Board For NC Universities Repeals Diversity Policies

Racism like bigotry is surging in the south right now.  All in backlash to a black man being elected president.  The racist went crazy.  All backed by big money wealthy racists.  The university president said that public universities should stay neutral on social controversies that is why they are doing it.  Wrong.  Racism is not or at least shouldn’t be a controversy, a difference of view points.   It is wrong.   I say again for those needing clarification.  Racism is wrong.  Period.  It needs to die off like slavery and the old Jim Crow laws, that sadly are making a comeback.  Diversity, equality, and inclusion programs are very much needed, as are LGBTQ+ centers at schools along with gay straight student groups.  These all help bring in more of the people who historically have been disadvantaged.   Understand what they do.  It is not quotas.  It is making available places, education, jobs that were traditionally once denied to those groups.  The fact that sometimes it means white straight cis people don’t get everything they want to or get that position that they think they are owed then too bad, you have lots more opportunities.  It is crazy entitlement.  The idea that every straight cis white person automatically is better and deserves opportunities before someone not white straight cis is just horrible.  Yet that is what is sweeping red states.  Republicans pushing the idea that somehow opening a door for those that had then closed, somehow hurts the white straight cis people.  The republicans like fundamentalist Christians love to play the victim, they love to be aggrieved.  The republicans look at everything as a limited pie where something for one person means less for them.  That is not the way it is, equality and inclusion benefits everyone.  Hugs.   Scottie


 

The Associated Press reports:

North Carolina’s public university system board voted Thursday to repeal a nearly five-year-old diversity, equity and inclusion policy, meaning its 17 schools will likely join other major universities in cutting diversity programs and jobs.

The 24-member University of North Carolina Board of Governors approved its agenda, which included the diversity policy repeal, with two members voting against the repeal. Campus changes are expected to take place at the start of the next school year.

UNC System President Peter Hans [photo] said in his meeting remarks that students and faculty should be allowed to confront “competing ideas” but the role of public universities is to remain neutral on “political controversies.”

Read the full article.

 

See. It’s started. Diversity? Too Political. Anything LGBT? Too Political. Racism? Too Political. Abortion? Too Political. And on and on.

Anything the Republicans don’t like will now be called political, just as the Supreme Court has decreed.

Board For NC Universities Repeals Diversity Take First Step In Approving White Hetero-Christian Nationalist Policies

FIFY

Thumbnail

Just wonderin’ what the racial makeup of that there board might look like..

 

Bullshit excuse using “competing ideas” to not treat students equally or address dangers they face.

But CRT is banned as well? Seems like this might be a bullshit front for something else?

Because fundamental human rights like the right to exist in public are “political controversies.”

Fuck those bigots.

So in other words, minority groups have to hear why it’s okay to treat them like shit with no pushback or safe spaces for them.
Fuck that.

Univ. of N.C. is going to “join other major universities … ” No, they’re going to forego the company of other major universities.

Bad people win…

…when good people COMPLY.

DO NOT COMPLY.

Appropriate then, appropriate now.

Thumbnail

Silence = Approval
Silence = Complicity
Silence = Conformity
Silence = Surrender
Silence = Death

And getting rid of diversity isn’t politically neutral either. To be completely neutral, they would have to present both sides or nothing at all politically. They took a side.

I didn’t realize racial equality was “politically controversial”. I thought it was in the Constitution…

Not if you’re a “constitutional originalist”…

I bet if them Black athletes hit them transfer portals things would change back!

“institutional neutrality” = what every asshole from Jim Crow mongers to Chinese footbinders have always tried to sell their bullshit as

One of his ancestors no doubt thought educating women was not merely wasteful but immoral as well.

It’s very simple. The white Christians of NC feel threatened of losing their majority superiority so they want to send bat signals to people of color to leave or stay away.

Ongoing backlash over the removal of their unambiguously white supremacist Civil War statue.

And replaced by a statue of Billy Graham? That’s no improvement!

A reminder: If the religious right’s puppet, Donald Trump, gets back into the White House, this sort of thing — this thing in North Carolina — will soon become national policy.

Today’s Republicanism draws upon very basic human instincts. Instincts civilized and compassionate people seek to overcome.

Greed. Bias. The thirst for power at any cost.

