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Climate Activism - Tearful Teenybopper Style

Posted 04-20-2019 at 09:41 AM by jbgusa

COP24, the speech by 15-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg


Excerpt from linked article, Youtube below:


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Originally Posted by lifegate article
The COP24 in Katowice has ended leaving many doubts among environmental associations. However, there’s who doesn’t give in – like Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who decided to go to Poland to give a speech at the UN climate conference.
Thunberg is a 15-year-old climate activist with the Asperger’s syndrome who is continuing her school strike
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Is Progressiveism About Feeling Good or Doing Good?

Posted 04-17-2019 at 06:13 PM by jbgusa

http://www.city-data.com/forum/great...l#post54967488



Two recent headline articles,ThriveNYC was a mismanaged mess from the beginning (link) and With opaque budget and elusive metrics, $850M ThriveNYC program attempts a reset (link) highlight a serious problem with liberal or progressive policies. The intentions are always good; ThriveNYC's goal, as I understand it is to promote mental health in stressful...
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Free-Range Parenting; Criminalization of Parenthood, vs. Overprotection of Children?

Posted 04-12-2019 at 01:29 PM by jbgusa
Updated 04-13-2019 at 05:19 AM by jbgusa

When cleaning out some old newspapers I came across this book review, entitled The Criminalization of Parenthood

, about the book Small Animals. The premise of the review and the book is that we criminalize any parenting that doesn't infantilize growing children. On researching the subject further, I came upon this article, The Parent Trap

. An excerpt from The Parent Trap:
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Originally Posted by Ross Douhat, NY Times
Or — arriving at this week’s high-profile story — like Debra Harrell, an African-American single
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Long-Term Reparations for Victim Groups Not Necessary or Warranted

Posted 02-12-2019 at 10:02 AM by jbgusa

Historical grievances are many and they run deep. The Blacks, the Mormons, the Mennonites and the Jews have a long history of being persecuted.

The Ku Klux Klan (the "Klan") terrorized black people, Catholics and Jews in the second half of the 19th Century and intermittently through the 20th Century. Similar violence occurred via lynchings. Non-violent but very disturbing and humiliating discrimination such as "Jim Crow" laws, residential and school segregation were...
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Reported posts

Posted 02-03-2019 at 10:08 AM by jbgusa
Updated 07-06-2019 at 01:08 PM by jbgusa

7-6-2019
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Originally Posted by BirdieBelle View Post
Ok, so you're just blogging about your past again and not adding anything to the OP.
This did relate to OP topic of schools penalizing students arbitrarily. I was going to respond on the board but I didn't want to infract by attacking her.


Does this poster make a career of attacking other posters? I just reported an attack on me. http://www.city-data.com/forum/paren...l#post55597256



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