{"id":16293,"date":"2020-01-23T05:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16293"},"modified":"2020-01-23T05:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:45:24","slug":"quick-takes-california-madness-genderless-graduates-preteen-polyamory-liquidating-kulaks-as-a-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/01\/23\/quick-takes-california-madness-genderless-graduates-preteen-polyamory-liquidating-kulaks-as-a-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 California Madness: Genderless Graduates; Preteen Polyamory; Liquidating Kulaks as a Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: California, the land of genderless preteen polyamerous Communists!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7IDmF1O4cNM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When you gotta go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-departments-ditch-genderless-term-alumni-for-genderless-alumnx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">super-genderless<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCollege departments across the country are avoiding the term \u2018alumni,\u2019 opting instead to use \u2018alumnx,\u2019 even though the original term is gender neutral.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA Google search of the term \u2018alumnx\u2019 returns a long list of results from American colleges using the term, though most are specific to departments and specialized resource centers. They include the University of California-San Diego, Syracuse University, University of Michigan and Loyola University of Maryland, primarily on LGBTQ+ resource pages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe term \u2018alumni\u2019 is a latin word that derives from the root word \u2018alumnus,\u2019 meaning \u2018pupil,\u2019 according to the online etymology dictionary. \u2018Alumni\u2019 is the gender-neutral plural form of the word. Some websites use \u2018alumnx\u2019 and \u2018alumni\u2019 interchangeably.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Monogomy is so doubleplusungood, that the schools have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2019\/07\/15\/california-public-schools-promote-polyamory-for-pre-teens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teach kids that polyamory is spiffy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was a California teacher who discovered the \u2018LGBT Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force.\u2019 She was reviewing the state Department of Education\u2019s \u2018health; lesson mandates for the fall and stumbled across a term she didn\u2019t know. She went to look it up, and was led to the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCalifornia instructs teachers to talk to youngsters about sex \u2018partners.\u2019 They are to avoid terms like \u2018boyfriend\u2019 and \u2018girlfriend\u2019 because \u2018some students may be non-monogamous.\u2019 This is in the lesson plan for 12-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere it is. The American Psychological Association reaching its crusty paw all the way down to pre-pubertal kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Private ownership of homes and land is against Communist ideology, and it is being taught that said private ownership is <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=14183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA University of California-Los Angeles professor made her views on climate change public in a recent op-ed, questioning American private homeownership in response to climate change, particularly California\u2019s forest fires.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cProfessor Kian Goah, assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA, whose expertise includes urban ecological design, spatial politics, and social mobilization in the issues of climate change and global urbanization, argued in an op-ed for The Nation that what makes the California forest fires even worse is urban planning. Its subtitle reads, \u2018if we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2019Yes, climate change intensifies the fires\u2014but the ways in which we plan and develop our cities makes them even more destructive. The growth of urban regions in the second half of the 20th century has been dominated by economic development, aspirations of homeownership, and belief in the importance of private property,\u2019 she writes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag.jpg 730w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"California Madness: Genderless Graduates; Preteen Polyamory; Liquidating Kulaks as a Class\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: California, the land of genderless preteen polyamerous Communists!\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: California, the land of genderless preteen polyamerous Communists! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/01\/23\/quick-takes-california-madness-genderless-graduates-preteen-polyamory-liquidating-kulaks-as-a-class\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[65,25,24,48,68],"class_list":["post-16293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16295,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions\/16295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}