Critical race theory and elections

[RikidyBones]

You: Again, he's not even food!

You may want to read it again, chief.

 

[RikidyBones]

I wish we could remove the research moratoriums leading to medicinal use. There has been some anecdotal information that a single hyperdose of LSD administered in a clinical environment helps rewire the brains of people with PTSD and chronic generalized pain, both of which I live with. I live in a medical marijuana state now, so my phantom pain is under control without any of the side effects of gabapentin. If I move for a new job to a state without medical permissions, I will have to live with the pain as I do not tolerate gabapentin and I will not violate the law of the state I live in regarding procurement and usage.

It's a delicate dance, prohibition laws and medical research. One should not exacerbate the other.

I'll definitely sign off on dmt, lsd, shroom research. It's also interesting how often an atheist will change to believing in God. Not that how they perceive God matters but it improves their lives, happiness, etc. I'm also not saying people who believe in God inherently have those attributes. It's just an interesting collection of anecdotes that warrants legitimate research in a goal to see if it helps people.

 

[n_huffhines]

You may want to read it again, chief.

It's still a stupid point. What part of my response made you think I needed to re-read anything, LOL? It's like you don't even get the burn.

 

[RikidyBones]

It's still a stupid point.

Your analogy is, yes.

 

[Rickyvol77]

I wish we could remove the research moratoriums leading to medicinal use. There has been some anecdotal information that a single hyperdose of LSD administered in a clinical environment helps rewire the brains of people with PTSD and chronic generalized pain, both of which I live with. I live in a medical marijuana state now, so my phantom pain is under control without any of the side effects of gabapentin. If I move for a new job to a state without medical permissions, I will have to live with the pain as I do not tolerate gabapentin and I will not violate the law of the state I live in regarding procurement and usage.

It's a delicate dance, prohibition laws and medical research. One should not exacerbate the other.

The problem is that medical marijuana is NOT the issue we are debating, it's recreational use of it and other harder drugs. Most physicians, while lauding the few things that marijuana actually has positive effects on, will tell you that recreational usage is not appropriate or healthy and causes many more problems.

 

[Rickyvol77]

And none of that would increase if drugs were legal. Alcoholism didn't increase with the end of prohibition.

That's not true... you allow widespread drug use, you will have what you have on the west coast, used syringes everywhere, property crimes going out the roof, increase in homelessness, EDs being overrun, and police/fire/EMS response times to emergency calls being delayed by an hour due to massive calls for ODs

 

[hog88]

That's not true... you allow widespread drug use, you will have what you have on the west coast, used syringes everywhere, property crimes going out the roof, increase in homelessness, EDs being overrun, and police/fire/EMS response times to emergency calls being delayed by an hour due to massive calls for ODs

No, you have that in places like San Fran because they aren't enforcing vagrancy and other laws against littering.

Holy ****, do you actually believe people that never used will all of a sudden ruin their lives because it's legal? Drugs being illegal are keeping a very minute amount of people from ever experimenting.

 

[AshG]

The problem is that medical marijuana is NOT the issue we are debating, it's recreational use of it and other harder drugs. Most physicians, while lauding the few things that marijuana actually has positive effects on, will tell you that recreational usage is not appropriate or healthy and causes many more problems.

I have lost count of the number of fellow musicians and former students who have thrown their careers away because they needed more and more and more to keep up their "artistic process." They don't listen when multiple people try to help, either.

They call it recreational, I call it escapist.

 

[Rickyvol77]

No, you have that in places like San Fran because they aren't enforcing vagrancy and other laws against littering.

Holy ****, do you actually believe people that never used will all of a sudden ruin their lives because it's legal? Drugs being illegal are keeping a very minute amount of people from ever experimenting.

I am saying that the fallback will be much much worse, because what you are talking about in SF, is a DIRECT RESULT of drug usage. Police are directed not to handle those "minor crimes" in some cases because they are linked to "legal" drug use, and in other cases because there are SO MANY OD/Drug crime calls, they are overwhelmed which has caused other crimes to skyrocket

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

I'm always being recorded when I teach. I'm addicted to self-reflection.

I also live in abject fear of having anything I say or do be used against me by an angry student, so when I'm not recorded I still act like I am.

This is literally the only place I let my hair down at all.

You might be the one off then. If i had kids there is no way they would be in public school

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Ohio moms speak out after private school Expels Their Children over critical race theory pushback

Two Ohio mothers spoke out Wednesday morning after their children were expelled from a private school due to the mothers pushing back against critical race theory.

