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2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
(www.thedailybeast.com)
Trump is a rapist.
Conservatives don't see rape as a crime.
Sure they do, it just has to be done by someone not like them, or to them.
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I guess Trump is planning a visit.
Diddy made a contribution? Or is it for gaetz?
Don’t forget Trump was good friends with Epstein and the both of “liked them young”.
How do conservatives rationalise this?
Like they usually do: pick one thing that they like and ignore the rest.
They also do a version of the quote about law or fact being on your side, but with fairness or efficiency.
It is just some boys having a bit of fun.
(Speculation, but that was the rationale of the Judge in the Brock Turner case)
Of course it's horrible, but
It reduces the liability placed on schools in sexual misconduct cases. It also requires live hearings and cross-examinations, and allows lawyers to be present at those hearings.
The Biden administration extended sex discrimination protections under Title IX to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Trump informed educational institutions that his administration would no longer enforce those protections.
The headline is clickbaitily (that's a word now) misleading.
Sure, let's have lawyers cross examine traumatized children. No way forcing them to go though that in a adversarial way could make the trauma worse or intimidate victims into silence.
Read what I wrote. Of course it's horrible.
The headline suggests that acts which are currently considered to be sexual assault are no longer going to be considered sexual assault. "Ease sex assault rules." Yes, the headline is "technically true," but it is purposely misleading.
Same as this one from the same source. "Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs". Yes, technically true, and still horrible, but it's the same email that all federal employees got. The administration didn't specially pick out ATC.
This is how propaganda works. Word things in such a way that they're true to a very careful reader, and whistle idly while most readers digest a misleading message.
I'm not bOtH sIdEsing this. A lot more propaganda has been put out by the fascists, for longer, and to a greater degree of falsehood. That doesn't make messages that you want to hear immune from being propagandized. These examples are small potatoes by comparison, sure, but if you want to make accurate judgments and !resist@fedia.io fascists effectively, do so on the basis of actual facts, and point out propagandizing when you see it.
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