Christian Nationalists TERRIFYING Rhetoric is CREEPING into the Mainstream (And its getting WORSE)

Knowles: We’re Coming For The Right To Contraception

This is the same person who played a gay man hooking up with other men who now is super anti-LGBTQ+.   This guy admits men like sex and don’t want the resulting pregnancies.   But he still feels women shouldn’t have sex, that women shouldn’t like sex, or maybe he believes the old stereotype that women just don’t like sex.   He seems to be an entitled white religious guy who don’t care what harm he causes to others as long as it benefits him.    But the truth is the right is coming after contraception and no-fault divorce.    They are serious about returning to a 1950s or even 1850s mentality and public acceptance.  These people are the Christian version of the Taliban or Iranian moral police.  But women like the gays / trans are not going to give up their rights and go into hiding or being submissive just to please stupid males.   Hugs

Media Matters has the transcript:

The culture that treats sex very casually and that suggests that we have a right to sex absent the consequence of pregnancy, is going to be a culture that’s more likely to engage in abortion.

The culture that embraces radical individualism and selfishness and libertinism in one area of sexual matters is going to embrace it in another, and that’s going to result in abortion.

And furthermore, we’re all complaining about the Pride movement, and the Pride movement has become much less popular than it used to be. You’re seeing this in a drop — Gallup polling and the values survey that it gives out showed a significant drop in support for the Pride coalition in just one year.

So, a lot of people are turning on it. A lot of mothers, a lot of parents in schools — it’s how Glenn Younkin won in Virginia. It’s how Ron DeSantis won in Florida.  You go all the way back to the beginning of the sexual revolution. And you go all the way back to contraception.

There were two cases, Eisenstadt and Griswold. First was Griswold in 1965. Then Eisenstadt comes around in 1972, the year before Roe v Wade. And Griswold finds a right to condoms within a marriage.

Where is that in the Constitution? I have no idea. But some libs on the court discovered that magically in 1965. But they said, but — there is no right to condoms outside of marriage. Then seven years later, the court discovers, oh, actually, there was more invisible ink in the Constitution.

And actually, there is a right to condoms outside of marriage. Okay. Maybe you like condoms. Maybe you don’t like condoms. I don’t know where you’re gonna find that in the Constitution.

I think a lot of people are beginning to notice that the contraceptive mentality is the beginning of the Pride mentality. Because the contraceptive mentality divorces sex from the consequences of sex.

It introduces a sterile sexual ethic, which is exactly what gave us the Pride movement. There’s no distinction here. If you can’t read between the lines, the conclusion that one draws is that condoms are kind of gay. To put it as bluntly as possible. Okay?

And people are beginning to realize, okay, if I don’t like this insane, anarchistic view of sex that is totally self-centered and divorced from any ends whatsoever, well, then maybe I gotta rewind it and ask what is the point of sex?

Which is why it’s not gonna be the patriarchy that’s coming for your consequence free birth control. It’s not going to be the men.

The men, frankly, are huge supporters of — of birth control and contraception because it allows them to have consequence-free sex. It’s gonna be those conservative women. That’s who’s coming for it.

 

“Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

I’m miserable and god-dammit, you will be too!

 

“We’re not happy, ’til you’re not happy!”

Control is their goal…
Control of your body and mine.

They’ll call it “choice” or “State’s Rights” and even “freedom” and then legislate those “choices”, “Rights” and “freedoms” away.

I’ve been telling heterosexuals for years that the same people coming after us are going to be coming after them.

Here is Knowles in his gay sex scene.

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They same ones who bitched about Roe for decades also bitched about “the pill”. It was obvious after Dobbs they’d continue to push as Plan-B is often described as a “contraception” medicine.

Influencers like Knowles are demagogues who prey on the fear and paranoia of people who can’t stand to see us become a country where women and people who are not white, straight or Christian are equal to them by scapegoating women and minorities so that their fans won’t pay attention to the fact that it’s not people of color, Jews, LGBTQ people or women who are screwing them, but the wealthy people who donate to the Republicans and depend on them to ensure they don’t have to pay taxes.

