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“Turning Point’s attack is part of an escalating effort by the far right to suppress the speech, teaching, and scholarship of faculty who do not conform to their movement’s politics,” the statement read.

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In reality, it’s mostly driven by parents and religious leaders who want to force children to conform to what the adults in their lives want them to be.

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It’s a way of saying: We exist, we create and we matter, not because we conform, but because we don’t.

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"Sometimes people treat you as though you don't conform to the 'normal' way of being a footballer - you can be seen as an outsider," he says.

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A measure introduced Wednesday in the Los Angeles City Council directs officials to draft language conforming to the same standards.

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