The Republican Agenda 2023 Forward (1 Viewer)

[Huntn]

At the hands of Republicans, we match backwards to the 19th century:

MSN

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Sanders believes the provision was “burdensome and obsolete,” spokeswoman Alexa Henning said in an emailed statement. Remaining state and federal regulations are still in effect, she said. Sanders signed the Republican-backed bill on Tuesday.

Meanwhile:
Federal officials have pledged to crack down on child labor law offenses after regulators discovered hundreds of violations in meatpacking plants and after press reports emerged of children working in hazardous occupations around the country.

 

[J-DONK]

At the hands of Republicans, we match backwards to the 19th century:

MSN

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Sanders believes the provision was “burdensome and obsolete,” spokeswoman Alexa Henning said in an emailed statement. Remaining state and federal regulations are still in effect, she said. Sanders signed the Republican-backed bill on Tuesday.

Meanwhile:
Federal officials have pledged to crack down on child labor law offenses after regulators discovered hundreds of violations in meatpacking plants and after press reports emerged of children working in hazardous occupations around the country.

How is this preferable to immigrants?

Unless automation like AI(ChatGPT style), driving, etc really takes off the labor market is going to be tight for a decade. Everyone on this board should know that 10k boomers retire everyday.

I understand we need workers but child labor is preferable to bringing more people?

 

[Huntn]

How is this preferable to immigrants?

Unless automation like AI(ChatGPT style), driving, etc really takes off the labor market is going to be tight for a decade. Everyone on this board should know that 10k boomers retire everyday.

I understand we need workers but child labor is preferable to bringing more people?

Aren’t children supposed to be in school? The point of the article quoted is that there is a clear issue with using underage children in a meat packing plant of all places, and a “conservative” Governor passing a bill that reduces oversight, especially where there is a known issue.

 

[Taurus]

How is this preferable to immigrants?

Unless automation like AI(ChatGPT style), driving, etc really takes off the labor market is going to be tight for a decade. Everyone on this board should know that 10k boomers retire everyday.

I understand we need workers but child labor is preferable to bringing more people?

Are the children white and the immigrants brown? Then YES! Obviously.

 

[Huntn]

Closely related to “anti-Woke”, here is the current Republican agenda in the classroom. The GOP has gone to war over Diversity, Critical Race Theory*, and any Gender-Sexuality discussion that differs from the, oppressive “traditional” Christian View of one man, one woman marriage.
(If you disagree with the categorization of “oppressive”, as an alternative, about an unwillingness to live and let live?)

*Critical Race Theiry- A label they thought up to counter any discussion of racism where they feel like they are the primary targets of such discussions.

They display abhorrence to any notion that human beings don’t always fall into neat and tidy, Christian friendly and reinforcing categories, prefering ignorance to knowledge whenever it interferes with their religious preferences.
Most alarming is their unwillingness to acknowledge, that there are diverse views, their unwillingness to face diversity regarding all aspects of their lives, instead preferring to suppress, steamroll any counter views in essence cementing in place the essence of white privilege.

Here‘s the Long List of TopicsRepublicans Want Banned From The Classroom​

Here's the Long List of Topics Republicans Want Banned From the Classroom

There are now 61 censorship bills proposed in 24 states. One legislator wants teachers to pay $10,000 for teaching "critical race theory."

www.edweek.org

(article from 2022)

Republicans this year have drastically broadened their legislative efforts to censor what’s taught in the classroom, according to an Education Week analysis of active state bills.

What started in early 2021 as a conservative effort to prohibit teachers from talking about diversity and inequality in so-called “divisive” ways or taking sides on “controversial” issues has now expanded to include proposed restrictions on teaching that the United States is a racist country, that certain economic or political systems are racist, or that multiple gender identities exist, according to an Education Week analysis of 61 new bills and other state-level actions.