Trump is a master of manipulation.

Of manipulating those instincts to his advantage.

“… … students and faculty should be allowed to confront “competing ideas” but the role of public universities is to remain neutral on “political controversies.”

“Competing Ideas” = racism, homophobia, trans phobia, xenophobia, et al.

“Remain Neutral … …” = BULLFUCKINGSHIT! This decision is not being neutral. It’s being racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, et al and political.

 

 

 

Some old Joe My God posts, and I do mean old, that I need to clear from my tabs

What these states are fighting for is the right to discriminate and target kids for abuse, which in their minds somehow pushes the fundamentalist Christian superior morals.  They really believe that these laws denying kids the right to live as their authentic self without being harassed and targeted makes their god happy.  I got news for them, I doubt it makes their god happy but I know it makes them happy.  Their god seems to hate those they hate and love the things they like.  Weird how that works.   These same states removed child labor protections and school food assistance programs.   Makes kids more willing to sacrifice school for work if they are hungry and harassed.  Hugs.  Scottie

Louisiana Vows to Defy New Pro-LGBTQ Title IX Rules

Aunt Lydia Orders State To Defy New LGBTQ Protections

Four More Red State AGs Join Moms For Threeways In Suing Biden Admin Over LGBTQ Student Protections

DeSantis: No Pride Month Rainbow Lights On Bridges

And for some good news on the LGBTQ+ front.   

Appeals Court Rules Maryland Parents Can’t Opt-Out Of Classroom Lessons That Involve LGBTQ-Themed Books

Read the full article. The parents were represented by the anti-LGBTQ Beckett Fund For Religious Liberty, which represented Hobby Lobby in its successful bid to deny birth control to employees. As you can see below, supporting the parents is homocon Andy Ngo.

 

This is what happens when you have hate preachers and right wing media constantly pushing a narrative of anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda and claiming that gay and trans people want to make everyone gay and trans.  Plus the US needs better mental health treatments and the US really need to screen police officers much better.  Hugs.  Scottie

Ex-GA Cop Claims Voices Told To Him To Kill Lyft Driver Because He Was Being Kidnapped Into “Gay Fraternity”

 

MO Sec Of State Candidate Says “Don’t Be Weak And Gay” As She Jogs In St. Louis’s LGBTQ Neighborhood

Read the full article. Of note, Lupe Fiasco recently called out fellow rappers for their homophobic lyrics. As you’ll see below, Gomez brandishes assault weapons in most of her videos. Her “weak and gay” video has over two million views as of today.

I found a strong gay man for you Ms. Gomez.
Seek him out for some strong advice. I dare ya.

Thumbnail

Corporal Andrew Charles Wilfhart is the first openly gay US soldier to die in combat since the repeal (DADT) policy in 2011. Wilfhart died in Operation Enduring Freedom. Major Alan Rogers, died in 2008 while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom as an Army intelligence officer.

Thumbnail
 
 
 
 
 
These asshole red state republicans refuse to honor Black History Month and Pride Month but they can celebrate traitors who attacked the US government so they could continue to discriminate against, abuse, and keep black humans as slaves.  Yet they call themselves Christians.  Hugs.  Scottie

Mississippi Gov Declares Confederate Heritage Month

This one is recent but it goes along with honoring the confederacy. Hugs.  Scottie

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Pardons “White Power” Killer

Remember when tRump cried that the Judge wouldn’t let him attend Barron’s graduation?  Hugs.  Scottie

Trump To Attend Fundraiser On Day Of Son’s Graduation

Some republican red states like Florida have passed laws making Christian Preachers / Priests / Pastors legally able to be school councilors.  Yes troubled kids asking for help will have to accept being preached to, told to pray more, and give their body’s to … god.   Yet some of these preachers don’t accept medical science, don’t believe gay LGBTQ+ kids have rights or are born the way they are, they will try to guilt trip them into changing into cis straight kids who go to that church.  Hugs.  Scottie

Megachurch Pastor: No Such Thing As Mental Illness

The fundamentalist got some more control over a woman’s body with the ending of Roe, now they are going for the entire control over the woman’s rights, their bodies, and their sex organs.  Hugs.  Scottie

