The scholarly consensus is that Jesus was a real historical figure (minus the supernatural embellishments). Anyway, wasn't this thread supposed to aggregate instances of hate and bigotry? Does vague theism in schools constitute that? I don't agree with any of this, but I also don't see the big deal. Kinda like ya'll's attitudes towards the woke shit.
They’re now going after the Civil Rights Act. But, but, but… the pronouns! HAVEN’T YOU HEARD ABOUT THE PRONOUNS?!?! BOTH SIDES!!!!1!
Known left apologist: We have two parties. One is anti-democracy, anti-truth, and anti-rule of law. The other is sometimes inept and foolish, with some fringe illiberal elements--but basically committed to the institutions and norms of liberal democracy and a free society. It's not a tough choice. https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/1561355896936185861?s=21&t=IjghUKBOmzo_UXyCd2wdZg
Yeah, Republicans may be a bunch of Nazis, and they want to hurt my LGBT friends, and black friends, and Latin friends, and my female family members and friends, and would burn most of my books and movies if they could, but... If you tax billionaires too high, it makes them sad. And that makes me sad, because I fantasize about being a billionaire, and the fantasy breaks if I'm sad in it.
No, seriously, a gay Facebook friend posted about being scared of what the conservatives were going to do, and a conservative Facebook friend (who's now ex ) consoled him, like he didn't pull the voting lever that caused all his fucking problems. I called him out on his gaslighting hypocrisy, and he put forward the "taxing billionaires makes them sad" argument as his defense. We were pretty much done after that.
It's always the same line. Ooh, how dare you bring up the abhorrent views I expressed, they were several years ago and no I won't deny them, indeed I still hold them, but I know better than to say them out loud now. You need to stop dwelling on the past and focus on how we should be living our lives based on 2000 year old scripture.
Just your basic Texas school board meeting. It's a long thread, filled mostly with hatefulness - in the end the board voted to ban even the mention of the word transgender or any related concepts on ALL campuses. Thread by @stevanzetti on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App