Do they have badges? That seems entirely too official.
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This is my nightmare in this situation. Are they even federal officers, or are they armed thugs threatening kids and kidnapping women, children and men who have the misfortune to not be white? And how are we to know, if they don’t have to show warrants or even badges or ID? The stupid flak jackets marked “ICE” or “POLICE” can be bought on Amazon, for Christ’s sake! They mean nothing. Show me a badge or go away!
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Sturmabteilung didn’t end well… Of course Schutzstaffel was much worse.
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At this point I’m not even sure there’s really a difference and I’m not being flippant, I really don’t see a difference. I know even with putting that to the side, this would be an ideal way to grab lots of people for human trafficking. (And I’d be damned surprised if that hasn’t already happened at least a few times.)
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Angela Grist, a parent with two students in the play, described the Saturday morning in her house as, “The kids all got messages stating that, what the kids were told initially, was that somebody in the audience didn’t like the context of the play and said that it was demonic and disgusting and that it was immediately shut down. I got up and the kids were just so upset. I mean my daughter’s crying, my adopted son is close to tears telling me what happened. I reached out to the school and got no reply at all.”
And so it seems that the play about witch hunts, about the persecution of people out of hysteria, despite being an acknowledge American classic widely taught in high school classrooms and performed frequently on high school stages, had provoked the same moral persecution it portrayed as unjust.
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Jesus Christ… I am not surprised that’s up in Blue Ridge… 
Those poor kids.
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Good heavens, even in Arlington TX (Dick Armey’s old district, Reagan-era; I went on about it at ToP), we read that in high school.
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IIRC, The Crucible was required reading as part of the Texas public high school curriculum.
i had to read it, as did my entire class in mid- 70s texass high school literature.
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We read Miller’s Death of a Salesman instead. Such an excellent play. The best filmed version I’ve seen is with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich, a PBS production.
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Thank you for the recommendation. It looks like it isn’t available for me on PBS Passport, but it is available in Kanopy (where all great PBS programs go to eat up my monthly ticket allocation).
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In Woodinville High School we read The Crucible, Death of a Salesman and Inherit the Wind. I wonder if they are still doing them?
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SB 13 was ultimately approved by the House 81-48 and in the Senate 23-8. The bill includes definitions for what constitutes harmful material and indecent content, which led Democratic House representatives to express concerns about overzealous bans on books.
During the discussion on the House floor Monday, Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, pointed specifically to bill language requiring approved books to adhere to “local community values,” which he said could lead small, vocal groups of people to limit students’ book access. Talarico said titles often taught in public schools — like “Catcher in the Rye”, “Lonesome Dove” and the Bible — could end up banned under some of the bill’s vague and subjective interpretations.
“If your answer to ‘could “Romeo and Juliet” be banned,’ if it is anything other than ‘of course not,’ then that is a serious problem,” Talarico said.
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complicitmediamouthpiecesayswhat?
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Luigi, Luigi, Luigi!
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“The suspects identified in this case were actively involved in Nazi White Nationalist efforts,” he wrote.
Expect the charges to be dropped momentarily, then.
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