A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    What’s the point of a law if it’s not only not enforced, but literally ignored by, y’know law enforcement!? Fuck you, Texas. Boycott everything they produce!

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      10 months ago

      Because when you pass the law, you have completed political theater and that’s what gets reported in the news. The point of the law is to be able to say, “See, Republicans aren’t so bad after all.” Nobody is following up on it later until a story like this come around.

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      10 months ago

      It becomes a tool of oppression and retribution. That’s the point. Welcome to fascism.