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2 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
If you believe not striking your child is tantamount to "hating them" and that striking them is proof of your love for them you are sick. You should have your children taken from you. This guy deserves to be removed from his family, and society.

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And please, no nonsense about how "I was whooped as a kid and turned out ok..." Did ya? Did ya really? You sure about that? You got no unresolved issues or anger or pain? Bullshit...
Additionally, literally every person in prison today was likely whooped as a kid. None were re-directed or given time out or offered creative discipline. NONE...But people keep saying physical violence against children works. It does not. It normalizes brutality...
There are lots of understandable reasons why people think it works...we've been socialized in a violent society. But that doesn't make it healthy. @DrStaceyPatton's work on this is magisterial...
And the more people attack her for her insights the more it proves the truth of her thesis...we are so committed to violence as discipline we don't know other ways to live. As for this guy in Green Bay--where I am literally headed right now--I hope he's locked down before I land

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Maher's obsession with cancel culture (like all Boomer comics upset they can't tell a good rape joke w/o pushback anymore) is only topped by his naivete. The right's commitment to fascism didn't come from wokeness, just like racism isn't caused by what Black people do...(3)
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This will be one of those threads that some people won't like. But having looked in the Mason Jar of Fucks that I keep on my bookshelf, and discovering it to be strangely devoid of content I might willingly relinquish, I'll proceed (1)...
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It's time for progressive parents to start showing up at these school board meetings and handing out giant paper snowflakes to the right-wing MAGA parents who are afraid to let their kids read books about MLK and Ruby Bridges, or who think masks are child abuse...Mock them. Daily
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They cannot be reasoned with. They should be treated like the broken brain people they are. Every time they shout laugh at them, point at them, make fun of them...
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(1) The fact that there are people who still think the left should make common cause (around issues of class, the 1%, etc) w/the kind of people storming school board meetings in anger about masks, vaccines and anti-racist teaching is why the left is such a joke in this country...
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(3) These people don't hate the rich. They want to be them. The only rich people they hate are entertainers and rich Black athletes. They are not a constituency for progressive change, the revolution, or your stupid Leninist fantasies...
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These parents in Southlake TX, forcing libraries and teachers to pull any books off the shelves about racism (historical or contemporary) unless they are "viewpoint neutral" are the face of conservatism: book banning authoritarians, and snowflakes at the same time...(1)
There is no "viewpoint neutrality." We all have perspectives. And those parents don't really want that anyway. They wouldn't want us to teach the Nazi side of WWII, or al-Qaeda's perspective on 9/11. They just want to silence Black people. And all "liberal" perspectives (2)...
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Although it's obvious (hopefully) that the "Great Replacement" nonsense pushed by Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Matt Gaetz, et al. is racist to the core, it's also blindingly absurd on its face. Of course, those pushing it know their audience is too stupid to know this...(1)
The MAGA verse doesn't understand the forces driving demographic change, and millions of other folks don't understand them either, making them vulnerable to these white nationalist fears of "takeover" and a presumed conspiracy to make it happen...(2)
The truth of course is that "globalists" don't need to import labor from poorer countries into the "white West" when they can just export capital and do the work offshore...(3)
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