An Ohio bill would ban teaching of “controversial beliefs” at state universities. It’d also ban faculty strikes, and the details of the “controversial beliefs” ban are considerably worse than my summary in the first sentence might indicate, but my how I never tire of the “fuck your feelings” crowd using the alleged “feelings” of young people to justify never teaching about racism or sexism again. Yes, there was a point in my own life when I decided I’d heard too much about these things – youth is wasted on the young, just like they say – but you know what happened? I got over it, because anti-racists and anti-sexists were right, and getting over it, and accepting my part in both problem and solution, made me a stronger and more mature person. I guess actual growth experiences are too much to ask of right-wing snowflakes. Remember all this the next time one of them goes on about how “political correctness” (or whatever scare word they’re using now) is “worse” than actual racism and sexism. You don’t want any of these people in your foxhole.
You know why I don’t actually believe that a TikTok ban would “lose” President Biden “every voter under 35, forever”? Not just because Mr. Biden hasn’t actually called for one, and not just because said ban is mostly a right-wing dream, and not just because the Republican alternative to Mr. Biden would be a raging dumpster fire of a human being – I also note that the article quotes exactly five young voters, all from Arizona, and four of them don’t think a TikTok ban would affect either their vote or that of their peers. The fifth – whose testimony you get first, of course, and many paragraphs before the others’ – has this to say: “(President Biden is) maybe capable of doing a good job, but he’s not capable of gathering the troops, rallying the people. Especially the Democratic voter base. I don’t think he’s a strong candidate.” So given the opportunity to describe something Mr. Biden has done or hasn’t done that’s turned him off, this student opts for mere horserace anaylsis. We get too much of that from our “liberal” media, so it’d be nice if more of the children-who-are-our-future would abstain from it.
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