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The covid response was and is inevitably going to be polarized under Biden, because many Republicans have deliberately adopted Donald Trump’s project of using it to foment civil conflict wherever possible.
Biden’s education secretary, Miguel Cardona, is now vowing to use the Education Department’s civil rights enforcement division to investigate states that ban local officials from implementing mask mandates.
“We’re not going to sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators protecting our children,” Biden vowed.
The idea here is that the suspension of in-person learning has disproportionately harmed the learning of vulnerable students, such as students of color. If a GOP governor’s ban on mask mandates is — by making schools less safe — preventing them from resuming in-person learning, that could be subject to investigation.
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originally posted by: beyondknowledge
From what I understand, no one is preventing anyone from wearing masks if they or their parents want to. How is not forcing someone to do something and also not stopping them from doing it a violation of any civil rights?
Did Biden come up with this one all by himself?
originally posted by: DashVol
As was pointed out in the Medicare/Medicaid thread, it is a Constitutional violation of the separation of powers for him to withhold funds that have already been appropriated by Congress (and signed into law by the previous President, absent any signing statements). This is impeachable.
originally posted by: beyondknowledge
From what I understand, no one is preventing anyone from wearing masks if they or their parents want to. How is not forcing someone to do something and also not stopping them from doing it a violation of any civil rights?
Did Biden come up with this one all by himself?
originally posted by: VictorVonDoom
Let me get this straight. Preventing schools from requiring masks violates the students civil rights? That's some Joe Biden logic right there. "If a government entity can't force you to do something, it violates your civil rights."
Either they're grasping at straws or they aren't even trying to make sense anymore.