To these open racist white supremacists any inclusion of non-white people is wrong and discrimination against white people. These people want to go back to the era of Jim Crow laws. They feel letting blacks be anything other than labors and lower class workers is harmful to white. No white no matter how bad or lacking in skills and education should lose a job to a “colored person”. They are horrible people who don’t have the skills to earn a position and hate that a black / brown person might have more skills than them. They believe education, especially higher education should be for white people only. Very sick people. What they don’t understand is non-white people make up a large part of the population. The smart people trying to make money want to sell to them also. Hugs. Scottie
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 12:12:21p EDT
I discovered this story because of this video between Dr. Rashad Richey and Journalism Student Juan Villasmil on the issue of CBS new policy on DEI.
CBS is aggressively stepping up its efforts to be more inclusive to diverse television creators and writers, setting a slew of targets for the 2021/22 season.
The broadcaster is committing 25% of its script development budget to projects from creators, writers and producers who are Black, Indigenous and people of color. The scheme will begin with the 2021/22 development season.
It is also mandating that writers’ rooms for CBS shows must be staffed with a minimum of 40% BIPOC representation for the 2021/22 broadcast season. This will be increased to 50% for the 2022/23 season.
Deadline understands that at least six new and current shows for this coming fall schedule are expected to hit this 40% mark.
To set this up let me show you the previous levels of diversity in Hollywood from a 2016 survey published in the WaPo.
The 83-page study examined 234 comedy and drama series across 18 broadcast, cable and digital platforms in the 2016–2017 season.
Here’s a snapshot of what they found:
Fewer than 10 percent of the shows were led by minority showrunners
14 percent of writers across all shows were members of a minority group, even though minorities represent nearly 40 percent of the population
Two-thirds of the shows had no black writers
Black writers overall accounted for less than 5 percent of the 3,817 writers across the shows, even though black people make up 13 percent of the population
More than 90 percent of the shows on CBS — which aired 25 scripted shows last season, second only to Netflix, and is the most-watched network — had either just one black writer or none at all
The lack of diversity extended across all platforms, including digital spaces such as Hulu. The report also singled out AMC and Amazon for failing to include black showrunners and writers. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post). The report said the lack of diversity at AMC and Amazon was especially troubling given their relatively new status as influencers of TV content.
A member of the writing staff for “Seal Team Six” subsequently filed a lawsuit with Stephen Miller’s law firm America First Legal after he was not invited during the 2021-2022 to remain as the script supervisor for the show. He’s a white male.
CBS and parent Paramount Global are being accused of “blatant” discrimination against a white, heterosexual male freelance writer as it imposed stringent diversity rules for writers on its “SEAL Team” series, according to a federal lawsuit.
Brian Beneker, a script coordinator and freelance scriptwriter for CBS’ “SEAL Team,” was unlawfully denied a staff writer position due to his race, sex and sexual orientation, according to the complaint, filed Thursday in US District Court of Central California.
Beneker, who became the script coordinator in 2017 on the pilot episode of “SEAL Team,” a drama about the pressure on a group of Navy SEALs, soon was offered to write an episode script as a freelancer for the show’s second season.
To continue as a scriptwriter, Beneker was told, he had to quit his job as a coordinator, the suit said, noting that he was replaced by “a woman without any experience as a script coordinator” who “struggled to do the job” and “quit approximately two weeks into training.”
Beneker’s lawyers from America First Legal Foundation and JW Howard Attorneys cited a widely reported mandate from CBS chief executive George Cheeks to “set a goal that all writers’ rooms on the network’s primetime series be staffed 40% [with] BIPOC [black, indigenous and people of color] in the 2021-2022 season.”
Now with this in mind, I suggest you listen to the video conversation.
Richey and Juan Villasmil’s discussion mostly ranges around the issues of whether this policy is in violation of the Civil Rights Act and the issue of using immutable traits such as race and sex in hiring vs “Merit.”
I’ll get back to “Merit” later.
