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Remember when proponents of that law said it was about kindergarteners, not high schoolers?
There is literally nothing in this document that is even remotely controversial. >

It doesn't matter what's inside. Pretty sure he thinks or has supporting data that him going after Critical Race Theory gains him points. What else does he really care about? He is walking a fine line trying to win his voter base in the primary over Trump, but doesn't become so hated he loses the main election.
Anyway, the name sounds hostile, that's enough. Names matter more than the content when you are deal with crowds. For example, defund the police was probably the dumbest slogan of the last decade. Especially when *reform/modernize/ was readily available.
The vast majority of voters are not going to look at the details. And I'm not even trying to call voters stupid. People have their own lives to deal with. Work, Kids, Bills, Stress, whatever, there is more information out there than we can handle. And your thing is probably in the background. In this new social media environment the name of something is incredibly important. >


Anyway, the name sounds hostile, that's enough. Names matter more than the content when you are deal with crowds. For example, defund the police was probably the dumbest slogan of the last decade. Especially when *reform/modernize/ was readily available.

Oh my god THANK YOU. That slogan was practically serving the Republicans scores of extra votes on a silver platter. It was all over every single fucking campaign, and easily stretched to "Dems want to unleash all the violent criminals on you and your family. Vote for the party of law and order today!"
Democrats already tend to suck at messaging but "Defund the Police" was so obviously going to play right into Republicans' favor. Yeah Republican mouthpieces will twist and flat-out make up shit on us, but giving them actual reams of thousands of people saying "defund the police!" is extreme-sounding enough that it makes the actual lies sound more believable and less out there.
Defund the police sounds like it means "terminate all police jobs ASAP" and no follow-up plan. People easily jump right to the danger and chaos of suddenly having no law enforcement.
"Reform the police" would have been better. >

"Defund the police" is an accurate description. The people who want to defund the police do not want to reform the police. They believe that we have already tried to reform the police and it has failed miserably. We keep giving police more money to "reform" with "training" and nothing changes. They want to defund the police and use that money (because it's so much money) to improve our society (for example, to house the homeless and feed the hungry) >

This is Advanced placement. This is a college curriculum course. This is an elective.
Republicans would have you think people are being forced into this. That's not the case at all. This is just flat-out hatred >

This is a typical fishing story issue, so this elective, college-level course will suddenly turn into “they’re teaching African studies to our kindergarteners, think of our children!” in no time at all >

"I heard they now have these African Critical Race Queer Theory classes and they're teaching it in Kindergartens in liberal states. You have these kids squatting in litter boxes listening this nonsense all day."

Joe Rogan in about 10 minutes >

Joe Rogan: takes massive bong hit "These teachers are killing society!  5 year olds learning about critical race theory, it's being taught by drag queens while they talk about gay grooming!  And is it a coincidence that these schools have people with 5G phones in the building?  I think not!" >

Also Rogan:
Guest #1: "I don't think any of this stuff about Kindergarteners being taught critical race theory is true"
Rogan: "yea....i don't know. Maybe..i see what you're saying"
Guest #2: "They're literally harvesting adrenochrome from these Kindergartners and that is why they all of a sudden all believe theyre cats....because they replace the kid's medulla oblongata with a cat's pancreas!"
Rogan: "That makes SO much sense! you're right! I heard about this....it's wild man" >

Guest 2 is definitely Eddie Bravo. Ugh. >

Even worse than that fucking Johnny bravo guy >

Johnny needs education on boundaries and consent.
Eddie needs education, period. >

Punching down on two minorities at once? Good ole Republican policy. If he could have thrown immigrants in there, it could have been a hat trick for Republican goodness. Missed opportunity. >

There are no “immigrants” I learned in the new replacement class >

Rising sea levels only removes the land. >

More BeachFront homes for everyone! >

"Who's going to buy the homes, Ben?  Fucking Aquaman?" >

Can he even define queer theory? Sounds like something he pulled out of his ass >

A conversation I had with my son last week regarding his friend "coming out" and getting divorced from his wife.
Me- So, he's gay?
Son- Nah, I think he's more queer than gay.
Me- What does that mean in today's context?
Son- I think it kinda means that he likes men and women.
Me- So, he's bi?
Son- No, it's different than that.
So, my son has a queer friend and doesn't really know what it means. My gay daughter has basically the same understanding of the word. I for sure don't know what it means. DeSantis absolutely has no idea what it means. >

From what I can tell, queer has become (gone back to?) the encompassing term that just means 'not exclusively hetero'.
Edit: as mentioned below, that probably should have been cis-hetero. I blame my mostly cis-hetero-ishness. >

Not sure that definition works because you can have someone whose hetero that's queer because queer also encompasses gender identity.
aka a straight trans person is still queer because being trans falls under the umbrella term of queer. >

You are absolutely correct and that's actually closer to what I meant. Not being queer or trans myself, I admit to a bit of blindness about not making that clearer. Edited above to clarify it as cis-hetero. 
Even then, I assume there's probably someone who has a good reason for that not being correct either. >

Yeah, the standard meaning of queer that most people use is not cis heterosexual.
Queer is one of those nebulous words that has a standard meaning in the community but is collectively defined by everyone in the community so it can change more frequently.
I kind of shift the language I use about my sexuality and gender identity depending on how much information I feel comfortable giving someone about myself.
And I think a lot of us do who are lgbtq+.