Dr. Stabby Calls For Overturning No-Fault Divorce Laws

Dr. Stabby: Communists Have Taken Over Teachers Unions And Are Indoctrinating Students “Under Cover”

This is their way of forcing their god on the public, in a public school, regardless of the parents religion or lack of.  But no other religion gets to do this, just the Christians.  Hugs.  Scottie

Louisiana To Mandate Ten Commandments Classroom Posters In All Schools, Colleges That Get Public Money

And more of the ultra religious Christian set trying to install their religious leaders / icons in the secular public government

Mike Johnson Unveils Billy Graham Statue In US Capitol

And this is why they feel the need to do this.  They are losing more than the culture war and control of society.  They are losing money and possible influence because less and less people believe in their deity, far more ass are in pews putting moeny in collection plates.   

Phone Data Contradicts Church Attendance Surveys

 

Another pair of republican Christian jerks who try to force their religious doctrine on everyone while running on family values and hating on the LGBTQ+.  But they don’t follow the rules they demand you follow.  They were having an affair.  Hugs.  Scottie

GOP Rep To Divorce After Alleged Affair With GOP Rep

 

And this jerk wants to make wearing a mask to protest illegal … and yet the terrorist right wing gang thugs like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Oath keepers, and other Nazi racist bigoted groups wear them all the time to prevent being fired from their jobs.  I doubt this bill will pass without some kind of exemption for them.  Hugs.  Scottie

NC Senate Approves Bill Criminalizing Wearing Masks

Screw the immuno-compromised, right? And don’t expect this law to be used against the Proud Boys or Patriot Front.

Sen. Buck Newton, not incidentally, first appeared here in 2016 when as state attorney general nominee, he spoke at a hate group rally, declaring, “Go home, tell your friends and family who had to work today what this is all about and how hard we must fight to keep our state straight.”

approved masks

Thumbnail
Thumbnail

Not approved:

Thumbnail

Definitely not approved:

Thumbnail
 
I wonder if this would be illegal?
Thumbnail

And who do you think he works for when / if he holds office.   Hint it won’t be for you, the public.  Hugs.  Scottie

Study: Trump’s Offer To Big Oil Could Save Them $110B

This one is new but it shows how republicans simply lie and misinform now.  Reality means nothing to them.  They learned from tRump that voters on their side no longer care about the truth, care about what is real.  They simply make false claims and double down on it when called out.  They don’t even care.  They want their cake and eat it also.  Hugs.  Scottie

Scott Accuses Biden Of Enabling Fentanyl Smuggling After Voting Against Two Anti-Fentanyl Smuggling Bills

Latest Trump Lie: I Never Said That I’d Never Go Back To Minnesota If I Lost To Biden There, Which I Didn’t

Read the full article. In an interview today with a Minnesota station, Trump denied having said he’d never go back. And then he denied that Biden won Minnesota in 2020. Watch the LOL clip.

 

Yes. He was appropriately roped off by police/crime scene tape.

Thumbnail
Thumbnail
Thumbnail

I posted about this situation the other day.  We have an ideology driven supreme court who wants to make rules based on their religious convictions rather than law.  They have an extreme religious faith and demand the right to make the rest of the country that way.  

NYT: “Stop The Steal” Flag Seen At Justice Alito’s Home

 

Alito Says His Wife Flew “Stop The Steal” Flag Because She Was “Distraught” Over Being Called “The C-Word”

Durbin Calls On Alito To Recuse From Trump Cases

And the originator of the lie “sleepy Joe” for President Biden get cuaght being the really sleepy one.   

Dem Rep Catalogs All The Times Trump Slept In Court

Some more old things I need to clear out.