The CRA discussion is valuable — but people like Villasmil tend to look at it entirely in a vacuum. They look at hiring entirely as if we are starting from zero with all other factors and that simply isn’t the case.
Race and Crime
As they go on Richey brings up the fact that there is racism baked into the cake in many systems. He cites “Stop and Frisk” statistics from New York which point out that over 80 of their stops were Black and Latinos, and that over 70% of the time they were found to have done nothing wrong. Only 10% of those stopped were White.
He leaves out a stat here: When people were found to have committed a crime or to be in possession of guns or drugs — they were far more often White.
White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.
The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.
The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.
This begs the question: if they are only finding guns and drugs on black and Latino men at ½ and 1/3 the rate — why are they really stopping them so often?
The answer to that question is obvious: Racism (and Poverty).
if Richey had brought this up it might have prevented Juan’s next, predictable, argument.
Black people commit more crime.
Richey responds to this by pointing out that FBI stats indicate that while White-on-White Crimes is 88%, Black-on-Black crimes is at 91% which is hardly different. This chart is often the first source used to argue that “Black people commit more crime” but most people don’t also look at the White-on-White figure as Richey does.
[Technically this data comes from the FBI chart on Murder by Race and Gender which is highly flawed. It only includes cases with a Single offender and a Single Victim — which excludes over half the actual cases. When you include the remainder of cases for multiple victims and offenders via the Supplemental Homicide Report, the percentages change to 58.9% Black-on-Black and 60.6% White-on-White murders.
Murder by Race — Supplemental Homicide Repot
So in reality, based on the best data we have, the rate of White murders is slightly higher than the rate of Black murders.
And the chart Richey is referring to also only includes those cases that have been “Cleared” where a suspect has been positively identified. So it doesn’t include how many were charged or the disposition of that charge be it, conviction or acquittal — this is merely a chart of those who are Accused of Murder, not those who have been proven to have done it.
Juan then falls back to…
“they commit more crime in proportion” .
Which by the way is exactly a QUOTA argument. He saying here that, in total, White people commit more crime — which is true — but that’s only because there are more White people. But when you look at things in proportion where White people are 60% of the public, Black people are overperforming in crime above their quota of 13%.
He, of course, doesn’t have stats for this. But I do.
The FBI Uniform Crime Report states that of 7 Million people arrested in 2018, 5.1 Million (66%) were White people and 2.1 Million (27%) were Black people. If you were expecting black people to stay within their quota of 13% that would be rather high. [The people who are underrepresented are Asians (11%) and Latinos(14%)]
Black people in California were stopped by police officers much more frequently than other racial groups in 2018, and police were more likely to use force against them, new statistics fromeight large law enforcement agencies in the state reveal.
Twenty eight per cent of all persons stopped by Los Angeles police officers during the last six months of 2018 were black, while black people account for just 9% of the city’s population, the data shows. In San Francisco,the black population has shrunk over several decades to just 5% of the city’s total population, but 26% of all stops carried out by the SFPD from July through December of 2018 were of black people – marking the widest racial disparity in police stops of the eight reporting agencies.
So it’s not true that they commit more crimes even proportionally — they are stopped and accused of crimes more often, but that doesn’t mean they’re guilty. This is consistent all over the country, in blue states and red states.
Eventually, they get to the issue of poverty — and in that area the charts of crimes and violence by income is very clearly linked, but it is not linked to race.
Violence by Race and Income
Also, to be completely fair, part of the reason police probably stop Black and Latino people at a higher rate is also related to poverty. If you’re driving a broken down hooptie with expired tags, you’re gonna get pulled over.
Police know that someone in a car that needs repairs probably doesn’t have insurance or they can’t afford their premiums. And if they can’t afford that — they certainly can’t afford a lawyer who’s gonna ask them “what was your probable cause, Officer?” “What was your articulable suspicion for this stop?”
Nobodies gonna stop somebody when they think they’re uncle might be a judge. And Black and Latino people have a higher rate of poverty in America.
This gets us back to the original subject, who is granted those opportunities and why?
