Hamline University? Sounds fake. Nope, real. Our own Atrupar went there. First reply tweet to the tweet below.
She had both a trigger warning in the course syllabus, and the day of. The work itself is considered a masterpiece of Islamic Art. Yeah, this is pretty bad.
First they came for my medeival paintings, and I did nothing.
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goofy
January 11, 2023, 5:13pm
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Debated putting this in GOP Insanity because it’s very in line with their politics, but feels at home in a thread about policing speech too
https://mobile.twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1613200559820906496
“I don’t know if I feel comfortable with the book being one of the ones featured,” Beeman is heard saying on the podcast during the middle of “The Sneetches” reading. “I just feel like this isn’t teaching anything about economics, and this is a little bit more about differences with race and everything like that.”
“The Sneetches,” published in 1961, is a book about two kinds of Sneetches: those with stars on their bellies and those without stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches are judged negatively by their appearance, so capitalist Sylvester McMonkey McBean makes money selling them stars for their bellies. Meanwhile, the Star-Bellied Sneetches don’t like associating with the Plain-Belly Sneetches, so they start paying to have a machine take their stars off.
The Seuss family has said the book was intended to teach children not to judge or discriminate against others because of their appearance and to treat people equitably.
“It’s almost like what happened back then, how people were treated … Like, disrespected … Like, white people disrespected Black people…,” a third grade student is heard saying on the podcast.
Robek keeps on reading, but it’s shortly after this student’s comment is made on the podcast that Beeman interrupts the reading.
“I just don’t think that this is going to be the discussion that we wanted around economics,” Beeman said on the podcast. “So I’m sorry. We’re going to cut this one off.”
Beras tried to tell Beeman that “The Sneetches” is about preferences, open markets and economic loss, but Beeman replied, “I just don’t think it might be appropriate for the third-grade class and for them to have a discussion around it.”
On the “Planet Money” episode, Beras reached back out to Beeman to ask about what happened. Beeman replied, “When the book began addressing racism, segregation and discriminating behaviors, this was not the conversation we had prepared Mrs. Robek, the students or parents would take place. There may be some very important economics lessons in ‘The Sneetches,’ but I did not feel that those lessons were the themes students were going to grasp at that point in the day or in the book.”
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goofy
January 13, 2023, 10:56pm
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I think this one goes in the “good” bucket
[x] cancelled
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Was about to say, too bad I don’t think he crossed a legal line oh wait that’s his employer lol
Holy fuck how ridiculous is republican brain rot that you can read that book and think it’s about anything OTHER than teaching kids about discrimination.
Dr. Seuss seems like he’d make some bangin political cartoons these days, during WW2 he published a bunch:
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The city of Frankfurt cancels Roger Waters concert over accusations of being antisemitic. I deliberately write “accusation” because too often opposition to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is relabeled antisemitism.
I think this is a good write up:
by Mottle Wolfe OK, I will admit it. I am a huge Roger Waters fan. In the mid to late 80‘s, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” played in my car cassette player until I finally wore the tape out. I think that his far lesser known “Pros and Cons of...
Est. reading time: 6 minutes
In the past concerts of his in Poland were cancelled over his support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. So fuck him.
Conservatives: HOW DARE YOU CANEL DR. SEUSS???
Also Conservatives: Well, we can cancel THIS Dr. Seuss!
Sarcasm aside, this shit works. They control the conversation and the Overton Window on ~everything by being angrier and louder. These kids and future kids in that class won’t hear that story, and will miss an opportunity to learn that discrimination is bad. It’s a win for conservatives, no matter how many NPR stories make them look like clowns.
How is it 2023 and people still haven’t figure out that you’ll get fired for being a horrible piece of shit on your public Facebook feed?
I suspect the reaction to this will be less “cancel culture run amok!” and more “Scott who? Never heard of him.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/25/scott-adams-dilbert-canceled/
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goofy
February 25, 2023, 9:17pm
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The once widely celebrated cartoonist, who has been entertaining extreme-right ideologies and conspiracy theories for several years, was upset Wednesday by a Rasmussen poll that found a thin majority of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s okay to be White.”
“If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with White people … that’s a hate group,” Adams said on his live-streaming YouTube show. “I don’t want to have anything to do with them. And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people … because there is no fixing this.”
Adams, 65, also blamed Black people for not “focusing on education” during the show and said, “I’m also really sick of seeing video after video of Black Americans beating up non-Black citizens.”
Surprised it took this long given where he’s been in the past:
In 2019, he apologized to the victims of a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California for a tweet in which he used the tragedy to advertise an app he created. Adams also claimed in June 2020 that the “Dilbert” television show was canceled because he’s White, adding that it “was the third job I lost for being White.” He tweeted in January 2022 that he planned to “self-identify as a Black woman.” He has suggested Americans were brainwashed into supporting Ukraine.
Last May, Adams used “Dilbert” to mock workplace diversity and transgender politics through a new character called Dave the Black Engineer. He also praised anti-vaccine advocates last month, saying on his YouTube show that “the unvaccinated have a current advantage.”
gee, if only we had signs before now that the Dilbert guy was a huge racist!
goofy
February 26, 2023, 7:41pm
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“It’s not cancel culture if I agree with the cancellation”
I mean, if a famous white guy can’t yell the n-word from his rooftop on video and face no societal repercussions whatsoever, do we even have a country anymore?
Makes you wonder!
goofy
March 11, 2023, 9:19pm
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The right wing legal world is furious about this story - an own-the-libs, anti-gay Trump judge was invited to speak at Stanford by their Federalist Society, and this lifetime-tenured federal judge had to be subjected to the horror of heckling from protesting students, reigniting all the right’s “free speech on campus” alarms:
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Is there a video of the prof breaking down?
