#MAGA censorship

[sprites4ever]

UPDATE: THIS WAS WRONG. THE TRANSGENDER SURGERIES SUBREDDIT WAS BANNED DUE TO AN ERROR BY REDDIT. IT HAS BEEN REINSTATED. SORRY FOR SPREADING MISINFORMATION.

Reddit, an American company, caved to Trump's agenda and started banning communities such as TransgenderSurgeries, fearing sanctioning from the American government.

Free speech is only what they allow to be spoken.

[tomorrowusa]

« Why do children’s stories about the Civil Rights era generate such visceral MAGA opposition, including passionate demands to ban books in schools and libraries? Because the savages in these stories are not hatchet-wielding Indians on the prairie or slaves bound on ships from Africa. They are Southern white Christian conservatives who blow up little girls in church, shoot Black heroes in the back and murder courageous young men under the cowardly cover of a Mississippi night.

[ … ]

There was a time when mindless natives whooped and scalped their way through the stylized plains of 1950s Hollywood. Conservatives continue to view that era as a cultural lodestar. But the old sets have been struck. »

— Francis Wilkinson at Talking Points Memo, one of the most enduring political blogs.

Yeah, concepts like the "winning of the west" and the "paternalistic plantation owner" will die hard with rightwingers.

It's true that Hollywood and even the early years of TV programming had much to do with perpetrating these distortions of history. But as long ago as the late 1960s attempts were being made to take a more reality-based view of history.

This is actually from a comedy group called "The Firesign Theater" The blurb at YouTube gives the original release date as 1968. Although it's obviously satire, it must have given people back then a more unvarnished view of history than John Wayne films.

So the effort to demythologize the more blatant distortions in US history goes back more than half a century. The difference is that it's now trending mainstream and therefore is being strongly resisted by those with an interest in preserving such distortions.

[lenbryant]

MAGA parents will have our school theater departments producing drivel instead of drama before you know it. They wouldn't want children feeling uncomfortable or raising WOKE issues. I guess the 2,500-year old "Oedipus" with all its murder, incest, suicide, mythical beasts, and bloody, self-inflicted eye disgorgement is out of the question now?

(NYT) It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama

At a time when lawmakers and parents are seeking to restrict what can and cannot be taught in classrooms, many teachers are seeing efforts to limit what can be staged in their auditoriums.

July 4, 2023

Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga for a decade, but he never faced a school year like this one.

A proposed production of “She Kills Monsters” at a neighboring girls’ school that would have included his students was rejected for gay content, he said. A “Shakespeare in Love” at the girls’ school that would have featured his boys was rejected because of cross-dressing. His school’s production of “Three Sisters,” the Chekhov classic, was rejected because it deals with adultery and there were concerns that some boys might play women, as they had in the past, he said.

School plays — long an important element of arts education and a formative experience for creative adolescents — have become the latest battleground at a moment when America’s political and cultural divisions have led to a spike in book bans, conflicts over how race and sexuality are taught in schools, and efforts by some politicians to restrict drag performances and transgender health care for children and teenagers.

For decades student productions have faced scrutiny over whether they are age-appropriate, and more recently left-leaning students and parents have pushed back against many shows over how they portray women and people of color. The latest wave of objections is coming largely from right-leaning parents and school officials.

The final act in Dallimore’s yearlong drama in Chattanooga? He learned that his position at McCallie School, along with that of his counterpart at the nearby Girls Preparatory School, was being eliminated. They were invited to apply for a single new position overseeing theater at both schools; both educators are now out of the jobs.

“This is obviously a countrywide issue that we are a small part of,” Dallimore said. “It’s definitely part of a bigger movement — a strongly concerted effort of politics and religion going hand in hand, banning books and trying to erase history and villainizing otherness.”

A McCallie spokeswoman, Jamie Baker, acknowledged that the two school theater positions had been eliminated so the programs could be combined but said that “implying or asserting in any way that the contract of McCallie’s theater director was not renewed because of content concerns would be inaccurate.�� She noted that the school has a “Judeo-Christian heritage and commitment to Christian principles,” and added, “That we would and will continue to make decisions aligned with these commitments should be no surprise to anyone.”

Drama teachers around the country say they are facing growing scrutiny of their show selections, and that titles that were acceptable just a few years ago can no longer be staged in some districts. The Educational Theater Association released a survey of teachers last month that found that 67 percent say censorship concerns are influencing their selections for the upcoming school year.

(Photo) After a production of “Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood” was canceled by a school in Fort Wayne, Ind., the students staged it at a local outdoor theater.Matt McClain/The Washington Post, via Getty Images

[rejectingrepublicans]

Elongated Muskrat is shutting down MAGA accounts that are criticizing him over his desire to replace American tech workers with Indians. He can pay the tech workers from India next to nothing.

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[q1mblrrd]

Thank President Trump? He's the one who proposed the bill to ban it in 2020. Trump started the bill to ban TikTok. This whole "banning" stunt was just for publicity, Trump wants to increase his popularity especially in the younger (dare I say more progressive) generation. By "saving" TikTok, Trump assumes that we will all forget about everything he's done and just blame Biden, BUT IT WAS HIM. HE WANTED TO BAN IT. DONT FALL FOR THIS BS.

We are NOT stupid.

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[godisarepublican]

[jasondamien93]

Exactly! 💯

[humnooshop]

Read more banned books.

(Redbubble)

[kingshiddywinkle]

Just hearing about trumps new lil crypto currency called Trump Meme. Is this the same kind of idea with the Disney frozen conspiracy thing? Where you look up disney frozen and you get the movie instead of the frozen head theory???

"The only OFFICAL Trump meme"...

This feels like another way for him to control what people see on the internet.

Thoughts???

[relaxedstyles]

[dosesofcommonsense]

I’ve reached a point where I cannot respond to the hateful, “you should kill yourself”, “you’ve got a small dick” projection messages.

So, to everyone who sees these, some housekeeping items.

To my outright followers, THANK YOU. I made this page for us. You are not alone. #wwg1wga

To the people who look in time to time, by all means search, learn, comment, reblog, share away.

To the hateful, the only people - and I repeat the ONLY people who ever drop those hate-filled, projection messages - those people are communists and socialists.

Like Elon Musk recently said, “Free speech isn’t free unless you let people say things you disagree with.” I’m all for free speech. And while there is no such thing as hate speech, you can say hateful and reprehensible things. Furthermore, while there is no hate speech, there are things that most baseline moral people agree don’t belong on social media, like telling someone to go kill themselves. Not every adult can deal with that, and not every account on here is used by a legal adult. Suicide messages aren’t cool.

So, if you see a “go kill yourself” message, report it.

If you see a “fuck off you little, dicked weasel”, let it be and know it’s being posted by a communist/socialist who’s projecting their fears of inadequacy onto someone, anyone else.

To my followers, thank you.

To everybody, check out the video.

The haters: “You post pro-America, love of country, love of patriots, pro-individual rights, pro-liberty, anti-corporation, small government, common sense things. I’m offended.”

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[maydayintheforest]

I don’t know about yall but my “political extremism” is gonna really shine through come Monday 😋