Tuesday, February 16, 2021
“This Is About White Supremacy And Colonization”: Teacher Group Calls For Shakespeare To Be Removed From Reading Lists
While the House managers were quoting Shakespeare in their case against President Donald Trump last week, it appears that the Bard may soon be less known than “Poor Yorick” who we once knew so well. There is a growing campaign by teachers to drop Shakespeare and other Western literature from classes. One group, #DisruptTexts, insists “This is about White supremacy and colonization.” Lorena German, National Council of Teachers of English Anti-Racism Committee chair and a co-founder of the Disrupt Texts forum, insisted “everything about the fact that he was a man of his time is problematic about his plays. We cannot teach Shakespeare responsibly and not disrupt the ways people are characterized and developed.”
Amanda McGregor, a Minnesota-based librarian wrote in the January issue of School library journal that “Shakespeare’s work is full of problematic and outdated ideas, lots of misogyny, racism, homophobia, class discrimination, anti-Semitism, misogyny”
German insisted that Shakespeare “is not ‘universal’ in a way that other authors are not. He is not more ‘timeless’ than anyone else.” Some teachers advocating replacing Shakespeare with such works as “Hunger Games.”
Shakespeare could have seen his coming when he wrote in As You Like It that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” However, the exiting of Shakespeare will come at a terrible cost for...
MORE EVIDENCE: 6% Discrepancy Between Voting Machines v. Hand Recounts for 4 GOP Candidates
No… this isn’t conspiracy theory or rumor.
This is now verified fact.
In Windham, New Hampshire, 4 GOP candidates have officially been declared winners.
But if it weren’t for the hand-recount and audit, then we would have never found out the truth.
For each of the 4 candidates from Windham, New Hampshire, the hand-recounts delivered 6% *more* votes to the GOP candidates.
This appears to suggest that the voting machines SHORTED each of the candidates by 6 percent.
To make matters even worse, it turns out that 85% of the state uses the same machines.
This has been confirmed by the state’s attorney general.
According to local WMUR 9 News:
Mistakes happen.A ballot discrepancy is being reviewed in the town of Windham after a hand recount that was conducted following the November election showed a significant change in the numbers.
After a tight race for state representative in Windham’s general election, the hand recount was conducted by the Secretary of State’s Office.
“I was short by 24 votes, which was a tough loss,” said Democratic candidate Kristi St. Laurent. “I’ve run a number of times.”
The recount found approximately 300 additional votes for each of the winning candidates, while St. Laurent, who requested the recount, lost 99 votes.
“Because the discrepancy was so great — it’s around a 6% discrepancy in vote totals — they asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate,” St. Laurent said.
According to the town, attorneys have requested information about the ballot machines and how the elections are handled. In a letter to the town, officials with the Attorney General’s Office said they will work with local election officials to implement or refine their protocols and procedures.
In the meantime, St. Laurent is pushing to have the ballots looked at again. But the Attorney General’s Office said the law prohibits more than one recount.
“I think we should be able to count them,” she said. “Now they’re just evidence. They are a paper trail for us to go back and figure out where the mistake happened and just make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
The voting-counting machine company will be at a selectmen meeting on Feb. 22.
“They have indicated that they are willing to do whatever because they want to have their name cleared,” St. Laurent said.
Windham Town Clerk Nicole Bottai released a statement that said, in part: “The town takes this alleged discrepancy extremely seriously, and we are cooperating to the full extent… Our main priority is to get to the bottom of this important matter.”
We get it.
But what’s odd is that these mistakes only ever seem to impact Republican candidates, not Democrats.
What are the odds?
Here is my public service announcement for the night!
A recent hand recount in New Hampshire (Rockingham District 7) revealed that 6% of the vote was changed by the voting machines.Go to The Gateway Pundit website for the story.— Dr. Kyle Routzahn (@pastorRoutzahn) February 12, 2021
New Hampshire AG probes recount after votes change for 8 candidates https://t.co/72GpYjpPmO https://t.co/ZFKCvXCjzx
— Mihajlo (@warriorethos) February 12, 2021
Hand Recount Finds Dominion Voting Machines Shorted EVERY REPUBLICAN in Windham, New Hampshire, 300 Votes!@csthetruth @CharlesOrtel https://t.co/RK8D9GJnAT
— Tom Trotts (@tom_trotts) February 10, 2021
The New Hampshire Attorney General is currently conducting the investigation as to what happen.
To be clear, the AG has not accused the voting machines of purposefully removing votes.
However, nothing has been ruled out.
And the optics are certainly not looking good.
According to Patch, investigators are looking into voting devices right...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #566
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1266
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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