The amendment appears on a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. If it remains in the final bill, the amendment would cut 15% of federal adoption funding to states and localities that penalize adoption agencies that refuse to place children in families that conflict with the agency’s “sincerely held religious beliefs or convictions.”
it hasn’t happened yet, so there’s still time to reach out to your representatives about it
also, i can guarantee you that no big media outlets are ever not bothering to cover huge stories that a lot of people care about
In Modern America and by politically far right groups throughout the world statements are being made to try to push people of their countries to racist beliefs under the guise of economics or protection of their countries, these statements are false and have been used in the past by fascists and even by the United States.
Note: The sources are in the order of the information that is given, all of which are credible sources and many of which are direct, or quoting direct government information.
1. Myth: Immigration is increasing, The Truth: Immigration to America is and has been slowing significantly, both illegal and legal, since 2005 when we had the greatest number of immigrants coming over to America. Illegal immigration has also almost stagnated and is at equilibrium meaning that the number of illegal immigrants coming over are the same amount as the people who are living.
2. Myth: The majority of immigrants are Mexican or Hispanic. The Truth, over the past 40 years Mexico was the dominating group for immigration to the United States due largely to its medium population, and the spike in crime due to the introduction of dangerous drugs such as cocaine and heroin into Mexico by the CIA in the Contra Drug Trafficking, and after the regions in South and Central America were weakened by the American war on communism. This lead many Hispanic people to search for a better life, for safety in America. However; currently the majority of immigrants both legal and illegal are coming from China/Hongkong, or India, where increasing levels of population cause difficulty in finding employment. The reason that there are more Hispanic immigrants in the country is because they have been coming over for a much longer period of time at a steady rate.
3. Myth: The immigrants who come over are “lazy”, “thieves”, or “rapists.” The Truth: Immigrants or non-naturalized citizens make up 14.1% of the population and have a lower unemployment rate than naturalized citizens. This claim that is usually part of a stating that they are a drain on the government or are taking from government welfare programs, the truth of this matter is, they aren’t. Illegal immigrants have very little access to government programs unless victims of human trafficking, and the ones they have access to are WIC, which gives food to Women, infants, and children, and Emergency Medicaid, both of which together cost 2 billion, which is 1% of the Medicaid budget and 0.01% of the total US budget. Legal immigrants are also less likely to go off of government assistance from fear of losing citizenship because of it which under federal regulation they can if they are likely to be “primarily dependent on the government for subsistence” in which case they can loose their green cards, and can even cause deportation of permanent residents. It is also estimated that all losses due to illegal immigrants are made back up by their addition to social security that they themselves can never receive. Lastly immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than naturalized citizens, this is evident in how despite crimes are more likely to be reported against all poc especially against Hispanics with the racist threat of deportation there are less reports of crimes against immigrants both legal and illegal per person and jailing per person than for naturalized citizens. This is also seen that despite immigrants coming into the country at a rate that only started decreasing in 2006 while crime has declined since 1970, as well as that states with large amounts of immigration legal and illegal including states with sanctuary cities often claimed to cause havens of crime and drugs, actually have declining rates of crime and lower crime than cities with smaller immigrant populations. This statements that are used to place that immigrants are a burden upon society or that they are rapists, bringing with them crime and danger is rooted in American Nationalism and Isolationism, and racism, currently supported by America First defenders, in firstly anti-Irish immigration following the potato famine, and then later against jewish people both before the Holocaust and after, under fear that they were communists that were going to disrupt the American system and many were illegally deported, additional reading on parallels and on this is in the sources below.
4. Myth: Why don’t they just come over legally? The Truth: This article does a nearly perfect job explaining this but to quote the article title “Why don’t they just get in line? There is No Line.”
