Tell that to Tyronn Lue

Oof

Also, should teachers give pencils out to their students?

On the other side of the coin: if you present yourself as "in the middle," you're perceived as rational, mature, serious. Even when all the data (allegedly the most "serious" thing in the world) says the opposite.

Somehow we've gotten it into our heads that anyone who dares to dream of a better world is engaging in childsplay, and they're talked down to like children. It happened to people who protested police abuses, people who protests for climate justice, and, now, people who protest genocide.

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One characteristic of extraordinary teachers, by contrast, is that they're not fazed by kids who challenge them; indeed, they welcome this. They're willing to reconsider what they've said, secure enough not to need to have the last word, and aware that arguing may help to sharpen kids' thinking.

it is wildly irresponsible that american political society and its courtesans and its stenographers have made it look totally normal to have multiple listless octogenarians working at a job where they make important decisions

I think I saw somewhere that this was the first of LOTR adaptations that took longer to watch than the original book took to read on average.

This is what the term "toxic masculinity" does though! The adjective before the noun means not all masculinity is toxic.

Plus, Dems already do not use this term! Your strategy for winning elections cannot be for millions of social media users to never utter phrases that annoy you.