Influencers like Knowles are demagogues who prey on the fear and paranoia of people who can’t stand to see us become a country where women and people who are not white, straight or Christian are equal to them by scapegoating women and minorities so that their fans won’t pay attention to the fact that it’s not people of color, Jews, LGBTQ people or women who are screwing them, but the wealthy people who donate to the Republicans and depend on them to ensure they don’t have to pay taxes.

They want to return to the day when women were the property of their menfolk.

 

It was not until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 that women could get bank accounts or credit cards in their own name, without needing a husband, father, or other male relative on the account as well.

 

I know. I was raising 3 children as a single mom and couldn’t get credit to buy an A/C for our tiny apartment. In 75′ I met a female banker who understood my dilemma and helped me get a home loan in my name so we could live in decent housing.

They hate women.

And if you notice, 90% of their anti-trans animus is directed at trans women.

And 100% of their anti-drag animus is directed at men doing female drag.

The common thread in all of this is virulent misogyny.

They even want to punish monogamous women and their children for having non-monogamous husbands. The age of syphilis is ready to return.

Homophobia and transphobia are just aspects of their misogyny. I don’t know why TERFs don’t get that.

Yep. Many years ago, I read a sociological/psychological analysis about the connection of misogyny and homophobia, and it centers around the conceit that men “betray” their gender privilege by being perceived as voluntarily giving that up.

They want to re-introduce slavery, but with the rich enslaving the poor.

God told them that everybody else needed reforming.

The Handmaid’s Tale was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a how-to. But, here we are.

Hey Knowles, it’s because of people like you that a burning hatred of religion is developing. Church attendance and belief in God is plummeting year after year. Keep pushing it and you’ll eventually see a backlash that will make life for the remaining religious practitioners very miserable for a long time.

That backlash is exactly why Talibangelicals are become more Christian nationalist: mandating their own beliefs as national policy is a very desperate attempt to keep those beliefs relevant. The thing is, this leads to imperial leakage: “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”

 

 

 

Wow! Parent SILENCES Republican crowd during school board hearing in DEEP RED COUNTY

Parent and Democratic Chair of Hood County, Adrienne Martin, finally had enough of extremists in her deep-red community trying to get books banned and to inject religion into her child’s school and voiced her frustration to the Granbury Texas school board. Francis Maxwell reports.

Adults are failing LGBTQ+ youth at school and beyond. Here’s how we can step up 

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/adults-are-failing-lgbtq-youth-at-school-and-beyond-heres-how-we-can-step-up/

 
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Think back to when you were a teenager. While this time in our lives can often be filled with new experiences and self-discovery, it can also be deeply challenging and sometimes even painful. Time stretches on forever. You don’t have the full slate of freedoms that most adults take for granted. You are stuck in a microcosm of the real world, spending a good part of your life in a classroom with other young people doing their best to fit in – and feeling like you’re failing in some way. 

These challenges of adolescence are even more acute for LGBTQ+ youth, who face an uphill battle to find acceptance in a world that often condemns the beauty of diversity and in many cases seeks to deny their very existence. Even before COVID-19 sent us into seclusion for the better part of the last three years – with devastating mental health consequences for many – LGBTQ+ youth were experiencing higher rates of depression and other forms of mental illness due to higher rates of bullying, harassment, and family rejection. 


 

While young queer activists across the country – including It Gets Better’s incredible Youth Voices – are heroically speaking out against these attacks on their rights, their health and their very identities, they can’t win this fight alone. Right now, adults are failing LGBTQ+ students, and we urgently need to take bold, decisive action to support and protect them.  

The first thing we can do to support our queer and trans youth is simple: listen. With the advent of social media, the escalating “culture wars,” and the lingering aftermath of COVID, the problems young people face today are different from those faced by earlier generations. My interactions with LGBTQ+ youth have shown me how deeply they have thought about the challenges they face and what they need to resolve them. We need to resist the urge to default to our own experiences, to say “you’ll understand when you’re older.”  

