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We deserve some respect. You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Beingand fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. That simply cannot be the proper path forward. Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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Here are The Baltimore Suns All-Metro girls lacrosse teams for the 2022 season.

Madison Beale, St. Pauls, senior, defender

The timeless adage that defense wins championships couldnt have been more true this season for St. Pauls, which allowed an average of 7.6 goals per game in its 17 wins and time and again forced opponents into long scoring droughts.

Led by their Duke-bound All-American, who usually marked the oppositions top offensive threat, the Gators won their second straight Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference title, ending the year ranked No. 1 in The Baltimore Sun Top 15 poll and the nation.

Beales play was crucial, particularly after St. Pauls (17-1) suffered a rash of late-season injuries that threatened to derail its playoff hopes.

First, the Gators lost two defensive starters Olivia Rose (torn ACL) and Kira Balis (shoulder) in their win over McDonogh. Then, junior Grace Schlossberg, who had replaced Rose, suffered an ACL tear of her own in the following game against Roland Park.

St. Paul's defender Madison Beale finished the season with 25 draw controls, five goals and 10 takeaways to be named The Baltimore Sun's All-Metro girls lacrosse Player of the Year. (Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun)

The defense was in disarray, particularly during a 20-7 loss to Glenelg Country in which Dragons star Jaclyn Marszal torched the Gators for eight goals and six assists, at times against a unit that included Beale and three freshmen.

But it didnt take long for Beale and company to regain their footing. With a few days of practice, the senior led a unit that held both Notre Dame Prep and McDonogh to single-digit goals in playoff wins. Then, in a rematch with Glenelg Country for the IAAM championship, the four-year starter who primarily patrolled the midfield for her Sky Walkers club team played perhaps her most dominant game, matching up with Marszal and holding her to a single goal in a 15-7 win.

Madison Beale, in my opinion, is one of the best athletes to ever play at [St. Pauls], coach Mary Gagnon said. All year, we needed Madison to always be at her best. Especially when Olivia went down, all the weight fell upon Madison to really play well, and she did. Without Madison out there, we dont win the IAAM championship or become the No. 1 team.

Beale, who will play in next months Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Game at Johns Hopkins, finished the season with 25 draw controls, five goals and 10 takeaways.

Becky Groves, Century

One of Carroll Countys all-time great athletes guided her team to one of the areas all-time great seasons.

Groves squad finished 19-0, beating seven teams that were ranked at the time in The Baltimore Suns Top 15 poll on its way to the Class 2A state championship.

Century girls lacrosse coach Becky Groves has compiled a 144-32 record in her 12 seasons at the helm. (Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun)

Along the way, the No. 3 Knights knocked off Class 1A state champion Liberty (twice), 4A champion Broadneck, Howard County champion Glenelg, Harford County champion C. Milton Wright, and, in the state final, Baltimore County champion Hereford. They ended the season ranked No. 12 in the nation by Inside Lacrosse and No. 15 by USA Lacrosse.

It marked the fourth state title for Groves, who has compiled a 144-32 record in her 12 seasons at the helm.

On the field, Groves then known as Becky Trumbo was a two-time Carroll County Player of the Year and first-team All-Metro midfielder at Liberty, finishing her career in 2002 as the countys all-time leading scorer with 379 points. She then went on to become one of Towson Universitys most decorated players.

Maisy Clevenger, Marriotts Ridge, junior, midfielder

The Maryland commit finished with 64 goals, eight assists and 54 draw controls and was a difference-maker on both ends of the field in leading the Mustangs to a 3A state title.

Lexi Dupcak, Broadneck, junior, midfielder

The Maryland commit set a single-season school record with 145 draw controls. She finished with 62 goals and 18 assists as the Bruins breezed to a 4A state championship.

McDonogh midfielder Kori Edmondson racked up 80 goals and 10 assists on offense to go along with 10 caused turnovers and 77 draw controls. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun)

Kori Edmondson, McDonogh, senior, midfielder

The Maryland-bound midfielder did it all for the Eagles. She racked up 80 goals and 10 assists on offense to go along with 10 caused turnovers and 77 draw controls.

Alyssa Gore-Chung, Severna Park, sophomore, attacker

Though just a sophomore, Gore-Chung led the No. 8 Falcons in most categories, including goals (48), points (64), draw controls (84) and ground balls (35). She also tied for the team lead in caused turnovers with 22.

Anna Hackett, Century, senior, midfielder

Century midfielder Anna Hackett (10) racked up 75 goals and seven assists, as well as 53 ground balls and 97 draw controls. (Steve Ruark for carroll County Times/Baltimore Sun Media Group)

The Elon-bound midfielder hustled and scrapped all over the field for the 2A state champions. She racked up 75 goals and seven assists, as well as 53 ground balls and 97 draw controls.

Hannah Johnson, Bryn Mawr, senior, midfielder

The do-it-all middie finished with 52 goals and 109 draw controls while playing every minute of every game, leading the Mawrtians to a 14-5 mark and a No. 9 area ranking. She will continue her career at Johns Hopkins.

Emma Kennedy, Glenelg, senior, attacker

The four-year varsity starter had 67 goals and 23 assists, as the Gladiators finished 15-1 with a No. 4 area ranking. She will continue her career at Navy.

Broadneck defender Ella Killian was the heart and soul of a Bruins team that captured the Class 4A state title. (Terrance Williams / Capital Gazette)

Ella Killian, Broadneck, senior, defender

The UMBC-bound defender was the heart and soul of a Bruins team that captured the 4A state title. She time and again marked and shut down the oppositions top offensive threat and finished with 22 caused turnovers.

Caroline Little, Century, senior, midfielder

The Virginia Tech-bound senior was a leader on both ends of the field for the undefeated 2A state champions. She finished with 55 goals, 34 assists, 73 draw controls and 56 ground balls.

Jaclyn Marszal, Glenelg Country, senior, attacker

The Notre Dame signee put on a memorable show with eight goals and six assists in a 20-7 regular-season win over top-ranked St. Pauls. She finished with 54 goals and 67 assists for the IAAM A Conference finalists.

