• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I wonder what the people who support “Sedition Panda” have to say about the “litter boxes in schools” nonsense. I bet they believed it and thought it was horrifying.

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      6 months ago

      It is so weird seeing that story come back around again. The first time I heard it was something like 15 years ago and it was nonsense then, too. Now conservatives flaunt it like it’s some kind of new bombshell. Nope, just as fake now as it was then.

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        5 months ago

        I once met a guy in a guitar shop telling me about the “litter boxes” in the class room of a local high school. I was working as a substitute teacher at the time while I finished my master’s thesis. I told him that I work at that school regularly and could confirm that it was a facebook shitpost and not even remotely grounded in reality.

        He walked out of that store still 100% convinced that our local high school just had students casually pooping in the corner during class.

        I mean sure, we still had students pooping in the corner during class, but it had nothing to do with litter boxes. It was very much motivated by how much they hated that particular science teacher, and there was absolutely nothing casual about it.

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        5 months ago

        I recently has a coworker try to make that claim. I asked him specifically what school had litter boxes in the classroom and of course he didn’t know.

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          there are uncountable number of photos of Facebook, probably a billion taken every single day by people. Not a single photo of one of these classroom litterboxes, though. Yet they believe it with no evidence. Why? because it speaks directly to their biases. They WANT to believe that they exist, because it makes them feel VERY superior, and makes them feel even more right about everything else they think.

          Evil succeeds when it speaks to a person’s biases. We are all prone to it; be vigilant.

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      5 months ago

      While I take your point, a quick search reveals that:

      Giant pandas are not latrine-using animals – they urinate and defecate wherever they happen to be and whatever they happen to be doing at the moment.

      So the litter boxes in schools wouldn’t help this dirtbag and the poor janitorial staff will be stuck cleaning his shit off the floors.

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      5 months ago

      A friend of mine’s sister took her kids out of the school and moved from Arizona to Ohio because their school apparently actually had litter boxes