Remember there is no Hamas in the West bank.Β However, while the Palestinians are forbidden to have any guns, the settlers are allowed to be fully armed.Β I recently posted how a settler shot and killed a Palestinian man who the settlers were taking his land, while IDF soldiers were standing there watching.Β The settlers routinely take the positions, entire homes, lands, crops, and smash the property they don’t steal from the Palestinians.Β Β All with IDF soldiers standing there watching.Β The Palestinians have the same status as slaves did in the 1840s US southern states.Β Β None!Β Β Plus as this video shows, the killing of Palestinian children in the West Bank is at an all-time high as well.Β Β Now do you understand what fuels Hamas and the anger the Palestinians feel towards Jewish people and Israel?Β Think how you would feel if you were treated like that where you live?Β Β Hugs.Β Scottie
This is a fucking hard short video to watch.Β Children found alive buried under ruble of bombed buildings.Β The rescuers are just normal people and they want to help so badly that they get into each other.Β Some try to yank the kids out, which hurts the kids, but others make them stop.Β There are a few that seem to know they have to move the stuff first to get the weight off the kids.Β These are the terrorist that Israeli is targeting with the bombs in crowded places, little kids and civilians.Β Israel has the most sneaky intelligence spies that tracked down German Nazis all over the world, why not use them to get Hamas members instead of killing over 20,000 civilian men, women, and so many innocent children.Β This is why Israel will never get rid of Hamas, the hate against them, will never win this war.Β Β They are just creating more people who hate them.Β Β I know from experience you can not have respect and love beaten into you.Β Israel won’t get the Palestinians to love them by abusing them, killing them, making their lives miserable, making them live in fear.Β Trust me that just breeds more hate and anger.Β Β Sad angry hugs.Β Scottie
This is the incredible moment Palestinians pull out children trapped underneath the rubble of a house in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike.
DeathSantis keeps claiming that no books are being banned in Florida, that it is a hoax spread by groomers and democrats.Β Which to him and his ilk are the same thing.Β But he also claims the don’t say gay laws don’t target the LGBTQIA, but the way the laws are written they do have the effect of wiping out any representation of the LGBTQIA or the symbols of those groups from schools.Β Even anti-bullying programs had to be stopped because the way the laws are being interpreted they can not tell cis kids not to target or bully LGBTQIA kids.Β The real object is to drive any kid who is not cis or straight into the closet, into hiding, and instead of teaching respect, tolerance, and acceptance it teaches hate and bigotry.Β Β Hugs.Β Β Scottie
A quote from the linked article.Β
βItβs creating this culture of fear within our media specialists and even teachers who just want to have a library in their classrooms, so kids have access,β said Castor Dentel, a former OCPS elementary school teacher.
Parents, she said, can restrict what their own children read, making it hard to justify pulling so many books from classrooms. βTheyβre in a pile of weβll-get-to-it-later and in the meantime, no one can read those books.β
The harm of so much censorship far outweighs the benefits of finding βa book or two that is offensive,β Castor Dentel added.Β βLook at all the chaos that has been created. Itβs not worth it.β
A total of 673 books, from classics to best-sellers, have been removed from Orange County classrooms this year for fear they violate new state rules that ban making βsexual conductβ available to public school students.
The list also includes popular novels by Stephen King, Sue Monk Kidd and Jodi Picoult, classics like βA Tree Grows in Brooklyn,β βJude the Obscure,β and βMadame Bovary,β and award-winning books like βA Thousand Acres,β βBeloved,β and βLove in the Time of Cholera.β
The rejected books include ones teachers say were once regularly taught in high school classes, such as βThe Color Purple,β βCatch-22,β and βBrave New World.
Orange schools reject 673 books from classroom libraries for fear they violate new Fl law. The rejected books include "Paradise Lost," "East of Eden," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Madame Bovary." Story and list (first obtained by @FLFreedomRead): https://t.co/xNWZldrgeS
To fact-check Ron DeSantisβ claim that book bans in Florida are a βfalse narrative,β we started with the Florida Dept. of Educationβs list of currently banned books https://t.co/rzGRjGtmRf
Yet as bad as these bans are, the thing that truly does piss me off the most about what Governor Puddingmitts and his fascist Rethugs are doing is they then LIE about it and insist they aren’t banning any books at all, not a one.
“It’s not censorship, if we do it. It’s restoring ‘parents’ rights’ to approve the curriculum.” That would be certain right-wing parents’ rights, and no one else’s.
Fudd looks kinda like Vivian Vance, like in that wonderful story from Tim Gunn’s childhood about meeting Miss Vance in J Edgar Hoover’s office, except that J Edgar wasn’t there too.
Paradise Lost, a 17th Century epic poem by John Milton which has been banned along with dozens of other absolutely classic works of literature, has NO sexual content, gay or otherwise.
It is being removed solely because radical fundamentalist Evangelicals object to its subject matter, namely the depiction of a former high angel who becomes jealous of Yahweh’s new favorite hominid toys and leads a revolt. As a consequence, Lucifer and his allies are cast down to Hell. That’s it. That’s the story.
