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The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would “prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being.”
The law would allow for exempt days, such as Halloween and other school dress-up days.
The law defines “non-human” behavior as “any type of behavior or accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,” with provided examples being:
Using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine or other human byproducts
A personal or outward display, except during a school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial means of features that are non-human such as using tails, leashes, collars or other accessories designed for pets
Using fur, other than naturally occurring human hair or a wig made to look like human hair
Artificial, animal-like ears
Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development
Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech
Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.
Lots of students with verbal communication issues about to be illegal. As are students with artifical limbs or organs or even glucose monitors. Also who gets to decide this: “other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species”?
It’s vague, specifically so they can invoke it against any child they consider part of the “out group”- like trans, n/b, autistic, developmentally handicapped, socially handicapped, awkward, queer, “strange,” brown, wrong religion, wrong clothes, wrong facial expression… the list can go on. The cruelty is the point. Fascists are literally comic levels of evil. If you are not one of “them” you are evil, bad, and need removed. Same for the ideologically impure. Shit is going to get extremely crazy within the next few months to year.
They’re already underhandedly targeting autistic kids with it as-is. Vocal stims like meowing or nonverbal communication like growling are covered directly.
This is why I like public schools, they really dont have a lot of choice when admitting students. Kids are little over-creative sociopathic people with some hints of empathy, that can and will cause trouble just because they are bored. Without a public school systems, where we are going, the private school systems will be way pickier and choosier with whom they allow in. Any record of disturbance will probably get a student banned and theyll have to go to another school out of state or further to get an education befitting them.
Homey, they about to defund and empty the DoE, every single person in need of an IEP are about to be screwed. The students wont be illegal, they just wont be allowed in the new private school system for espousing anti-social behaviors.
Edit: I do not adhere or condone destroying the public school system in any way. The fact that the US has been defunding and legislatively attacking public schools since the 60s is deplorable behavior
What they don’t realize is that by doing this they are making it easier to replace the United States Federal government. Prior to this Administration one could make the argument that doing our evolution is hard or an advisable because you would have to recreate systems for inspecting the food and predicting the weather and all of that but at this point? We’re going to have to do that anyway so we might as well do so under a fundamentally better system
You don’t expect them to have thought it through, do you?