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Larry Middleton

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16 Apr

Years ago, when I was studying the adult learning model, one of the things that was brought out was that while children learn mostly by rote, adults don't. So kids pick up the things that are presented to them through repetition and practice like counting or the alphabet.

At some point, that learning mode changes. Learning becomes impacted and filtered by values, biases, family and community norms, and traditions that checks new information against old conventions, traditions and expectations.

For instance, consider the process of an adult learning a new view on religion.

One of the hardest things for a adult to do is learn new info because we have to check it against their old biases (which, over time, often have been reinforced through confirmation bias.)

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Larry Middleton

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15 Apr

I find it amazing that people are amazed that racism exist in the north and in the west. It's not just in the south. In fact, that's what the Kansas Nebraska Act, and the Border Wars were all about during westward expansion. They laid the groundwork for the eventual Civil War.

Some of the most racist places in the country have been in the north. Some of the biggest, most egregious race riots and lynchings have happened in the north. You don't hear much about sundown laws and redlining history in the south, but you do in the north.

Malcolm X's family home was burned down outside of Lansing, MI by the KKK. Is it then a surprise that almost 100 years later, racist white militia from MI and WI attempted to kidnap the governor and overturn the vote?

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Larry Middleton

@l78lancer

15 Apr

Here's something that we will probably need to think about:

I get the intent of "slaughter." However, at what point does it stop being manslaughter when implicit - and not so implicit - bias is at the root of the problem in so many police departments?

When black people are automatically feared, and when escalation is the first tactic, not the last, how is it that when deaths occur, the assumption is that it's inadvertent when the conditions for disaster are brought immediately to the circumstances by the people with the guns?

How do the conditions not exist when police are militarized, training largely omits that black people are people, the people being served are viewed adversarially, and black communities are generally under a state of siege and terrorism?

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Larry Middleton

@l78lancer

14 Apr

I am a progressive. I've been a progressive for my entire voting life. When the lights go out in my eyes, my wife, children and grandchildren will know me as a progressive. They may even put it on my headstone.
cnn.com/2021/04/13/pol…

So it's with all sincerity and hope when I say that progressives in congress need to get their act together when it comes to policing. They are all over the place, and nowhere at the same time. Rashida Tlaib's heart may be in the right place, but what is she really talking about?

By the way, I'm not picking on her. She just happens to be the latest person to make pronouncements about policing that are disconnected from reality, or anything remotely like sound rational, functional policy. And, while is may excite people it looks like really bad politics.

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Larry Middleton

@l78lancer

10 Apr

Tucker Carlson doesn't need to be fired or resign. Fox needs to yanked off the air, forever. They're a national security threat.

When racist Tiki torch marchers chanted "Jews will not replace us," it resulted in violence, mayhem, and death in Charlottesville. It was no accident.

When Trump:

1. fed the republican base a steady diet of election lies, and falsehoods about immigrants being able to make white republicans votes count less;
2. told a racist organization to "stand back and stand by" to signal his sympathies with them, then

3. inevitably lost the election because of the absolute chaos he wrecked upon the nation due to incompetence, corruption and negligence during his four years in the White House...

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Larry Middleton

@l78lancer

6 Apr

Corporations know full well that boycotts don't have to be absolute to be extremely effective. If their revenues drops off, profits dip, or investors back way, many CEOs know their boards will fire them.

So now Black Lives Matter has finally the nation's full attention. #BLM

For the people who want to pretend that the movement against voter suppression and #BLM are not the same, you're dead wrong.

Black Lives Matter had it roots in the protests of young people - students - who took over the governor's office in FL after Travon Martin's death.

Their goal was to change the Stand Your Ground laws instrumental in that killing.

Their movement became one of political activism and voter turnout when they embarked on changing the laws because they needed to increase voter participation to elect new people to the legislature.

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