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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Black Supremacists and White Supremacists aren't a horseshoe. They're fundamentally the same cause; they just disagree on which race is the Master Race.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Chomsky's work with linguistics defined the modern views of how languages work, from written and spoken languages to formal automata and computational languages.
His political views however...are mired in bullshit over the great socialist/communist pipe dream where the far left and the left never did anything wrong.
Inter arma enim silent legesI'd argue the Horseshoe Effect vaguely exists for a few reasons. The big one's tautology: There are certain traits which make an ideology considered "extremist". For example, extremist ideologies typically silence dissenters. If they didn't, they're usually not considered extremists.
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No, what I mean is, similarities in black supremacists vs. white supremacists does not demonstrate that both sides of the spectrum are fundamentally identical. Both black supremacists and white supremacists are on the same side of the spectrum.
edited 23rd Apr '18 10:02:40 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Trump Administration Pushes Abstinence in Teen Pregnancy Programs
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While the funding announcement, issued Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services, does not exclude programs that provide information about contraception and protected sex, it explicitly encouraged programs that emphasize abstinence or “sexual risk avoidance.”
Other programs that promote “sexual risk reduction” will be considered, the announcement said, though for those, too, it mentioned an “emphasis on cessation support,” a phrase many involved in teen pregnancy programs interpreted as urging sexually active teenagers to stop having sex.
“What’s noticeably absent in those things you must talk about is that if the young person continues having sex, here is the information you must have about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases,” said Andrea Kane, vice president of policy and strategic partnerships for Power to Decide, a national group working to prevent unplanned pregnancies. “They talk about skills to avoid sex and return to not having sex. It doesn’t really leave any opening for those young people who continue having sex and how we help them prepare for their futures.”
The Health and Human Services Department declined an interview request to discuss the announcement.
Groups that have been receiving federal money had been bracing for a change in the rules since last year, when Valerie Huber, a leader of an abstinence education advocacy organization, was named chief of staff to the Department of Health and Human Services official who oversees adolescent health. Shortly before she was appointed, Ms. Huber wrote in an opinion piece that the best message for young people was “to avoid the risks of teen sex, not merely reduce them.” She described the Obama administration’s approach as one that “normalizes teen sex.”
The new rules also move away from a requirement that most organizations receiving federal money choose from a list of approaches that have been shown in at least one rigorous evaluation to be effective at changing some sexual behavior, such as reducing pregnancy rates or rates of sexual activity.
Under Obama administration guidelines, organizations awarded most of the grants had to use curriculums that were on an evidence-supported list. Under the new guidelines, they simply have to comply with more general requirements like “support personal attitudes and beliefs that value sexual risk avoidance.”
Absence Based models are stupid and have been discredited years ago.
If you want to discourage Abortions, shouldn't birth control be the best thing ever?
Birth Control significantly reduces the Risk of accidental and unexpected pregnancies, so less people need to get abortions. It's simple logic.
edited 23rd Apr '18 10:53:47 PM by megaeliz
Because Trump is obviously one to advocate for abstinence. Man's such a shining example of self-control and marital fidelity.
Also haven't there been studies showing that states that teach abstinence have higher teen pregnancies than states that teach birth control?
edited 23rd Apr '18 10:50:46 PM by ITNW1989
Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.
The 1950s
The "Rules" of the 50s
- Obey Authority
- Fit in with the group
- Control your emotions
- Don't even think about sex
or this
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- Boy's hair touching the ears wasn't allowed, punishable by expulsion from school.
- Most girls weren't allowed to wear pants, and boys weren't allowed to wear blue jeans. Even Stanford University prohibited the wearing of jeans in public during the 1950s.
- The new slang - hipster talk - bothered most adults. It was part African American, part beatnik and part street gang... an offensive combination in the eyes of the status quo.
- There was alarm about teens dating and "heavy petting." Any talk about sex was taboo and could be punishable.
- Many parents were worried about their daughters adoring black rock musicians, fearing the possibility of racial commingling.
- Hot rods were considered dangerous. All it took was a few fatal accidents and the other 99% of the custom cars and hot rods were considered a menace to public safety.
- Dancing to rock'n'roll music was often banned, with school and teen dances shut down.
edited 23rd Apr '18 11:01:40 PM by megaeliz
Well, duh. Telling hormone-addled teenagers that they simply shouldn't have sex is pretty unrealistic. It's way easier - and smarter - to teach them how to at least be responsible while having sex.
edited 23rd Apr '18 10:58:30 PM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from history@meagaeliz: Since half of the US is against abortion, but overwhelmingly pro-birth control, I'd say there's a sizeable amount of people with that opinion, me included. Abstinence education is like a mother saying "Don't eat those yummy cookies I just made while I'm gone'.
Life is unfair...Another appropriate analogy is a deity saying "Don't eat the fruit from that tree over there."
edited 23rd Apr '18 11:49:14 PM by MorningStar1337
While Footloose isn't based on any specific event; is actually based on those sorts of bans IIRC.
The NY Times had an article about the GOP's state-level War on Education, which we've discussed a bit here. Full article text
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - SilaswI think it's worse than that- Trump conforms to the Republican party. I don't believe Trump was ever serious about any of the "populist" things he said on the campaign trail. But he is lazy and incurious, and his default is "whatever the Republicans want." The Republican party wants to fuck up healthcare, fuck over brown people and women, and cut taxes for the wealthiest to nothing. They want to destroy the EPA, the Department of Education, Net Neutrality, and anything that costs money and makes this country bearable to live in. That's why there's so little pushback, no matter how stupid or pointlessly evil his policies are, and why "Never Trumpers" are a bad joke. They hate his personality, not his politics.

Fourthed. It's extremely disrespectful and isn't really on topic anyway.
edited 23rd Apr '18 9:08:25 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised