Enid, Oklahoma elected a white nationalist to their City Council. A group of concerned citizens, including some Democrats and and Republicans, managed to gather enough signatures for a recall election. Here’s hoping the people of Enid do the right thing.
So many things that might involve “history and tradition” that are flat out evil could fall under this shitty take. Racial, sexual and gender discrimination, slavery, lynching. All with much more history “of” than “against.” I think I hate it.
All well and good, sir, but you’re going to love it when it’s okay again to hit your wife with a stick that’s no thicker than your thumb!
history and tradition
AKA hate and tax cuts. 
Just what they’re thinking… but with more tax cuts. The 1920s to the 1950s would have been paradise, except for all that taxation and gubmit regulation! /s
History and tradition even says that white guys shouldn’t have the right to vote if they don’t own property.
Renting or living with other family- no voting for you!
I found this interesting. Not sure if I am up for the philosophy reading though. most of my book reading is sci-fi and fantasy lately. A form of self defense 
It’s mostly about how MAGA/facist cannot be argued with because they refuse to learn, using gender as the way to explain
It’s mostly about how MAGA/facist cannot be argued with because they refuse to learn
Willful ignorance is pretty much impossible to overcome without the willing participation of the ignorant. So, yeah, agreed.
Although it would be beautiful to use this to roll back the clock to the history and tradition of 94% highest marginal tax rate and capital gains considered normal income…
Not THAT history, man!
This part especially really struck me:
Surprisingly, asking “What would Trump believe?” rather than “What does reality show?” is not inconsistent with graduating from high school or even college, because for much of one’s academic career the primary task is to repeat back accurately what a teacher has given the students. If in school one accepts teachers as authorities, learning is not incompatible with this authoritarian mindset and may not be challenged before college graduation.
That really helped me grok what’s going on with these people.
This recalls to me a time my oldest son was taught that Jupiter has 7 moons. When he said that was incorrect (it was a very old textbook) he was disciplined for backtalking. When he brought in documentation the next day, it got worse. We were called and he was threatened with suspension for disrespecting his teacher. This was their mistake, because at this point, I took time off work to come in and straighten the situation out. We changed schools after that. They admitted they were wrong, but insisted that they could not tell the class that or change the teaching because that would “undermine discipline” since the students were expected to accept their teaching without question. This is a quote. It was a very conservative area then, and has gotten worse since. It concluded with me asking if it was more important to teach the students correct, verifiable facts, or to let them think the teacher was correct it this, they said it is always more important for the teacher to be seen as the authority. And that is how we got here.
Y’know, I remember a former member of this site who had a huge grudge against me before he finally self immolated for good.
I’ll never forget that when pressed to state what it was about me that rubbed him so very wrong, in an enraged rant, he finally blurted out:
“You just can’t ‘be told,’ Melz! You always have to challenge shit, and be so damned cynical!”
Basically, he was pissed that I didn’t just automatically accept his ‘authority’ on whichever given subject he’d deemed himself an expert.
Talk about an eye opening glimpse into someone’s warped thought process.
Agreed; it’s a scary and dangerous combination of some people who subconsciously want their lives to be controlled, and those who believe they are meant to control everyone else’s lives.
Just how old was it??? It was 8 as of 1908.
That’s worse than my social studies text book that had “someday, man will reach the moon”.
a refreshingly endearing trait, IMO. thank you for challenging. your insight brings needed clarity on issues that i, in my privilege might otherwise not be aware of.
A teacher in 3rd grade (Ms. Horowitz, long dead I’m afraid), at the end of the year, announced she needed the classes help 'cleaning out the cupboards." These cabinets lined most of the classroom, and were filled with out-of-date textbooks from the 1920s through 1950s, and this was in the late 70s. She was moving on to a different school (I saw her later as a librarian at the High School) and had decided to ignore the demands from the school’s administration to keep all the old textbooks around, and give the next teacher a classroom with usable storage.
In the back of one cabinet we found a copy of the 1820 The New Cyclopaedia, which was very exciting as it was actually a historical artifact, and ended up on display in the “Social Sciences” offices at the high school, but the rest of them ended up, quite justifiably, in the trash.
Thanks.
It just blew my mind; dude was so clearly used to not ever being questioned, that he just couldn’t handle it when a woman of color deigned to have the audacity to challenge his opinions.
Like, I cannot even begin to fathom having that immense level of hubris…
And that was just some rando here, with no actual power; imagine what Musk, 45 and all their ilk must be like in person…
… four big ones, plus an endless statistical tail of miscellaneous junk of gradually decreasing size?
