• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Conservatives love making children political though.

    • Having sex but don’t want children? You’re a godless slut.

    • Pregnant and don’t want children? You’re not capable of making decisions about your body.

    • Had an abortion? You’re an evil baby killing slut.

    • Have children you don’t want? You’re a slut who shouldn’t have sex if you couldn’t feed your kids.

    • Child of a Democratic president going through awkward teenage years? You’re a horse face, Chelsea Clinton.

    • Try to reach American soil to claim asylum? We’re gonna keep your kids in cages, argue in front of a judge that we’re not obligated to give them any hygienic items like soap or toothpaste, and deport you. Hope your home country isn’t as dangerous as you thought it was!

    • You’re a loving couple in a committed relationship who want to adopt one of the many “unwanted” children in our foster system? Get fucked queers; our god says only the straights get to enjoy being parents.

    • Your child needs medical care? Why should my tax dollars pay for that?

    • Your local public school sucks? Well maybe you should have been able to afford private tuition to a school that definitely doesn’t exist because public schools were forced to integrate. Oh, and we’re gonna siphon more money out of your kids’ school to pay for ours- that tuition ain’t cheap, you know.

    And, for international flavor:

    • You don’t want your kids to be genocided by Israel? Then maybe they shouldn’t have been one of the more than 50% of Gaza’s population who either weren’t born or weren’t old enough to vote 16 years ago when Hamas held their last election.
    • snooggums@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      Yes, conservatives love pretending that non-political things are political. Per your examples having children is political, which would make the term political meaningless if we let them define political.