DC Kids holding values when surrounded by conservatives

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Such great examples of false equivalences. Since when do the beliefs held by the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK and the town's police force and district attorney who aided them fall into the same types of "diversity of thought" as Black moms calling for access to better K-12 schools for their Black children?

There is zero reason to respect, nurture, or promote diversity of thought among those who believe that some people should not be equal under law because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or other characteristics. “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
― James Baldwin

This is not what's going on here. At all. No one is saying that OP's child must meet and respect people who murdered Ahmaud Arbery. It's OP's assumption that everyone who lives outside of DC believes in things that OP thinks are unethical or immoral. It's a ridiculous level of projection and OP's child hasn't even meet these people. Or know what they think.

+1

OP thinks everyone in the world but him is a Taliban.

Guess who the real Taliban is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was just talking with a kid raised in DC in a multiracial home with friends from other races and lots of LGBTQ friends and family. The teen is going to attend college in a conservative part of the country in a few months. How do these DC kids raised here in a "bubble" where misogyny, racism, and homophobia are not tolerated do when confronted with this sort of thing in Red states or rural America small towns where it's common to make fun of people who are offended by this stuff? What's the best advice to give these teens? I doubt that many realize what they're about to step into, so warning or preparing them seems like a good idea.

You must be joking, right?

The DC bubble as you rightly call it is everything except a paragon of tolerance, openness and principles.

Good for kids to grow up and adapt to the big world out there.

(We recently moved from the US to the UK and my kids are very much enjoying the move and the lack of constant policing of what they think, feel, say)

Wow, my experience was opposite of theirs! I felt like the Red Guards were afoot everywhere at uni in the UK. Perhaps they’re still in the sixth form or younger?

Cute.

Show us one example of a Professor losing a job for comparable reasons to the actual Red Guards running US schools these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have taught them tolerance of different opinions, right? Then they’ll be fine.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

My son goes to a college in the South. He lucked out finding a roommate that was a liberal.

The good thing was all the stuff I told him about people being racist, homophobic, and misogynistic were all just ideas to him before he met the students at his southern school

Don’t get me wrong, there are racist, homophobic and misogynistic teens in our area. My son went to Catholic school and has a lot of Catholic friends that went to the Heights, prep, and Gonzaga.

These kids are constantly saying racist, homophobic, and misogynistic stuff but it’s kind a like you say it quietly are you only say it when certain people are around.

Not in the south, you say it out loud and you say it loud and proud.

Of course it’s a College Campus so there’s ton of liberal kids too, and the administration is a liberal.

That’s what college is all about learning there’s all kinds of people out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hillary's basket of deplorables is real. Not everyone in the south is a sucky person, but the south truly sucks.

If the South is so awful, why are people leaving the Northeast to live there?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hillary's basket of deplorables is real. Not everyone in the south is a sucky person, but the south truly sucks.

If the South is so awful, why are people leaving the Northeast to live there?

To turn it blue, save the world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hillary's basket of deplorables is real. Not everyone in the south is a sucky person, but the south truly sucks.

If the South is so awful, why are people leaving the Northeast to live there?

To turn it blue, save the world.

Thanks, but no thanks. Stay in the cesspool you created and don't bring that elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hillary's basket of deplorables is real. Not everyone in the south is a sucky person, but the south truly sucks.

If the South is so awful, why are people leaving the Northeast to live there?

To turn it blue, save the world.

Thanks, but no thanks. Stay in the cesspool you created and don't bring that elsewhere.

Sorry babe even Texas is almost purple! We are coming for your children! When we are done with them they will be educated. Kind, feed the poor, care for the sick, and marry blacks people… we will also make a good 10% LGBT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just talking with a kid raised in DC in a multiracial home with friends from other races and lots of LGBTQ friends and family. The teen is going to attend college in a conservative part of the country in a few months. How do these DC kids raised here in a "bubble" where misogyny, racism, and homophobia are not tolerated do when confronted with this sort of thing in Red states or rural America small towns where it's common to make fun of people who are offended by this stuff? What's the best advice to give these teens? I doubt that many realize what they're about to step into, so warning or preparing them seems like a good idea.

OP, I have a solution for you, same one that Mormons and other fundamentalists have been doing for decades.

It's called Homeschooling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hillary's basket of deplorables is real. Not everyone in the south is a sucky person, but the south truly sucks.

If the South is so awful, why are people leaving the Northeast to live there?

To turn it blue, save the world.

Thanks, but no thanks. Stay in the cesspool you created and don't bring that elsewhere.

Absolutely! Look what progressives have done to Seattle and Portland. Not to mention San Francisco, LA, and really just all of California. People are fleeing by the millions.

The rest of the US does not want to be Californicated.

Ditto.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Such great examples of false equivalences. Since when do the beliefs held by the men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK and the town's police force and district attorney who aided them fall into the same types of "diversity of thought" as Black moms calling for access to better K-12 schools for their Black children?

There is zero reason to respect, nurture, or promote diversity of thought among those who believe that some people should not be equal under law because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or other characteristics. “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
― James Baldwin

This is not what's going on here. At all. No one is saying that OP's child must meet and respect people who murdered Ahmaud Arbery. It's OP's assumption that everyone who lives outside of DC believes in things that OP thinks are unethical or immoral. It's a ridiculous level of projection and OP's child hasn't even meet these people. Or know what they think.

+1

OP thinks everyone in the world but him is a Taliban.

Guess who the real Taliban is.

+2. OP, if not a troll, needs to turn off CNN and MSNBC and travel the country meeting these horrible people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a troll post. OP is a LWNJ troll.

She already knows at all universities liberal professors outnumber conservatives 12 to 1.

Study after study confirm what even the most casual observer of higher education has long known — that conservative professors are vastly outnumbered by liberal ones — but they also show the problem is getting worse.

Published in Econ Journal Watch last month, one study looks at faculty voter registration at 40 leading universities and finds that, out of 7,243 professors, Democrats outnumber Republicans 3,623 to 314, or by a ratio of 11 1/2 to 1.
This study comes after a tumultuous few years at American colleges and universities, marked by campus race protests, the disinvitation of conservative speakers and the popularization of phrases such as “trigger warning” and “safe space.”



https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/6/liberal-professors-outnumber-conservatives-12-1/

It isn’t a “problem” that liberal professors outnumber conservative ones.

The “problem” is such binary thinking, which seems to be a toxic side effect of conservative mentality (you’re either with us or against us, we’re so persecuted, whine whine whine).

The reality is this is a center-left country. Sometimes it is subjected to minority rule due to gerrymandering and archaic election practices. And right wing extremists screech loudly on their own freaky media network. And they have an absolute right to do so. But it’s not a “problem” that an institution of higher learning skews liberal. Not a problem at all.

Your “binary thinking” is as much a characteristic of the liberal mentality. See the behavior of Stanford Law School students and admin toward a conservative federal judge they invited to speak on campus.

I am a moderate Dem and you are absolutely right! I posted early in this chain about free speech and had this incident in mind!