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[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a good reminder that the freedom of expression has morphed into freedom of stupidity.

These awful people actually expect to be taken seriously for their moronic bullshit world views.

[–] Phroon@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of my takeaways is that some of the people aren’t intrinsically awful, they are just un-aware or un-knowing. That some think feminism means female supremacy, or that woke is some undefinable thing they don’t like. And that with some stomach churning effort some people can be reached. I applaud those willing to try and reach them.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I applaud those willing to try and reach them.

That's a fair point.

I wish COVID had gotten them all.

[–] cwagner@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

That some think feminism means female supremacy

Doesn’t help when some feminists think that as well. We have a famous and influential feminist here in Germany (Alice Schwarzer), who did a lot for feminism in 70s and 80s, but now is a reactionary who stands for TERF, censorship, mass surveillance, female supremacy, and "anyone who doesn’t like me is anti-feminist".

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

–Isaac Asimov, 1980

[–] statist43@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah because stupid is loud.

[–] Plume@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"But... is it woke?"

OH MY GOD. All of these people's brain are rotten by culture war crap!

[–] Phroon@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

“…do you teach feminism?” … “No, I teach all genders are equal and should be treated as such.” … ‘She buys three kits.‘

The whole article is so enlightening.

[–] ClarissaDarling@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

It's so bogus that negative perceptions of public school are ruining the homeschool community. When I started homeschooling my kid something like a decade ago there were a lot more genuinely interested parents homeschooling their kids, now it's mostly political ideology. Bad parents using homeschooling as an excuse to neglect their kids because the school will teach them sex ed or something?

In the last few years I put my kids into a modified public school program, the co-op is ruined