Oklahoma is a dramatic state. Not a lot goes on here so our politicians get bored.
We have an insane governor who if we were more in the spotlight would have DeSantis level of chuddery. Today though, we are gonna deep dive into his State Superintendent pick, Ryan Walters.
Oklahoma ranks 49th in education, just barely edging out Mississippi for most r-slurred state. 
Google says NM but I'm pretty sure it's MS either way. Very dumb.
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Ryan Walters was elected in November of 2022 and came out swinging. He ran on the culture war train, promising to fight woke ideology and getting rid of "radical leftists" (pro-tip, there's no such thing as a radical leftist in Oklahoma). https://www.kosu.org/politics/2023-07-24/walters-threatens-tulsa-public-schools-with-accreditation-ding-after-religious-freedom-rally
Even some of our more right wing politicians wondered if 37 year old Walters was the right man for the job.
So Walters is currently waging a war on our public schools (I mean, good, we are ranked fricking 49th lmaooo) and people don't like it.
He also doesn't like teachers. And likes to call them terrorists.
Much to the surprise of no one Oklahoma pays their teachers like 30k a year. Masters degrees bumps you up about 40k 
. While our government doesn't respect teachers general public sentiment is they need to get paid more. Some people get upset when Walters calls teachers terrorists.
Like any good republican he threatens to sue the federal government for trans shit 
When there was some minor backlash over a public prayer, our hero decides to wage war against the entire Tulsa Public School system (The second biggest, and only relevant city in Oklahoma after OKC)
idk what an F list is but it's probably bad
Parents/Educators seethe at our boi for being Radical Right Wing.
Our man drops some fantastic Propaganda against trans and teachers'
Redditors continue to call everything antisemitic 
Even reading rainbow breh doesn't like Walters
The Tulsa race riot was a massacre of "Black Wall Street" a thriving district in Oklahoma populated by rich black people that was razed to the ground by angry whites. Although a huge part of a heritage this was NOT taught in schools for decades and decades. Now that we teach it, people are mad. Walters is mad it's being taught, black reading man is mad that he's mad.
Redditors also mad that people can report shit that happens in the classroom? idk lmao
"I have instructed my staff to hold teachers accountable for violating state law"
https://x.com/RyanWaltersSupt/status/1613227432001081372
Walters says "no porn in schools!". this is controversial for some reason
https://x.com/RyanWaltersSupt/status/1613935055914549250
X-users mad.
(Kids do deserve better than 49th in education ya)
Ok sorry hope this wasn't too boring. Great guy though hope he makes it to the fed.
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Yeah, most of the culture war issues in schools are just caused by the fact that old yt people don't want kids to learn about how wicked they were
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I have the sinking suspicion that the way this story is told is completely innaccurate, from how wealthy these blacks were to who burned it down. If history has taught us anything neighbors have no problem burning down their own neighborhoods
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It's a Leo Frank situation.
A 19 year old black man "grabbed" a white woman elevator operator. The actual truth is lost to time.
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It is very exaggerated to create a Hollywood movie style story.
I've read research about this event and it's not like what activists claim it was.
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Yeah, it's been exaggerated to completely batshit insane levels, like that tv show where there's planes dropping bombs. And the search for the bodies of hundreds of imaginary victims.
But the truth is bad enough.
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That's my biggest issue with modern liberal activists. There were extremely fricked up things that society did to minorities, but they feel the need (probably to make them better movies) to lie out their butt and turn up the evilness to 11. A town massacring any number of black people is evil, why not just tell the truth and give no ammo for rightoids to say "akshually".
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Remember the piles of Air Jordans.
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Only 20 deaths, but they were all sneakerheads on that black wall street entrepreneur grindset
so there's a thousand pairs of Jordan 1s alone
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It's so weird how we have race riots that get pearl clutched over for 100s of years over 10-20 deaths and China has race riots with death counts in the 100s that are memory-holed from 15 years ago.
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America has more control over the narrative than you're giving credit for. Something like 80 deaths in the Vegas shooting but that's memoryholed because everything glows while Tulsa is brought up frequently because it fits into the narrative nicely and there's not a ton of good sources on it.
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Seems like whoever wrote this doesn't believe women
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They harassed and gaslit this woman and pressured her to recant her story on her death bed.
