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But please tell us the one again about the "few bad apples." Time to plow the orchard & start over. Lock them all up & break the cop union that protects them. Chicago Releases Investigation Showing 16 Officers Helped Cover Up Killing of Laquan McDonald splinternews.com/chicago-releas…
...and before anyone chimes in w/some bullshit about how the cops are trying to defend against the awful people of Chicago...Part of the reason crime is higher there (though still down from 30 yrs ago) is bc cop corruption dissuades folks from calling police to solve crime/help..
...cop corruption and brutality sows mistrust. So rather than rely on police to solve crimes, resolve disputes, people take things into their own hands even more...police actions directly feed street violence...
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1/ Amid the comments of various Dems at the LGBTQ forum on CNN, right wingers are claiming liberals are trying to "force their kids" to accept views counter to the faith-based beliefs they are being taught at home (re: marriage, the "normalcy" of homosexuality, etc)...
2/ This, they say, amounts to usurping parental authority & proves the "totalitarian and elitist" nature of the left. This idea of "parental authority" and the "right to teach our kids as we see fit" animates much right wing anger towards the LGBTQ community and its advocates...
3/ I tweeted about this before, but wanted to be clear as to why these arguments are absurd & why those who make them are the real totalitarians. They're the ones seeking to control people's thinking by indoctrinating their kids and preventing them from even hearing other views..
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1/ Loving the right wing fundamentalists who are up in my mentions talking about how their kids are basically their property until age 18 and thus, as parents, they have the right to teach them whatever they want free from the interference of liberals... really? Let’s see...
2/ do you have the right to teach them that the sun revolves around the earth because your cosmology says so? Or that The earth is 7000 years old Bc “the Bible says so!” No. I mean you can teach them that bullshit...but WE have the right to force them to learn science...
3/ why? Because your kids live in a society... they don’t live in your closet. To raise them in ignorance is to damage the society. Other countries don’t hobble their children with anti-scientific nonsense about a 6 day creation and Noah’s Ark and the rapture...
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1/ So much pathetic in this Ben Shapiro hot take. Here's the thing: right wingers think they have a right to "raise their kids however they choose." But that's bullshit. Why? Because your children are not your property. They are free moral agents, and...
2/ ...your right to teach them as you wish is not an exclusive right...you can teach as you wish as a matter of free speech, but WE have the right to expose your kid to other things and ideas, as a function of them living in OUR society...
3/ Unless you intend to keep your kids in their room forever and never let them out here with the rest of us (and if you do that you're an abuser and should have your kids taken from you), then you have to deal with them being exposed to other ideas than yours...
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