Very Jesusy.
Once upon a time, Stephen Colbert ('s character) uttering “It’s a well known fact that reality has a liberal bias” was regarded as satire. Now, I wouldn’t be so sure.
*except nazis.
Needed edits anyway.
This is obviously to deal with excessive vampire problem schools are facing
Ideas in school are bad mmkay
Conservatives hate anything that reminds them to be better humans, because they aren’t.
I hate the whole conservative Christian doctrine. Saying you NEED religion or else you’ll be a terrible person and do terrible things. It’s like, goddamn I dont need religion to have morality and know what’s right and wrong. And then these fuckers have the gall to say godless heathens are the evil ones while doing the exact things Jesus told them NOT to do!
You’re looking at it completely wrong.
Fundamentally it doesn’t matter if you are a good person. Even the nicest most moral of us are sinners in the eyes of Christians.
What matters is that you are forgiven by god for your sins. Even if you lie, cheat, steal, murder, commit adultery etc. Going to church and being absolved of your sins makes you a good person and welcome by god.
The worst people I have met are Christians for this very reason. They believe they have been absolved of their wrongs in the eyes of god and you have not.
Yeah… that’s even more fucked.
Lutheran private school: You will always be absolved of your sins when you ask forgiveness!
3rd grade me: What if I wait until I’m on my deathbed?
Lutheran private school: even then.
3rd grade me: What if I do horrible things my whole life and just repent at the end?
Lutheran private school: teacher shifts uncomfortably you’d really have to mean it and then what happens if you’re in an accident and don’t have time?
3rd grade me: quick math meme running through my head
Idaho is a fucking backwards social dump. The poor think they are rich because the land is a beautiful place and you get a lot of state and federal land that’s available to anyone who wants to use it
but living 20 miles from the boarder most of my life had shown me how much of a social shit hole it is
Like driving there with Washington plates will single you out. Like parking and people in the parking lots will be rude to you for the audacity for wanting to visit their spaces and yet a huge population of theirs works in Washington State. So at rush hour, in the morning you see lots of Idaho plates going west and then in the evening they go east.
its not like we havn’t know for ages that its a backwards place, but its nice to see the rest of the world coming to understand it
When are we giving France their statue back?
seems overdue at this point, especially with the extremely hateful poem on it /s
I think it’s really weird that inclusion is political.
The part most of these stories leave out is that the signs are sold by the local democratic party. It would be interesting to see the outcome for a sign with the same message but without that baggage.
It isn’t. Fascists claim that it is so they can suppress it. It’s as simple as that.
Well, duh. By saying “All are Welcome Here”, we are excluding people who want to exclude people. And they are the ones in charge right now. So simply saying “everyone is welcome” is now subversive, against Presidential policy, and anti-American.
Your citizenship is hereby revoked, ICE will be here soon to ship you to
GitmoCECOTSouth SudanAlligator AuschwitzThat actually isn’t weird at all. People treat “politics” as an epithet for “controversial politics”, but in reality, almost everything in society is political – relating to power structures, the distribution of status and resources, and how those factors are determined. What you’re getting at, of course, is that Republicans have shifted the Overton window so disgustingly far to the right that “everyone is welcome” in a classroom is treated as a controversial ideology.
We’re constantly conditioned not to think of the status quo as political in nature (it’s just “normal” and the people who want to change it for better or worse are “the politicals”), but it is and always has been, and it’s why we’ve needed so desperately these past several decades to remain politically engaged to protect what we want and to change what we don’t. Now? Who knows, but we still need to try.
Great comment. Taking it further, making “politics” inherently negative has a lot of propaganda value to power. The people in charge generally want to defend the status quo, so they’d rather depoliticize the populace. This is why you get such strange contradictions as the people in charge constantly attacking “political elites” or “the swamp” or whatever. They’re trying to discredit politics itself to consolidate their power. Similarly, when they do want to change something, they say “it’s not politics; it’s common sense.” They want a population that feels like politics is something inherently dubious, or at least just not worth their time and effort.
