It’s a classic conservative propaganda technique to name things the opposite of what they actually mean. If it contains the word “freedom” it’s about tyranny. If it says “protect” it means persecution, and if it says “children” just mentally append “fuck” in front of it.
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wewbull@feddit.uk 16 hours agoWhy do people in the US equate “choice” with destroying other people’s protections?
- “School choice” = removing teacher’s work protections.
- “Health care choice” = no healthcare unless you can pay through the nose.
- “Food choice” = some of the worst food standards in the hemisphere.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 15 hours ago
moustachio@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
We need to stop saying right vs left framing. It’s the wealthy class propaganda technique. Poor people that are “conservative” are in most cases just tricked by these parasitic ghouls that spend money to lie to people to work against their own self interests.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 12 hours ago
The average maga voter isn’t the mind behind the propaganda they parrot.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
This is exactly the point.
They live in a controlled information environment; much like the Russian people who think Ukraine is full to the brim with Nazis.
They have been force fed hate and bigotry for decades at this point. They are not blameless, but also they don’t deserve all the hate that is projected at them.
As pointed out, the education system is gutted, thus they are not curious and checking their biases; it is normalized for them to be hateful toward “others”; their whole world is small and full of fear.
I pity them their small pathetic lives, and dislike them for their shitty views. The only thing I hate is that the stupid bigotry seems to be spreading around the world.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Because of all this competition we have in the market! With many schools near your home, they compete for your conforming child’s business. What with the labor shortage, we have all these employers with that good health insurance competing for our time. And of course, small farmers are doing great and supply our many competing food markets.
Brimstone@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
It’s the I can afford it so screw your individual short term thinking.
It assumes they’ll never need help themselves especially as they get older.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
Because they are idiots and evil politicians and news media spin it that way.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Almost all of it is, or at least originates, from racism, at least with schools.
When public schools allowed racial integration , school choice became a mechanism for racists to pull their kids from mixed schools.
It grew into things like charter schools that are private, often religious, schools that get public funding and maintain segregation.