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(tbh, it would be hard to top the last lege for shady smoke filled rooms, abruptly subs uted language and creative application of the rules.)
(tbh, it would be hard to top the last lege for shady smoke filled rooms, abruptly subs uted language and creative application of the rules.)
this time around there are 1-2 dozen hateful culture war laws, a whole raft of them.
It’s selective deschooling. Specific public schools in affluent, heavily white areas will be voluntarily funded through the PTA and such. Otherwise, the end goal is like Louisiana where parents easily can send their kids to inexpensive and/or publicly-subsidized private schools, especially religious ones.
The reason is simple — white parents don’t want their kids to be around the black underclass. They don’t believe the black underclass is educable, they see them as incorrigibly violent, and are heavily invested in the school-to-prison pipeline for that piece of the population.
You will have to wait until the end of time for those people to listen to the arguments about the root causes of minority social dysfunction.
I know there is a moral panic about “wokeness” and “grooming” in the schools, but without that fear of violent nonwhites, I just don’t believe there would be the energy to sustain the movement.
It seems incoherent given their acceptance of mass shootings, but it’s really not. I believe humans value group status over individual well-being as long as basic needs are being met, because group belonging is a more important on Maslow’s hierarchy than self-esteem or self-actualization.
The other dynamic I could get behind is the desire to dominate. The most antagonistic divide in the country is not black/white or Anglo/Hispanic or educated/uneducated but rather red whites/blue whites. Us versus them is the most basic organizing principle of human beings, and the more similar “them” are, the greater the anger and violence to differentiate “us” from “them.” So to protect group differentiation and group status there is this need to ensure dominance. So “owning the libs” is actually a primal need.
So with that dynamic the desire to dismantle public education would be nothing more complicated than that blue whites value public education.
Paxton accusing Bonnen of being a drunk.
Last edited by Winehole23; 05-24-2023 at 01:31 AM.
Is Paxton claiming to speak from a place of credibility? lol me for not realizing this is about a probe of Paxtons office
Very interesting takes from Extra Stout.
Good stuff.
even Republicans can't stand the horse they're asked to carry.
Related:
Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels e in book challenges
An analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...n-challengers/
Excerpt from the article:
But in interviews, book challengers say they are fighting for children’s innocence, sanity and well-being — and, some believe, for their souls.
Cindy Martin, a mother of four in Georgia’s Forsyth County schools, challenged three books last school year. In one complaint, lodged against “Check Please! Book 1: #Hockey,” a graphic novel about a college hockey team whose protagonist comes out as gay, she demanded that school officials “remove all copies and burn it.”
Martin said in an interview that she stands by her call to burn “Check Please!” which she criticized for “using the f-word, and it’s in the sexual sense.” She said les available in school libraries promote casual sex and degrade women. She predicted letting children read those books will lead to pregnancy, abortion, sexual harassment, rape and sexually transmitted diseases.
“It has no place in the school system. It really has no place in society,” she said. “I am a believer in Jesus Christ, and I feel he has put this passion in me to protect children.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05...igation-texas/A Texas House committee heard stunning testimony from investigators Wednesday over allegations of a yearslong pattern of misconduct and questionable actions by Attorney General Ken Paxton, the result of a probe the committee had secretly authorized in March.In painstaking and methodical detail in a rare public forum, four investigators for the House General Investigating Committee testified that they believe Paxton broke numerous state laws, misspent office funds and misused his power to benefit a friend and political donor.
Their inquiry focused first on a proposed $3.3 million agreement to settle a whistleblower lawsuit filed by four high-ranking deputies who were fired after accusing Paxton of accepting bribes and other misconduct.
Committee Chair Andrew Murr said the payout, which the Legislature would have to authorize, would also prevent a trial at which evidence of Paxton’s alleged misdeeds would be presented publicly. Committee members questioned, in essence, if lawmakers were being asked to participate in a cover-up.
“It is alarming and very serious having this discussion when millions of taxpayer dollars have been asked to remedy what is alleged to be some wrongs,” Murr said. “That’s something we have to grapple with. It’s challenging.”
Sine Die is May 29
Abbot asks for independent panel to analyze poor performance in schools. They are completely ignoring the panels recommendations.
Priorities. This is why red states tend to be holes.
Billions in property tax relief, but not an extra penny for public schools.
Fascist Christian nationalist aka Texas repugs,
trying to force the ten commandments into public schools and
parachuting unlicensed Christian "pastors" as counselors into public schools
I expect these Christian pastor frauds will be on taxpayer salaries
Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-26-2023 at 10:33 PM.
Texas GOP writes in support of our crooked AG.
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