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4 hours ago, Wabash82 said:

Not sure I understand your comment -- science generally involves consensus, as that's the line that's used to separate "theories" (e.g., General Relativity in physics) or principles or "laws" (e.g.the Laws of Thermodynamics) from mere hypotheses (e.g., "I bet dogs understands English....").

But in any event, the article says that they haven't decided on new guidelines yet in part because the science is not settled: a new study apparently indicated that the testosterone level they were contemplating using as the standard for who may compete as a "woman" may not be low enough to mitigate the biological advantages. That sounds like they are handling this advisory role like you would want scientists to hande it. 

The science is not settled?  ........perhaps in the gender "identity" category......

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34 minutes ago, TrojanDad said:

Wouldn't you agree there is consensus on reproduction?  

If you concur there is, and we know that involves male and female reproductive organs, why are we making sports such a difficult issue?

So it was okay for those those Eastern bloc testosterone and other steroids laden humans who competed in the Olympics back in the '70s and '80s to compete as women because they had mommy parts? 

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2 hours ago, swordfish said:

The science is not settled?  ........perhaps in the gender "identity" category......

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Yes, the article (which you cited, by the way) indicates that the science is not settled on how low of a testosterone level would be needed to mitigate biological advantages the former males gained while they were male. That what these scientist are being asked to determine. Not whether gender classifications for the Olympics will be based on chromosomes -- they decided a long time ago the answer to that is "no."

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5 hours ago, Wabash82 said:

So it was okay for those those Eastern bloc testosterone and other steroids laden humans who competed in the Olympics back in the '70s and '80s to compete as women because they had mommy parts? 

You might look into WADA’s history of corruption and Russian collusion. And as Lance Armstrong can attest, testing technology  has caught up with masking technology.

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Ellen DeGeneres Defends Her Friendship with George W. Bush: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ellen-degeneres-defends-her-friendship-with-george-w-bush/

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On Sunday, a picture circulated of liberal comedian and television host Ellen DeGeneres sitting next to President George W. Bush at the Dallas Cowboys–Green Bay Packers game. The backlash was swift, as progressives took to Twitter to voice their displeasure at the fact that she was smiling and laughing with Bush during the game, despite his role in the Iraq War, among other political disagreements.

 

DeGeneres addressed the criticism during her show on Monday. “During the game, they showed a shot of George and me laughing together, so people were upset,” she said. “They thought, ‘Why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican president?’ Didn’t even notice I’m holding the brand new iPhone 11.” She continued:

Here’s the thing: I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different and I think that we’ve forgotten that we’re all different. For instance, I wish people wouldn’t wear fur. I don’t like it, but I’m friends with people who wear fur, and I’m friends with people who are furry, as a matter of fact. But just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean I’m not gonna be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way you do. I mean be kind to everyone. It doesn’t matter.

Predictably, her response did little to curb the harsh criticism lobbed at her from the left, but her comments were nonetheless encouraging. It’s interesting that Bush received no censure from conservatives angry that he had been spotted sitting next to a progressive, lesbian celebrity at a football game, but DeGeneres continues to endure backlash for defending her friendship with someone across the political aisle.

Though there is no shortage of vitriolic commentary across the political spectrum, it is increasingly partisans of the Left who demand ideological conformity, and total condemnation and rejection of those who fail to champion the progressive agenda.

 

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It’s interesting that Bush received no censure from conservatives angry that he had been spotted sitting next to a progressive, lesbian celebrity at a football game, but DeGeneres continues to endure backlash for defending her friendship with someone across the political aisle.

Because:  Snowflakes.......

 

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1 hour ago, swordfish said:

It’s interesting that Bush received no censure from conservatives angry that he had been spotted sitting next to a progressive, lesbian celebrity at a football game, but DeGeneres continues to endure backlash for defending her friendship with someone across the political aisle.

Because:  Snowflakes.......

 

Could it be that he does not have a social media presence...at least to the extent that Ellen does? He definitely is not on twitter, the most vitriolic of all social media, in my opinion....just sayin.....I think it’s a stretch to even think that no one was critical of him at all for sitting next to her. Just because it wasn’t on social media does not mean it didn’t happen. 
I applaud Ellen for saying something that needed to be said. It goes to the hear of why I am such a big fan of hers. She uses her platform to be a positive force in our world; working to make a difference in people’s lives. So many people could learn some things from her. 

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1 minute ago, Muda69 said:

Why don’t we condemn Mr. Bush and Ellen for a reason that really matters. Being Cowboys fans, ugh.

 

But Ellen admitted she was a Packers fan, and had to quietly root for them that day. 😁 Just one more reason to like her. 🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

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2 hours ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I have vehemently disagreed with Jason Whitlock more times than not over the years, but the dude is spot on here:

 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/08/jason_whitlock_us_the_bad_guys_in_the_minds_of_woke_nba_players__coaches_they_are_promoting_a_marxist_agenda.html

Whitlock brings up an interesting point, the woke AF crowd of the NBA is really quick to criticize the US government for their injustices, but is seemingly quiet with regards to the Chinese government. Particularly when DJ Zed was just banned from China for life for liking a South Park tweet. Things that make you go hmmmm. I'll be honest, if you don't like South Park, we just can't be friends. 

 

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A 12-Year-Old Girl Pointed Finger Guns at Other Kids. Cops Handcuffed and Arrested Her.: https://reason.com/2019/10/14/finger-guns-school-felony-arrest-handcuffs-westridge-middle/

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A 12-year-old girl who attends a middle school in Kansas City made her fingers into the shape of a gun and pointed at several of her classmates. These kids had bullied her relentlessly, her mother told The Kansas City Star.

Here's how the authorities at Westridge Middle School handled the incident: School Resource Officer Dana Harrison, the school's police officer, arrested the girl and escorted her off the premises in handcuffs. She was taken to a juvenile detention facility, and will face a felony charge of threatening to commit violence.

"I'm really worried about my granddaughter's future," the girl's grandfather told reporters. He'd been informed, he added, that she could be sentenced to a year in juvenile detention.

According to the police, the girl was asked by another classmate which five people she would like to kill. She then pointed finger guns at several other students—several of whom had picked on her relentlessly, her family claims—and finally on herself.

Neither the school's principal nor the resource officer immediately responded to a request for comment. But other authorities defended their decision to the Kansas City Star.

"The safety of our children in school is paramount, today more than ever," said Overland Park Police Chief Frank Donchez. "We have all seen cases where tragic incidents have occurred, and the first thing people say is, there were signs, why didn't they see the signs?"

A little girl lashing out at kids who were tormenting her is not a "sign" that the school's safety is gravely threatened. If even a small percentage of bullied kids turned into mass shooters, violence in schools would be an epidemic. In reality, it's not: Serious violence in schools remains rare.

These school authority figures—and others in countless districts across the country—clearly have the Parkland shootings in their minds as they overreact to mundane disciplinary issues involving students. The "sign" that something terrible was about to happen in the case of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz was not that he pointed finger guns at people; it was that he possessed a real gun and had threatened to use it to kill people. And this early indication of his possibly murderous intend did not go unnoticed: Cruz's acquaintances reported him to virtually every agency with authority to act, from the sheriff's office all the way up to the FBI. Parkland is a story, not of common people blindly ignoring some obvious danger, but of stunning incompetence.

What has happened to this Kansas City girl is also a story of government incompetence, albeit of a different sort. As The Kansas City Star reported, the girl is facing a felony charged for making threats. Actually bringing a gun to school would just be a misdemeanor.

When kids fight or threaten each other, the school's job is to teach them better behavior and hand out a punishment that is proportional to the wrongdoing. A 12-year-old girl is a child, still growing and developing. At most she should be clapping erasers or writing an apology essay, not sitting in jail. But the unfortunate truth is that the presence of cops in schools makes it vastly more likely than minor disciplinary matters will be handled by the police—especially during this current, seemingly never-ending moment of hysteria about school violence.

Police shouldn't be handling a matter like this.  At all.

 

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On 10/11/2019 at 2:07 PM, swordfish said:

I think Lebron has just demonstrated "Shut up and dribble" in China.......He's wisely gonna wait until he's back in he US before he starts mouthing off......

Aaaaannnndddd HE's Back!!  Likes his money!!

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/lebron-under-fire-blaming-china-row-misinformed-rockets-083902730--nba.html

Los Angeles (AFP) - Basketball superstar LeBron James was accused of turning a blind eye to Chinese repression on Tuesday after he criticized a Houston Rockets executive for angering China with a "misinformed" tweet supporting protesters in Hong Kong.

