I would agree we do in FL as well. In the spirit of a Disney related agenda, we have to push forward that this already happened in FL. Whether it was a waste of resources, necessity, or not it happened. Disney isn’t championing that this was a waste of resources, they are totally against the premise. The premise itself is a good one or at the least harmless as written.
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I have an amazing 5 year old girl with my wife =)
I live as isolated as I can, for being in Southern California and my daughter is homeschooled because we cannot bring her to ANY in-person school because she is not vaxxinated against covid (because we all already had it). To answer your question: I don’t know of any incidents personally, but am ready to light up the school board, teacher, and superintendent should I find this happen.
I agree with everything but the last part. I do not think this is prevalent, and I think most teachers do a relatively good job at being unbiased/apolitical. The few situations that DO happen though, have no rules in place to prevent or reprimand for such incidents though - and that’s where I have the problem. If we can’t push religion in school (which I agree with) then we also can’t be pushing other ideologies. I’m not asking for anything extreme, just protections against the few crazies; if they break these rules, then they get canned like any other job.
Agree that there are bigger issues going on. How’s that border doing? Gas prices? At least we can all spend $1200 on new fuel injectors with this new 15% ethanol blend. Any plan on how to tackle this self-inflicted inflation? What about the brewing polarization/extremism of both parties?
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that’s awesome! glad I asked.
they’re mandating vaccination for 5 year olds in california? wow. wasn’t aware. My son has also had covid (he’s 7), and not vaccinated. I can’t imagine a vaccinate mandate for children here in Texas.
for sure, I don’t want that either. But I think the idea that you can’t even ADDRESS the existence of transgender (re: Florida bill) is going further than necessary.
So, here’s a question. I got around to watching one of the links posted in this thread a few days ago that was from the Daily Wire about a transgender 1st grade teacher. And yes, I’m well aware that a 1st grade transgender teacher is extraordinarily rare, lol. BUT. If this teacher was in Florida, how do you think this teacher should address their own gender with the class, if asked about it? Should they just say ‘I can’t talk about my gender’? Should they be honest, and address it in the most accurate way they can manage? I’ve been thinking about how I would want that addressed in a school if my son encountered that. I’m not particularly sure, but I do tend to lean towards being honest with kids.
Man, the truck back-up at the border right now is insane. It’s a massive problem. We could have some serious issues in grocery stores (not just in Texas, some of this stuff goes all across the country) because food is spoiling in trucks that are held up at the border for 12+ hours. It’s a great example of how border solutions are far more complicated than people seem to think. When you implement greater checks at the border, it takes more time to cross. Which creates backups. Which, clearly, can be bad if you don’t have enough personnel, traffic lanes, etc to accommodate the change.
They go up and down. This isn’t the first time in my adult life that we’ve seen 4 dollar gas. Is what it is. It won’t be inflated forever.
Also I care less about this than most people because I don’t directly pay for my gas, I put it on a company card, lol.
Man, that’s the million dollar question. I wish I knew. I do my part by listening to the other side, and having conversations like we have on here. But unless a whole lot of people make similar decisions, on their own, to actually respect people they disagree with, things won’t get better.
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School specific requirement, not required if you aren’t attending school. If you read the article (you don’t have to) the term “independent study” means you’re doing homeschooling. This actually also applies to private schools (the part I’m most pissed about).
Failing to enforce California’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate may put school districts in financial peril | EdSource.
They should say what they identify as. I could care less if someone wants to identify as an attack helicopter, but when kids start asking “why”, the finer details should probably be left alone. I’m okay with calling a someone what they want to be called, so long as I’m not required to do so; but I will always treat an asshole like an asshole - if the trans teacher is a good person, then I’ll be respectful and expect my daughter to be respectful as well.
Man, how I wish we had 4 dollar gas. I posted a picture of gas prices a couple weeks ago and they are cresting $5.99 daily. The most asinine part is that liberal media outlets are touting “gas prices have reduced everyday for the last 15 days!” while they might have dropped a penny each day (insert obtuse eyeroll here).
I appreciate you for doing so, honestly. These are exactly the conversations people on both sides need to have. Social media outlets don’t help, because they only feed you more of what you want to see/hear - so if I only like far right content, I will only see this. Youtube doesn’t know what to make of me because I like listening to Joe Rogan, Bill Maher, and Ben Shapiro… so it gives me shit suggestions 24/7 lol. Anyways, that’s a subject for another thread.
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sure, that’s what I assumed. I wasn’t specific with my language.
that’s insane.
So I read the article, and I’m a little confused. You said you’re already home schooling, but the article says the vaccine mandate for schools hasn’t come into effect yet (looks like it won’t until this fall). Am I missing something? Or are you saying that you’ve taken the initiative to home school now because you know this is coming down the pipe?
Regardless… good luck with that, haha. My son did all of 1st grade with me at my office, via zoom calls, essentially. It was a lot to manage. I’m fortunate that I was able to handle it, I know that most people weren’t in a situation to bring their kids to work everyday/give them attention. It was a lot.
Well, I would assume your area is consistently higher than where I live in the first place then. All I was really saying was, while gas prices are high, they’re not actually hitting the numbers I saw… idk, 10-15 years ago? I don’t remember exactly when that was. I’ve slept since then.
yea prices have actually improved here in the last 2 weeks, we’re back down to about 3.80 a gallon right as of today. At the worst, I think we were more like 4.30. Hoping it doesn’t flatten out at this price.
For sure. I deactivated my facebook page over a year ago, and it’s been great. I kept facebook messenger because there aren’t any ads involved in that, and I still like it as a solid texting interface. But I was so fucking sick of all the nonsense on there, specifically involving politics.