For those that don’t think this is important, I worked with some Catholic doctors that were so religious high rollers that they condemn and refused to treat those they felt broke god’s laws or their church rules.  Specifically the LGBTQ+.  I have repeated told of an ICU doctor who was assigned a very sick and dying openly gay man in a same sex relationship.  This was just before same sex marriage was legal country wide and before it was legal in Florida.  The patient’s lover / boyfriend had complete power of attorney over all the patient’s medical, financial, and other life decisions, something all of us gay people in same sex relationships did so our partners could make our hospital decisions when we couldn’t.   This doctor refused to listen or include the patient’s gay partner disregarding their relationship.  He went so far as to call the patient’s estranged family members to try to get them to overrule the wishes of the partner.  The patient’s partner got a lawyer and legal told the doctor he had to include the partner and treat him as the next of kin legally.  The doctor walked on the floor, took the chart and signed himself off the case.  Then loudly told all of us he was not the doctor of record for the patient and he wouldn’t treat him, so do not call him or his people for any reason for that patient.  That left us and the hospital scrambling.  The ICU intensives all worked for the same practice started by that doctor, so they had to find some doctor qualified to step in to be the patient’s doctor because the ICU requires a doctor to be qualified on respirators such as a pulmonologist.   Yes they can have other doctors treat them in the ICU but in our ICU’s because of the possibility the patients would have to be intubated in case of a code the ICU and all patients had to be managed by the intensivist / pulmonologist.  He was always a self righteous prick, he and his top doctors always bragging about their connections to the Catholic hierarchy locally and the time they spent at the Vatican.  This holy super Christian was willing to let a man die rather than acknowledge his male partner and same sex relationship.   Hugs.  Scottie

Biden Reverses Trump-Era Rule On LGBTQ Healthcare

Former Trump Aide Boasts Of Giving Counterfeit Bills To Homeless So That They Get Arrested When Using Them

No wonder tRump and this guy got along with each other.  He is a scumbag.  People with nothing he gives less then nothing to them, then claims it makes him feel good.  WTF.  This guy is a Project 2025 leader and they are all about taking the US back to 1840.  Hugs.  Scottie 

 

“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money, then I give him like a fake $5 bill, so I feel good about myself, they feel good. And then, when they go to use it, they get arrested so I’m actually like helping clean up the community. You know, getting them off the street.” – Former Trump aide and Project 2025 leader Johnny McEntee, in a TikTok video posted by the The Right Stuff, the MAGA dating app he founded in 2022. McEntee appeared here last week when he vowed that porn will banned during a second Trump term.

Watch the clip for the full smarmy boastfulness.

He probably deducted the “donations” as a charitable expense

If true, he’s guilty of passing counterfeit money and he just admitted it in a recording. I can’t imagine that he won’t be investigated by the Treasury Department or whatever body handles counterfeiting.

So either he’s lying to own the libs or he’s about to get to the “find out” stage of fucking around.

The Secret Service

Formerly a department at DOJ, now under the umbrella of DHS.

I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, so please forgive me.. film money is distinctly different than counterfiet money. It’s designed to avoid being considered counterfeit (it needs to be a percentage bigger or smaller so it *can’t* be legally considered counterfiet money and the artwork is slightly different). Countefeit money is designed to pass as the real thing; Hollywood money isn’t. That’s going to be his counter argument if he gets hauled up for this, I’d stake a good penny on.

Having said that, ths is unfathomably cruel. A store clerk or a police officer probably wouldn’t know the difference, so the poor person is going to suffer. If justice is real, whether he argues he’s handing out monopoly money, the intent is to cause harm, and he should have the book thrown at him.

*edit*

I just saw Doggy Daddy’s comment below, so thankfully it makes the first half of this moot.

These guys really don’t understand why the rest of us find their actions horrific. It’s not that they refuse to be empathetic with other humans – they can’t, it’s not possible for them.

It’s not a decision – they’re unable to understand what we mean by the words “cruel” or “heartless”. They hear the words – but they don’t mean the same thing to them. To them, “cruel” means “something the bleeding hearts don’t like”, not “this is a horrible thing to inflict on another person”.

Which is why we need to set up a gated and locked community for them, perhaps on a big chunk of federal land in the West, where only people who have no empathy live, and they can work it all out together. Send them food, let them get incoming internet, and leave them to it

Cruel – check
Mean Spirited – check
Cold Heated – check
Entitled – check
Evil – check

Checks all the MAGA boxes

It makes me wonder how many right- wing morons clicked like on his video?They probably thought that was a real knee-slapper. To me this ranks right up there with Governor Kristie Noem bragging about shooting her puppy.

If I remember correctly, George Floyd was summarily executed by police for, allegedly, passing a fake $20 bill.

So it is only fair this idiot gets equal treatment, no?

