Guns, race, religion, terror, wingnut thread

[O Really]

Neutral-sounding words can certainly be used in a derogatory manner, but that does seem pretty mild. More like saying "there goes a bl**k guy than saying "there goes a N****r." From the doctor's reaction, I expected much worse.

[O Really]

I had no idea there were so many words to insult people with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

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I had no idea there were so many words to insult people with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

Of course not, you're a __________.

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One Of The Suspects In CO School Shooting Is A Transgender Male / The Denver Channel wrote that multiple sources say “the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.” The motive, the station alleges, “went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others at the school,” adding that one suspect “was involved in legal and illegal drug use and had been in therapy.” https://www.chicksonright.com/youngcons ... HbQDlGtP6w

[O Really]

And yet, they had no problem getting guns.

[O Really]

Poll says that 56% of Americans don't want kids taught Arabic numerals. We have some bad news


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5 ... e-bad-news

[neoplacebo]

Poll says that 56% of Americans don't want kids taught Arabic numerals. We have some bad news


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5 ... e-bad-news

Hilarious. I can hardly wait until the signs on highways revert to "Asheville XXXII miles" and "Speed Limit LXV" Too bad there isn't a Roman numeral that's written XLAX. I will have to brush up since I can't remember if you put a line over or under a number to indicate multiplying it by ten, I mean X

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Poll says that 56% of Americans don't want kids taught Arabic numerals. We have some bad news

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5 ... e-bad-news

Hilarious. I can hardly wait until the signs on highways revert to "Asheville XXXII miles" and "Speed Limit LXV" Too bad there isn't a Roman numeral that's written XLAX

56-44, say, would have been bad enough, but it's much, much worse:



No surprise with the Repugs, but the independents are depressing, as are the 34% + 26% of Dems:



We are screwed.

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Terrorism:

Alabama mayor recommends "killing" LGBTQ (pro-choice, "socialists”) community in a now-deleted Facebook post

Churches trying to help immigrants say they're getting threats. And they're suing to stop it.

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This is what congressional Democrats say about law enforcement’s approach to domestic terrorism
The FBI said it is currently working 850 domestic terror investigations – the vast majority of them involving the far right.

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From SPLC Action Fund:

On April 9, 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War. But it wasn’t until June 19 that slaves in isolated areas of the U.S. were finally told the Civil War was over and that they had been freed.

June 19 – also known as Juneteenth – serves as a day to celebrate freedom in the African American community. It is also a reminder of the lies weaved throughout decades of propaganda idolizing the Confederacy, which fought to keep slavery intact by any means necessary.

Supersized Confederate statues with bogus inscriptions were the intimidation tactic of choice. Subsidized primarily by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Confederacy’s revisionist history is memorialized in multiple forms across the U.S.:

On 780 monuments, more than 300 of which are in Georgia, Virginia or North Carolina
On 103 public K-12 schools and three colleges named for Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or other Confederate icons
In 80 counties and cities named for Confederates
On 9 observed holidays in five states celebrating the Confederacy, funded by taxpayer dollars
On 10 U.S. military bases

... Confederate enthusiasts won’t stop trying to convince us that these symbols of oppression represent “heritage not hate”.

And we will never stop protesting, fighting, and demanding that symbols celebrating the Confederacy be removed from our public spaces and placed into museums where they can be studied and understood in their proper historical context.

It’s way past time to put an end to every holiday, remove every symbol, and take down every monument that champions the Confederacy....

[neoplacebo]

I remember reading a story a few years ago about a school in Florida named for Nathan Bedford Forrest and that there was an effort underway to re name it. I think it was re named but am not sure of it. And, uhhh, Forrest was from TN.

[O Really]

I remember reading a story a few years ago about a school in Florida named for Nathan Bedford Forrest and that there was an effort underway to re name it. I think it was re named but am not sure of it. And, uhhh, Forrest was from TN.

Yeah, that was Jacksonville. Re-named it Westside back several years ago. Sad thing (among others) is that it had long became a black-majority school while still named Forrest.

[neoplacebo]

I remember reading a story a few years ago about a school in Florida named for Nathan Bedford Forrest and that there was an effort underway to re name it. I think it was re named but am not sure of it. And, uhhh, Forrest was from TN.

