Hey, I just thought... man, this is stupid AND infuriating. 🙄

I was thinking about my little cousin who teaches 2nd grade, and how he was explaining to me and my other cousins about the conflicts between his White students and his Muslim students over religious ideals during our family Thanksgiving gathering. The White students didn't want to learn about Islam and Allah because in their minds, "Allah" wasn't the "one God" and thus a false idol. It was really saddening as he delved into the obvious implications of cancel culture, as well as this asinine agenda by right-wing Republicans to ban books they find "inappropriate" (read: exposing) to White children to prevent them from "indoctrination" and "feeling guilty of their White heritage". And right now, it's looking like the era of Seduction of the Innocent again, with any books covering race, gender identity, the blood this country was founded on, and African slavery brutality that literally BUILT this country being fed to flames in some states (a video surfaced of a White man using a flamethrower to roast banned, "woke" books. How about that.). 

Obviously you can see where I'm going with this. Jazz Nevermore's new Strange Pixels DW webcomic covers the current disagreements covering AI art, but in a way that aims to educate, not to divide. Very much like Matt Zimmer's Gilda and Meek and the Un-Iverse, I think everyone should give this a read, if only for the fact that it opens eyes, and opens minds. 

This relentless effort to erase what doesn't qualify as White supremacy and preservation in the name of "Christianity" from school and library shelves is in reality nothing more than an effort to aid in right-wing plans to turn this entire nation into a White nationalist autocracy/personality cult for Trump, whom the Republicans see as their REAL God (it's true; MTG literally likened him to Jesus, and when Pence ran for President, he was called a treasonous Judas. That's saying something.), despite what they want us to believe. To add to the hypocrisy, their argument that these "woke" books are "inappropriate" because of things like violence, murder, incest, and infanticide... well, an article on IowaCapitalDispatch.com put it plainly, saying the The Holy Bible, which is shoved in people's faces nearly every day as the definition of holiness, actually covers ALL of that, and has been used (and still IS being used) to justify atrocities past and current. It's the Republican right-wing saying that students of the new generation shouldn't be free to learn and be open-minded because stuffy White "Christian" old-timers believe these young scholars must accept the status quo so they themselves can keep running the joint as they're afraid of change... hence the concept of their version of "conservativism". And the worst part of is, MANY students -- White students included -- see right through the facade and are calling out the stuffy old ones for this attack on their education. It's been more than two centuries, and Republicans still don't understand the concept of separation of church and state.

Jazz and Matt, good on you for taking the fight to this bullshit crusade. People need to wake the hell up.