#Republican bigotry

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

If you’re in an openly racist party led by outlandishly racist figures you have to walk on eggshells in order to remain a grifting useful idiot in that party.

Shame on every marginalized person that sides with the RepubliKKKlan Party of bigotry and prejudice. You are condemning millions to persecution and death just so you can make a few dollars riding on their coat tails.

#Nimaratta Nikki Randhawa Haley #republican hypocrisy #traitor trump #crooked donald #republican assholes #donald trump #Republican racism #Republican bigotry #Republican prejudice #Republican hatred #Republican homophobia #Republican sexism #Republican elitism #Republican xenophobia #Republican classism #Republican corruption #Republican grifters #useful idiots #quislings #traitors #racism #Ron DeSatan #Republican indifference

[rejectingrepublicans]

#republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #resist #Republican fascists #Republican bigotry #racist trump #homophobe trump

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Are you paying attention to this!

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#republican hypocrisy #republican lgbt persecution #Republican homophobia #Republican transphobia #Republican bigotry #culture war #fascisim #lgbt rights are human rights

[thebookewyrme]

Florida is At It Again

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I wanted my next post to be about the world of Open Access publishing and the horrors of APCs, but it was brought to my attention that I’m about to have worse problems than exorbitant publishing fees again, because it turns out the Florida Legislature is At It Again. That is, Representative Ryan Chamberlin (R) of Marion County, a county I have worked in, filed HB 599 for the 2024 Legislative…

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#fl hb 599 #florida house of representatives #florida politics #government employees #law #lgbtq #politics #queer #republican bigotry

[filosofablogger]

The Games They Play ...

Yesterday afternoon I wrote about the Republican-majority in the House of Representatives wasting their time in an impeachment inquiry that will come to naught for there is nothing to find, while the clock is ticking loudly toward the November 17th government shutdown and nothing … literally nothing is being done to avert a crisis there.  But it isn’t only the pseudo-impeachment inquiry they’re…

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#House Speaker Mike Johnson #Marge Greene #Pete Buttigieg #Republican bigotry #Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin #U.S. House of NON-Representatives

[eideard]

Laughter turns easily to sadness...

Laughter turns easily to sadness…

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#half our electorate #Republican bigotry

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #if you go far enough left you get your guns back #gun violence #gun control #gun rights #memes #shitpost #bigotry #bigots be like #fuck racists #racists #2023 #republicans be like #conservatives be like #libertarians be like

[charliejaneanders]

Another reason to call and email your reps. They need to hear from us now that trans rights are not a bargaining chip.

#trans #politics #lgbtqia #transphobia #non-binary #lgbt #republicans #bigotry

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[lenbryant]

Gay math teacher FTW!

#politics #republicans #maga me sick #schools #education #dumbing down of america #antigay bigotry #lgbt #gay #gay teacher

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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“Kelly Johnson features the couple’s podcast on the website of her company, Onward Christian Counseling Services, which promotes Bible-based pastoral counseling. Her website also includes a link to its 2017 operating agreement, which lays out the corporate bylaws for the company ― and embraces a number of socially conservative beliefs about LGBTQ+ people and women’s reproductive rights.

The agreement states that Onward Christian Counseling Services is grounded in the belief that sex is offensive to God if it is not between a man and a woman married to each other. It puts being gay, bisexual or transgender in the same category as someone who has sex with animals or family members, calling all of these examples of “sexual immorality.”

“We believe and the Bible teaches that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one’s sex, or disagreement with one’s biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God,” says the eight-page business document.

This agreement also refers to “pre-born babies” and says the company is committed to defending and protecting all human life, “from conception through natural death.”

Speaker Johnson’s signature is on the last page. He notarized the document on July 1, 2017. Notaries are not required to read the documents they notarize and are sometimes discouraged from doing so for privacy reasons.”

#lgbt #republican assholes #maga Mike Johnson #republican hypocrisy #republican values #Republican bigotry #homophobia

[rejectingrepublicans]

#republican assholes #republican values #Republican bigotry

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Ohio used to be a blue union state.

#Republican homophobia #Republican transphobia #republicans lgbt persecution #Republicans hate Americans #Republican bigotry #republican assholes

[heir-less]

I think what a lot of people don't understand is that the cultural and societal aspects of religion can still exist in a society that is 100% secular. Most atheists aren't anti-theists, in fact, most of them still take part in many religious customs and celebrations in a secular form. Anti-theism doesn't even mean the eradication of religion, it's typically used to describe the intellectual opposition to belief in a deity,

So, I'm honestly perplexed whenever I see people arguing that the "end goal" of atheism is to eradicate religion, this is something both religious people and ill-informed atheists believe, for some reason. I guess this is what happens when Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are your go-to atheists and you're measuring atheism against the most extreme religious zealots because that's what most people are reactive towards.

What should be completely removed are almost all forms of institutionalized religion and religious power structures. These are the exactual oppressive structures that have used religion as a tool to justify every form of bigotry and crime against humanity. They are also not essential to the practice of the religion or the survival of the religious culture. Your right to practice your religion ends if you're using said religion to advocate for the oppression of Muslims (assuming you're not practicing Islam), atheists, LGBT+ people, and other minorities. You can be a church-going Catholic without advocating for state-sanctioned religion or the rights of others being removed. This evangelical breed of religious extremism has no place in society and is what actually leads to real genocides happening today.

