New Yorkers tend to associate book banning & anti-DEI bans etc with MAGA and supposedly backwards states like Louisiana, Florida, and Texas but the same backwards, censorial practices are flourishing here, even if the targeted ideas are (sometimes) different. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/n... - ThreadSky

jameeljaffer.bsky.social • 3 days ago

New Yorkers tend to associate book banning & anti-DEI bans etc with MAGA and supposedly backwards states like Louisiana, Florida, and Texas but the same backwards, censorial practices are flourishing here, even if the targeted ideas are (sometimes) different. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/nyregion/cuny-palestine-studies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=E785FDCE-501A-4952-88DD-DB50E4DC5121

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dysamoria.com•3 days ago

Hochul keeps doing everything wrong. WTF

cardcatcher.bsky.social•3 days ago

Nice that we agree!! 👍

jameeljaffer.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's de rigueur in Quebec, too. https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-minister-defends-herself-after-intervening-in-another-college-course-on-palestinian-literature/

cardcatcher.bsky.social•3 days ago

The NY Democratic Party ain't worth a bucket of warm piss. Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Adams (puke), Hochul. Reading about the way Arab Americans are treated by the Dems.."you gotta shut up and let us piss on you, because Trump is worse"! If I was an Arab American, I would have voted Trump.

dysamoria.com•3 days ago

Then you would have voted for someone that’s *worse* for you and for everyone else too. 🤷🏽‍♂️

cardcatcher.bsky.social•3 days ago

That doesn't matter. As a voter, nothing pisses me off more than being told, "you gotta eat our shit because the other guy's shit is worse". And that's what the Democrats told the Arab Americans. Cost us Michigan, and Pa. as well. And we deserved it.

dysamoria.com•3 days ago

I’m going to be blunt: that sounds like an ego issue. I was there, myself, but I realized that my votes are not just about me and my specific preferences. The purity test falls in the face of blocking fascism.

If my thoughts matter at all:

https://bsky.app/profile/dysamoria.com/post/3l3vm3sbpal2f

If not, okay. I’ll move on.

cardcatcher.bsky.social•3 days ago

Voting is an emotional issue. It's easy for you and me to be "adult" and Rational". And trust me, I hate Trump as much as anybody, and I knew he's be much worse for Gaza BUT, I don't any family in Gaza (and I assume you don't). The Dems told these people to go away and it cost us the election.

dysamoria.com•3 days ago

Being “adult and rational” seems to be hard for most people. I still ask it of them, though. It’s the only way to maintain civilization in the face of people who are the exact opposite.

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