<
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/10/idaho-ag-office-forces-schools-to-take-down-everyone-is-welcome-signs-for-being-political/>
"It’s been interesting to watch the current administration and its GOP backers
contort themselves into logical pretzels to explain to Americans why their
policies, which are clearly either steeped or tinged with racist elements, are
not in fact racist. Immigration policies and practices that are conducted
without such annoyances as due process are waved off as the mere enforcement of
the law, ignoring just how selective that enforcement is. Facilities that are
plainly echoing the practices of the Third Reich, or at least the practice of
Japanese concentration camps, are laughed off as though they were exaggerations
when they absolutely are not. Instances of fascism, up to and including the
military marching the streets of our cities and deployed against our own
people, are described not for what it is, but through Orwellian euphemisms to
shrug at what should be a scandal.
It’s bullshit and those engaging in the bullshit know it. But every once in a
while one of those bullshitters accidentally give away the game. Let’s go to
Idaho and talk about how the Attorney General’s office is handling the
enforcement of House Bill 41.
House Bill 41, which goes into effect Tuesday, prohibits flags or banners
depicting a political viewpoint from public K-12 schools. The law’s vague
language led to questions from educators and school leaders.
The IDE asked the attorney general’s office on March 28 for guidance on the
new law. It took the attorney general’s office until May 29 to provide a
response. The department then took nearly another month to provide guidance
to school districts, which it did Thursday.
That guidance said school employees cannot display flags or banners that
show opinions, emotions, beliefs or thoughts about politics, economics,
society, faith or religion. The guidance and the attorney general’s opinion
did not define these terms."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
