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In case you were wondering just how racist we are...

The Knox County School District announced last week that it has banned the book 'Roots: The Saga of an American Family.'

When I was a teenager, my dad borrowed the full set of VHS tapes from my uncle and we spent several cold Canadian nights watching them. It was my first real exposure to the brutal realities of the Middle Passage and of slavery.

What's more? It was voted an official Tennessee state book in 2024.

The district cited a passage from the book that it said violates state law.

Evidently, the book offending passage contained "sadomasochistic abuse" (aka rape).

Omitting the brutality cheapens the reality.

Shame on you, Tennessee.

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The 100-year-old widow of a WWII veteran compared her Florida county’s efforts to ban certain books to Nazi Germany

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Have to post this every once in a while .....


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The original author of this lives in a country with good sexual education that covers homosexuality, transsexuality, sexual abuse, STDs and pregnancy. They still have problems but they have very, very few teen pregnancies and much less sexual abuse and pedophilia.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Have to post this every once in a while ....." S2 #207
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Question:
A responsible adult offers a young vulnerable child the "good touch / bad touch" insight.
Then what?
There may be some marginal benefit to validating an abuse victim's dislike of an encounter.

But as the abuser is sometimes an adult in a position of trust, whether a parent, a teacher, or clergy,
what further guidance can we offer children, after the "good touch / bad touch" basics? Call the police?
 
Shiftless2 said:
"What guidance? In this case it was tell someone - the point of that chapter in the book." S2 #209
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I didn't read the book. I skimmed the cartoon.

I was born in '54, probably reached adulthood before the "good touch / bad touch" lesson was taught.
So beyond the title I don't know how practical the lesson is.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Thanks, Moms for Liberty!" #211
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TMfL !

Webster01.JPG hoist by one's own petard
meaning: victimized by one's own scheme

Where does the phrase hoist with one's own petard come from?

Aside from historical references to siege warfare, and occasional contemporary references to fireworks, petard is almost always encountered in variations of the phrase "hoist with one's own petard," meaning "victimized or hurt by one's own scheme."
The phrase comes from William Shakespeare's Hamlet: "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer / Hoist with his own petar." Hoist in this case is the past participle of the verb hoise, meaning "to lift or raise," and petar(d) refers to an explosive device used in siege warfare.
Hamlet uses the example of the engineer (the person who sets the explosive device) being blown into the air by his own device as a metaphor for those who schemed against him being undone by their own schemes.
 
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