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Florida is racist and homophobic now!
Wait.No it isn't.
Read the laws. Yes, I know it's in a not-quite-but-still-related-to-English language that's hard to follow, but worth the time.
What these laws are doing is restoring rights to the parents, where they naturally resided.
They are eliminating teaching that would be considered inappropriate if the same biases were applied to cis-white men.
That's a handy test of appropriateness.
Reverse the race/gender/sex/sexual orientation of any given position and if it becomes racist/sexist/homophobic when it's white/male/straight: then it's bigotry and should not be taught by government employees; let alone by government employees over the objections of voting taxpayers.
Getting bigotry out of the schools is a goal I support, and I mean ALL bigotry.
Just because you're a minority, does not mean you cannot be a bigot.
Especially since it's dangerous to point out your bigotry. Speaking truth to power is always dangerous, especially when the powerful are bigots against the person so speaking.
The real objection to Florida's laws is it removes power from a small, self-selected, group of bigots and returns it to its rightful masters: The People.
Ah, yeah. What's that line... something something you know who's in power by who your'e not allowed to talk against.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing, we 'aren't' allowed to burn another nation's flag, but we can burn our own. Can't burn a rainbow unicorn flag but we can burn the US flag. Can't burn anything muslim but we can torch Christian symbols and such.
It's interesting to see who They are by what We aren't allowed to do. It's almost like they're showing us which targets to punch first or something.
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ReplyDeleteI believe the phrase is something like, “If you want to see who is in power, see who you cannot joke about “.
ReplyDeleteJFM
if you are anything but left leaning, you are a naxi, racist, homophobic, blah, blah, blah.. panzer guy
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