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@FreeBlckThought
I’m a Black middle school history teacher & I purposely assign classics to my students. These books have stood the test of time and have great insights into the thinking & culture of generations past. My students are part of human history not just the history of their ethnicity.
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@FreeBlckThought
Progressives don't care that much about educating Black youth, but care very much about indoctrinating Black youth. Student aggrievement is more important than student achievement.
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@Linkoln63081697
@wil_da_beast630
I'm Black and teach at a 98% minority middle school and I can vouch for the cruelty & bullying inflicted on the handful of white students who attend our school. Racial prejudice and tribalism is not limited to whites or whiteness... It is human and universal trait.
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@sullydish
I’m a Black teacher & I am perfectly able to teach Black US History without CRT informed ideology as an overlay. Activists are conflating ideology with history. These activists would be aghast if teachers taught the Civil War through the ideological lens of the “ lost cause.”
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@GlennLoury
@pepperdine
What I hear from most of my POC middle school students is that they think that Asian kid is actually smarter than them, they have the built in excuse that "doing the work" is in fact useless. They are fixated on "smart" not effort. My Asian students believe just the opposite.
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@CHSommers
@Forbes
According to this writer civility, non violence & morality are white traits. And Black people, such as myself, are just immoral violent savages who really did need whites to train us into the ways of civilization. How is this not recycling slave era racism?
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@BillKristol
What's the point of being educated in a Catholic school if it doesn't inform your character and behavior? The song/hymn I remember most from my years in Catholic school; "They Will Know We Are Christians From Our Love"
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@100kAintNoMoney
@pewresearch
The very best way to make $$$ is through education. Given the abysmal test scores and grades of Black Americans, this result is not all surprising. The solution is under our control. We need to take academic excellence seriously.
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@omni_american
@USC
Slaves & immigrants did "work" in the fields or "field work." So logically shouldn't USC also drop the use of the "work" as in Social work, as well?
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@CEJacksonLaw
Senseless. It would be analogous to me, Black & Latino, coming out as non-racial. No one in the real world is going to experience me as having no race/ethnicity whatsoever. It's a thought experiment completely disconnected from the living in the world populated with other people.
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@IsaiahLCarter
I don't think this will actually help, apologizing to these people never helps.
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@ScottGreenfield
I’m a Black teacher and this is an example of great teaching, bringing in realia to illustrate a historical concept. People who are complaining are using victim hood to gain power and control in an act of anti-white revenge.
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@shxwngod
@wil_da_beast630
Asians are the poorest demographic in NYC, yet the murder rate among Asians is disproportionately low. A clear sign that the link between poverty and crime is weak. Culture is more explanatory the poverty when it comes to crime.
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@MrDanielBuck
All my 7th graders read the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave." I argue against Kendi and his ilk in school. Douglass is a perfect antidote to Kendi.
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@wil_da_beast630
"... smart, loving & artistic 20-year-old." If Blacks can't call a dangerous life threatening criminal a criminal, because of their color & the circumstances of their death, our credibility as honest objective participants in the discussion of race is seriously damaged.
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@neontaster
@PhillyS69689421
I'm a Black kid who grew up privileged in all white upper middle class neighborhoods in Orange County, California. I had all the advantages that my white classmates and neighbors had. My experience is that class advantages thoroughly outweigh racial advantages or disadvantages.
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@RealRudeKevin
@JessieEnloe
Not always sure about the good intentions. Many Progressive activists are very fond of stating that "discomfort" of the majority is a key goal, and consequence, to these kinds of disruptive efforts.
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@holybullies
@sullydish
I'm a person of color and this statistic is true. Sorry it hurts, but it hurts our community more to ignore it and yet again blame it and explain it away as racism; so that we may do nothing and nothing changes. This is a serious issue in our community that needs to be addressed.
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@sullydish
Notice that these campaigns are overwhelmingly women specific. You don't read about "people with prostrate or testicular cancer," or "people with erectile disfunction," or "people with low sperm counts."
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@wil_da_beast630
Being at the Unitarian Universalist Church National Convention a few years ago & finding their was a racially segregated Black area I could go into, but not my white husband. My parents marched in the streets to end segregation. I vowed never to go to a UU Convention again.
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@RealDianeYap
People generally want to live in area with people who are like themselves. There are ethnic enclaves in all major cities. Only whites are called out for wanting to live within an area with people they perceive to be like themselves.
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@LiptZipt
@MarkMooch
@RahawaHaile
@KendraWrites
I'm a black hiker that has hiked in 25 National Parks for the last 30 years. My photo was taken while hiking in Redwoods National Park. I have never faced harassment or been made to feel uncomfortable. We "belong" wherever we are on the trails... Want to belong? Start showing up!
