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Rights threatened by right-wing Christian fanatics

lundi 9 mai 2022 à 10:04

Rebecca Solnit explains that the right-wing Christian fanatics now threaten a wide range of rights: abortion rights, birth control, same-sex marriage, even homosexual sex. Not to mention freedom of speech and the right to vote.

This makes a broad resistance coalition possible.

Christian flag at Boston City Hall

lundi 9 mai 2022 à 10:04

The Supreme Court ruled that a Christian group is entitled to have its flag flown at Boston City Hall. Now the Satanic Temple demands the same privilege.

US governmental agencies are not allowed to prefer one religious position over another. Whatever one group is allowed to do, others can also do. Including secular groups whose position on religion is "none of the above", such as the Satanic Temple.

Georgia law about teaching "divisive concepts"

lundi 9 mai 2022 à 10:04

Georgia has passed a law banning the teaching of "divisive concepts" about racism.

It specific lists a few of them:

  • the United States of America is fundamentally racist.
  • an individual, by virtue of his or her race, is inherently or consciously racist or oppressive toward individuals of other races,
  • an individual, solely by virtue of his or her race, bears individual responsibility for actions committed in the past by other individuals of the same race. These are worse than merely "divisive". They constitute bigotry, and schools should not teach them.

    The dirty part of the law is that "divisive" concepts include other things too, and the boundary would be easy to stretch. Right-wing officials could easily act to stop all teaching about racism.

  • Drilling in New Mexico

    lundi 9 mai 2022 à 10:04

    Fossil fuel companies are trying to convince New Mexicans to think of fossil fuels as desperately necessary, authorize more oil drilling, using ads linking new wells to public schools.

    I can imagine an advertising campaign showing a school being burnt by a wildfire, a school near a river being flooded by rain from an "atmospheric river", and a school near a coast being flooded by a hurricane, saying that "these disasters are powered mainly by oil and natural gas (plus coal)."

    That is the "easy listening" version. The grim version is that most of the students in those schools will die from climate mayhem before they get old.

    Comparing arms for Ukraine today

    lundi 9 mai 2022 à 10:04

    Comparing arms for Ukraine today with arms for Britain, China and Russia in 1941.

    The war is Putin's choice. He chose to start it, and I am confident he can end it by choice any time. All he would need to do is pull his forces out of Ukraine, and allow everyone he has taken from Ukraine to Russia to go back to Ukraine if perse chooses.