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Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.
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Wasn't he convicted in state court as well?
Google AI says so:
Yes, Derek Chauvin was convicted on state charges in Minnesota. In April 2021, a jury found him guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. He was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for these state charges. The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the conviction. Chauvin's appeal to the US Supreme Court was later rejected, meaning the state court rulings stood.
Yes, Derek Chauvin was convicted on state charges in Minnesota. In April 2021, a jury found him guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. He was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for these state charges. The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the conviction. Chauvin's appeal to the US Supreme Court was later rejected, meaning the state court rulings stood.
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Can't pardon that unless his name is Tim Walz.
Yeah they can pardon his civil rights violation conviction, but he’s serving the two sentences concurrently and they are both about the same length so it wouldn’t change a thing about where he is residing or for how long he is a guest of the state.
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Guess this can go here
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In an exclusive interview from federal prison, where he is currently serving a 15-year sentence for what prosecutors called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets, Jack Teixeira spoke out for the first time since his arrest more than two years ago -- telling ABC News he doesn't feel he betrayed his country and would commit the same acts again if he had the chance to do things over.
The 23-year-old said he is also appealing to President Donald Trump for a pardon in what he called a "politicized" case under the Biden administration.
"My intent was to educate the United States populist people about what was going on. It was not to harm the United States or the country because I love my nation. I'm a patriot," Teixeira told ABC News over the phone from a medium security federal correctional institution in Virginia.
"It was by no means meant to harm my country, but I did believe that I needed to educate the people about what was going on because I believe they were being lied to."
He said he believes that mission was accomplished "to a significant degree."
"I don't feel that I betrayed my country at all, just the opposite," he said. "I believe that I educated a lot of the people who have been kept in the dark and who were being lied to about this concerning all of the things that had been going on."
Prosecutors say that while serving as a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, Teixeira abused his top-secret clearance and accessed and posted images of hundreds of classified documents, including ones related to troop movements in Ukraine and details of the Chinese spy balloons, on the gaming platform Discord. Another document shared included "discussing a plot by a foreign adversary to target United States forces abroad," according to the indictment.
The FBI said his actions created "exceptionally grave and long-lasting damage to the national security of the United States," while then-Attorney General Merrick Garland said Teixeira "endangered our country's national security and that of our allies" when he repeatedly shared classified national defense information online "in an attempt to impress anonymous friends on the internet."
Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six federal counts of willfully retaining and transmitting national defense information. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the Espionage Act.……
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In an exclusive interview from federal prison, where he is currently serving a 15-year sentence for what prosecutors called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets, Jack Teixeira spoke out for the first time since his arrest more than two years ago -- telling ABC News he doesn't feel he betrayed his country and would commit the same acts again if he had the chance to do things over.
The 23-year-old said he is also appealing to President Donald Trump for a pardon in what he called a "politicized" case under the Biden administration.
"My intent was to educate the United States populist people about what was going on. It was not to harm the United States or the country because I love my nation. I'm a patriot," Teixeira told ABC News over the phone from a medium security federal correctional institution in Virginia.
"It was by no means meant to harm my country, but I did believe that I needed to educate the people about what was going on because I believe they were being lied to."
He said he believes that mission was accomplished "to a significant degree."
"I don't feel that I betrayed my country at all, just the opposite," he said. "I believe that I educated a lot of the people who have been kept in the dark and who were being lied to about this concerning all of the things that had been going on."
Prosecutors say that while serving as a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, Teixeira abused his top-secret clearance and accessed and posted images of hundreds of classified documents, including ones related to troop movements in Ukraine and details of the Chinese spy balloons, on the gaming platform Discord. Another document shared included "discussing a plot by a foreign adversary to target United States forces abroad," according to the indictment.
The FBI said his actions created "exceptionally grave and long-lasting damage to the national security of the United States," while then-Attorney General Merrick Garland said Teixeira "endangered our country's national security and that of our allies" when he repeatedly shared classified national defense information online "in an attempt to impress anonymous friends on the internet."
Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six federal counts of willfully retaining and transmitting national defense information. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the Espionage Act.……
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira speaks out from prison for 1st time: Exclusive
Jack Teixeira spoke from prison, where he is serving a 15-year sentence for what prosecutors called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets.
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Educate is not a word I'd use. And classified information is classified for a reason, and it's not to educate the public. That idiot deserves every minute of his sentence.Guess this can go here
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In an exclusive interview from federal prison, where he is currently serving a 15-year sentence for what prosecutors called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets, Jack Teixeira spoke out for the first time since his arrest more than two years ago -- telling ABC News he doesn't feel he betrayed his country and would commit the same acts again if he had the chance to do things over.
The 23-year-old said he is also appealing to President Donald Trump for a pardon in what he called a "politicized" case under the Biden administration.
"My intent was to educate the United States populist people about what was going on. It was not to harm the United States or the country because I love my nation. I'm a patriot," Teixeira told ABC News over the phone from a medium security federal correctional institution in Virginia.
"It was by no means meant to harm my country, but I did believe that I needed to educate the people about what was going on because I believe they were being lied to."
He said he believes that mission was accomplished "to a significant degree."
"I don't feel that I betrayed my country at all, just the opposite," he said. "I believe that I educated a lot of the people who have been kept in the dark and who were being lied to about this concerning all of the things that had been going on."
Prosecutors say that while serving as a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, Teixeira abused his top-secret clearance and accessed and posted images of hundreds of classified documents, including ones related to troop movements in Ukraine and details of the Chinese spy balloons, on the gaming platform Discord. Another document shared included "discussing a plot by a foreign adversary to target United States forces abroad," according to the indictment.
The FBI said his actions created "exceptionally grave and long-lasting damage to the national security of the United States," while then-Attorney General Merrick Garland said Teixeira "endangered our country's national security and that of our allies" when he repeatedly shared classified national defense information online "in an attempt to impress anonymous friends on the internet."
Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six federal counts of willfully retaining and transmitting national defense information. In exchange, prosecutors agreed not to charge him with additional counts under the Espionage Act.……
Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira speaks out from prison for 1st time: Exclusive
Jack Teixeira spoke from prison, where he is serving a 15-year sentence for what prosecutors called one of the most significant leaks of U.S. national defense secrets.
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Tim Burchett, a Republican congressman, would like you to know that he is not a straw man. No sir. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the Tennessee lawmaker explained that he is a red-blooded American male who does not “drink out of a straw” because “that’s what the women in my house do”.
And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.
Why did Burchett feel the need to tell us all what he likes to put in his mouth? Because the Fox News host Jesse Watters has some very strange ideas about masculinity and, back in March, came up with “rules for men”.
These include: don’t drink soup in public, don’t cross your legs, don’t drink from a straw (it makes your lips purse in an “effeminate” manner, don’t drink milkshakes and “don’t wave simultaneously with two hands”).
The Fox News host is so proud of these rules that he now has his producer running around Washington DC asking lawmakers their thoughts on Watters’ guide to masculinity.
Burchett, as we’ve seen, is fully on board. So is the Missouri senator Josh Hawley, who has written a book called Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.
Meanwhile, in a stunning example of ClickHole’s “The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” meme, Ted Cruz seemed a little more dubious.
“Jesse Watters has rules for men,” Watters’ producer told Cruz. “He said men should not have male best friends. What do you think?” Cruz replied: “Jesse needs a friend.” I think he needs a lot more than that.
Watters has said his rules for men are just a bit of fun. But it all starts to become a little less funny when you look at the massive impact Fox has on America, and how influential Watters himself is.
More than 4 million people tune into Watters’ primetime show and the man is constantly reinforcing toxic ideas about gender. Watters, for example, has suggested that he doesn’t really think fathers are responsible for raising their daughters.
