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@TaliaMagoon [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [05]: My ears are still ringing from #KatharineBirbalsingh's #racist dog whistles about #Woke & #CRT. By linking them also to kids who identify as animals brings to mind -*nudge/wink*- the "half devil, half child" in Kipling's "White Man's Burden".
Wake up @Ofstednews. No "If"s [URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#MetaphorDogWhistle
#NarrativeTruthFabricationIdentifyAsAnimal
#OrgUKGovOfstedOfficeForStandardsInEducation
#PhenomnPopularCultureFandomFurry
#TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT
#AdvocacyNLTheEdmundBurkeFoundationNCCNatCon
#EDUUKSchoolMichaelaCommunityKatharineBirbalsingh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MYOH2Gs5TQ&t=1104s
"...so why do I need to throw all of you into detention? Because you haven't been paying enough attention to the fact that our nation's culture is not only created in our schools but that it is our children who are leading the development of that culture in our schools adult authority is long gone. So here I am ringing the alarm. In 20 years many of us will be retired or sadly dead, and the children in our schools will be in important and influential positions in our institutions. As G.K Chesterton said the true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him. Well, I'm asking how much do you love your country, how much do you love the values that you claim to defend? Do you love them enough to tweet under your own name do you love them enough to change your child's school to one that's less woke and ignore the impact on your social status? Do you love them enough to do more than simply chat to your friends who already agree with you at dinner parties. For Heaven's sake man, stand up and be counted! As Russell Crowe says in the film Gladiator (a clip I regularly play for my staff): 'Hold the line! Stay with me!... what we do in life... echoes in eternity. Will your life echo hollow with cowardly hypocrisy or will it echo with courage, valiance and honour? The choice is yours strength and honour be with you all!' Now get yourselves to detention!"
#IRLHistoricalFigureGilbertKeithChesterton
#MetaphorWarfareBattleFight
#IRLActorRussellCrowe +
#2000_Gladiator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g1xoz6djsI&t=97s
Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorAngusColwell "The audience is quite reluctant to clap. But the people really go wild on one thing only: not Black Lives Matter, not woke history, but the madness of the trans stuff. It's something people can really feel angry about, but how widely is this sentiment shared? Last summer, an Opinium poll of Tory members found trans issues were 26th on their list of priorities. I've heard little so far on crime, nothing on the cost of living, nothing on health at NatCon. We're dealing in abstractions here." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-the-nat-cons-so-serious/ #IdentityLGBTQIATrans
Supplementary #MagazineUKTheSpectatorAngusColwell "The audience is quite reluctant to clap. But the people really go wild on one thing only: not Black Lives Matter, not woke history, but the madness of the trans stuff. It's something people can really feel angry about, but how widely is this sentiment shared? Last summer, an Opinium poll of Tory members found trans issues were 26th on their list of priorities. I've heard little so far on crime, nothing on the cost of living, nothing on health at NatCon. We're dealing in abstractions here." https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-the-nat-cons-so-serious/ #IdentityLGBTQIATrans
#MetaphorVersusCivilisedUncivilised
#MetaphorSpatialLinearContinuumScaleEvolutionary
Context "'The White Man's Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)', Judge, April 1, 1899, Artist: Victor Gillam, Source: CGACGA - The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. #1899_TheWhiteMansBurdenApologiesToRudyardKipling https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/gallery/pages/cb25-141_1899_judge__2d5989.htm The U.S. follows Britain's imperial lead carrying people from 'Barbarism' at the base of the hill to 'Civilization' at its summit. In this blatantly racist rendering, America's newly subjugated people appear far more primitive and barbaric than the older empire's load." https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/cb_essay02.html #PowerControlWhiteMansBurden #MagazineUSJudge [Wikipedia] #IRLAuthorRudyardKipling #CaricaturistVictorGillam
Supplementary #PoliticsNationalismJingoism #NarrativeFrontierManifestDestiny
