Yes! It's THEM indoctrinating the next generation of ignorance. Their SYSTEM needs sheep who follow the shepherd wo thinking or questioning. Any sheep who wanders (or wonders) will be severely reprimanded.
I feel like people used to homeschool their kids to keep them indoctrinated in religions or Luddite lifestyles but soon we’ll end up homeschooling kids in order to deprogram them from white supremacy and the religious State.
One thing I do sometimes wonder is whether it might be underappreciated by at least some liberals and progressives just how important these people's false beliefs are to them. I just find it hard to believe that they're all disingenuous. Some of the angry white mob, at least, truly don't seem to know how to live in a world where those beliefs are being repeatedly discredited. And that makes them quite dangerous (and goes hand in hand with their becoming further detached from reality).
If you think a world where Black people are just as good as White people, where sexuality and gender are open and fluid, and where nature is controlled by math and not an anthropomorphic god, just to name a few of the big ones, is a threat to your very existence - I don't think that's easy for those of us who are sane to wrap our heads around. And I just hope we're not underestimating the danger, but it feels to me like the conventional wisdom keeps having to play catch up on that. It's worrisome that we seem to keep being caught by surprise.
And they call us “snowflakes”. Jeez. I’m so glad I had parents who had no problems with these things, so my girls learned about whatever came up too. The thought of teachers reporting on kids who dress differently is frightening.
Well said, as always : ) Many of these laws are written to be facially neutral, i.e., that their discriminatory purpose is hidden from view. ("It is unlawful to discuss homosexuality" is instead phrased as "It is unlawful to discuss sexual orientation.") Someone smarter than me (not hard!) observed that a book that features a straight couple is no less a "discussion" of sexual orientation than a book that features another kind of couple, and would be equally in violation of the law. I'm quite confident that the current majority of the US Supreme Court will surely agree. I'm also confident that crypto currency is here to stay, and that someday I will be an astronaut or NBA player.
I agree with everything here - though I think both choices are political; in the same manner that choosing to teach science instead of creationism is political.
Where groups disagree (whether that's Ptolemaic versus Copernican, racist versus non-racist or homophobic against non-phobic), what happens when the two clash is always political.
(Which, come to think of it, is the reason why it is not nearly enough for white people to merely claim that they're not racist; if you're not fighting it, you're enabling it. So we should be more political in the class room, not less, if we want to be serious about fighting phobe & racist - and what we teach should shame and enrage both those who peddle hate & fear and those who choose to look away.)
This is dangerous. Young people may not hear the truth and be more gullible toward GOP lies.
Yes! It's THEM indoctrinating the next generation of ignorance. Their SYSTEM needs sheep who follow the shepherd wo thinking or questioning. Any sheep who wanders (or wonders) will be severely reprimanded.
100%.
I feel like people used to homeschool their kids to keep them indoctrinated in religions or Luddite lifestyles but soon we’ll end up homeschooling kids in order to deprogram them from white supremacy and the religious State.
One thing I do sometimes wonder is whether it might be underappreciated by at least some liberals and progressives just how important these people's false beliefs are to them. I just find it hard to believe that they're all disingenuous. Some of the angry white mob, at least, truly don't seem to know how to live in a world where those beliefs are being repeatedly discredited. And that makes them quite dangerous (and goes hand in hand with their becoming further detached from reality).
If you think a world where Black people are just as good as White people, where sexuality and gender are open and fluid, and where nature is controlled by math and not an anthropomorphic god, just to name a few of the big ones, is a threat to your very existence - I don't think that's easy for those of us who are sane to wrap our heads around. And I just hope we're not underestimating the danger, but it feels to me like the conventional wisdom keeps having to play catch up on that. It's worrisome that we seem to keep being caught by surprise.
And they call us “snowflakes”. Jeez. I’m so glad I had parents who had no problems with these things, so my girls learned about whatever came up too. The thought of teachers reporting on kids who dress differently is frightening.
Well said, as always : ) Many of these laws are written to be facially neutral, i.e., that their discriminatory purpose is hidden from view. ("It is unlawful to discuss homosexuality" is instead phrased as "It is unlawful to discuss sexual orientation.") Someone smarter than me (not hard!) observed that a book that features a straight couple is no less a "discussion" of sexual orientation than a book that features another kind of couple, and would be equally in violation of the law. I'm quite confident that the current majority of the US Supreme Court will surely agree. I'm also confident that crypto currency is here to stay, and that someday I will be an astronaut or NBA player.
I agree with everything here - though I think both choices are political; in the same manner that choosing to teach science instead of creationism is political.
Where groups disagree (whether that's Ptolemaic versus Copernican, racist versus non-racist or homophobic against non-phobic), what happens when the two clash is always political.
(Which, come to think of it, is the reason why it is not nearly enough for white people to merely claim that they're not racist; if you're not fighting it, you're enabling it. So we should be more political in the class room, not less, if we want to be serious about fighting phobe & racist - and what we teach should shame and enrage both those who peddle hate & fear and those who choose to look away.)