This is an overreaction, but I don't see the point of the book-burning either. I mean, I'm a pagan who converted from Christianity but you don't see me out in public burning the bible.
Which is again, not to say that this riot wasn't an overreaction. You have a bunch of people with this idea that if one thing happens in one country, that country has that thing happening all the time. It wasn't even a Swedish dude, it was an Iraqi dude although god only knows what the media is saying. Still, come on. I know it's a sacred text but Christians are going to do that to any sacred text but their own.
The guy shouldn't have done it, especially since the Muslin world has been shown to be very sensitive on this topic. But I can't help but think that if Americans stormed an embassy every time someone abroad burned the US flag, the UN would have to move.
Just burn a Bible in front of the Swedish embassy and go on with your lives.
I fully understand the logic in play here. Been on enough flights out of ORD during the winter where pilots just don’t give a fuck. If you go back to the gate, you will be grounded and nobody is leaving. If you stay on the tarmac “waiting” for as long as possible, there are good odds you get to take off. Pilots want to get out of the airport just as much as passengers do.
There need to be stronger safety regulations to prevent this from happening. But it is very easy to imagine a situation where the pilots didn’t realize how bad it was getting in the cabin and figured “We’ll be given the green light to taxi to a runway any second now”
Hard to say since news organizations had to sue this department to get these numbers and pretty much every department is always trying to sweep dirt under the rug like that
According to the FBI, around 51% of murders in 2021 were solved. So this is just a bit lower than the federal numbers. The number doesn’t shock me, I think solving a murder is very hard and technology can only offer so much more info. Proving murder beyond a doubt is also very difficult, like OJ. We all know he killed his ex wife and her boyfriend, but prosecutors couldn’t prove he did it within the court context. An “unsolved” murder that has a solution.
That’s 51% in one year though, in STL if they only did 60% over the 6 year span of 2017 to 2023 then they haven’t hit 51% in any given year, unless they just completely stopped post covid.
I live in stl and can say it feels like they did completely stop post covid but I don’t know for sure, I know they had a “silent protest” for a while while Kim Gardner was in office but that’s over now that she’s resigned as circuit attorney and someone competent took over.
The Florida Department of Education says the new standards don’t teach that slavery was beneficial.
However, one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Either this is some very unfortunate phrasing for establishing that people like Phillis Wheatley are required material (and even then it was less ‘thanks to’ and more ‘in spite of’) or something more nefarious is afoot.
He doesn’t want ANYONE learning about anything even remotely bad ever happening anywhere in FL or the US ESPECIALLY if it was white people exploiting someone none white.
More to the point I think Ron DeSantis doesn’t want white kids learning about everything that happened to black people or they might grow up vote against racist policies and the candidates that support those racist policies.
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