Legacy and Inertia
When it comes to hiring, even if super Liberal Hollywood, it’s far more often for people to hire and rehire people they know, than people they don’t know. It can be a family connection or a friendship — but having a connection of some type will always give someone an advantage. It’s not just who you know — but who knows you that can help you get a leg up.
I know for a fact that every major job I’ve been hired for was because I had a connection who opened that door. And I’ve seen what it’s like when those connections are gone. During the short time that I pursued acting in LA, I was told directly by my manager that developing a relationship — particularly with a Director — was the key to getting acting gigs in Hollywood.
There’s a reason we repeatedly see Martin Scorsese working with Leonardo DiCaprio, and we see Quinten Tarantino working with Brad Pitt. Directors develop “pet” actors that they work with over and over again.
it doesn’t require active discrimination NOW for any of this to occur — it’s just the legacy and inertia of what has gone before going back decades.
We frankly live in a still grossly segregated country. White people live and work among themselves, as do Black people, as do Latinos. In our regular, nonwork, lives rarely are those lines crossed. Not in the schools, not in the pews. Relationships across racial lines do happen — certainly, they happen in LA, I can attest to that — but it’s clearly not enough alone to significantly change things even in Hollywood.
The ongoing Legacy of Hollywood has been that those making the major decisions — the studio heads and the producers — have been Straight White Men. The people they tend to hire as directors, writers and actors, have largely been Straight White Men.
This is what brings us to a situation where only 14% of the Hollywood writers in 2016-2016, were people of color. 90% of the shows on CBS had only 1 Black writer or none. Black writers were only 5% of the total in Hollywood.
This fact alone could be the basis of a Civil Rights suit against the industry that could have the government come in and FORCE the industry to improve their demographic mix using the provisions of the Civil Rights Act.
Now, I don’t think they need to have a hard and fast quota in place — they could have a flexible goal — quotas and bonus points systems were banned in Affirmative Action by the SCOTUS in the 1978 Bakke v UC Davis decision. But it could be argued this is the industry trying to self-correct from their prior and current bias and that should be allowed, or else it just won’t happen. Ever.
(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or
(2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(b) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, or to classify or refer for employment any individual on the basis of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
(c) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for a labor organization–
(1) to exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;
(2) to limit, segregate, or classify its membership, or to classify or fail or refuse to refer for employment any individual, in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities, or would limit such employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee or as an applicant for employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or
(3) to cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate against an individual in violation of this section.
(d) It shall be an unlawful employment practice for any employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including on-the-job training programs to discriminate against any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in admission to, or employment in, any program established to provide apprenticeship or other training.
The issue isn’t “does this new policy violate the Civil Rights Act” — the issue is that the Movie industry is already in gross violation of that Act.
There can be some level of “self-selection” where men may prefer a certain career or women may prefer a different career, just like Black people choose to prefer Hip Hop and White people choose to prefer Country and Pop — but when 86% of your writers are Straight White Men, that’s not a natural phenomenon. Something caused that and that something needs to be fixed.
They are on their own attempting to voluntarily correct that violation.
Gaining Work Experience
So if you don’t have any Black, Female or Gay writers — how exactly are they going to gain any experience? How do they get into the game if they don’t have any personal connections into the game?
He only has 4 credits as a writer. 3 for “Seal Team 6” and 1 for “Resurrection Blvd.”
What he’s trying to do is write more scripts for the show and at the same time remain the script coordinator. He’s trying to take two jobs at once. They gave him the choice of doing one — or the other, but not both.
That’s actually the conflict here — he wants his cake, he wants to eat it and he wants some more take home for later.
Now, it’s clear he has more experience as a script coordinator, particularly on that show, than anyone else they might want to bring in. But again, how did he get that experience back in 2017 when 86% of screenwriters in Hollywood were Straight White Men?