Inclusion has always been and will always be a political project, because there are people who want power and who will use it to exclude people for whatever reason.
I think you mean that it is weird that inclusion is controversial.
To me, inclusion is the foundation of politics. It is the uniting idea that people with no blood relation - strangers - can come together to build something that benefits all.
Trump and his gang want to move on from politics. They despise democracy and disdain a system that benefits anyone who isn’t part of their exclusive circle. And for the record, their circle does not include Trump supporters - the maga-hat wearing rubes are just the tools that Trump is using to monopolize wealth and power for his immediate friends and family.
When Trump has achieved what he wants, there will be no more politics in the USA. There will only be the Great Leader and those who exist to serve him.
It always seems odd to me that “politics” is often conflated with “nationalism” or just plain government. That’s not really what politics is, politics is power plays and public relations. It’s more marketing than it is governance.
Inclusion can be a part of politics, in the same way it’s part of companies advertising during pride month… but it’s not the foundation of it.
I am sorry, but you are incorrect. The word politics comes from polity, meaning a group of people who share an identity. When you say that politics is “power plays and public relations,” you are repeating propaganda that was designed to disenfranchise people. Politics is about working on a shared project: building a good society. Bad actors have infiltrated politics, but they don’t get to replace the basic meaning of the word.
Ban rightwingers from living & breathing. Only way to get a better world for people with compassion
How does the “all lives matter” crowd feel about this?
Kind of telling on themselves here, right? If “everyone is welcome” is an “ideology”, kinda indicates the person labeling as such is against it. I say this because the societal norms on paper for every major philosophy or ideology would be in favor of that idea, and if it strikes you as staking a claim to something new, it probably took some mental effort to get to that conclusion. Would “be kind” be ideology? Technically yes I guess it is, but I doubt these people would be pissed about it and call it out like this. Are they asking for those cat posters saying “hang in there” to be taken down? That’s preaching the “ideology” of persistence.
They just called out “everyone is welcome here” and you think they WOULDN’T take issue with “be kind”?
I think that one they wouldn’t admit to because it pre-dates the reading of anything about equality as referring to their out-groups.
They don’t want ‘everyone’ … they just want ‘white christian people of european descent’
When you are a brown person, the messaging from these asshats is always the same racist bullshit we’ve heard for hundreds of years
no italians either. or fat chicks.
The Italians, and to a lesser extent the Irish, are mostly Catholic, which doesn’t really count a Christian, and therefore they don’t actually count as white.
I’m talking about what they preach, not what they practice.
Fine. “Everyone except Evangelical Christians are welcome here.”
I’d phrase it differently. “Bigots not welcome, Everyone else has a home here.”
My list of reasons to never visit Idaho just keeps getting longer and longer.
no need to go, unless you’re a potato truck driver
Even then, you’ve got options.
It’s a shame because it’s such a beautiful place but it’s been full of Neo Nazis for decades.
I’ve visited there exactly once, and you’re right - it was crazy. I never went back and never plan to go back unless this backward state comes to it’s senses.
Okay hear me out, the small college town of Moscow is actually a decent place (for at least a bit longer). Yeah I know "but what about the quadruple homicide"you ask but ignore that it was an outlier… It’s really a small very quiet town with lots of good people, hippies, socialists, the lesbian owned comic/game/costume/sex shop, hills that make it look like Hobbiton, and sunsets so beautiful that the one time I was in Hawaii and people were floored by the sunsets I was like “meh, I’ve got better at home”. It wants so badly to be part of Washington but suffers from being in Idaho. Everywhere else in Idaho is varying degrees of batshit lunacy
The world needs more comic/game/costume/sex shops…
So it’s the next sign to hang up going to read "not everyone is welcome here? ".
Sorta reminds me of the “No Lives Matter” posters featuring Cthullu. What used to seem comically bad and absurd is now being passed into law.