Natalie Shurtleff, St. Pauls, junior, midfielder

The midfielder finished with 62 goals and 20 assists, including five goals in her teams IAAM A Conference final win over Glenelg Country. The Clemson-bound junior also had 54 draw controls.

Glenelg goalie Jocelyn Torres was the leader of a defense that held opponents to five goals or less 11 times. She finished with 75 saves. (Brian Krista/Baltimore Sun Media)

Jocelyn Torres, Glenelg, senior, goalie

The four-year varsity starter headed for Virginia Tech was the leader of a defense that held opponents to five goals or less 11 times. She finished with 75 saves.

Maggie Weisman, Glenelg Country, senior, attacker

The Maryland-bound offensive standout racked up 56 goals and nine assists, scoring at least five goals five times. She also finished with 72 draw controls for the IAAM A Conference finalists.

Finley Barger, Notre Dame Prep, senior, midfielder

Caroline Godine, McDonogh, senior, attacker

Lauren Hackett, Century, senior, attacker

Frannie Hahn, St. Pauls, junior, attacker

Stephanie Marszal, Glenelg Country, senior, goalie

Mary Moore, Broadneck, junior, midfielder

Neve OFerrall, Glenelg Country, senior, defender

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Read this thread from a man who had sex-change surgery in an attempt to become female, but who is now detransitioning. If you check it out on Twitter now, there are two posts missing; he says he didnt delete it, but Twitter did because so many pro-trans people complained that this is transphobic. Someone archived the whole thing before Twitters censors got to work; this link includes what was missing. Im going to post photos of the entire thread including the restored censored parts just in case someone else tries to take it down. Ive drawn from both the archived version and shots I took just now from the live thread; this accounts for the different time stamps. What you see below is the content as it first appeared on Twitter::

Here is a link to the existing Twitter thread, with a couple of posts removed.

Here is a link to one of the posts on TullipRs Substack about life as a detransitioner.Excerpts:

To catch you up, I began medical transition at age 26 and had penile inversion with a scrotal graft at 30. If youre wondering what that is and only if you have the stomach for it (You have been warned!),go here to see for yourselfwhat the procedure looks like.

If you want to see the potential outcomes, horrors, and disasters, as well as the butchers that do this,head over to this thread on kiwi farms. I cannot possibly stress enough that these links are not for the faint of heart.

I share this only because this thread has saved some of my detrans friends from doing this. Not all. Some of us have to live with this shit forever. We were too unwell and socially inept to understand what it meant when we went through it.

Detrans people who have been on HRT for only a few months may get off lucky. Some people can get rapid development in a short time frame depending on age and sensitivity to hormone treatment, but many will effectively return to normal. Then you have those who were cut; had their breasts, testicles, genitals inverted, changed, mutilated, amputated, lobotomized whatever term you feel fits but the impact is the same. Its gone forever.

For detrans women who have had mastectomies, there is a promising field of breast reconstruction thanks to the developments in care for breast cancer patients (if you can get funding, that is). Unfortunately, if theyve had a hysterectomy, like detrans men who had their testicles removed, they will be reliant on HRT for the rest of their lives.

Gonads play animportant part in our endocrine system, responsible for more than just reproduction, which is something I didnt learn until I detransitioned. In nearly a decade of medical care, not one medical professional made this clear.

He goes on:

I feel panicked at the thought of being a hairy dude with a front hole. Its a devastating thought, and no disrespect to other detrans men who have found solace in taking testosterone but its not just the physical aspects that scare me, its the psychological ones too.

Like my transition itself, my inverted penis is a caricature of a female body part that despite being dressed up to appear female, is unmistakably male. During surgery, they retain the Kepler gland, which produces seminal fluid. You can produce quite a lot, but only once you climax. Women produce fluid leading up to, during, and after and the difference is unmistakable, which is why I struggle to call it a vagina. Its not. Its a lobotomised penis.

Read all of TullipRs Substack posts here.

A twitchy stump. A lobotimized penis. A hairy dude with a front hole.

This is what we are doing to people especially to our children! Permissive parents are allowing this. The medical profession celebrates this, as do the media, universities, Democratic politicians, and of course, Woke Capitalism. I used to wonder how in the world all the right-thinking educated people of the early 20th century embraced eugenics. Now I know.

Yesterday I was in Cambridge, giving a couple of talks to people at the university, and meeting others for conversation. It was an amazing day. I learned the extent to which wokeness and soft totalitarianism have captured this, one of the worlds great universities, and I also met some people who, with tremendous courage, are taking and have taken risks to resist it. These are the Live Not By Lies dissidents always few in number, always unspeakably admirable. I can do what I do to tell the truth because I am fortunate enough to write for an independent magazine, and not to have an income dependent on not angering the woke. These people some of them students, which is to say, young people at the most vulnerable time of their adult lives do not.

Im thinking this morning about a young woman Ill call Jane. She might be fine with me using her real name, but Ill exercise caution.

Jane is in her early 20s. She grew up in a working-class family. Both parents and grandparents were atheists. She came to hear me talk about Live Not By Lies, in a speech sponsored by a Christian organization at Cambridge, the Trinity Forum (which is also at Oxford and Edinburgh, as well as in the US), because she has recently converted to Christianity. She said that she used to think she was an atheist, but she came to believe that nobody is truly an atheist that everybody worships something. And what I worshiped was Science, she said.

Anyway, she told me and others in the group that as a teenager, she had fallen deeply into the woke cult, and was starting to succumb to the trans part of it at around age 17. She said she was following the script of uglifying her body, and had begun to wear a breast binder. She was suicidal and deeply depressed; all of these things she was doing to be her authentic self, as the propaganda stated, were only alienating her more profoundly from her body and her soul.