#MagazineUSMITPressReader #EDUSEMalmoUniversitetMartinLund "The essentialism of racial thinking took long to develop. Ancient Greeks, Romans, and others displayed varieties of xenophobia, but almost always with an 'escape hatch' in conversion or assimilation. Slow movements toward essentialism in prejudices about European Jewry and Black Africans took place over centuries. While anti-Judaism had been part and parcel of Christianity almost from its inception, it wasn't until the 12th and 13th centuries that some began to speak about an insurmountable difference between Jews and Gentiles. And although the association of the color black with evil has long roots, it didn't translate everywhere into anti-Black sentiment. Spanish anti-Judaism started to include ideas about the purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) in the 14th and 15th centuries, framed in terms of whether someone was Christian or not, rather than in terms of white and nonwhite, but it stands as a historical 'segue between the religious intolerance of the Middle Ages and the naturalistic racism of the modern era,' writes historian and author George M. Fredrickson, in its incipient biologization of difference. Similarly, while it was never universally accepted, the so-called curse of Ham gradually connected Black Africans with Noah's son Ham, who was cursed by his father to be a servant. The curse was the basis for centuries of debate about the legitimacy of enslaving Black people; some used it to motivate enslavement, and others to oppose it." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory-of-scientific-racism/ #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyScalaNaturaeGreatChainOfBeing #OtheringHateXenophobia #PolicyCulturalAssimilation #BeliefReligiousConversion [Wikipedia] #MetaphorPeriodizationClassicalAntiquity [Wikipedia] #OtheringHateAntisemitism #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #ToponymAfrica_ #BeliefTheismChristianity #MetaphorPeriodization12thCentury #MetaphorPeriodization13thCentury #MetaphorPurityRace #MetaphorPeriodizationMiddleAges #IRLAuthorGeorgeFredrickson #PhenomnBiologization #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleOTBookOfGenesis [Wikipedia] #MetaphorNoahsArk #PowerControlChattelSlavery #BehaviourNormalisation
Context "'The White Man's Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)', Judge, April 1, 1899, Artist: Victor Gillam, Source: CGACGA - The Ohio State University, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. #1899_TheWhiteMansBurdenApologiesToRudyardKipling https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/gallery/pages/cb25-141_1899_judge__2d5989.htm The U.S. follows Britain's imperial lead carrying people from 'Barbarism' at the base of the hill to 'Civilization' at its summit. In this blatantly racist rendering, America's newly subjugated people appear far more primitive and barbaric than the older empire's load." https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/civilization_and_barbarism/cb_essay02.html #PowerControlWhiteMansBurden #MagazineUSJudge [Wikipedia] #IRLAuthorRudyardKipling #CaricaturistVictorGillam
Supplementary #PoliticsNationalismJingoism #NarrativeFrontierManifestDestiny
#MagazineUSMITPressReader #EDUSEMalmoUniversitetMartinLund "The essentialism of racial thinking took long to develop. Ancient Greeks, Romans, and others displayed varieties of xenophobia, but almost always with an 'escape hatch' in conversion or assimilation. Slow movements toward essentialism in prejudices about European Jewry and Black Africans took place over centuries. While anti-Judaism had been part and parcel of Christianity almost from its inception, it wasn't until the 12th and 13th centuries that some began to speak about an insurmountable difference between Jews and Gentiles. And although the association of the color black with evil has long roots, it didn't translate everywhere into anti-Black sentiment. Spanish anti-Judaism started to include ideas about the purity of blood (limpieza de sangre) in the 14th and 15th centuries, framed in terms of whether someone was Christian or not, rather than in terms of white and nonwhite, but it stands as a historical 'segue between the religious intolerance of the Middle Ages and the naturalistic racism of the modern era,' writes historian and author George M. Fredrickson, in its incipient biologization of difference. Similarly, while it was never universally accepted, the so-called curse of Ham gradually connected Black Africans with Noah's son Ham, who was cursed by his father to be a servant. The curse was the basis for centuries of debate about the legitimacy of enslaving Black people; some used it to motivate enslavement, and others to oppose it." https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-prehistory-of-scientific-racism/ #MetaphorSpatialHierarchyScalaNaturaeGreatChainOfBeing #OtheringHateXenophobia #PolicyCulturalAssimilation #BeliefReligiousConversion [Wikipedia] #MetaphorPeriodizationClassicalAntiquity [Wikipedia] #OtheringHateAntisemitism #OtheringDiscriminationRacism #ToponymAfrica_ #BeliefTheismChristianity #MetaphorPeriodization12thCentury #MetaphorPeriodization13thCentury #MetaphorPurityRace #MetaphorPeriodizationMiddleAges #IRLAuthorGeorgeFredrickson #PhenomnBiologization #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleOTBookOfGenesis [Wikipedia] #MetaphorNoahsArk #PowerControlChattelSlavery #BehaviourNormalisation
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@MaeveChidsey [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : I thought they were anti-furries. Wonder if she brought her own litter box? 🤔
#SOTU23 #MTG #Furries #Woke [URL redacted]
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@JoeyFeltmeyer [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [08]: @antarcfionnaidh @nallivdam @BaytAlFann Ofc you are #woke and calling us #bigots 👆- you are a furry/#furries lover & use pronouns as proven 👇- no wonder you are defending #Trans #Gender #Pronouns #TransRights that lets you access kids.
#RedFlags =You🌈👹.
