Central Indiana parents share their thoughts about a new law that requires schools to notify them when a student requests a different name or pronouns.
Just in case you thought this was only a Florida problem.
the republican party platform is basically suicide bombing at this point. it’s a platform of singling out appropriate targets to bully, then hurting everyone but in a way designed to hurt the bullying targets the most. Google “lee atwater speech”, it’s got a lot of n-bombs in it but it basically outlines the way that republicans are proud to be the party of bullies and monsters.
You start out in 2005 by saying “t----- t----- t-----.” By 2023, you can’t say t----. That hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, parents’ rights, bathrooms, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about nicknames, and all these things you’re talking about are totally superficial things and a byproduct of them is, queer folks get hurt more than cishets… “We want to know about kids’ nicknames” is much more abstract than even the parents’ rights thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “t------ t------ t-------.”
the republican party platform is basically suicide bombing at this point. it’s a platform of singling out appropriate targets to bully, then hurting everyone but in a way designed to hurt the bullying targets the most. Google “lee atwater speech”, it’s got a lot of n-bombs in it but it basically outlines the way that republicans are proud to be the party of bullies and monsters.