oldmanfan

Folks like you really have no understanding of what America really is.

Genocide is genocide. And if you don’t think the Taliban and their ilk don’t want to take over the world you’re naive at best.

They will kill any women and children that have dared to do things like try and be educated. If they don’t kill them they will subjugate them to a life of slavery and misery. But I forget, you think that’s funny. If you have a wife or daughters, ask them if they share your sense of humor.

This makes a good point. Children and adolescents are at very low risk of death. But two things to mention. One, we’ll have to watch the data as more children seem to be susceptible to the delta variant. Second, while understandably everyone focuses on mortality rates we’ll have to see what the long term morbidity effects are in the younger population.

Bull crap. It’s simple math. Three percent of thousand of people is a relevant number when the idea is keeping folks alive. And your morality has been shown in another topic where you seem to laugh at genocide. He won’t be able to do this. Voters will hold governors accountable for killing people.

One person’s death is a tragedy. Thousands are a statistic. You may want to take a critical look at your humanity.

That is absolutely their plan. They want to subjugate all men, women and children to their twisted ideology. And destroy Jews, other Muslims, and other civilizations to achieve that. But you think it’s funny. Pardon me if I don’t laugh.

Nazi Germany tried to wipe out a religion, Jews, because they believed in a master race. The Taliban wants to wipe out women, children and men because of religion. Both are genocidal acts. Both the Nazis and the Taliban want to take over the world based on warped religious and political views. We fought a world war to stop the first one. But now we’re OK with allowing Afghanis to be wiped out.

So you’re OK with religious zealots wiping out all the women and children? Do you have any recollection of Nazi Germany? They do not have to be mutually exclusive. That’s the problem with the simple minded folks that populate this part of the board; you are incapable of cogent thought.

Because they are going to commit genocide on the women and children there, and the decent people of the world should not allow that to ever happen again.

Overwhelming force. Get our allies together and put a million troops in there.

And where does this quote come from?

Afghanistan has not been figured out by any country including the U.S., and in the U.S. multiple administrations have not been able to come up with a coherent strategy. I am an admitted war hawk; I believe our military is to be used for the defense of our country and to defend the values our country stands for. Thus, as the Taliban represents a real and present danger to the people of Afghanistan, with genocide of men, women, and children, I would go in with a huge, overwhelming force (and would get allies on board), and wipe the Taliban out once and for all. The free countries of the world should not allow genocide to occur.

Slavery, yes. Specifics such as what happened in New Orleans and Tulsa, no.

I would agree with the teachers and politicians on both sides of the aisle. I just looked at the Buffalo schools 1619 initiative. It teaches history. Not CRT, history. And history that I never got when I was a kid. Slavery is unfortunately a part of our history.

It is not that it is not real, it is that it is not being taught in the curriculum of the secondary schools that I know of. Kids are truly being used as pawns by their parents. Sorry, but wrong again. I was at the meeting in my district. You are asked to contact the board to put items on the agenda, and are asked to contact the board to speak during open discussion times. Two meetings I went to were hijacked by parents who had done neither. And then they of course left before the superintendent could address their nonsense. His response, showing that CRT is not part of the curriculum, was not heard and ignored thereafter by the parent group that seeks to use their own children to play a political game. I suspect this is happening all over the country.

Then you bring it up to the principal and/or superintendent and school board. And they have said repeatedly to parents that CRT is not part of the curriculum. But yet parents still disrupt board meetings, carry guns into them, etc. It is ridiculous. Let's extend your logic a bit. Say I decide that I think the school is teaching my kids that gay people are nicer than straight people, and because of that all people should become gay. You pick whatever fantasy you want to dream up. There is no actual evidence whatsoever that this is so of course, much like there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the school district teaches CRT, but I decide it is so. So I band together a group of parents who also believe in fantasies, and I go to school board meetings and completely disrupt things so that the actual business of taking care of education in my town is halted. You think this is the right way to do things? Seriously?

Coke zero

No. We have an ex-teacher invading our local high school calling for parents to go after teachers by name because they have signs in their classrooms saying you have to wear masks (note: these are from last year, teachers haven’t come back yet). A guy showed up at a school board meeting and a loaded gun fell out of his pocket. And it’s all because of this manufactured CRT nonsense; it has started nonsense not just limited to CRT. The district is not teaching CRT. They have no plans to do so. They have said this repeatedly. But some parents egged on by this quasi-organization led by some lawyer in Chicago keep on this because they want to use kids to play politics. Your question of what if it were true is misplaced. It’s not true, bottom line. If there were something as a parent I found wrong, I’d do what I’ve done a couple times. Request a meeting with the teacher, then theoretically the principal, then the superintendent, and then the school board if I felt I needed to. And only one time did I not get a satisfactory answer from a parent and have to have an associate principal get involved.

I’m a parent of two. God knows I advocate for my kids. But this is different. You show me where an elementary or secondary school is actually teaching CRT I’ll listen. But they aren’t. You have people exploiting kids, sometimes their own, to make a political point. Shameful.

So dummy that laughed at my comment: did you read the survey? Probably not. You’re just another who can’t think for himself being taken for a ride. We have this crap going on in my town right now. The rabble rousers are getting paid by some group based in Chicago. Using our kids to play politics. Shameful.

I just looked through the entire survey. There is not one question - zero - that relates to critical race theory. Not one question even hints at trying to convince white kids that black kids hate them, which is what people try to claim. None. Nada. Zip. Goose egg. There are a couple that point a bit towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. All ideas that look towards brining people closer together. Parents are using their kids to push some kind of ridiculous political agenda.

Justice Barrett turned aside the emergency appeal to stop IU from mandating vaccines. Good for her.

Albany DA hopefully presses charges and they bring him to trial.

I be agree in general but Afghanistan appears to be a different beast. The Soviet Union lost there, we had 20 years to no avail. The Afghan people do not have the will to keep their country.