Holy shit they WANT teen pregnancy to be a thing again. They wrote it down.
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Why do you think they're anti-abortion? They need more slave labor
*more soldiers for the resource wars
The difference being only in how they're trained.
And how they die.
They want meat for the meat grinder.
They don’t care which meat grinder it is.
(Though, with all the bullshit on child labor roll backs…. They can get kids in the one meat grinder and sell the other as “escape”)
But they have to be white and preferably male.
Every industrialized country is freaking out about birthrates--some going on 20 years--and the US under Trump has thrown away the single largest economic advantage it had.
But they have to be white and preferably male.
They still need the females and brown babies to rape and send to their human trafficking rings.
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Fewer rapes and paedophiles get reported and caught when you don't teach sex ed.
That's a fact.
I wonder why the rape-paodophile administration would be trying to reduce sex ed. 🤔
Maybe, previously, the government actually didn't know, and wanted to do the right thing. Like before the 90s. But then we found out that, that didn't work at all.
And NOW, the government does know, but so does the administration. The president knows the effects, and DOESN'T want to do the right thing.
We are in a terrible timeline. Presidential Administration of Child Predators. PACP.
Before the 1890s
My college sociology professor would, for some reason, go into abstinence only rants.
Being the contrarian I am, I fact checked everything she said. For example, she claimed the CDC said that condoms were 100% ineffective at preventing pregnancy and STDs. So I pulled up the webpage on contraception and called her out.
Her favorite thing to say was that sex ed was like giving kids keys to a car and expecting them not to drive. Eventually I started responding, "No, it's like teaching them how to drive so they can do it safely when they're ready." Her response was always to change the subject.
To her credit, despite me constantly arguing with her, I still got a B in the class (skipped an exam}.
The next semester she banned laptops from her classroom. She tried to ban mine, but I got disability services involved (ADHD).
Curious to know what was her response to you providing a proof on CDC claims about condoms.
"If you read between the lines it leads you to believe that they're not."
It was possibly the most ridiculous thing anyone has said to my face.
Hahaha! I had some possibilities in my mind but I didn't imagine it would be so bad.
Something tells me she should have her teaching license revoked permanently.
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Her favorite thing to say was that sex ed was like giving kids keys to a car and expecting them not to drive. Eventually I started responding, "No, it's like teaching them how to drive so they can do it safely when they're ready." Her response was always to change the subject.
Her phrase is exactly what abstinence-only sex education is.
When kids grow up, they find their own keys and ignitions quite easily. So they have the keys and the ignition/car, and abstinence-only sex ed is like "no driving" driver's ed. But they have the keys and they're sitting in the car and they have somewhere they want to be.
I also imagine that abstinence-only sex education doesn't usually mean teaching safe "outercourse", mutual masturbation, etc...so they have the keys and the car, somewhere they need to be, and nobody tells them about taxis or busses or bicycles...
When kids grow up, they find their own keys and ignitions quite easily.
Quite a few find those things before they grow up.
How is a laptop necessary when ADHD? I would think that it contains way more vectors for distraction than a sheet of paper and a pen.
I mean you used in a great way in this anecdote, but I'm seriously curious about what medical motivation there is for this circumstance.
Too hard for me to write notes and pay attention at the same time. I type about 120wpm
Thanks for the answer.
I have ADHD and I didn't even know some people can take notes and pay attention at the same time.
For certain classes I used it to record the lecture so I could pay attention and take notes later. But this class, discussions pertaining to the class subject were rare so I could type them.
This debate is completely lost on me.
Someone was trying to explain that the reason she sends her kids to a private school is because she doesn't want them to learn about sex when they're too young.
I don't get it.
I genuinely don't see the problem with kids knowing everything their curious minds want to know about reproduction.
She said they're too young to process it. I think she means they're too young to process the weird moral overlay she wants them to adopt.
They just don't want to talk to their kids about it. Simple as that.
These people don't like discomfort. They don't like to step out of their little bubble. Thats why they work to get rid of anything that makes them uncomfortable, like queer people, black people, ect. They don't want to accept that kids grow into adults and they themselves are just uncomfortable talking about sex so what comes out is "j-just don't, ok?"
Anyone who seriously advocates for abstinence only education is not qualified to speak on policy. That's it.
We really need to do something so we have fewer scumbags and fools running our government.
A great cautionary tale is Bristol Palin (Sarah Palin's daughter), who became pregnant while unmarried and later became the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ambassador for an organization promoting abstinence-only education.
That was a great decision financially - she was paid more than $1/4 million per year, but even that kind of paycheck, her born-again nutcase mother, and the evangelical church couldn't make abstinence work. She became pregnant with a 2nd child while still unmarried and while still getting paid for promoting abstinence-only. Imagine the outrage if that had been Obama's daughter!
Actually since she walked away with $1 million plus, maybe it isn't such a great cautionary tale.
My high school experience involved a few girls that were taught abstinence at home and at church. They were the wild ones.
Honestly when has this NOT been the case? It's heard and quoted absolutely everywhere. The most sheltered are always the freakiest
Wild in an abstinent and chaste way, right?
you are talking about the fact that um.. certain sex acts dont count as losing your chastity right. These days onlyfans also doesnt count and is a fairly accepted way to make money.
Same people who know and forgive Trump's adult excursions somehow beleive that teenagers should just show more self control.
Nothing causes unwanted babies that turn into for-profit prison slaves quite like abstinence-only sex Ed. It's the long con but someone probably paid good money to try and get Tangerine Palpatine to push it through.
We have that abstinence only thing down here in the South.
It's why my friend was HIV positive at 22, before understanding the basics of how he could get HIV.
Telling me when I was 16 to never think about sex or consider having would not have worked very well. In fact it probably would have made have sex sooner and in a more crazed manner.
That's what they want
They want the product of unsafe sex: fetuses they can sue an unprepared couple over because they care about aborting a mass of cells more than the lives of the people who purposefully weren't informed.
Peak irony coming from a prolific philanderer and rapist.
"Abstinence only" only works for these people because they can't get any to begin with. Holy hell.
That's because those teens might give up those babies and wealthy horrid conservatives will buy them for astronomical fees to try and make them grow up as shitty as they are. Big business, selling kids to wealthy pieces of shit.
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