Lock him up!
“Can you go to jail for giving someone fake money?
Even a first-time counterfeiting charge can result in a misdemeanor or felony and some jail time. Prosecutors can charge individuals with forgery if they possess or use counterfeit items with the intent to defraud another person. It can be as simple as using fake money or as complex as counterfeiting an official seal.”

 

True Facts: Elephants

Exactly what is needed to be heard and what the republicans are terrified of.

New Trump Ad Praises Campus Counterprotesters

Seriously people are proud of acting this way?  Really?  If a child acted like this the parents would discipline or correct them, yet adults think college kids and tRump supporters think the thuggish racist behavior is great.   tRump loves it.  It is his style.  Berate, ridicule, insult, demean others is what tRump thinks is intellectual reasoning and discussion.  What has this country devolved into?  I thought we grew out of this childish shit a long time ago.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

Here’s a reminder about the scene at Ole Miss:

There were hundreds of counter-protesters, in contrast to the few dozen pro-Palestine protesters. The scene evoked memories of the resistance to the civil rights struggle in the US south six decades earlier.

The counter-protesters included individuals waving American flags and Trump flags. At one point, they sang the American national anthem, drowning out the pro-Palestine group’s chants.

There were no arrests, but the actions of the counter-protesters – who shouted “Fuck Joe Biden”, “Who’s your daddy?”, “USA”, “Hit the showers”, “Your nose is huge”, and included a white man making monkey noises at a Black woman – have been widely condemned on social media.

Read the full article. Below is Trump’s new ad.

 

Thumbnail
 

I believe that his full name is James Pearson Staples.

Here’s a better pic posted by Lakota man

Thumbnail

His parents must be SO PROUD

oh wait. Maybe they are

I would like to think that his behavior is just a bit of bad judgment he will grow out of, but I seriously doubt it. Not in Mississippi. He has so very, very few good examples to look to.

I’d say it’s majorly bad judgment, but agree with your prognosis. It’s too late to scour the racism out of him

I’ll bet there is a high likelihood that he has ancestors who were in a mob that lynched someone.

Good people on both sides…

Thumbnail
 

These white boy frats have been raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars via GiveSendGo over the past few days. There are all kinds of right-wing companies that want employees like this.

It’s almost as if Republicans were the party of drunk, pasty white rapey fratbros.

We’ve met these shitheads before (click to enlarge):

Thumbnail
  

Some things never change. 😠

Thumbnail
 

Remember when we thought we had finally started to turn the page with the election of Barack Obama?

Turns out it only emboldened the worst fucking people in this country, who will do absolutely anything to ensure they stay in power as their majority dwindles.

This is direct backlash against having a Black man in the White House. Magats are butthurt about it, and they need to reassert their claim on the government

hence mcconnell’s scorched constitution drive to the C[ourts]

 

Hence Moscow Mitch’s vow to make Barack a one term president.

It was downhill from there.

Kavanaugh the early years.

Ole Miss Students Taunt Protester With Racist Abuse

If you go to the link as I did, you can see just how over the top old school 1950s / 1960s racist these people are.   I can not understand younger people in this day and age being so stupid as the use the slurs and name calling of fellow humans because of skin color.  Even worse the governor was supportive saying he was proud of the racists.  Republican Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves also posted on X that the group of counter-protestors “warms my heart.”  Users on X reacted to the video of the students and Governor Tate Reeves’s proclamation of support for the counter-protestors:      This is the world that tRump inspired and help flourish in the US.  Hugs.  Scottie                    


 

Los Angeles Magazine reports:

A video was posted on X Thursday of a group of counter-protestors at the University of Mississippi — or Ole Miss — shouting and making monkey noises towards a Black woman who was part of a group protesting the war in Gaza.

Another bystander at the university uploaded a video of the students shouting “Lizzo! Lizzo! — in reference to the pop/hip-hop singer — and “f**k you fatass, f**k you bitch” to the same woman.

Republican Governor of Mississippi Tate Reeves posted on X that the group of counter-protestors “warms my heart.” The shocking video earned praise from Republican legislator Rep. Mike Collins, who posted the video and wrote “Ole Miss taking care of business.”

Read the full article.

