Kulturkampf

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

Is there even a stated goal of this? 

"Hi kids! We're gonna watch a quick series so you can learn that all the boys in this class are potentially dead-hearted and emotionally-stunted murderers. Anyway, report cards go out on Thursday!"

[Alpacx]

They just want to pee 

[HaughtyFrank]

[Uncle]

so like...yeah...a funny moment and all, but...to say you're not qualified to comment on this stuff when the reason you're being asked is that you made comments earlier, presumably you were just as unqualified back then

[benji]

Lawmakers also introduced House Bill 25-1312, known as the Kelly Loving Act, which proposes sweeping protections across education, family law and public accommodations. “This bill expands protections for trans workers, parents, students, and children in Colorado,” the trans-led legal nonprofit Bread and Roses Legal Center said on Instagram.

Last summer, the organization partnered with legislators to introduce the bill and began consulting transgender Coloradans about what they needed from a “trans bill of rights.” Over 500 transgender residents participated in the survey.

The bill “is named after Kelly Loving, an amazing trans community member and advocate stolen from us on the eve of Trans Day of Remembrance at Club Q,” the organization said.

“Kelly came to Colorado for her birthday and was thinking about moving here. She saw the state as an opportunity and went to Club Q and was killed by a mass shooting. We grew very close to her family. I remember her sister saying the most important thing we can do for Kelly is make sure that no one goes through what she’s gone through ever and she is remembered not just for how she died but how she lived,” said Z Williams, director of client support and operations at Bread and Roses Legal Center.

The bill would classify misgendering, deadnaming, and threats to disclose someone’s gender-affirming care as forms of coercive control in custody proceedings. It would also prohibit Colorado courts from enforcing out-of-state laws that seek to punish families for supporting a child’s access to gender-affirming care.

The bill would also make schools safer for trans students. It mandates that schools accommodate any reason a student may use a name different from their legal name and requires all dress codes to be gender-neutral and inclusive. The bill requires public agencies to provide space for both legal and chosen names on forms — and once a chosen name is listed, it must be used on all future documentation. Additionally, the legislation would amend the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act to explicitly define misgendering and deadnaming as discriminatory acts.

“My hope is that it is history making,” Williams told a local news network in August. “It’s actually changing the dynamics for trans people and their everyday lives.”

The bill builds on momentum from last year, when the Bread and Roses Legal Center drafted and lobbied for the passage of “Tiara’s Law,” which clarified that seeking a name change to align with one’s gender identity constitutes “good cause” under state law. Although transgender people with felony records were legally allowed to change their names in Colorado, they continued to face stigma and systemic barriers that made the process especially challenging, issues that this law addressed.

This obviously isn't close to ending the genocide and we'll have to see if cis even care of course.

[Alpacx]

[benji]

Comedian, Activist, Thot. -Jessica

[Alpacx]

[Eric Cartman]

IT IS VITAL THAT YOU VOTE, IN A WAY THAT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO

[HaughtyFrank]

One day we will look back at this and wonder why anyone would ever wear a turban

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Alpacx]

Edit:

[benji]

[benji]

When the Marshall Fire swept through the grassy plains and foothills outside Boulder, Colorado, in late December 2021, it burned down more than 1,000 homes — and left many young people shaken. “It can just be pure anxiety — you’re literally watching a fire march its way across, and it’s really, really close,” said David Thesenga, an 8th grade science teacher. Some of his students at Alexander Dawson School in the small town of Lafayette lost their homes to the fire.

As more students come to school traumatized by living through fires, floods, and other extreme weather, teachers are being asked to do more than educate — they’re also acting as untrained therapists. While Thesenga’s private school has psychologists on staff, they don’t provide mental health resources dedicated to helping students work through distress related to the changing climate, whether it’s trauma from a real event or more general anxiety about an overheated future. “Sometimes you don’t need a generic [tool],” he said. “What you need is something very specific to the trauma or to the thing that is causing you stress, and that is climate change.”

One of the biggest concerns Thesenga hears from his students is that climate change feels out of their control and thinking about it seems overwhelming. “They just feel powerless, and that’s probably the scariest thing for them,” he said.

A growing body of research shows that young people’s anxieties about climate change can affect their relationships and their ability to think and function. Last November, a study in The Lancet Planetary Health found that 16- to 25-year-olds were struggling with their worries about climate change. Of the more than 15,000 young Americans surveyed, 43 percent reported that it hurt their mental health, and 38 percent said that it made their daily life worse.

Maybe teach them that "fires, floods and other extreme weather" are totally and completely normal and not some new existential threat? That none of these things are caused by climate change? You know, the science, Mr. 8th Grade SCIENCE TEACHER?  

To address the lack of resources for dealing with distress related to climate change, the Climate Mental Health Network and the National Environmental Education Foundation developed a new toolkit that teachers can use in their middle school classrooms. One handout, called the “climate emotions wheel,” helps students identify their emotions, arranging them into four main categories — anger, sadness, fear, and positivity — and then breaking those down to more specific feelings, such as betrayal, grief, anxiety, and empowerment.

...

The exercises prompt students to reflect on how other young people are processing distress over climate change and explore how to turn their anxiety into action. One activity in the toolkit introduces “negativity bias,” referring to how the brain often latches onto negative thoughts, and asks students to counter that tendency by brainstorming happier emotions related to the Earth.

[Uncle]

turn your climate emotions wheel to "positive" and get expelled for extreme insensitivity to other students who lost their homes

[HaughtyFrank]

[Potato]

When the Marshall Fire swept through the grassy plains and foothills outside Boulder, Colorado, in late December 2021, it burned down more than 1,000 homes — and left many young people shaken. “It can just be pure anxiety — you’re literally watching a fire march its way across, and it’s really, really close,” said David Thesenga, an 8th grade science teacher. Some of his students at Alexander Dawson School in the small town of Lafayette lost their homes to the fire.

