US homophobia intensifies

[Yuwipi Woman]

Florida is an at-will state: there is no such thing as unfair dismissal.

There's still some federal rules they could run over that apply.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

There's still some federal rules they could run over that apply.

Indeed, and there is potentially breach of contract if your employment contract contains protections.

I read this interview....

Barney Bishop III: Well, like all the reporters I’ve talked to today, the premise that you’re operating from is incorrect. We didn’t remove her. She resigned. She’s an at-will employee by contract, as are all our teachers. I went to her last week and offered her two letters. One was a voluntary resignation, and another a letter that said if she decided not to resign, I was going to ask the board to terminate her without cause. Without cause. We have the right to do that under the contract.

You’re saying this wasn’t about an art teacher showing Michelangelo’s David.

We didn’t even discuss that issue at the special board meeting on Monday morning.

So the statue wasn’t part of the reason the board forced her to resign?

That was an issue, along with many others. Look, she wasn’t surprised. She knew what was the purpose of our meeting. She had two questions: Have you talked to the whole board, and how long do I have to decide between the two letters? The meeting was five minutes long. It wasn’t like “Oh, my God! You don’t want me at the school anymore?”
...
Well, we’re Florida, OK? Parents will decide. Parents are the ones who are going to drive the education system here in Florida. The governor said that, and we’re with the governor. Parents don’t decide what is taught. But parents know what that curriculum is. And parents are entitled to know anytime their child is being taught a controversial topic and picture.
...
Parents choose this school because they want a certain kind of education. We’re not gonna have courses from the College Board. We’re not gonna teach 1619 or CRT crap. I know they do all that up in Virginia. The rights of parents, that trumps the rights of kids. Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me.

 

[two sheds]

Only way to fight it would I presume be if a Federal Court could award insane American-style punitive damages. Not likely I'd imagine.

 

[Aladdin]

Indeed, and there is potentially breach of contract if your employment contract contains protections.

I read this interview....

Barney Bishop III: Well, like all the reporters I’ve talked to today, the premise that you’re operating from is incorrect. We didn’t remove her. She resigned. She’s an at-will employee by contract, as are all our teachers. I went to her last week and offered her two letters. One was a voluntary resignation, and another a letter that said if she decided not to resign, I was going to ask the board to terminate her without cause. Without cause. We have the right to do that under the contract.

You’re saying this wasn’t about an art teacher showing Michelangelo’s David.

We didn’t even discuss that issue at the special board meeting on Monday morning.

So the statue wasn’t part of the reason the board forced her to resign?

That was an issue, along with many others. Look, she wasn’t surprised. She knew what was the purpose of our meeting. She had two questions: Have you talked to the whole board, and how long do I have to decide between the two letters? The meeting was five minutes long. It wasn’t like “Oh, my God! You don’t want me at the school anymore?”
...
Well, we’re Florida, OK? Parents will decide. Parents are the ones who are going to drive the education system here in Florida. The governor said that, and we’re with the governor. Parents don’t decide what is taught. But parents know what that curriculum is. And parents are entitled to know anytime their child is being taught a controversial topic and picture.
...
Parents choose this school because they want a certain kind of education. We’re not gonna have courses from the College Board. We’re not gonna teach 1619 or CRT crap. I know they do all that up in Virginia. The rights of parents, that trumps the rights of kids. Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me.

What a twat

 

[Tanya1982]

‘Controversial picture’ - FFS, they’ll be covering up piano legs next.

I’d be complaining vociferously if my sons education was overseen by a board member who was such a philistine, who wrote concepts off with language like ‘crap’ in public interviews, and who thought my ‘rights’ as a parent trumped my child’s rights to learn about the world.

And I’d be pulling him out entirely if there were serious calls to have loaded firearms on the premises.

 

[Serge Forward]

You all realise the Simpsons did the original version of this story?
'The Simpsons' fans say it predicted Michelangelo statue outrage

 

[NoXion]

“We’re not going to show the full statue of David to kindergartners. We’re not going to show him to second graders. Showing the entire statue of David is appropriate at some age. We’re going to figure out when that is.”

