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TigressDem

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14. SO I found a source of misleading "fact checking" that Grandson probably would read.
Sun Feb 26, 2023, 11:43 AM
Feb 2023

My Grandson claims his school is teaching him about Jim Crow laws and segregation and that Joe Biden voted for Jim Crow Laws - ie segregation.

Well, I am pretty sure I know where the confusion is, but I need to verify certain things with the school.

A) Are they teaching the students that ANY law that maintains segregation is "essentially" a Jim Crow Law?
OR
B) Are they teaching about BOTH Jim Crow Laws as they existed in the South before the Voting Rights Act
AND
C) Laws in general that maintain segregation in more recent history?
Delaware has been put in the "South" and "North" in various scenarios relating to segregation. Kid COULD have a point.

I know the ACLU had issues with Biden being against "bussing" but Biden was more against it because it put the weight of desegregation on the children and he had kids in school at the time.

He thought that actual low income housing reform would be a better answer but he was in his late 20's and with more reading, I see that he had his own hubris. But the Biden of today has learned from mistakes and pushes a more robust civil rights agenda.



Biden called Georgia's voting restriction law out as a Jim Eagle Law - as in bigger than Jim Crow and as voting rights go, IT IS.
Because it makes those being re-elected in charge of the election process from begininng to end.

The Daily Signal panders to the conservative base saying it does NOT do the things that Biden said it does to restrict voting.

Daily Signal also equates getting certain funding OUT of local election administration is preventing fraud.
This change DOES NOT target Citizen's United Super Pacs that actually DO try to buy elections with fraudulant ads, only the type of funding local governments needed/reached out to use in helping adjust to increased demands during the pandemic.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/01/11/fact-checking-6-claims-from-bidens-voting-rights-speech/



I need to make a diagrahm that shows how the OLD Georgia Laws PROTECTED Seperation of POWERS a KEY to maintaining THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE over elected officials. And how the NEW Georgia Law concentrates the power to decide elections in those BEING ELECTED, not the previous moderators - who although possibly partisan, still held accuontable to do their job.


ACTUAL LAW SB 202
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/201498


Analysis of SB 202 - NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/us/politics/georgia-voting-law-annotated.html


SO NYT goes line by line with the changes and shows what it was before and what was removed.



I need to show my Grandson that there is a HUGE difference with INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM that digs deep and tells the truth and "fact checking that cherry picks partial truths" and denies allegations that are true if you read the entire bill, study or statement.


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I would absolutely cut off contact, just for a little while until you can get your Scrivener7 Feb 2023 #1
Hard to do. They live in my house. TigressDem Feb 2023 #4
Wow, that's tough. I still don't like that you are thinking that way, though. Scrivener7 Feb 2023 #10
UPDATE: The Rock visualization WORKED. TigressDem Apr 2023 #18
I am so glad to hear that things are going better for you and that you got an answer that Scrivener7 Apr 2023 #27
Thank you. TigressDem Apr 2023 #28
I have no advice for you yet thinking of you sending hugs Duncanpup Feb 2023 #2
Thanks TigressDem Feb 2023 #5
magatism randr Feb 2023 #3
Kind of like stepping in it... TigressDem Feb 2023 #7
Sending you love and my only suggestion is to do what is best for you and your hubby. MLAA Feb 2023 #6
Thanks. Good idea. TigressDem Feb 2023 #8
Whew! An end to the madness is in sight! MLAA Feb 2023 #9
My Dad had a joke long ago. TigressDem Feb 2023 #13
MY SON MOVED OUT this past weekend. TigressDem Apr 2023 #19
YEAH! You have reclaimed your home! MLAA Apr 2023 #20
Still working on it and Son is in and out getting more of their stuff. TigressDem Apr 2023 #22
he is in for a rude surprise if he thinks rent is cheap down here yellowdogintexas Feb 2023 #11
He will probably wind up in some area they stash Mexicans, get a tan and get pulled over a lot. TigressDem Feb 2023 #15
Wow vercetti2021 Feb 2023 #12
SO I found a source of misleading "fact checking" that Grandson probably would read. TigressDem Feb 2023 #14
You did great research. But just a head's up, it is very difficult to get those who have been emulatorloo Mar 2023 #17
Riight? TigressDem Apr 2023 #23
That is a great plan! emulatorloo Apr 2023 #24
Both Son and Grandson are ADHD so I never have more than 2 sentences before they drift away. TigressDem Apr 2023 #26
You are a saint. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2023 #16
I DID put my foot down about discussing politics. TigressDem Apr 2023 #21
Oh second item.... TigressDem Apr 2023 #25
'The bigger they are...' heh. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Apr 2023 #29
Yeah... GMa has warned them, don't mess with me. I will break you. TigressDem Apr 2023 #30
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