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  1. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    Wow....thanks for taking me back to my younger days, growing up in a fundamentalist Church, where everything was taken hyper-literally and the "church leaders" seemingly had no capacity for abstract thought and creativity. It's like the time when I was rehearsing a short guitar part for the...
  2. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    I'm not about to allow fundamentalists to be the ones to determine what is or isn't "porn". The case of the statue of David shows how that goes.
  3. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    I honestly don't know. I've read a fair bit about the psychology behind fundamentalism, but none of what I read gave any suggestions on how to change them.
  4. Jose Fly

    Evolution not God

    Another dodge, just as I expected. Well Kenny, you've once again confirmed my impressions of fundamentalist Christians. And I suppose since I'll just give up here and not waste any more of my time chasing another one of y'all around, trying to get you to answer basic questions, you'll be...
  5. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    Why are you ignoring one of the main points raised by @SkepticThinker ? As noted, Shakeshaft defined "abuse" so broadly as to include how someone thinks someone else looked at them. And that includes looks from other students. You should try and do better next time.
  6. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    This is straight out of a Simpsons episode.... Tallahassee principal ousted after complaints about Michelangelo's 'David' in art lesson The Chair of the School Board stated in an interview that there were "other reasons" for the principal's removal, but admitted that the statue of David "was...
  7. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/ "Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”...
  8. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    WTH are you even talking about? The article in the OP has nothing to do with books not being available for lack of funding. Good lord....
  9. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    https://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html
  10. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    That's one of the dumbest replies I've gotten in a while. So if a book is prohibited by the government to be in a public library, to you it's inaccurate to say it has been "banned" in the library. Nice job. :rolleyes:
  11. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    Ah, I see....you didn't even bother to read the article in the OP that you were allegedly addressing. Had you taken the time, you would have seen... "A record 2,571 unique titles were targeted for censorship, a 38% increase from the 1,858 unique titles targeted for censorship in 2021. Of those...
  12. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    As is often the case, the conservative source for this isn't giving the full story. The assignment was given in a theater class, and was for each student to write a monologue that another student would act out. Every student had the option to decline to read the one they were given and read a...
  13. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    So are these people "in charge of education" mandating students read these books? Are they reading them to the students?
  14. Jose Fly

    Evolution not God

    If there was nothing at all sexual about Israelites taking virgin girls as spoils of war, why did they only take girls (while killing all the virgin boys)?
  15. Jose Fly

    American Library Association reports record requests for book bans.

    Once again you accuse people of lying, yet offer zero evidence to support your accusation. It's trivially easy to find lists of books that have been banned in various states. Texas Florida Idaho
  16. Jose Fly

    A Double Standard?

  17. Jose Fly

    Evolution not God

    By the time I was ~10 years old, I'd already realized that questions were like kryptonite for fundamentalist Christians. Took me a bit longer to realize that it's the same with data.
  18. Jose Fly

    Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

    Sheesh Kenny, do you ever actually answer questions? I mean, a simple question like "what's your point" shouldn't be so difficult or problematic to answer.....unless you're hiding something. I'd ask what "systemic problem" you're referring to, but I have a feeling you won't answer that either.
  19. Jose Fly

    Evolution not God

    Are you just hoping to dodge the question until I give up and stop asking? Because I'm having flashbacks to when I grew up in a fundamentalist church, and that sort of behavior from church leaders was a big part of me never being a Christian. So how about just being open and honest here and...
  20. Jose Fly

    Transgender athlete

    Exactly! When I was a player/coach, whenever we'd play a really tall team, I'd gather everyone in the huddle and just say "Let's run them to death", and we'd usually win. Thank you for pointing that out! Apparently some folks don't realize that. That's a really good point. It's like when I...
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