“When you raise a son, you are responsible for that son,” Watters said last year. “It’s not like raising a daughter, it’s different.” He’s also denigrated fathers who leave work earlyto spend time with their children.
Watters, who is on his second marriage, to a much younger woman who was an associate producer on his show at Fox News, also has some very disturbing ideas about how to approach women.
Want to know how he courted his second wife?
He’s boasted on TV that he let the air out of her car tires. “She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” Watters laughed. (He later claimed it was a joke.)
By the way, Watters was still married at the time. Fox News likes to style itself as a paragon of family values, but these are the values it promotes.
Again: Watters isn’t just some kook with a niche show. A large body of research shows that Fox News shapes American politics.
There is a direct line between the misogyny and rigid gender roles amplified on Fox News and laws that treat women as nothing more than incubators and walking wombs.
There’s a direct line between the sort of attitude towards women that Watters espouses and the fact that a brain dead woman in Georgia is being kept alive to carry out her pregnancy because of the state’s abortion ban.
Watters may say his rules for men are just a bit of fun, but his viewers are gulping it all down.
Obviously without a straw……..
www.theguardian.com
And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.
Why did Burchett feel the need to tell us all what he likes to put in his mouth? Because the Fox News host Jesse Watters has some very strange ideas about masculinity and, back in March, came up with “rules for men”.
These include: don’t drink soup in public, don’t cross your legs, don’t drink from a straw (it makes your lips purse in an “effeminate” manner, don’t drink milkshakes and “don’t wave simultaneously with two hands”).
The Fox News host is so proud of these rules that he now has his producer running around Washington DC asking lawmakers their thoughts on Watters’ guide to masculinity.
Burchett, as we’ve seen, is fully on board. So is the Missouri senator Josh Hawley, who has written a book called Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.
Meanwhile, in a stunning example of ClickHole’s “The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” meme, Ted Cruz seemed a little more dubious.
“Jesse Watters has rules for men,” Watters’ producer told Cruz. “He said men should not have male best friends. What do you think?” Cruz replied: “Jesse needs a friend.” I think he needs a lot more than that.
Watters has said his rules for men are just a bit of fun. But it all starts to become a little less funny when you look at the massive impact Fox has on America, and how influential Watters himself is.
More than 4 million people tune into Watters’ primetime show and the man is constantly reinforcing toxic ideas about gender. Watters, for example, has suggested that he doesn’t really think fathers are responsible for raising their daughters.
“When you raise a son, you are responsible for that son,” Watters said last year. “It’s not like raising a daughter, it’s different.” He’s also denigrated fathers who leave work earlyto spend time with their children.
Watters, who is on his second marriage, to a much younger woman who was an associate producer on his show at Fox News, also has some very disturbing ideas about how to approach women.
Want to know how he courted his second wife?
He’s boasted on TV that he let the air out of her car tires. “She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” Watters laughed. (He later claimed it was a joke.)
By the way, Watters was still married at the time. Fox News likes to style itself as a paragon of family values, but these are the values it promotes.
Again: Watters isn’t just some kook with a niche show. A large body of research shows that Fox News shapes American politics.
There is a direct line between the misogyny and rigid gender roles amplified on Fox News and laws that treat women as nothing more than incubators and walking wombs.
There’s a direct line between the sort of attitude towards women that Watters espouses and the fact that a brain dead woman in Georgia is being kept alive to carry out her pregnancy because of the state’s abortion ban.
Watters may say his rules for men are just a bit of fun, but his viewers are gulping it all down.
Obviously without a straw……..
A Fox host’s ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking | Arwa Mahdawi
Jesse Watters’ list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz – and Watters’ show helps shape US politics
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Tim Burchett, a Republican congressman, would like you to know that he is not a straw man. No sir. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, the Tennessee lawmaker explained that he is a red-blooded American male who does not “drink out of a straw” because “that’s what the women in my house do”.
