Voters rejected school board candidates using ‘manufactured’ culture wars to win elections

Right-wing activists using local school board races to push for greater control of public education didn’t make a dent in Tuesday’s election results.

One year away from the 2024 presidential election, voters largely rejected candidates backed by groups like Moms for Liberty that have aligned with GOP campaigns to undermine public education and restrict access to books, classroom materials and honest discussions of race, racism, LGBT+ people and gender and sexuality.

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
    741¡
    1 year ago

    It doesn’t hold up the moment you scrutinise the name.

    Parents rights to what? The answer is basically “ownership” of their children. Fully control their children.

    Children aren’t possessions, they’re people.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      41¡
      1 year ago

      Yeah I support youth liberation. They obviously need guidance and all that, but guidance is not what these people are doing. They want their children to have no say in their lives and no information about the world

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      28¡
      1 year ago

      From the state’s perspective, ownership of children makes some sense. It benefits the state to have a wide range in how children are raised, and they certainly don’t want to be in the middle of it. Child Protective Services barely functions for the most extreme cases.

      But this extreme withholding of information is a bit different.

      I don’t disagree with you; I just don’t like the argument.

      • hansl@lemmy.world
        11¡
        1 year ago

        It’s not ownership. From the state perspective you don’t own your children. You can’t sell them, you can’t throw them in the garbage if they’re defective. It’s just insane. At best they’re dependents.

        Shit from many “state perspectives” you don’t even own your fetus; you have less rights than it when it comes to health. Some states would rather see you die than the fetus. So much for state rights.

        Also, and that’s an argument on your philosophy; even if it’s convenient on some aspect for a state to have a parent own their child, it’s not a winning strategy. States would spend more money and time that way than presuming children are people under the care of someone.