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Some follow up from today:

𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫’𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 ‘𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞’

Besides their concerns about Pancholy, some board members also noted the district’s policy about not hosting overtly political events, news outlets reported. The policy was enacted after the district was criticized for hosting a rally by Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign for president.

Mark Blanchard, the district superintendent, and nine other senior leaders – including assistant superintendents and district-level directors of technology, curriculum, legal affairs, human resources, student services and special education – sent a letter to the board, faculty and staff on Thursday asserting that Pancholy’s speech should have been allowed.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/19/maulik-pancholy-school-speech-canceled-lgbt

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Further proof that Mechanicsburg is indeed trapped in a time bubble.

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Bullying is the highest civic virtue in MAGA world..

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When bullies get elected to government they become fascists.

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The my central MN hometown elected a guy who campaigned on the "litterboxes in classrooms" bullshit to the school board.

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My school board is a bunch of idiots who could not piss their way out of a tissue-paper bag.

That's my view from having served 25 years in the district.

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To be clear, bullying children is WRONG! Bullying adults is a sacred constitutional right.

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Sounds like they bullied Mr Pancholy. Also he was brilliant as Jonathan.

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How are they still electing these grifters?

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Heaven forbid a voter take even 5 minutes to Google every candidate to see what they stand for!! It's easier to decide "is my life ok with the current warm body in place, or am I in my feels and want to pick a new warm body?"

I say this as someone who googled everyone running in my last school board election, worked out things were going good (I have no kids in the system so most times don't pay attention), the incumbents had plans to improve both the physical and mental/emotional needs of the kids, and the newbies were.....batshit crazy.

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In our latest school board election, I could vote for 4 people out of 7 candidates. There were only 4 candidates that even had a website. One was obviously nuts. 2 seemed okay. One was a right wing nut, but you wouldn't know it from her campaign page. A few words raised alarms for me, so I looked into the groups who endorsed her. I ended up voting for only 2 people, because I could find no information on the others. The 2 I voted for got the most votes by far., but the right wing nut slid in as well. Candidates really need to campaign at least enough to have a web page.

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Because we are stuck in an eternal nightmare, that's how.

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i think these are the ones that got through in the first wave. Their days are numbered

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It's the "I'm voting for tRump 'cause a Hershey bar is now $1.38" crowd

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“Again, it’s not discriminating against his lifestyle, that’s his choice, but it’s him speaking about it. He did say that that’s not the topic, but that’s what his books are about.”

Are we still doing this “lifestyle” “choice” bullshit? Is this lady allowed to talk about her lifestyle choice of being a straight lady?

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But being a Christofascist bigoted asshole IS a lifestyle choice.

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It's ridiculous. The right is constantly saying they don't support racism; they just really love freedom of speech. But then they argue that they don't hate gays; they just really hate freedom of speech. They are such disingenuous hypocrites.

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I thought these types wet their pants about “cancel culture“.

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Ta, Dok. No school board for me; I never had children. I've also never seen 30 Rock. That is, I've BEEN to 30 Rockefeller Plaza; I've never seen the TV show.

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It's in my top three favorite TV shows of all time.

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I am so FED THE FUCK UP with these bigoted shitheads I can't even.

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Other news out today from PA:

𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐨𝐨.

On May 17, an attorney for the Independence Law Center emailed a nearly 500-word speech to the Red Lion Area School Board’s president praising the anti-LGBTQ+ policies the elected officials would consider the next day.

Board President Stephen Simpson read the statement, nearly verbatim, shortly before voting on the policies drafted by the right-wing, Christian law firm on May 18 last year.

Notably, one of the few changes Simpson made to the speech was to remove a sentence about how proud he was of the policies.

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/education/2024/04/18/right-wing-christian-law-firm-doesnt-just-write-school-board-policies-it-provides-speeches-too/73331550007/

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Glad to know that Moms Against Liberty aren't an activist organization.

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So, according to Moms for Censorship, empathy is a bad thing.

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Empathy is weakness.

"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat."

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Any judgement not given you EXPLICITLY by God like using "empathy" to make decision is a bad thing to them.

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Christians have ALWAYS thought that obeying rules is more important than actually getting shit done

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Agreed. Well...some of them. Probably a lot of them. But I know there are some people out there who also identify as Christian who are more into the whipping moneylenders aspect and less into the sacrificing your childdren out of obedience aspect.

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Exactly. I mean, they literally say just that, out loud.

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Moms for Fascism nod in agreement.

Meanwhile, ALL of the CRT/DEI/fascists were booted from the local republican party, our town legislature, and our school board. There's a couple left, but their time is coming. Sorry, Christofascists you aren't the majority and everyone is sick of your shit.

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Voters told Moms For Liberty to Eat Shit - Here's why that's bad news for Bridget Ziegler.

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"Well sure, your gay lifestyle people may say they won’t talk to middle schoolers about Judy Garland"

Oh, sure, how do you know the first part of his lesson won't be to teach those tender little minds to respond, "Went the trolley!" if someone says, "Clang clang clang!"? After that, it's showtunes galore, then Little League is replaced by Little Theatre, the drama club will cancel "Our Town" in favor of "Spring Awakening", and the Spring Fling Dance in the gym gets changed to Leather Night at the Eagle.

Also, jokes from "Cap'n Billy's Whiz-Bang" and knickerbockers buckled below the knees.

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I'm only here because I was breathlessly awaiting to read the word "swell". Now I'm deflated.

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'Our Town' Libelz!

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This is actually a best case scenario, if you ask me.

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I thought it was always Leather Night at the Eagle.

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Don't forget GAG Night (Gays Against Guns).

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Not as a replacement for the Spring Fling at the gym.

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