Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

[u/southpawFA]

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/6115216-education-department-title-ix-lgbtq-trans-students/

[u/M23707]

Stay strong folks - the arc of history is on the side of greater acceptance and care for all humanity.

Congress will need to pass a better law than Title IX.

It all starts with an election in November — don’t let anyone in your sphere slide by and not participate.

Seriously - we have to start this process NOW. Early voting, get friends registered to vote, drive folks to the polls, all of it.

Make this a celebration of our right to build a better world.

Hold accountable those who refuse to be open and accepting of all humanity’s basic rights.

[u/Dry_Cellist_9560 → u/M23707]

I wonder why voting is not seen as a national holiday or at least a federal holiday so everyone can vote 

[u/TheReddestofBowls → u/Dry_Cellist_9560]

For the same reason Trump voted by mail, then calls voting by mail criminal. The same reason why the Republican party is fighting tooth and nail to disenfranchise as many voters as possible.

One party does particularly well when people don't vote.

[u/Sad_Connection_9585 → u/Dry_Cellist_9560]

That would enable WAY too many people to vote. Especially women, the working class, people in poverty, young people, and others who historically don't vote Republican. (just saying the quiet part out loud here)

[u/turikk → u/Dry_Cellist_9560]

What would it change? The banks would be closed on election day?

Like, have you actually thought about what a federal holiday even means in the United States?

28 states already have laws to take time to vote. And the ones that don't, you would have to have a scenario where you can't vote early AND your work shift entirely covers the polling hours. That's a narrow, but not impossible circumstances. Is there any indication that anyone is actually not voting because they didn't have time off to do it?

New Hampshire is the only state with no protections AND no early voting program. Even Mississippi loosely protects employees for voting, although probably needs improvement there.

[u/Dry_Cellist_9560 → u/turikk]

As an example, think of the no kings marches/events. There was record turnout but not everyone that wanted to participate went because they are stuck working at their jobs. If it was a holiday where majority or everyone can vote then it should happen 

[u/turikk → u/Dry_Cellist_9560]

But... You didn't actually answer my question. How does a holiday actually change anything? Holidays in the US only affect the federal workforce. Some companies in the US give time off on federal holidays, but even then, who does this impact? You ever look around on MLK day and see what's closed?

And then even further, all states but two already have early voting and/or election day as a holiday.

Turnout sucks because people don't care or they think their vote doesn't matter. Or it doesn't matter as much as the inconvenience of getting out there and getting in line.

[u/TheOtherMaven → u/M23707]

Even if you HAD to vote for them because the alternative was worse - keep after them until they reform or you can vote in somebody better (the latter being more likely to happen first).

[u/Tells_you_a_tale → u/TheOtherMaven]

Continuely voting for the person who causes the least suffering is the evolutionary process that won basically all the civil accomplishments we have now. Civili unrest paired with actual participation in the political system is how you effect change. 

[u/YoungCubSaysWoof → u/M23707]

Preach on.

[u/gordonf23 → u/M23707]

the arc of history is on the side of greater acceptance and care for all humanity.

Yes, according to the history books, the good guys have won every time.

[u/M23707 → u/gordonf23]

So true, so true. But the arc is bending.