[vkou]

Which states felonize these, exactly?

Just because you'd like to turn this into both sides, doesn't mean it is. The extremists running most of the south don't even bother with even a fig leaf of consistency.

Not that it's a new phenomena. The founding fathers were throwing shade on this, with Jefferson calling it: "zealous of their own liberties but trampling on those of others".

[AlexandrB]

I love how ~10 years ago, the left was frequently accused of having a victim mentality. Seems like the right enjoys believing they're perpetual victims these days.

[epicureanideal]

The left still has a victim mentality. DARVO more like. Deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender.

[spamuel]

"This isn't happening."

"It's a good thing it's happening."

[spamuel]

You're casting the desire for public schools to not make available a book with illustrations of two children engaged in anal sex with a dildo as "Republicans playing the victim".

[AlexandrB]

You've alluded to this policy several times. I'm curious where specifically someone was handing out books about anal sex to small children. Was this a single incident? Was this going to be mandatory reading? Any articles that provide some specifics on this?

[xibo9]

I'm sorry, this is simply egregious. Please provide any evidence at all of your disgusting claims.

[nickthegreek]

That’s is not what’s going on here. And that hasn’t been happening.

[cafard]

Or, since you mention Jefferson, Samuel Johnson asking, "Why is it that we always hear the loudest cries for liberty from the drivers of slaves?"

[spamuel]

Showing pornography to children? Presumably all states.

Oh, you meant on sexual dimorphism and crime statistics? None. It's not even clear that Florida now criminalizes those discussions. But you would certainly be fired in California if you dared to biologically define human beings, or discuss incarceration rates as a product of criminal tendency.

[AlexandrB]

And criminal tendency is just innate? Or is it also caused by socio-economic and historical factors? Just because you want to stop asking "why" at "criminal tendency", doesn't mean the rest of us aren't curious.

[spamuel]

Do I?

I have no idea if criminal tendency is innate. And frankly I think such a discussion has no place in K-12 education, even if it were just a plain fact that black people were somehow inherently predisposed to criminality. They're Americans, they're part of our mix.

But 12 year olds do not have the reasoning capacity to handle that issue. It's not "age-appropriate" for 12 year olds to be introduced to such topics in elementary school. Just like gender theory.