There’s just no words for this level of evil.
The book burning and internet crackdown will surely start soon. Kiss the first amendment goodbye.
Source on the book burnings? There’s a list on Wikipedia with nothing very recent listed on it.
When the book bans first started here in Texas, there were documented cases of book burnings. I don’t have the energy to look it back up, but was reported in a few different cases.
Edit - to be fair, these could have been backyard burnings by fuckwads, not full blown community wide bonfire style that would make national headlines
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.
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 “.
What the fuck does it even mean to “support” students? Jesus fucking Christ, I am so sick of the republican traitor filth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
