The Supreme Court is rebuffing an appeal from a Michigan woman fighting a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a jab at then-President Joe Biden with a coded reference to profanity.

The mother of two boys says their First Amendment rights were violated when they were told to take off the sweatshirts she bought them for Christmas in 2022.

A lower court disagreed, finding that the veiled vulgarity of the phrase, which functions as a stand-in for “F-— Joe Biden,” allows schools to ban it.

The woman’s attorneys argued that the decision wrongly gives school officials wide latitude to squelch political speech based on their personal ideas of what is vulgar. The phrase itself doesn’t contain any swear words or sexual implications, they said.

The school district urged the justices to reject the case, arguing that messages with lewd implications have no place in school, even if they touch on political topics. There has been evidence that some students wore clothing that read “Make America Great Again” or had messages supporting President Donald Trump, a Republican who lost the 2020 election to Biden, a Democrat.

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[–] 45 points 5 days ago (26 children)

For the life of me I can't figure out why young people are right leaning so much. Gen x we hated the wealthy and authority and especially the religious.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 days ago (14 children)

    They aren't. High school aged kids are being twatty edge lords as always but statistically the younger generations lean left.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago* (13 children)

    I don't know man. There's a lot of 7-12 grade kids that are far right. Or part of that toxic manosphere

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    Yeah they also can't vote yet and by voting age the statistics are and have been for like a hundred or so years shifted left towards 60 and back right after that.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago* (7 children)

    But there's a lot of sympathy in college campus for things like turning point. Pre 2014 those people would have been ran off campus and sometimes were. Now you don't see that

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  • [–] -4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Running them off campus is how we got here.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Don't care. They should always be afraid

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  • [+] -6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    That may well be true but let them speak.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Because to the naïve, far-right nonsense feels edgy.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    And I don't get that. To me being against wealth, nuclear family, religion is the non conformist route

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    I suspect there has to be a lot of indoctrination involved. Note how these edgelords are also deeply religious, or at least claim to be (not getting into how they do or don't actually follow the tenets of their religion).

    Musk (edgelord extraordinaire) said publically in a recent post that he just couldn't bring himself to attack cops in a video game. I guess violent video games are a problem again. It's all the same tired conservative nonsense but it's been sold to a generation that doesn't have the backstory.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    I mostly blame online creeps like Andrew Tate and Clavicular deliberately targeting vulnerable tween and teen boys who then carry the toxic ideology with them into adulthood.

    Millennials in general and Gen Z women are mostly left wing, though, especially ones who aren't white.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    I feel like everyone "acted" right leaning when we were teenagers.

    We used "gay" as a derogatory. I recall friends and I using talking points that in hindsight was very incelly. Mocking idealistic lefties etc.

    But I don't think I truly felt that way, and I know my friends I've kept in touch with post high school don't/didn't.

    I think a lot of it is performative, to fit in. And now I'm an openly raging lefty

    I hope it's the same case with kids these days

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (4 children)

    we hated

    According to https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/age-generational-cohorts-and-party-identification/ every single decade birth year associates with Gen X associates with R+x to some extend (in particular with men).

    I think your use of the past tense is appropriate.

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