Thread by @deb_fillman

If there's one lesson you can take from this thread, and every back-and-forth between people fighting over who gets to dictate what books are in public K12 libraries, it's that taxpayer-funded education is immoral from the outset. Read on to find out why...1/

https://twitter.com/deb_fillman/status/1636365975397253121

1/If you claim it's moral to take money from people at the business end of a gun (try not paying your taxes), how do you justify telling the people you've taken it from they have ZERO say in how it's spent? Especially on the education if THEIR CHILDREN?

2/And before you get all cute and say this is why School Choice ™️ is great, remember nothing has changed except who gets to decide where the stolen funds go. The power to define "education" and to regulate who MAY get those funds, even from YOU, stays with the same govt!

3/So if your yammering in about "book bans," where do you get off spending other people's money to expose their kids to porn? Even if we give you your argument that @Moms4Liberty have "no right" to demand porn be removed, guess what? You equally have "no right" to put it IN.

4/Either y'all have the same right to have say in what's there, or rights don't exist, only bully's privileges. Same with discipline. Either parents have a right to demand their kids and other people's kids be held to high standards of behavior, or they don't, and who decides?

5/One side says "My child will be harmed!" But the other side says the same. How do you decide who's "right" to decide how their kids are educated, or more accurately, "parented" by the state, takes precedent?

You can't, that's not how rights work.

6/Do we really want to expand the abortion argument to everything? That is to day, the "conflicting rights" argument? I sure as hell don't! There's no winner. The parents who want their kids to have access to porn etc? Much as I despise them, personally and morally,

7/that is their right. These are their kids, and unless we want to become authoritarians who dictate what kids as old as 17 may see, at the tip of a gun, it's not up to us. The ONLY reason it is is that it's our money too, and our kids too.

8/Likewise, it's my right to protect my kids from the abysmal influences and morally bankrupt influences so popular in today's regressive "woke" public schools. It's my right as a parent, AND as a taxpayer. But how are you gonna reconcile my rights, with theirs in this set up?

9/Answer: you can't. You don't get to steal from me, and deny me a say. You don't get to steal from them, and deny them a say, and the immorality was always there, it just didn't seem obvious when the disputes weren't SO polarized. We as a culture used to agree, so

10/we didn't have to grapple with the hypocrisy of calling ourselves a "free" country while coercing money to the tune of $1T out of everyone, the childless included, and compelling attendance by children whose parents couldn't make other arrangements into state schools.

11/The clock was always ticking, we were always gonna end up here. There was never a scenario where we could let people vote themselves money out of other people's wallets, with which to buy the gov't (and worldview) of their choosing, where gov't run education wasn't going to

12/be a game of political football, and our kids the unwilling, unwitting players in the game.

So next time you're in one of these debates, take it all the way back to first principles. Don't nip around the edges of the problem, bickering about who has MORE right to parent

13/or MORE say, or the better intentions or point. It's IRRELEVANT. Right or wrong, by anyone's estimation, if they're not literally forcing their kids to read porn, or denying them age appropriate mental healthcare (that means nothing permanent)

14/parents have broad rights to suck at parenting. Anything less WILL back up on good parents, as we see now, and the ONLY way to respect those rights, and preserve and protect them in perpetuity, is to #defund government education. If you're not willing to do that,

15/I demand these books be put in every HS library in America, immediately. /END

*you're yammering on

*whose

*that is to say