Injustice Systems

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The teen, whose identity is being withheld because of his age, was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, two days after he was arrested and housed at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in June 2019, the lawsuit said. Medical records reviewed by The Times show that the teen’s testosterone levels were “slightly high” when the doctor who diagnosed him prescribed daily doses of estrogen.

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witnessla has the complaint.

https://witnessla.com/new-lawsuit-tells-of-16-yr-old-boy-allegedly-forced-by-probation-officials-to-take-estrogen-as-medication-to-control-his-behavior/

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When faced with injustice-- including the secret police in Portland-- a lot of people assume the victims must have done something to provoke and/or deserve the injustice.

Some reasons:

They may support those inflicting the injustice, and want to explain this away.

They may hate those suffering the injustice.

They may want to assure themselves that they are safe against similar injustices.

They may insinuate that the victims deserved it to drive any victims and/or allies from the platform.

And so on.

How can we get through?

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“They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

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The answer, of course, is yes. Still worth reading, though.

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I beg to differ
the atheists, agnostics, deists, humanists

The Wiccans
the Pagans
the Odinists
the Pastafarians


Maybe not a significant part of the population, but I can’t see all of them not speaking up to protect their fellow human beings.

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They went after many of them as well.

Smaller religious minorities such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Bahá’í Faith were banned in Germany, while the eradication of Judaism by the genocide of its adherents was attempted. The Salvation Army, the Christian Saints[clarification needed] and the Seventh-day Adventist Church all disappeared from Germany, while astrologers, healers, fortune tellers, and witchcraft were banned. However, the small pagan “German Faith Movement” supported the Nazis.
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the regime strongly opposed “Godless Communism”[170][171] and all of Germany’s freethinking (freigeist), atheist, and largely left-wing organizations were banned
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany

I did not know that the guy who originally gave the speech actually initially supported the Nazis and later ended up in a concentration camp. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_
) I’d always heard it in the same sense as “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

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A religion of cruelty exists to protect stupid rich people. The smart rich people are too stupid to realize they need regular people who are not guards. To make their conveniences.

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THIS. I just had a man in my office who was talking about how he was able to handle the police because he could look them in the eye. And it was just absurd. Cops know all the tricks.

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Okay, without looking it up, it’s either Burke, or someone with the first name of Thomas from England, eh?

All I know is that this shit’s been going on and off for millennia; and that, for some reason, USUALLY, an age of enlightenment follows.

And I have a BIG problem with the thought of Pastafarians just doing nothing.
https://www.newsweek.com/i-pastafari-church-flying-spaghetti-monster-interview-1515169

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