She had dreamed of being an artist from childhood, and had some early success (I looked this up online to confirm it; she was telling the truth); she must be quite talented. She said joining the artistic communities in the UK means having to embrace and affirm all things woke. The details she shared were stunning. It really is a cult.There was an older professional artist in the room listening to this, and she, though only having met Jane a few minutes earlier, confirmed everything she was saying about how utterly hostile the artistic world in the UK is to any traditional standards of beauty, or any traditions at all.

Jane said that one night, she was in her room, and somehow a Jordan Peterson lecture turned up on her social media feed. I thought, oh ho ho, lets have a look at what this Nazi has to say, she said, explaining that Peterson is a total hate figure in those left-wing circles. She really did think he was some sort of fascist, and decided to hate-watch his lecture.

By the end, she said, she was astonished to discover that she agreed with everything JBP said. That began the process of her losing her woke religion. She quit wearing the breast binder. As Jane was telling us about this yesterday, she said that its astonishing to her now to recognize how anti-feminine wokeness is. You have all these extremely woke women who have convinced themselves that men are evil, and that the only way to know freedom and authenticity is to refuse to partner with them or to make yourself attractive in any way to them, and of course to refuse to have children. And yet, to take hormones and have surgeries in an effort to become a man (as if that were possible) is the height of progressive achievement! Its so bizarre.

Jane, who, again, is only in her early twenties, said what a revelation it was to her to discover that she actually likes being a woman, actually wants to have a husband and children, actually wants to be alive, and can actually cope with life without antidepressants. She gives thanks to Jordan Peterson for being the one figure who spoke to her in the darkness, and led her to the light.

But she had her artistic dream shattered. Jane talked about how she has been kicked out of every artistic association for refusing to go along with wokeness. Her silence equals violence. In one example, she said declining to affirm this or that thing got her reported to the authority in charge of the group. The offended students said nothing to her personally. She only learned that they had been offended when the adult in charge of the group called her in and warned her that she had made others feel unsafe. Typical wokesters: sneakily appealing to authority to make disagreement, or just a refusal to be coerced, into an issue of personal security.

Jane will not be able to become the artist she wanted to be. That is clear now. That world is closed to her. But she has her freedom, and her integrity. She lives not by lies. Me, I could hardly believe that someone so young and vulnerable-seeming could be so brave and so self-assured. Listening to her tell her story, I thought that I am looking at the 2022 equivalent of Havels Greengrocer. Just to be around someone who is willing to suffer bravely for the truth, as Jane has, is incredibly inspiring. If you meet her, you might not realize at first the kind of courage you are seeing, because she is so modest. But this woman is a lioness!

In fact, I have met a surprising number of people young people both at Oxford and Cambridge, who understand exactly whats happening, and who are looking for ways to resist. They know that they are a minority, but their Christian faith, and their personal integrity, makes them conclude that they have no choice. Thank God they have older figures like the Cambridge philosopher of religion James Orr, who runs Trinity Forum at this university, to rely on for advice. Im finding out that there is a quiet but effective network of older resisters operating in the UK. Later this morning, I will meet with some who are working above ground, and will report back.

So, I will leave you with hope. The atrocity story that TullipR tells is infuriating, especially when you realize that all the institutions in our culture have lined up to draw troubled people like him into this meat grinder, and to destroy anyone who dares to resist. But people like Jordan Peterson, who has been living not by lies since that day years ago at his university, when he refused to be coerced into using pseudo-pronouns, are inspiring resistance from others and even, in Janes case, saving a young persons life.

The fight is going to get more intense. Read the latest Substack newsletter from the invaluable Abigail Shrier. Excerpt:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis earned uncommon rebuke from conservative pundits last week, when he indicatedhe might sic child protective services on parents who take their children to drag shows.

Im a very big fan of DeSantis and very not a fan of kids at drag shows, writerBethany Mandel wrote on Twitter. But conservatives have to recognize the Pandoras box were opening by involving CPS in judgment call parenting decisions. Its not abuse.

Mandel is right: Child Protective Services should not be sent after these families. Parents ought to be free to make all kinds of decisions regarding what ideas to expose their children to, how and whenespecially with regard to matters that we typically consider private and deeply personal: Religion is one. Sexuality, another.

But heres the hitch: as with so many of our institutions, CPS has already become thoroughly politicized and weaponized by the Left. Dozens and dozens of loving parents have told me over the last two years that CPS showed up at their homes or threatened their custody or even testified against them in court, all for the sin of failing to affirm their minor childs newly-announced gender identity or vetoing the kids immediate medical transition.

In California, matters head from bad to worse: anew billaspires to transform California into a sanctuary state for gender-swapping youth, making it possible for even a non-custodial parent who wishes to transition her child against her spouses (or ex-spouses) wishes, to run to California and proceed.

Here, then, is the question: If our ultimate goal is return to a normalcy in which government agencies and corporations treat all Americans fairly regardless of viewpoint, how are we to achieve this? First, acknowledge that they are already weaponized and the artillery points only in one direction: against the opponents of the Left. Acknowledge that an ever-increasing tyranny is ratcheted upon those who dare criticize the indefatigable encroachment of gender ideology. The playing field is about as level as San Franciscos Filbert Street.

Read it all. This once again confirms my belief that Viktor Orban is one of the only major politicians in the West who understands whats really happening, and how to fight it. The old paradigm, the one under which so many conservatives still live, is not enough to fight this David and Goliath battle.

Join the Rebel Alliance! You meet the best people, and its invigorating to be fighting for truth, beauty, and goodness.

Finally, I just had a conversation this morning, over coffee, with a young criminologist who is keen on studying civilizational decline. Im going to interview him later about his latest paper (hes about to be finished with it). Using statistical analysis, he talks about how the collapse of the normative family, and normative gender relations, means that we really are living through the fall of civilization right now. He explained this to me, but Im going to save it all for the interview Ill do with him when he completes his paper.

He has not read The Benedict Option, but when I told him the thesis, he said, Thats exactly right meaning that the only reasonable thing to do now is to build arks within which to ride out the tempest.

The twitchy stump really is a sign of the times. I know many of you are tired of hearing me say it, but once again: Prepare.

