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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- 9 days
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.
- 9 days
They aren’t. High school aged kids are being twatty edge lords as always but statistically the younger generations lean left.
- 9 days
I don’t know man. There’s a lot of 7-12 grade kids that are far right. Or part of that toxic manosphere
- 9 days
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.
- 9 days
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
8 daysYep. Gen X here. Things like the Young Republicans were treated like lepers pretty much.
- 8 days
No, running them off campus and leaving their bones intact is how you got here.
- 7 days
And I don’t get that. To me being against wealth, nuclear family, religion is the non conformist route
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.
- 7 days
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
- Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
There are 2 types:
- my parents are dumb as shit and so am i
- “i made fun of piss kinks and made piss jokes so many times that i now have a piss kink” adjacent
- 7 days
Privledged kids with self employed parents that will pass down the business to the kid, so they immediately don’t want progressive tax
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.
- Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish9 days
Really seems like the school district was doing those boys a favor. Can’t think of something more lame for middle schoolers to wear than matching Let’s Go Brandon sweatshirts. They saved those boys from their mom’s political boomer humor.
- 9 days
I had a friend who wasn’t allowed to wear his Beavis and Butthead shirt because it said butt on it. So his mom took yellow paint and painted over the “butt” making it Beavis and Head which was hilarious and A-Okay with school staff.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
On 9/11/02 I woke up late and forgot about 9/11.
No one would believe my “bad cop, no doughnut” shirt was a coincidence or that anyone would forget 9/11.
My attempts to ask what making fun of bad cops had to do with 9/11 in the first place didn’t help, but I got off of school, which was pretty cool…
- 9 days
On 9/11/02 I woke up late and forgot about 9/11.
How could you?! Alan Jackson would be very disappointed.
“bad cop, no doughnut” shirt
I forgot about those!
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Yeah, I got called out immediately after making the time to take the “scenic route” that morning as well.
But anyways, it is a good example of how context needs to be part of it.
I didn’t have any ill intent, but I’d have spent all day explaining that and derailing every class I walked into.
Like, people had been joining up on their 17th birthday and waiting to graduate to deploy for a year by then, someone probably would have tried to fight me.
People don’t understand how crazy shit really was right after 9/11.
- 9 days
These people are morons but trying to ban a sweatshirt is just as dumb.