5. Myth: Europe is being destroyed by violent crimes from the refugees, mainly from Syria. The Truth: While some areas were not prepared economically for the influx of people, and had some financial issues many areas where helped financially while crime has remained stagnant or gone down in areas where refugees are. Myths exist about how “Sweden is the Rape Capital of the World” as Donald Trump stated however this simply is not true, upon looking at the information Sweden has had a stagnant number of sexual crimes for a decade, this myth is due to two main factors, firstly Sweden has more sexual crime than other countries per population because it charges each sexual assault as a seperate action and because compared to many other countries rape is more often reported and more often strongly investigated,and secondly because the sensationalization of these acts in Sweden by many people supporting isolationist views or nationalist views as an example of how these refugees are causing issues while the cases would normally not be broadcast to such a high degree. Sweden has also been hit with rumors, due to the large number of migrants that it took in, more than any other country per dollar, which created a rumor of “no go zones” where reported the police will not go; however these do not exist, what does exist however is “vulnerable areas” which is a project started by the Swedish police to label areas with more active crime, and where gangs may exist in order to better deal with these areas, which usually requires, more police the opposite of no police, the number of these areas have grown after the refugees were brought in, while this would seem to signal a rise in lawlessness in these areas to people such as Nigel Farage, in truth these cities have actually had decreasing crime and have been added to the list because of the increased analysis abilities of the Swedish police. Sometimes the myth is brought farther back into America saying that refugees are causing rape and crime in America; which was largely seen in the Nationwide broadcasting of information about a rape case where two young refugee men reportedly raped a minor, which was later found to be false after they were convicted from Islamophobic pressure from the nation and the townspeople, and they were sent to jail only to be later freed after being shown around the nation as rapists. This lead to the stating of the Syrian Refugee Crisis a crisis that never actually existed as the majority of refugees like any other immigrants began to settle calmly and peacefully into their new homes, with refugees the unemployment is extremely low and crime rates drop dramatically in cities where they become a large part of the population. However the falsehoods about a crisis still exist despite being debunked and are largely believed however they are simply untrue.
This did not address many current issues because this was mainly going against far right rhetoric in order to shed some light on the true situation by providing factual information with sources that should not be able to be argued against as being fake, as they are mostly neutral except for ones where I either felt that the source usually leaning was neutral on this topic or had more information or where there was a dearth of true information on the topic by a variety of sources.
If there are any other issues that you want me to discuss in this manner with a variety of sources, or maybe one of the above in more detail tell me, this does not mean I will get into individual discussions it means I will make another post like this; however I will likely do many more on similar topics regardless.
In Modern America and by politically far right groups throughout the world statements are being made to try to push people of their countries to racist beliefs under the guise of economics or protection of their countries, these statements are false and have been used in the past by fascists and even by the United States.
Note: The sources are in the order of the information that is given, all of which are credible sources and many of which are direct, or quoting direct government information.
1. Myth: Immigration is increasing, The Truth: Immigration to America is and has been slowing significantly, both illegal and legal, since 2005 when we had the greatest number of immigrants coming over to America. Illegal immigration has also almost stagnated and is at equilibrium meaning that the number of illegal immigrants coming over are the same amount as the people who are living.
2. Myth: The majority of immigrants are Mexican or Hispanic. The Truth, over the past 40 years Mexico was the dominating group for immigration to the United States due largely to its medium population, and the spike in crime due to the introduction of dangerous drugs such as cocaine and heroin into Mexico by the CIA in the Contra Drug Trafficking, and after the regions in South and Central America were weakened by the American war on communism. This lead many Hispanic people to search for a better life, for safety in America. However; currently the majority of immigrants both legal and illegal are coming from China/Hongkong, or India, where increasing levels of population cause difficulty in finding employment. The reason that there are more Hispanic immigrants in the country is because they have been coming over for a much longer period of time at a steady rate.
3. Myth: The immigrants who come over are “lazy”, “thieves”, or “rapists.” The Truth: Immigrants or non-naturalized citizens make up 14.1% of the population and have a lower unemployment rate than naturalized citizens. This claim that is usually part of a stating that they are a drain on the government or are taking from government welfare programs, the truth of this matter is, they aren’t. Illegal immigrants have very little access to government programs unless victims of human trafficking, and the ones they have access to are WIC, which gives food to Women, infants, and children, and Emergency Medicaid, both of which together cost 2 billion, which is 1% of the Medicaid budget and 0.01% of the total US budget. Legal immigrants are also less likely to go off of government assistance from fear of losing citizenship because of it which under federal regulation they can if they are likely to be “primarily dependent on the government for subsistence” in which case they can loose their green cards, and can even cause deportation of permanent residents. It is also estimated that all losses due to illegal immigrants are made back up by their addition to social security that they themselves can never receive. Lastly immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than naturalized citizens, this is evident in how despite crimes are more likely to be reported against all poc especially against Hispanics with the racist threat of deportation there are less reports of crimes against immigrants both legal and illegal per person and jailing per person than for naturalized citizens. This is also seen that despite immigrants coming into the country at a rate that only started decreasing in 2006 while crime has declined since 1970, as well as that states with large amounts of immigration legal and illegal including states with sanctuary cities often claimed to cause havens of crime and drugs, actually have declining rates of crime and lower crime than cities with smaller immigrant populations. This statements that are used to place that immigrants are a burden upon society or that they are rapists, bringing with them crime and danger is rooted in American Nationalism and Isolationism, and racism, currently supported by America First defenders, in firstly anti-Irish immigration following the potato famine, and then later against jewish people both before the Holocaust and after, under fear that they were communists that were going to disrupt the American system and many were illegally deported, additional reading on parallels and on this is in the sources below.