Yeah, that was Jacksonville. Re-named it Westside back several years ago. Sad thing (among others) is that it had long became a black-majority school while still named Forrest.

Thanks; I had recalled some of this story but it's been a while. Glad they got a new name. Hopefully, there will be no schools named for Trump; all the "graduates" would be fucking stupid. Perhaps that fact itself will serve to prevent such a tragedy.

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I remember reading a story a few years ago about a school in Florida named for Nathan Bedford Forrest and that there was an effort underway to re name it. I think it was re named but am not sure of it. And, uhhh, Forrest was from TN.

Yeah, that was Jacksonville. Re-named it Westside back several years ago. Sad thing (among others) is that it had long became a black-majority school while still named Forrest.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. Although scholars admire Forrest as a military strategist, he has remained a highly controversial figure in Southern racial history, especially for his alleged role in the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow, his 1867–1869 leadership of the white-supremacist/terrorist Ku Klux Klan, and his political influence as a Tennessee delegate at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.

Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a cotton plantation owner, horse and cattle trader, real estate broker, and slave trader....

In April 1864, in what has been called "one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history.", troops under Forrest's command massacred Union troops who had surrendered, most of them black soldiers along with some white Southern Tennesseans fighting for the Union, at the Battle of Fort Pillow. Forrest was blamed for the massacre in the Union press and that news may have strengthened the North's resolve....

Historical reputation and legacy

Many memorials have been erected to Forrest, especially in Tennessee and adjacent Southern states. Forrest County, Mississippi is named after him, as is Forrest City, Arkansas....

As of 2007, Tennessee had 32 dedicated historical markers linked to Nathan Bedford Forrest, more than are dedicated to all three former Presidents associated with the state combined: Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson (none of whom were born in Tennessee). The Tennessee legislature established July 13 as "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day"....

High schools named for Forrest were built in Chapel Hill, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida. In 2008, the Duval County School Board voted 5–2 against a push to change the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville. In 2013, the board voted 7–0 to begin the process to rename the school. The school was named for Forrest in 1959 at the urging of the Daughters of the Confederacy because they were upset about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. At the time the school was all white, but now more than half the student body is black. After several public forums and discussions, Westside High School was unanimously approved in January 2014 as the school's new name.

In August 2000, a road on Fort Bliss named for Forrest decades earlier was renamed for former post commander Richard T. Cassidy. In 2005, Shelby County Commissioner Walter Bailey started an effort to move the statue over Forrest's grave and rename Forrest Park. Former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton, who is black, blocked the move. Others have tried to get a bust of Forrest removed from the Tennessee House of Representatives chamber. Leaders in other localities have also tried to remove or eliminate Forrest monuments, with mixed success.

In 1978, Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro) abandoned imagery it had formerly used (in 1951, the school's yearbook, The Midlander, featured the first appearance of Forrest's likeness as MTSU's official mascot) and MTSU president M.G Scarlett removed the General's image from the university's official seal. The Blue Raiders' athletic mascot was changed to an ambiguous swash-buckler character called the "Blue Raider", to avoid association with Forrest or the Confederacy. The school unveiled its latest mascot, a winged horse called "Lightning" inspired by the mythological Pegasus, during halftime of a basketball game against rival Tennessee State University on January 17, 1998. The ROTC building at MTSU was named Forrest Hall to honor him in 1958. In 2006, the frieze depicting General Forrest on horseback that had adorned the side of this building was removed amid protests, but a major push to change its name failed on February 16, 2018, when the governor-controlled Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University's petition to rename Forrest Hall....

Forrest School (Chapel Hill, Tennessee)

What are your July 13 "Nathan Bedford Forrest Day" plans, neoplacebo?

[neoplacebo]

Well, at this point it's a tossup between vandalism to government property and watching WWE wrestling. Help me out here.

[neoplacebo]

Well, at this point it's a tossup between vandalism to government property and watching WWE wrestling. Help me out here. I just finished reading "The History of Tennessee; from it's earliest settlement to the present time" by W.H. Carpenter. It was published in 1854 by Lippincott, Grambo & Co, Philadelphia. The grammar is sometimes awkward to follow but it's quite fascinating in that it relates how the British, Spaniards, and "Americans" connived to enlist various Indian tribes to be allied against one or the other of the three. Lots of mention about local geographical features, as well as stuff about Knoxville, Nashville, and a lot of hoopla about Andrew Jackson; it's evident from the book that Jackson was quite the fucking hero back then in the eyes of the citizens. There's also an account of Aaron Burr who was apparently the original nutjob; after he killed Hamilton he took off heading to New Orleans with the intention of establishing a new country. Needless to say, he was thwarted in this.