But fundies hate it because Lucifer isn’t portrayed entirely as an unsympathetic character and because the story it tells doesn’t comport with their biblical dogma.
I’ve was suspicious that the buybull only tells one side of the story about Lucifer’s fall and his mission against humanity. Shouldn’t we hear from the other side too? I just love mythology.
The real message in Milton’s poem is a common but very true theme: “No one believes they are the villain in their own story.”
Essentially, what he was trying to do was to create a framework, a rationale to explain how and why a figure like Satan could come to be. In the end, the conclusion really was that the former angel Lucifer essentially got what he deserved.
But like I said, this whole story gets in the way of radical fundamentalist dogma, which when you think about it is at the core of all these book bans.
The boy in the article was bullied so bad he had to drop out of school.Β This policy not only harm trans kids and make them feel untrusting of their teachers, but it also encourages other students to attack the trans kids.Β How would you like your boss or co-worker to constantly misgender you, use the wrong pronouns towards you, or called you by the wrong name.Β Β And please tell me what about using the preferred name or pronoun that a person prefers is against the Christian bible?Β Where in the bible does it say a person can not change their name?Β Where in the bible does it say to call a person by a different pronoun is a sin?Β Β It is just using religion to justify hate, being mean, and being cruel.Β Β Just how it is loving to treat someone like crap, it sure doesn’t make them want to join your church.Β Plus as the boy in the article points out, cis kids do this stuff all the time and no one cares.Β Also the headmaster refused to let him change his names claiming it might confuse the younger student?Β Using the protect little kids to cause harm to another child.Β Plus kids are not confused by name changes and wearing different clothing.Β They really don’t care unless they are told to care / be upset by it.Β Plus in higher education the rule requires the request to use preferred pronouns or names must take into account how the other cis students will feel.Β Β WTF.Β If I was a kid in those schools I would misgender the teachers that misgendered me, I would not respond to the wrong pronouns or name.Β I would put my preferred name on all homework and tests.Β Β Hugs. ScottieΒ Β
βItβs inexcusable to say a child needs to have permission to experiment with their name or wardrobe. Cis kids do that all the time without their parents being informed. The politicians behind this guidance donβt know what it is to be trans, theyβve never listened to a trans voice so they donβt know what damage it will cause.β
Schools and colleges are also required to consider the impact of affirming trans students on cis students. It also says no student or teacher can be required to use a trans studentβs correct pronouns.
Newton Carey was bullied so badly that he dropped out of school. He says new guidance requiring teachers to out trans students would be disastrous.
A 15-year-old trans boy opened up about his own upsetting experience coming out at school in the wake of Englandβs new draft guidance that would allow teachers to misgender trans students and require them to out trans kids to their parents.
βTransphobic bullying is rampant and I think 100% this guidance only fuels that fire,β Newton Carey toldΒ The Guardian.Β βIf Iβd been able to exist in my school as a trans kid from the beginning, nobody would have complained because I wasnβt asking for anything special. The only reason other kids saw the difference was because it was pointed out to them.β
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Carey detailed informing his teacher of his trans identity at the age of 11 and said the first thing he did was report it to the headteacher. The headteacher then called Careyβs mom to make sure she knew he was trans and ask if it was okay with her. βI wasnβt included in the conversation at all,β he said.
The headteacher then refused to let Carey change his name on school documents, claiming it could upset younger students. At the same time, he quit playing sports because the other boys were making fun of him.
βWhen I started secondary school I was allowed to use the disabled toilet but the lock on the door didnβt work and it didnβt feel safe,β he continued. βI was badly bullied and my mental health plummeted so I stopped attending and was home schooled for a year.β
Carey ended his story by blasting the politicians responsible for the new guidance that will undoubtedly cause trans students across the country to endure similar struggles.
βItβs inexcusable to say a child needs to have permission to experiment with their name or wardrobe. Cis kids do that all the time without their parents being informed. The politicians behind this guidance donβt know what it is to be trans, theyβve never listened to a trans voice so they donβt know what damage it will cause.β
According to the newΒ guidanceΒ β which must still undergo a 12-week public consultation before it is finalized β schools do not have a βgeneral duty to allow a child to βsocial transitionββ and in the case of primary school-aged children (under 11), schools are banned from usingΒ pronounsΒ that do not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth.
School officials must inform parents if students request to change their pronouns or name or ask to wear school uniforms that do not align with the sex they were assigned at birth, except in βvery rare situations where informing parents might raise a significant risk of harm to the child.β
Schools and colleges are also required to consider the impact of affirming trans students on cis students. It also says no student or teacher can be required to use a trans studentβs correct pronouns.
Mermaids, an organization that advocates for transgender youth, called the guidance βunworkable, out of touch and absurd.β
This report is on the lies and atrocious propaganda of Israel and it’s supporters.Β Israeli authorities themselves have lowered the number of killed by Hamas to 1,000. The lies about all the babies killed was debunked as only one baby was killed by Hamas and the burned babies and others turned out to have been by Isra