And no self-respecting man wants to be like the women in their house, do they? Yuck.
Why did Burchett feel the need to tell us all what he likes to put in his mouth? Because the Fox News host Jesse Watters has some very strange ideas about masculinity and, back in March, came up with “rules for men”.
These include: don’t drink soup in public, don’t cross your legs, don’t drink from a straw (it makes your lips purse in an “effeminate” manner, don’t drink milkshakes and “don’t wave simultaneously with two hands”).
The Fox News host is so proud of these rules that he now has his producer running around Washington DC asking lawmakers their thoughts on Watters’ guide to masculinity.
Burchett, as we’ve seen, is fully on board. So is the Missouri senator Josh Hawley, who has written a book called Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.
Meanwhile, in a stunning example of ClickHole’s “The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point” meme, Ted Cruz seemed a little more dubious.
“Jesse Watters has rules for men,” Watters’ producer told Cruz. “He said men should not have male best friends. What do you think?” Cruz replied: “Jesse needs a friend.” I think he needs a lot more than that.
Watters has said his rules for men are just a bit of fun. But it all starts to become a little less funny when you look at the massive impact Fox has on America, and how influential Watters himself is.
More than 4 million people tune into Watters’ primetime show and the man is constantly reinforcing toxic ideas about gender. Watters, for example, has suggested that he doesn’t really think fathers are responsible for raising their daughters.
“When you raise a son, you are responsible for that son,” Watters said last year. “It’s not like raising a daughter, it’s different.” He’s also denigrated fathers who leave work earlyto spend time with their children.
Watters, who is on his second marriage, to a much younger woman who was an associate producer on his show at Fox News, also has some very disturbing ideas about how to approach women.
Want to know how he courted his second wife?
He’s boasted on TV that he let the air out of her car tires. “She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said: ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” Watters laughed. (He later claimed it was a joke.)
By the way, Watters was still married at the time. Fox News likes to style itself as a paragon of family values, but these are the values it promotes.
Again: Watters isn’t just some kook with a niche show. A large body of research shows that Fox News shapes American politics.
There is a direct line between the misogyny and rigid gender roles amplified on Fox News and laws that treat women as nothing more than incubators and walking wombs.
There’s a direct line between the sort of attitude towards women that Watters espouses and the fact that a brain dead woman in Georgia is being kept alive to carry out her pregnancy because of the state’s abortion ban.
Watters may say his rules for men are just a bit of fun, but his viewers are gulping it all down.
Obviously without a straw……..
A Fox host’s ‘rules for being a man’: no leg-crossing, no public soup drinking | Arwa Mahdawi
Jesse Watters’ list is so bizarre, it has me agreeing with Ted Cruz – and Watters’ show helps shape US politics
And Maga republican men complain that women don't respect them or want to date them lol. Letting the air out of the tires of a car belonging to a woman, to get her to accept a ride is creapy and disrespectful. And workaholics who don't spend time with their children are no better than an absentees fathers-
Borderline legal if you ask me. I think a woman could get a restraining order against a man who did that to her pretty easily.
Our thread on this topic is very far back so I’m putting this here. Essentially, Utah GOP “paused” gender affirming care so that a study could be done on effects and efficacy of said care. Well now results are back and they don’t like them, so they are dismissing those results. It’s not about protecting kids, it’s about controlling what people do and making them conform. Never doubt that for a second.
“Utah‘s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth was meant to be a moratorium, giving lawmakers the chance to reevaluate the policy once experts reviewed research on the impacts of treatment.
This week, nearly 2½ years after the law took effect, lawmakers received the findings of that study.
Utah health care experts concluded, in a more than 1,000-page report, “Overall, there were positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes” as a result of gender-affirming care. But some Republican legislators are already dismissing those findings.”
www.sltrib.com
“Utah‘s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth was meant to be a moratorium, giving lawmakers the chance to reevaluate the policy once experts reviewed research on the impacts of treatment.