4. Myth: Why don’t they just come over legally? The Truth: This article does a nearly perfect job explaining this but to quote the article title “Why don’t they just get in line? There is No Line.”
5. Myth: Europe is being destroyed by violent crimes from the refugees, mainly from Syria. The Truth: While some areas were not prepared economically for the influx of people, and had some financial issues many areas where helped financially while crime has remained stagnant or gone down in areas where refugees are. Myths exist about how “Sweden is the Rape Capital of the World” as Donald Trump stated however this simply is not true, upon looking at the information Sweden has had a stagnant number of sexual crimes for a decade, this myth is due to two main factors, firstly Sweden has more sexual crime than other countries per population because it charges each sexual assault as a seperate action and because compared to many other countries rape is more often reported and more often strongly investigated,and secondly because the sensationalization of these acts in Sweden by many people supporting isolationist views or nationalist views as an example of how these refugees are causing issues while the cases would normally not be broadcast to such a high degree. Sweden has also been hit with rumors, due to the large number of migrants that it took in, more than any other country per dollar, which created a rumor of “no go zones” where reported the police will not go; however these do not exist, what does exist however is “vulnerable areas” which is a project started by the Swedish police to label areas with more active crime, and where gangs may exist in order to better deal with these areas, which usually requires, more police the opposite of no police, the number of these areas have grown after the refugees were brought in, while this would seem to signal a rise in lawlessness in these areas to people such as Nigel Farage, in truth these cities have actually had decreasing crime and have been added to the list because of the increased analysis abilities of the Swedish police. Sometimes the myth is brought farther back into America saying that refugees are causing rape and crime in America; which was largely seen in the Nationwide broadcasting of information about a rape case where two young refugee men reportedly raped a minor, which was later found to be false after they were convicted from Islamophobic pressure from the nation and the townspeople, and they were sent to jail only to be later freed after being shown around the nation as rapists. This lead to the stating of the Syrian Refugee Crisis a crisis that never actually existed as the majority of refugees like any other immigrants began to settle calmly and peacefully into their new homes, with refugees the unemployment is extremely low and crime rates drop dramatically in cities where they become a large part of the population. However the falsehoods about a crisis still exist despite being debunked and are largely believed however they are simply untrue.
This did not address many current issues because this was mainly going against far right rhetoric in order to shed some light on the true situation by providing factual information with sources that should not be able to be argued against as being fake, as they are mostly neutral except for ones where I either felt that the source usually leaning was neutral on this topic or had more information or where there was a dearth of true information on the topic by a variety of sources.
If there are any other issues that you want me to discuss in this manner with a variety of sources, or maybe one of the above in more detail tell me, this does not mean I will get into individual discussions it means I will make another post like this; however I will likely do many more on similar topics regardless.
I would like to say first and foremost, fuck the president of the united states, then secondly fuck the secretary of defense, then fuck the secretary of Homeland Security. Fuck all of these fucking bigoted assholes, if you are wondering why these are all low life cretens pretending to be humans with emotions, well except in especially limited situations anyone who is transgender is not allowed into the military under the fucking piece of shit trump’s memorandum, with his stated issue because after they risk their fucking lives serving this country that let me be fucking frank at the rate its going does not deserve a single fucking person defending it as an entity, it would cost too fucking much in insurance policies to help these people transition. FUCK HIM, and fuck every single person in his cabinet, that sits there and lets him remove the basic civil liberties of people.
I offer my kindest prayers and condolences to those people in the military right now, for what this situation holds for you, for the people who were thinking of joining or have to join to pay for college or to make money that now have to stay closeted because now the united states military is limiting employment based upon how you identify and the part of the nation that protects the freedoms now is taking them away.
[Pence] was so concerned about the criticism he received from U.S. Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon that his staff went to the extraordinary length of asking the U.S. Olympic Committee to set up a conversation between the two – an offer Rippon turned down.
My favorite thing about this is that fact that this still of Rippon looks like he flipped Mike Pence’s desk onto that fucking bigot
This article contains Nazi and Holocaust mentions.
Based on the pillars of research, education, and remembrance, the Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation works to uphold the legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld. After a recent election, Nicole Höchst of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) has been given a seat on the foundation’s board. In addition to her homophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric, she is firmly and vocally against the teaching of diversity in schools.
Queer Math 