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[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 82 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Being an educator in this day and age seems so difficult, we are taught all the studies and theories of healthy child development, how to promote healthy social emotional learning, but we must fight parents and increasely the law to maintain a safe, healthy social environmental layer.

Good educators are already beaten down from so many things and have become rare, but I know most of my colleagues and friends have no intention of bending knee to this and policies aimed at hurting students we fight for, and I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 39 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I desperately hope this sentiment is shared by many across our country.

I'll leave this here...from 3 days ago: Teacher asks ICE to raid his school, says many students 'don't even speak English'

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Thanks, I wasn't depressed enough, but that really did the trick!

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

there are many more fully resisting each purge attempt. shits getting dark af right now, but ~~dispair~~ despair cannot be an option.

get out and find community. I did a thing two days ago. stopped by one of the only houses in my neighborhood that openly opposed the trump collective before the election. let them know I (and my fam) were here if they needed anything. we shared ideas and history. face to face. in realtime. and we will be checking up on each other moving forward.

edit: curnt speeeel.

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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Happy cake day!

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There's nothing unlawful about helping a trans person do their homework

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 weeks ago

What a nice old man.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 65 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

This really is reminiscent of early Nazi Germany, with an obsession over trans people (like Jews), and the idea that they're the root of so much evil, and the constant implication that things would be better if they just go away...

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 43 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

The Nazis didn't start by rounding up the Jews, they started with the "sexual deviants". The parallel is a lot closer than you think.

Transgender people in Nazi Germany

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Oof... Thanks. I appreciate the history lesson, as they did not teach that little detail in my schools.

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[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Really it's true but swap out trans for Republicans. (Things would be better without them)

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I have fantasized about what the country would be like if we let them have their own land and government. So you'd be left with a "liberal" America and a "conservative" one as two countries. My prediction is the conservative one would be mostly dead of disease within a year or two and the liberal one would actually be able to legislate a bit, making incremental improvements like a functioning country

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends, who gets the most weapons and troops? The Nazi country would try to conquer the other one at the first opportunity.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah, the thought experiment fails when you look at that "detail" haha

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Regressionists will always hold back progress.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 231 points 4 weeks ago (16 children)

I'll never forgive the people who worked to put this fascist in power again.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Well we couldn't have bLuEmAGA in power after all! That would have been worse!/s

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 65 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

In the executive order issued Wednesday evening, titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 schooling,” Trump directs the attorney general to work with local and state officials to investigate teachers who “unlawfully facilitat[e] the social transition of a minor student.” The order defines “social transitioning” to include using a trans student’s name and pronouns, recognizing a student as nonbinary, or allowing them to use the restroom that aligns with their gender identity.

Ordinary people are going to have to start accepting the risk and actually fighting back. They're a week and a half in, and already ordering Americans not to even recognise the existence of trans and nonbinary children, on threat of prosecution. It's not just about denying them healthcare now (which in itself is terrible), it's about preventing trans kids knowing anyone even sees them for who they are, or that they are seen and loved. The only outcome will be depression, loneliness and suicide, and Republicans want your kids dead if they don't fit some very narrow mold they've pulled out of their own violent insecurities.

People need to fight now. Each day people lie low and wait to see where this is going, the chances of ever fighting back get slimmer.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

People tend to follow by example. "People should do this" and "people should do that" is all well and good, but unless you're saying it while doing the thing you're telling others to do, it's not going to make much impact.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I agree, mere talk online isn't going to achieve much, but it might help demonstrate that this sense of urgency is shared.

[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago

Agreed! In my little online ecosystem, there's been a number of stories of federal workers resisting, cities teaching people their rights to thwart ICE, etc. Since that may or may not make it out of certain bubbles, we should be boosting stories like that and sending them around so others don't feel alone and do feel empowered to resist.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 36 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

But what does “discriminatory equity ideology” actually mean? The order defines it as “ideology that treats individuals as members of preferred or disfavored groups, rather than as individuals, and minimizes agency, merit, and capability in favor of immoral generalizations.”

Oh for fucks sake. That literally describes how racism, sexism, and bigotry work: by treating people as part of a preferred or disfavored group instead of individuals.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

But what does “discriminatory equity ideology” actually mean?

In reality it means anything that challenges white cishet male supremacy. But they'll couch it in the doublespeak of meritocracy.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

I think it’s closer to “whatever they want it to mean so they can persecute their enemies”

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 13 points 4 weeks ago

But they'll couch it in the doublespeak of meritocracy.

"Stop trying to make it sound sexy"
- Vance

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 58 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What the fuck does it even mean to “support” students? Jesus fucking Christ, I am so sick of the republican traitor filth.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 7 points 4 weeks ago

See the comment by floofloof. It has the order's wording, and it's disgusting.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 134 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Blatantly unconstitutional, and he knows it. But the point isn't to win on this issue, it's to move the Overton window a little more and to sow more chaos.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

This could actually be a good starting point for a nationwide action. Very few collective actions are as effective as a nationwide teacher strike. The call to action is also relatively straightforward. Something like “D.C. shouldn’t regulate what we teach in our classrooms “.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's only unconstitutional until his SCROTUS lackeys reinterpret the Constitution to mean something it very clearly doesn't.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 66 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think we left our legal system behind a while ago.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 weeks ago

It can still be used to cause delays and make things as difficult as possible for them.

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