This week, nearly 2½ years after the law took effect, lawmakers received the findings of that study.
Utah health care experts concluded, in a more than 1,000-page report, “Overall, there were positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes” as a result of gender-affirming care. But some Republican legislators are already dismissing those findings.”
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
They do not give a schlitz. The ban was acceptable as long as the study was going on. There was never any way in hell that they were going to be guided by it if it contradicted their belief structure.Our thread on this topic is very far back so I’m putting this here. Essentially, Utah GOP “paused” gender affirming care so that a study could be done on effects and efficacy of said care. Well now results are back and they don’t like them, so they are dismissing those results. It’s not about protecting kids, it’s about controlling what people do and making them conform. Never doubt that for a second.
“Utah‘s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth was meant to be a moratorium, giving lawmakers the chance to reevaluate the policy once experts reviewed research on the impacts of treatment.
This week, nearly 2½ years after the law took effect, lawmakers received the findings of that study.
Utah health care experts concluded, in a more than 1,000-page report, “Overall, there were positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes” as a result of gender-affirming care. But some Republican legislators are already dismissing those findings.”
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
Evidently some form of neo-Nazis paraded through Kansas City today. There is some language in the video. They are still getting into U-Hauls to transport themselves with anonymity, which I thought was not legal (to transport people in that way) but there is a police officer present as they all scurried back into their U-Hauls and made their escape. There were far too many of them, maybe 2-3 truckloads?
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Cowards all. Take of your masks you you truely believe in something. Mask just shows that you know that what you are doing is wrong!
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A vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture.
Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called “dissident right”, political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the “network state” movement.
The dissident right is a term that describes rightwing intellectual currents that go beyond and even attack mainstream conservatives for their perceived concessions to liberals on issues like race, feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Network state proponents envision a network of extra-national communities that exist beyond the control of nation-states.
The Guardian contacted the Wagon Box founder and owner Paul McNiel for comment. He did not respond directly but instead posted a screenshotof the request to X appended with commentary.
There, McNiel said he was driven by “good-faith curiosity” that events there had been “largely focused on a suspicion of ‘the machine’” and boasted of the “breadth of the politics represented”, citing appearances by the likes of Patrick Deneen and Seneca Scott.
Deneen is a Notre Dame professor and conservative political theorist whose 2023 book Regime Change “offered a preview of the Trump administration’s intention to breathe fire on America’s cultural institutions” whose fans include JD Vance, the vice-president.
Scott, who McNiel described as a “90s Democrat who wants a safe community for his family and goats”, is a former union organizer based in Oakland, California, whose activism, political campaigning and social media output have targeted transgender people, homeless encampments, local media organizations, progressive politicians and city employees.……
www.theguardian.com
Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called “dissident right”, political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the “network state” movement.
The dissident right is a term that describes rightwing intellectual currents that go beyond and even attack mainstream conservatives for their perceived concessions to liberals on issues like race, feminism and LGBTQ+ rights. Network state proponents envision a network of extra-national communities that exist beyond the control of nation-states.
The Guardian contacted the Wagon Box founder and owner Paul McNiel for comment. He did not respond directly but instead posted a screenshotof the request to X appended with commentary.
There, McNiel said he was driven by “good-faith curiosity” that events there had been “largely focused on a suspicion of ‘the machine’” and boasted of the “breadth of the politics represented”, citing appearances by the likes of Patrick Deneen and Seneca Scott.
Deneen is a Notre Dame professor and conservative political theorist whose 2023 book Regime Change “offered a preview of the Trump administration’s intention to breathe fire on America’s cultural institutions” whose fans include JD Vance, the vice-president.