He’s experienced NOW — but he wasn’t then when a Straight White Man had a virtual LOCK on gaining that position. Now, that he’s benefited from that advantage and gained that experience he wants to complain that if he wants to be a screenwriter too, someone else has to be the script coordinator. And that someone else has a 50/50 chance of being either a Straight White Guy — or Black, Female, Asian, Latino, Arab and/or LGBTQ.
He was gifted an advantage that put him in this “Meritorious” position and that’s the key element that people like Juan refuse to see. We are not starting at zero — there are millions of people who have already been given a head start and for anyone else to break in, they have to be given that first chance too.
Then they can gain experience and “merit.” If we don’t allow someone diverse to gain an initial toehold, They. Never. Will. It’s almost impossible to compete against those who are already miles and miles ahead of you. On a “Merit” basis, you will never be able to measure up.
Plus, he could have stayed the script coordinator or he could have written more scripts for the show. Or for another show. He could have kept his job rather than trying to do two jobs. It was his choice.
Life Experience
One of the other problems in Hollywood, particularly with writers, is that they can only write what they know. And I’m sorry, even the most talented writer has problems accurately and honestly depicting the lives and perspectives of people who are different from them. White writers have a terrible track record of trying to document the Black Experience in America — or elsewhere — accurately or fairly. They have a hard time documenting the Female experience and they absolutely have problems documenting the LGBTQ experience.
Most people don’t know what they don’t know. They usually have no real idea of what’s happening in other people’s heads.
If Hollywood is going to portray ethnic characters without them turning into a modern Stepin Fetchit or Amos and Andy —it would help to have writers on staff with first-hand experience in that community. And not just one. This is how you build authenticity. This is how you create honest and realistic characters and stories.
If we don’t want to only have stories about Straight White Men — along with Token Ethnic Stereotypes — forever, we need people with the necessary life experience in the writing room keeping things honest.
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Demographics
The complaint here is that it’s just “so unfair” that one white guy can’t do two people’s jobs because it just might mean that one BiPOC gets a chance to also have a career, after probably hundreds of BiPOC have been denied an opportunity for the last several decades. If we do anything to correct that problem, it’s doing too much. Every white guy’s (extra) job is sacred, so we’ll just keep screwing other people over today just like we screwed them over yesterday.
If you’ve been robbed repeatedly for decades and then finally someone goes and takes back a tiny piece of what was stolen — is that now somehow a crime?
According to Stephen Miller, it is. Shocker.
The CBS rule is that 50% of their writing staff is to be BiPOC for 2023. Ok. But here’s the thing, if we were to really look at an appropriate demographic [Quota] of how many Straight White Men should be on staff… it would be 26%.
White people are 58% of America. [Juan tries to argue that White people are 60% and that’s true but White MEN aren’t 60%] Half of those white people are women so that takes us down to 29%. About 7% of America is LGBTQ so removing about half of that takes us to 26%.
That means that this rule PROTECTS a special amount of 50% of the available slots for just 26% of the people. Everyone else has to squeeze into the remainder. It means that White Straight Men will likely always be overrepresented among the writing staff compared to their actual population in general.
Apparently, that isn’t enough for some of people like Stephan Miller — they still want more.
They’re used to having more. They’re used to having 86% of the jobs. And they, sadly, think they’ve legitimately earned that position rather than having systematically stolen it. Making room for new people is difficult. It means choices have to be made. But since 50% of the slots are being held for Straight White Men, couldn’t it be argued that he’s not being forced out because of a BiPOC, he’s forced out because one of the other protected white guys is in the way of his [extra] slot?
Couldn’t they drop a less experienced white guy off that staff to leave room for him so he can still technically take up two slots? But then again, is there a less experienced writer on staff, he only has 4 scripts — maybe he simply isn’t qualified to be a staff writer yet.
Hmm.
Also, if this is such a big problem now in Hollywood and CBS — why is this guy the only one complaining?
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.