You should have already worked that shit out, you fucking stupid bloviating hick! This imbecile needs to be fired for gross incompetence.

 

[Cloo]

Rolling together a whole lot of transphobic and ableist bullshit in Georgia

Opinion | Georgia’s new anti-trans law also disparages autistic people like me

Behind Georgia's new attack on transgender minors is a dismissal of autistic people's ability to think for themselves.

www.msnbc.com

 

[Aladdin]

You all realise the Simpsons did the original version of this story?
'The Simpsons' fans say it predicted Michelangelo statue outrage

And the guys name is Barney Bishop...a more Springfield name you could never make up!!

Reading tbat article...there's a link to all the things that The Simpsons "predicted"... it's....uncanny to say the least.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

They messed with the wrong Drag Queen Story Hour

Good to see these worthless lumps of shit got a good pounding. Scum.

 

[Aladdin]

Rolling together a whole lot of transphobic and ableist bullshit in Georgia

Opinion | Georgia’s new anti-trans law also disparages autistic people like me

Behind Georgia's new attack on transgender minors is a dismissal of autistic people's ability to think for themselves.

www.msnbc.com

Nazis

 

[Cid]

It's crazy though. Apparently the school teaches about the Renaissance every year. They cover Michelangelo's art including the statue of David.
The board claimed 3 parents objected to the Principals lesson this year because of the content and because they were not notified in advance that the lesson was to take place and a nude statue would be seen.
I mean it's ludicrous!!!

It's Christian Nationalism and it has its own logic.

 

[Aladdin]

It's Christian Nationalism and it has its own logic.

It's an extraordinarily warped radical view of Christianity and the world.

 

[Cloo]

I'm always thinking 'I'm pretty sure this isn't what Jesus wanted'

 

[Signal 11]

Reading tbat article...there's a link to all the things that The Simpsons "predicted"... it's....uncanny to say the least.

'The Simpsons' Didn't Predict That

The popular animated TV series does not have clairvoyant powers.

www.snopes.com

Michelangelo's "David," and replicas of it, have been covered up, and been the subject of censorship campaigns, ever since the statue was first unveiled in Florence in the early 16th century. The show's writers didn't so much "predict" such campaigns, as satirize previous ones, which happened to be replicated in the years since the episode aired.

Link.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

It's Christian Nationalism and it has its own logic.

It's the Christian Taliban

 

[bmd]

Indeed, and there is potentially breach of contract if your employment contract contains protections.

I read this interview....

Barney Bishop III: Well, like all the reporters I’ve talked to today, the premise that you’re operating from is incorrect. We didn’t remove her. She resigned. She’s an at-will employee by contract, as are all our teachers. I went to her last week and offered her two letters. One was a voluntary resignation, and another a letter that said if she decided not to resign, I was going to ask the board to terminate her without cause. Without cause. We have the right to do that under the contract.

You’re saying this wasn’t about an art teacher showing Michelangelo’s David.

We didn’t even discuss that issue at the special board meeting on Monday morning.

So the statue wasn’t part of the reason the board forced her to resign?

That was an issue, along with many others. Look, she wasn’t surprised. She knew what was the purpose of our meeting. She had two questions: Have you talked to the whole board, and how long do I have to decide between the two letters? The meeting was five minutes long. It wasn’t like “Oh, my God! You don’t want me at the school anymore?”
...
Well, we’re Florida, OK? Parents will decide. Parents are the ones who are going to drive the education system here in Florida. The governor said that, and we’re with the governor. Parents don’t decide what is taught. But parents know what that curriculum is. And parents are entitled to know anytime their child is being taught a controversial topic and picture.
...
Parents choose this school because they want a certain kind of education. We’re not gonna have courses from the College Board. We’re not gonna teach 1619 or CRT crap. I know they do all that up in Virginia. The rights of parents, that trumps the rights of kids. Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me.

That is so weird. Imagine having your child educated in a school that was driven by this kind of ideology? Just bewildering.

 

[Cid]

It's the Christian Taliban

Religious nationalism, yeah - there's a fair bit of it about at the moment.