Columbus Academy is denying re-enrollment to several students, alleging that their mothers breached part of their contract by leading a public campaign against the school's purported attempt to "indoctrinate" students with left-wing ideas.

Ohio moms speak out after private school expels their children over critical race theory pushback

 

[n_huffhines]

Ohio moms speak out after private school Expels Their Children over critical race theory pushback

Two Ohio mothers spoke out Wednesday morning after their children were expelled from a private school due to the mothers pushing back against critical race theory.

Columbus Academy is denying re-enrollment to several students, alleging that their mothers breached part of their contract by leading a public campaign against the school's purported attempt to "indoctrinate" students with left-wing ideas.

Ohio moms speak out after private school expels their children over critical race theory pushback

Literally, nothing to see here. A contract was broken and the consequence followed. A free society at work.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

CNN Scolds Critics of critical race theory, says concerned parents don’t understand what it is

CNN was accused of "gaslighting" and portraying critics of critical race theory as "idiots" after airing a report that suggested concerned parents don't understand the contentious theory that has swept the nation in recent months.

"Everything wrong w/ the modern media: Rather than interviewing subjects of a story & reporting their comments, the reporter starts w/ her own preconceived notion — these parents are idiots — cherrypicks a few for mocking, then shapes her report around advancing her own narrative," Grabien Media founder Tom Elliott observed.

CNN ran a long segment on Wednesday's New Day" that mocked parents protesting critical race theory, and co-host Brianna Keilar introduced reporter Elle Reeve by asking, "Do these vocal opponents of critical race theory actually understand fully what it is?"

CNN scolds critics of critical race theory, says concerned parents don’t understand what it is

 

[Franklin Pierce]

2nd Largest U.S. Defense Contractor Goes Woke: White, Straight, Christian Men Must ‘Identify Your Privilege,’ ‘Participate In Reparations,’ ‘Decolonize Your Bookshelf’

The second-largest defense contractor in America is imposing an “anti-racism” program using critical race theory, arguing that white or straight or Christian men should “identify your privilege,” “participate in reparations,” and “decolonize your bookshelf.”

Rufo told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, “They launched this, really, political indoctrination program, teaching employees to judge each other on the basis of race; asking employees, actually, to identify one another on the basis of race during conversations. They provided specific rules for white employees; how to speak to black employees, and they even said that employees should reject the principle of equality and favor equality of outcomes, which is a synonym for socialism, maybe communism. And it’s really astonishing because this is one of the largest corporations in the world. It manufactures key defense armaments, and yet it has been captured by this woke ideology that seems to be no the dominant force not only in education and in government but also in business.”

Rufo continued, “The program is centered on ‘intersectionality,’ a core component of critical race theory that divides the world into competing identity groups, with race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and other categories defining an individual’s place within the hierarchy of oppression. Raytheon then asks white employees to deconstruct their identities and ‘identify [their] privilege.’ The company argues that white, straight, Christian men are at the top of the oppression hierarchy—and must work on ‘recognizing [their] privilege’ and ‘step aside’ for minorities.”

2nd Largest U.S. Defense Contractor Goes Woke: White, Straight, Christian Men Must ‘Identify Your Privilege,’ ‘Participate In Reparations,’ ‘Decolonize Your Bookshelf’ | The Daily Wire

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Interesting. I have known some pretty gifted people that use drugs. I have known some geniuses that were full blown addicts.

So have I. Apologies for not explaining myself very well. I am positive there are many people far intellectually superior than me that abuse those drugs but that unwise decision to use crack or cocaine negates those gifts IMO. I went to HS with some people that were into nose candy or basing. A couple of them overdosed and died before reaching their twenties. The choice to abuse them long term can cause some permanent damage to the heart, brain, and other internal organs. I tried coke a couple of times in HS and it certainly was not for me.

 

[Wireless1]

Do you not understand that the analogy is explaining stuff like the war on drugs? For example, like how crack is punished more harshly than cocaine. The guys carrying out those rules today probably aren't doing it for racial reasons, but the guys who made those rules 50 years ago partially did that because they were influenced by racial attitudes. That's what the analogy is saying.

You do understand that the reason crack has a stiffer penalty was because it was so much more available at a lower price, and easily manufactured that the penalties had to be stiffer to discourage its use, the same as meth cheap drugs ruin more lives.

