The applicants made it clear the space wouldn’t be just for LGBTQ+ students. It would be for anyone who needs to “just breathe for a second,” said one of the students who confronted the adults Nov. 14.
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The grant asks for just one thing — that they identify the sponsors, something that every grant does, one school board member reminded the room. In this case, it would be with one simple phrase anywhere in the space: “It Gets Better.”
I really wish they would give at least a tiny bit of context to this summary. It would be nice to just know if it was purely malicious or if it was due to some sort of bureaucratic nonsense where they have some sort of strict rules in place that forces them to refuse grants of any kind or something.
Either way it would be ridiculous to refuse… But for fuck’s sake at least offer a little bit of context… The summary here just reads like pure outrage porn…
Pitchforks and torches are fucking tiring to carry around all the damn time…
Edit: just read the full article and yeah that’s fucked up… school board voted against the grant because of the organization it was coming from and clearly had no desire to evaluate the project on its own merits… The dissenting opinion from one member of the board is actually a really good one and would recommend anyone curious to go read it.
I didn’t see any dissenting opinion in the article. I really can’t fathom what the could but up as a valid defense of this.
Is hope indoctrination?
“I don’t know where this started that it’s going to be indoctrination and talk about sexuality,” said Sharon Carter, one of only two school board members who voted in favor of the grant that night.
Ooohh, ok, I misunderstood what you meant. I thought you were referring to one of the troglodytes who voted to reject the funds… that they had an opinion worth reading. Got it!
You know, I feel like there was a time before Trump when I could look at an outrage headline and assume the truth was more nuanced. It usually did work out that way. After some point, not only was there no nuance to it, but the truth was even worse than the headline let on.
Meh, the world was crazy before Trump and it’s going to remain crazy long after he is gone. I didn’t care for the guy all that much but I can’t see the point in treating him like some giant milestone in American politics.
People thought it was insane that we elected an actor to serve as President just a few decades ago and acted in much the same way then as people act about Trump today.
Well, for starters he was the first president to try to retain the office despite losing an election.
We should never normalize that.
I hope the members of that school board who supported its rejection are exposed and mercilessly harassed by the internet so they never know another day of peace in their miserable lives until they finally succumb to the pressure and do the world a favor by deciding to exit it.
That town is too far under the heel of Liberty University and Lynchburg Christian Academy for them to suffer much consequence.
Unfortunately, I can’t point at a place on the map and say "Volcano time a-go-go baby!’ and have a volcano spontaneously erupt there.
Shit like this makes me truly believe that the GOP needs to be an illegal operation.
Looks like the next generation of this town is going to be voting solidly blue from now on.
Unfortunately none of them will stay in the town. They will move to blue states.
Or kill themselves. It’s really funny how easy people think it is to move to blue states. Suicide is often a much easier and more appealing option tbh.
You have a point and suicide rates are up, last year was the highest they’ve been since WWII https://time.com/5609124/us-suicide-rate-increase
