ruthbrarian’s avatarruthbrarian’s Twitter Archive—№ 11,073

  1. …in reply to @pobocks
    @pobocks @_whitni Just my two cents as someone who was raised in conservative Christian circles, this is absolutely so that people will be able to fire teachers for reading Heather Has Two Mommies or mentioning a woman's wife. How it's written and what it's for are two very different things.
    1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
      @pobocks @_whitni if you're not from a) the community being harmed or b) the community attempting to perpetrate the harm, it can be very easy to get lost in trying to good-faith your way through things.
      1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
        @pobocks @_whitni One could say "well of course voters should be able to read so they're well informed" but ... all those laws were actually meant to disenfranchise black people and maybe a few poor whites not grandfathered in.
        1. …in reply to @ruthbrarian
          @pobocks @_whitni and circling back to my own background, I can say with 100% certainty that these laws were written with an attempt to crack down on the most casual mentioning of lgbq parents, trans people existing (e.g. "Mx. Cox uses 'they' as a pronoun, not 'he' or 'she') etc.