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[–] 52 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador later issued guidance stating the “Everyone Is Welcome Here” poster violated the law. In an opinion published on the attorney general’s website and in an op-ed for Fox News, Labrador described the poster as “DEI messaging disguised as inclusion” that “mask[s] a comprehensive worldview that undermines parental authority over children’s moral development.”

This is an argument that the message is not the message. That the offense lies, not in what the poster says, but in what the poster does not say. This is an accusation of a thought crime.

Labrador argues that the sign is political because of its rainbow colors. You can read his op-ed here.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    an op-ed for Fox News, Labrador described the poster as “DEI messaging disguised as inclusion”

    Uhm...

    Ya know. I'm not even gonna correct that. They can just remain being idiots.

    Tell me more about your Auntie..."Fa", was it?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    “DEI messaging disguised as inclusion”

    ....the fuck?

    "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" messaging is somehow disguised as....inclusion? Someone please tell me what I'm missing here.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    No, you see it too. I think you need a background of watching fox news for a couple of years for that to sound like it makes sense.

    Either that or they realized that viewer/reader comprehension and critical thinking no longer is a necessary factor in what they say.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The Idaho Democratic Party now even sells these posters and has embraced the message as their cause — making clear that even if this message was not originally intended as political, it undeniably is now. A teacher’s claimed ignorance of political connections does not render illegal displays suddenly lawful.

    Yeah, buddy. They became political because YOU made it political.

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