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For Keri Smith, deprogramming from what she calls the cult of wokism didnt happen overnight.

But the behavior of her former friends within the social-justice world during the 2016 presidential election, with their support of violence, censorship, and gaslighting, certainly sped up the process, setting off a parade of red flags.

Social-justice warriors (SJW) were advocating for acts of aggression against supporters of former President Donald Trump, contradicting what she said she understood the essential nature of liberalism to be.

It was the first indication that I might not really understand what was going on in the world, Smith told The Epoch Times.

Today, Smith fosters conversations with guests on her YouTube channel, Deprogrammed with Keri Smith, to examine and unpack the SJW belief system and its permeation into all spheres of power and influence, including pop culture.

I want to understand the belief system better for myself, to untangle all of it, she said. What did I believe about it that was true? What did I believe about it that was false?

Approaching the topic from all angles, Smith interviews a range of people, including comedians, artists, academic scholars, and authors, as well as others like her who have abandoned their wokeist ideologies.

Smith said she first encountered social-justice theories in the late 90s when she was a biological anthropology and anatomy major, with a minor in womens studies, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, when most people hadnt heard of critical race theory.

She also worked with Amnesty International, the international nongovernmental human rights organization, which held a seminar on dismantling racism, she said.

These have become very common nowadays, she said. We learn the new concepts they push, like racism and sexism are prejudice plus power. Looking back on it now, I realize what was happening was that this was a belief system that I was getting pulled into.

But at the time, it didnt seem like a belief system; it seemed like progressivism. I thought I was learning how the world works and learning how to end oppression.

But slowly, like a cult, words and definitions are changed, she said.

Because if you want to control people, you have to control the way they think. And to control the way they think, you have to control their language, she said. Its a cult that is very obsessed with language.

New phrases are created, such as white privilege, toxic masculinity, and white fragility, she said.

Like many of her peers, she left college bringing with her the ideology that had framed her worldview.

It gave me a lens through which to see the whole world, she said.

She called it a mutated form of Marxism that took wealth and replaced it with power, and switched out the oppressor and the oppressed with the current identity groups.

Instead of distributing wealth to equalize society, the new, mutated Marxism calls for a redistribution of power among the identity groups, she said.

Then everything will be utopia, she said.

Smith went into the entertainment industry, managing comedians in Los Angeles, and eventually established her own company with a co-manager in music.

Most of the comedians I worked with were woke, she said. They had the same belief system as me, and they talked about social justice in their comedy. I really thought, Were making the world a better place through laughter.

Smith produced a show called Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX that aired from 2012 to 2013.

I think that was possibly one of the first overtly woke late-night comedy shows, she said. Of course, now almost all of them are overtly woke.

Behind the scenes, the woke often butted heads with people on the traditional left, such as Chris Rock, who was an executive producer on the show.

There was a lot of conflict between the old guard and the new guard, she said. Writers would debate in the writers room whether a joke was punching up or punching down.

Someone had pitched a joke about former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his weight, she said, but it was ultimately decided that they couldnt use it because it was fat-shaming.

Her career in entertainment managing comedians carried on into the 2016 presidential election, when Smith said she began to see inconsistencies in the narrative.

It wasnt a fast process, she said. It was just as slow as it was getting into a cult. Thats how slow it is getting out of a cult.

She found herself going down a rabbit hole on YouTube watching videos of Trump supporters being attacked by people on the left.

There was one video where this mob surrounded this woman, a Trump supporter, and threw eggs at her, she said. There was another where they were chasing these guys down the street and throwing bricks at them. They bloodied this guys head. This was jarring to me.

It was during this time that Micah Johnson shot and killed five police officers and injured nine others in Dallas, after a protest organized by Next Generation Action Network in response to the killing of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Media reports were quick to say Johnson was angry about black men getting shot by police.

And people in my social-justice echo chamber were celebrating this, making tongue-in-cheek remarks like, Well, some old white men are going to have to die, she said. That was a shock to my system.

Still, when Trump won, Smith admitted she was one of the people crying that night.

Then I started to try to figure out why I didnt see it coming, she said. What happened? Why did he win?

Her initial investigation began with trying to figure out how to keep him from winning again.

For the first time, she said she started listening to people on the right, interacting with their content, and watching different comedians and political commentators.

In doing that, I started to get pushback from my cult, she said.

This came in the form of being shut down with arguments such as, Trump won because of racism and sexism, period, she said.

When she explored the matter further, she was told her white privilege was coming through, and [she needed] to sit down and shut up, she said.

I started to see all of these think pieces from my social justice echo chamber saying that all Trump supporters are Nazis and that we should not feel empathy toward them, she said. It was all very jarring and it made me start investigating what it was I really believed.

It was at about this time that she said she encountered Jordan Peterson, a clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and public speaker whos known for his lectures on personal responsibility and self-empowerment through self-searching.

There is a lot of gaslighting that happens when you start leaving a cult, in which youre wondering, Am I the only person seeing this? Is something wrong with me? she said. He helped me to understand that I wasnt crazy. He helped me put the pieces together to give words to what it was seeing in my social-justice world.

Smith wrote him a letter, and to her surprise, he read the letter on his show, while not naming Smith as the author, she said.

She was still worried she would be identified, she said, because she was still representing social-justice comedians at the time.

He told me that I needed to get over my fear, and he was right, she said. But getting over your fear takes a long time. It took six months, but I eventually got to the point where I was more afraid of what would happen if I didnt say something about what I was seeing around me than I was afraid of what would happen if I did say something.

She wrote an essay titled On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself, which she publicly shared, leading to what she called The Great Unfriending.

I was getting attacked online by people I thought were my friends, she said. There was this one feminist critic who did this whole tweet thread about her formerly feminist friend turning into an alt-right, red pill troll.

She said one friend even attempted an ideological intervention, which failed, she said.

From there, she began Deprogrammed with Keri Smith, on which she interviewed her most recent guest, comedian Alex Stein, whos infamous for signing up for public comment in local city council meetings, where he then takes on the character of a concerned citizen who begins by making reasonably normal statements before escalating into awkward personal confessions and belligerent rants to make the politicians nervous.