Scott, who McNiel described as a “90s Democrat who wants a safe community for his family and goats”, is a former union organizer based in Oakland, California, whose activism, political campaigning and social media output have targeted transgender people, homeless encampments, local media organizations, progressive politicians and city employees.……
Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right
Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards
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‘You suck!’ Ron DeSantis hit with savage chants at WWE show
Florida’s governor given rough ride by wrestling fans in Tampa
www.independent.co.ukA little levity. Some MAGA dipshirt popped his mouth off online about how all liberal influencers were, well, not manly, and he would spar with ANY of them without hesitation. Got called out by a former boxer - and then went through a couple crawfish episodes (according to the comments).
First - he said well, I meant in my weight class. Which prompted several liberal women to volunteer to spar with him.
Second - it was an all a joke, “I’m not fighting anybody”.
First - he said well, I meant in my weight class. Which prompted several liberal women to volunteer to spar with him.
Second - it was an all a joke, “I’m not fighting anybody”.
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We’re living through turbulent times, to say the least. Authoritarianism and fascism threaten the United States.
The conspiracy thinking, paranoia and manufactured outrage so characteristic of QAnon and the big lie about the 2020 election have colonized our political discourse like a fungus.
Even the National Spelling Bee, a cultural institution which will be celebrating its centennial this year and which is generally exempted from the far right’s paranoid vitriol, hasn’t been immune.
Earlier this year, a foofaraw erupted when right-wing outlets reported on the acceptance of “womyn” as an alternate spelling of “women” in the regional-level wordlist which the National Spelling Bee issues each year.
The reason “womyn” was included in the wordlist wasn’t some shadowy feminist plot by the Bee’s organizers. The competition simply allows any word in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary, unless it is obsolete.
“Womyn” is in the dictionary, along with tens of thousands of other words, such as “pointless”, “culture” and “war”.
With zero self-awareness, an anti-trans podcast host raged that the Bee’s uncontroversial decision to allow “womyn” was a manifestation of “fabricated issues” and “totally manufactured outrage.”
On Fox News, she snarled, “How lucky are we to live in the United States of America, where the spelling of women, never mind the definition, has become a national debate.”
Samantha Poetter-Parshall, a Kansas state representative, joined in the criticism, calling the inclusion of womyn an instance of “crazy indoctrination of our children.”
A parent quoted in reportage on the faux scandal shared Poetter-Parshall’s concern, asserting, “This is supposed to be about spelling and language, not ideology.”……
www.theguardian.com
The conspiracy thinking, paranoia and manufactured outrage so characteristic of QAnon and the big lie about the 2020 election have colonized our political discourse like a fungus.
Even the National Spelling Bee, a cultural institution which will be celebrating its centennial this year and which is generally exempted from the far right’s paranoid vitriol, hasn’t been immune.
Earlier this year, a foofaraw erupted when right-wing outlets reported on the acceptance of “womyn” as an alternate spelling of “women” in the regional-level wordlist which the National Spelling Bee issues each year.
The reason “womyn” was included in the wordlist wasn’t some shadowy feminist plot by the Bee’s organizers. The competition simply allows any word in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary, unless it is obsolete.
“Womyn” is in the dictionary, along with tens of thousands of other words, such as “pointless”, “culture” and “war”.
With zero self-awareness, an anti-trans podcast host raged that the Bee’s uncontroversial decision to allow “womyn” was a manifestation of “fabricated issues” and “totally manufactured outrage.”
On Fox News, she snarled, “How lucky are we to live in the United States of America, where the spelling of women, never mind the definition, has become a national debate.”
Samantha Poetter-Parshall, a Kansas state representative, joined in the criticism, calling the inclusion of womyn an instance of “crazy indoctrination of our children.”
A parent quoted in reportage on the faux scandal shared Poetter-Parshall’s concern, asserting, “This is supposed to be about spelling and language, not ideology.”……
How the word ‘womyn’ dragged the National Spelling Bee into the US culture wars
In an age of division where authoritarianism is seeping into every corner of American discourse, the Spelling Bee offers up a reminder of what America should truly be
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