As more students come to school traumatized by living through fires, floods, and other extreme weather, teachers are being asked to do more than educate — they’re also acting as untrained therapists. While Thesenga’s private school has psychologists on staff, they don’t provide mental health resources dedicated to helping students work through distress related to the changing climate, whether it’s trauma from a real event or more general anxiety about an overheated future. “Sometimes you don’t need a generic [tool],” he said. “What you need is something very specific to the trauma or to the thing that is causing you stress, and that is climate change.”

One of the biggest concerns Thesenga hears from his students is that climate change feels out of their control and thinking about it seems overwhelming. “They just feel powerless, and that’s probably the scariest thing for them,” he said.

A growing body of research shows that young people’s anxieties about climate change can affect their relationships and their ability to think and function. Last November, a study in The Lancet Planetary Health found that 16- to 25-year-olds were struggling with their worries about climate change. Of the more than 15,000 young Americans surveyed, 43 percent reported that it hurt their mental health, and 38 percent said that it made their daily life worse.

Maybe teach them that "fires, floods and other extreme weather" are totally and completely normal and not some new existential threat? That none of these things are caused by climate change? You know, the science, Mr. 8th Grade SCIENCE TEACHER?  

To address the lack of resources for dealing with distress related to climate change, the Climate Mental Health Network and the National Environmental Education Foundation developed a new toolkit that teachers can use in their middle school classrooms. One handout, called the “climate emotions wheel,” helps students identify their emotions, arranging them into four main categories — anger, sadness, fear, and positivity — and then breaking those down to more specific feelings, such as betrayal, grief, anxiety, and empowerment.

...

The exercises prompt students to reflect on how other young people are processing distress over climate change and explore how to turn their anxiety into action. One activity in the toolkit introduces “negativity bias,” referring to how the brain often latches onto negative thoughts, and asks students to counter that tendency by brainstorming happier emotions related to the Earth.

I love when they say stuff like, "This is the wettest year since 1958." As if I'm supposed to panic about that.

Ok, so 1958 was worse. Why are we not all dead yet?

[killamajig]

So that's why Edmund went back to Egypt. He wants to teach his spin classes there because all his countrymen are a bunch of fatties. 

Number one killer of PoC isn't White People, it's heart disease.

[Uncle]

People of Cellulite

[HaughtyFrank]

So, uh, for the Netflix devil may cry show the creators decided to make literal hell a stand in for the Middle East?

[Uncle]

after decades of media slowly doing this in various small ways, things like castlevania and witcher slowly melting down season 2 onward, you get completely disenfranchised and tap out on all of it, and then occasionally get glimpses back beyond the veil like this and all you can do is say jesus christ what the fuck

[DavidCroquet]

Honestly I look at the basic animation quality on a bunch of this trash and based on that alone I'm thinking...an 8? really?

[Polident]

after decades of media slowly doing this in various small ways, things like castlevania and witcher slowly melting down season 2 onward, you get completely disenfranchised and tap out on all of it, and then occasionally get glimpses back beyond the veil like this and all you can do is say jesus christ what the fuck

A popular modern anime, Frieren, has demons who’re indisputably evil. Because of this, there’s a fair amount of discourse. From normal people who find it refreshing. To mentally ill “media literacy” types who can’t handle demons being bad. And what’s amazing is the show has those types built in. Often showing how naive and easily manipulated they are by creatures will ill intentions.

One day people will discover Mars Attacks.

[HaughtyFrank]

after decades of media slowly doing this in various small ways, things like castlevania and witcher slowly melting down season 2 onward, you get completely disenfranchised and tap out on all of it, and then occasionally get glimpses back beyond the veil like this and all you can do is say jesus christ what the fuck

A popular modern anime, Frieren, has demons who’re indisputably evil. Because of this, there’s a fair amount of discourse. From normal people who find it refreshing. To mentally ill “media literacy” types who can’t handle demons being bad. And what’s amazing is the show has those types built in. Often showing how naive and easily manipulated they are by creatures will ill intentions.

One day people will discover Mars Attacks.

Yeah it's pretty funny. At this point we're so used to writers subverting the evil creature trope that it has become refreshing when some media just hardcore doubles down on it. Demons in Frieren being like some fucked up predators who learned some mimicry trick that humans will stop fighting if you just fake the right emotions.

"Are we the baddies?" type of Stories can be great but modern writers often just suck at executing it and always treat it like this totally radical subversion when it has actually become pretty tired

[Uncle]

it's not a subversion like "aha, bet you didn't expect that the evil guys were not really evil all along, what a clever rian johnson twist"

it's "we must be respectful of all cultures, what we think of as evil is simply a different point of view, it's racist to assume that all goblins just want to murder and pillage, and if they do perhaps it's for a good reason, and you probably invented these goblins as stand-ins for jewish people anyway, with their hooked noses and hatred for gazans"

[Potato]

it's not a subversion like "aha, bet you didn't expect that the evil guys were not really evil all along, what a clever rian johnson twist"

it's "we must be respectful of all cultures, what we think of as evil is simply a different point of view, it's racist to assume that all goblins just want to murder and pillage, and if they do perhaps it's for a good reason, and you probably invented these goblins as stand-ins for jewish people anyway, with their hooked noses and hatred for gazans"

Murdering young people at a music festival is just a cultural misunderstanding and from their perspective those children in the kibbutz WERE evil.

[benji]

 

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[Uncle]

there is a class of people who spend all day complaining about how awful the white man is and how terrible white people have been for all of humanity and how they should all be sent on a shuttle into the sun, and yet they only seem to date white people

this person seems to have gotten overexcited and confused this specific type of hypocrite for the more general "talks about race sometimes" person