THIS is a huge problem right now as well. You could argue that this particular phenomenon is driving people apart more than any other single thing. It’s driving people on both sides to extremes.
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Yes, we’re just going pre-emptive with it. Still, would rather have her in private school.
If you wanted to watch a relatively interesting movie, The Social Dilemma (netflix) goes into this in detail. It’s something we all know, but most seem to ignore. I too deleted all social media (except this and occasional YT videos) because it was such a huge time-suck. Never made me feel happy when I was using it either.
There are plenty of genetic diseases, disorders and traits that haven’t been bred out.
Yes, because they are typically resultant of genetic mutations which neither the mother nor the father have the condition, but results in the child having the disorder.
This “disorder” if we want to call it that, would be bred out if IVF didn’t exist due to the inability to reproduce naturally. Again, case specific.
Well, that’s not really true. Type 1 diabetes and sickle cell immediately come to mind, plenty of other examples. Before modern medicine/synthetic insulin, type 1 diabetes was a death sentence. And yet it is still prevalent in our species. And it’s not based on a mutation, just unfavorable genetics.
Except that homosexuality doesn’t actually prevent anyone from having children. It’s interesting that no one has mentioned that in this discussion. I had a gay teacher in high school who has 3 kids. Just because a person is gay doesn’t mean hes infertile, lol. And a gay person can absolutely make the choice to breed ‘naturally’. I think it’s safe to assume that if the gay population of the world was significantly higher, like 50+% of the population, we would still be fine because gay people would still be able to procreate out of necessity.
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Yeah, I should have worded it better. Too many “what if’s” can poke holes in that. Too many inherited diseases to apply a blanket(ish) statement to.
True. I ignored this as a possibility, not because I was unaware but because we were discussing absolutes. If everyone’s attaction to the opposite sex waned to the point of how unattracted I am to dudes, I imagine this being an existential threat. But it’s quite possible far more people are able to cope with this than I could (hypothetically).
Gosh, we really got into the weeds on this one, huh?
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HA! We definitely did. And obviously it’s far from the original topic, but it is relevant, since we were talking about homosexuality in terms of survival of the species, I thought it was worth bringing up.
We’re 300 replies into this topic, it’s gonna be hard at this point to keep going on about ‘the Disney agenda’
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By the way, I did get through the whole article you sent me on enforcement of the California vaccine mandate for kids in school. It’s an interesting one, and obviously California is going to be dealing with some far-reaching effects regarding non-compliance. I think the requirement is a mistake.
I wouldn’t be surprised if more states require covid vaccines for children to attend school in the coming years, assuming covid lingers indefinitely, but I think doing it now is far too soon for anyone to be particularly comfortable with it. I could see it eventually being lumped in with all the other required vaccines for school across the country. But for now, regardless of political views, people just don’t like the idea of giving the vaccine to their young children. Like I said before, i haven’t done it with my own son yet. I may be doing it soon to go on a cruise with him, but that’s going to be my choice. I prefer that reason over being forced to just so he can go to fucking school.
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So, homosexuality is not a choice but can be ignored in order to reproduce naturally(or are you talking about cases like the tranny somehow knocking up women that was posted recently?)? This makes homosexuality sound like impulse-control disorder.
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I’m talking about a significant history of gay people marrying and having families to hide the fact that they’re gay, often out of shame or fear of social ostracism. Or fear of things like lobotomy and castration, which for a long time, in many countries, were implemented when homosexuality was discovered. Perhaps one could value his own life more than acting on his own homosexuality, eh?
I’m genuinely surprised anyone would take issue with me making this particular point, given how well documented it is in human history. Yes, a person can ignore genetic predispositions to accomplish a particular task.
As far as characterizing homosexuality as a ‘disorder’, that’s really just a social construct isn’t it? If we are saying it is a characteristic inherent to a person based on their genetics, as many disorders are, I guess you can call it that. The fact is, many people have done so historically. But I don’t see the value in doing so.
But yes. Having sexual intercourse is simply an action, one of many actions a human being can make the decision to engage in. And yes, someone can engage in said activity without feeling sexually attracted to the other person. We engage in many, many activities in our lives for many reasons.
I can modernize the context of this decision a bit. Let’s say a gay man has a female friend who he cares deeply about, but feels no sexual attraction to her. Let’s also say this gay man wants kids. Lets say the woman does as well, and does not have a husband/boyfriend/any prospects. Maybe she’s getting close to being too old to have a kid. There’s nothing about being gay that would make a person not want kids, after all. Is it such an absurd idea to think that these two people could decide ‘let’s have a kid together’? If you think that’s outlandish, then you’re living under a rock. It happens. Doesn’t make the gay person ‘less gay’, it doesn’t mean he has ‘an impulse control disorder’. It means he’s a gay dude who wanted a kid.
I really didn’t think I was going to have to explain this one.
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This thread seems like a good microcosm of the larger discussion playing out in society, albeit much politer.
295 posts in and the adults are confused and don’t understand each other. For sure, let’s rope the kindergartners into this discussion. They obviously need clear ideas like left-wing gender ideology to make sense of the world around them.
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Not if they also “decide” to take enough hormones to overpower that tendency.
Sure, but is this even happening? You guys are making up scenarios that you don’t even know exists. We can play “what if” all day, not getting us anywhere.
Would you apply the same logic to religion?
Making up scenarios, what ifs? Videos, articles and studies have been posted. WTF do you want?
Of boys deciding to be gay or taking hormones to fit in?