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A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You haven't, you at best knew at age 2, typically 2.5. If you were a parent you could see the process. Why is it that the anti-LGBT crowd knows the least about childhood development? Is it because you think a book written for and by goat herders in the bronze age contains any value?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's because people who are anti-free thought tend to be lacking critical thinking capabilities. That's why they need to be told who to hate and why they are able to move on to the next set of "others" to hate just as quickly as their media bubble steers them. They don't have to waste time in forethought or hindsight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Part of it may be because that crowd has limited curiosity, mental flexibility, empathy, and humility.

Whereas the rest of us are fascinated watching our kids develop into whoever they become and learn new things and modify our beliefs and understanding based on reflecting on what we observe.

I suspect that the right leaning crowd wants to force everything around them to fit what they already believe, rather than updating their beliefs based on what they experience. And so the daughter who says "actually, I feel like a boy and also my name is John" is rejected and/or forced to conform with the outdated, incorrect beliefs of the parents.