Ashton Pittman adds on Threads: “Hundreds of frat boys showed up to counter protest a small group of ~50 pro-Palestine protestors on the UM campus, with some frat boys throwing food, drinks and bottles at them. Others waved Trump flags and flipped the protestors off.”

I am old enough to remember when the republicans were all upset about wearing the American flag cause it was disrespectful

The hand wringing about the children….. while the children are forced to practice active shooter drills.

 

If that’s from 1962, JFK had to deploy 31,000 troops — federalized National Guard and airborne units — to contain it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Jemele Hill: 1) What fraternity does he represent? That fraternity’s national leadership needs to be contacted immediately and that frat should be barred from campus.

2) We have recently seen endless conversations and action items created about antisemitism, but I’m guessing that same energy won’t be there to protect this open hostility directed at Black students.

That protestor has bigger balls than all of us combined. She will go on to do great things, things that require fearlessness

Why do angry men grab their dicks? So primal. Talk about apes.

Because beneath all the bravura they’re just a bunch of insecure boys checking to make sure their dicks are still there.

Because it’s frowned upon when I grab someone else’s in public

Monkey sounds to a black women… the South will always be full of hate and racism. I find it amusing how ‘proud’ the south is of their heritage. Any southerner reading this, never again ask why we think you are so stupid. You just are. And racism is alive and well. Disgusting corner of America.

There’s racism and bigotry everywhere. The Pacific Northwest, where I grew up, is a hotbed of white supremacist crap. Oregon was even established as a whites-only state, and to this day Portland is the whitest major city in the country. Even Vermont, with it’s reputation for crunchy hippie culture, has antisemites.

 

It’s the concentration of hate and racism bread into the South. It may exist all over, but do not compare the slave states to the north. It’s not even close. Idaho may as well be part of the south, that state is notorious for idiocy.

 

Ladapo: Mask Wearers Just Like To Hide Their Faces

Read the full article.

Ladapo first earned national infamy for a 2020 press conference outside the Supreme Court with insane nutbag Dr. Demon Semen, who says that women get STDs by having sex with demons in their dreams, that drag “opens portals” to demons, and that Biden and Pelosi “downloaded their brains to the internet” and are now “demonic clones.” Lapapo has been accused a falsifying a study on COVID vaccine side effects and of lying about his history of treating patients at UCLA. He last appeared here in January 2024 when he called on the public to refuse all COVID vaccines.

When asked to wear masks to help the country deal with a worldwide pandemic, the maga hate groups claimed they wouldn’t do it because they can’t breathe wearing masks.  The went to school board meets and ranted and screamed at the board about it.  Yet now those same Proud Boys, Three Percenter’s, Oath Keepers, and the Nazi protesters marching in the streets who call themselves Patriot Front all wear face masks to avoid being identified and lose their jobs.  If they think they represent so much of the country as they claim, why not be open about what complete morons and jerks they are.  This is another reason DeathSantis and racist governors in some red states are outlawing any Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality programs so white people can be open racist bigots to fellow workers without getting reprimanded or facing consequences for their actions.   Hugs.   Scottie

 

None of this surprises me anymore. It’s like we are living in the preface to a dystopian science fiction novel.

wait. you mean this isn’t The Stand in slow motion?

 

With Randall Flagg on trial in lower Manhattan

“Some people are still afraid and think that masks are going to help them, which is total nonsense.”

Thumbnail
Thumbnail
Thumbnail
 

be nice. all those people pictured wearing mask are dead now from breathing their own exhales. /s

Thumbnail
 

“Part of the reason seems to be that some people like to hide their faces,” Ladapo said on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.

Kinda’ like the Proud Boys.

Thumbnail
 
 

Five Red States Sue Over “Tyrannical” Move To Require Background Checks When Guns Are Sold At Gun Shows

What by my dogs that love gravy is it with these assholes and their ammosexual position.   I just posted that police had to kill a 14 year old with a gun outside a school.   What mythical world do they live in.  While they have armed protection, often paid for by taxpayers and their kids go to secure private schools, the rest of us are living in the hellscape they are creating.  And for what?  The NRA is all but destroyed.  So the need not worry about being on their wrong side.  The culture war is all they have to run on, they offer no helpful policies for the public, just their wealthy donors and themselves.   Hugs.  Scottie

 

 

No such thing as White Pride