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[KaraBulut]

The US increasingly again seems to be at the mercy of the grossly ignorant, uneducated, untravelled, toxic, Baptist nutjobs. There will soon be fig-leaves on all the statues again.

And DeSantis is weaponizing them. The way he will weaponize people in a whole different way across America.

Back in the 70s and 80s, we in the US were at the mercy of the Southern Baptists. Because of what the activists from the SBC and a few other fundamentalist denominations in States like Texas dumbed-down the textbooks for the entire country.

It got better for a little while because a group of parents realized that their children weren't doing well on standardized tests and were having trouble competing for slots in magnet schools and universities.

What is happening now is that, during the pandemic, parents were having to educate their children at home instead of using the public school system as their babysitter. Their desire to get their kids out of the house led them to insane rants at school board meetings. It also inspired this latest period of "parental activism" where they again have decided that parents are smarter than the people who have professional training in education. Parents should have input into their local school district, however one insane parent shouldn't be able to dictate and limit the the education for all of the kids in the district and a minority of activist parents shouldn't be able to control all of the public education from K through university.

What we're seeing now is a lot like the 1950s. Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" back then not just to be an allegory for what he saw happening in McCarthyism, he also wrote it to call attention to the majority of people who sat silent and allowed it to happen in both Salem and in DC. My question about Florida is "Where are the protests?" and "Why are you all sitting there and letting this populist demagogue get away with this shit?".

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Did anybody have Kanye West isn't antisemitic anymore cuz he watched Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street on their 2023 bingo card? Per his return to the gram: 'I like Jews again.' Ummm, thanks Jonah Hill?

 

[rareboy]

^ What we're seeing now is a lot like the 1950s. Arthur Miller wrote "The Crucible" back then not just to be an allegory for what he saw happening in McCarthyism, he also wrote it to call attention to the majority of people who sat silent and allowed it to happen in both Salem and in DC. My question about Florida is "Where are the protests?" and "Why are you all sitting there and letting this populist demagogue get away with this shit?".

Incredibly interesting question given the demographics of Tallahassee...Including the education levels...this suggests that some kind of fundamentalism is prevalent or that it really is just a small fringe group that has taken control of the system...

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/tallahasseecityflorida

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Incredibly interesting question given the demographics of Tallahassee...Including the education levels...this suggests that some kind of fundamentalism is prevalent or that it really is just a small fringe group that has taken control of the system...

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/tallahasseecityflorida

It's also black apathy. We have a whole slew of rappers from Florida, mostly-black sports teams, Miami is a huge party scene for celebs who love to show off their luxury vacations and extravagant night life on instagram but none of them can be bothered to talk about this-- behind the scenes they're not aligned with people who are pro-black. They use our culture as a marketing tool but affluent blacks, as a general rule of thumb, are disconnected from our social issues. Gun to my head if I had to make a guess about the people I was marching with a few summers ago, I'd say 80% of them were working class, the arrests and leaving their jobs to join our movement ruined a few people's lives who are now couch surfing or just putting their lives back together. If this was the 1960s we'd be boycotting and Stonewalling Georgia by now, storming school board meetings and picketing DeSatan's press conferences.

 

[Riverrick]

It's also black apathy. We have a whole slew of rappers from Florida, mostly-black sports teams, Miami is a huge party scene for celebs who love to show off their luxury vacations and extravagant night life on instagram but none of them can be bothered to talk about this-- behind the scenes they're not aligned with people who are pro-black. They use our culture as a marketing tool but affluent blacks, as a general rule of thumb, are disconnected from our social issues. Gun to my head if I had to make a guess about the people I was marching with a few summers ago, I'd say 80% of them were working class, the arrests and leaving their jobs to join our movement ruined a few people's lives who are now couch surfing or just putting their lives back together. If this was the 1960s we'd be boycotting and Stonewalling Georgia by now, storming school board meetings and picketing DeSatan's press conferences.

I've wondered about this. I wondered if I'm missing news stories about a backlash. The moves made by many Republican states seem blatantly racist and I don't understand why I don't see protests and them being called out for it. Especially banning any teaching of history (and particularly black history) that could make a child feel guilty is clearly a move to set the clock back.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I've wondered about this. I wondered if I'm missing news stories about a backlash. The moves made by many Republican states seem blatantly racist and I don't understand why I don't see protests and them being called out for it. Especially banning any teaching of history (and particularly black history) that could make a child feel guilty is clearly a move to set the clock back.

