Conspiracy Theories: Do people really believe these things? YES

[SouthtownKid]

IIRC ki_atsushi didn't believe in dinosaurs, he was convinced after 'chatting with his pastor' that paleontology is a global scam. Someone else, I'm not sure but I think it was Big Bear, didn't believe in the validity of carbon dating.

Wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Xavier]

‘The lunacy is getting more intense’: how Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists

On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

www.theguardian.com

 

[ratson]

A newborn christian at work is convinced satan put dinosaur bones in the ground to take souls away from god

 

[Ravarter465]

A newborn christian at work is convinced satan put dinosaur bones in the ground to take souls away from god

Really?

 

[Burning Fight!!]

To be honest I'm kind of wishing dinos are some satanic trick for real ever since paleontologists started arguing dinosaurs are feathered like oversized birds. Fuck that ghey shit, bring back Spielbergian green raptors or else.

 

[@M]

The mental gymnastics some Christians come up with to try to explain away the indisputable evidence that the Bible's creation story is horrifically inaccurate is beyond belief.

 

[sr20det510]

Florida’s Education Dept. rejects 54 school textbooks for ‘prohibited topics’

In its review of 132 math textbooks that were submitted for consideration, the Florida Department of Education rejected 54, claiming they contain ‘prohibited topics’ such as critical race theory, social-emotional learning and Common Core frameworks.

www.news4jax.com

Florida's government officials are banning math books because they teach critical race theory.

DeSantis' spokesperson posted an image of a question that caused the books rejection.
The crazy thing was the page wasn't from a textbook, it was a worksheet. The worksheet was altered.

These people must be idiots to think someone would publish a book with those questions.

Textbooks for schools are still big business it is publishers trying to fuck over each other in order to get some big fat payday.

 

[ratson]

Really?

Yes, really.

 

[voltronbadass]

A newborn christian at work is convinced satan put dinosaur bones in the ground to take souls away from god

When I hear shit like this, I really start to marvel that this person is still breathing, that they havent just died from some supremely broken thinking while driving a car or loading up the cardboard bailer at work. How is that guy still alive?

 

[sylvie]

There's a good later episode of the Soprano's where some christian zealot is explaining to Tony after a near-death experience (I think) about man existing during the dinosaurs, and tony's response is

"What? You mean like on The Flintstones?"

 

[Ajax]

Mormons say that the Earth was made out of other planets, and that dinosaur bones may have come from those planets. Isn't that shit wild?

 

[@M]

I've never heard that one before, but, that's certainly an interesting explanation! Turok must have been pissed when God stole his best stuff...

 

[Ravarter465]

Mormons say that the Earth was made out of other planets, and that dinosaur bones may have come from those planets. Isn't that shit wild?

Did you ask them what planets constitute the Earth?

 

[SML]

Florida’s Education Dept. rejects 54 school textbooks for ‘prohibited topics’

In its review of 132 math textbooks that were submitted for consideration, the Florida Department of Education rejected 54, claiming they contain ‘prohibited topics’ such as critical race theory, social-emotional learning and Common Core frameworks.

www.news4jax.com

Florida's government officials are banning math books because they teach critical race theory.

DeSantis' spokesperson posted an image of a question that caused the books rejection.
The crazy thing was the page wasn't from a textbook, it was a worksheet. The worksheet was altered.

These people must be idiots to think someone would publish a book with those questions.

Textbooks for schools are still big business it is publishers trying to fuck over each other in order to get some big fat payday.

Here's what was in some of the textbooks:

https://popular.info/p/inside-the-dangerous-math-textbooks?s=w (Not a Goatse link.)

You can judge for yourself.

I don't know if there's anything to the dot-connecting between Accelerate Learning, which now has a monopoly on K-5 textbooks, to Glenn Youngkin, who was CEO of the parent company until 2020.

Maybe Desantis just wants to look busy and manage how he stays in the news. Maybe it's a smokescreen for corrupt favoritism toward Accelerate Learning.

Ultimately, vague laws and opaque governance make all kinds of shenanigans easier to pull off.

 

[Tripredacus]

Did you ask them what planets constitute the Earth?

It is mostly Tiamat.

 

[Poison Sama]

Florida’s Education Dept. rejects 54 school textbooks for ‘prohibited topics’

In its review of 132 math textbooks that were submitted for consideration, the Florida Department of Education rejected 54, claiming they contain ‘prohibited topics’ such as critical race theory, social-emotional learning and Common Core frameworks.

www.news4jax.com

Florida's government officials are banning math books because they teach critical race theory.

To be honest, I could see how something like calculus could be interpreted as promoting CRT, since “integration” is an important aspect of both.

 

[SouthtownKid]

To be honest, I could see how something like calculus could be interpreted as promoting CRT, since “integration” is an important aspect of both.

I like it. Solid premise and well worded. Except they kind of undercut you, because CRT as it's been written and being presented is actually about accentuating and increasing divides, not integrating.

Florida's still a bunch of fucking morons for this, though. Between this and the Disney World thing, Desantis is really taking his shot at getting his name in the Guinness Book of Fucking Retards.

 

[Poison Sama]

I like it. Solid premise and well worded. Except they kind of undercut you, because CRT as it's been written and being presented is actually about accentuating and increasing divides, not integrating.

I dunno, I just don't see how acknowledging yet accepting each other's differences would divide people.

 

[SouthtownKid]

I dunno, I just don't see how acknowledging yet accepting each other's differences would divide people.

If that's what Critical Race Theory was, you'd be right. I think that's what we all assumed and hoped it was going to be. Would that it were.

 

[BIG BEAR]

IIRC ki_atsushi didn't believe in dinosaurs, he was convinced after 'chatting with his pastor' that paleontology is a global scam. Someone else, I'm not sure but I think it was Big Bear, didn't believe in the validity of carbon dating.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't me but I don't mind owning some of the above quote
BB

 

[Lagduf]

CRT is the new ANTIFA I guess.

Congress sucks.

 

[Claudia Schiffer]

I dunno, I just don't see how acknowledging yet accepting each other's differences would divide people.

i dunno. some aspects of CRT seem to be akin to "the original sin". all you white people are sinners from the moment you are born, therefore you must repent! "acknowledging yet accepting each other's differences" seems like an idealized and palatable simplification...similar to "MAGA just means we want to make the US better for all americans".

 

[Late]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't me
BB

Aight, my bad.

 

[SouthtownKid]

"acknowledging yet accepting each other's differences" seems like an idealized and palatable simplification.

It's what any reasonable and compassionate person would assume it meant, based solely on the name. But unfortunately, no.

 

[SML]

CRT is the new ANTIFA I guess.

Congress sucks.

It looks like SEL is supposed to be the new CRT.