reverieeee posted:

i was listening to npr when i was going to get gas because it's like the only semi-entertaining thing on the radio and some dude said "we can choose our gender but we're admonished for choosing our race"

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A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Doležal experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents’ quest for spiritual transcendence and the surrounding Rocky Mountain landscape. Unable to fully embrace the fundamentalism of his parents, he began to search for religious experience elsewhere: in baseball, books, and weightlifting, then later in migrations to Tennessee, Nebraska, and Uruguay. Yet even as he sought to understand his place in the world, he continued to yearn for his mountain home.

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The two siblings, born just two years apart, were raised in tiny Troy, Mont., by Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal, ex-hippies who turned to religion for life’s answers.

Their zealot father spoke in tongues and made them wait to eat dinner every night while he read a chapter of the Bible, the memoir said.

The family of evangelists had no TV and little contact with the outside world.

Larry Dolezal delivered both his children at home, and put on the birth certificates that Jesus Christ was the witness, Joshua Dolezal wrote.

Their mom Ruthanne believed Christians could heal each other and were shielded from evil doings by God’s love.

She allowed her children to read Christian books like “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

But their dad chastised their laziness for lazing indoors with books rather than working the soil alongside him.

He flew into a rage when he discovered Joshua Dolezal reading “White Fang,” the memoir said.

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My mother grew up without a television, and when she and my father married, living in a tipi for a year before building a house on the land they purchased on a mountain overlooking Troy, they shared a vision of home as a refuge from the outside world. My sister was born there, delivered by my father, as I had been.

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But after summer turned to fall, my mother miscarried and nearly hemorrhaged to death. She wanted no meddling doctors, no false priests. If it was God's will she should die, then so it must be.

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My mother sometimes called me a survivor of the holocaust on the unborn, since I was born after Roe vs Wade. Her distrust of clinicians was so strong I was born at home, without a physician or midwife and only my father and the one witness noted on my birth certificate--Jesus Christ--to see me through. Near the end of my senior year, my parents adopted the first of four [black] children, determined to show their commitment to the pro-life cause,

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I have also heard testimonies from numerous homeschool alumni who grew up knowing the Dolezal family that frequent and significant child abuse occurred in the family. The parents allegedly forced both Rachel and her older, biological brother Joshua to beat their younger, adopted siblings with plumbing supply line and two foot long glue sticks, a practice inspired by Michael and Debi Pearl’s book, To Train Up a Child.
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According to my sources, infant spanking (in public in their church parking lot, even) and blanket training were also common in the Dolezal family. Additionally, Rachel’s adopted brother Izaiah Dolezal has himself raised public allegations against his parents involving physical punishment, forced labor, and isolation in out-of-state group homes.

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Her father, Larry Dolezal, worked for Creation Ministries International and was charged in 1999 with felony theft though the charges were later dismissed.

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He [Kevin Moore] wrote back: "Protecting my wife is my business, not yours. No one lives with her but me and our son. I don't want you putting ideas in her head."

He was reading her messages. Things were worse than I'd thought.

My [Joshua Dolezal] reply: "Protecting' your wife becomes my business when your wife is my sister and your control interferes with her life. I will defend her right to privacy and freedom. You have no right to deny her that."

Still nothing from her [Rachel], so I called.

"What's going on? Can you talk, or is he home?"

"It's OK," she said, "but I wish you wouldn't write. It makes everything worse."

"Makes what worse?"

"He hasn't hit me yet, but he's thrown me by my hair twice."

"What? That bastard. I had no idea."

"I'm scared. The other day I was walking out of the bathroom and he bumped me with his hip and I fell down. He said, 'Look--I can knock you over with nothing but my skinny little rear end.' And he wakes me at three in the morning by licking me. Sometimes he's on top of me before I'm even awake. He's done that before, but now it happens every day. It's freaking me out."

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I [Joshua] read everything I could find about domestic violence: the wheel of power, the isolation, the intimidation, the guilt, the victim's denial. I murdered him hundreds of times in my sleep.

Helical Nightmares posted:

However, yeah I think this clusterfuck is going to be turned into a movie. Jfc.

Helical Nightmares posted:

Joshua wrote Down from the Mountaintop, an account of his life growing up in what appears to be a strange Pentecostal religious cult. Rachel was also brought up in this environment.

LethalGeek posted:

Why is everyone taking any of this seriously this lady is obviously bonkers

Paladinus posted:

Until I have a DNA test, I'm all ethnicities at the same time. I'm a Schrodinger friend of the family, if you will.

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Omi-Polari posted:

i think it's hilarious liberals are fighting over an adjunct college professor in washington state while jeb bush marked hispanic on that form or whatever, speaks spanish, will win the cuban vote and carry florida and become president

Jonny 290 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9poWKKpbU

Jonny 290 posted:

white npr liberals are going to gun for this hard they have got the most authentic dashikis back in the back of the walkin closet they look sooooooo cute in it and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9poWKKpbU

Helical Nightmares posted:

NPR is trash and panders to the lowest common outrage denominator. Remember when they ran with "Street Fighter 2 was racist" as an important discussion? http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/16/290119728/street-fighter-ii-most-racist-nostalgic-video-game-ever

Literal waste of airtime and money.

reverieeee posted:

i mean when npr isn't doing their "i'm better than you neener neener" circlejerk liberal poo poo they have some decent segments, i like their music stuff and also radiolab/science friday/all tech considered

Alan Smithee posted:

lol you listen to limburger

Helical Nightmares posted:

I can't speak for gently caress the Row; but listening to/reading diverse media, in particular points of view antithetical to your own, is important, yo.

Helical Nightmares posted:

Oh I agree in general but I've just had it up to here with it and the "important discussion about race in video games in the early 90s or whatever" when Street Fighter 2 was amazing at the time because it actually had the graphics and novel idea to showcase other ethnicities; was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

Also if you want science news people should go to the Nature, Science or Scientific American podcasts. More actual information and analysis from professionals and less cutesy production noises from dipshits.

Omi-Polari posted:

this is what i listen to when i drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ydL_dVP9w

in my big truck

Snak posted:

Well because a lot of people would like it turn out be legal to just assume minority status. There are conservatives who will support this woman's choice to "be black" because they would love to make similar claims whenever it benefits them.

katlington posted:

this is 'catch me if you can' starring the bass player from korn

Helical Nightmares posted:

I can't speak for gently caress the Row; but listening to/reading diverse media, in particular points of view antithetical to your own, is important, yo.

LethalGeek posted:

That's true but acting like Limbaugh isn't anything but a media whore moron is well completely bullshit and undermines whatever point you're trying to make here.

LethalGeek posted:

That's true but acting like Limbaugh isn't anything but a media whore moron is well completely bullshit and undermines whatever point you're trying to make here.

fits my needs posted:

lmao poverty tourism and music video. tell me more mr arkansas IT man.

reverieeee posted:

yeahhhhhhhhh npr does get too self-righteous and hard-left for me sometimes and i end up turning it off and listening to judge or youth of today or whatever

burritolingus posted: