shared misery is a goal.

 

That's one of those headlines which I honestly didn't believe could be factually correct until I checked it for myself.

But, yeah. Oregon has removed the requirement that its high school graduates be literate. And the gov did specifically say that testing high school students to ensure basic literacy and math proficiency is harmful to “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”

As a Hispanic person, I am honestly offended by this.

 

Any person should be offended by this. But, as one Hispanic to another . . . what in the heck is a Hispanic person anyway? The Spanish Empire was once as expansive as the British and encompassed all kinds of people. I hate being categorized or labeled as a member of a "group" rather than recognized as an individual. That said, I take pride in my individual heritage and honor my ancestors -- as we all should.

End rant.

 

My own personal interpretation is that it is a person who is from Spain, or is descended from Spanish ancestry.

As a practical matter, this does cover a lot of territory. (Thanks, King Ferdinand II!)

Which is why I get that the term "Latino" came to be, which more specifically refers to the "new world" Spanish-descended peoples of Central and South America and The Caribbean. So I guess I'm also sort-of Latino, given that while my grandparents are from Spain, the family had fled to Cuba during the civil war prior to the birth of my father and his brothers. I am not ethnically Latino, but that's a blurry line.

Latinx just annoys the absolute hell out of me. The Spanish language inherently assigns gendered attributes to nouns, including those which refer to inanimate objects.

For non-Hispanic liberals to come along and decide that they need to de-gender the Spanish language in order to satisfy their own sense of social morality is, in modern terms, colonialist and a form of cultural appropriation.

 

I always loved it when I would go in, order an ice cream cone, and they would mindlessly (or because the cash register required it), ask me if this was for dine-in or take-out. I would respond.... "If I say take-out, are you going to put my ice cream cone in a bag?"

DNM

 

I can't speak for the other 53, but in Ohio, dine-in incurs an additional tax.

 

 

What a desperate cuck. But then again, I hear of guys that will sleep on the couch because their woman is mad at them.

Guess what lady. I bought the house, I bought the bed. If you don't want to sleep next to me, you can pick the couch or the spare bedroom, because I'm sleeping on my bed.

 

This is pretty much the exact conversation that I had with my wife 8 years ago the first time she was mad enough at me to tell me I was "sleeping on the couch tonight" - she has never tried a second time to suggest that idea.

"This is my bed, and I'll be sleeping in it tonight. If you don't want to sleep next to me, you're welcome to sleep in any other room of the house."

 

wait you guys are allowed to sleep in the bed? ****.

 

Yep, I laugh when I hear guys say that kind of crap. I'm old enough (I'll be 40 next year) that I'd rather not have you around if you're going to be a constant pain in my ***.

 

remember kids, the left was always against banning books.

 

Are school book sales no longer a thing? I think most of the books I read as a kid that didn't come from the library, were from school book sales. Better than destroying them. Hell, donate them to the center for kids who can't read good, and who wanna learn to do other stuff good too.

 

They are.

However, books which do not conform to the presently-extant standards of social correctness cannot be sold. They must be destroyed.

I weep for Ramona Quimby and Ralph S. Mouse.

 

Alas, I was already a teenager when her first book was published. All we had when I was in my early years was Dick and Jane and Spot. Henry Huggins would have been much more interesting.

 

Dick and Jane aren't safe either. People have been attacking that series for decades, based on the fact that it includes "traditional" stereotypes of race, class and gender.

I would honestly be surprised to find them on the shelf of any elementary school library in a liberal town.

 

I remember being depressed by Dick and Jane. It was clear from those books (and observing my Dad) that my role was solely to work.

Thank goodness for feminism.

 

I remember Ramona and Ralph.

 

My wife still has all her old Trixie Belden books (hardback, of course).

 

It's crazy what a few liberal children can do to this world...