The roving gangs of armed white men weren't true either. The national guard report claimed a different outcome and body count, too.
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Im going to need to know what she was wearing before I come to any conclusions
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Maybe she told him to go get his shine box and he got angry.
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trans furry lives matter! We be helpin' ye, right enough - we'll ne'er let ye post or comment anythin' that doesn't be expressin' yer love an' acceptance o' minorities! Heave to an' resubmit yer comment withtrans furry lives matterincluded, or it'll be the deep six for ye, savvy? This be an automated message; if ye need help, ye can message us 'ere. Arrr!Jump in the discussion.
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Uh huh, suuuure sweaty. Dumbass hoe probably tried to force the man to subscribe to her OF.
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Why did they even let women into business college in the 20s
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"Business college" means typing, shorthand, and other secretarial skills like that.
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Sounds pretty open and shut. Either the victim and witness are lying or he's guilty. And he admits he touched her so we know the story isn't just completely made up.
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burning down their district was a bit extreme to be fair
since like 2015 there is a small museum (like a shitty one room with a few pics) but before that there wasn't even a memorial. Kinda wild.
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It just pisses me off when they've got to say that the race riot wasn't sparked by something real. It implies that the race riot would be just fine if he was guilty.
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yeah I agree with you.
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Well there was a shootout in-between the two events.
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How do we know that he wasn't tortured to admit he touched her? Given the racism at the time....
Who would ever want to touch a white woman in the first place?
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totally, sounds like a prank video that got out of hand
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Hun this doesn't even make sense with your larp. Muhammad was literally a Black man
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He's just a boring boilerplate chud that throws in a vague reference to Islam every fee comments
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100% Kara boga
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Mohammed was a sand neighbor innit?
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1920s Oklahoma and you DON'T think it was mayos????? The sooners are lowest form of life.
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I have a sinking suspicion that you're a Israeli asset
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Yeah, I don't know what went on, but according to wikipedia the damage was about 37 million when adjusted for inflation. That's not really all that much money when you're talking about successful real estate.
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Jamie, pull-up SAT scores by race and income.
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Surely white Oklahomans' SAT scores must be through the roof.
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When I went to high school NO ONE took the SATs. ACT only.
Also I graduated with 40ish people. Two of us have degrees
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Half a dozen people died in that it was mostly a peaceful protest
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This dude also came up with a bonus (up to 50k) for teachers who move to Oklahoma or sign up to teach at a poor or rural school
Which you might think wow thats an easy decision, thats like an entire year's salary for a teacher. Except that the difference between a poor OK school and a rich OK school is like the difference between skid row and beverly hills. A school that is in a poor rural community is constantly on the edge of shutting down and most likely scrapes by using debt and federal aid. They pay the bare minimum wages, have old and dilapidated facilities, the kids all live in families on welfare and usually have one or two sports teams for the entire school.
Then in the next town over there are 200 wind turbines. The county gives part of the proceeds to the schools and it shows. Brand new facilities on par with universities, teacher pay goes up by like 50%, they get bonuses, teaching supplies and laptops and ipads all paid for. Both these schools have the same amount of students (like 100ish).
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look im gunna have 2 ask u 2 keep ur giant dumps in the potty not in my replys 😷😷😷
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Got him
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As it should be. Shitty neighborhoods deserve it.
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How horrible, a bunch of government leeches are upset that this guy isn't giving them/their friends higher paying positions and consultancy fees.
Fricking vampire butt politicians lmao.
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People tend to forget that DeathSantis got away with it because he bumped teacher's salaries around the same time he started swinging the ban hammer
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Our teachers went on strike in 2019 and delayed the start of school. They opent like 3 weeks marching around the capital with signs and then folded and didn't get a raise.
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How are they all pale and chonky living in FL, maybe they are getting paid too much
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Oklahoma, it's just beachless Florida tho to be fair.
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Definitely. Texas Department of education runs billboards here trying to snipe our teachers with a livable wage.
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https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-teachers-texas-school-district-campaigns-hire/39643902
starting at 58k so about 25k more than we pay our 30 year plus teachers for moving 2 hours down the road?
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why
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why not
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Holy shit. You're not kidding about this guy being crazy.
How in the world is OK 49th in the country? I have always thought it should have been some other states in the Deep South.
