Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2023

This WaPo piece on the parents' rights movements plan to destroy public education in the U.S. is essential.

Unlike Assigned, WaPo's stories don't typically include screenshots of batshit crazy stuff they found, so I went and took one (from a link in the piece) that has to be seen to be believed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry

On a private call with Christian millionaires, home-schooling pioneer Michael Farris pushed for a strategy aimed at siphoning billions of tax dollars from public schools

The Washington Post
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@e_urq Jesus reading that screenshot and being all: "Did these people listen to one single thing I said? Do they have some weird distorted view of the relative sizes of camels and needles?"
Sep 4, 2023 at 11:16amWeb
Show threadEvan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 4, 2023
@beecycling I KNOW!!!
Show thread𒀭Wiiお姉さん 💜 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 4, 2023
@beecycling Considering how easily these people can often fit their whole heads up their own butts, that wouldn't surprise me all that much.