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uziq wrote:

they want to be addressed using a simple letter change.

isn't the problem, here, the people who make querulous and inane objections?

Getting bent out of shape demanding a letter change seems inane.

Can't be long before someone gets cancelled for not getting LGBTIQX in the right order or misses a letter.

How are lesbians listed before gays anyway?

Dilbert_X wrote:

uziq wrote:

they want to be addressed using a simple letter change.

isn't the problem, here, the people who make querulous and inane objections?

Getting bent out of shape demanding a letter change seems inane.

but they're not only demanding a letter change, are they? it's about recognition in a wider sense. as i said, these movements aren't only and exclusively spending their time tinkering with letters.

and i don't know that the great majority of them do get 'bent out of shape' when someone innocuously uses the wrong term. it's when 'culture warriors' decide to take them to task over their whole project that it becomes a problem. which is really what this is about, isn't it? you're not upset about the replacement of a letter: you're pissed that a group want equality, or recognition, or 'to take over the other groups' or whatever.

#copthread

Years of rot, more than enough stuff to make you feel ill.

24-part tweet wrote:

Three police officers went to an *elementary* school in Tennessee & arrested four Black girls.

One girl fell to her knees. Another threw up. Police handcuffed the youngest, an 8 yo with pigtails.

Their supposed crime? Watching some boys fight — and not stopping them. (THREAD)

more: https://twitter.com/bykenarmstrong/stat … 35297?s=20

At-a-glance-deconstruction (ignoring revenues for a moment), you're screwed here whether or not you get involved in a fight. At my school, being attacked was cause for suspension. Maybe even trying to break one up: suspension. There, just being near a fight is an arrest. In-fucking-credible.

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/blac … esnt-exist

I met my union president for yadda yadda yadda. We were talking about my future goals. I said I wanted a MA in X Leadership. He warned that "advisory positions go to people with political connections". I was dismayed at that. My university professors were supportive of me going into the program.

The district I am doing whatever in is minority majority at this point. Leadership is still overwhelmingly white and I took "politically connected" to means "white politically connected".

I felt bad about that for a little while but I decided to suck it up and go into the program anyway. Spite is a good motivator too. Besides I don't forsee the traditional white political establishment holding on for another 10 or 15 years. Literally don't have the numbers.

Four thoughts about this...

1. Do you remember in Game of Thrones when the eunuch warned that Little Finger would be happy to be king of the ashes? Yeah, I get that totally. The white political establishment here has been accommodating enough but I would throw them under the bus if it meant getting a supervisor role. Après moi, le déluge Reminds me of decolonization in Africa. So many post-colonial dictators came from western schools and military academies. Oftentimes displayed little loyalty to their old masters. "The Europeans taught us to play poker after they won all the chips".

2. I am not oblivious to the fact that all of the BLM stuff opened up opportunities though I am still a little skeptical of the utility of all of those fires. The riots were a good show though.

3. I have said many times before that "not all minorities are the same". Black people getting gunned down by police is a different issue than half breed minorities wanting to get into leadership positions. It's not a good situation when all of that gets mixed into the same narrative.

4. We could probably avoid all of this racial status anxiety if we just created more positions of influence for people to move into. I don't like that I need to join local political organizations in order to become a middle level supervisor. That's all I really want. A mid level position.

I only want a mid-level position. I don't want to run a Reign of Terror. I just want better job conditions, higher pay, and more chances to plan field trips with other teachers. I have a plan...

I am going to join the Democrat party and start doing events to build "political connections".

You will miss your democrat governor for life once you get a Republican in office someday. Fucking Chris Christie.

In her newly released memoir, Going There, Katie Couric writes that she edited out comments from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in which the Supreme Court justice accused those who kneel during the national anthem of showing “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.” Couric, the Daily Mail reports, claims that she believed the 83-year-old justice was “elderly and probably didn’t fully understand the question.” Couric, who fashions herself an intrepid journalist, says she was “protecting” the “Notorious RGB” — a woman who until her last days was offering decisions on the most important legal questions in the nation and celebrated widely by the Left — from political backlash.

I never liked Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The day she died I was the first to criticize her for holding on as long she did instead of retiring. Glad to see I was vindicated regarding her personality.

At this point, judges are just another type of politician in this era. Sad really.

RBG was an educated Jew like Karl Marx himself.

The story gets worse. The full quote is really deplorable.

Ginsburg went on to say that such protests show a 'contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.'

She said: 'Which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from...as they became older they realize that this was youthful folly. And that's why education is important.'

RBG: Go back to Africa and read a book.

The day after the sit-down, the head of public affairs for the Supreme Court emailed Couric to say the late justice had 'misspoken' and asked that it be removed from the story.

The SCOTUS has a press office? Entourage?

What a disaster. Like I said, confirmed every thing I thought about her.

It's pretty well-known that older judges on the SCOTUS are pretty much figureheads whose legal opinions are produced by their clerks based on their previous opinions.

Remember when Brett Kavanaugh threw a temper tantrum about a democratic witch hunt? Lol

It was a democratic witch-hunt. Should people be barred from jobs for unrelated things they did as teens? Maybe did as a teen?

He didn't even rape her. He gave her a bad experience. Let he who has not given a woman a bad experience cast the first stone.