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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

They want to classify non-cishet identities as porn and ban porn, so that's fucked

[–] laverabe 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw someone comment that it would 'get rid of' the dept of education. Is that actually what it says or would it just weaken it?

[–] theunknownmuncher 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] laverabe 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn it does. I mean giving everyone options to choose career and tech schools in lieu of public schools could actually improve education, but everything else there seems terrible.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee 2 points 3 weeks ago

There's some reading between the lines you need to do with that paragraph. When desegregation occurred, many racists put their children into private schools, especially "christian" schools, which could be whites-only. Eventually, many years after Brown vs. the BOE (e.g., in 2000 for Bob Jones university), these whites-only schools started getting backlash for their policies, and desegregated. These people want to get back to that system.

Having taxpayer funds go to private, religious schools, taking money that should go to public schools, is legal. They can't (yet) go to whites only schools, but they can absolutely prefer "children of alumni" or some other characteristic that isn't race, but a strong proxy for it.

[–] Today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Allowing parents to give permission for children to work in dangerous jobs.