Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "How Disney Outsmarted Ron DeSantis" video.

  1. @@paladinely3337 Yeah... the clearly stated part seems perfectly reasonable... Which is kind of the point, it's how such things get passed, and get past the media and the public until it all blows up. They're then Deliberately Written Badly so as to facilitate the actually intended, unpopular and harmful, purpose. It's a constant and ongoing problem with american legislation. The Republicans are usually worse in terms of what they tend to sneak in via this method, but it's far from a uniquely Republican trick (and most of the things that get snuck in are in favour of existing, overly powerful, corrupt, corporations which act against the public interest, generally intended to actively suppress any attempt by any compeitor to provide a better service, and there are Plenty of Democrat politicians who are Entirely on board with That nonsense). Frankly, no, no one other than the parents (and frankly an awful lot of parents shouldn't be either, given the idiocy that they get up to) should be discussing matters of sexuality and gender with young children. On the other hand, given how common parents being abusive of kids who in some way don't fit their particular ideal of how things should be are... rules about what teachers and school staff do and don't (and must and must not) disclose to parents about their kids really should not be "you must automatically break confidenced to inform a kid's parents about whatever the kid (especially in their mid to late teens) happens to tell you regarding their sexuality and gender"... but it's written badly enough that that is the result. ... it would probably be fine in a system and culture that didn't not only permit but franklly encourage expensive litigation over stupid things with a bad habit of stupid rulings on such matters. Good luck getting Anyone to be sensible on anything that's been set up as a matter of Radical-republican*-psychotic-nonsense vs Radical-progressive**-psychotic-nonsense though. *they're not actually conservative **they're neither liberal nor terribly lefist
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