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I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me. (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is a good reminder that the freedom of expression has morphed into freedom of stupidity.

These awful people actually expect to be taken seriously for their moronic bullshit world views.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

One of my takeaways is that some of the people aren’t intrinsically awful, they are just un-aware or un-knowing. That some think feminism means female supremacy, or that woke is some undefinable thing they don’t like. And that with some stomach churning effort some people can be reached. I applaud those willing to try and reach them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I applaud those willing to try and reach them.

That's a fair point.

I wish COVID had gotten them all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

That some think feminism means female supremacy

Doesn’t help when some feminists think that as well. We have a famous and influential feminist here in Germany (Alice Schwarzer), who did a lot for feminism in 70s and 80s, but now is a reactionary who stands for TERF, censorship, mass surveillance, female supremacy, and "anyone who doesn’t like me is anti-feminist".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

–Isaac Asimov, 1980

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah because stupid is loud.