Its amazing how culturally dominant social-justice ideologies have become in the last few years, she said.

Smith said even those in the knitting world have been affected.

As documented in a series of articles by Kathrine Jebsen Moore, Smith said, the ideology has infiltrated the Instagram knitting community, where a knitter in Seattle named Karen Templer had posted a blog about her excitement about a trip to India.

Templer was attacked by a mob of people who said she was an imperialist and a racist who was using colonialist language, Smith said.

Initially, her followers defended her, Smith said, but after the social-justice knitters (SJK) increased their attacks, everyone turned on her.

She offered the demanded apology, but it wasnt good enough because it never is for social-justice warriors, she said.

It only got worse, Smith said.

Those who took a stand against the SJK got attacked themselves, accused of protecting white fragility and privilege, and banned from knitting festivals.

One gay, HIV-positive knitter, Nathan Taylor, author of Guys Knit, posted a poem asking for kindness, Smith said, which caused the SJK to turn on him.

He was physically confronted at one knitting convention, she said. Like me, he was in the social-justice world, but then he was seen as a heretic. The SJW hate those the most.

This knitting saga made its way to the late-night platform for social-justice battle cries, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Smith said.

On his show, Colbert did a segment on the social media site for knitters, Ravelry, which had banned Trump-supporting knitters like Deplorable Knitter, who made MAGA hats, Smith said.

He introduced the segment by saying that Ravelry issued a statement saying it was banning all white supremacy from its platform, meaning it was banning all Trump supporters, she said. The audience cheered for that kind of censorship. They cheered at the characterization of Trump supporters as white supremacists.

Smith began interviewing canceled knitters who survived the woke mob, she said, and garnered a following from the knitting community.

How woke ideologies can infect even the most seemingly harmless hobby community of knitting is a testament to how pervasive the self-righteous trance can be, Smith said.

However, theres a solution, she said.

Its on an individual level, she said. I think whats driving this is individuals who are not living consciously enough to understand what theyre a part of.

The social-justice world operates on resentment and fear, Smith said.

The SJW themselves are fueled by programmed anger, while those in their sphere are afraid to speak out against them, she said.

What they are afraid of is real, she said. They are afraid of losing their friends, their jobs, their good name, their families, and their sense of security. All of these are very real things to be afraid of losing.

But eventually one must realize theres more to be afraid of if one doesnt speak up, she said.

If people dont speak up in the early stages of an authoritarian belief system, an evil belief systemand I do call it eviltheres going to come a time when youre not allowed to speak at all, she said.

Smith gets messages from people who left the social-justice world thanking her for her show because it helped them feel empowered, which she said is what Peterson did for her.

She said Peterson taught her that onthe individual level, one must overcome ones fear and not be afraid to carry that message.

You dont have to have a podcast or shout it from a soapbox, she said. Just dont be afraid in your daily life to say what you really think. Then maybe one day youll get a message from someone saying, Thank you, I feel comfortable saying this now knowing Im not alone.

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ALLIANCE CITY SCHOOLS

Fourth quarter

Alliance Intermediate School

Honor Roll

Fourth grade Owen Blevins, Levi Braisted, Grace Craven, Ava Doak, Reef Hurford, Katherine Kline, Alexander Krug, David McPherson, Logan Poyser, Katherine Simbro, Vaidren Vogler, Natalie Blount, Damean Bryant, Isabella Conner, Cooper Duchon, Lilyana Elke, Connor Gandee, Briaunna Greiner, Trevor Kelly, Elizabeth Thompson and Autumn Wineman.

Fifth grade Genisa Bennett, Eizec Blackwell, Violet Bryant, Paige Carpenter, Dominic Falconer, Aralynn Grosschmidt, Reese Hays, Vanessa Hinojosa, Charles Jackson, Rhyan Johnson, Aundrea Jones, Julia Leone, ZayMeer Massey, Alexzander Maxon, Evan McMahon, Jaymes Smith, Christopher Soliday, Deandre Spencer, Adalynn Yost and Owen Zupanic.

Merit Roll

Fourth grade James Allmon, Luke Archibald, Madison Beckett, Brooklyn Bodo, Imanni Brown, Jaden Carpenter, Quemelia Carter, Abigail Datz, DArtagnan Drain, Paige Elliot, Elena Faulk, Emilia Fox, Desilu Garcia, Gavyn Gibson, Tanner Hall, Macey Hall, Logan Harton, Kaidyn Huntsman, Leliann Johnson, Natalia Kelly, Jordan Kuntzman, Kendalynn Ludt, Gabriel Lundsford, Ivana Mann, Lorena Melchor-Arroyo, Aylamae Miller, Conner Moore, Christopher Percy, Jaxon Phillips, Charis Poindexter, Rosalie Principe, Chloe Reese, Jocelyn Rich, Paizlee Ritchie, Emalee Rosenberger, Isabella Schrader, Malynna Sibert, Dalilah Stephenson, Daniel Tomasek, Anthony Waguespack, Paul Ward, Jaden West, Avante Wilkes, Ashlyn Wood and Ling Yuan.

Fifth grade Claire Barker, Lucianna Bieber, Orianna Carchide, Isabella Christner, Tristan Clark, Gregory Cunningham, Jayden Curlutu, Eli Cutlip, Gavin Davis, Allison Kline, Kamora Lilly, Erin Alexander, Camryn Catania, Gideon Cox, IvyOnna Edwards, Peyton Graham, Ziggen Grimm, Graham Lohnes, Rebecca Lucas, Brinley Mann, Mason Marshall, Charlee Martin, Ashley McPherson, Remy Moats, Delilah Moff, Alfert Nicholson, Ki-Anne Nordguest, Matthew Owens, Chase Patrick, Kason Perry., Chace Petersberger, Novalea Pisoni-Kennedy, TayLynn Richardson, Eric Riley, Amirah Rios, Brooklyn Schuette, Elisheba Selassie, Yahshua Selassie, Aaliyah Stickler, Brett-Logan Stutchell, Jaelyn Stuller, Chase Taylor, Liam Turner, Promise Turner, Kathleen Underwood, Nevaeh Vanpelt, Kiersten White, Zaylen Williams and Kennedy Wise.

