return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoCalifornia governor Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing costapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1651arrow-down122
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minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down7·9 months agoWhat is socially liberal about preserving caste discrimination? How does keeping psilocybin illegal or capping the price of insulin deplete the rainy day fund? How is standing in the way of contraception socially liberal?
minus-squareRedAggroBest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down4·9 months agoHe vetoed a bill that provides free condoms with cost as a reason. Hardly standing in the way, just not giving a helping hand. Helping people is leftist, not liberal.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months ago Helping people is leftist, not liberal. Well, at least I won’t be under the mistaken impression that he’s progressive anymore.
minus-squarejimbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoCaste discrimination is already illegal.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·9 months agoWhat harm will explicitly codifying it do, then?
minus-squarejimbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months ago“What harm will it do” is a shit argument. Tell me what good it will do.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·9 months agoIt will explicitly protect people from caste discrimination instead of the weak and easily misinterpreted protections they currently have. But a Democrat in office did it, so it must be right in all cases and any flimsy justification must be instantly accepted without question.
What is socially liberal about preserving caste discrimination? How does keeping psilocybin illegal or capping the price of insulin deplete the rainy day fund?
How is standing in the way of contraception socially liberal?
He vetoed a bill that provides free condoms with cost as a reason. Hardly standing in the way, just not giving a helping hand.
Helping people is leftist, not liberal.
Well, at least I won’t be under the mistaken impression that he’s progressive anymore.
Caste discrimination is already illegal.
What harm will explicitly codifying it do, then?
“What harm will it do” is a shit argument. Tell me what good it will do.
It will explicitly protect people from caste discrimination instead of the weak and easily misinterpreted protections they currently have.
But a Democrat in office did it, so it must be right in all cases and any flimsy justification must be instantly accepted without question.