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@MorganHPhillips
@Miss_Snuffy
I'm Black and I teach at a 98% POC middle school. I am known on my campus for my polite & well behaved students. My students learn very well in my class because of the lack of disruptions. Are you saying that my wanting kids to learn at the optimum level is based on racism?
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@sfmcguire79
Wow! Would a gay white man, like my husband, be able to apply for this job as a member of a "minoritized gender identity group," or does this mean just trans and non-binary people can apply?
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@jonkay
@TorontoMet
The “new racism” now sees racial segregation as a potential societal good. All the greatest hits of past racism are having a revival since the focus has swung away from a focus on morality to issues of identity. As it did in the past, identity trumps values and morality.
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@krislytle
@JasonReidUK
Yes. It was Brandi's set at the Newport Folk Festival that she basically turned over to Joni.
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@BartBarts697
@JerBurk
@StevenTShapiro
@DrIbram
I'm Black & grew up in a middle class neighborhood and went to "Great Schools 10" middle class schools. I now teach in a poor working class minority neighborhood can attest to the truth of what McWhorter is describing. I see the vast difference that class makes in my classroom.
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@eva_kurilova
This a religion & we are dealing with theology. Disagreement is akin to Medieval heresy. Just teaching about Galileo today & how he showed church clergy the moons revolving around other planets, but they had to stick with geocentrism because it was Catholic dogma & Biblical.
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@wil_da_beast630
I'm a democrat and this is exactly what I teach my 8th grade US History students. The abolitionist position was having slaves count as 0 people in terms of a states representation in Congress. As is, the 3/5's compromise gave the slave states too much power in representation.
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@wil_da_beast630
Overkill, but what is police protocol in a situation like this? When facing, what the police believe is an armed suspect, who has already shot at them and is wearing a ski mask, they cant't stop and have a conversation about which one of them is going to fire at the suspect.
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@michael_epps
@FreeBlckThought
@Rhetors_of_York
"White privilege" is getting to choose which black people to listen to and which black people to ignore.
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@wesyang
I was a POC at a UC campus. The "safe space" I needed was a quiet well lit place to study. These people are ridiculous & make the struggles of POC seem trivial & stupid. These "anti-racists" increase racism by crying wolf at the safest space for POC to exist in America.
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@janetfgrau
@sullydish
Middle school teacher, I do see it as “ trendy” in my school. The “tell” is that the interest in this stuff is almost exclusively limited to girls. Boys are ok being gay, but no girl at school will identifies gay. Girls seem obsessed with identifying as any thing that’s “queer”
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@kittypurrzog
What does this even mean? Does it mean I will treat trans person as the sex they want to be? Yes. Do I have to say they are the biological sex they wish to be? No. They want it both ways, to be singled out as trans, and to be the sex they wish to be and not singled out as trans.
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@FreeBlckThought
Thereby making systemic, the racist idea that white males are intellectually superior, by people who believe themselves to be vehemently advocating against the systemic racist idea that white males are intellectually superior.
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@TheFamousArtBR
Why can’t I as a Black man be non-racial and not identify with all of the available races?
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@wil_da_beast630
@sophielouisecc
The French team could be a 100% non-white & that would be celebrated as diversity. Diversity is only reserved, and desired, for European/White institutions. Diversity, equity & inclusion is a form of revenge & punishment intended for, & to only be imposed on, Whites.
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@MorganHPhillips
@Miss_Snuffy
What is harsh and why is it racist coming from POC teachers? I'm famously strict at my school. My students report that they are afraid of misbehaving in my class because they know there will be immediate and certain consequences. How is this racist as you are insinuating.
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@IROCMIKE
@wil_da_beast630
54% of homecide victims are black, we are 13% of the population. Your proposal appears to posit that 80% of the perpetrators of these crimes not be investigated, punished, or incacerated in order that our justice system reflect the population demographic of the country.
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@ConceptualJames
As a POC queer I'm glad I live in "colonized" country where I can live under laws that, in my state, outlaw discrimination and legally recognize husband. In many untouched un-colonized countries I would be in hiding, under threat of imprisonment, or worse. A love that dare not.
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@RickMasters99
@wil_da_beast630
I have a white friend who went to live in Tokyo and was aghast at the number of clubs and bars he was not allowed in.
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@eyeslasho
As a biracial person who looks Black and if forced to, as I often am, identify as Black, you just don't appear to understand the issue. Obama was always seen as Black because he looked Black. That is the issue with Harris and myself.
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@CalifManx
@jonkay
The reason there had to be the "One Spoon" treaty in the first place between these indigenous groups was that they were constantly fighting over land. Having designs, fighting, and eventually taking over other peoples land is not something unknown outside of mindset of Whiteness
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@Miss_Snuffy
Look at the US. Discipline & consequences are now considered racist and test scores are going down, especially acute in poor Black & brown communities. UK don't follow our lead.
