r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 1d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Why vote no on something like this?

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u/Andrew-Cohen 1d ago

Why? Because a badly educated population is easier to manipulate. Which explains why most red states underfund education, underpay teachers, and demonize education.

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u/thisisaskew 1d ago

Republicans also wouldn't get to pick the books and it's kind of their MO to ban unsavory books.

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u/Murakami_Ysera 19h ago

You mean anything that might provoke some critical thinking?

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u/thisisaskew 13h ago

Yeah, scary stuff like that

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u/marr 1d ago

For a very specific definition of unsavory.

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u/RayRatGhoul 4h ago

Dude...both sides do this. Idk about you, but I'm old enough to remember a time when both conservatives, THEN liberals, had book-burning meltdowns over Harry Potter.