We also need to speak out forcefully against anti-LGBTQ+ education policies, whether they restrict discussion of LGBTQ+ identity altogether, ban the use of preferred pronouns, or attempt to forcibly out trans students to their families. No matter what grades or ages these policies target, their intended message is clear: if you are LGBTQ+, you are not welcome here. Ensuring that queer youth feel empowered to express their identity, safely and on their own timeline, will have a massive, sustained impact on their overall wellbeing. 

But LGBTQ+ youth need more than just our attention and our supportive words; they need our resources too. Specifically in schools, there is an almost endless list of priorities in urgent need of funding that would make an enormous difference for the day-to-day well-being of LGBTQ+ students. 

Through It Gets Better’s 50 States, 50 Grants, 5000 Voices program, we were so proud to recently announce grants of up to $10,000 each to more than 70 schools across the U.S. and Canada. They cover a range of projects to uplift and empower LGBTQ+ youth, including educator training, inclusive curriculum, community art projects, Pride celebrations, and the priorities of local Genders and Sexualities Alliances (aka GSAs). The philanthropic community stepping up to fund more projects like these at schools across the country would be one of the single most effective, tangible actions to support LGBTQ+ youth we could take.

While the adults in the room argue about the nuances of parental rights in education, the right to healthcare for trans youth, book bans and curriculum restrictions, young LGBTQ+ people everywhere are serving up a counter strike fueled by their passion to create a better world – a world that celebrates diversity and understands its value. Adults should be honored to have a seat at that table to watch and learn – and to catalyze the passion of young LGBTQ+ people who are ready to pick up the banner to concretize their right to exist.

Brian Wenke is the Executive Director of leading LGBTQ+ non profit, the It Gets Better Project, and has led the global storytelling effort to empower LGBTQ+ youth since 2016. He has spearheaded multi-national campaigns to connect and engage with LGBTQ+ youth where they live, work, and socialize – and has successfully leveraged corporate and institutional partnerships to expand the It Gets Better Project’s reach, which now spans four continents and six major languages. 

Russia wants to ban all trans healthcare and gender recognition

This is what the right / republicans / Christian Nationalists desperately want for the US.   Notice how the Russian laws went, first they claimed they needed to protect the kids so the laws started out chipping away at LGBTQ+ rights until they finally outlawed any public / social LGBTQ+ representation.   They outlawed LGBTQ+ people.   Now they are removing trans people, denying them treatments needed to be who they know they are.  Simply erasing them in society, as they did the gays and pride rainbows.   Notice this time they used the excuse of saving the families, the traditional nuclear family of one man, a subservient wife, and how many ever kids.   Again this is the goal of the right here in the US, reverting the US society to the 1950s  / the Leave It To Beaver fiction.   Hugs

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Trolling a school board that banned pride flags

The more I read about Central Bucks Pennsylvania school board the worse it gets. 1. They tried to gerrymander their school district to stay in power 2. They banned pride flags 3. They temporarily banned a quote from a holocaust survivor 4. They spent hundreds of thousands on lawyers and PR firms to uphold their awful “Title 321” There is probably more, if you’re a resident please leave a comment about how awful they are. I make my content for everyone to enjoy for free. If you like my work please go here and buy me a coffee. https://ko-fi.com/waltermasterson

Virginia Removes LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Resources After Complaints By Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire

Because the death of LGBTQ+ kids is better than them living openly as themselves in an accepting society according to the right wing mind set.   Hugs

The Washington Post reports:

The administration of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly took down LGBTQ+ youth resources from a state website after a conservative media outlet questioned the links, records show, building on a pattern of removals derided by public health employees who say their work is being politicized.

Within hours of an inquiry from the Daily Wire, a dozen resources, including a live-chat online support group for teens, were removed from the state health department website at the direction of a Cabinet-level agency, according to emails obtained under the state’s open records law.

The presence of the materials — and their subsequent disappearance on May 31 — generated two headlines and a flurry of online reaction from conservative readers of the outlet, co-founded by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.

