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Roger: WTF is going on in Tucson?

Started by Kai, January 16, 2012, 04:47:46 PM

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Kai

January 16, 2012, 04:47:46 PM
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The Good Reverend Roger

#1
January 16, 2012, 05:16:30 PM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 16, 2012, 04:47:46 PM
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/

It's really simple.  We've become small.  Weak.  We've looked at the world and the universe, and we've decided that it has to go.  It's a few hundred thousand scared White retirees who think that looking at what the world has to offer is some kind of treason, and they're taking us all to Crazytown with them.

And it ain't Tucson, Kai, it's all of Arizona.  I'd love to say "Phoenix", but that wouldn't be accurate.

And it's all of America.  We're just leading the pack.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

#2
January 17, 2012, 12:52:52 AM
Everything about this infuriates and befuddles me. Just...what?

QuoteThe list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years," which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko.
:horrormirth: Stay in the 19th century all right!

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2012, 05:16:30 PM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 16, 2012, 04:47:46 PM
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/

It's really simple.  We've become small.  Weak.  We've looked at the world and the universe, and we've decided that it has to go.  It's a few hundred thousand scared White retirees who think that looking at what the world has to offer is some kind of treason, and they're taking us all to Crazytown with them.

And it ain't Tucson, Kai, it's all of Arizona.  I'd love to say "Phoenix", but that wouldn't be accurate.

And it's all of America.  We're just leading the pack.
I'm waiting for this to happen here.
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The Good Reverend Roger

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January 17, 2012, 12:54:42 AM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on January 17, 2012, 12:52:52 AM
Everything about this infuriates and befuddles me. Just...what?

QuoteThe list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years," which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko.
:horrormirth: Stay in the 19th century all right!


We're banning books!  :banana:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#4
January 17, 2012, 01:22:00 AM
A thought:  Godwin's Law doesn't really apply if there's actual Nazism going on, right?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Murmur

#5
January 17, 2012, 06:26:10 AM
I wouldn't think so, Reverend.   :eek:
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#6
January 17, 2012, 07:56:24 AM
AUUUUUUGHHHHH I am glad for my kids that it hasn't hit the kale-addicted enclave of Portland yet. Leslie Marmon Silko, a threat to American values? Only if American values closely mimic those of the Vatican in 1880.

Conservative America clearly wishes to tale a step back to the principles of Industrialism, only without the industry.
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#7
January 17, 2012, 03:53:15 PM
Banning a book by a prominent Ethnic Studies supporter is an obvious move.  II'm a little more freaked out that they banned Shakespeare.

The Good Reverend Roger

#8
January 17, 2012, 03:53:51 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 17, 2012, 03:53:15 PM
Banning a book by a prominent Ethnic Studies supporter is an obvious move.  II'm a little more freaked out that they banned Shakespeare.

They wrote the definitions a little broad, it seems.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cain

#9
January 17, 2012, 03:55:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 17, 2012, 03:53:15 PM
Banning a book by a prominent Ethnic Studies supporter is an obvious move.  II'm a little more freaked out that they banned Shakespeare.

I don't see why not. He is a foreigner, after all.  Refused to speak proper English, made up a bunch of nonsense words.

The Good Reverend Roger

#10
January 17, 2012, 03:57:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 17, 2012, 03:55:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 17, 2012, 03:53:15 PM
Banning a book by a prominent Ethnic Studies supporter is an obvious move.  II'm a little more freaked out that they banned Shakespeare.

I don't see why not. He is a foreigner, after all.  Refused to speak proper English, made up a bunch of nonsense words.

Also wrote a bunch of subversive shit, and was obviously a drug addict (You don't write "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after two cups of coffee.).
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Freeky

#11
January 17, 2012, 04:42:57 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2012, 03:57:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 17, 2012, 03:55:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 17, 2012, 03:53:15 PM
Banning a book by a prominent Ethnic Studies supporter is an obvious move.  II'm a little more freaked out that they banned Shakespeare.

I don't see why not. He is a foreigner, after all.  Refused to speak proper English, made up a bunch of nonsense words.

Also wrote a bunch of subversive shit, and was obviously a drug addict (You don't write "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after two cups of coffee.).

You might after two cups of Death Coffee. 

The Good Reverend Roger

#12
January 17, 2012, 06:29:48 PM
Quote from: The Freeky of SCIENCE! on January 17, 2012, 04:42:57 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2012, 03:57:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 17, 2012, 03:55:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 17, 2012, 03:53:15 PM
Banning a book by a prominent Ethnic Studies supporter is an obvious move.  II'm a little more freaked out that they banned Shakespeare.

I don't see why not. He is a foreigner, after all.  Refused to speak proper English, made up a bunch of nonsense words.

Also wrote a bunch of subversive shit, and was obviously a drug addict (You don't write "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after two cups of coffee.).

You might after two cups of Death Coffee.

Nope.  Then Puck would be a Big Gay Biker.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

#13
January 17, 2012, 06:34:04 PM
It occurred to me that this, if they take it all the way (which they will, if they're banning history books and Shakespeare), they'll have to dump a lot of WWII lit ( Number the Stars, The Diary of Anne Frank, Maus, etc.), stuff like Grapes of Wrath, and so much else. I'm kind of floored just thinking about it.

Although it will be far from the first time Grapes of Wrath has been banned, honestly (lookin' at you, Kern county).
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Don Coyote

#14
January 17, 2012, 06:48:58 PM
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on January 17, 2012, 06:34:04 PM
It occurred to me that this, if they take it all the way (which they will, if they're banning history books and Shakespeare), they'll have to dump a lot of WWII lit ( Number the Stars, The Diary of Anne Frank, Maus, etc.), stuff like Grapes of Wrath, and so much else. I'm kind of floored just thinking about it.

Although it will be far from the first time Grapes of Wrath has been banned, honestly (lookin' at you, Kern county).

WAIT WUT??? When did that happen?
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