I don't know what I just did, but I did it. Evidently I hit reply with quote instead of edit. Sometimes my violation of prohibition results in a forced error. Pardon me.

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Well, at this point it's a tossup between vandalism to government property and watching WWE wrestling. Help me out here.

Vandalizing government property is an fitting way to memorialize terrorist traitor Nathan Bedford Forrest.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/alexandria-o ... 40833.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Verified account @AOC

This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying.

This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis
Jun 18, 2019

Steve King
Verified account @SteveKingIA

.@AOC I went to Auschwitz & Birkenau with Eddie Mausberg & Jonny Daniels with In the Depths. I went with a deep understanding of the Shoah and had a profound personal experience. Please accept their offer.
22 Jun 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Verified account @AOC

Mr. King, the Republican Party literally stripped you of your Congressional committee assignments because you were too racist even for them.

My Jewish constituents have made clear to me that they proudly stand w/ caged children who are starved, denied sleep & sanitation.

Bye
23 Jun 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Verified account @AOC

Hey @Liz_Cheney, you’re the GOP Conference Chair - perhaps you should come collect your colleague before more members of your caucus start saying the quiet parts loud

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop.

So I’m going to have to decline your invite. But thank you for revealing to all how transparently the far-right manipulates these moments for political gain.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

I have absolutely zero patience for completely certified, card-carrying and flag-waving racists. None.

They can take their little tiki torches somewhere else.

We don’t give them an inch, a second, a sliver of sunlight nor the time of day. And neither should you.

Rosanna Arquette
@RoArquette

I also went there and have Family that died there. ANY Jew that can look the other way right now and not speak out against the atrocities that are happening at the border especially, at the children’s camps, should hang their heads in shame. You disgust me.
Jun 23, 2019

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I remember reading a story a few years ago about a school in Florida named for Nathan Bedford Forrest and that there was an effort underway to re name it. I think it was re named but am not sure of it. And, uhhh, Forrest was from TN.

Yeah, that was Jacksonville. Re-named it Westside back several years ago. Sad thing (among others) is that it had long became a black-majority school while still named Forrest.

Schools named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee face crisis. What about Bruce Lee Elementary instead?

... Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio, Texas, was one such school considering changing its controversial name, however North East Independent School District didn’t like the $1.3 million price-tag associated with doing so, the Wall Street Journal reports. To save money on new signage, sports uniforms, website changes and more, officials proposed shortening the name instead of changing it entirely.

After the story was published Monday, writer Tawnhell Hobbs turned the news item into a Socratic exercise, inviting suggestions on how the school’s name might be changed.

“Don’t want your school to be named for a Confederate general? Find someone else with the surname,” she tweeted. “Schools honor others with same surnames to avoid costs of repainting, new signs and uniform changes.”

Twitter jumped on Hobbs’s proposal, and many people had cheeky ideas that wouldn’t require as much fiscal outlay to change so much signage at the school. Suggestions included slight alterations to name the school for late actor Bruce Lee, Rush frontman Geddy Lee, Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, filmmakers Ang Lee and Lee Daniels, comic books legend Stan Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee and singer Brenda Lee....

There are over 200 schools named for Lee and other Confederate generals and figures throughout the South. Robert E. Lee in Texas is but one example and decided, despite great suggestions, to go with LEE High School, or the Legacy of Educational Excellence.

J.E.B. Stuart high school in Richmond, Virginia, the onetime capital of the Confederacy, changed its name last year to honor former president Barack Obama....

"Stan Lee" Marvels would be fun.
"Ang Lee" Crouching Tigers or Hidden Dragons are intimidating.
"Harper Lee" Mockingbirds, of course. Great slap at the bigots.
"Bruce Lee" Fists of Fury would be cool.

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Charlottesville car rammer ______________ murderer of Heather Heyer sentenced to life in prison