James told reporters that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey "wasn't educated" on Hong Kong and should have kept his mouth shut, as the outspoken Lakers forward waded into a charged debate that other high-profile NBA figures have shied away from.

"So many people could have been harmed not only financially but physically, emotionally and spiritually. So just be careful with what we tweet, and we say, and we do," James told reporters when asked for comment in Los Angeles after returning from the NBA's annual China tour.

His remarks drew praise from Chinese social media users, who have savaged Morey for butting into the country's affairs, but the US reaction on Twitter was swift and harsh.

"@KingJames — you're parroting communist propaganda. China is running torture camps and you know it," said Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, referring to China's reported incarceration of up to one million Muslim Uighurs in prison-like camps.

The backlash in China against Morey's comments has cast a cloud over the NBA's lucrative broadcasting, merchandising and sponsorship interests in the country, where it has legions of fans.

But the NBA also is under pressure from US politicians and media outlets who have urged the league not to buckle under the Chinese criticism.

Following his initial comments to reporters, James -- who has a lucrative lifetime endorsement deal with Nike, which does big business in China -- attempted to clarify his stance with a pair of subsequent tweets.

"Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of (Morey's) tweet. I'm not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that," he wrote.

James's Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets were thrust into the whirlwind when they arrived in China last week for a pair of pre-season exhibition games after Morey had tweeted: "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong."

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22 minutes ago, swordfish said:

Aaaaannnndddd HE's Back!!  Likes his money!!

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/lebron-under-fire-blaming-china-row-misinformed-rockets-083902730--nba.html

Los Angeles (AFP) - Basketball superstar LeBron James was accused of turning a blind eye to Chinese repression on Tuesday after he criticized a Houston Rockets executive for angering China with a "misinformed" tweet supporting protesters in Hong Kong.

James told reporters that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey "wasn't educated" on Hong Kong and should have kept his mouth shut, as the outspoken Lakers forward waded into a charged debate that other high-profile NBA figures have shied away from.

"So many people could have been harmed not only financially but physically, emotionally and spiritually. So just be careful with what we tweet, and we say, and we do," James told reporters when asked for comment in Los Angeles after returning from the NBA's annual China tour.

His remarks drew praise from Chinese social media users, who have savaged Morey for butting into the country's affairs, but the US reaction on Twitter was swift and harsh.

"@KingJames — you're parroting communist propaganda. China is running torture camps and you know it," said Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, referring to China's reported incarceration of up to one million Muslim Uighurs in prison-like camps.

The backlash in China against Morey's comments has cast a cloud over the NBA's lucrative broadcasting, merchandising and sponsorship interests in the country, where it has legions of fans.

But the NBA also is under pressure from US politicians and media outlets who have urged the league not to buckle under the Chinese criticism.

Following his initial comments to reporters, James -- who has a lucrative lifetime endorsement deal with Nike, which does big business in China -- attempted to clarify his stance with a pair of subsequent tweets.

"Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of (Morey's) tweet. I'm not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that," he wrote.

James's Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets were thrust into the whirlwind when they arrived in China last week for a pair of pre-season exhibition games after Morey had tweeted: "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong."

How long before some of these NBA players are tapped for positions in the State Department?

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https://www.theblaze.com/news/transgender-model-outraged-after-porn-offer-retracted-due-to-models-penis-and-uk-police-are-investigating-report-of-a-hate-incident?fbclid=IwAR0sWZ7xsYa1IaiYU_Zo8HRg6AQgG8NlHYDKmnO_Bi1ArUpXZ3PujuqplP0

A United Kingdom transgender model is outraged after a porn offer was retracted due to the transgender model's penis, Hull Live reported.

Transgender woman Ria Cooper, 25 — who became Britain's youngest transgender female at 15, the outlet said — said a photographer promised to help promote her career then suddenly stopped all contact after discovering Cooper is a transgender, Hull Live reported.

'It's like calling someone who is black the N-word'

Cooper told the outlet the man "messaged me saying he wanted to take my picture, have sex with me, and film it to make money, and then once he found out I was trans, he stopped all contact with me. I am reporting this as a hate crime. It's like calling someone who is black the N-word."

