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Congratulations on your novel!!!!! 😀

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TYTY! I'm moving a little slow today, but am real glad I stopped by Your place, Ma'am. Very interesting, if somewhat discouraging, collection this week. Just a few thoughts, worth about $.02, I guess.

I thouight the judges wording on the trans-rapist Bryson was sort-a funny. The perp tried to invent “an alternative account of events”. AKA lied through his teeth.

From the article on drag queen giving sex-ed in Scotland: (Article quotes preceded by ">>>", just to confuse You. ;-)

>>> “How, who and why was this guest speaker permitted to discuss gender issues to an inappropriate child audience by an inexperienced and untrained adult?”

Sorry to see England in same boat about parents "being kept in the dark about age-inappropriate content being taught to children in sex education."

Worse materials than Scotland? Phew, can't imagine worse.

Wish we had Department for Education like You "guys" have.

Your spokeperson said: "Schools must make sure all content they use is factual and age-appropriate, and engage with parents so they are aware of what their children are being taught.

“We will write to all schools this term to emphasise the rights of parents to see teaching materials being taught to their children in schools.”

That *would* be nice.

Finally, Jonathan Simpson's essay in UnHerd was a great catch, Michelle!

I just got the barest start on it, so copied it to Word. (On the, maybe lame, assumption that will prompt me to study it in detail later.)

>>> "It is possible to create an entirely false narrative without actually lying, by exaggeration and tendentious selection."

Reminds me of the 1619 Project, here in the States.

>>> "Objectivity and truth have been the main casualties."

Yeah. And I saw that about the Wellcome Museum referred to in following.

>>> "It is palpably untrue that medical history, as presented in Medicine Man, was based on racist, sexist and ableist theories."

But just using words "racist," "sexist," and "ableist" means that, *by definition,* whatever is said is TRUTH!! <puke>

And the scandal of our Age:

>> "The first is that they are proposing a political program for the modern day, supported by a highly selective approach to the past which sees everything through the prism of race."

Yup. They see everything through a prism of race, and sex, and gender identity, and (dis)ability. Not to mention "decolonization" which is a general catch-all prism that can include a whole host-a things.

What could go wrong?

There's a special place in the underworld for Foucault. But I can't say I'd heard-a Said and his book "Orientalism." And

>>> So the call for atonement for heritable guilt is directed against some specific sector of humanity, say, white people, the British or Oxford University. This is not only irrational. It is also morally repellent. Historically, the idea that particular groups bear an inherited responsibility for some past iniquity has been the basis of ugly prejudices and vicious persecutions."

I'm glad somebody spoke these words out-loud. And I dunno about over there, but the following is one-a *the* biggest problems we face here in the U.S.:

>>> "National identity, Renan declared, did not depend on ethnic or linguistic solidarities, but on a history of collective effort, collective sacrifice and collective devotion. It depended on a consciousness of having done great things together in the past, and wanting to do more of them in future."

Future?

Well I, personally, thought the future publishing of Your latest book sounded real interesting.

TY, as always, for taking the time, Michelle!

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