Read the full article.

 

 

Folks, I hope as an ally I’m not overstepping my bounds to post this classic.

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They’re pro life for only fetuses. After that, good luck.

“Preborn you’re fine, preschool you’re fucked.” – George Carlin

They WANT dead kids. From mass shootings to removing suicide prevention to allowing pedophile clergy to outlawing loving same-sex family adoption. How much more obvious can it be????

This is what fascists mean when they way they want to “protect children”. They want to protect their fantasies in which more kids are dead.

Consider how fucked up you have to be to whine and complain that the government is promoting suicide prevention resources for a vulnerable minority.

At this point, I don’t care whether Ben Shapiro’s directly pushing for this. He consistently employs people who want us dead.

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I have to stop this thread and post it as I am about 30 tabs behind. Due to making homemade ravioli with Ron.

Elagabalus14 hours ago

Ron DeeeeeSantis must wake up every morning and think to himself, “what can I do today to further destroy the lives of the little people?” And then he sets out to do it.

TomKitten196020 days ago

The problem is that they view our pride as their shame. They don’t understand that it’s not about them. They don’t have to feel anything, just acknowledge that we are fellow creatures and move on.

Dr. HAAAAAAA TomKitten196020 days ago

I was walking hand in hand with hubby, a person turned and said to me. “You have no shame”
My reply “Well thank you a very unexpected complement.”

Rocco Gibraltar AtticusP18 hours ago

Hey white trash rednecks. Guess what? We don’t need a rally or a fucking hat. We vote for true honor and respect of our country. Go put your confederate flag on the back of your tacky ass pickup truck, while you hurl empty cans of manly beer at electric cars.

Told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

bambinoitalianoa day ago

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Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo OTOH..a day ago

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Paula day ago edited

Not new, but it seemed appropriate today

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Dwight Williamsona day ago

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Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo claya day ago

IDK, I rather enjoyed seeing that paltry Trump rally in Bumblefuck, SC…especially the booing of Ms Lindsey. (Imagine being boo’d by the citizens of the very county you were born, raised & lived in. Must be how Trump felt in NYC.)

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thatotherjean a day ago
No, Brian, no. Nobody wants to “steal” your independence: they want to share in your rights. You’re treating those rights as though they belonged exclusively to white, straight, male people, to be granted to others as you see fit. No. The rights to “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” among other rights, belong to all of us.
Karma Chases Dogma  thatotherjean20 hours ago
A man you don’t even know sticks his pecker in another man you don’t even know. Tell me, Brian, exactly how is this stealing YOUR independence? The gay agenda is to live a normal life like everyone else

Kurtis Rader thatotherjean14 hours ago

Brian is objecting to the fact he no longer has the “independence” to stone gay people to death without repercussions as his religion demands. To misquote George Orwell: Some rights are more equal than others.

TennesseeEscapee BensNewLogin21 hours ago

From his perspective, the Constitution was given to us by god. What a twisted psyche he must have.

Shy Guy TennesseeEscapee17 hours ago

They literally do believe that. There’s a line of cringeful paintings of how they think of it:

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Stultusa day ago

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Paddycakes2001  jaspersdad18 hours ago
That was great. One thing I wish he had also asked when the guy said drag is inherently sexual is “Oh, does that turn you on?”

amandagirl15701 Paddycakes20019 hours ago

True story. There was a guy in the gay bar years ago, who said he was totally straight, but got off on drag queens. But he’s totally straight and it wasn’t gay at all. That’s how their minds work.

AyJayDee2 21 hours ago
There’s a real, concerted effort by the Republicans and the anti-liberal left to use RFK Jr. And Cornel West to spoil the 2024 election and help Trump win another term.

Raging Bee AyJayDee221 hours ago

Yup, just like they used Ralph W. “Lenin Lite” Nader and Jill Stein.

bearLvrFL AyJayDee219 hours ago

I ran into someone on the left who tried the “why the hating on RFK Jr?” on one of my social media pages. I responded, “Because of the belief in numerous conspiracy theories and ads that appear to have been made in Russian troll farms. No other reason, tho!” 😉

KnownDonorDad21 hours ago

and that the contributions came from a “right down the middle” mix of Republicans and Democrats.

