Stephen Zunes, a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, is currently the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research professor at the Gothenburg University in Sweden.
Maybe we should enact a national “Don’t say Louisiana” law, and see how people from the region formerly known as L***s***a like it. We’ll call ‘em “regionians”, or maybe “areans”.
Good. It's outrageous that Europe and the US continue to hang on to their colonies and then feign moral outrage when Russia or China tries to exploit their neighbors.
You may have noticed that Haiti is a shambles these days. Well part of the reason is that after Haiti won it's independance, France demanded reparations. That's right, the colonizer demanded reparations from the nation of slaves who won their freedom. And for 122 years, until 1947, Haiti was saddled with this debt.
France also runs francophone Africa's moneterary system, which requires African countries to hold their reserved with the French central bank with no interest payments.
After France was expelled from Haiti, they forced Haiti to pay for the lost land and slaves for 122 years.
It's no wonder that nations which have had their natural resources and people exploited for hundreds of years, have had their culture and native intitutions marginalized if not exterminated, have had families decimated by slavery and political repression, and continue to be exploited even after nominal independence struggle to succeed. Of course they are owed reparations. They deserve comprehensive support, a Marshall Plan for independence. You break it, you fix it.
The Church in the
colonies is a white man's Church, a foreigners' Church. It does
not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the
white man, to the ways of the master, the ways of the oppressor.
Its positive that their position is becoming increasingly difficult to be supportiv of genocide. It creates increasing pressure to alter course. The article rightly calls out their double speak and lack of morals or ethics.
Entering force on July 1, 2024, HB 710 features a definition of obscene materials for minors that critics believe to be broad and, per the library, “ambiguous.”
“‘Sexual conduct’ means any act of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact with a person’s clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks or, if such person be a female, the breast,” reads a portion of the bill. The law provides for broad assumptions regarding material that is potentially “obscene” or “harmful to minors” for simply dealing with the subject matter of sexuality or the human body’s biological reproductive functions. Parents or guardians can arbitrarily apply these definitions against libraries accused of “promoting” material that is supposedly harmful to minors. In the law, “promoting” refers to virtually any act of selling, loaning out, and distributing books, DVDs, CDs, or other media types. The law also prohibits live performances that meet the definition of being harmful to minors. It is pretty encompassing.
Judging by this definition, the Bible should unequivocally be considered harmful to minors.
There's some pretty outright horny stuff in there. I'd say this should be challenged by using it to sue church libraries, but it looks like the bill is directed at schools and public libraries, so I'm guessing they're exempt by being private organizations.
Thanks for the links! Of course they unbanned it, but it's at least good to see there are parents/citizens calling out the hypocrisy in the first place. I know they're fighting an extremely uphill battle in red states.
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