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All Kaiser did was pause surgeries for minors, such as the double mastectomy it did on a 12-year old girl, while continuing to dose children with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Wiener is nonetheless incensed and reminds everyone that California mandated by law that no one can deny gender surgeries to minors
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He refers to fellow Democratic party legislators walking out when he explains his reason for supporting a bill that would restrict girls athletics to those born female, as if he is a culpable actor for his vote. An inverted world where you are stigmatized and punished for doing the right thing that is supported by a supermajority of Democratic party voters.
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Wheeler earlier broke with his party to support a ban on child sex changes https://www.foxnews.com/video/6344331122112
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The power of Musk’s remarks on Twitter do not derive from his wealth or his ownership of the platform — they derive from the cathartic power of the truth about a monstrous scandal that encompasses the whole of British society that has been buried beneath a decade of lies
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It's super interesting that there are cultures where homosexuality is grounds for death but raping boys is fine, what's a good explainer of this phenomenon?
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Foucault's experiences in Algeria and Morocco led him to believe that Islam was cool with homosexuality and was thus shocked to find out that homosexuality was not only not tolerated in Iran but grounds for death during the period when he was rhapsodizing about the Iran revolution. Like most Westerners, he wasn't able to grasp that homosexuality is forbidden but raping boys is fine.
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Some insight into male sexuality in Afghanistan summarized by a US Marine "Human Terrain Team" "A culturally-contrived homosexuality (significantly not termed as such by its practitioners) appears to affect a far greater population base then some researchers would argue is attributable to natural inclination. " https://info.publicintelligence.net/HTT-PashtunSexuality.pdf
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The septugenarian and octogenarian elected leadership and rank and file of the Democratic party is opposed to this reframing of Israel as the white supremacist settler colony. But they were highly indulgent of decolonial violence in America itself -- for that is what toppling statutes not just of slavers but of Ulysses S. Grant was -- when it seemed to serve immediate political exigencies. And while the elected leadership remains in control for now, their successors in the junior ranks have already broken decisively with them. The various organs of the party and its shadow party -- the universities, foundations, and the teacher's unions -- now plays host to a parasite which has already largely consumed its host. Its goal is to leverage control of education and culture to scale up that decolonial violence which we saw in isolated pockets of the country in the summer of 2020 and to encompass the nation as a whole and turn it into the basis of a new rule -- a new regime of radical redistribution along racial and identitarian lines. Whether this future can or will be attained will be determined by the actions we take in the present.
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Differential justice by race is here: A mentally disabled father in Nova Scotia began having sex with his mentally disabled daughter when she was 19 or 20. At 23, she gave birth to his severely developmentally delayed child The court sentenced the father to 2 years of house arrest rather than the 4 to 6 years imprisonment listed in its guidelines. An appeals court rejected the Crown's bid for a longer sentence, citing his race as grounds for leniency: "“The moral culpability of an African Nova Scotian offender has to be assessed in the context of historic factors and systemic racism, as was done in this case..." the judge, writing for the majority, said. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-house-arrest-for-impregnating-daughter-a-result-of-race-based-sentencing
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This has happened before Nova Scotia -- judge justifies giving black man suspended sentence for five firearms violations with reference to "race and culture assessment" and "testimony about the availability of Afrocentric services in prisons and jails" https://globalnews.ca/news/7728851/conditional-sentence-gun-offence-ns-appeal/
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Since 2021, Canadian judges have had to apply different rules to those who "identify as indigenous" in bail, sentencing, appeals, parole board hearings, extradition, mental health review boards hearings, professional disciplinary decisions, and long-term or dangerous offender hearings https://aboriginal.legalaid.bc.ca/courts-criminal-cases/gladue-rights#:~:text=Gladue%20principles%20are%20a%20way,continue%20to%20affect%20you%20today…
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Although the US is the birthplace of Critical Race Theory, its more extreme manifestations in the criminal justice context are occurring in Canada. The US Supreme Court ruled against a claim that a statistical analysis finding the death penalty was more likely if the murder victim was white should be grounds for mitigating a death penalty sentence in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCleskey_v._Kemp
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Correction: differential treatment for the indigenous has been the laws since 1999. It was expanded to encompass black offenders in Nova Scotia in 2019 and Ontario in 2021. Ontario courts factor race into whether to allow telling a jury about the accused’s criminal record… https://t.co/z5jq5f8eIp
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2nd correction: this was not the sentencing judge. This is a member of the appeals court panel who actually dissented from the majority opinion but did not feel there was enough ground to overturn the sentence. RT’d what a reply person posted, apologies for not checking https://t.co/khBAO3jvHs
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Target donates $2.1 million a year to a leading trans activist NGO that lobbies for policies that allow changing the names and pronouns of schoolchildren without parental notice or consent. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128229/Target-pushing-school-policies-allowing-children-secretly-transition.html
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https://www.glsen.org/take-action/corporate-partners Some other partners: Hollister Disney Wells Fargo Petsmart Gucci YouTube Amazon Studios State Farm Hulu Warner Media Goldman Sachs Walmart
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Basically everybody is in on conspiring with schools to enact harmful and counterproductive policies that have no chance at succeeding according to the first transgender president of USPATH
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You can see in those screenshots why elite consensus matters so much more than democracy in our present system. 10 million kids live under a set of rules installed by school administrators enacting the preferences of corporate-funded NGO's with zero public deliberation or debate.
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Litigation threats from the ACLU, mandates from the Department of Education all conspire to produce these outcomes. Parents learn about these policies when they learn that their autistic daughter has been going by he/him pronouns and referred to by all school staff as "Chase" (after first identifying as genderqueer and nonbinary a year ago) for the last six months.