Next up: Changing that pesky "E Pluribus Unum."
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I wish they were wrong that it was a big political or ideological divide, but here we are.
Ban rightwingers from living & breathing. Only way to get a better world for people with compassion
I mean, it is ideological, like saying "All men are equals" or "Eating healthy leads to a longer life". I wish people would just come out and say what they really mean. Are the same teachers striving for a classroom where not everyone is equal?
It’s the politicians who are striving for a classroom where not everyone is equal.
Although, teachers probably consider themselves more equal than their students.
So it's the next sign to hang up going to read "not everyone is welcome here? ".
Sorta reminds me of the "No Lives Matter" posters featuring Cthullu. What used to seem comically bad and absurd is now being passed into law.
It is ideological...
That is what school is in part
God Republican Christians are such cunts.
Devil Republican Christians are even worse, trust me.
WTF is the pledge of allegiance supposed to be when it says "under god" in it? How come we can't ban bibles and qurans from school? What are they?
Never understood how so many people just blindly stood and recited and the pledge in school. I stopped after 5th grade when I started to realize how fucked the system is
Well, the signs are ideological, in that they conflict with the state-enforced ideology. Curiously, churches are getting in trouble discussing the beatitudes, since they (yes, Jesus' own words) are in conflict with the state-enforced ideology.
What is scary is when there's insufficient resistance to the state-enforced ideology that runs contrary to classic virtues / traditions of compassion, hospitality, mercy, etc. This is the banal evil that lets abductions, renderings, concentration camps and eventually genocide happen.
If you don't fight with banners today, you'll have to fight with guns tomorrow.
I wouldn't say it's banal, though. It's pretty aggressively evil. And you write about "eventually genocide", when ethnic cleansing efforts are well underway already.
For decades now, I'm been warning about the era of this regime, and got a lot of oh yeah? Where are the death camps?
Dachau was operative in 1933. The Wannsee Conference was in 1942, after which the Auschwitz model was replicated at other camps, and the final solution to the Jewish question was applied to the general contained population, rather than just disabled, mentally ill and gays.
So in the timeline of the German Reich, the death camps appeared rather late, and I tend to err on the side of understatement, even though officer involved killings, and punitive fatalities in US prisons have been routine for decades at a rate of ~1000/year
Once upon a time, Stephen Colbert ('s character) uttering "It's a well known fact that reality has a liberal bias" was regarded as satire. Now, I wouldn't be so sure.
The party told you to reject your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
I think the core problem is politics. I've met left leaning people who are just as brainwashed as some conservatives.
Maybe, but I’d rather be brainwashed and wrong in trying to treat others with empathy and decency, than be brainwashed and wrong and driven by hate for marginalised groups.
I think that is a perfectly fair take. My point is that that world tends to be way more nuanced than the media and politicians want to admit.
I've met uninformed and opinionated without a basis people who were left leaning, but I've never met anyone as cult-y as the MAGA. There is no way to get through to them--none. Their faces could be on fire, and they wouldn't put out the fire with water if water was proposed by the main-stream media to put out fires.
This is obviously to deal with excessive vampire problem schools are facing
*except nazis.
Needed edits anyway.
Ideas in school are bad mmkay
Conservatives hate anything that reminds them to be better humans, because they aren't.
I hate the whole conservative Christian doctrine. Saying you NEED religion or else you'll be a terrible person and do terrible things. It's like, goddamn I dont need religion to have morality and know what's right and wrong. And then these fuckers have the gall to say godless heathens are the evil ones while doing the exact things Jesus told them NOT to do!
You’re looking at it completely wrong.
Fundamentally it doesn’t matter if you are a good person. Even the nicest most moral of us are sinners in the eyes of Christians.
What matters is that you are forgiven by god for your sins. Even if you lie, cheat, steal, murder, commit adultery etc. Going to church and being absolved of your sins makes you a good person and welcome by god.
The worst people I have met are Christians for this very reason. They believe they have been absolved of their wrongs in the eyes of god and you have not.
Lutheran private school: You will always be absolved of your sins when you ask forgiveness!
3rd grade me: What if I wait until I'm on my deathbed?
Lutheran private school: even then.
3rd grade me: What if I do horrible things my whole life and just repent at the end?
Lutheran private school: teacher shifts uncomfortably you'd really have to mean it and then what happens if you're in an accident and don't have time?
3rd grade me: quick math meme running through my head
Yeah.. that's even more fucked.
Every political party and opinion is ideological. That's the very definition of the word. Using it as something pejorative is stupid.
It's not stupid, it's an effective tactic because dems are obsessed with appearing proper
the right doesn't even care about the correct meaning, all they know is that whenever they shout about it dems back off
It's how they roped Biden into going 'tough on crime' in the 90s
It IS ideological that we demand due process, because our ideologies support freedom and personal expression, and it IS abhorrent to them that we have ideologies strong enough to fight over
Their ideologies all form around harming others, of COURSE anything humane will piss them off
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