Students are prevented from learning if there is chaos in the classroom!
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@sandylocks
@AttorneyCrump
2/3 of unarmed police shooting victims are not Black. Almost never seen a video of one, they don’t go viral because they don’t fit the White/Black narrative. They also don’t serve the purpose of obscuring the obscene disparity of Black murder which our community wants hidden.
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@FreeBlckThought
People who push this type of Social Justice agenda believe this is the ONLY way to combat racism. All other approaches are illegitimate, labeled racist, and considered heretical. This is theology not debatable public policy.
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@FreeBlckThought
Mostly White progressives expect Blacks to live with an amount of crime that would be wholly unacceptable in neighborhoods progressives typically live in. The racist thinking behind this idea appears to be that Blacks are naturally more accepting, comfortable, or inured to crime.
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@wil_da_beast630
Rap is the only branch of music I know of in which its practitioners are killed on a regular basis.
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@wil_da_beast630
@HallerMichael
@cmclymer
@ZJemptv
@MavenOfMayhem
@AriDrennen
Trans women are trans women. Women are women. Seems pretty easy to me.
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@homonatian
Any sexuality that is based on biological binary invalidates gender ideology. So correct no gay. Trans lobby demands absolute supremacy of gender & negation of rights based on sexuality. I wonder when gays are going to understand they have been kicked out of the LGBTQ+ movement?
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@DrDebraSoh
Or heterosexuality... The law is concerns all instruction on sexual orientation. Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation. Also the law affects K-12, not just K.
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@mattyglesias
Went to great schools, teach at low performing schools. Community standards/perception about the importance of academic achievement are very important. Low importance of academic excellence is the norm where I teach. Mediocrity is acceptable. Not a great academic environment.
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@RichardHanania
What a racist question. Sounds like he believes in an intellectual gap. Does he believe that Blacks can't get into MIT without lowering standards & qualifications?
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@jessesingal
How would doctors "assign" a biological female as anything other than a biological female at birth? As if it some sort of choice that doctors make. Ask the non-verbal infant what sex it thinks it is at birth?
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@FreeBlckThought
At my very liberal school in very liberal Los Angeles my fellow teachers are fatigued. We had an mandatory online “anti-racism” training. Most teachers were bragging about how they gamed the online system and ignored, and didn’t watch, the training & still completed the training.
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@monitoringbias
…And of course the anti-racist crowd would never be logically consistent and see this example of extreme racial disparity as an example of clear racism. Only statistics that paint whites as villains and blacks as victims are considered or accepted by anti racists.
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@LMichelleJ87
@IanVRowe
@FreeBlckThought
@AEIeducation
@fairforall_org
@1776Unites
Excellent example of the older notion of equity, giving students what they need to succeed, that I believe the author would applaud. Equal outcome equity advocates would get rid of a course that would need tutoring in the first place. Gifted, honors, AP classes r "equity" targets
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@SwipeWright
The new tyranny of the fringe minority, now relabelled by the progressive left as "inclusion." The New York Times is now using "assigned at birth."
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@prof_curiosity1
I teach 11 year old kids… they are still children. They have no idea what they are doing at this age when it comes to tomorrow, let alone the rest of their lives.
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@andrewjskerritt
@DrIbram
@JohnHMcWhorter
What's more important is that McWhorter says things that should make Black people, like myself uncomfortable. Instead of introspection, many in our community continue to excuse, blame & point fingers at others for our many problems. Making sure these problems continue & fester.
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@davidfrum
My LGBTQ middle school students I teach would laugh in her face. My kids don't worry about being disowned by their families because of their politics.
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@reporterporter
The trans community could do with some introspection as to why they are seemingly under attack all of a sudden. Their adoption & advocacy of a radical gender ideology in the last few years, is making transgenders less, not more, acceptable to mainstream society.
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@eyeslasho
@Martina
@elonmusk
"Race science" is now used by progressives to describe almost all scientific studies or research that put Black people in a negative light. Of course, the term is never used when scientific studies or research put White people in a negative light.
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@RealDianeYap
Sad result, but Blacks will see it as color and everyone else will view these results as being based on culture. Blacks seem never to get why we are so unpopular and unwanted, hint it’s not the color of our skin.
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@DavidAFrench
I would assume that traditional Christian racial ethics that approved of slavery, lynching, and Jim Crow were also grounded in love.
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@MorganHPhillips
@Miss_Snuffy
You never mentioned means at all, but racism. By what racist means do Miss Snuffy or I use to discipline our classrooms?
