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  Republicans- "We are against cancel culture and  for Freedom of Speech!"
  Also Republicans- "Not like that tho....."
  I swear that you have to be mentally challenged to be a Republican Voter, that or very wealthy
context: The same Katy ISD that had their superintendent fired for bullying and falsifying his PhD thesis and everyone in the district defended him? 
  Yeah, that seems right. >
  
  He wasy principal for one year. Didn't like him in the least >
  
  "While Straub did not specify which posts could have been controversial, she wrote that a Texas school board could find the following objectionable: an abortion fundraiser held by her Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic, a post featuring one of her sons in a dress and an “ongoing Melt The Guns fundraiser for Everytown.” >
  
  Texas is just so free, I mean look at all the freedom! >
  
  Yeah they let you walk into any school and have gun fights for free!
  The cops will even keep the area secure so no one bothers you while you are in there. >
  
  It's all fuck your feelings until it's their feelings. >
  
  The flag doesn't say "don't tread on you" >
  
  "she wrote that a Texas school board could find the following objectionable: an abortion fundraiser held by her Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic, a post featuring one of her sons in a dress and an “ongoing Melt The Guns fundraiser for Everytown.”
  Katy Independent School District said the reason for canceling Straub’s visits was profanity, particularly the use of the word “f**k,” according to a letter sent to parents and staff of two elementary schools" >
  
  It puts the schools in an impossible position. They are liable for looking after minors and also trying to please an increasingly fractious and adversarial and litigious populace. >
  
  Who would have a case if she used a bad word in her presentation to the kids, but otherwise should feel free to fart in their hats. >
  
  What happens when a creationist children’s book writer wants to show a kids book with people and dinosaurs? If you tell people to “fart in their hat” you will be suspended within the week and out of a job soon after.
  Expecting teachers and administrators, already underpaid and overworked and with limited power, to be arbiters in broad societal conflicts that will take decades to resolve is not practical. >
  
  First off, I am a former educator. Second, I was responding in a personal manner, not a professional manner. 
  As for the dinosaurs and humans, you don't allow it on the grounds that it has no basis in science. 
  I don't know anyone in public schools (and I'm in Texas) that taught creationism, or even hinted that it might be legitimate outside of myth.
  All that being said, the educators obviously have to evaluate the situation at hand, and probably cancelled because they knew the board doesn't have their back. >
  
  Much respect for being a teacher. Perhaps we differ on approaching the issue from a personal political versus practical implementation perspective. >
  
  "Some" parents.  SOME.  NOT MOST.  SOME.
  I wish school districts would stop pandering to the FEW loud ass idiots. Although, I hope it will get a little better since religion is dying. But, they will still be stupid and loud. >
  
  My mom used to volunteer at my elementary school from the 70’s to the 80’s also for the city. She used to say “it’s always the few who ruin it for the many”. As I get older I see it more and more and in every aspect of life. It’s absolutely frustrating. These ppl constitute like 30% of the population but get all the rights and all the attention >
  
  TSA and airport security checks - thank the few for that. >
  
  Really, TSA is a bad thing? >
  
  Well considering they regularly fail their "secret shoppers" and if I recall correctly, they've never prevented a major incident (or at least directly)...yeah, aside from being a facade of security, they're pretty useless. >
  
  Blocking 6500 guns from being taken on planes last year is useless?  What are you talking about??  That's roughly 18 guns every day that they are stopping. >
  
  That's a function of regular basic security that existed before TSA, not because TSA exists.
  TSA is federal security theater, and a black hole of money.
  If we want real security at our airports we should adopt some of the more successful security at airports, like Tel Aviv. >
  
  I've been through Tel Aviv twice.  If people think TSA is a hassle and intrusive...  Ha ha. We would hear a lot more whining..  It's quite effective, no doubt, and needs to be when surrounded by adversaries. >
  
  There is a problem of scale in that comparison.
  
  Israel: 11Mpassengers/yr / 7Airports = 1.57 Mpassenger/Airport/Year
  US: 700Mpassengers/yr / 400 Airports = 1.75 Mpassenger/Airport/Year
  
  2007 numbers, and the comment focuses in the wrong part: passenger volume.
  It's the number of airports in the US (20k) vs Israel (19; not 19k k, 19 total)
  Security Controls get employed at airports so Israle can do things that don't scale in the US.
  That said, Israel aviation security experts also think thebTSA is "worthless". The TSA did nothing useful after 9/11, companies of executives serving in the Bush administration just got contracts without any real solution.
  Post 9/11 we learned to 1. Fight back and 2. Lock the pilot cabin door. Everything else has been bullshit. >
  
  I honestly don't know what you are saying.  Agree it would be hard to scale those Israeli security controls within the US.  A big factor would be finding that many smart enough people capable of performing at that level.  And also because people in the US would revolt over the cost and "infringing on their rights".  We have short memory here.  But the world is more threatening today than 30 years ago.  We need to be continually improving our security posture, not just saying eh we don't need it anymore...