I drive past a Planned Parenthood when I go to work sometimes. We’ve already banned abortion here, but those fuckers will be out with their gore posters. There are children that are hungry in our city, there are children being abused and neglected because Child Protective Services is no longer functioning here after being sacrificed at the altar of Parental Rights - but these “Christians” aren’t protesting that. They’re protesting abortion at a place that doesn’t provide abortions anymore.
”The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.
Tbh, it should. American educations don’t touch Africa barring a dip into Egypt, which usually compresses the dynasties in a way that does nothing for a deeper understanding. Even as someone with a BA in history, that watched the course listing like a hawk for “history of the Sahel” or “history of the Mali empire” or some lovely 3000-4000 course - nothing.
I should have been taught who Nkrumah was. And Léopold Senghor, and Kenyatta…
Instead, I lean on The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith. Which is a good book, but by a journalist, not a historian.
Fun story - I went to a troubled teen facility, and we had “group.” There was no actual qualifications required for the people running “group.”
We watched Tyler Perry movies. (Also at one point Ip Man which is a goated film.) I learned the phrase “give head” or similar while watching How Did I Get Married. I was asked to think about the lessons that this movie could apply to my interpersonal relationships - I had never considered how the frequency of oral sex would decease after marriage.
Tbh - if you do any academic study of history, that’s what it all starts to look like.
I tried to watch Spartacus because Kubrick and… I couldn’t. Those fucking hairdos. The depiction of Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator upset me - like no, the man was not a proto Thomas Jefferson (and even the IRL Jefferson made his money on child slavery and raped children.) Wuxia is so much fun but there’s never going to be a period accurate Three Kingdoms (which is a 14th century novel anyway)
Medieval history especially…. That’s pages and pages, and I’m not even really that much of a medievalist.
Please keep demonstrating your cognitive dissonance - this is a fascinating case study. You’ve repeatedly made incorrect claims, switched back and force between them, and provided my evidence.
Feel free to waste your time gargling the cum of stinky Mussolini though.
If I had the final resources and executive functioning to do so, I would.
I have already experienced torture. The apartment I have right now is the first time in the thirty-ish years of my life that I have not been under the control of an abusive and dangerous person.
I can’t make my brain work enough to finish the 2 hour class I need for my masters. I can barely make it work to find another job, so I can get health insurance, and afford the help making my brain work.
Hey broseph - looks like we are struggling with some reading comprehension here - care to look at the title of the article you just shared? I’ll add italics for emphasis to help you find the key words.
Deported family of U.S. citizen girl recovering from rare brain tumor is determined to return
Hey, let’s take a look at the second paragraph too:
She's one of four U.S. citizen children who were sent to Mexico from Texas three months ago when immigration authorities deported their undocumented parents.
So it appears that either you are illiterate, or lying, based on the source that you shared.
Few medical specialists can effectively monitor these kinds of cases; the girl's U.S. doctors are among those with the necessary expertise. The girl needs scans and checkups every three months, her doctors told the Texas Civil Rights Project.
The surgery that saved the girl’s life last year left her with some lasting side effects. The swelling on her brain is still not fully gone, her mother said in March, causing difficulties with speech and mobility of the right side of her body.
Before the family was removed from the U.S., the girl was routinely checking in with doctors monitoring her recovery, attending rehabilitation therapy sessions and taking medication to prevent convulsions.