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Hmmm….   Me either. 

Do you think they don’t exist anywhere, or that there aren’t as many as FOX would have you believe?

I think there is a moral panic on the left, and they are pervasive on social media, from what I can tell.  Things like the outrage over the views of Rowling and the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins come to mind as examples.

Concerns that exist:  a school, statue, or pub is named after somebody who did something awful 200 years ago.

Moral panic: doctors performing double mastectomies on healthy adolescent girls.


 -k

I know 2 woke people.  They are in their 20's and early 30's.  They have university degrees.  They went into university not woke then came out woke.

I know 2 woke people.  They are in their 20's and early 30's.  They have university degrees.  They went into university not woke then came out woke.

Yes, the education system has turned into a propaganda machine, churning out woke activists.  Teachers have become political brainwashers instead of actual teachers, teaching math, science, history, etc.

Incorrect.

Do they look like the cartoon that Shady posted ?

Why are they "woke" people versus people who have "woke" opinions such as you or I ?

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Bremerton assistant football coach Joseph Kennedy had the right to pray on the field, it wasn’t widely understood then that the court had also ordered the school district to give him his job back.

The day of the ruling, Fox News host Sean Hannity expressed doubts the district would follow through. But one of Kennedy’s lawyers clarified that they had no choice: “We’re ready to have that fight. If they want to defy the Supreme Court, I think they’re gonna realize they made a serious mistake.”

Kennedy was sunnier about it all.

“As soon as the school district says ‘Hey, come back,’ I am there, first flight,” he said.

So the school district has been flummoxed about what’s happened since. They complied by offering to reinstate him, they say, and now the football season is in full swing. But Kennedy is nowhere near the sidelines.

“He’s had the paperwork for his reinstatement since August 8th, and we haven’t gotten so much as a phone call,” says Karen Bevers, spokesperson for Bremerton schools.

At one point during oral arguments, as a different school district attorney was saying the narrative that had been spun didn’t fit with the facts — that the coach’s prayers were neither silent nor solitary, nor was he fired — Justice Samuel Alito interrupted him, saying “I know that you want to make this very complicated.”

Alito persisted in asking about the coach being fired — six times he said it, to the point that the lawyer finally corrected him. Which is a touchy thing to do with a Supreme Court justice.

“It’s not a question of firing, and in fact, he was put on paid leave,” the lawyer pleaded, fruitlessly, to Alito.

In the end, it all was too complicated. The effect of the court’s order is that Bremerton has to reinstate someone who didn’t apply for the job then and doesn’t appear eager for it now. It’s as if the justices wanted to script an ending for a Christian redemption movie. But real life isn’t cooperating.