Alliance Middle School

Honor Roll

Sixth grade Addison Brady, Jackson Braisted, Kendyl Brown, Chase Brunoni, Jordan Bugara, Elayna Bugara, Gianna Caserta, Cyrus Craven, Kendell Davis-Clark, Sydney Day, Gracelyn Durenda, Kara Eversdyke, Austin Fernandez, JasAnique Fisher, Cooper Fontaine, Gavin Fontaine, Mayla Garcia, Reagan George, Landon Green, Kruiz Grimes, Paris Harris, Jayla Hatcher, Xavier Hickman, NaJaeha Hill, Karli Holden, Chandler Hollis, Corie Horning, Stella Jackson, Madeline James, Brooklynn Jewell, Jace Jones, Aidan Kern, Izabella Kinney, Piper Kirkpatrick, RiellyAnne Lemmon, Gage Lyons, Casey Minor, Gabriel Minor, Liam Monk, Maddilynn Mozden, Troy Nichols, Audryna Nickson, Andrew Pennington, Elizabeth Poindexter, Kyra Polite, Ariah Ritchie, Dominic Robinson, Brooklyn Rodriguez, Jacob Schuette, Menen Selassie, Marcell Sines, Kayla Smeltzer, Carson Smith, Shaylee Todd, Audrina Wait, Sophia White and Calissa Ziegler.

Seventh grade Garrett Adkins, Natalie Austin, Evan Bell-Vaughn, Connor Bryant, Cameron Cagna, Bianca Carchide, Darrell Carter, Caitlin Cheatham, Grady Duchon, Charles Ekey, Connor Gafford, Messiah Geiselman, Evan Grandy, Rylen Grimm, Samuel Hays, Kevin Holden, Ethan Jackson, Stacia Jones, Jacob Joseph, Zachary Jurina, Sarah Leforte, Melody Lin, Amilyah Lloyd, Grace McGeehen, Jacob Miner, Emma Monday, Taryn Moore, Nevaeh Nuzum, Graham Oyer, Miya Oyster, Gianna Phillips, Alyssa Pierson, Samuel Pinon, Peyton Rodriguez, Gavin Schrader, Zoei Tenney, Silas Tritico, Lilliana White and Jackson Yost.

Eighth grade Kadence Adkins, Cainen Baker, Andalyn Barker, Arabella Barnes, Zellie Barnes, Khyla Blair, RaZariah Brown, Destiny Carchide, Jeffrey Carlile, Madalyn Davis, Bo Davis, Mackenzie Delcol, Carl Dennison, Ava Dickey, Aubrey Doty, Grady Fast, DiAngelo Fisk, Adelheid Fountain, Taylor Franks, Jordi Gonzalez-Summers, Jayden Haidet, Alexander Hartman, Jaszlyn Hawkins, Tasia Hendershot, Gabrielle Heslop, Emily Hightland, Jazmyn Hines, Khloe Holden, Justin Hooper, Audrey Howell, Richard Jackson, Savannah Jewell, Kaycie Jurina, Carter Keenan, Ariel Kelly, Sander Kern, Owen Kisner, Gavin Leone, Avery Lewis, Veda Lyons, Lincoln Masters, Leland Maynard, Michoel McGrath, Alyrik McKenney, Kaelyn Nicholson, Hayden Oyster, Cole Pasco, Ashlynn Pennington, Lincoln Reese, Gabriella Richer, Loric Richmond, Makenna Root, Aylah Salyers, Sophia Schuette, Miriam Selassie, Ally Sherwood, Aaron Syme, Bryce Szekely, Quiana Tucker, John Valencia, David Wang, David Wineman, Emery Worley and Alan Yoho.

Merit Roll

Sixth grade Vincent Bailey, Bailey Brasseur, Lily Bugara, Daniel Burse, Caleb Cardoza, Vito Carter, Mason Casten, Sarah Edwards, Houston Fountain, Aidan Green, Kenyon Guin, Gabriel Hamilton, Bella Harper, Lynnsie Hathaway, Mathias Hill, Joshua Huff, Mason Johnson, Alivia Kelly, Nevaeh Kelly, Victoria Leasure, Caleb Lega, XZavior Lilley, Aubrie Lunsford, Tristan Mayo, Ryan McDonald, Rose McDonald, Jayda McEldowney, Beneditt Melchor Arroyo, Monserratt Meza Magana, Saleena Neira, Christopher Parrish, Kathy Pew, Mariska Reynolds, Sevyn Riley, Hayden Spencer, Romy Spolar, Christopher Stanley, Krissen Swift, Zamiya Thomas, Makenzie Thomas, Aiden Wagner, Shyanne Ward, Marquell Williams and DeElle Williamson.

Seventh grade Adrianna Akerblad, Tera Angel, Ryder Bandy, Audra Bandy, Caden Bartes, Ashlyn Blatt, Serena Brookshire, Amir Burt, Annalee Cowart, Cicero Davis, Cassandra Dickson, Cara Geiselman, ZaiMarri Good, Royhal Hawkins, Kameron Hawkins, Bailey Haynam, Juliya Hill, Ava Huff, Aliya Kelly, Azavion King, Nevaeh Madden, Delaney Mergenthaler, Kendal Mitchell, Zackery Morris, Madison Mugnaini, Madalyn Mutchler, Skylir Percy, Declan Phillips, Rylee Pisino, Keyvaya Porter, Mason Prologo, Angelee Risden, Isabel Robinson, Samiyah Rowe, Danica Shepherd, Aaden Vega and Tere Wilkes.

