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10 Feb 2018, 9:47 pm

We can be thankful for occasional small victories:

Victory Over PC Art Censorship In England Proves We Can Have Nice Things If We Try

It wasn’t religious groups, armies of homeschooling moms, or puritanical conservative activists who wanted the painting removed. It was the new puritan -- the woke activist.

An art gallery in Manchester, England removed a famous painting by pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse from an exhibit in January. By February, after public outcry, it was back.


http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/09/mus ... ensorship/


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My previous post was a column discussing how SJW mentality is going beyond the college campuses. That article gave examples in the journalism field. This is the clusterf**k you get when SJW’s take over the board of education of America’s largest city.
These parents defied NYC no daddy-daughter dance rule

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The dances will go on for these defiant dads and daughters despite the Department of Education’s new guidelines over gender-specific events.
“This politically correct stuff has got to stop,” said Thomas Tirotta, 43, who took his 10-year old Lila to the father-daughter dance at PS 38 on Staten Island Friday night.

“It’s something that’s been around for a long time,” Tirotta said. “Let the people enjoy it and if you don’t like it, don’t go.”

The DOE ordered schools to “eliminate” any “gender-based” practices like father-daughter dances last year. The DOE said Friday schools that want to host parent-child events must ensure they’re gender-neutral and open to all students and caregivers.

But three schools including PS 38 said they still planned to hold daddy-daughter dances and a fourth has one on its online calendar.

“They’re trying to take away from the dads, from the good fathers. … It’s all political now,” said Raul Mejia, who added taking his 5-year-old daughter Isabelle to the PS 38 dance was important because “I want to start her young, so she can know how a guy is supposed to treat her.”

DOE said PS 38 was given guidance to update the event to welcome everyone.

The Midland Beach elementary school listed the shin-dig as a father-daughter dance on its website and confirmed in a phone call that it was holding a father-daughter dance. But it also dubbed the soiree a “Valentine’s Day Dance” in an online calendar, with a stock photo of a little girl dancing on top of a man’s shoes.

The enthusiastic dads and daughters knew exactly what they were celebrating Friday night.

PS 3 on Staten Island will have a “Father Daughter Dance-Enchanted Ball” on March 3, according to the school. DOE said this is an off-site, non-school related event sponsored by the PTA.

PS 209 in Queens also plans a “Father Daughter Dance” for March 8. And PS 83 in the Bronx still has a “Father/Daughter Dance” on its online calendar for June 6, as well as a May 19 “Mother and Son Field Day” and a “Mother/Daughter Spa Night” on April 27.

DOE said it’s consulting with the schools to ensure these events are inclusive if they are held on school grounds.

When the DOE becomes aware of events that don’t follow the gender guidelines, education officials work with schools to ensure changes are made “as quickly as possible,” spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said.

We are sending a reminder to schools about the guidelines that are in place to ensure school-related events are inclusive of all students and families,” Barbot said.
The DOE’s new Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Student Guidelines issued last March 1 told schools to end all gender-based practices that don’t serve a clear educational purpose.

The policy update prompted Staten Island’s PS 65 to abruptly scrap its traditional father-daughter dance this month.

Confused parents at the Stapleton school slammed political correctness when the dance was postponed for March 2 and opened to kids and caregivers of any gender.

While there’s no DOE policy explicitly banning father-daughter dances, they can be “triggering” for some students or parents, according to Jared Fox, the department’s LGBT community liaison.

Controversy over the dances appear to have spooked other schools.

A Friday night party at PS 63 in Queens was originally dubbed the “Daddy Daughter Dance” on the school’s Facebook page Jan. 19. But someone who answered the school’s main line this week corrected a caller to say the event was actually a “Sweetheart Dance.”


I do not see how a father daughter dance is hostile to trans girls. If anything it emphasizes the father’s acceptence of her female identity.


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11 Feb 2018, 2:55 pm

All a bunch of nonsense.....



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15 Feb 2018, 5:13 pm

A school district drops ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ over use of the n-word

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A Minnesota school district is dropping two classic novels, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” from its required reading list because of the books’ liberal use of a racial slur.

Officials at Duluth Public Schools say the move, which follows similar ones taken by other school districts in Virginia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania in recent years, was a response to complaints they had received in the past. The books are still available in libraries, and students can read them on their own time, but school officials will look at other novels on the same topic to add to its curriculum, Michael Cary, director of curriculum and instruction, told the Duluth News Tribune.

“We felt that we could still teach the same standards and expectations through other novels that didn’t require students to feel humiliated or marginalized by the use of racial slurs,” Cary, who was not available for comment Wednesday, told the paper.

Harper Lee and Mark Twain didn’t shy away from using the n-word when they wrote the American classics. Both books have historically been among the American Library Association’s list of 100 most frequently challenged books. Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” a story about a poor white boy and a slave, most recently made the list in 2015, when a group of students in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania said its use of the n-word made them uncomfortable.

Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a book about racism in the United States, has long been targeted for removal from libraries and schools. In 1966, a school board in Virginia invited the ire of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who mocked the board in a letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.