 

[n_huffhines]

You do understand that the reason crack has a stiffer penalty was because it was so much more available at a lower price, and easily manufactured that the penalties had to be stiffer to discourage its use, the same as meth cheap drugs ruin more lives.

I realize that's how they sold it to you. They did a good job.

You probably didn't even bother to verify if the bolded was true at the time (I doubt any substantial evidence existed to support that idea).

 

[hog88]

You do understand that the reason crack has a stiffer penalty was because it was so much more available at a lower price, and easily manufactured that the penalties had to be stiffer to discourage its use, the same as meth cheap drugs ruin more lives.

And that failed.

 

[Wireless1]

Ohio moms speak out after private school Expels Their Children over critical race theory pushback

Two Ohio mothers spoke out Wednesday morning after their children were expelled from a private school due to the mothers pushing back against critical race theory.

Columbus Academy is denying re-enrollment to several students, alleging that their mothers breached part of their contract by leading a public campaign against the school's purported attempt to "indoctrinate" students with left-wing ideas.

Ohio moms speak out after private school expels their children over critical race theory pushback

If you are paying for your kid to go to school there vote with your wallet, find a new school that teaches your values.....even if that means you have to move.....or home school. I feel this is the same situation as the Christian baker force to make a special cake.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

School ‘Lost Its Way’ To ‘Woke Culture’: Couple Who Donated $1.35 Million To Catholic School Sue For Money Back

• A family gifted a Tampa Catholic school $1.35 million and now wants their money back, citing fraud and lack of commitment to Catholic teaching, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
• Last week, the Scarpo family filed a 13-count, 45-page lawsuit for their donation to be rescinded, the Tampa Bay Times reported. They said the school has “lost its way” by welcoming a divisive “woke culture” with a focus on “gender identity, human sexuality and pregnancy termination among other hot button issues,” which is being seen in schools across the country.

A family that gifted a Tampa Catholic school $1.35 million several years ago now wants their money back, citing fraud and lack of commitment to Catholic teaching, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

Anthony and Barbara Scarpo gave the money to what they previously called “our cherished” Academy of the Holy Names at a fundraising gala in 2017, the Tampa Bay Times reported. They requested their donation be used toward the school’s master plan and scholarships for disadvantaged students. (RELATED: Illinois Teacher Sues School District Over ‘Illegal’ Critical Race Theory Trainings)

Last week, the Scarpo’s filed a 13-count, 45-page lawsuit for their donation to be rescinded, the Tampa Bay Times reported. They said the school has “lost its way,” with a divisive “woke culture” focusing on “gender identity, human sexuality and pregnancy termination among other hot button issues,” which has been seen in schools across the country.

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The lawsuit also highlights the couple’s dissatisfaction with the schools handling of race issues and said students are taught to feel guilty for being white and having money to pay for and attend the academy, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Not only does the couple want their donation returned, they also want a tuition refund for what they have already paid to be donated Catholic charities of their choosing.

School ‘Lost Its Way’ To ‘Woke Culture’: Couple Who Donated $1.35 Million To Catholic School Sue For Money Back

 

[Franklin Pierce]

REVEALED: $55K-a-year Corlears Elementary school in Manhattan is among dozens in the US teaching children from book featuring 'whiteness' contract with the Devil

• The book, Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, features a Demonic-looking figure that offers a 'whiteness contract'
• The contract grants 'stolen land and riches' to anyone who signs it, but it will 'mess endlessly' with the lives of loved ones and all people of color

A private Manhattan elementary school which charges $55,000-a-year tuition is among dozens of schools across the US teaching from children's book that features a shadowy devil figure that offers the reader a 'whiteness contract.'

The book Not My Idea is promoted in some fashion in more than two dozen schools and school districts across the country. It features a page in which a shadowy devil figure offers the reader a harmful 'whiteness contract'

Anti-critical race theory activist Chris Rufo published a list on Thursday of schools and districts across more than a dozen states, including one Native American
tribal school, that promotes the book Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham.

Rufo says the book, 'traffics in the noxious principles of race essentialism, collective guilt and anti-whiteness.'

Corlears School in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, which charges $55,000 a year tuition for pre-K to fifth grade students, has recommended the book for children over 8 years old, Fox News reported. At least 31 other schools across the US are also teaching from the book, according to a list compiled by Rufo.

The book featuring the 'whiteness' contract, Not My Idea, features a figure inspired by the devil, with a red tail and all, offering the reader a 'contract binding you to whiteness,' which if signed will net them 'stolen land, stolen riches and special favors,' but will cause one's 'soul' to 'mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones and all fellow humans of COLOR.'