#non royal #text #also people really do act as if atheists are persecuting religious folks by being annoying and edgy #in my opinion it's like comparing islamophobia to a dislike of Christianity in canada/america #one is a form of dangerous systemic bigotry that kills and the other is at most being rude/ignorant #the religious majority always prosecutes religious minorities including atheists #i'm serious that atheist persecution is an actual problem and the rights of irreligious people are neglected #if you look at how atheists are treated in many religious communities and by evangelical governments there is no comparison #and they have little to no institutional power to fight for their rights as a group #in the US state governments are often times trying to institutionalize religion in ways that harm muslims atheists and all nonevangelicals #the things ron desantis and other republicans have said about atheists would make me feel unsafe living in their states as an atheist

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A watchdog nonprofit seeking to protect the separation of church and state is demanding the Bible be banned from a Florida school district after the superintendent banned five other books due to “sexually explicit content.”

Christopher Line, a staff attorney for the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), sent an email to Leon County Schools superintendent Rocky Hanna requesting that “the District either ban the bible based on the criterion of ‘sexually explicit content’ it has used to ban these books, or cease banning books and return the banned books to school shelves.”

The five banned books were removed from Leon County high school libraries after Hanna personally reviewed them and, as reported by the Tallahassee Democrat, decided they were “black-and-white, cut-and-dray, need-to-be removed.” There was no formal hearing. The books: Dead End by Jason Myer; Me, Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews; Lucky by Alice Sebold; Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk; and Push by Sapphire.

“The District cannot ban books because it disagrees with the viewpoint expressed while allowing other sexually explicit books, like The Bible, because it supports their viewpoint,” Line wrote. “In The Bible, rape is not only described, but the victims are forced to marry their rapists.” He went on to describe moments in The Bible that talk about sex toys, prostitutes, incest, bestiality, homosexuality, and nudity.

Line said the organization has published a brochure called An X-Rated Book: Sex & Obscenity In the Bible that is available for free on FFRF’s website.

The email also emphasized that banning The Bible would not be religious discrimination. “It is important to note that the removal of the bible would not constitute hostility toward Christianity or religion. The District must hold religious texts to the same standards it holds all other library books, review them, and, if they contain the same sexually explicit content as The Bible, must also remove them under the District’s pattern and practice. Removing The Bible for its obscenity or graphic sexual content based on neutral criteria is not religious discrimination.”

It also acknowledged that the best solution would be to leave the other books on the shelves and “trust students to explore complex topics themselves.”

The books were removed from Leon County high schools at the request of anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Moms for Liberty with help from a 2022 law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that says parents can contest academic materials and requires books made available through school and classroom libraries be selected by a certified media specialist.

Priscilla West, chair of the county’s Moms for Liberty chapter, told the Tallahassee Democrat the request from FFRF is not a surprise to the group.

“Those who would prematurely sexualize other people’s children in schools, also do not want children exposed to The Bible. I don’t foresee LCS Board members taking a stand to remove The Bible from school libraries, but even if they did, would it make any difference in the children’s daily educational experience? Happily, in this country The Bible would still be widely available outside of schools to all who choose to enrich themselves with its wisdom.”

Leon County has been making headlines all month for its conservative parents’ efforts to ban books.

Today, the school board will hold a book challenge hearing over I Am Billie Jean King, a children’s biography of the out tennis legend, after a parent filed a complaint objecting to its LGBTQ+ content.

In her formal complaint, filed on April 25 to Leon County Schools, Katie Leon — a parent of a child who attended Hawks Rise Elementary School in Tallahassee, Florida — wrote that she objects “to material that discusses being gay and what it means to be gay” and that she did not think the material was “suitable for elementary students.”

Leon took issue with a single page of the 40-page illustrated book, which describes King realizing she was gay. “Being gay means that if you’re a girl, you love and have romantic feelings for other girls — and if you’re a boy, you love and have romantic feelings for other boys,” the page reads in part.

Leon believes this violates Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law. But at a meeting earlier this month, Leon County Schools assistant superintendent of academic services Shane Syfrett noted that the Florida Department of Education issued a clarification to the Parental Rights in Education Act, stating that “incidental references in literature to gay and transgender persons are not prohibited.”

#us politics #news #lgbtq nation #republicans #conservatives #bigots be like #bigotry #bigots #trans rights #trans #transphobia #republican homophobia #homophobia #don't say gay bill #parental rights in education #2023 #florida #gov. ron desantis #moms for liberty #Florida Department of Education #Priscilla West #The Bible #I Am Billie Jean King #Dead End #Me Earl and the Dying Girl #Lucky #Doomed #Push #banned books #book bans

[dougielombax]

What do you think.

Should we tell the stupid white racists that Irish republicanism isn’t for them?

Yeah, why not.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #bigotry #fucking morons #fuck bigotry #anti racism #anti imperialism #leftism #decolonization #ireland #irish republicanism #irish history #political crap