thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

queerkat:

gwydionmisha:

They are lying when they claim to love free speech while over throwing the 1st amendment to mandate academic purges and censorship.

This affects my work directly, by the way, and it has absolutely disrupted more than a year of equity work we had been developing to improve training and teaching materials. Not because there are any solid or even remotely understood consequences for blatantly stating trans-friendly or anti-racist materials - but because superintendents, teachers, content writers, and anyone who works on any of this stuff have had the momentum completely shut down. Some people are worried about what could happen, but more people are using it to justify not making any progress, or even completely undoing the work we’ve done, to introduce and improve inclusive and trauma-informed themes directly into our work.

It is infuriating and I wish people understood how affective this kind of legislation is at shutting down genuine efforts to improve social conditions even if the threats of consequence are empty (if they are, in fact, empty).

This brainless piece of shit being allowed to pass laws about education is like letting Uwe Boll and Tommy Wiseau make up the rules for how films should be made