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Your post isn't coherent. Dr. Seuss's estate manager decided not to sell 6 of his books. It's perfectly fine for a business to stop selling a book, and this is a good enough reason to do it, not that they need any reason at all. Nobody burned books to make it happen. This is feedback they received from teachers and students. Nobody is confiscating any Dr. Seuss books. Literally no one is harmed by this in any way. You should think of what you're getting annoyed by and get annoyed by things that actually hurt people.

good for you. But I’m sticking with the people who’ve painstakingly researched the problem.

i wake up in bidens america and don't fear what stupid s#!t he did overnight like i did with the last administration

Or to ignore the double standard in Hollywood. The Mandalorian lady made a terrible comparison to the Holocaust and lost her job. Celebrities on the left have compared Trump to Hitler (also a comparison to the Holocaust, and equally as terrible/offensive) and they're celebrated.

Relax, we're six months from games so of course off-field topics will be discussed ad nauseam. @rocketlb's summary was solid. Sounds like the former players are going in with the right focus. Hopefully the players can pick up some intangible traits that will lead to on-field success in one way or another.

Because they are different. Better personal decisions would undoubtedly help the situation for those engulfed in a bad culture. Whether that's blacks in the inner cities, or whites in poverty stricken Appalachia.

Oh yeah. Public pressure and/or the current climate of cancel culture DEFINITELY didn't play a role here. (wink wink).

Man, if there were only some connection to keeping a race in a constant state of poverty, and a cultural history of families being torn apart.

No. I think that some cultures are better at personal accountability than others.

If Trump isn't criminally tied to the insurrection, we have failed as a country. He is the common denominator in everything posted above. He is the cause, the agent, the catalyst, the motivation, and the voice behind it all. It only points out how far gone the GOP is when they still embrace a guy that should be in jail.

What does that even mean? Sure looked like it ended a year ago: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-51689443 That article reads like he tried but Mitch didn't want to (shocker) and that Biden plans on dragging his feet about finishing it. Guess we're going to split hairs here.

Hey it just occurred to me: does it make a difference if we can trace current injustice back to slavery, or is the fact that there's current injustice damning enough? Anyway, it turns out the slavery link is not an uncommon theory, one of many factors to be considered. Here's one of the more clear-headed and academic, Archy. Dig in! https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/sugar_16_04_2019.pdf

It's just easier to pretend the ridiculous cancel culture doesn't exist than it is to admit we've let it go too far.

Signed up to get the JJ shot...one shot only.

Cancelling Dr Seuss? Whaat? Why? Signaling.. woke vocabulary.. Bernie, Obama, and Biden is spot on. Biden's America (and the left)..

Media everywhere do exactly that and get praised for it. And as BRB said, it's fine to portray the American stereotype. I doubt it. Cancel culture is driven by a largely white upper class. Often they have to work hard to find a non-white person who will say he's offended.

And every time anyone talks about Black people facing any kind of adverse circumstances at all you talk about Black culture so why are acting like you think the 2 are different?

Precisely. And I think we can find examples of it in a lot of major cities. Take Omaha. A lot of Black families that migrated into the city were largely only able to find housing and affordable housing opportunities in what is now North Omaha. A huge portion of that community also worked at the meatpacking plants. The area was already experiencing crime issues prior to the meatpacking closures (because of income levels and a lack of equitable opportunities), but those eventual closures sent huge portions of that community into a poverty and crime spiral. To this day, North Omaha is still a) predominantly black and b) poverty/crime ridden.

Most of the movies and TV shows you watched as a kid contained racist, misogynistic, and homophobic content. Sometimes it was just insensitive, ignorant stuff. Sometimes it was the punchline to a joke. Your childhood books, Dr. Seuss or not, probably also contained a lot of questionable material by today's standards. Sometimes I watch my old favorites with my kids, and then the inappropriate joke that I forgot about comes up. So we often pause it and have a discussion about why that was inappropriate, why we don't repeat those kinds of comments, and talk about why people used to think it was okay to include that stuff. You can learn from these things without necessarily throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Institutionalized poverty. And then when a Black community becomes successful as they did with the Black Wall Street in Tulsa, it gets burnt down in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 - 100 years ago. Tulsa only in the past years has come to grips with this and even today, north Tulsa is the place of greatest poverty due primarily by what happened 100 years ago.

I'm still not sure why people are up in arms about what private companies decide to do with the product. What's next Fox News - "McDonalds changed their Nuggies recipe because they hate America. The old nuggies have been canceled". Who gives a s#!t? Stop buying potato heads then Gym Jordan. Good lord.

Yep. We agree on this 100% (except for the part about there being no way to break it). It's a vicious cycle in a lot of poor communities, not just black.

I think he runs but finds out relatively quickly in the primary season that he won’t win.

Do you think one racial group is better or worse at personal accountability than another?

