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[–] homes@piefed.world 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

ok, so the headline makes it sound like a bit more than what it was, but:

A Phoenix-area high school pulled the plug on a planned on-campus appearance by Erika Kirk after a wave of student and parent complaints forced administrators to reconsider hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours, according to a new report.

Pinnacle High School principal Jeremy Richards sent families a notice Thursday announcing the event would be relocated off school grounds and pushed to after the final bell, saying the visit had the potential to create serious problems for the school day, The Daily Beast reported Friday.

still, glad to hear that some people at the school had the sense to stop this crazy bullshit before it started

Students were blunt about their objections.

"It’s a little crazy because I would never have expected someone like her to show up at a high school," one senior said. Another told local news the ideology she promotes had no place in a classroom setting and that the school could find far more appropriate guest speakers.

“I think the topics that she talks about are too extremist for a school. I think there are better representatives we can have,” said Francisco Sanchez, also a senior.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 74 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm very proud of these kids.

The kids are alright. And they rock.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

They might be illiterate but at least they aren't down with fascism.

[–] homes@piefed.world 17 points 2 days ago

Yeah, the article basically says, “the parents also had problems” without really elaborating too much lol

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm going to have to watch the doc. I very much have my doubts, too. People love to dunk on boomers, but, FFS, that's the generation known for the hippies. And now the term "boomers" has flipped into shorthand for people sitting around watching Faux "News" vs. people sparking up a joint and tending to their pot plants...

If they are supposedly the worst now that they are reaching old age, just imagine what having no media filter/gating (as right wing as the corporate "liberal media" was and is - sure, that filter of the MSM is a two-edged sword, but fuuuuuck, if you let YT send you down the Nazi rabbit hole long before you've ever developed any kind of media literacy and/or critical thinking skills, it is going to cook your brain) and being given something like a tablet/phone from a very young age...

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People love to dunk on boomers

It's just thinly veiled ageism.

[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah. Boomers actually just suck.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Honestly, most of the boomers that I knew/know were/are some of the best people I had the pleasure to know. Dismissing an entire generation is really quite....something.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, you suck for being a bigot.

[–] galaxy_nova@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

If people get to say all Americans suck for not standing up to Facism well enough and all men suck then I can say all boomers suck. Is it literal? Not really, but the sentiment remains.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

hosting the Turning Point USA chief during school hours

I find it horrifying that this is even an option. I don't think political parties/organizations should be allowed to recruit in schools at all. Let alone America's Hitlerjugend.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Sense" seems to be responding to backlash in this case. ~~They are still supporting TP's extreme right-wing anti-education propaganda, by a school of all places!~~

EDIT: It read like the school were organising it themselves but it seems it was by a student club? Kind of weird that such a thing exists and they can host "high-profile" people, but there might be some indication the school itself wasn't aware of it.

The relocated gathering will be restricted to members of a TPUSA-affiliated student club and a single guest apiece. School officials were careful to note that taxpayer money won't foot the bill, and the visit carries no official district stamp of approval.

[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

seems to me like TP reached out to maybe some neo-nazi district admin that made a short-term booking with little-to-no notice (so they couldn't stop the nazis) to the actual school admin (except maybe the principle through some super-vague email, designed to hide the nazis) about some "district-mandated school assembly" (of nazis).

Some state/county/local law must have kicked in, requiring some sort of disclosure to some series of people the ended up in people being informed they were about to be mind-pissed by a bunch of christo-nazis, and, clearly, lots of people - included very not-stupid children - had a major fucking problem with that.

proud of those kids!

these aren't just American values... I hope these are HUMAN values!

if you don't believe this, I don't think you should be considered human