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.
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.
It’s hard to see outside your bubble
Privledged kids with self employed parents that will pass down the business to the kid, so they immediately don’t want progressive tax
There are 2 types:
They aren’t. High school aged kids are being twatty edge lords as always but statistically the younger generations lean left.
I don’t know man. There’s a lot of 7-12 grade kids that are far right. Or part of that toxic manosphere
Because to the naïve, far-right nonsense feels edgy.
And I don’t get that. To me being against wealth, nuclear family, religion is the non conformist route
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.
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
Yep. Gen X here. Things like the Young Republicans were treated like lepers pretty much.
Running them off campus is how we got here.
No, running them off campus and leaving their bones intact is how you got here.
Don’t care. They should always be afraid
That may well be true but let them speak.
No. And you should learn about the paradox of tolerance
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.
It’s because of 4chan
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.
Technically I’m a xenial. To young for gen x to old for millennial. Born 78
Your perspective seems to fit with the data then. Millenials seem to be the turning point.
I still do
There are certainly plenty who agree with you, just unfortunately not the majority.