This very quickly went to being a right vs left talk about abortion and even teaching girls on how not to become pregnant. Again I ask why it is so vitally important for the fundamentalist Christian maga right to prevent young girls learning how to keep from getting pregnant or learning sexual educations about their bodies !!!! Hugs. Scottie
To me as I listened to the video it became clear that the real issue is how a lot of this is driven on the male side from the era where men look at it as their entitlement to the best looking most attractive women they are attracted to, but can not have. So they feel women are the real enemy, rather than the system that is denying each gender of equality. Why do incels feel entitled to a female, a woman that is to please them as they demand / wish? Because for far too much of history that was how men were taught to look at women, taught that females were to be used, subjected to their whim, to keep them happy but not really a person like they are. They don’t see women as full humans like them. The day that men and women see each other as equal will be the day all this conflict dies. Hugs. Scottie
Young men are more likely than women to drop out of college, commit suicide, and support far-right parties. But while misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate are correctly blamed for fueling the incel manosphere’s backlash against feminism, there is a lot more to this story than incels, culture wars and wokeness. From stagnant economies and unaffordable housing to fears of cultural obsolescence, young men are grappling with a myriad of challenges that seldom enter the public discourse. So what is really behind the growing political rift between Gen Z Boys and Girls?
In the video we talk to Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book “Of Boys and Men” where he explores all the ways in which the modern male is struggling. Alice Evans, visiting scholar at Stanford University, who is travelling around the world to study this divide and makes the point that lagging economies, corporate algorhythms, and patriarchal mentality can explain this backlash. And Neil Shyminsky, Professor at Cambrian College and famous on TikTok as @professorneil, who sees in Influencers like Andrew Tate as a main threat.
Wow how do these rejects get elected? Sex is the fault of the woman? That is not how it works. Tell him it takes more than a woman to make a baby. Guys are taught to want sex all their lives, and from puberty they’re told not to masturbate but to find a girl. But girls are property of daddy and they are told not to have sex to preserve their value. WTF. If boys / men get to enjoy sex, why can’t girls / women? Hugs. Scottie
A bid to make birth control a right in Arizona that was a top policy priority for Gov. Katie Hobbs has stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature and is likely dead.
Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.
“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” he said, implying that, if women hold aspirin between their legs, they won’t be able to have sex and risk pregnancy.
Borrelli’s comments echo those made by late Wisconsin pastor and former GOP mega donor Foster Freiss. In 2012, while Freiss was the head of a super PAC that backed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Freiss contended that women putting aspirin between their knees was a cheaper alternative to contraception.
In 2001, Borrelli plead guilty to a domestic violence charge. His then-wife’s child told police he witnessed Borrelli rapidly punch his mother three times in the mouth before shoving her to the ground.
Borrelli said he only plead guilty to keep custody of his children, and he later blamed his wife for the incident, claiming she was having a “stress-induced meltdown.”
Borelli, an election denier, first appeared here in 2021 when he and several other Arizona lawmakers spoke at a QAnon convention organized by a man who had just approvingly posted a link to a neo-Nazi film. We heard from him again last year when he tried to force Arizona to discard all voting machines.
AZ State Senator Sonny Borelli, singled out by Trump at rallies for pushing the audit, presents his ‘challenge coin’ today at the Vegas QAnon conference to Vincent Fusca, who some in the Q community believe is JFK Jr.. Resemblance is uncanny. pic.twitter.com/0lEIVfxIOn
AZ Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borelli issues letter to every county election office notifying them no electronic voting machine can be used in ‘24 election
Katie Hobbs vetoed law, but Constitution gives plenary authority to state legislature so they’re overriding her pic.twitter.com/FPwtEDaU5T
None of these yahoos make even the slightest effort to encourage men to take more responsibility for their own sexual behavior even though men are usually the ones who are more sexually eager due to the influence of testosterone (and even then, using that as an excuse really only goes so far!). They don’t even bother encouraging men to use condoms more often even though condoms actually have many advantages over most female forms of birth control. Condoms are relatively reliable when used correctly, aren’t difficult to find, aren’t difficult to use, don’t become less effective if you gain or lose weight, don’t cost much, don’t have any potentially dangerous side effects, don’t have any restrictions for age and/or existing health conditions, don’t require administration or authorization from a licensed medical professional, and don’t require much advance planning like most female forms of birth control do — and they have an double advantage in the sense that they help prevent the transmission of STDs.
