I’m not out to my parents as non-binary (they would reject it most possibly). I want to come out at school to all new teachers, that way i can just slowly come out. this law would be a disaster to any of my plans, which is why I find it scary to imagine me in Iowa.I’m not out to my parents as non-binary (they would reject it most possibly). I want to come out at school to all new teachers, that way i can just slowly come out. this law would be a disaster to any of my plans, which is why I find it scary to imagine me in Iowa.
If “First, do no harm” is a principle in caring professions, Iowa elected officials are demanding adults cause harm to vulnerable kids in schools, and teachers have an obligation to resist policies whose purpose is to inflict cruelty. In fact, we know that using chosen names can literally be life-saving for transgender kids, as being able to use chosen names is directly linked to a decrease in depression and suicide. As a basic human courtesy, it’s the bare minimum, costs us nothing, yet can mean everything.
I like Bleeding Heartland, but one criticism I have is how they don’t actually ascribe motives to fascists. They still try to maintain this bizarre appearance of “”“neutrality”“” by just presenting the facts and not actually examining our enemies.
The entire point is to harm queer children. They want us to commit suicide before we’re old enough to vote against them or spread our deviant ideas to other children. They want to increase depression and suicide. “The cruelty is the point” is trite, they’re not just meanies that want to hurt us.
They’re fascists. This is social Darwinism.
Politicians have never cared about protests or signs or marches or speeches or posts, but that’s not the point!
Those things are for the People, to awaken the masses to struggle and to validate the shared experiences we all have of living in hell. This can be turned into votes as one tactic, but there are a lot of other things that can be done with a mass movement besides voting.
Simple and clean example: Kim has political donors. Those donors have business interests, which gives the masses leverage in the form of boycotts and strikes. They’ve especially vulnerable to anything that costs them money, and we can cost them a lot of money if we work together.
After a certain point you have to stop thinking like a voter and start thinking like a radical.
Not sure about your specific area, but I don’t think the US, as a whole, is hungry enough to start doing mass strikes yet. By hungry, I mean lacking food to survive.
Maybe it’s going to require mass hunger. I hope not, I don’t think so, but maybe that’s the only way to radicalize Americans.