Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: More Lies From The Right

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

More Lies From The Right

We are used to their lies, this time they have been passing post about a boy who was said he faked being trans to get into a girls locker room. But Snopes caught them in the lie.

Was a Student Suspended for Pretending to be Transgender to Use the Girls' Locker Room?
A story about a high school student talking his way into showering with girls after gym class is a work of fiction.

CLAIM
A high school student pretended to be transgender so that he could take showers in the girls' locker room during gym class.

RATING
FALSE

ORIGIN
On 22 February 2018, the entertainment web site WorldNewsDailyReport.com published a fake article which appeared to report that a student pretended be transgender as an excuse to get into the girls’ locker room and use their shower during gym class:
[…]
This is not a genuine story; World News Daily Report is an entertainment outlet that solely publishes works of fiction:
[…]
The article also used an old and unrelated photograph as illustration, actually showing an image of Warren Evans, an openly bisexual student who was suspended from a Maryland high school in 2012 for wearing a skirt:

This is not the first time that the right has tried to disparaged us and it will not be the last.

They have tried to stage a fake a man in the women’s locker in Maryland, only to brag about it on a conservative radio show to running a video ad showing a grubby man following a little girl into a bathroom.

Yesterday I headed up to Cape Cod, hence no posts yesterday.

Those who follow my blog know that we sold the family cottage in New Hampshire and I have been looking for a new cottage on the Cape.

It is so hard for me to choose a place, it seems like it is always the latest cottages that I look at that I like.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

More Lies From The Right

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