There is more, lots more… excerpts from article

• In Florida, a bill would ban teachers from saying “racial colorblindness” is racist.
• In South Carolina, a bill would ban teaching that “equity is a concept that is superior to or supplants the concept of equality.”
• In New Hampshire, “promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America” could become illegal, if a bill were to pass.
• In at least 10 states, legislators have proposed bills that would require administrators to list every book, reading, and activity that teachers use in their lessons, a process that educators argue would be cumbersome and expensive. Some of these bills also require districts to give parents prior right of review for new curriculum adoptions or library additions.
• Since January 2021, 14 states have passed into law what’s popularly referred to as “anti-critical race theory” legislation.
• In interviews with Education Week, state representatives said these new bills are designed to prevent teachers from telling children what to think, encouraging them to see divisions, or asking them to adopt perspectives that are different from those of their parents on issues like policing, Black Lives Matter, gender identity, and human sexuality.
• During the 2021 legislative session, though, only a handful of state bills concerned curriculum transparency or parents’ rights to object to classroom materials. Instead, most prohibited teaching a list of “divisive concepts,” which originally appeared in an executive order signed by then-President Donald Trump in fall 2020.
• Other conservative advocacy groups, some with ties to Trump, developed model legislation that would ban public schools from teaching these concepts—in some cases labeling them as “critical race theory.” The term refers to the academic theory that racism is perpetuated by structural forces like laws and policies rather than individual acts of bias, but proponents of these bills have used the term to refer to a broad swath of lessons about racism, oppression, and other social issues.
• Thirty-six bills introduced this year still include this list of prohibited concepts, and 30 ban the teaching of “critical race theory” outright. But more legislators have broadened the scope of banned topics, beyond the original list in Trump’s executive order.
• In several states, teachers are not allowed to teach that America is fundamentally or irredeemably racist.
• A Virginia bill would prevent teachers from saying that “market-based economics is inherently racist,” while several Mississippi bills would ban teaching that “the concepts of capitalism, free markets, or working for a private party in exchange for wages are racist and sexist.”
• In Indiana, lawmakers are trying to ban “race-based scapegoating.”
• Robert May, a Republican representative who introduced a South Carolina bill, said schools should make clear that the American judicial system is based on equality under the law, rather than equity of outcome. “The idea that the entire jurisprudence system is based on systematic racism is ridiculous,” he said.
• More bills also include language about “controversial” social and political issues, preventing schools from asking teachers to discuss these topics, and requiring that if teachers do, they evenly present both sides.

Gender and Sexuality:

• In Arizona, Florida, and Indiana, students have to seek permission from parents before being taught about “human sexuality” and districts have to disclose to parents what those lessons would entail.
• One proposed bill from Indiana requires parent permission before students learn about topics such as abortion, “transgenderism,” and gender identity.
• Students also need written permission from parents before receiving counseling or medical attention related to abortion, gender-transitioning, hormone blockers, gender-reassignment surgery and “pronoun selection.”
• The same bill also requires that students “must receive instruction that socialism, Marxism, communism, totalitarianism, or similar political systems are incompatible with and in conflict with the principles of freedom upon which the United States was founded.”
• Another bill, introduced in Oklahoma, would ban school libraries from housing, and teachers from using, “books that make as their primary subject the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender issues or recreational sexualization.” The bill clarifies that recreational sexualization means “any form of non-procreative sex.”
• A similar Oklahoma bill would prohibit school libraries from having books “that make as their primary subject the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a sexual nature that a reasonable parent or legal guardian would want to know of or approve of prior to their child being exposed to it.”

Pushback:

• Opponents of these bills argue that the legislation is aimed at stifling conversation about racism and oppression. Heather Fleming, the founder of the Missouri Equity Education Partnership, an advocacy organization that supports anti-bias and anti-racist education, said the bills are designed to privilege the desires of white parents over others.
  “They’re packaging some of these laws as ‘parents’ bill of rights.’ What parents? Because my daughter is entitled to see her culture and her heroes, people who look like her, in the curriculum, too,” said Fleming, who is Black.
• Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, the executive director of the LGBTQ advocacy group, GLSEN, sees these bills as evidence that LGTBQ students are the newest target in the fight against “critical race theory.”

 

[Eeyore]

Let's not forget the attack on books.

Missouri Reps Just Voted to Completely Defund the State’s Public Libraries

The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state over its recent book ban law.

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[Huntn]

Let's not forget the attack on books.

Missouri Reps Just Voted to Completely Defund the State’s Public Libraries

The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state over its recent book ban law.

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The GOzP is POISON today. Democracy is under attack. The only cure is for these people to start losing elections. Statistically they should not, so I can look at the majority and ask WTF? We will lay in the bed we make for ourselves either through complacency or inaction. I’m not exaggerating when I say the seeds of fascism have been planted and are trying to grow.

 

[Huntn]

From Upside Down World: US Republicans call for a boycott of the Indiana Jones franchise after learning of its strong anti-fascist themes.

US Republicans call for a boycott of the Indiana Jones franchise after learning of its strong anti-fascist themes

Leading Republicans have called for a ban on the Indiana Jones franchise from all American streaming services after being told the main protagonist is well-known for anti-fascist violence.

newsthump.com

 

[Huntn]

The former Country Club Republicans, now Right Wing Fascist Group, plays “Rich Men North Of Richmond” song at their debate as part of their Fool’d Ya campaign to appear as populists, in their bid to enlist STUPID back home for let’s tear down, replace the Fed Govt with the Fascist Good Ole Boys. The performer of that song has denounced its use. The problem with a song like that, it appeals to the Yahoos back home as “about them” and the villains are in the eyes of the beholders…

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[Huntn]

The new standard for GOP Mob Boss Wannabe Mug shots, look threatening. “You on my jury, I’ll know where you live.” Not said in jest, this is an issue for The Head Liars trial….

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