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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (300800)	9/5/2024 9:21:55 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358044

washingtonpost.com Meta content court rules ‘from the river to the sea’ isn’t hate speech Naomi Nix Meta’s company-funded oversight body ruled Wednesday that the social media giant shouldn’t automatically take down posts using the phrase “from the river to the sea,” a decades-old rallying cry for Palestinian nationalism that has reignited a national debate about the boundaries of acceptable speech. Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent collection of academics, experts and lawyers who oversee thorny content decisions on the platform, said posts they examined using the phrase didn’t violate the company’s rules against hate speech, inciting violence or praising dangerous organizations. “While [the phrase] can be understood by some as encouraging and legitimizing antisemitism and the violent elimination of Israel and its people, it is also often used as a political call for solidarity, equal rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people, and to end the war in Gaza,” the board said in its ruling....

To: Lane3 who wrote (300800)	9/5/2024 12:09:43 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358044

The reference came from an MSNBC hit piece on Trump that admitted it was referring to an example of Trump hyperbole. That is, he was suggesting this not as something that has happened, but as an extreme of what could happen if we continue to allow the trans interests, presumably, to take over classrooms. I didn’t hear the original utterance however there is a reason parents should be concerned. Union Schoolteachers are substantially (3 percentage points) more likely to be LGBT than the population at large and many have admitted on social media to pushing their lifestyle choices, or at least openly “coming out” as though it were some sort of “norm”. While adults need not feed these people, teachers are in a position to persuade and even groom children as to their own lifestyle choices. So, it should be a concern on some level, if nothing else, as a competent parent one must recognize the risk. It is not in anyway indicative of some derangement. Among some parents it would be a legitimate concern.