After Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s gubernatorial race Tuesday, the GOP appears eager to take his bigotry-infused “education” strategy nationwide. “The Republican swings in Virginia and New Jersey show the efficacy of a new model of conservative politics: appealing to suburban voters by promising greater parental control of schools,” the Washington Post reports Thursday morning. It’s a clever strategy.
If the public knew what the GOP demands actually were — banning classic books like Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” or “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood — most parents would not be on board. Few people want to be a Nazi book burner! But the GOP is repackaging this deeply fascist love of censorship in a friendlier frame of “parental rights.” They got lucky that the Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, blundered in the campaign’s closing weeks when he said, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” instead of mounting a robust defense of free speech […]
We can only hope that each generation evolves higher. My daughter allows her children to use profanity at home only if they “sing” it. After thinking for themselves, I guess the novelty wore off at some point.
Children should be allowed to use and expand their minds experientially whether they are Christian or not.
I disagree with you that this is male-dominated issue. White christian supremacy is very genderless and it’s naive to think that women do not play a significant role in all this.
Eric —
You have misread what I said, White supremacist, male dominant. There are commas, between those terms, one is not an adjective defining the other.
— Stephan