One of the pages in the book claims 'whiteness is a bad deal. It always was'

The pages in question feature a 'whiteness contract' being offered by a shadowy devil figure

Private Manhattan school teaches children from book that features 'whiteness' contract with devil | Daily Mail Online

 

[KB5252]

Fight racism by practicing it!

Why would anyone agree to teach this to children? Pure racism and very reminiscent of imagery used by the Nazis to soften the public up to accomplish the solution to "the Jewish problem".


Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[Electric Orange]

 

[BreatheUT]

REVEALED: $55K-a-year Corlears Elementary school in Manhattan is among dozens in the US teaching children from book featuring 'whiteness' contract with the Devil

• The book, Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham, features a Demonic-looking figure that offers a 'whiteness contract'
• The contract grants 'stolen land and riches' to anyone who signs it, but it will 'mess endlessly' with the lives of loved ones and all people of color

A private Manhattan elementary school which charges $55,000-a-year tuition is among dozens of schools across the US teaching from children's book that features a shadowy devil figure that offers the reader a 'whiteness contract.'

The book Not My Idea is promoted in some fashion in more than two dozen schools and school districts across the country. It features a page in which a shadowy devil figure offers the reader a harmful 'whiteness contract'

Anti-critical race theory activist Chris Rufo published a list on Thursday of schools and districts across more than a dozen states, including one Native American
tribal school, that promotes the book Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham.

Rufo says the book, 'traffics in the noxious principles of race essentialism, collective guilt and anti-whiteness.'

Corlears School in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, which charges $55,000 a year tuition for pre-K to fifth grade students, has recommended the book for children over 8 years old, Fox News reported. At least 31 other schools across the US are also teaching from the book, according to a list compiled by Rufo.

The book featuring the 'whiteness' contract, Not My Idea, features a figure inspired by the devil, with a red tail and all, offering the reader a 'contract binding you to whiteness,' which if signed will net them 'stolen land, stolen riches and special favors,' but will cause one's 'soul' to 'mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones and all fellow humans of COLOR.'

One of the pages in the book claims 'whiteness is a bad deal. It always was'

The pages in question feature a 'whiteness contract' being offered by a shadowy devil figure

Private Manhattan school teaches children from book that features 'whiteness' contract with devil | Daily Mail Online

Leftist nut job.


Out of the Box | Stand Up! with Anastasia Higginbotham at CPL

 

[Franklin Pierce]

NYC School's Faculty rebels against principal who 'conspired to get rid of White Teachers' and who 'definitely has something against white people'

• High School for Law and Public Service principal Paula Lev is facing probe by NYC Dept of Education for allegedly discriminating against white teachers

A Washington Heights high school principal is facing a probe by the New York City Department of Education for allegedly discriminating against white teachers.

The probe was launched after faculty members at High School for Law and Public Service accused principal Paula Lev of discriminating against staff and conspiring to get a white colleague fired.

The complaint, which was obtained by the New York Post, claims that Lev 'flagrantly but unsuccessfully attempted to divide our school by race' and told an employee that she 'was going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren't doing anything for the kids of our community.'

Paula Lev, the principal of the High School for Law and Public Service, is facing a probe by the New York City Department of Education for allegedly discriminating against white teachers, according to a complaint filed with the Department of Education's Office of Equal Opportunity

A faculty member writes in the OEO complaint that Lev, 39, who is Dominican, approached him with a plan to terminate an unidentified white, female employee. Lev asked him to get a state education certification so he would have more qualifications than the white employee and Lev could fire her as 'excess' staff.

'Ms. Lev has asked me to conspire with her on a couple of occasions in getting rid of my colleague,' the faculty member wrote in the complaint.

'She also stated to me in Spanish that she was 'going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren't doing anything for the kids of our community. I believe Ms. Lev is not suited for the position of principal because of the comments she has made to me about white people and the malicious ways in which she thinks and speaks. She is not fit to be a leader of a school.

'As a school staff, we have lost confidence, creditability, trust, and most importantly we have lost hope in Ms. Lev as a principal at the High School for Law & Public Service.'

It is unclear if Lev knew about the complaint, but on the last day of school she laid off the faculty member who filed it and said he was no longer needed at the school and should look for work elsewhere in the DOE.

'He blew the whistle on her and a week later he was (let go),' an unnamed source told the New York Post.

NYC school's faculty files complaint against principal they say is racist against white teachers | Daily Mail Online