That statement is as credible as his views on vaccines.

What, me worry?21 hours ago

He is not a democrat. He is being supported by the far right. This is their new thing–sham candidates, many of whom run as a democrat and if they win, they change their party affiliation to republican. This sure stinks of election fraud to me. I hope he gets so humiliated that he slinks away back into whatever cave he’s been hiding in and is never seen or heard from again.

In the four years since DeSantis took office, his administration has routinely stonewalled the release of public records, approved a slew of new legal exceptions aimed at keeping more information out of the public eye, and waged legal battles against open government advocates, the press and other watchdogs. DeSantis, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former U.S. attorney, is the only Florida governor known to use “executive privilege” to keep records hidden, transparency advocates and experts said.
His travel records, previously under scrutiny by the media, are now secret, thanks to a new legal exemption — one of a record number created in 2023 by the Republican-led Legislature and approved by the governor. DeSantis also has fought to conceal information about some of the most significant events during his tenure, including withholding Covid infection data and blocking release of records about the controversial relocation of dozens of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, legal filings show.

another_steve20 hours ago

Fitting, that he and Trump — two of the scummiest human beings on Planet Earth today — are the de facto leaders of today’s Republican Party.

A perfect fit — they with it.

Ross another_steve20 hours ago

are the de facto leaders of today’s Republican Party

Only because Hitler isn’t available.

TallyDink19 hours ago

I just listened to episode 2 of Rachel Maddow’s latest podcast, Deja News.
Great analysis of how the current dictator of FL is dredging up the hate & fear of others, just as the John’s Report did in the 50s & 60s.

Yves R. Mektin20 hours ago

Yeah, Desantis has been making a mockery of Florida’s so-called “sunshine laws”.

Doughty last appeared on JMG in June 2021 when he blocked the COVID vaccine mandate for federal workers in a ruling that was riddled with false anti-vaccine claims and which cited a notorious anti-vaccine activist. In September 2022 he issued a permanent injunction against vaccine mandates for teachers.

Paddycakes20012 days ago

I read through the decision. It’s bonkers. It’s all just regurgitating conspiracy theories and complaining about the decisions of Twitter and Facebook that *every* other court who has looked at this nonsense has held to be private action, not government action, and thus not violating the 1st Amendment at all. And it gripes about things done when Trump was still president. One of the plaintiffs is Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit, a/k/a the dumbest man on the Internet, and the judge complains about a Twitter suspension before Biden became president. And, of course, it claims the story about “Hunter’s laptop” was suppressed even though it was the biggest story in the country — and happened when Trump was president.

This is really nutty stuff. Not surprising, I guess. This is the same judge who credulously quoted anti-vax nonsense and granted an injunction against HHS’s requirement that healthcare workers get one of the vaccines. The Supreme Court undid that and held that “mandate” was perfectly constitutional. This judge can’t learn his lesson and control himself. Given the current composition of the 5th Circuit, though, we shouldn’t be surprised if it stays in place for a while.

Ken Elmquist2 days ago

They don’t know their flag. They don’t know the law. They don’t know the Constitution. They don’t know their history. They don’t know their Buybull. This is today’s anti-woke Republicans.

The_Wretched Ken Elmquist2 days ago

It’s not just ‘don’t know’, they actively misinform their alt-reality.

Buford2 days ago

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Treaty Of Tripoli, Article 11, 1796… passed unanimously in the US Senate by many of the actual ‘founders’.

zhera2 days ago

As a forriner I find it super weird how much the Founding Fathers are respected and ‘claimed’. It’s like a religion to some Americans.

They were just people, and more importantly, people of their time. Slave owners, white, educated (read: rich). People who wanted to do their best for their country but they were full of flaws like the rest of us.

Who gives a fuck what someone said several hundreds years ago? Oh, right: Bible humpers.