I call this "We don't take nothing serious" syndrome. If we treated social issues with the same seriousness with which we color-coordinate our outfits for parties we'd be right as rain. The backlash won't happen til it's waaaaaay too late and a black parent goes viral for being dragged out of a school board meeting but they have to be relatively young and good looking, can't just be any frumpy old thing.

 

[rareboy]

I've wondered about this. I wondered if I'm missing news stories about a backlash. The moves made by many Republican states seem blatantly racist and I don't understand why I don't see protests and them being called out for it. Especially banning any teaching of history (and particularly black history) that could make a child feel guilty is clearly a move to set the clock back.

It demonstrates an incredible disconnect between at least one group of parents and the world their kids live in...but it could also be part of that post-covid helicopter parenting where after 24/7 together for months and months where parents could effectively control everything their kids were doing and looking at at home...they believe they can exercise the same control now that their kids (Grade 6 FFS) are growing up in real time in the bigger world.

I get that not every grade sixer is ready for Pornhub penetration....if they have not started to develop a healthy interest and approach to nude figures at this point...God help them. Neither David or the Bottacelli is anything but chaste...no matter how powerful and meaningful their subject matter. They are exactly the images to use to promote a non-sexualized appreciation of nudity in art.

 

[TX-Beau]

Silly boy, you cannot see penises. Seeing penises will make you curious about penises, and then you'll want to go touch one, and that leads straight to hellfire!

 

[TX-Beau]

On a related note, did you know that the puritans also had a war on Christmas?

 

[KaraBulut]

Incredibly interesting question given the demographics of Tallahassee...Including the education levels...this suggests that some kind of fundamentalism is prevalent or that it really is just a small fringe group that has taken control of the system...

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/tallahasseecityflorida

People in South Florida used to refer to North Florida as "South Alabama". Tallahassee and Gainesville have higher education levels because of the presence of universities and governmental employers in those cities. Probably the problem in Florida right now is that a lot of the evangelical converts from the 1970s and 1980s are hitting retirement age and have relocated from other areas of the South down to Florida. It's kind of the opposite of what has happened with the migration from California to Nevada.

These parents in Tallahassee sent their children to a liberal arts magnet school. The mission of the school is, "Tallahassee Classical School is training the minds and improving the hearts of young people through a content-rich classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue."

Who are these parents that think that a 6th grader is going to be traumatized by a Michelangelo statue or a Boticelli painting? And where are the rest of the parents who sent their children to this same school so that they would get an education?

The real problem here is that the normal majority isn't showing up at school board meetings to shout down the extremist evangelical nutjobs.

Silly boy, you cannot see penises. Seeing penises will make you curious about penises, and then you'll want to go touch one, and that leads straight to hellfire!

They must not allow their children access cell phones or the internet.

Worth mentioning: I probably saw Michelangelo's David for the first time around the age of these children. I was much more turned on my his chest and arms which are proportionately larger than his penis, which I found pretty disappointing compared with other penises that I had seen.

I think I found Boticelli's Venus silly. "Venus on a half shell".

 

[gsdx]

Worth mentioning: I probably saw Michelangelo's David for the first time around the age of these children. I was much more turned on my his chest and arms which are proportionately larger than his penis, which I found pretty disappointing compared with other penises that I had seen.

Not to distract from the topic, but it is also worth mentioning that David is deliberately disproportionate. When standing at the base and looking up to his face, David appears completely proportional despite his wee weewee.

 

[rareboy]

Silly boy, you cannot see penises. Seeing penises will make you curious about penises, and then you'll want to go touch one, and that leads straight to hellfire!

The curiousity about penises certainly had me touching mine by 7th grade.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

 

[KaraBulut]

Not to distract from the topic, but it is also worth mentioning that David is deliberately disproportionate. When standing at the base and looking up to his face, David appears completely proportional despite his wee weewee.

The picture that I saw as a young teen was taken from probably mid-chest level, so the biceps and chest were understandably the objects of fascination.

When I saw the statue in person over a decade later, it did appear very different from the ground.

The biceps and chest were still quite lovely, however I saw older and much more able to appreciate it...um... aesthetically from below.

.... times three...

Even if my parents would have censored my reading about it as a young teen, the experience as an adult would have been the same, in person, thankfully. Apparently, decades later, some parents haven't figured this out.

 

[TX-Beau]

The curiousity about penises certainly had me touching mine by 7th grade.

See, I'd grown up on a farm, and all those different penises had me fondling the penis of the boy across the pasture at 12. It's a very slippery slope. I put it in my mouth at 13. He was so pretty before the breeders got him. Alas.

 

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[KaraBulut]

Speaking of Peter Thiel...

 

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[johaninsc]