Comments on: Fundy Christians, MAGAjerks, Proud Boys, School and Library Board Members, Ban-Burning Books

By: dean

dean — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 11:53:01 +0000

We have a good number of pockets of right-wing insanity here in MI, but on the street level and in the qop candidates for various office (I know, it’s a fact that in order to be accepted as a “republican” candidate now you need to be dishonest as hell and, ideally, dumb as a cotton ball) at local, state, and higher levels.

Here in Portage we have 3 people running for spots on the school board

– all 3 are pushing the “CRT is being taught to students starting in elementary schools” crap
– all 3 are pushing for parents to have say in curriculum decisions equal to or greater than teachers and curriculum directors
– all 3 are pushing the “schools have put litter boxes in bathrooms to accomodate students who are furries” crap
– none of them have children in the system nor would they enroll their school age kids in the district if they were elected because “we want them to have a good education”

They are considered “serious” contenders.

Screwed, so screwed since the right decided any semblance of intelligence, honesty, or integrity were anchors around their necks

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 02:40:30 +0000

This nonsense is not abating. Today it came to my attention that a group calling itself the Jamestown Conservatives is targeting the public library in Jamestown Township, MI for de-funding unless it removes five books with LGBTQ themes from its shelves.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-ban-lgbtq-jamestown-michigan-library/

By: dean

dean — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:13:25 +0000

These right wing losers will have to go back to the 80s to get rid of things they don’t understand so automatically dislike. This is from The Joy of TeX, by M. D. Spivak — the Tex reference I lived with while I was typing my dissertation. It was published in 86.

Personal Pronoun Pronouncment
Which The Reader Skips at His or Her Peril
Since TeX is a rather revolutionary approach to typesetting, I have decided that a rather revolutionary approach to non-SeXist terminology would be appropriate in this manual. …
But I hate having to say “he or she” or “his or her” or using awkward circumlocutions. Numerous approaches to this problem have been suggested, but one strikes me as particularly simple and sensible. Just as “I” is the first person singular pronoun, regardless of gender, so “E” will be used in this book as the third person singular pronoun for both genders. Thus “E” is the singular of “they”. Accordingly, “Eir” (pronounced to rhyme with “their”) will be the possessive, and “Em” (rhyming with “them”) will stand for either “him” or “her”. Here is an example that illustrates all three forms:
E loves EM only for Eir body

Getting upset at the books referenced in your post makes no more sense than getting upset at this would. The modern right has lost all chance at deserving being viewed as anything other than a collection of anti-equality, anti-democracy, fascist-loving scum.