They need schools to babysit kids while their parents are at work.
I don't see how the bourgeoisie would want this..?
It’s specifically to target “illegal” people’s children. It’s definitely a contradiction between xenophobia and the fact that capital here uses undocumented workers as extremely poorly paid reserve labor pools
It'll definitely be used for anyone they think is "undesirable" if they get the decision they want, though--LGBT+ kids (especially trans or genderqueer), resource-intensive special education students, anybody they dislike. Once the affirmative right to a free and appropriate public education is gone, that kind of thing is very weaponizable. It becomes a cudgel to coerce conformity, suppress dissent, and marginalize identities that the government thinks are bad. It's also a great way to create a permanent uneducated underclass. Wins all around for the fash.
Abbott is already running for president. And I see extreme stances as being a norm to try to get the GOP nomination. Right now Abbott is focusing on the undocumented so Texas republicans will nod their heads and think "That's good." I think such positions required for any republican presidential hopeful in the 2024 face.
Eventually Abbott will probably "question" the need for public education and simply start pushing charter schools. I assume that not only Texas republicans will nod their heads in agreement. At best - the GOP nationwide is embracing the concept of separate but equal. At worst? Who knows how ugly things will get.
I could be entirely wrong and maybe "normal" pols like Romney have a chance - but I don't see it. The abortion ruling has normalized batshit thinking in the mind of the GOP. It's worth noting that many GOP states will have no exceptions in anti-abortion laws.
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You're an 11 year-old girl raped by your father? You're having your baby. Praise God! And then daddy/grandfather will get guaranteed visitation rights too. He's a man after all.
If things continue on their way - and I have no hope they'll change - the US is headed towards horror. For brevity and clarity I edited the thread. If you want links - they are in the thread.
Roe v. Wade is based on the "right to privacy." If the majority opinion by SCOTUS suggests that the constitution does not protect the right to privacy... that affects a WHOLE lot of other decisions. Buckle up - this is the beginning of a lot of potential ugliness.
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Lawrence v. Texas: Decided in 2003, the court used the Right to Privacy to determine that it's unconstitutional to punish people for committing sodomy. The Roe ruling could open the door for criminalizing homosexuality.
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Griswold v. Connecticut: Decided in 1965, this case protects the ability of married couples to buy contraceptives without government restriction. This isn't just about abortion. Next up, contraceptives.
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Loving v. Virginia: This 1968 case, which threw out laws banning interracial marriages, was decided based on the right to privacy. If a state wanted to prohibit who people could marry -- there is no protection from that without a right to privacy.
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Stanley v Georgia: This 1969 case found that there was a right to privacy around possession pornography. If a state wants to outlaw pornography or certain forms of adult pornography, it could do that without the right to privacy.
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Obergefell v. Hodges: The 2015 opinion that legalized same sex marriage used the right to privacy and the equal protection clause to do so. This could open the door for a state to try to test same sex marriage laws.
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Meyer v. Nebraska: This 1923 ruling allows families to decide for themselves if they want their children to learn a language other than English. This could open the door for racist states to try to outlaw learning their family's languages.
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Skinner v Oklahoma: This 1942 ruling found that it's unconstitutional to forcibly sterilize people. The Roe ruling could open the door for criminals, disabled people or BIPOC folks to be forcibly sterilized.
Okay. That's a quick overview of the judicial chaos that could occur in the aftermath of striking down Roe v Wade. All of these decisions might no longer be settled law and states could try to test them by creating laws designed to test the courts.
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This is one of those “the cruelty is the point” things.
Fuck abbott. Texas’s education system is already unbelievably classist as is
If Texas did even like a third of the stuff on their list, id imagine it would experience a brain drain to another part of the country, honestly its really starting to look like the usa balkanizes towards the end of my life.
To clarify i mean that the people in red states that have the means to move will leave and the separation of red and blue states will increasingly be more like two diffrent countrys but idk it kinda is like that already
Come to think of it if it goes fash it will probley immediately destroy it's self, the more scary part is imagine the nazi or muslini or franco but now they have nukes do they push the button if they start losing in a war, is it correct to assume facism always destroys it self, I wish I knew that for sure.
THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION: ARTICLE 7. EDUCATION
Sec. 1. SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.
Haha, but fuck that, amirite? Legalism is a lie and anyone who continues to believe it is a fucking sap.
I wonder how many times the the Texas GOP platform goes against the Texas Constitution. My guess: at least 100s. The platform is beyond batshit. It's fucking looney tunes.
Do you know how many Texas constitutional amendments appear on the ballot each election? If they want to get this done, they will get this done.
Public education remains incredibly popular. Any effort to outright repel it would fail. So they have to try and chip around the edges. Or attack it through the courts, where they're insulated from the blowback.
A bunch of QAnon cult, school board protesters are about to have to prove they don't want to send their kids off with a bunch of groomers during office hours. We shall see.
Sometimes, as an American simmering in anti-Soviet propaganda, I can't help but think I must be crazy for thinking that the international communist movement of the 20th century was mostly cool and good. Then I see shit like this and realize that I'm definitely right.
America really is crumbling. Can’t wait until we have an illiterate peasant class of subsistence farmers again
This is way more accurate and you can already kind of see it as a....thing
I think this Mad Max dystopia is overplayed and overstated. Places that crumble and collapse into chaos tend to eventually stabilize into subsistence poverty as long as outside forces aren’t agitating. The reason Somalia and parts of Syria are wastelands of roaming pirates is due to poverty induced by imperialism & western forces funding terrorists and rightwing factions.
yeah, and the frontier is coming home so that maybe the USA will resemble those places
It's actually kind of amazing how you're starting to look more like Central America. The same region conservatives scream about America turning into because of immigration.
SCOTUS: "There's nothing in the Constitution that says we actually have to hold elections. No we will not explain further."
I’m now convinced that the current government has under a decade left to go.
That would be fun. And honestly, about fucking time.
It's the main thing keeping me going. My life is pretty shitty most of the time but the schadenfreude of outliving this shithole, the thing I hate most in this world, is enough to keep me putting one foot in front of the other.
Kansas tried this as part of their "defund everything" libertarian experiment and it went so poorly the state elected a democrat for governor. Of course the federal government stepped in and said "hey you need schools actually" first so tbh who knows
That sounds interesting to read about, is there a good accesible article?
The Wikipedia article is actually a pretty good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
"It's a free market, live and let live! Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to use your tax dollars to set up infrastructure to coerce you to buy my shit!'
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Lol. Are they trying to reduce property values even lower? That's a surefire way to get more Californians to move in and turn your state blue. It's a shame that prop 13 boomers and NIMBYs would be happy to see them go, so they can keep California as a continental Hawaii.
That cartoon with the genie and the gun except this time education, that cartoon with the genie and the gun but for everything
How do we move from school shooters to people's army, whoever manages that is the next Chairman Washington
my 10 year old self would have loved this, but now i know the consequences.
My FIL argued this same position like 6 years ago to me. It actually makes the argument the constitution is fucking garbage
Anyone ever tries waving around one of those pocket constitutions in front of me better be ready to watch it burn
