They’re banning books on race and the Holocaust—not just in schools, but now over 400 titles pulled from the US Naval Academy Library. (Maya Angelou, too adult?) They’re scrubbing websites. It's digital book burning.
My point: The right says, “No, you may not,” too❗️
The current United States is a cancer on the world, but believe it or not there was a time where we affected the world on a global scale in a positive way. Those days are long behind us.
Do not believe anything you see on social media. No original source. Just dismiss this kind of content and block those who post it. We need facts and verifiable sources do to dominate on Bluesky. Not random things meant to only make people feel emotions.
The culture on social media MUST change. It must be professional in every respect and as reliable as an old school newspaper. If you can't prove it, don't post it. It is stuff like this that is killing society.
What I think is really needed is that social media sites are divided between a commons area, and an area with rules you cite followed so that one can maintain posting privilege.
I am not saying it is right or wrong. The DEFAULT now is EVERYTHING on social media is false unless fact checked and sourced with full context. This post does not make that standard and thus must be reported and blocked. Blue sky should be 95% fact posts and at most 5% opinions. We are done.
It should be socially normative to ostracize and embarrass people who deny the holocaust, argue against equal rights, as well as climate science denial and anti-vax positions. Treating these people with deference or respect made them monsters it most definitely was not the left not being nice enough
Israelis have been voting the most right-wing government in the world and is effectively an apartheid. Netanyahu, who is anti-2-states-solution, is the longest serving PM. There has never been a protest for Palestinian human rights in Israel ever. How do you "save soul" of such a country?
Yes true, but times do change, and for a while Israel was moving in the right direction. We need to acknowledge all parts of our histories and improve. When propagandists and fear mongers have a pulpit we only can go backwards.
Its been pretty bad since even before official inception. Several terror groups at work, and several terrorists became part of the government totally unrepentant.
The world has a problem with 30% of it's population and another 30% that can be frightened into complying. I remember when there was some hope with Yitzhak Rabin. Then assassinated probably by the same groups now in power.
It's good that you are a moral jew. I don't know if you are Israel or not. And I appreciate you want end genocide of Palestinians. But i don't know if your goal of "saving soul of Israel" is realistic. Israel was born a European colony by Nakba genocide and been doing ethnic cleansing since 76 yrs.
This is a product of the "both sidesism" media where everyone can have an opposing view point that rationalizes positions that are factually and/or morally wrong. We also allow mistruths to be said without calling them out as lies and calling out and shaming the LIARS! 2 cents given😁
This sounds like a conversation I had in an 8th grade Social Studies classroom. I was the Special Education teacher who sat in the back of the room, doing nothing. The teacher told the kids that the Civil War was about “states’ rights”. I said, “Yes, the right to own slaves.”. Didn’t go well. NC
I just finished reading “Mengele: The Complete Story.” Even Mengele’s own son Rolf didn’t buy into the I-was-just-following-orders nonsense that he and many other Nazis tried to argue. A choice was made, through and through. They chose evil, and any justification is plainly complacency and apathy.
Colonizers did the population control thing long before that asshole. How little we forget the genocide of the native peoples that were here long before America, Mexico and Canada existed.
So is anti-vaxxing, climate science denial, raw milk drinking, and a whole host of other medical issues like COVID and environmental problems like corporate pollution, and yet here we are in the United States enabling a bunch of people who are literally arguing that up is down on the flat earth.
One of the far right Libertarian lines is that Shane is a useless emotion. If they could convince others to be too embarrassed to shame anyone, they just keep getting away with their racism, classism, sexism and weird tendency towards wanting to lower the age of sexual consent. Shame IS very useful.
Agreed 100%. I'm not sure when we as a society moved from a person being free to live as they please according to their beliefs (or lack thereof) to enabling people who speak obvious lies or false facts with no basis in empiracal evidence.
Don't forget Fox News grooming white men and women that they must fear everyone of color is here to take from them (all while cashing in on government benefits).
It’s coming back. Dismantling the education department means each state gets to set standards. So now the biggest church will lobby local government to push anti abortion/gay is sin BS & only the desperate teachers will even work in those states. College enrolment will be interesting in 20 years.
No country in the world mandates vaccines but they do for school and the like. If you choose to participate in society, then you must. That is why the freakshow ruining our country want homeschooling and to destroy the Dept. of Ed. in part. They have some weird 18th century fantasy, its absurd.
Yeah I agree that is a really difficult one. We do not allow parents to beat their kids anymore (well at least, there are structures in place to address that). Denial of medical care could be neglect and abuse, unfortunately we live in the dumbest timeline thanks to false equivalence.
Good for the professor. All it takes is walking thru Auschwitz-Birkenau to wake the bell up and realize all the belongings ha the Nazis collected were owned by everyday folks: shoes, family photos, suitcases. They had little notice and were lied to as to where they were going. What’s that sound like
Except if your name is Musk, who was (apparently) distinctly underwhelmed by the whole thing and more concerned about the photo op/PR opportunity, the psychopathic prick.
Yes the Germans were pushed from the unfair treatment in the treaty of Versailles. Yes hardship gave credence to the message of Hitler. Yes many joined to save themselves and claimed they were following orders.
Now for the fun part: absolutely none of that absolves them so STFU.
I think right now is a good time to do some deep diving into the psychology behind people joining cults or hate groups, and especially important to teach kids all of this, to hopefully prevent future regimes :/
Back when I was in college in a combine sociology/anthropology mega class this happened several times over the course of a semester. Those guys got so upset whenever they weren’t allowed to regurgitate their support of oppressive systems and fascism.
This sounds similar to my class yesterday when a student piped up 'Given the Koran demands Muslims to kill all infidels...' That got cut off quick with a tight precis of Islam's ban on violence for conversion and an end to that line of questioning.
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Second of all, I'm a little mad that we're robbed of the insane thing that was about to come out of that man's mouth.
My point: The right says, “No, you may not,” too❗️
Think about this!
It was great.
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Me out loud: “Yes, they’re dead. We’re watching it because it’s part of history.
Me in my head: “Oh I don’t know, because some of your parents are advocating that we do this shit again.”
What I think is really needed is that social media sites are divided between a commons area, and an area with rules you cite followed so that one can maintain posting privilege.
Is not a news site and anecdotes aren’t gonna be fact checked. Get over it. 🙄
"Only if you wear this very special badge for every day the rest of the year..."
Go MAGDA /s
An opinion: An evangelical Christian says they don't vaccinate because it is against their religion (tolerable)
Stupidity: The same person says vaccines cause autism or other diseases (zero tolerance)
No more neglect and abuse hidden as religion!
You want to be part of society, you work to protect and promote a healthy society; otherwise, you isolate and quarantine your short existence.
Or is there a better way to describe "Just shut up and believe what the teacher tells you without proper analysis or debate"?
I suppose there is an element of appeal to fear as well.
Their response will be some variation of “you’re just afraid to debate me.”
Your response: “That’s what the drunk at the corner of the bar says. What a coincidence.”
Yes the Germans were pushed from the unfair treatment in the treaty of Versailles. Yes hardship gave credence to the message of Hitler. Yes many joined to save themselves and claimed they were following orders.
Now for the fun part: absolutely none of that absolves them so STFU.
How very easy to say from the side that had it the easiest.
I have bad news for you.
I am really not sure how you seged into that question.
You mean you are about to have it as bad as pre-WW2 Germans???
LOL. This is just the oligarchy shaking the tree so you forget about Luigi.
Me (channeling my inner Trump/Shitbag and leaning into the mic): I do not recall