Cooper added to Hull Live that the man made contact after Cooper began sending links to fans on social media showing the model's new glamour portfolio. Then Cooper noted to the outlet that the photographer said he couldn't work with Cooper because the model has "a c***."

"This is absolutely f****** disgusting behavior," Cooper said, according to Hull Live. "No one should be treated like this — this is discriminating and appalling behavior ... [it] doesn't matter if I have c*** or not. The pictures should be judged as they are. It says on my social media profile that I am a ladyboy, I didn't ever say that I wasn't, and I thought he knew. I want to be a glamour model and a porn star — that's what I want to do. I don't think I should be treated like this."

Police investigating 'report of a hate incident'

The man's actions angered Cooper so much that the model contacted police and declared that the hate crime and transphobia must be taken more seriously, the outlet reported.

"I just think those comments could easily make someone commit suicide," Cooper told Hull Live, which also said Humberside Police confirmed officers are investigating the allegation.

"We received a report of a hate incident yesterday, on Wednesday, October 16," a police spokeswoman noted to the outlet. "The report has been logged and will be investigated."

"It's like calling someone who is black the "N" word......"  ROFL 

 

 

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Seattle Public Schools Will Start Teaching That Math Is Oppressive: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/seattle-math-oppressive-cultural-woke/

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Math is a deeply frustrating subject for many elementary and high school students. But Seattle public schools are gearing up to accuse math of a litany of more serious crimes: imperialism, dehumanization, and oppression of marginalized persons.

The district has proposed a new social justice-infused curriculum that would focus on "power and oppression" and "history of resistance and liberation" within the field of mathematics. The curriculum isn't mandatory, but provides a resource for teachers who want to introduce ethnic studies into the classroom vis a vis math. According to Education Week:

Seattle's four-page framework is still in the proposal stage. If adopted, its ideas will be included in existing math classes as part of the district's broader effort to infuse ethnic studies into all subjects across the K-12 spectrum. Tracy Castro-Gill, Seattle's ethnic studies director, said her team hopes to have frameworks completed in all subjects by June for board approval.

If the frameworks are approved, teachers would be expected to incorporate those ideas and questions into the math they teach beginning next fall, Castro-Gill said. No districtwide—or mandated—math/ethnic studies curriculum is planned, but groups of teachers are working with representatives of local community organizations to write instructional units for teachers to use if they wish, she said.

"Seattle is definitely on the forefront with this," said Robert Q. Berry III, the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. "What they're doing follows the line of work we hope we can move forward as we think about the history of math and who contributes to that, and also about deepening students' connection with identity and agency."

The proposal has drawn fire from the right. The American Conservative's Rod Dreher referred to it derisively as "woke math," writing:

The young people who are going to learn real math are those whose parents can afford to put them in private schools. The public school kids of all races are going to get dumber and dumber … and this is going to compel the wokesters in charge of Human Resources at institutions along life's way to demand changing standards to fit political goals. Eventually, bridges are going to start falling down. That too will be the fault of Whiteness.

That's a hyperbolic statement. But having read over the proposed framework, I have to say that it does seem fairly terrible. It's chock full of social justice jargon that sounds smart but is actually vapid. What does it mean to decode mathematical "beauty" or "identify how the development of mathematics has been erased from learning in school?" (Has it been erased? That seems like a problem for history class.) The guidance says it will "re-humanize mathematics through experiential learning" and facilitate learning "independently and interdependently." That's a fancy way of saying almost nothing at all.

The guidance also includes some extremely political, simplistic talking points that might be popular among activist academics but are in reality somewhat dubious. This is verbatim from the proposal: Students will be able to "identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color," "explain how math has been used to exploit natural resources," and "explain how math dictates economic oppression." Each of these statements are debatable, but they are not being presented as such. It would be one thing to hold a class discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of standardized testing, but what's happening here is that students are being trained to reject standardized testing due to its "inherent inequity," which is asserted as some kind of proven fact.

If math is too daunting for students, a better option would be for schools to stop making it mandatory. Giving parents—and even students themselves—more choice and control over their own educational experience is always a plus, and few people actually need to understand higher mathematics to function in society. Infusing the existing math curriculum with a bunch of unfounded progressive assumptions about cultural appropriation is a silly approach.