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16 Feb 2018, 12:49 pm

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"Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo? Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin? Burn it. Someone has written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag."



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"Colored people don't like Little Black Sambo? Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin? Burn it. Someone has written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag."


Autism is used as an insult, ban it :(


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16 Feb 2018, 4:26 pm

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Autism is used as an insult, ban it :(

Not sure what you mean.



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16 Feb 2018, 6:34 pm

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Autism is used as an insult, ban it :(

Not sure what you mean.

In Huckleberry Finn that the word n****r is used in the context of an anti racist book. That does not matter to the SJW’s and thier enablers the only thing that matters is that the word is used, so by thier logic the entire book is offensive and needs to be non platformed out of existence.

The word autistic is often used in a non offensive context but these days it is also being used as an insult. Following SJW thinking the word autism is offensive period and must be banned. There is plenty of precedent for this try looking in the current DSM for the diagnosis of manic depression or ret*d.


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16 Feb 2018, 8:00 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
The word autistic is often used in a non offensive context but these days it is also being used as an insult. Following SJW thinking the word autism is offensive period and must be banned. There is plenty of precedent for this try looking in the current DSM for the diagnosis of manic depression or ret*d.

Ah I see. Burn DSM, burn. /s



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16 Feb 2018, 9:54 pm

I still use people-centered language.


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21 Feb 2018, 9:45 pm

Prep School sued after student hurt her butt playing musical chairs

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What’s next — a ban on hopscotch?

An innocent game of musical chairs at an Upper East Side prep school is headed to court — because one of the students yanked the seat from under ­another kid and she landed on her duff.

Manhattan plaintiff Kate Liggett claims that she was injured when her York Prep high-school classmate pulled out her chair during what was supposed to be a fun class activity in 2016.

The exclusive West 68th Street school — which charges tuition of nearly $50,000 a year and counts Liv Tyler as a grad — is at least partly at fault because it forced her to participate in the game that led to her downfall, according to Liggett’s Manhattan court suit.

York Prep created a “dangerous situation when it knew or should have known that the game of musical chairs as played by the students in the dance class was inappropriate for the students,” her suit says.

First, teacher Fiona Hutchinson “failed to properly educate participants” on safely playing a simple game of musical chairs during their “Expression Through Dance’’ class, the suit says.

Next, the school allowed students “who had disparate physical skills and builds” to play the game, court documents state.

Then Hutchinson forced Liggett, who has since graduated, to play despite her “specific request to be excused from playing,’’ the suit says.

The school compelled Liggett’s participation “under penalty of disciplinary action,” the suit states.

When the music stopped at one point during the game, Liggett claims, one of her classmates, Ethan Levy, suddenly pulled her seat out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor, according to the lawsuit. “Defendant Ethan Levy abruptly moved the chair upon which the plaintiff was about to sit causing plaintiff to fall to the ground,” court papers state.

The suit says Liggett “sustained serious personal injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma, distress and medical expenses.”

The case targets Levy personally for recklessness and negligence in pulling the chair out from under Liggett.

But she wants both him and her alma mater to cough up damages to be determined at trial.

The school hosts grades 6 through 12.


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23 Feb 2018, 2:29 am

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Prep School sued after student hurt her butt playing musical chairs
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What’s next — a ban on hopscotch?

An innocent game of musical chairs at an Upper East Side prep school is headed to court — because one of the students yanked the seat from under ­another kid and she landed on her duff.

Manhattan plaintiff Kate Liggett claims that she was injured when her York Prep high-school classmate pulled out her chair during what was supposed to be a fun class activity in 2016.

The exclusive West 68th Street school — which charges tuition of nearly $50,000 a year and counts Liv Tyler as a grad — is at least partly at fault because it forced her to participate in the game that led to her downfall, according to Liggett’s Manhattan court suit.

York Prep created a “dangerous situation when it knew or should have known that the game of musical chairs as played by the students in the dance class was inappropriate for the students,” her suit says.

First, teacher Fiona Hutchinson “failed to properly educate participants” on safely playing a simple game of musical chairs during their “Expression Through Dance’’ class, the suit says.

Next, the school allowed students “who had disparate physical skills and builds” to play the game, court documents state.

Then Hutchinson forced Liggett, who has since graduated, to play despite her “specific request to be excused from playing,’’ the suit says.

The school compelled Liggett’s participation “under penalty of disciplinary action,” the suit states.

When the music stopped at one point during the game, Liggett claims, one of her classmates, Ethan Levy, suddenly pulled her seat out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor, according to the lawsuit. “Defendant Ethan Levy abruptly moved the chair upon which the plaintiff was about to sit causing plaintiff to fall to the ground,” court papers state.

The suit says Liggett “sustained serious personal injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma, distress and medical expenses.”

The case targets Levy personally for recklessness and negligence in pulling the chair out from under Liggett.

But she wants both him and her alma mater to cough up damages to be determined at trial.

The school hosts grades 6 through 12.


What's this got to do with so-called 'SJWs'? This is just residents of the Litigious States of America engaging in the national pastime.