Tuxedocat PJ2 days ago edited

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“And here’s the thing,” Robinson said during his speech on Sunday. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler; whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao; whether you’re talking about Stalin; whether you’re talking about Pol Pot; whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba; or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe, it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”

BeccaM2 days ago

It’s really feeling like the late 1930s around here these days… Didn’t we mostly all used to agree that NAZIS ARE FUCKING EVIL?

BartmanLA 2 days ago
They’re not going to “tolerate” what the actual fuck??? The LGBTQ community has been TOLERATING the hate and bullshit discrimination from the right and conservatives for DECADES… Get off your fucking high horse and go do something actually worthwhile, better yet just go crawl in corner and die!

Houndentenor BartmanLA2 days ago

This is why there is no middle on the issue lgbt rights. We want equal rights; they want us to disappear. At the very least they want us all back in the closet afraid that we will be fired, ostracized or even killed if we come out. There is no middle ground between the two.

Cackalaquiano2 days ago

“We’re not gonna tolerate this rainbow pride stuff anymore.”

You’re gonna need to find a way to manage your emotions. We’re not going away

J.Martindale Cackalaquiano2 days ago edited

Who made this Nazi asshole God? I don’t give a fuck what the prick tolerates. He has way too high an opinion about his shitty, bigoted opinions.

Derek in DC2 days ago

Big shots on the right, even the supposedly educated “conservative thought leaders,” always sound so incredibly ignorant when they talk about LGBTQ+ America. They always seem to talk about us like we’re citizens of a different country (the way most of them think Puerto Ricans are citizens of a different country). Are they just pandering to the rank-n-file, or are they really so genuinely clueless? Honestly, part of me would prefer Machiavellian pandering to braindead ignorance.

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Sister_Bertrille Teslaac2 days ago

Here you go. An oldie but goodie.

Former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has called LGBTQ rights the “biggest threat” to religious morality in America.

In an interview with The Christian Post, Huckabee…decried acceptance of LGBTQ people and blamed the “Christian Church” for not doing enough to combat LGBTQ equality.

You Again? Sister_Bertrille2 days ago

Don’t forget this creepiness:

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Florida Atlantic University Halts Search For President Over Questionnaire Asking If Applicants Are “Queer”

Don’t say gay bills started out to protect little kids from gender identification or sexual orientation that might confuse them, you know little kids up to grade three or around 8 years old.  Then they raised the age to grade 8 or 14 because again they wanted to protect the children from something that would confuse them, but by that age I doubt that may kids were confused by those topics.   Then to protect the children they expand the entire ban on those topics in all public schools in all grades, I guess because young adults would be confused about gender identity and sexual orientation?  Now they have banned what can be taught in higher education and they are demanding to know the sexual orientation of potential hire.  The real goal is now and always has been to remove any representation of LGBTQ+ especially gay and trans people.  They want to wipe gay and trans people out of society.  These are real Christian nationalist racist bigots, true believers, and they will keep going until they are removed from any position of authority.  Hugs

 

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports:

Just days before the three finalists for Florida Atlantic University’s next president were set to speak at public forums, the search has been stopped in its tracks.

State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues sent a letter to Brad Levine, chairman of both the FAU Board of Trustees and the Presidential Search Committee, citing “anomalies that have been alleged in the Florida Atlantic University presidential search.” The letter, dated Friday, was posted on social media Friday evening.

The letter said Rodrigues’ office “received concerning information,” including that search committee members conducted a straw poll to rank their six preferred candidates out of a list of nearly 60 and that one candidate said a questionnaire asked if his sexual orientation is “queer” and that another survey asked whether his gender is “male, female or other” and what pronouns he uses.

Florida Politics reports:

Rodrigues said such questions appear to violate U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations forbidding questions about job applicants’ sex, sexual orientation or gender.

According to the letter, consulting firm AGB Search did not inform members of the FAU search committee that such questions would appear on the questionnaire. Rodrigues said that raises further questions about whether information was being withheld from university officials.

