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Looking for Racism Everywhere? Sometimes it's Best to Look in the Mirror

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Oh boy, have you guys seen this? I know many of us are well-versed in the anti-racism, victimhood tactics, mainly from our time at certain other websites. And we know how hurtful it can be. But I don't think I've ever seen a better example of just how much damage false accusations of racism can cause.

Here's a city council meeting where some kids from a special program at an area school were presenting a gift to the city. Their project involved spending a couple days in the town of Martinsville, VA, after which they were going to write reports and stuff about their experience and what they learned about the history of the town. Somewhere along the way, they decided it would be nice to make a quilt with each of the kids designing their own patch showing how they felt about the experience and to show their appreciation for the history of the town. In this city council meeting, the kids and their teacher were showing the quilt that they were about to present as a gift to the city.
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Hellraisers Journal: Students & Staff to Strike at Indiana U

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You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Friday April 10, 1903
Eugene V Debs and the Conflict within the Socialist Party
Part I
Problems started when the Western Federation of Miners established a new labor federation: the American Labor Union. The American Labor Union then declared itself in favor of Socialism and began a nation-wide campaign to organize unions on an industrial basis rather than on the craft basis favored by the American Federation of Labor. Debs was strongly rebuked for his support of the ALU by Socialist Party leaders such as Victor Berger and J. Mahlon Barnes who have achieved some influence within the AF of L. Barnes is a member of Samuel Gompers' own cigarmakers union.

Debs fired back with an article in last November's issue of the International Socialist Review. He stated that he would be willing to support Samuel Gompers:


Eugene V Debs

..when the American Federation of Labor sheds its outworn pure and simple policy, when it declares against the capitalist system and for union, class-conscious action at the ballot box; when it relegates leaders to the rear who secure fat offices for themselves in reward for keeping the rank and file in political ignorance and industrial slavery, and when it shall cease to rely upon cringing lobbying committees.

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Strikethrough: Defending Public Education

I wonder how many people watch the news and wish they had an "edit" button, to either change a bad argument that was made or to insert information that should be required for the subject under discussion. Like, say, any talks about American threats against Iran should mention the fact that both the U.S. and Israeli military forces admit there is no Iranian nuclear weapons program.

Or when a liberal is brought on to debate a conservative on a topic, that I could strikethrough ineffective or incomplete statements and replace them with a more forceful argument. Like a NewsHour segment on school vouchers from earlier this week, where the president of the National Education Association did little to challenge a representative from a right wing think tank.

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Gender Prison: Two stories out of Maine -- bullying and inclusion

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This evening I have a couple of stories out of Maine. Both stories are connected with education.

The first story concerns a bullying event in Penobscot County, at "the town that paper made," close to the center of Maine. The second is a story out of the annual spring meeting of the Maine Principal's Association at Samoset Resort, on the coast between Portland and Bangor.

The first story involves hate. The second involves fairness. The two often fail to coexist.

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Insisting transgender kids be put at risk - Part 2

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Last evening I published Insisting transgender students be put at risk . At the time, I promised to follow that up with two more stories this evening. The first of those stories concerns an attempt in California aimed at preventing that risk as well as angry people who wish to thwart that effort. The second story concerns a situation in Colorado in which a transgender child actually was made a target by a change of policy in her school district.

In both California and Colorado there are actually legal protections from discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of gender identity. Wouldn't it be cool if people understood that a school is part of the very heart of the definition of "public accommodations."

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Transwoman sues California university after being expelled for fraudulently being herself

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photo Javier_zps5c83bbb8.jpgDomaine Javier, 25, was a good student in her native Philippines, where she attended Catholic schools. She immigrated to California in 2003. She had been accepted as a nursing student at California Baptist University in Riverside, transferring from Riverside City College and earning both a $3500 academic scholarship and a music scholarship to sing in the chorus.

She lives three blocks from CBU. She turned down a Cal State-San Bernadino to go to CBU.

 

 

 

 

In 2011, however, she came out as a transwoman on the MTV television program True Life.

Javier was on an episode of “True Life” entitled "I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not." Cameras showed a man hitting on Javier while she danced at Riverside’s Club Sevilla in a low-cut pink and black dress and putting on make-up in the club’s bathroom. Javier said she only revealed her gender identity to family members.

I am a girl trapped in a guy’s body,” Javier said on the show.

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Saturday February 16, 2013: Up with Chris Hayes Tweets

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Today's show is on comprehensive immigration reform, raising the minimum wage and pegging it to inflation, and universal pre-K in regard to the recent SOTU.

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Worse than gay

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Note: All references to this situation have used male pronouns, including statements by the lawyer, so I shall continue the practice.

Mark Krolikowski, 59, has been known by his students as Mr. K. From all indications Krolikowski was a beloved teacher at ST. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens. He had taught there for 32 years. He even co-directed the school's chamber orchestra for a 2008 performance for Pope Benedict XVI.

But about five years ago Mr. K. began feminizing his appearance and recently he came out as transgender. In May of 2011 the parent of a freshman complained about Krolikowski's appearance to the principal at the time, Leonard Conway. Krolikowsky had grown his hair out and began painting his nails and wearing earrings along with his usual suits and ties. Conway notified Mr. K. that he would "no longer be welcome at public events if he arrived in women's garb."

Brother Conway also told Krolikowski he was worse than gay.

So Krolikowski toned down his appearance. He received excellent evaluations for the 2011-12 school year. But in June he was told that he was being insubordinate and he was terminated in August.

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On inequality and education

(Folks, this is a reprise of a diary I posted in July of this year over at Kos -- it made the Rescued list. It takes the form of a commentary upon a Chronicle of Higher Education piece. The most important thing to take away from this diary is that of the utter and complete bogusness of the "reform agenda," whether it be Republican or Democratic.

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Will IL school board kowtow to hate group? Well, of course they will.

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The East Aurora, IL school board unanimously adopted a policy recently affecting transgender students.

The new policy specifically states that transgendered and gender nonconforming students have the right use the restroom that corresponds to their gender-related identity that is consistently asserted at school. The student has the right to be addressed by the name they want to be called, too.

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