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The GOP's 'Critical Race Theory' Fixation, Explained - The Atlantic
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 80 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
“How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach”
Researchers have now accumulated ample evidence that racial covenants in property deeds and redlining by the Federal Housing Authority—banned more than 60 years ago—remain a major contributor to the gulf in homeownership, and thus wealth, between Black and white people. By Adam Harris
Why Republicans Are Turning Against Free Speech - The Atlantic
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 106 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
“The American right has lost the plot on free speech. The right is now in the process of unlearning liberty.”
As the Republican Party evolves from a party focused on individual liberty and limits on government power to a party that more fully embraces government control of the economy and morality, it is reversing many of its previous stances on free speech in public universities, in public education,...
OKAY: The POLICE TALk
By: CB • Friendly relations • 79 Comments • 8 Likes • 2 years ago
“"The last thing I saw on him was a gun."”
TODAY, as I departed from my local area Circle K convenience store, something quite interesting and unique occurred. Parked next to my car in the lot was a police SUV and coming around from the driver side was this camo-apparreled young officer who (actually) nodded to me first as he moved on by...
Donald Trump Is Above the Law. Period - Raman Media Network
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 60 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 years ago
“Donald Trump Is Above the Law. Donald Trump has no respect for any law and he is behaving as a dictator.”
WHY? Why is this permitted in congress, in court, in American society? Effectively, Donald J. Trump 'waylaids' a pandemic to the tune of initially thousands of deaths and has not offered a basic apology for even one dead American. Keep in mind, President Trump 'killed off' our National...
Billionaire Quits Mormon Church & Will Donate $600K to LGBTQ+ Group
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 21 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“I believe the Mormon Church has hindered global progress in women's rights, civil rights and racial equality, and LGBTQ+ rights,"”
Religion has to "do" better than this.
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GOP Governor Says It's Time To 'Blame The Unvaccinated' For Pandemic Surge [Continuation of]
Via: CB • News & Politics • 93 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
“Gov. Kay Ivey also called out right-wing media disinformation about the vaccine.”
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Blasphemous Rumors?
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 50 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
“I think that God's got a sick sense of humour."”
How does this song speak to you? How is this song blasphemous? Can a 'creature' call its (supposed) Creator sick? I don’t know what it is I believe in, but I know that I feel a sense of some kind of higher power, for lack of better words. [Dave Gahan -lead Singer Depeche Mode 2008.]
The Presidential Stress Test Failure Project
By: CB • Op/Ed • 94 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“We should convict and forbid Donald Trump any future public office to fashion into a weapon that could end our democratic form of governance.”
This is our singular moment, or term of presidency, for the Senate to 'take down' what is left of our own 'tyrant-President.' We should convict and forbid former President Donald J. Trump any future public office to fashion into a weapon that could end our democratic form of governance. There...