Welcome to our community

Be apart of something great, join today!

Register Log in

GOP slouches into the crazy to be born as MAGA ~ GENERAL

  • Thread starter Thread starter nycfan
  • Start date Start date
  • Replies: 916
  • Views: 38K
  • Politics 
EyeballKid said:
This seems like a bunch of nothing.

We already know much of what he claims we need to study more about. We already know that ultra-processed foods are bad, that whole foods are good, etc.

We don’t need to suddenly sink a whole bunch of resources into studies about things we already know.

The issue is—and will remain—that whole foods are more expensive to grow, have shorter shelf lives, and take far more natural resources to produce and distribute than processed foods.

So unless RFK Jr intends to give money to poor people to buy better foods, and to enforce stricter government regulations in areas considered food deserts, this is all just claptrap.
Click to expand...
Yes, we need to work to increase access, but this administration is doing the opposite of what is needed.
 
I expect the school administration, most of its teachers, the school superintendent, and the school board are as Trumplican as the rest of that county.

I was last in Fannin County in October. I’ve never seen so many Trump, Confederate Battle, and Don’t Tread on Me Flags in a lightly populated area.

I expect hardly anyone knew what the play was about - then they learned and objected to it.
 
donbosco said:
School chickened out...
Click to expand...
Unfortunately there have been far, far too many cases of schools, school districts, universities and colleges, law firms, businesses, etc. chickening out and simply caving to this administration. I have a couple of English teacher friends in a NC school district with a good many years under their belt, and they told me that they weren't able to assign their usual summer reading for next year's students because the district is quietly, unofficially "looking at" the novels that are traditionally assigned and hasn't granted approval to use them this year. The novels they mentioned that they usually assign for summer reading are To Kill a Mockingbird and The Life of Frederick Douglass, but there are others that are also being "examined." They told me they have taught both novels for years with no trouble. The idea that these two novels are suddenly un-American and offensive to anyone pretty much says it all about where we are today as a nation. Anybody who says that this administration, and MAGA Nation in general, isn't creating real fear and suppression of free speech and thought simply hasn't been paying attention.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Unfortunately there have been far, far too many cases of schools, school districts, universities and colleges, law firms, businesses, etc. chickening out and simply caving to this administration. I have a couple of English teacher friends in a NC school district with a good many years under their belt, and they told me that they weren't able to assign their usual summer reading for next year's students because the district is quietly, unofficially "looking at" the novels that are traditionally assigned and hasn't granted approval to use them this year. The novels they mentioned that they usually assign for summer reading are To Kill a Mockingbird and The Life of Frederick Douglass, but there are others that are also being "examined." They told me they have taught both novels for years with no trouble. The idea that these two novels are suddenly un-American and offensive to anyone pretty much says it all about where we are today as a nation. Anybody who says that this administration, and MAGA Nation in general, isn't creating real fear and suppression of free speech and thought simply hasn't been paying attention.
Click to expand...
Hulk Hogan Freedom GIF
 
altmin said:
Everyone have their irony meters working?


www.friendlyatheist.com

Georgia high school cancels "The Crucible" after complaints of "demonic" themes

Critics accuse Fannin County High School of caving to hysteria over witchcraft in a play about hysteria over witchcraft
www.friendlyatheist.com www.friendlyatheist.com
Click to expand...
The fact that the drama teacher was fired a few weeks before the production is a bit weird, too — maybe unrelated, but whatever that was about may have made it easier for the administration to capitulate to complaints about the show.

But it is nutso … apparently the complaining parent never heard of The Crucible before attending the play?

Did the students copy the opening dance scene from the Suspiria remake or something?

Luca Guadagnino Dakota Jonhson GIF by Filmin
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top