year, from 2021 to 2022, compared with the years 2015 to 2019.

Although it’s only March, the American Civil Liberties Union is currently tracking a whopping 478 anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the U.S. this year, with 190 of those bills targeting student and educator rights.

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Florida Man Charged With Murder and Hate Crime for Shooting Gay Man at Dog Park
Gerald Declan Radford, 65, initially claimed he shot Lay in self-defense. Prosecutors believe that Declan was the aggressor and was motivated by Lay’s sexual orientation.

Meanwhile, nonprofits that work with LGBTQ+ youth have reported an increase in crisis calls. According to the Post, The Trevor Project received over 500,000 crisis contacts during the fiscal year ending in July 2023 compared to the 230,000 the group received the previous year, while the Rainbow Youth Project received over 1,400 calls to its mental health crisis hotline per month in 2023 compared to 1,000 per month in 2022. According to the Rainbow Youth Project, calls from Oklahoma to the group’s hotline more than tripled after details about Nex Benedict, the trans Oklahoma teen of Choctaw ancestry who died the day after three older girls reportedly beat them in a school bathroom, became national news.

“Young people will say, ‘My government hates me,’ ‘My school hates me,’ ‘They don’t want me to exist,’” the Rainbow Youth Project’s founder and executive director, Lance Preston, told the Post. “That … is absolutely unacceptable. That is shocking.”

Is TikTok a threat to US national security?

This is about profit and which company gets it.  The data of every one of us is all over the internet.  I run several programs that block the invasive cookies and website to website movement I make across the internet.  Why?  No I am not doing anything wrong, I just feel if the businesses that build these huge databases about all of us should pay me for that information as they sell it to other companies at a huge profit to gain access to me for their adverts.  If you doubt that check your emails or ads on sites you visit and think how closely they compare to your web history.    It is incredible how much companies know about us … by my dogs that love gravy I recently went to a website and my ad blocker did not catch the advert for therapist for people abused as children, on a website totally not about that.  They could only have gotten my information on me being an abused child by combing my blog with WordPress’s permission, or from violating the policies of the survivor site I have shared my abuse on.  Either way it is not their right to have this information on me or use it to push me to a paid sponsor.  Face it people today we, each are the product, keeping us on each web page, the more clicks to the next story the better, that drives their advertisement dollars and the clicks add to what they can tell their bosses to keep them or to generate new shareholders to join.  The likes drive their income.  It is a sad place we are in.  I use two different anti tracker programs and one really good ad blocker program because I am not a number / cog for their sales divisions.   But still they somehow sometimes get through.  Hugs Scottie 

Many members of Congress who voted for the recent bill say tiktok is a threat and claim to have intel “we can’t see” but is it a danger? Research groups and congressman Jim Himes (the top Democrat on the intelligence committee) say it isn’t,

ALT RIGHT A.I.?

I am so tired right now having not slept last night, but I wanted to post this as I felt it was important.  This is a direct diversion of every search to the Republican agenda presenting in the best most convincing light.  Pushing project 2025.   So much for a neutral only the facts’ news AI media.  Seriously a bot designed to push pro-fundamentalist republican anti-choice regressive view points?  Is it deliberate? We people that love our democracy and progressive country better get engaged and vote, or we lose it all.  The wealthy owner class wants us to return to the guided age, when only businesses had a say, government had no power, and workers were slaves to be worked to death for profit.    Hugs.  Scottie

Microsoft’s A.I. bot copilot has been produced some strange results lately that make it seem like it may have been trained by alt right bros.