@jk_rowling And it did it while most of us had no idea it was even happening. But it's those of us who reject it are accused of having funding from nefarious sources.
@LadyMont Call me old fashioned, but we've seen the results of the state deciding what to teach children and it's made far more mess than it could ever begin to fix. I'm increasingly of the opinion that this is not a bug, but a feature.
Perhaps we could entertain the radical notion that children need to learn how to read, write and do maths in schools. They need to learn how science works to help them think about and explore the world through studying the humanities. They need to run around, do sport, free play and laugh. While they're there. they need to understand how learning works, talk and discuss and think and debate ideas so they become confident about detecting bullshit and understanding peer pressure. They need to mix with others and learn how to resolve conflict, take risks, develop tolerance and personal boundaries, and foster a strong sense of self. They need adults around them who are concerned about delivering high-quality education rather than ideology and propaganda.
When did we decide that the curriculum needs updating every time there's a twitter pile on, a social fad, or a TV show? Why don't teachers grow a spine and say NO? This is why I won't go back to working in schools.
@AnungIkwe@Sherri_Ingrey How do you know he/she/it/zir hasn't? Have you ever seen Keir Stamer, Ed Davey or Rishi Sunak in a photo with either the Duck Face Piss Dress or the Rainbow Dildo Arse Monkey? At the same time? #proof
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KeepTakingTheSomaLet us remember that there are a lot of people around whose brains have broken. It will not be pretty while they screech and wail and demand we make them happy, but society will heal. The rest of us will get by if we hold on to what is true, think rather than react and emote, separate people from ideas, and do more of what makes us happy. And say no to people who demand we do what they want, especially politicians. It's ok to let go of those who cannot be saved. It's sad, but no good will come of going down with them in their sinking ship. Goodnight, Spinsters.
@HebrideanHecate Weaponised empathy. The people who are always demanding that others bow down to their needs *because sad* are never going to give a shit about others. The *be kind* only flows in one direction. We get more of the behaviour we reward.
@Ladyfat Hard to know. They've done that one before with disastrous results to farmers and farming. I reckon they've got other tricks up their sleeves to vary the fear factor but with the same results.
@Flick@HebrideanHecate It's a perpetuation of a horror. The reasoning is that if it happened to them, then they have to do it to every other woman, because otherwise it means that their bodies were mutilated for nothing.
"I've got them on the list, I've got them on the list, And they'll none of them be missed, They'll none of them be missed."
Now we just need them,
"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"
@Lurra Our society will not be truly equitable until women commit violent crime at the same rate as men. This #stunningandbrave freedom fighter is moving us nearer to rainbows and unicorns. #progress
@Flick Yet another example of how bad faith actors used an ideology to line their own pockets while propagandising the public to accept everything under the *green* umbrella as necessary and unquestionable. People cheered for it. They voted for it. They told other people that asking questions was bad. Enjoy the power shortages. Enjoy having much much less and paying way way more for it.
P*ssing off the government one post at a time. Definitely a dinosaur. Idiots, bores and virtue signallers need not apply. Whatever your cult is, I don't do it. Clean out of fucks to give.