In news that you won’t read about in the mainstream media–Warrior Publications has a post up of the indigenous folks protesting the Royals.
…or if you do hear about it, it will be in a negative light….as in they have no right to their land or to protest.
The father of rape victim, Rehtaeh Parsons, has become the target of cyber bullying. He took the online threats seriously after the bully posted that he knew Glen Canning’s face, where he lived, etc.
It’s just mindboggling–this culture that encourages sexual assault and violence against women…
Carol Burris, a highly regarded public school principal, has a piece up exploring the degrading comments directed at opponents to Arne Duncan’s brainless education policies.
He actually states that the Governor of NY, Cuomo, is a “profile in courage”. Bwahahahaha *snort* Yeah, because it takes courage to make children cry from tests that are above their intellectual development level….
He dismissed parents who criticized his policies as “white suburban moms” who thought their little darlings were much smarter than they actually were….because education guru Arne said they were. Someone whom has never taught in school…methinks Arne thinks he’s smarter than he is. Ahem.
Burris also notes the misogyny in Duncan’s comments…labeling women opponents as “hysterical” and “dramatic”. Oh, and “noisy”, to me, equals “uppity” women. Yep. He must be taking his cues from Freud’s playbook, the Diagnostic Manual.
As a side note~~I found a blog on misogyny here.
And on the link for reddit creep shot, this disturbing info on the rape/violence against women culture:
The fiasco comes on the heels of a highly-publicized flap between reddit and Gawker, after Gawker journalist Adrian Chen’s investigation of an infamous user of the subreddit who went by the handle, Violentacrez. According to the The Guardian, that user “set up hundreds of sub-forums where users post links and images including bestiality, rape fantasy, under-age porn and upskirt photos.”
Among the sections that Violentacrez created or moderated were: Chokeabitch, Niggerjailbait, Rapebait, Hitler, Jewmerica, Misogyny, and Incest
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…created by 49-year-old computer programmer and misogynist, Michael Brutsch.
But back to Arne Duncan…what do his comments signify? That perhaps his hatred of public education proponents, mostly women, is part of a hatred of women in general?
And “stay the course”….really? You couldn’t think of something original besides Bushisms? Yeah, because the Bushes have done *so much* for this country and public education with No Child Left a Mind…/snarky to the extreme
Duncan keeps knocking our public school system, especially the individualistic nature of public school before NCLB or Race to the Bottom…while ignoring those folks who made phenomenal contributions to society, from those same individualistic school systems, such as Neil Armstrong, Maya Angelou, Frank Church, Paul Wellstone, Birch Bayh, Dwight Eisenhower, a great grandson of immigrants, who loved art, math, spelling, and history; Gloria Steinem, and any number of musicians who got their start in music programs that included actual instruments, that went on to get private instruction to become great musicians. Same with artists.
If you view Duncan’s video, it is stunning that in the first minute, he talks of John being orphaned at a young age…and he had teachers –-public school teachers–who helped him along his path to become productive. He also was a product of the public education system before NCLB could dull his creative expression, his critical thinking skills, and his own expression of his individuality.
I wonder what his public education teachers think of him trying to destroy those very things in children today with the rigidity of Common Core and Race to the Bottom…?
He mentions that the First Lady had a teacher that told her she shouldn’t aspire to Ivy League schools because it was too good for her. That makes me sad to hear. Is that a reason the First Lady is against public education? I suspect that those who are against public education had bad experiences with teachers…and then project that onto all teachers.
I had some bad teachers, but for the most part, my experience with public education was good. Yes, those experiences with bad teachers were hurtful but the ones who were encouraging when I was discouraged made up for that. And it was an intrinsic thing, too, because I loved learning.
I guess that is where you have to be responsible for your own education…to go on even though they tell you that you can’t. Because, believe it or not, my first class of composition in college, I had a white instructor who, when I asked her about a career as a writer, told me “don’t quit your day job.” So, there you go…
Child Health has posted a video on the consolidation of the media into the hands of a few. This is a prime example of what happens to Freedom of the Press and the Marketplace of Ideas when the public only hears the opinions of Too Big Too Fails. As the video illustrates, the newsroom editors, TV station editors, and others will decide what the NEWS is…that is why you need to get your news from several different sources with differing opinions…the truth is somewhere in-between.
We used to be the envy of the world for our Freedom of the Press….now we rank 46th in the world.
**edited to correct glaring gaff. Oy.
That has to have been the mindset behind allowing these two to wear ankle bracelets after they had already cut them off once before. All the victims appear to be prostitutes…and that is why the rapists can get away with it for so long, a la green river killer.
