Originally published at: A Jewish lawmaker, one of Wyoming's few elected Democrats, convinces a Republican supermajority to reject a ban on Critical Race Theory | Boing Boing
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More of this please.
Although im sure the bill will be back with slightly-tweaked language that will be sure to pass.
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Umm Wyoming and Utah are not interchangeable…
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He’s taken them to shule!
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Thank you.
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So glad that reason prevailed here, but it’s still so bananas that the “FUCK YOUR FEELINGS” crowd is responsible for so much legislation that boils down to “this makes me uncomfortable.”
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“Those who cannot confess their own sins must project them onto others.” - I forget who, but it resonates.
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That had to be a powerful speech to sway such a crowd. Good for him and good for all the people of the state because all will benefit from it whether they like it or not.
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I think it’s the 11th commandment of the right wing these days
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“But in learning about the Holocaust, I have suffered a lifetime of discomfort and distress, and it’s essential that as students learn about this dark time in our history, they to feel discomfort in distress.”
tbh, I dont see how this argument was persuasive to the white Christian Republicans.
usually, they only respond to issues unless they personally/directly have been affected. (eg, Cheney was only anti-anti-gay because of his daughter.)
isn’t their response supposed to be, sure, we’re sensitive to the Holocaust-- but this is CRT we’re talking about, CRT is evil and demonizes whites.
For a Republican? That practically strutting in a pride parade, gagged on a leash in bdsm bondage attire.
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Was he? I mean…really…was he? I would put him way more in the “and then they came for the gays, and I said nothing, because I wasn’t gay and frankly my gay daughter was a little bit of a political liability, so best to keep quiet about that” camp.
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“… then they came for the oil companies and the defense contractors, and there was no one left to speak up.”
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Let’s see the names of the reps who STILL voted ‘yes’ for the bill.
It got A MAJORITY of ‘yes’ votes, after all, just not enough for a SuperMajority - and that’s gross, imo.
From the linked JTA article:
The bill garnered a majority of the chamber’s votes, 35, but not the two-thirds needed to advance the bill. The 24 lawmakers who voted against advancing the bill included a significant number of the chamber’s 51 Republicans.
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Y’see, this is why we need representation of all areas of society at all levels of society.
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This. Bush’s brain, Karl Rove, helped engineer state amendments to use homophobia as a wedge issue to help bring out the haters in 2004 to re-elect Bush. Cheney was known, initially, to have an outsized influence on Bush compared to other VPs. Cheney only grumble-sneared half-hearted approval of his own daughter’s life choices, but never used his elected office to do anything to help anyone else.
ETA: and I wonder if he would have shown any support to the few Republicans who have dared to not enshrine TFG, if one wasn’t his daughter.
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It wasnt that long ago conservatives in the USA were warning about the dangers of “moral relativism.”
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It seems like the goal of these laws is to prevent any kind of self-reflection. These guys are immune to shame or irony.
They claim to be Christian, but the message of Matthew 7:1-5 appears to be lost on them.
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
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