Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify another target: Mental health programs
Groups this year have voiced opposition to suicide prevention programs, mental health coordinators and social emotional learning, claiming they are being used to indoctrinate students.
Suicide prevention is bad for kids? WTF?
Wait…knew you’d be in there:
“ “Focus them on something productive and useful so that they feel competent and confident that they’re doing well in school. They shouldn’t be questioning their gender identity and worrying about marching and worrying about social justice.”
It isn’t exactly wrong, to the extent that compassion would let kids see the world from lenses other than their own. They might as well say, “We don’t want our children to be good people.”
I don’t think it’s a good or funny thing. I think it’s the far, racist right wing of the party purging the less authoritarian far right of their party. That really doesn’t bode well.
I definitely see where you’re coming from on this, and don’t necessarily disagree. As you write, Cheney herself is no moderate. But in this case they’re not purging her over anything she believes that has to do with political policymaking. It’s about stifling speech from someone who agrees with them on nearly every policy.
This is another example of a party that has no idea what it’s about anymore, and I feel like even in places like Wyoming this kind of thing won’t play well. It’s a kind of disorganization that will start to make it hard to get people elected.
Well, yeah… that’s why it’s a problem. Further evidence that one of our major political parties is no longer interested in governing, but in loyalty to dear leader…
I hope you’re right, but it seems that propaganda and hate speech can get you all the way to the presidency now, so…
Honestly, I think this is the Republican party at this point. There is no difference of opinion permitted, all deference is given to the Dear Leader and absolutely nothing else matters. It is achieving it’s final form. The only question remaining is, how many Americans will embrace what their forefathers fought and died to defeat? Already, the answer is far too many, but maybe not enough for it to gain full power. But only by an eyelash currently. Way way too close.
How much of that is like the Harper’s letter, where a third of the “co-signers” were not even informed or were deceived by the authors? I mean, that’s part of Bari Weiss’ M.O. now.