 

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Colorado School Suspends 17-Year-Old After She Posted a Non-Threatening Gun Photo With Her Older Brother: https://reason.com/2019/10/24/colorado-school-suspends-17-year-old-after-she-posted-a-non-threatening-gun-photo-with-her-older-brother/

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A tongue-in-cheek post from a Colorado teen about a trip to a shooting range got her suspended from high school.

On Oct. 11, Endeavor Academy, a public school in Centennial, Colo., suspended 17-year-old senior Alexandria Keyes for five days after she posted a picture of herself and her older brother on the social media app Snapchat. The two are shown holding guns and the photo is captioned, "Me and my legal guardian are going to the gun range to practice gun safety and responsible gun ownership while getting better so we can protect ourselves while also using the First Amendment to practice our Second Amendment."

The picture in question depicts Alexandria and her older brother, an Army veteran, wearing shemaghs (scarves popular in Middle Eastern cultures that are also used by some members of the military) posing in front of a Confederate flag and flipping off the camera while holding guns. In a statement to The Gun Writer, Kelley Moyer, Alexandria's mother, said that the shemagh her daughter wore was a gift from her brother.

Alexandria tells Reason that she never anticipated being suspended for taking the picture.

"Guns are huge in my family, they're normal to us," Alexandria said. It was a big surprise to her and her mother when police showed up at their house to investigate her as a potential threat.

Abbe Smith, Chief Communications Officer for Cherry Creek School District, told me that the decision to suspend Keyes "involved multiple social media posts that concerned the school community and resulted in multiple parents keeping their kids home from school out of concern for safety." Smith said that federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protections prevent her from discussing the details of the case, including disclosing the other photos the district allegedly considered in Keyes' suspension.

Keyes and her mother believe the other posts the district references are a picture and video of Alexandria shooting at Centennial Gun Club that she had posted on Facebook and Snapchat about 8 months ago.

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Keyes does not have a history of causing educational disruptions at the school, according to her family. Moyer told me that her daughter was disciplined for violating school policy only once before when she brought vape paraphernalia to school.

Moyer also says that Endeavor Academy's principal, Caroll Duran, explicitly told her that her daughter did not violate any policies but that "when [they] see pictures of a 17-year-old holding an assault rifle it sends panic through [their] building." In actuality, Alexandria was holding a pistol, not an "assault" rifle, in the photo of her and her brother (and was exercising excellent trigger discipline for that matter).

Moyer also contacted the Aurora and Arapahoe Police Departments about her daughter's suspension, and both agencies told her that Keyes did not violate any laws by posting the photo.

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For students caught up in administrators' hysteria, the impacts of poorly applied disciplinary policies have lasting impacts on a student's future. Keyes doesn't face any legal repercussions for her photo, but the suspension will go on her record and got her kicked off the school's volleyball team. She told Reason that "college is definitely on [her] mind" since "[she] want to go to med school" and that she's afraid that all the drama and rumors surrounding the event will reflect negatively on her in the admissions process.

Keyes can return to school tomorrow, but her mother says that her daughter is "terrified to go back because she is getting death threats, hate mail, and [negative] comments on her napchat."

 

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20 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Colorado School Suspends 17-Year-Old After She Posted a Non-Threatening Gun Photo With Her Older Brother: https://reason.com/2019/10/24/colorado-school-suspends-17-year-old-after-she-posted-a-non-threatening-gun-photo-with-her-older-brother/

 

So the vid I have on my phone of a current high ranking local school official dropping an entire mag out of his new AR could be used to extricate money from him to keep it from becoming public?

Hmmmm, I can see a real windfall of hush money in IO's future!

 

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2 hours ago, Howe said:

 

Oddly enough I had this discussion on a high school classmates FB page a while back. She posted a link about stopping hate speech. I argued the 1A protected that speech, in fact 1A's very foundation was to protect speech we don't agree with. I was immediately attacked by a bunch of 50 something The View watching women and labeled every ism/ist in the dictionary. Society ebbs and flows, fortunately life is not lived on social media. But I do love watching our class valedictorian who currently uses a mobility scooter in lieu of his legs due to his obesity frequently posted about throat punching/other physical violence against anyone who doesn't subscribe to his beliefs.   

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