How ‘parental rights’ language smuggles anti-LGBTQ hate into mainstream politics | Ricochet
How ‘parental rights’ language smuggles anti-LGBTQ hate into mainstream politics | Ricochet
The uninspired mashup between "think of the children" and "state's rights" is fooling people?
It's more like "property rights" than "state's rights". A lot of people just kind of quietly believe that they own their kids, as if "owning a human being" doesn't have a name that differs from "parenthood".
It works because it's essentially hitching it's wagon to a general milieu of reactionary media that a good portion of the country is already immersed in. It doesn't have to be inspired, it just has to reference the various issues these people are already being riled up about.
Lois Griffin on stage: "Think of the children."
(audience cheers)
It also works because parents see schools making mistakes with their kids. Every parent I know has a story about how at least one teacher has done a bad job at something.
With those experiences it's pretty easy to get parents to think they'd provide their kid with more help than the school.
People will believe anything if they want to believe it.
Its not "smuggling" anything. Its extremely obvious.
Yeah, I thought the 'parental rights movement == blatant bigotry' was common knowledge.
It is worth trying to understand where general support for "parents rights" comes from. I live in a rural area where it's getting a fair bit of support. From the parents I've talked to:
That's not understanding, that's whitewashing (or being naive). Those 3 points don't actually add up to "parents rights" unless you add one key additional component.
I'm not saying they add up to "parents rights", I'm trying to get across that a lot of parents feel like they've been let down by their kids schools.
That makes for fertile ground when a right wing campaigner comes along and says "do you trust the school?"
No, it comes from concern that their kid might be exposed to something that differs from what they are taught at church. Then it expands into nobody else's children should be exposed to what they are taught at church.
I can guarantee you something, most of them don't go to church. I know many people in that crowd and none of them practice anything related to religion except sinning.
You must know a different set of parents than I do. Over the couple of decades raising my kids, interacting with other parents, and dealing problems at school, my experience is that people in general and parents in particular typically complain a lot more about other kids' lousy parents than lousy teachers or lousy schooling.
I think it depends on the kids and their situation.
One of my kids had no problem with reading, but the other had a really hard time with cueing. I was surprised to find that it's part of the curriculum in both Ontario and NB. Fortunately, both provinces seem to be switching back to phonics.
Another parent in my cohort found their daughter was having difficulty with math, got little support from the teacher, and ended up teaching her daughter remedial math in the evenings.
So far, other kids and parents have been fine.
Hilariously, the most vocal people I know worried about their "parental rights" homeschool their kids.
You have to wonder if it has never occurred to them that they can tell themselves if their child/student chooses to use a different pronoun at home/school.
So-called parental rights necessarily come at the direct expense of existing and needed child's rights.