1. A new study discovers what Paul Campos already said–people eat more diet food.
2. Shorter Kay Brooks–”If you’re not going to make laws we like, unfortunately, and I’m totally not endorsing this, but we may have to murder some people.” God, someone tell me why I’m still reading someone who can spout this kind of evil shit without it even troubling her conscience?
3. I have to get in the shower, but the second Mike Turner’s portion of Liberadio goes up on-line, someone needs to tell me so that I can hear it. I am also going to need fair warning if it will cause me to choke on any portion of my own tongue.
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Reading Kay Brooks will rot your mind as much as sugar will rot your teeth. Better not to do it.
Eeeep! the last line of Brook’s post is incredibly chilling.
Kay closes her post on Tiller with this: “… the pro-life movement has been exceptionally patient and civil.”
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This is what happens when ideology becomes completely disconnected from humanity. When you can envelop yourself in your own worldview without ever attempting to weave empathy for others’ sentience into your synaptic pathways and whatnot, it’s easy to digress into such eliminationist thinking.
This is something that is central to today’s mainstream right-wing though, I think, which is why it is so prevalent in our public discourse. It’s the main difference between left-wingers and right-wingers at this point in time, and I think it is an important problem that we need to address. The notion that you can be disgusted or even fundamentally offended by another person’s ideas without wanting to kill them is vital to democracy. Especially since the height of the Civil Rights Era*, the right wing in this country has been actively undermining that key democratic concept.
*One could argue that such eliminationist ethics are directly descended from the same impulses and moral rationalizations that fueled the enslavement of Africans and the extermination of indigenous Americans, and I might agree with that.
I propose that you not bend the requisite electrons to provide that waste of space any bigger megaphone. She thrives when people link her.
This is what happens when ideology becomes completely disconnected from humanity.
Aaaaaaaaaand she’s one of the biggest local advocates for homeschooling! Do the math here.
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well, if you happen to swallow your tongue, I’ll feel immensely bad about myself. I did call in and mention it on air as well :/
If y’all want to drop by, we can ask Kay Brooks in person what she thinks.
Man, I couldn’t help it.. I had to reply to Brooks’s Tiller post… I just.. couldn’t not do it!
>Aaaaaaaaaand she’s one of the biggest local advocates for homeschooling
Heh. The civil libertarian in me used to be relatively sympathetic to homeschoolers, until I first encountered her. It quickly became apparent that giving such people a near monopoly of influence over a child’s development was tantamount to child abuse.
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Hm. Sounds to me like she is in fact “advocating” murder. Anyone run this past law enforcement?