The case is called West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette, if you’re interested.
Reblog if you were the kid in class who didn’t stand for The Pledge of Allegiance.
Statements about DACA (which was referenced in the original screenshot) generally are about immigration, yes.
I also found the tweet that contained the original screenshot of the email. It’s from a reporter at The Blaze, which is a right-wing organization and I believe the group that originally broke the story.
I can’t find the full email anywhere, nor proof that it actually exists that can’t eventually be traced back to that same tweet. I’m also not subscribed to the Planned Parenthood mailing list, so I can’t just check, but if anyone who follows me is subscribed and would like to verify this, the email would have been from around September 5.
(Also, I think it’s legitimate for an organization to briefly mention issues relating to groups that are not its primary focus as an expression of support when it’s relevant. This would be true even if it were a group that I am not particularly involved with. For instance, if Trump were to sign an executive order tomorrow barring Mormons from attending school, it would be reasonable for GLSEN to send out an email saying something like “We stand with our Mormon members” even though that has nothing to do with GLSEN’s mission (and Mormonism is not known for its acceptance of LGBT+ people.) Putting aside questions of immigration law, Planned Parenthood most likely has DACA beneficiaries on its mailing list; if it wants to reassure those people that it supports them, that is legitimate.)
Zero self-awareness
Usually by inquiring why, as this does, based on the definition of feminism, seem a little bit strange.
You mean by saying that sex should be consensual? Because that’s basically all that feminists are saying.
Of course we should consider people innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn’t mean that we should ignore the victim. If someone says “So-and-so raped me,” that’s significant evidence that so-and-so raped them. People making false rape accusations are extremely rare.
In most crimes, if someone says they were the victim of a crime committed by another specific person, we believe the victim. Yet somehow, when it comes to rape, suddenly we assume the victim is lying.
@theshynekotaru : What evidence would you consider sufficient, if the eyewitness evidence of the victim isn’t enough for you?
There’s been allegations about him and I just want to say that it’s still innocent until proven guilty not guilty until proven innocent. Rape claims can ruin someones life and unfortunately there’s been so many people who have lied about being raped by friends or strangers, and even famous people that yes people are cautious as hell.
It happened with Yammimash, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Basically, Lui, and many many others.
People can make false allegations so it’s best to get the FULL story, from all sides, before just jumping onto the victims side or the accused side.
Some peopel have found evidence that the girl may not have been where she claimed to be during one of the dates and other people close to Toby have come out in support of him and others in support fo the supposed victim.
We don’t have enough evidence to convict him fully and we don’t have evidence to prove him innocent either.
Do NOT just jump to conclusions with rape allegations there needs to be provided proof that isn’t just text messages or tweets as they can easily be faked by hundreds of various free softwares online.
As a history student, the most ridiculous thing that tumblr social justice warriors ever made up is “cultural appropriation”. If you only had mild historical knowledge of any cultural exchange that took place before colonialism (the ultimate times of evil oppression besides the third Reich) you’d realize that what you consider your culture is probably just a mashup out of thousands ancient cultural aspects from many different cultures. “Culture” itself is an umbrella term for basically anything that might be associated with a certain group of people - and it is both fluid and highly subjective. Your political system has been culturally appropriated from somewhere once, and so has your educational system, your economical system, your religion and your language. If you want to get mad about cultural appropriation, how about you start with those monumental cultural appropriations before complaining about white girls wearing dreads?
GOP: We must follow the Constitution THE THE LETTER ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE THE FOUNDING FATHERS!
Me: Oh, okay. Glad you mentioned that. See, here's this thing in the Constitution where it says that the president shall appoint Supreme Court Justices, and now that there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court, President Obama's Constitutional duty is to appoint a new justice.
GOP: But Obama is in his last year of office!
Me: You mean like Ronald Reagan was when he nominated Anthony Kennedy?
GOP: But
Me: Yeah, go ahead and say something critical of Ronald Reagan.
GOP: Well. He. It. See. Ronald Rrrrreee...
Me: I'll wait. Take your time.
GOP: RrRrrrOoooonnnnaLllddddddd.......
Me: Are you okay?
GOP: Rrrrrreeeaaagggg gggg gggg gggg ggbbzzt bzzt bzzzzzt
Me: Are ... are you having a system freeze?
GOP: (a)bort, (r)etry, (f)ail?
Me: Let's go with fail. That's what you're best at.
Art by Heather Theurer
hagrid: kids this is my adorable useless normal dog
hagrid: his name is fang
hagrid: and THIS is the slavering three-headed hellbeast dog that will eat anyone who crosses his path
hagrid: i call him fluffy
106. Also, I think we skipped 51.
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So there’s this community called the rationalist community, which is an outgrowth of the rationalist movement. Common traits of rationalists include watch as all the rationalists I know come yell at me :
Thinking Eliezer Yudowsky is the greatest person ever
Liking this one specific Harry Potter fanfic (Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which is incidentally very good)
Being very concerned that AIs are going to destroy the world
Thinking/worrying a lot about epistemology
Being preference utilitarians
Not liking religions that believe in a god or gods
Using Bayesian statistics
Being autistic
Doing things that are very cult-like while talking about how much they are Not A Cult
this is a totally unfair characterization but will probably work to a first approximation
(To be clear, I am not saying that specific traits on this list are good or bad.)
Rationalist Tumblr is the rationalist community, but specifically on Tumblr.
…what is rationalist Tumblr?