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one s safe space note the word might in my analysis no one actually ever said they were harmed in any way godino sent out one tweet in response to her high school teacher s tweet about the poor turnout in a recent election when only 10 percent of revere votes for mayor cause the other 90 percent isn t legal godino replied sarcastically maybe even a little snarkily in her tweet of course all hell rained down on godino after she dared to voice her opinion some other unnamed and protected students complained to the school authorities and in order to shelter and protect these unnamed students the mighty forces of the school district stepped in to make certain godino would never ever voice her opinions again revere superintendent dianne kelly says the district believes in freedom of speech but cannot support what she calls insensitive language if you re going to stand up and say something that other people will find offensive then you need to be prepare to deal with the ramifications of that kelly said the ramifications kelly kicked godino off the cheerleading squad for the rest of the year allow me to translate what ms kelly means is she will never allow any free speech on her watch debate is forbidden opposing ideas are never to be allowed if you dare to voice your opinion you high school career is over and your life will be a living hell thank you for molding america s future leaders ms kelly caley godino s opponents never had to name themselves they were and are anonymous they never had to defend their political positions or engage in debate they never were forced to tell godino why her opinions were wrong or why their s were right the very debate upon which america was founded was never allowed to happen that might have violated someone s safe space ultimate irony the mascot of the revere high school is the patriots posted by bob keller at 11 24 2015 10 50 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels free speech liberals progressives safe space saturday october 03 2015 we have no solutions to gun violence yes i hate videos on the internet too but you really need to watch this gun violence is destroying inner city america yet it seems like only white rural college shootings get the press we need solutions sadly every proposal i ve seen from president obama and our leaders would accomplish nothing beyond harming law abiding citizens we really need solutions that will reduce chicago violence we are witnessing america s genocide we re shooting 11 month old babies posted by bob keller at 10 03 2015 02 16 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels america s genocide chicago gun control gun violence thursday june 25 2015 cultural genocide the lives of our political opponents matter not their physical lives we don t care about that it s their cultural lives their cultural symbols their values morals and mores that matter to defeat our political enemies we must utterly destroy all the factors that give their lives value meaning and structure and let s be honest we do want the complete and utter destruction of all who might disagree with us in any way this attitude of complete cultural destruction has led the left to try to eliminate everything remotely connected to the pop culture confederate flag icons of the conservative and especially southern society this excuse for such destruction of an icon is of course the senseless murder of the nine black church members at the hands of white supremacist dylann roof in charlotte last week but as horrific as those murders were they are not the subject of this post instead it is the remarkable reaction that has swept our entire culture in just a few short days to effectively ban all things remotely connected to the civil war as a sociology major in college this is simply stunning to behold this is the equivalent of a paleontologist discovering the bone of an undiscovered species of dinosaur rarely do you get to see what can only be described as a tidal wave of coordinated social activity happening across all political spectrums all races all economic classes all at once this isn t simply south carolina governor nikki haley suggesting the confederate flag be removed from the statehouse grounds that might have started the chain reaction but look how far its come amazon ebay walmart sears and more are pulling everything confederate off the shelves states are pulling down flags and statues and memorials film critics are calling for the withdrawal of the movie gone with the wind allowing it only to be shown in museums and only on special occasions amazon and walmart are suggesting authors or publishers revise their cover art if it contains anything related to the civil war will we ban books from schools and public libraries polygon the gaming news website reports that apple was quickly affected by the societal groupthink with a form of censorship that is breathtaking to behold now it appears that apple has decided to join them by pulling many civil war wargames from the app store as of the writing of this story games like ultimate general gettysburg and all the hunted cow civil war games are nowhere to be found apple is famous for reaching for the axe rather than the scalpel when it comes to political issues like rejecting hunted cow s tank battle 1942 for depicting germans and russians as enemies so this move doesn t come as a great surprise can we erase history it appears apple is going to try but they are not alone when republican governors like robert bentley of alabama personally remove confederate flags and further suggest any school named after a civil war general be renamed memorials removed and school mascots banned you realize we have a seed change turning into a tsunami until two or three days ago walmart admits it had virtually never had a complaint about pop culture confederate merchandise the public outcry mostly on social media happening that quickly people tend to jump on the bandwagon they love to be on the winning side what they may have never noticed thursday becomes issue 1 by friday how long will this last will there eventually be blow back so far only former senator jim webb has offered any caution or defense certainly his thoughtful and nuanced response absolutely dooms any hope he had of a presidential candidacy posted by bob keller at 6 25 2015 11 05 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels civil war confederate conservatives liberals progressives racism saturday may 30 2015 societies and cultures that work sociologists and anthropologists my duel majors in college attempt to study cultures and societies objectively dispassionately scientifically it is relatively easy to do when studying ancient societies or remote and isolated cultures some societies cultures and religions work and work well for centuries and by working i mean they thrive gathering wealth power population size and geographic size they have the ability to affect other surrounding cultures and spread their values laws and morals if a culture or society works and thrives that doesn t mean it moral good fair or free it does mean the members of the society generally follow their rules and laws very very often historically these laws and rules are religious in nature and survive nations and governments morals are passed down from parents to children values that must