“Those rankings were submitted confidentially and directly to the search firm,” Rodrigues wrote. A new Florida law keeps finalists for college and university president searches confidential until a list of finalists is publicly announced.

Desantis had recommended viciously anti-LGBTQ state Sen. Randy Fine for the job, but Fine did not make the list of finalists. That, you can be sure, will play into this story as it unfolds. As you can see below, some apparently believe that the questionnaire issue is being used as excuse to ultimately give the job to Fine. FAU, based in Boca Raton with multiple satellite campuses on the southeast coast, has an enrollment of 30,000.

 

 

There are two separate issues here.
1-Baby DeSantis is having the vapors because his homophobic pick didn’t make the Final Cut. Tough.
2-Whatever we feel about the term “queer” is a separate debate. No job application should ask about sexual orientation or sexual identity. Doing potentially leads to discrimination.

 

Oklahoma Schools Superintendent: Don’t Teach That The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Was Caused By Racism

A Christian nationalist white supremacist doesn’t want a Klan slaughter of black people, taught as if skin color has anything to do with what happened.  WTF!   This is the outcome of decades of these people worming their way into positions of authority in states, and now they are making their move.  They believe leaders like DeathSantis gives them cover and acceptance.  Hugs.

The New Republic reports:

Oklahoma’s far-right superintendent of public instruction thinks that schools should teach students about the Tulsa race massacre, so long as teachers don’t actually acknowledge that the white supremacist attack was about race.

Walters held a public forum Thursday night, during which someone asked him how teaching about the Tulsa race massacre doesn’t violate his ban on CRT. “I would never tell a kid that because of your race, because of the color of your skin, or your gender or anything like that, you are less of a person or are inherently racist,” Walters said.

“That doesn’t mean you don’t judge the actions of individuals. Oh, you can. Absolutely, historically, you should. ‘This was right. This was wrong. They did this for this reason.’ But to say it was inherent in that because of their skin is where I say that is critical race theory. You’re saying that race defines a person.”

The Black Wall Street Times reports:

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre occurred when white Klan members and vigilantes stormed the Black community of Greenwood. Over the course of two days, the mob shot, looted and burned nearly 40 blocks of homes and businesses. In all, more than 300 were killed, 10,000 were left without shelter and millions in generational wealth was destroyed.

During the attack, witnesses recalled seeing planes flying over Greenwood, dropping explosive turpentine bombs to ignite more buildings. The Massacre marks the first time in American history that bombs were dropped on US soil. Every credible historical account of the Tulsa Race Massacre acknowledges white hatred toward the Black community as the cause.

Last month Walters appeared here when he announced that Oklahoma’s public schools will soon have a mandatory daily prayer, the mandatory posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, and a mandatory high school course in “Western civilization.”

Walters, who was appointed state secretary of education by Christianist Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2020, faced calls to resign in 2022 after it was revealed that a Koch-funded group that advocates for privatizing public schools was paying him $120,000/year.

Stitt rejected calls for Walters’ resignation and attempted to reappoint him again earlier this year, but the state Senate refused to allow him to hold the elected superintendent and appointed secretary of education posts at the same time.

 

Racist says racism is not racism.

Obsessed with Re-Whiting History

How novel! A bunch of racist white dudes defining what racism is. How far back are we going to regress? Not decades, but centuries.

Exactly, no one is telling them that. They are telling them about the racist history of our country. How can we do better if we don’t learn from our mistakes. Of course these are people who are nostalgic for Jim Crow and would love to bring it back.

Everyone knows the Tulsa massacre was caused by economic anxiety.

Or peaceful tourists?

“Legitimate Political Discouse!” {turpentine bomb, Ka-BOOM!}

Fascists are openly demanding America to bury its criminal past.

Each day, the Orwellian Memory Holes feature more prominently as GOP public policy.

As expected. One aspect of fascism is to bury any and all history that runs counter to the nationalistic propaganda. “Whites have always been kind and supportive to blacks, and racism is a fabrication used to justify black hatred of whites. Everything that shows this for a lie is itself a lie that must be buried under bullshit until it is forgotten.”

