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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Bigoted students run Brooklyn High School |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 21 May 2024, 5:31 pm
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Antisemitic teens terrorizing Jewish teacher with Hitler jabs, death threats as NYC school refuses to discipline them: ‘I live in fear’: lawsuit [...] He also said he heard that a classmate called Hitler “the G.O.A.T.” What does that mean, I wonder? The only reason anything might be done is because... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sarajevo - The Ideal Yugoslav Capital that never was |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 20 May 2024, 1:15 pm
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Replies: 31 Views: 825
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If there is a lack of interests outside of US-related stuff, then I shall find a more suitable place that will accept such interests. I am hereby deducting at least three points for the forum's inability to deal with topics outside of the US that is if the general interest is heavily based on US-re... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 20 May 2024, 12:41 pm
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And yet, in the 50s and 60s, the US Establishment promoted the Evangelical Christian Billy Graham as a figure for the right to rally round – and Graham was a man who promoted racial integration, and worked closely with Martin Luther King. Billy Graham was by no means a reliable staunch ally of Mart... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 20 May 2024, 10:49 am
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Replies: 37 Views: 1,841
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Going on what I’ve previously read about the subject, it would be more accurate to say that the US establishment actually promoted Evangelical Christianity to right-wingers in the 50s and 60s precisely because Evangelical Christianity provided far less resistance than other right-wing movements did... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: My therapist thinks I can just learn social cues... |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 19 May 2024, 11:10 pm
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Replies: 36 Views: 4,894
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A belated reply to this reply to my post here : It's rather difficult to know what your limits are, until you bump against them. To arbitrarily decide what your limits are, before you've even found them, is the same thing as self-defeat. Doing so is to decide the limits of your willingness, not the ... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: It isn't really easy to make friends when Autism |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 19 May 2024, 10:12 pm
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I can make a friend but the issue is that friendships may not last long because if I get close enough to express myself, opening up about my past struggles, and opening about my info-dump on history stuff, it will bore a neurotypical to death that I may not be seen as interesting simply for my obse... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: How to tell if I am being mistreated in my relationship |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 19 May 2024, 9:44 pm
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Replies: 9 Views: 408
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I keep finding that when I communicate proactively about my needs/ boundaries and attempt to share information, she doubles down and presents new insults. That certainly does not sound good. If you feel so inclined, perhaps you could give us some specific examples of things you have tried to explai... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: How to tell if I am being mistreated in my relationship |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 19 May 2024, 6:40 pm
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Replies: 9 Views: 408
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On what general kinds of issues are you feeling misunderstood, demeaned, mis-represented, and invalidated? Is it primarily on autism-related or other neurodivergence-related issues, or is it a more pervasive problem? From what you've said so far, there's no way to tell whether your problem is just i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Critiques of Zionism by Jews |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 8:26 pm
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As American Jews speak out on Israel, some see rifts in their communities by Leah Donnella, Gene Demby, Xavier Lopez, Dalia Mortada, Jess Kung, Christina Cala, B.A. Parker, Lori Lizarraga, and Veralyn Williams, NPR, April 24, 2024. A podcast introduced as follows: In the wake of October 7, and the ... |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: MODERATOR ATTENTION: How to get help when you need it |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 8:00 pm
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Replies: 896 Views: 75,913
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I've noticed that some folks here copy and paste stuff from elsewhere on the web without identifying their sources.
Should specific instances of this be reported, if any of us happen to notice them? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The American Dream Is Dead |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 4:23 pm
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I tried to watch some of that video. Anyway, I find the whole concept of an "American Dream" silly, as people all over the world want to be prosperous. When support for Communism was widespread, there was indeed a movement that told people to work for the common good rather than their sel... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Speaks appoints new Chairmen of the Board |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 3:23 pm
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I never heard of John Carroll University. Googled it just now and found its About page. |
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Forum: Women's Discussion Topic: Do you hide your gender? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 2:51 pm
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I tell you what I am reluctant to do though and that it to tick them boxes where it asks you all this sort of stuff for equality reasons If it's equality then why are they asking. It makes no sense to me To me you should treat people equal without having to know what their pronouns or preferences a... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do You Hide Your Special Interest? |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 2:42 pm
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I think it's important to find people with whom we share interests (special and otherwise). It has always seemed to me that shared interests are one of the building blocks of friendship. There is, of course, much more to friendship than JUST shared interests, but it seems to me that shared interests... |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 18 May 2024, 8:00 am
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For a simple viewing activity like opening a post or looking at a forum, a retry is harmless enough - but when making a post, if the error appears on "Submit", then a browser "back" action (away from the error message to your post edit screen) followed by "Submit" shou... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Deaf people's rights and deaf community politics |
Mona Pereth |
Posted: 16 May 2024, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 5 Views: 436
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There are some autistic community issues that are analogous to some deaf community issues. For example, see the Guardian (U.K.) article A ‘miracle cure’ for deafness? For people like me, here’s why that isn’t our dream , 13 May 2024, in which Oliver-James Campbell says: It’s right to celebrate a gro... |
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