shared by all and must be strictly upheld for example marriage is discouraged outside of many cultures ethnic groups and religions this insures children receive the values attitudes and strict moral codes of the culture isis is attempting to form a caliphate in iraq and syria and beyond but the muslim culture and the islamic religion that is its base including and especially sharia law already have proven to be the basis of a culture and societal structure that works sharia law and the overreaching muslim culture have already survived hundreds of years through multiple nations and governments that does not mean it s good or moral that doesn t mean its actions are fair or free most of us are horrified by the stoning of non believers the murder of the victims of rape or incest or the enslavement of people from outside the tightly closed society we in the west see these actions as savage meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people from all around the world are joining isis it s a virtual world wide mass migration here in the west we re trying to stop people from moving the iraq and joining the armies of isis yet people do make their way to a society they see as moral just and especially functional they want the rules the laws the morals and the leadership to guide their lives we need to understand how cultures societies nations and religions all work to help us understand why other cultures often breakdown we need to understand why some cultures thrive and their members prosper while others live in poverty riddled with crime and corruption we need to understand this in our own american society and culture where through our inaction ignorance and neglect seem to have said in spite of our tweets to the contrary black lives actually don t seem to matter how is it that we allow this american genocide continues unabated ignored or tolerated by most of society we need to understand why violence and crime are rampant throughout american inner cities and now are spreading into the supposedly safe suburbs this wall street journal article by heather mac donald is an excellent place to start posted by bob keller at 5 30 2015 11 02 00 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blacklivesmatter america s genocide anthropology isis islam morality muslim sociology monday may 11 2015 the silence of the lambs t his will be my shortest blog post ever its sole purpose is to highlight that the presumptive democratic party candidate for president hillary clinton has not held is single press conference or ever a single press interview since launching her campaign one month ago she has answered virtually no questions and has never addressed any of the real and substantive issues surrounding her candidacy so far it appears this strategy is working how long can she continue __________________________________________________________________________ update 5 30 2014 although ms clinton took a very few questions two days last week her strategy continues to avoid all questions and make the press hungrier and hungrier for any sort of news it s a blazingly brilliant strategy even fox news fawns over her every speech of scripted interaction with so called voters all of whom are carefully screened shills she get her message and exactly her message out every day it is easily the best election strategy i ve ever seen can it continue through the election we re all beginning to think it can posted by bob keller at 5 11 2015 05 59 00 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hillary clinton press saturday april 11 2015 speak truth to power there is a great deal to like and to admire about tim cook the ceo of apple he is a courageous and visionary liberal leading what is arguably the finest and best run company in america he came out recently as gay and is the only openly gay ceo of a fortune 500 company among the many liberal convictions he has put into practice at apple in an environmentally responsible effort on climate change going even so far as to challenge shareholders who are in cook s opinion climate deniers it is from this framework that he led a chorus of corporate leaders politicians and celebrities in condemning indiana s religious freedom restoration act cook said our message to people around the country and around the world is this apple is open open to everyone regardless of where they come from what they look like how they worship or who they love regardless of what the law might allow in indiana or arkansas we will never tolerate discrimination opposing discrimination takes courage with the lives and dignity of so many people at stake it s time for all of us to be courageous writing in an op ed in the washington post cook said in part there s something very dangerous happening in states across the country a wave of legislation introduced in more than two dozen states would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors some such as the bill enacted in indiana last week that drew a national outcry and one passed in arkansas say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law i am greatly bothered by the fact that cook and many other liberals are on exactly the wrong side of this issue demanding conformity to a rigid and terribly narrow standard of behavior instead of standing up for individual s right of moral conviction but i am even more concerned that cook leads a group of bullies in a mob action to demand an orthodox jewish photographer or a muslim baker be forced under penalty of law to deny their religious and their moral convictions and participate in acts or ceremonies forbidden by their religion deny allah or lose your business livelihood or freedom cook insists we deny to others the very freedom of moral conviction that allowed gays to gain an open and free place in our society cook seems to have forgotten that when the so called majority forced gays into hiding it was the religious minority of unitarian universalists and other liberal churches who welcomed gays and lesbians into their churches and performed gay marriages when they were outlawed unitarians have for centuries lived their beliefs even when prohibited by the state they are the religion of the pilgrims driven out by the church of england and the king to find freedom in the america they founded now cook wants to deny this freedom of moral belief god help the next persecuted group as cook wants actions taken based religious belief to be denied by the state errr well he wants then denied in indiana and arkansas not so much elsewhere v the k writing over on the gay patriot responded perfectly it takes n0 courage to stand up to bakers and florists who just don t want to take part in gay weddings although it gets you a lot of trained seal applause from other sanctimonious poseurs standing up to legitimately brutal regimes that would be actual courage indeed as it turns out cook wants no part in speaking truth to power challenged by more that a dozen bloggers and pundits they wrote an open letter to cook the letter reads in part tim cook says that opposing discrimination takes courage and we agree we call on mr cook to live up to our shared principles by pulling apple out of nigeria qatar saudi arabia and iran until they stop their official government policies of jailing and murdering gays and lesbians tim cook has not as yet responded sadly i ve lost substantial respect for mr ...