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Then the school district told him he had to cut a key point from his presentation — that the artist he helped rescue from obscurity had a gay son. Rather than acquiesce, he canceled the last of his talks.

“We’re long past the point where we should be policing people talking about who they love,” Nobleman said in a telephone interview. “And that’s what I’m hoping will happen in this community.”

They didn't ask him not to "say 'gay'", as the title all but claims. They asked him to participate in the erasure of a relevant gay person from a story he was teaching to children.

"A revolution without dancing sexual assault is a revolution not worth having."

Better education and better cultural norms that didn’t prioritize “things” and consumerism would go a long way.

So on the one hand I agree with you. On the other hand, consumer spending is 70% of U.S. GDP. If consumer spending takes a hit, we're all going to feel it.

If this sounds awful it's because it is. Our economy is not designed to benefit all, or even most.

people assume they already are [magic knowledge machines], and the little warnings that some stuff at the bottom of the page are inadequate.

You seem to have missed the bottom-line disclaimer of the person you're replying to, which is an excellent case-in-point for how ineffective they are.

someone who's into communism less for the equality and more for the dictatorship