 

[Cloo]

I am wondering how long it is until a red state declares gay adoption to be child abuse or some shit. If I were a gay couple in one of those, states with adopted kids I might be packing my family's bags for somewhere with less risk of my kids getting taken away. It really sounds that dystopian now.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

What a silly thing for the right to get their panties in wad over:

Country music star Travis Tritt announced Wednesday that he would be dropping all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour in the wake of the company's partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

"I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider. I know many other artists who are doing the same," Tritt tweeted. "Other artists who are deleting Anheuser-Busch products from their hospitality rider might not say so in public for fear of being ridiculed and cancelled. I have no such fear."

Tritt, a Grammy Award-winning artist, is one of the latest public figures to bash Anheuser-Busch after it partnered with Mulvaney to celebrate the influencer's "365 Days of Girlhood" with commemorative Bud Light cans.

MSN

www.msn.com

They're really freaking out over this. Dylan Mulvaney is a tran-person who has getting attention on social media. I'm not personally a fan of Mulvaney, but I don't think this merits the attention it's getting, especially when Bud Light doesn't qualify as swill, let alone beer.

 

[krtek a houby]

So, this Travis is cancelling Bud because it's woke but he is not afraid of being cancelled himself and he laments an originally European beer for being a "great" American beer that's now European again so everyone must cancel culture and no to Europe and transgender people?

 

[8ball]

So, this Travis is cancelling Bud because it's woke but he is not afraid of being cancelled himself and he laments an originally European beer for being a "great" American beer that's now European again so everyone must cancel culture and no to Europe and transgender people?

I think you’re confusing cancelling something with not wanting to drink something.
It’s not like everyone with taste buds is “cancelling” Heinekin.

 

[krtek a houby]

I think you’re confusing cancelling something with not wanting to drink something.
It’s not like everyone with taste buds is “cancelling” Heinekin.

He's cancelled his association with the company because of it's association with Mulvaney and is suggesting that others want to do so, too but are too afraid to.

It's nothing to do with how it tastes. It's an anti-trans move.

 

[8ball]

He's cancelled his association with the company because of it's association with Mulvaney and is suggesting that others want to do so, too but are too afraid to.

It's nothing to do with how it tastes. It's an anti-trans move.

I didn’t say it was anything to do with how it tastes, I was just pointing out the difference between what he did and what cancel culture is.

If he had organised a campaign for others to do the same as him, or started harassing other artists who have Bud on their riders, then it would be more clear cut.

 

[krtek a houby]

I didn’t say it was anything to do with how it tastes, I was just pointing out the difference between what he did and what cancel culture is.

If he had organised a campaign for others to do the same as him, or started harassing other artists who have Bud on their riders, then it would be more clear cut.

He's also hinting that all American Jack Daniels drinkers should consider doing the same.

He's all about the cancelling.

 

[8ball]

He's also hinting that all American Jack Daniels drinkers should consider doing the same.

He's all about the cancelling.

Yeah, that gets him over the line imo.
It’s more boycott than cancelling but close enough.

No idea what JD have been up to to upset this bunch.

 

[krtek a houby]

Yeah, that gets him over the line imo.
It’s more boycott than cancelling but close enough.

No idea what JD have been up to to upset this bunch.

Teaming up with Ru Paul, glamping...

Mean, the whole thing about so called cancel culture is that it's either people and products being dropped, or it's boycotting.

The right likes to accuse the left of it, but they are more than capable of being virtue signalling snowflakes themselves.

But this here example, is a star using his power and position to ramp up the hate against trans people, there's no mistaking it.

 

[8ball]

Mean, the whole thing about so called cancel culture is that it's either people and products being dropped, or it's boycotting.

Well, very often it’s Twitter pile-ons, incessant online harassment, people contacting places of employment after a doxxing, physical threats, SWATing, blackmail, invented smears…

 

[krtek a houby]

Well, very often it’s Twitter pile-ons, incessant online harassment, people contacting places of employment after a doxxing, physical threats, SWATing, blackmail, invented smears…

Is that right, yeah?

Pardon, but feeling zero sympathy for the bigots who themselves want to erase black history/experience and LGBT community.