Eighth grade Mason Alexander, Owen Barrington, Cierra Blake, Brodee Bugara, Zachary Butt, Nancimarie Buzzelli, Elizabeth Buzzelli, Michael Chamberlain, Wesley Csaki, Matthew Earley, Trevhn Fagan, Ian Felmly, Izabel Ford, Hayden Fotheringham, Heaven Fox, Sophia Ganni, Katelyn Garvin Phillips, Jacob Hamilton, Ravhan Hawkins, Madyson Kline, Kenadi Lawson, Kyra Lilly, Natilee Luckner, Collin Mason, Kaiden Nordquest, Alauna Polozzi, Aubrei Robinson, Carter Roller, Laela Roosa, Keion Rose, Olivia Rubin, Tajh Ruckman, Janyia Scott, Hines Shepherd, Mark Sherer, Nathaniel Short, Jaycee Sizemore, NaKarieon Smith, Karmah Snyder, Marissa Spencer, James Stanley, Alexis Sudimak, Stanley Vaughn-Pearson, Chloe Weisenburger, Audriana Yoho and Jessalynn Ziegler.

Alliance High School

Honor Roll

Ninth grade Elizabeth Anderson, Vincent Anderson, Cassidy Bruce, Adam Burse, Kaitlyn Cameron, Kaia Canavan, Jaden Carter, Andrew Chunat, Lydia Clair, Lorah Courtwright, Austin Craig, Benjamin Craig, AngelLynn Cutshall, Brooke Fiegenschuh, Adrian Firestone, Jaleel Hawkins, Cheyanne Hendershot, Jenna Heslop, Avery Horning, Lillian James, Michaela Jenkins, Kamden Jones, Meleah Kerns, Madalyn Lake, Lawrence Lun, Savanna Martin, Kennedi Masters, Eliza McDonald, LaRon Nicholson, Nicholas Otto, Mia Pasco, Royale Person, Emma Pierson, Malaki Pisino, Apollo Prince, Kylee Puckett, Blake Pue, Nathan Stansbury, Devin Stephenson, Xian Tang, Michael Watters, Brady White and Evan Winans.

10th grade Louie Antonosanti, Joslyn Barnes, Olivia Barnes, Kacie Bench, LaKesha Black, Jaylyn Blair, Davin Blake, Jadyn Brooks, Natalicia Brown, Marijaine Broxon, Casey Brunner, Maddux Bryant, Paige Bryant, Elizabeth Burns, Nathan Butt, Jayla Callock, Gabryelle Christner, Jayce Crockett, Lillian Daniels, KVaughn Davis, Seth Dillon, KatieLynn England, Anna Eversdyke, Emmerson Frank, Kevin Frazier, MarZae Gantz, Andrew Gentry, Samuel Gress, Coen Grimm, Kylie Haba, Ramhir Hawkins, Trinity Hickman, Aidan James, Zyler James, Emily Johnson, Sylivia Johnson, Saniya Jones, Maddyson Lineberger, Jillian Lohnes, Aubreeana Lott, Alisa McDermott, Eva Miller, Saniya Mincy, Cayden Monk, Kellynn Paaloalo, Jayda Patrick, Emily Pittman, Luke Poindexter, Diyanara Porter, Elizabeth Recchiuti, Caroline Reich, Lanaya Richer, Domonik Roar, Hunter Robinson, Karma Rowles, Lucius Rowser, Matthew Scott, Alea Simbri, Ella Smith, Julius Smith, Payton Smith, Dariana Thomas, Andrew Tookey, Elijah Truongchu, Bruce Underwood, Lily Walker, Adam Zumbar and Brendan Zurburgg.

11th grade Bailey Adkins, Julia Aldea, Destiny Allen, Mason Armstead, Mariah Babbo, Morgan Bailey, Olivia Bertolini, Rome Biggers, Camden Blake, Kaitlyn Bondoni, Moriah Brokaw, Sierra Brown, Carter Bugara, Lilly Caldwell, Brooklyn Campbell, Kiernan Canavan, Conner Chambers, Kaylee Cherry, Jaylon Craig, Jacob DeLeon, Samantha Dennison, LaKasja Edwards, Haely Ellsworth, Tyler Fincher, Mianna Ford, Isabella Guappone, Destiny Hall, Hailey Hane, Aurora Harper, Xnai Hatcher, Mackenzie Heslop, Gabrielle Hill, Megan Hippely, Riley Horning, Tamra Jackson, Destiny Jancel, Jimothy Jancel, DeOvion Jones, Kylie Kearns-Peterson, Richard Kelly, Sarah Kidd, KeSean Kilgore, Zachary Kinser, AaLiyah Kirby, Samantha Kisner, Nicholas Krahling, Kasey Lam, Elliott Lanzer, Lorelai Lauter, Austin Leech, Jenna Leone, Alexander Lucas, Mavry Maistros-Rutherford, Kayla Marteney, Payten Mathes, Cassidy Mauck, Ava McLaughlin, Tyion Miles, Cameryn Mullaly, Dylan Nastari, Camden Nicholson, Dymond Oesch, Moises Pinon, Tabitha Poindexter, Alexis Pospisil, Akayla Poteet, Jayson Reed, Emma Reese, Ramsey Reith, Kashius Risden, Holden Robinson, Donovan Romeo, Autumn Ronske, Bridgette Runion, Jordan Schwartz, Vincent Sears, Marzjay Sines, Tiara Smith, Allison Stephenson, Chase Strebel, Jolene Stuchell, Abiegail Thoamas, Corzon Thomas, Rylan Thomas, Maddyn Thompson, Joseph Venables, Kylee Waffler, Kelly Wang, Gracie Weaver, Austin Weisenburger, Aiden Yacklin, Brianna Yoder and Elizabeth Ziegler.

