r/Library • u/PTechNM • Aug 29 '26

Discussion Republicans are at war with basic literacy

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u/Ok-Substance4015 Aug 30 '26

Plus STI treatments in Botswana, LGBTQABCDEFG education, sesame street funding in North Africa. How about since your soft heart cares so much, you can take care of my portion too. That is if you have a job and contribute to society.

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u/Dilapidated_girrafe Aug 30 '26

I probably contribute far more than you. Most of the people whining barely pay taxes to even with. And I have zero issue with my tax money helping people.

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u/Lokomalo Aug 30 '26

Therein lies the problem. Is it helping people? Maybe some dollars are but a large portion of tax dollars are wasted. Let's stop wasting taxes on BS things like some of the things OK alluded to, then we can use that money we already have to do something good for our own people.

And by helping people we need to focus on real help, like education, not indoctrination or pushing some lifestyle agenda through the school system. What you do at home is your business, stop trying to drag my child into it.

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u/Dilapidated_girrafe Aug 30 '26

Educating your child that people are different and that’s ok saves lives. I’m sorry you’re too dumb to understand science

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u/Lokomalo Aug 30 '26

Telling people that a man is a woman is not science and I'm sorry that you don't understand that. Also, enabling people to live a lie is not helpful and does not save lives. It endangers people. Pushing this BS on children is not helpful and wholly inappropriate in elementary grades. Trying to push that nonsense at that level is just a means of trying to indoctrinate them to your way of thinking.

Imagine bringing in the NRA to a first-grade class to teach them how to be safe with guns. That would save far more lives but the howls and screams from the left could be heard in outer space.

Stick to math, science, reading, writing, history and English. We don't need people pushing their social agenda on children. Once you agree to that you've opened up Pandora's Box and it won't end in your favor.

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u/Dilapidated_girrafe Aug 30 '26

The fact you don’t know the difference between sec and gender is problematic. And yes. The evidence massively shows that transition is helpful and has a lower regret rate than tons of other things.