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@DelanoSquires
Progressives recycle actual tenets of "white supremacy" by concluding that unlike white students, black & brown students are intellectually incapable of understanding the foundational principles of math. How can progressives not see that this is pure undistilled racism?
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@Johnnybeesknees
@FreeBlckThought
This is especially true if children don't do lots of reading outside the classroom on their own.
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@PeopleforInteg1
@ycinnewyork
@SusanBEdelman
Look at statistics within the same schools. You’ll see huge gaps like this. Same teacher, economic class… different culture.
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@thotcrimimale
I'm sure she thinks that being Black is a vibe as well. Rachel Dolezal is vindicated?
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@ycinnewyork
If you believe intellectual capacity is can be gained or gamed by hard work and study; verses, intelligence is fixed, and if you don't posses it... self fulfilling prophecy/self sabotage/built in excuse for not even trying or giving up/why bother.
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@IanAdAstra
@TheJLV
@EduColorMVMT
@juliaerin80
@nenagerman
I’m teaching the Narrative of of the Life of Frederick Douglass to my 8th graders are this moment. The key event of his life is his learning to read and write. His most important possession was a book, written by white people. Literacy=Freedom to Douglass.
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@Miss_Snuffy
It would seem that the implicit message from the far left is that we should not expect high standards of behavior for Black & Brown kids because this is unnatural to them. High expectations for behavior, & educational achievement is only natural, & expected, for white students.
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@ZaidJilani
@JeffreyGoldberg
I'm a secondary school history teacher. Coates' article just doesn't belong in an AP survey course. Reparations is a wildly unpopular idea (68% no in PEW 2022), with only majority support from 1 racial group; African Americans, that does not have a serious path to being enacted.
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@100kAintNoMoney
@pewresearch
I teach in Los Angeles. The English test scores at my school, & the district in general, had Hispanic students with higher English scores than Black students. 70% of my Latino students come from Spanish speaking households. English is the home language of Black students. Failure!
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@wil_da_beast630
What power would activists have & wield if they followed your advice & had a frank discussion about culture? What jobs would activists gain? What $$$ could activists earn from this approach? How could activists punish and take revenge on whites if we have these frank discussions?
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@RealRudeKevin
@JessieEnloe
"Everyone" is often the 1%, not the 99%. "Inclusion" often means that the vast majority must be inconvenienced for the comfort a minuscule minority.
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@wil_da_beast630
I teach.., the suspension rates are based on actual behavior, not a “ belief “ about behavior. Suspending students is usually part of a long involved process with lots of paperwork and parental contact. Teachers & administrators don’t take the process of suspension lightly.
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@EPoe187
@eyeandoe
@jonathanchait
Their claim is false, they don't abhor racism. These people believe that racial discrimination & racial preferences can be a moral & social good based on who is being discriminated and what race is to be advantaged by racial preferences.
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@BuckAngel
Much of the woke movement's ideas are actually far right ideas being recycled and repackaged to be made palatable for the left. There is rather obvious racism and white supremacy baked into "anti-racism," so the misogyny of the gender ideology should come as no great surprise.
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@jessesingal
Diversity trainings that are steeped in wokeness/anti-racism & are proudly White bashing/anti-White are certainly are counterproductive. The training goes somewhat well until the theme of 'Whiteness" hits the screen and there are well deserved groans and upset all around.
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@sairasameerarao
I’m Latino and black... she is lying! This does not happen in my 57 years of experience.
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@_CryMiaRiver
On NPR a mom happily said that her child talked on the phone to a "gender affirming" psychiatrist for only 30 minutes & then prescribed hormones. Imagine how a jury will look at that if that boy latter claims physical harm from the drugs they were given?
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@SwipeWright
We are up to 3 election cycles where Trump is a drag on the party overall… How many election cycles will it take to learn the lesson?
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@YousefMunayyer
I’m a liberal who hates progressives. So yeah I’ll partner with moderates and sometimes conservatives to fight the progressive agenda on race, sexuality, and sometimes foreign policy.
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@MCW_Disruptor
@mpelc
@mdvoyles
@bgreenway
@Timodc
Thanks! It's so important that students have firm foundation in our founding documents. I have my kids go over them in detail and make sure they really understand what they mean. All through US history we refer back to these documents time and time again.
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@DeltaAsherHill
@ada_akpala
I’m Gay & Black and I disagree with this very successful actress. My personal experience of over 60 years does not come to the same conclusion… not even close.
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@wil_da_beast630
The Mayans couldn't have fought Cortes, their civilization collapsed hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spanish... It was the Aztec civilization that was at its height that fought and lost to Cortes. Aztecs are ignored in Hollywood because they practiced human sacrifice.
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