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funeralxempire wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
Prep School sued after student hurt her butt playing musical chairs
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What’s next — a ban on hopscotch?

An innocent game of musical chairs at an Upper East Side prep school is headed to court — because one of the students yanked the seat from under ­another kid and she landed on her duff.

Manhattan plaintiff Kate Liggett claims that she was injured when her York Prep high-school classmate pulled out her chair during what was supposed to be a fun class activity in 2016.

The exclusive West 68th Street school — which charges tuition of nearly $50,000 a year and counts Liv Tyler as a grad — is at least partly at fault because it forced her to participate in the game that led to her downfall, according to Liggett’s Manhattan court suit.

York Prep created a “dangerous situation when it knew or should have known that the game of musical chairs as played by the students in the dance class was inappropriate for the students,” her suit says.

First, teacher Fiona Hutchinson “failed to properly educate participants” on safely playing a simple game of musical chairs during their “Expression Through Dance’’ class, the suit says.

Next, the school allowed students “who had disparate physical skills and builds” to play the game, court documents state.

Then Hutchinson forced Liggett, who has since graduated, to play despite her “specific request to be excused from playing,’’ the suit says.

The school compelled Liggett’s participation “under penalty of disciplinary action,” the suit states.

When the music stopped at one point during the game, Liggett claims, one of her classmates, Ethan Levy, suddenly pulled her seat out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor, according to the lawsuit. “Defendant Ethan Levy abruptly moved the chair upon which the plaintiff was about to sit causing plaintiff to fall to the ground,” court papers state.

The suit says Liggett “sustained serious personal injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma, distress and medical expenses.”

The case targets Levy personally for recklessness and negligence in pulling the chair out from under Liggett.

But she wants both him and her alma mater to cough up damages to be determined at trial.

The school hosts grades 6 through 12.


What's this got to do with so-called 'SJWs'? This is just residents of the Litigious States of America engaging in the national pastime.


The prep school is having students play musical chairs a game more appropriate for first graders not 6th through 12th graders.

In this case litigation is being used instead of other techniques to attempt to eliminate every risk in life.

Both of the above shows the adults babying and spoiling these kids which creates SJW’s.
Litigious society does that also.


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24 Feb 2018, 12:42 am

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The prep school is having students play musical chairs a game more appropriate for first graders not 6th through 12th graders.

In this case litigation is being used instead of other techniques to attempt to eliminate every risk in life.

Both of the above shows the adults babying and spoiling these kids which creates SJW’s.
Litigious society does that also.


You still haven't made any connection between this and any sort of 'social justice'. If they're not fighting for 'social justice' it's absurd to insist this has anything to do with so-called 'social justice warriors'. Not all whiners are the SJW boogieman.


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A Minnesota school district is dropping two classic novels, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” from its required reading list because of the books’ liberal use of a racial slur.

Officials at Duluth Public Schools say the move, which follows similar ones taken by other school districts in Virginia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania in recent years, was a response to complaints they had received in the past. The books are still available in libraries, and students can read them on their own time, but school officials will look at other novels on the same topic to add to its curriculum, Michael Cary, director of curriculum and instruction, told the Duluth News Tribune.

“We felt that we could still teach the same standards and expectations through other novels that didn’t require students to feel humiliated or marginalized by the use of racial slurs,” Cary, who was not available for comment Wednesday, told the paper.

Harper Lee and Mark Twain didn’t shy away from using the n-word when they wrote the American classics. Both books have historically been among the American Library Association’s list of 100 most frequently challenged books. Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” a story about a poor white boy and a slave, most recently made the list in 2015, when a group of students in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania said its use of the n-word made them uncomfortable.

Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a book about racism in the United States, has long been targeted for removal from libraries and schools. In 1966, a school board in Virginia invited the ire of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who mocked the board in a letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.


That's not even the cringiest part of Huck Finn.



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24 Feb 2018, 12:51 am

Purdue: ‘Avoid’ Words with ‘Man’ in Them

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A writing guide at Purdue University advises students to avoid words with “man” in them — such as “mailman” and “mankind” — in order to write “in a non-sexist, non-biased way.”

“Although MAN in its original sense carried the dual meaning of adult human and adult male, its meaning has come to be so closely identified with adult male that the generic use of MAN and other words with masculine markers should be avoided,” the guide states.

“Writing in a non-sexist, non-biased way is both ethically sound and effective,” it advises. “Non-sexist writing is necessary for most audiences; if you write in a sexist manner and alienate much of your audience from your discussion, your writing will be much less effective.”

According to the guide, “mankind” should be replaced with words such as “humanity,” “people,” and “human beings,” and “mailman” should be replaced with “mail carrier.” One of the other words it cautions against is “man-made,” suggesting that students use instead the word “synthetic,” “manufactured,” or “machine-made.”

Do not these language police notice that “manufactured” has “man” in it?

Confession I have used the word woMAN many times in my life. I apologize for propagating and enabling patriarchal microagressions by using the W word. Oh dear I apologize for offending other short people by using the word MICROaggressions


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