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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 30, 2023

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is comparable with being sent to a lockdown facility

If I, biological adult or not (though a second-class citizen in either case), leave public school on my own accord, men with guns will be dispatched to return me to it. Should I proceed to defend myself from those men effectively enough they will summarily execute me.
For an institution that I'm supposed to want to attend because it's good for me, that's pretty extreme.

and having conversion therapy performed on you

The education system will throw me in "the hole" (they usually refer to this by another name though) should I fail to sufficiently venerate things contrary to (my) nature- buttsex, crossdressers, certain skin colors, and even simply sitting still for 6 hours are very important to the education system. And that's assuming you have a decent set of fellow inmates; some people don't.

And sure, "yes, institutionalization is good for subhumans, because subhumans need to learn what's right and wrong and about various aspects of the world we live in", but at the end of the day we're just haggling over the price (and the values of those running the institution).

Should I proceed to defend myself from those men effectively enough they will summarily execute me.

Nonsense. Do you have evidence of this happening at a statistically-significant rate?

I think he considers "effectively enough" to encompass having a gun and shooting at the police or social services worker who came to check on why he hasn't been attending school lol

Oh god, is this EuphoricBaseball's resurrection?

No, IME it's a bog-standard "taxation is theft" doctrinaire Libertarian/Ancap talking point: that if you keep defying the law and resisting those who try to enforce it on you, you eventually end up shot by agents of the state (therefore, since all law is ultimately backed by force and violence, all law is nothing but force, all governments are just mafias, et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam).

No, it's just a sound argument for which there is no rebuttal except: "and that's a good thing because..."

The ink laws are written in is the first link in a chain of escalation that ends either in obedience or, finally, at some point, physical force.

They will win or he will die; those are the choices. That the vast majority of people surrender rather than die does not change that.

If I, biological adult or not (though a second-class citizen in either case), leave public school on my own accord, men with guns will be dispatched to return me to it.

No, the people responsible for your attendance will cook the books to claim you have been in school.

I have a story for this. I was a good but lazy student in primary school. I once received a report card in which, in the official "Absences" section, I was listed as having missed 5 days of school. Scrawled by hand on the back of the page was "SophisticatedHillbilly has missed over 3 weeks of school."

It was rather funny to see the contrast all in one place like that, though I appreciate their willingness to bend the rules for me. It definitely did me more good than sitting in school a bit longer.

Gotta get that per pupil state funding.

The last time I heard of truant officers actually enforcing truancy laws was when the D.A. of San Francisco (wonder whatever happened to her) started threatening parents with misdemeanors if their kids missed a couple dozen school days. It was unpopular because it was said to disproportionately impact different demographics.

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