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I thought it would be some New England state /s
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!downmarseyrs keep this reddit "/s" shit outta here
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But it makes dramanauts seethe
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you don't get it they have culture
. BIPOCs really got all their behaviors from dixons
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oh shit I forgot to post one of the best articles lmao
https://www.thedailybeast.com/oklahoma-schools-boss-ryan-walters-goes-around-the-bend-with-new-conspiracy-theory
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This is unfair to terrorists.
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they did have some violent signs at their union strike
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You can't even blame the blacks.
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You can in Tulsa (you shouldn't, it's not them holding us down lmao). There is a lot of African Americans there. But yeah in general it's the dumb whites/native Americans
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Lmao this is what happens when you ban books, sweaty
Its better that you're child is reading trans furry lives matter, white extinction is long overdue leftist woke propoganda than not reading at all.
GROOM THE CHILDREN NOW, MAKE THEM LITERATE
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He was at a school board meeting or some shit and held up the books he was trying to ban. Everyone got mad at him for showing pornography and the vid is banned from YouTube
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lol at my local school board meeting some facebookified liberty mom
was trying to start shit about books that should be banned and the school board boomers were like
It kind of shut down the rant about dirty books, because the local schools have a huge "someone played porn [on the bus/in the bathroom/under the bleachers]" problem
the local schools have a "no phones seen or heard-- except in the front office or with a note" policy where your phone gets put in "phone jail" upon violation, but they STILL whip em out when adults turn their backs
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The issue is more librarians and others purchasing these books as part of a long-term attempt at a cultural shift. The GSAs have recruiting strategies that target troubled and socially isolated youth. Boomers don't see this long game and only focus on whats in front of them or a personal peeve.
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girl scouts only getting more evil darn
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Lavar Burton, Tim Russ, and George Takei are three Trek actors I can really do without. Even their characters in the show are basically irrelevant.
Except maybe Tuvok, but in typical Voyager fashion, they didn't capitalise on it, or give him a character arc.
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On TNG the writers never really figured out what to do with Geordi and about half the characters. As for Sulu, when he was gone for half a season to do The Green Berets they just gave his lines to other characters and you don't even notice he's gone.
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Sulu was there as "the Japanese one" in the same way Geordi was there as "the disabled one," before Star Trek decided you could just have more space aliens to make the crew seem diverse.
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He had some personality, like when the drink virus made him charge around shirtless with a rapier. But yeah, all the characters except the top 3 were interchangeable most of the time.
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You're more wrong than trans lives matter
https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335
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new mexico is last? whats the deal with that, gotta assume its reservation related
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You can go on the Police Activity YouTube channel and nearly all videos in New Mexico are from indian school road and are all related to extremely trashy people of varying legal status.
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Especially with the Comanche, a trans lives matter tier tribe
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comanche are in oklahoma, navajo are in new mexico
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@911roofer like the Navajo but would help exterminate the comanche in the name of trans lives matter
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I wasn't sure if it was you guys but seems it was Kansas who eliminated nearly all income taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
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Snapshots:
https://www.kosu.org/politics/2023-07-24/walters-threatens-tulsa-public-schools-with-accreditation-ding-after-religious-freedom-rally:
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https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/superintendent-ryan-walters-video-escalates-attacks-on-teacher-unions/video_c7b0b704-fbfe-11ed-8f9d-fb727a1e7087.html:
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https://x.com/RyanWaltersSupt/status/1613227432001081372:
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https://x.com/RyanWaltersSupt/status/1613935055914549250:
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exactly
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These are the people that call you a “hustle and bustlecel” 🤣
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A long time ago I thought about moving to Oklahoma. OKC had (maybe still does, idc) a good tech market and housing was cheap.
Not only is housing inflated like everywhere else but they went full rightoid. There was a point in time when places outside Texas in the midwest weren't "full rightoid". Every denizen of Oklahoma deserves to rot, especially the transplants.
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We've always been full rightoid. We are the only state without a single county going for Obama lmao
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I'm talking about the brand of Trumpism that's infected every state north of Texas. As a !verifiedbrowns member it was different before then. Thankfully (and sadly) I'm a west coast elite now.
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Almost Heaveeeen, Oklahomaaaaaa
Burnt-out shrublands, slowed-down two lane highways
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sorry i read all that but i fail to see the crisis this just seems like oklahoma
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