Morons can’t tell the difference between racism and race, but they get to head the state education department.

Oh they can tell the difference. They just don’t want to acknowledge history when it makes them feel bad

And if possible, relive and improve upon it.

““I would never tell a kid that because of your race, because of the color of your skin, or your gender or anything like that, you are less of a person or are inherently racist,” Walters

You constantly tell gay and transgender people that they are less of a person.

And that has nothing to do with being inherently racist.

I’ve heard the term ‘intrinsically disordered’ thrown about by a lot of men wearing too many sequins and far too much lace.

Racist people did racist things during racist times. Children, that is your fault because they look like you.

How do politicians make that jump? Could it be because they are racist?

Polished dumb-fuck doesn’t know the difference between racism and race. Leads me to believe he is racist.

This should be required reading in OK schools.

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If you’re working that hard to deny historical racism, it’s because you’re a modern day racist asshole who thinks their ancestors were right to fuck everyone else.

Just like Holocaust deniers would like to bring back discrimination against Jews. Same racist crazy, different continent.

Not only do they need to learn about Tulsa. That was a massacre, btw, not a riot. There were a few dozen of those that happened around the country. It wasn’t just the one event. It was a pattern of events where any attempt by African Americans to create anything was destroyed. Here is a link to videos about other events. They should learn abut Tulsa, no there were others, and perhaps study one in detail that happened closer to them (where that is applicable).

Erasing this history is the American equivalent of Holocast denial in Europe. It happened, and we need to make damn sure it doesn’t happen again. The people wanting us not to learn want to repeat this to other groups.That’s why we all need to learn.

The Tulsa Race “Riot”, the Chicago 29th Street Beach Race “Riot”, the Rosewood Race “Riot”, and pretty much most of them up to 1968 were all white people rioting, burning, and murdering in Black communities.

This nonsense is everywhere. It is just now out in the open in deep Red states.

And remember, the ones pushing it all claim to be Christians.

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This reminds me of how I was never taught about the genocide of the Native Americans in High School. Just some vague stuff about Manifest Destiny.

When Native Americans were mentioned (albeit rarely) in my high school history classes, it was as a kind of abstract way, as in “The such-and-such tribes could be found in the Great Plains States, while the so-and-so tribes lived farther east/west/north/south.” “The Navajo tribes now live on reservations in the Southwestern US.”

In a similar vein, Manifest Destiny was good for America, opening up the western frontier, etc., don’t recall ANY mention of Native Americans.

No context whatsoever.

Why the land was empty just waiting to filled with white people. Of course not mentioned was the fact that the land was full of people before 1492 and the new fatal diseases would burn through them like an out of control wild fire.

Don’t be surprised if this guy succeeds Christian nationalist Kevin Stitt as governor in 2026 when Stitt is term-limited out of office.

I guarantee it. Walters constantly says inflammatory things just to keep his name in the news. Supposedly pornoghaphic books in school libraries. Claims liberals are brainwashing kids to be Trans. Even pulled the furry/litter box in school restrooms nonsense when he was campaigning.

If he runs he’ll win.

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This incredibly stupid man proves that the CRT panic is complete bullshit.

 

Keep in mind that what racists call “critical race theory” is a fictional chimera used by racists to justify abolishing any and all facts that show how racist they really are. Actual CRT as such is a very specific, arcane area of case law taught in law school and cannot be taught outside of that context

Student: So you’re saying that all the perps being white and all the victims being black was just like – totally accidental or something?

Teacher: According to our state board of education, that’s the God’s honest truth.

[entire class erupts in groans, eye-rolling, boos]

Student: Fuck outta here dude – this is a joke, right?

That’s what blows my mind. So if the massacre wasn’t about race what the hell was it about? Are they just going to say one group decided to burn down the entire town for no reason? Yes, tis an eternal mystery! They sure want a whitewashed history don’t they? Idiots!