12th grade Maria Allenbaugh, MaKayla Beckett, Robert Beckley, Olivia Bell, Kierra Benning, Allenna Bertram, Alatris Billiter, Shannon Bowman, Baila Bugara, Patrick Burse, Thomas Butt, Aidan Cagna, Olivia Chiporo, Mallory Chunat, Trevor Collage, Jaccob Collins, Rayahana Collins, Jane Cook, Carli Cooper, Alexandra Corke, Jackson Cottrill, Dareyell Davis, Valencia Davis, Serenity Dennison, Caroline Denny, Garrett Dickey, CaliAnn England, Kalen Evans, Allen Ferrall, Trinity Ford, Addison Gazdacko, Olivia George, Samantha Gotter, Reese Grisez, Lee Hall, Harlie Harris, Jazzlyn Hatcher, BriOnna Hill, Blake Hood, Taryn Hosick, Emma Huff, Alexis Hunt, Isaiah Jackson, Kayleigh Jenkins, Kelly Johnson, Brock Jordan, Chloe Jordan, Laci Keppel, Olivia Knipp, Jordan Kress, Bryce Lee, Hannah Liebhart, Dominick Longobardi, Wyatt Madison, Samantha Martin, Hanna Mazzei, Brooke McDermitt, Misty McMasters, Brendon Mercer, Brittany Mergenthaler, Nicholas Mikes, Kiera Miles, Jane Miller, Celine Monastra, Ryin Motry, Sonya Murphy, Dyanna Myers, Jenna Natale, Elijah OConnor, Thomas Pasco, Rylin Pauli, Sydney Peterson, Morgan Piotrowski, Micholas Reed, Bergen Rhome, Alyssa Risley, Zachery Roberts, Cole Rowley, Curtis Royster, Brandon Ruckman, Autumn Schillig, Allana Scobee, Jenna Scott, Kierra Scott, Alizaha Seabolt, Keagan Serrano, Ethan Shank, Joseph Shannon, Caden Summer, Madeline Summers, Cade Ulbricht, Rhiannon Underwood, Sydney Vanderkar, Skyler Vaughn, Rhyan Walton, Henry Wang, Ethan Weisent, DAundre Williams, Nathaniel Woerther, Shyanne Yeager and Cecilia Zucchero.

Merit Roll

Ninth grade Clifton Barthol, Kaidence Betz, Alexis Blaire, Cade Blatt, Drake Brown, Tryfena Ditter, Carter Fast, Austyn French, Brooklyn George, Jace Gibbons, Sydney Haynam, Rayven Hickman, Cheyenne Johnson, April Joy, Logan Kager, Caulder Lambdin, Khaleena Mastrodonato, Abigail Mozden, Adilyn Mozden, Auden Palver-Vaughn, Raygan Paxon, Mariah Pearce, Zayne Pearce, Liam Phillips, Jasmine Postiy, Laila Prather, Logan Ramsety, Paige Rhodes, Shaun Richer, Alayjah Smith, Sammy Smith, Jacob Spurlock, Chance Thompson, Kathleen Thompson, Austin Ward, Kevyon Wells, Aliza Williams and Brandon Williamson.

10th grade Landon Blevins, Audrey Blyer, Garrett Brown, Ryan Bruni, Wyatt Brunoni, Deegan Carlile, Rayden Carver, Cayden Daniel, Campbell Dosa, Aaron Farmer, Benjamin Fiegenschuh, Natalie Ganni, Aierona Gross, DaMontrell Gulley, Christopher Hall, Kahviaughn Hawkins, Keagan Hudson, Breanna Hull, Marcella Jackson, Jackson Kirby, Madelyn McNeal, Emilee Reikowsky, Josalyn Root, Morgan Sheen, Nathan Simms, Dirk Solomon, Kaden Strait, Jayden Torrez-Reyes, Destiny Weisenburger and George Wright.

11th grade Ian Arnold, Katrina Asano, Paige Ashworth, Alexis Bailey, Dylan Bell, Eric Bennett, Jailyn Billings, Devon Bing, George Black, Lucien Castaneda, Galvin Cooper, Amileyon Cooper, Shyann Craig, Jainell Denham-Carter, Timothy Dennison, Ciara Diuk, Daniel Downes, Veronic Draper, Chloe Fagan, Brooklyn Fletcher, Levi Fortune, David Hawkins, Olivia Hershberger, Landon Johnson, Alijah Kelly, Katryna Kelly, MacKenzie Kuntzman, Keane Monnett, Jonathon Morrison, Ethan Phillips, Zaynah Pinter, Paxton Reed, Onnez Roseboro, Jacob Schreckengost, Chester Smith, Devonte Sumpter, Caprice Thomas, Rebecca Torrez, Austin Trusty, Neleh Wagner, Trenton Watson, Julia Williams, TraSean Williams, ExZiriaun Williamson and Emylee Yeager.

12th grade Justin Adams, Harry Amick, Kimberly Baumgarten, Brennan Bell, Ryan Bench, Gage Berlin, Hunter Berlin, Haylee Bruce, Amaira Burden, Cade Chance, Jeffery Clay, Natalie Clemens, Cameron Davis, Derrick Davis, Destiny Downes, Giovanni Fisk, Makaela Fotheringham, Stephen Gales, Dylan Galloway, Orah Green, Quentin Griffin, KahJionah Hawkins, Amerikas Howell, Esabella Huffman, Kyle Kidd, Makayla Korosy, Jermaine Lawson, Eric Lemasters, Kadin Maley, Tomas McGrath, Ashley Miletta, Tyeshaun Moore, Aiya Muhammad, Chelsea Mylius, Dakota Peloso, Andrew Poindexter, Latray Porter, Jenna Potwora, Jack Quinn, Allen Roberts, Kaylea Sheen, Jordan Simms, Ty Slaven, Curtis Taylor, JayRon Thomas, Rustina Torrez, Jackson Vaughan, Jackson Wagner, Elijah Welsh, Travel Wilkes, Tyrell Wilkes, Joshua Wise and Elijah Zelenak.

Parkway Learning & Development Center

Honor Roll

Ryland Spaulding

Merit Roll

Timothy Richardson, Alex Messenheimer, Mia Keppel, Faith Palyash, Jahnayi Cameron, Brooklyn Grove, Dominic Marazza and Andrew Sweebe.

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