“I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex,” Ridgway said in his confessional statement. “I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.”
At least one-third of Ridgway’s female victims were girls and women of color, and the vast majority were under the age of 22. Ridgway, an extreme incarnation of a brutal misogynist, considered killing female prostitutes a “career.” He felt proud of what he did, and thought he was damn good at it.
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It is outrageous that the police still treat these women as sub-human…probably even think they deserve what they get.
As the report explores…would Ridgway (Cano/Gordon/others) been able to get away with this if their victims were of a different class? Would Ridgway and the rest have raped these women if they saw them as human beings–probably sexually abused as children..?
But it’s not just prostitutes that get raped and beaten…we’ve got a problem in this culture with still seeing women as second class. We have a culture that embraces rape and violence against women….and the vulnerable….as I said before, we are all vulnerable at some point in our lives…
When do we stop it? When do we stop applauding the promotion of misogyny and rape?
This is not good. They say it’s not the Russians, but pro-Russian Ukrainians…but I dunno…
Ukrainians are passionate, that’s for sure, but to seize a police station? That says to me if it is Ukrainians, that they felt confident enough with *someone* backing them to pull such a stunt. *Someone* has to be orchestrating all of this behind the scenes…*someone* whom is power hungry and has a lot to gain.
<sigh>
Meanwhile, I hope my Russian reader is doing okay. I worry that your seeking information may have landed you in trouble….praying for you…
I went back to look for updates on Shanesha Taylor, the mother who left her kids in a car to go to a job interview. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Leonard Pitts has a good piece up on her plight–the difficulties the poor face in trying to get out of poverty. He makes some stinging observations about all the waste in Congress…and yet…they would rather deny people food and aid to get out of poverty…
A problem that plagues peaceful protestors are those that wish to cause trouble.
The problem is in knowing if they are bad actors looking to stir things up for their own amusement or agent provocateurs–sent in by agencies or the oil companies themselves to give the non-violent activists a bad name. The next problem is banishing them from the movement.
The person calling himself “james Moore” in the piece is typical. Not knowing the writer of the piece, it’s hard to know if this person said those things or whether it is fabricated to make them look bad. Or worse–to put this out there to justify police crackdown.
Like I’ve said before, I won’t support violence and many folks who would otherwise support environmentalists will back away from violent protests.
Setting police vehicles on fire is not violence in that it hurts a human being, but it is destructive…and is counterproductive if you think about all the toxins you’re sending into that very environment you’re trying to protect. You might feel a release of frustration for a moment or two, but in the end, it doesn’t further your cause.
Just how dehumanizing is it to refer to people you kill as “bug splats”?? Good God.
Dehumanizing the “other” is as old as…well, war…I suppose. The “other” are portrayed as dogs, rats, and other things to dehumanize them. It makes it easier to shoot someone if you no longer see them as a human being.
200 innocent children dead. We should hang our heads in shame.
Jan Resseger has another excellent post up on her take of the Americans for Prosperity, aka Koch Brothers, and what’s happened in Kansas.
Jeff Glendening, the director of the Kansas chapter of Americans for Prosperity was quoted—framing the legislation as part of a fight between those who stand for children and those who stand for “adult” interests—by the NY Times : “We appreciate the willingness of the Legislature to place the interests of Kansas children over the welfare of the teachers’ union.” This kind of rhetoric is widely promoted by far-right groups such as StudentsFirst and Stand for Children. These groups try to imply that teachers, who have committed their lives to nurture children, are somehow a class of people working purely out of self interest.
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Incredible. The teacher’s intentions are an example of a stunning psychological twist of the truth. They claim to be concerned for the welfare of the children…but with Common Core, shoving special needs and struggling students out the door, and money being siphoned away from public education…we know differently.
As was pointed out yesterday, the teacher’s union is the same as the police and fire fighter unions….yet no one would think of saying that those unions are operating against the welfare of the people.
Related to this, Fred Klonsky has a post up on the pension raids with a statement on the theft by Karen Lewis.
“This is a sad day for our paraprofessionals, especially our retired ones, who will see their pensions reduced and devalued significantly. They will lose the value of a third of their retirement savings, so instead of the people who crashed the economic system having to pay their fair share, our elected officials brutally attack the people who are most vulnerable—many of whom have become the head of their households, caring for both children and grandchildren,” Lewis said.
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Target the elderly/retired. They have worked their entire lives putting into the system. They deserve to have those pensions. Now that they are retired, they have less money to fight back with–sly ploy by cowards to attack the weaker.
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