Comments on: Please Stop Acting Like Karen

By: Tim in WI

Tim in WI — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 02:09:53 +0000

The hegemony you identify is very dangerous indeed. Hegemonic demand is precisely the threat and basis in which Ben Franklin made his famous statement “.. A Republic IF you can keep it.”
Hegemony attacks diversity and cultural differences which results in serious conflict and division among the people. Hegemony and Federalism go hand in hand to destroy state’s individual sovereignty and self determination. Hegemony and autocratic institutionalism cast wide nets which erode both efficiency and efficacy of a system and constrains innovation causing stagnation of everything it touches.

By: Edward Stanlley

Edward Stanlley — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:06:20 +0000

In re4gards to your posting stop acting like Karen, it appears our society has fears about a made up boogie man, IE the people on the Sex Offender Registry. I for one opposes this system. It is unfair, outdated, targets people whom have paid there debt to society. It is a source of revenue for states and counties in the form of we need money for new equipment, payroll and such. The registry serves no real law enforcement value at all. It only shows whom has been arrested. If we truelove want a just registry then everyone alive over 18 years of age should be on it.
Also my concern is why sex offenders only on a registry. Were is the drug dealer, domestic violence, burglary. impaired driver, violent crimes registry? Are their crimes not as dangerous to society? Do they not prey on innocent victims? Do they not prey on the young and the old?
And lets talk about those restrictions placed on sex offenders. Only here would I suggest that yes restrictions should be placed on re offenders as well as certain types of sex offenses to be determined on a case by case rule.
Persons convicted of a DUI can still live with alcoholic beverages in their home, and reside within a thousand feet of a bar. The can still own a car. Those convicted of domestic violence can still date, get married, live with a member of the opposite sex, go to state parks and such.
My point is simple we as a society have taken one category of people whom have been convicted, lumped them all together, labeled them as not fit for society, have placed trumped up notions of fear into peoples head to justify our fears. And what to use this group of people for is a source of revenue to fund agencies whom in turn spend this funding on various projects.
In closing I would like to state that one size does not fit all. Our justice system proclaims that the punishment fits the crime. Here it has failed greatly. We have invented a way to banish the people not the crime.

By: Andrew F Fabian

Andrew F Fabian — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 01:48:41 +0000

I could not agree more, however ,stop and look at the kind of mindset we are dealing with in the world today , “as long as I am the one pointing the finger I am automatically excluded from the conversation” logic has packed its bags and went south. The same people who are calling out this S.O look the other way when they attempt to indoctrinate little kids into a deviant lifestyle. LGBTQLMNOP is a collection of people who should be on the registry but have not been caught yet. One can only pray to God that truth will prevail .