#Parents #Police @metpoliceuk @DurhamPolice @CrimestoppersUK [URL redacted]
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@CorinneSprissler [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [18]: It's Okay To Be Woke: No, kids are not using the litter box to go to the bathroom in school. Quit lying! #video #staywoke #wokeness #woke #liberallogic #liberal #politics Watch #Instavideo:[URL redacted] [URL redacted]
#NarrativeTruthFabricationIdentifyAsCat
#NarrativeTruthFabricationLitterBoxesInSchools
Context https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439 #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMichigan #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyTulsiGabbard #PhenomnPopularCultureFandomFurry #PhenomnGenderIdentity
Context https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439 #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMichigan #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence #VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyTulsiGabbard #PhenomnPopularCultureFandomFurry #PhenomnGenderIdentity
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@CorinneSprissler [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [18]: It's Okay To Be Woke: No, kids are not using the litter box to go to the bathroom in school. Quit lying! #video #staywoke #wokeness #woke #liberallogic #liberal #politics [URL redacted]
#NarrativeTruthFabricationIdentifyAsCat
#NarrativeTruthFabricationLitterBoxesInSchools
#MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation
Context https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesIsabellaGrullonPaz "It started with a comment at a school board meeting, which was later amplified by a Michigan state Republican leader, and culminated with a school superintendent explaining that, no, there were no litter boxes on school grounds for students to use if they identified as furries. 'It is unconscionable that this afternoon I am sending this communication,' the superintendent of Midland Public Schools, Michael Sharrow, wrote on Thursday in an email to parents that was also shared on Facebook. 'However, our Midland PS stakeholders may be confused about a false message/accusation that has resurfaced this week and is gaining traction in the social media realm.' The rumor that furries -- people who have an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters and sometimes dress up as them -- used litter boxes in the school district, which is about two hours northwest of Detroit, appears to have started at a school board session last month, based on a video of the meeting. A member of the public who spoke at the meeting, Lisa Hansen, says in the video that she was informed by someone the day before the meeting that litter boxes had been added to the 'unisex bathrooms' for students who 'identify as cats.' 'I was stunned,' Ms. Hansen says in the video. 'And today I am equally stunned and a little bit upset -- well, not a little bit, a lot of bit upset. Furious -- I would even use that word.' ... In his statement, Mr. Sharrow debunked the rumor as categorically false. 'Let me be clear in this communication,' he wrote. 'There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools.'" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/politics/michigan-litter-box-school.html #EDUUSMidlandPublicSchools #IRLParentLisaHansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDrxwMA36qw&t=2044s Midland Public Schools Board of Education meeting on December 20, 2021. This meeting will be held at 7:00 pm at the Midland Public Schools Administration Center 600 E. Carpenter Street Midland, MI 48640. #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMichigan #ConditionVirusCOVID19 #LiteralVaccineMandateTestToStay #PhenomnPopularCultureFandomFurry 'Things Fell Apart', 21:30 06/02/2024, BBC Radio 4, 30 mins. [media archives] (Accessed 23 Feb 2024) [22:52]
Context https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesIsabellaGrullonPaz "It started with a comment at a school board meeting, which was later amplified by a Michigan state Republican leader, and culminated with a school superintendent explaining that, no, there were no litter boxes on school grounds for students to use if they identified as furries. 'It is unconscionable that this afternoon I am sending this communication,' the superintendent of Midland Public Schools, Michael Sharrow, wrote on Thursday in an email to parents that was also shared on Facebook. 'However, our Midland PS stakeholders may be confused about a false message/accusation that has resurfaced this week and is gaining traction in the social media realm.' The rumor that furries -- people who have an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters and sometimes dress up as them -- used litter boxes in the school district, which is about two hours northwest of Detroit, appears to have started at a school board session last month, based on a video of the meeting. A member of the public who spoke at the meeting, Lisa Hansen, says in the video that she was informed by someone the day before the meeting that litter boxes had been added to the 'unisex bathrooms' for students who 'identify as cats.' 'I was stunned,' Ms. Hansen says in the video. 'And today I am equally stunned and a little bit upset -- well, not a little bit, a lot of bit upset. Furious -- I would even use that word.' ... In his statement, Mr. Sharrow debunked the rumor as categorically false. 'Let me be clear in this communication,' he wrote. 'There is no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation! There have never been litter boxes within MPS schools.'" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/us/politics/michigan-litter-box-school.html #EDUUSMidlandPublicSchools #IRLParentLisaHansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDrxwMA36qw&t=2044s Midland Public Schools Board of Education meeting on December 20, 2021. This meeting will be held at 7:00 pm at the Midland Public Schools Administration Center 600 E. Carpenter Street Midland, MI 48640. #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMichigan #ConditionVirusCOVID19 #LiteralVaccineMandateTestToStay #PhenomnPopularCultureFandomFurry 'Things Fell Apart', 21:30 06/02/2024, BBC Radio 4, 30 mins. [media archives] (Accessed 23 Feb 2024) [22:52]
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@JaelynSawrey [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Heard people are now identifying as cats, apparently they are called “furrys” and schools are considering litter boxes? #thisisamerica #Usa #toowoke #Woke [URL redacted]
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@IvanPons [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Some don't realize that when you become a furry artist on twitter, you give up your artistic freedom to an authoritarian collective.
#Furry #Furryart #Woke [URL redacted]
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