It’s amazing the number of people who refuse to believe that sometimes things go wrong. That’s why abortion is healthcare, not every fetus is viable. Some of the ones that are born, don’t survive either.
It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.
It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.
The Christian religion is apparently based on the premise that women are by definition sluts, since Eve in Genesis disobeyed God and accepted advice from a serpent.
I am still waiting for the day that a pharmacist refuses to fill any prescriptions for Viagra or Cialis unless the man is wearing a wedding ring, or produces a marriage license, or signs a sworn affidavit saying they will use the drug only to have sex with their wives. I want to see the heads of a few right-wing males explode.
“But honey, I’m feeling romantic. This is your 30th headache this month. Why don’t you use that aspirin between your legs to make your headache disappear.”
*wife thinks a divorce attorney would do a better job at making her headache disappear.*
15 years ago, this Neanderthal would have been sent back under his rock, but Trump/MAGA has emboldened their misogyny, allowed them to use their “religious freedom” to spew this garbage in the public square, and encourage even more wackos to spew their hateful, medieval views
How is forcing women to continue with an unwanted pregnancy not an economic concern?
I can’t wait for these old white, white haired men and women who agree with them to die out but I know there is a crop of them right behind on the conveyor belt.
Contraceptives a.k.a. birth control are not just prescribed for birth control.
Here again we have elected officials who know nothing about the medical field making laws regarding women’s bodies that they know nothing about. Here again we have one of these old dinosaurs yapping about women not needing birth control if they weren’t promiscuous.
Funny how they get away with ignoring the fact that it takes two people to be promiscuous when making a baby… and funny how nobody points out that, if women must be forced to endure a pregnancy, men should at least be financially responsible for that same pregnancy.
Mighty Christian of this first one. Good old republican Christian concern and caring. Hugs. Scottie
Florida’s Senate approves a bill that would ban cities and counties from adopting requirements for mandatory water breaks and other workplace protections against extreme heat. https://t.co/zGlFrAG8Kr
Read the full article. The bill’s author, state Sen. Jay Trumbull, previously appeared here for his successful bill allowing medical professionals to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients. Last year, he authored a bill allowing businesses to sue to block local LGBTQ rights ordinances and other regulations.
Of note, the lead attorney in the lawsuit is Roberta Kaplan, who is best known to most as E. Jean Carroll’s attorney. Kaplan was also Edith Windsor’s attorney in the landmark Supreme Court ruling on DOMA.
This is quite a story and as you’d expect a portion of their ideology centers against LGBTQ people.
OK with this first batch I am trying to reduce the 74 posts window I have open. I have to start shrinking these windows. That means I can not go deep in depth on each thing I think is important to share. So for a few days I am going to shotgun a bunch of older stuff out. Do I expect everyone to read all of them? NO! What I hope is people see story titles that interest them, open them, and follow the story which is what I do. So expect a few more of these as I clear out old tabs. Hugs. Scottie
Wow how clueless can some people be in following their god and right wing ideology? Seriously, does he realize that when women couldn’t vote, he was not covered by the civil rights laws and he wouldn’t be allowed to serve in such a high government position by the white people who think he shouldn’t be able to vote or speak up in public. Yes just as he looks down on women as inferior to him a man, the majority of whites then, and some now also, believe he as a black man is inferior to any white person. I don’t understand bigotry, no matter who it is against. See bigotry is counter to reason, it is irrational. Yet it is hard to use reason to combat it is difficult because bigotry is built on emotion. But this guy is out there as a bigot, hater, and just abusive to anyone who disagrees with him. Again how is this acceptable? What ever happened to decorum and civility from elected officials? Seriously what happened to being able to look up to elected federal and state legislators as the best of the public? Seriously when did being an internet troll be one of the qualifications for political office? When was being a vicious bully an admired trait? But this guy is both? Hugs. Scottie
“The only thing worse than a woman who doesn’t know her place, is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote on Facebook in December 2017.
