This bizzare push to keep children/young adults from having the choice to leave the worldviews and religions of their parents is gaining much more mainstream political support than I would have thought. It’s weird and worrying. I think we need a strong push for children’s rights alongside academic freedom.
Modern conservative ideology in the US and Europe is entirely irrational and unappealing to younger people who have even a modicum of real world exposure. As such, conservatives have had to accept that they cannot win support from newer generations on the merits of their beliefs and opinions, and their core demographic is aging out. The alternative is to simply remove the availability of conflicting worldviews altogether. They can’t win the argument, so they want to prevent people from being able to have it at all.
This is also why Republicans have recently started calling for raising the voting age. 18 year olds are coming to voting age in a world where they fear for their lives and where they see their freedoms being eroded. The Republican position on this essentially amounts to “yeah, and?” Which isn’t a particularly compelling argument to support them. So the GOP’s solution is to just remove the voices of the people they disagree with.
It’s not just higher education. With their voucher system they want to send kids to Christian religious schools.
@someguy3 @ilovecomputers The entire modern right can be traced back to a desire for segregated schools. This is the core mission, everything else was a way of shifting a voting block to enable it. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
This bizzare push to keep children/young adults from having the choice to leave the worldviews and religions of their parents is gaining much more mainstream political support than I would have thought. It’s weird and worrying. I think we need a strong push for children’s rights alongside academic freedom.
Modern conservative ideology in the US and Europe is entirely irrational and unappealing to younger people who have even a modicum of real world exposure. As such, conservatives have had to accept that they cannot win support from newer generations on the merits of their beliefs and opinions, and their core demographic is aging out. The alternative is to simply remove the availability of conflicting worldviews altogether. They can’t win the argument, so they want to prevent people from being able to have it at all.
This is also why Republicans have recently started calling for raising the voting age. 18 year olds are coming to voting age in a world where they fear for their lives and where they see their freedoms being eroded. The Republican position on this essentially amounts to “yeah, and?” Which isn’t a particularly compelling argument to support them. So the GOP’s solution is to just remove the voices of the people they disagree with.
They twist it as parents rights. I even saw a tshirt (school protestor) that said “We the parents”.
Wild. It’s just regular abuser thinking dressed up in a fancy costume.
When they say “parents rights” they mean “paterfamilias” the man of the house having absolute control of the family.
Holy fuck. You can’t make this shit up.