cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26858904
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39969354
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.
Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance
Whew, so you’d still be able to lick people for other reasons.
Banning 4 year old girls from wearing a headband with kitten ears. Good work.
Imagine being the lawyer who gets to defend our First Amendment right to fucking meow in front of the Supreme Court
What happens if you have tourettes
oh man. I knew so many little kids that would have a spontaneous im an X day. This is so wierd. So its. First they came for the trans, then they came for minorities, then they came for the women, and then the furries
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,”
Acting like animals is something humans do, just saying…
This is so vague it could mean any behavour. God, I hate facists.
@superkret @sundrei The law is of course unenforceable, even on its own terms. In context of centuries of legal doctrine, it’s far too vague to ever be fairly enforceable against anyone.
The reason is not nefarious, I believe. There are people who really believe this myth, and I’m strongly inclined to believe this bill’s sponsor does. You wouldn’t include the detail about litter boxes, for example, unless you really believed that was happening.
He’s just extremely ignorant.
Ban kids from playing pretend? This is gonna go swimmingly.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swimmingly
For those that don’t know what swimmingly is
Is it an unisual word? I thought it was common, but maybe it’s a local thing
No, not an unusual word. I’ve heard The Youth™ have a different vocabulary though, so it might be an age thing?
Could be. I heard it a lot from my parents who were born in the 1940s.
The youth are famously reasonable about complying with stupid rules. (This is sarcasm.)
Literally banning children’s imaginations.
Old MacDonald Had a Farm gets the whole class to jail in seconds 🤣
Ah yes, doing the important work. A lot less options with halloween though. Is Spiderman or Batman still ok, or too much animal reference? And what about cops, they all look like pigs. Are they going to arrest their colleagues every morning when they arrive at work?
Halloween actually got a specific exclusion.
Nice. Halloween is going to be a massive furry swarm for sure.
So this is a law that bans something that has basically never happened? And obviously it’s going to be abused and kids are going to get arrested for wearing headphones with cat ears or any other garment that could be construed as animal dress up?
Fear and propaganda. The life blood of their party is in pushing the great fear of the big scary thing as a target to push through their rules to make the people safe…
It’s nazis just before the camps go up and the Jews get put in train cars.
Is he painting his nails?
He’s rolling a joint.
They are obsessed with these things. I wonder why? Repressed desires, I say.
The problem is, this can affect kids following (do I even need to specify it) harmless trends like plushy overalls or hairbands with ears.
So, they are also obsessed with dominating kids and putting their fingers where they don’t belong.
Reminds me of this 43 year old song:
Laß doch die Kleinen in Ruh Laß doch die Kleinen in Ruh du kuinierst mich so du alte SauLaß doch die Kleinen in Ruh
Laß doch die Kleinen in Ruh
du kuinierst mich so
du alte Sau
kuinieren Aus französisch coionner. Hier in der Bedeutung von quälen, plagen, misshandeln.
So basically,
“Leave the little kids alone. Leave the little kids alone. You torment me so much, you old pig.”
“Small government” my ass
Oh, they’ll go there next, don’t you worry…
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