A picture of our strange culture for sure. It seems this is the case with many far left causes. Parents are great unless parents stand in the way of indoctrination of the youth for left wing causes. Teenagers need parental permission for most everything but yet if they want to have an abortion or any other activity that planned parenthood could provide, then parents are often squeezed out of the equation. There is even talk of lowering the voting age to 16 by some on the left. Yes, 16 year olds are really in tune with political issues and cannot be easily manipulated If the parent is left of center, then by all means they have the right to share those values with their children. Granted there are those cases, (seems one has to always mention the exception to the rule) in which a far right parent or a far left parent are endangering their child with values that aren't acceptable. But the vast majority, right or left, are doing the best they can to raise their kids and help them to grow up to be productive people in our society. Govt should assist those parents and not make it more difficult. I don't want to bash what some well meaning people may want to do and there are exceptions where parents aren't acting like parents (looking at you Kelly Anne Conway), but I think parents rights should stand above the right of the child and govt should protect the parent's position in society and reinforce it and not take away. If the family is the cornerstone of our society, then it should be supported in every way possible and not made weaker. I don't care if you are a liberal or conservative or moderate parent, religious or not. Families are where most societal values are communicated to the next generation. And let me add, most values communicated are neither left or right,...most are common sense.

Where does personal accountability fall on this list?

He is a liberal hack as noted by his history in politics and reporting history. He’s just a little less of a hack than the rest. Tapper quite tweeting a twitter rando with 200 followers is gold.

The Biggest breakdowns began with the advent of the Great Society Welfare Programs. African Americans had larger % of intact families while have also having larger poverty rates prior to the 1960’s. Poverty rates have steadily declined while single parent households have steadily increased. Same increase has happened to the white community only at a faster rate. Poverty plays a large role in creating/keeping single family households but it can’t explain the Black family breakdown rate.

Large media orgs have been doing this for decades. Stelter is awful at his job.

What semi-competent person couldn’t see this coming? China Joe has a real problem on his hands now and he’s gonna need to get serious about this in between bites of his oatmeal mush. I hope whoever is in charge will adjust the narrative and policy to get across the message that we will enforce the borders and come to the US in a legal manner.

Federal Government Policy is to blame in my opinion

Would you care to share that painstaking research that shows slavery caused broken family units in the 1900’s to current day so the rest of us can learn from it?

Why is he not allowed to stay where he wants? If it’s so illegal for SS to pay rates and stay at his property, then SS Director needs to have a nutsack and tell Trump COS those properties are a no go because of funding. They have their own line item budget correct? If so then they have a say so.

It does Seems pretty hypocritical for those Congressmen/women to complain about proxy voting then turning right around and doing it to attend a conference. I’m sure they could have worked out a zoom speech or pre-recorded speech if they were supposed to attend CPAC. Wish all of them would do their day job before going to political events or fundraising events.

Yesterday (March 1st) during his normal segment on Severe & Benning, Jay Foreman explained what his role is and why he's doing it. Essentially, he outline your former point as his main purpose. He expressed that he was lucky enough to have some former husker players (from the 80's) give him some life advice while he was playing. He said he wants to give back to the program by offering up his life experiences and make himself available to them as a resource. Obviously, it's probably easier to just listen to what he said rather than read a brief synopsis from some random board member. He starts talking about it at the 4:20 mark:

Well.....not exactly. I mean, yeah, slavery took place all over the world, including Africans enslaving neighboring tribes, a fact that often gets pulled up to distract from the current issue. So while reparations may not be the answer, there is still justice to be found for slavery, and all involved are not gone. Systemic discrimination in wealth, property, equity, and broken family units continue in the Black community in a way they don't in other minorities without slave histories, and the people who will happily continue that marginalization have risen to the highest seats of power in America, including national news media that clutch their pearls about last summer's black lives matter protests while downplaying January's white supremacist coup attempt and, wait for it.....blaming it on leftwing instigators. I'm against Reparations because they allow too many people to claim Black people are demanding too much.

Michigan and Northwestern will play for the George Jewett trophy. George played for Michigan in 1890 and 1892 before going to Northwestern and playing there. He was the first black player in B1G history. I don’t consider Michigan and Northwestern rivals, but this is a neat idea for a trophy, and I always enjoy playing NW. https://mgoblue.com/news/2021/2/25/football-michigan-and-northwestern-establish-george-jewett-trophy.aspx

This, I don't know. I have often found that the biggest and loudest voices behind these kinds of movements don't even come from the people who are the subject of the 'offensive' materials. It's often people who think something is offensive and try to fight the battle on their behalf. This captures a lot of what I believe to be true in cases like this.

Looking more and more like Sanders torpedoed Tanden’s nomination. Can’t blame this one on Republicans.

Millard Public Schools is starting in on Seuss, I posted that a few days ago. Crazy parking lot moms are starting the charge. I wonder if CU students are going to start in on Mac today. I think they might.

See —I knew we can agree on some things

Still missing a true point. Until we get a true point, we will struggle. Banton isnt a point, not a great passer. No true point coming in at this time. Put Marcus Zegarowski on this team and it would get real interesting in a hurry

To the bolded, I'm asking because these are paid staff members in Trump's administration who made the decision to spend the money. Making it seem like it's an 'SS' problem treats them like they're some third party vendor and they're not. They're a part of his admin. Why would the SS be responsible for setting the terms and conditions of being able to stay at the president's resort during a vacation stay? They can't not go where he goes. Those rates were set by the resort, a resort owned by Trump, who directly profited from the expense. And somebody decided it was acceptable to rent a nightly cottage in order to be prepared for Trump's stay. The fact that Trump basically funneled significant amounts of taxpayer money into his coffers in the primary issue here. I, too, will not harp on vacation time in general. A stressful job deserves time off. Trump verifiably took that to the extreme and made significant profit off of it. At best, it's gross negligence. At worst, it's profiteering.

Because trump wouldn't let them. The grift is the point. Yes, you do. The money goes directly to trump's pocket.

If you were quoting Frost, you did so incorrectly with the adjust to us comment.