AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
I predicted a Trump win, based mostly off decades of the US deliberately eroding the education system.
Schools and colleges have been left leaning for decades.
Not really. Modern conservatism has embraced ignorance (and turbocharged it since the Dubya / Palin era) so anything based on fact and education now 'appears' left simply because of that drift.
I hear what my children learn at school from their own mouths and outside of maths and sciences where there is a definitive answer, it is all just opnion and usually ideology based.
There are a myriad of studies that show how US kids fare vs their counterparts overseas, and it's not great reading.3
www.pewresearch.org
Couldn't find any from 2020, gotcha
Acknowledging the bleedin' obvious is eating their own?
Here's the thing - this 'wokeism', what it is at its very heart is the idea that nobody deserves mistreatment because of the shade of their skin, who they sleep with or who they wish to be gender-wise. Social inclusion means everybody deserves a fair go and a chance to pursue their own happiness and contentment in this society of ours.
As a middle-aged cis white male, everything.
Explain!
You’re just a male human being.
That's actually the exact opposite of what wokeism is.
Treated a certain way, yes. That certain way is to be treated like everyone else!
So you think getting employed when you're not qualified, or playing sports in a sex that you're not, or being able to walk naked around children - that's being treated like everyone else? We all do that do we?
Fairness in sport is still a question that needs an answer, for sure. Getting employed when you're not qualified - are you talking about affirmative action?
Affirmative action makes no bones about what its reason for being is. It was always only going to be a temporary measure. Fairness in sports - the reason for allowing transgender athletes to compete is to measure the results and find out if they do have an unfair advantage. Results from competitors going head-to-head will never be known unless they are tested.
June 28, 2023
Nudity at Seattle Pride sparks outrage: "Why were they not arrested?"
Naked cyclists allegedly at the annual LGBTQ+ parade has sparked a debate online, with some saying it does not represent Pride.www.newsweek.com
...According to local NPR affiliate KUOW, it is legal to be nude anywhere within Seattle—though there are limits to this freedom, and nudists tend to congregate in known spots.
It reported that the city had outlawed public nudity in the 1980s, until a court case over two nudists who had been arrested led a judge to rule that the local law violated their First Amendment rights. The measure was repealed four years later.
Indecent exposure is still prohibited, however Seattle's municipal code stipulates that the prosecution must prove the person knew that their conduct was "likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm."
"If you live in Seattle and don't want your children exposed to the genitalia of adults, don't take them to the Pride parade. Simple," one Twitter user wrote. "If the law in your city allows public nudity, move."
Another wrote: "Straight people bike naked in Seattle and no one says a word until it happens at Pride."
Fewer than two weeks ago, naked people cycled through the city—many covered in body paint—as part of an annual summer solstice parade. Images of the parade from 2011 appear to show children watching.
A Seattle Police Department spokesperson said that "reasonable minds can easily differ as to whether general nudity in the context of a parade where such activity is often part and parcel of the parade's overall draw (as in, for example, the Fremont Solstice Parade with its long and well-publicized history of nude bicyclists) is 'obscene' or 'likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm' to the audience gathered."
They added: "The role of the Seattle Police Department at this particular event was to assure the safety and security of the overall event—not to regulate activities that are better left to parade organizers and the permit process."
Newsweek approached Seattle Pride via email for comment on Wednesday.
Yeah, there's definitely a way to put your argument across, and 'hissy fits' aren't actually going to sell to many who aren't already on the same side. I argue my case because I genuinely believe in it. Some others I guess are in it for the confrontation. Others, they just aren't cut out for a head-to-head on ideology and retreat back to name-calling.
