Don't Say Gay?

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(03-30-2022, 02:51 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: If you ask me, I am not convinced that this bill was even created with the intention of legislating it. I think it's a realistic possibility that Republicans passed this bill with the explicit intention to call anyone who is upset by it a pedophile. We already have the hairbrained conspiracy theory of QAnon that Democrats are baby eating pedophiles, so it's not exactly a stretch for them to link this to that. After all, Sled's already doing it in this thread haha.

The amount of anger and "stop 'em, fight 'em, 2A!" rhetoric that has been thrown out there regarding public schools from this and the mask mandate stuff seems particularly calculated and careless.  I guess if you can get votes from whipping people into a frenzy over someone who isn't you, what's to stop you from doing it?

I'm getting into general territory here, but it's this political practice of putting people on edge against fellow citizens and institutions that has me a bit troubled.  Even the most gentle "just saying" insinuation that public schools are institutions where children are being sexually groomed is really taking the agitation up to 11.

(03-30-2022, 02:58 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Where did someone say they wanted help from the government. People pay school taxes, vouchers allow them to send the kids to the schools they prefer. And most people realize private schools are too expensive.... doesn't mean they don't have a right to have a say in what their kids are taught in public Taxpayer funded schools.

Nothing is too expensive if you are willing to work for it.  Plus, if the majority of people want sex taught to kids in public schools then I guess you're going to have to accept that taxpayers have a right to demand that curriculum.

Or you could, you know, pay the piper and send your kids to a school that isn't guided by the whims of the general public...unless you have a lot more faith in the general public than I do.