In a newly unearthed video, North Carolina’s GOP nominee for governor says America was better then because Republicans “fought for real social change.”
On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
But just four years ago, Robinson invoked a bizarre hypothetical in which he said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.
“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.
During this event, Robinson, who was running for lieutenant governor at the time, recalled someone recently asking conservative activist Candace Owens to pick which version of America would make America “great again,” one where “Black people were swinging from cheap trees” or one where women weren’t allowed to vote.
Robinson said he would definitely return to the days in America when women were denied the right to vote “because in those days we had people who fought for real social change, and they were called Republicans.”
This room full of women was quiet as he spoke, though a faint “That’s right” could be heard when Robinson later said Republicans ended Jim Crow laws. (In fact, lawmakers in both parties in Congress and President Lyndon Johnson ended Jim Crow laws by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.)
You catch watch the full clip of Robinson’s remarks here:
Requests for comment from Robinson’s campaign and from his government office were not returned.
In still more Facebook posts, the GOP gubernatorial nominee strangely equated feminism with sexism and racism.
“If blacks should stand up against racism, and women should stand up against sexism….shouldn’t men stand up against feminism?” he posted on Sept. 20, 2016.
That same day, he also wrote, “I am REALLY sick of feminism and feminist. They are just as bad, if not worse, than racist.”
Robinson will go up against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein in November. North Carolina is a crucial swing state in the 2024 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump won North Carolina in 2020, but barely ― and that was before he tried to steal the election, incited an insurrection and was facing 91 felony charges.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who endorsed one of Robinson’s challengers in the GOP primary, said Wednesday that it’s up to the voters in his state to decide in November if they want him to be the governor.
Asked if he agrees with Robinson’s inflammatory rhetoric, Tillis told HuffPost, “Not at all.”
“Now that we’re past the primary … he just needs to go to the people in North Carolina, explain that and get their vote,” he said.
Back when women were property, “colored” folk like you were not allowed to eat at restaurants with white folk, were segregated in public venues(sitting in the shitty section at theaters and such), schools, hospitals, and even the men weren’t allowed to vote even though they had the right. Go back a little further and all black people were owned by white people in the slave states with absolutely no rights at all. And you, sir, are a fucking idiot. Go slap yourself silly.
For Republican women all that matters apparently is the “R” after his name. Of course why any woman would suppport the Republican Party is the obvious next question.
A lot of Republican women have been beaten, raped and otherwise abused into submission by the men in their lives; fathers, husbands, pastors, etc. to the point where they are brainwashed to vote how the men in their lives tell them to. A while back, I read an article about some fundie douchebag pastor preaching to a group of men how they really shouldn’t allow their wives to vote, but if their wives insist on voting, their husbands should make sure that their wives vote “correctly,” so their votes do not “cancel out” the husbands’ votes.
That reminded me of a story an ex-Mormon friend told me, about how before she went in to vote for the first time as a college freshman in 1992, her father handed her and her mother a list of candidates (all Republican) and said “This is how I expect you to vote, I’ll be watching.” Her father stood in the voting booth next to her, giving her the side eye the entire time she was casting her ballot. Even though she wanted to vote for Clinton, she voted for George Bush I instead, because dad was also an abusive asshole, and she feared what he might do if she didn’t vote as she was told. If the poll workers saw what her Dad was doing, they didn’t do anything. It was probably quite common in the shitty Mormon town she was raised in. And I doubt things have changed.
Back when women were property, “colored” folk like you were not allowed to eat at restaurants with white folk, were segregated in public venues(sitting in the shitty section at theaters and such), schools, hospitals, and even the men weren’t allowed to vote even though they had the right. Go back a little further and all black people were owned by white people in the slave states with absolutely no rights at all. And you, sir, are a fucking idiot. Go slap yourself silly.
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