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xiphias"Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible."
And they've just passed a law requiring all Texan children to recite it.
I wish I could ask a question of Senator Jeff Wentworth, who wrote the law. I wish I could ask, "Senator, do you think that these children should have the right to move to another state when they grow up, if they want to? Or would you rather that they be forced to stay in Texas for their entire lives, whether they want to or not?"
I suspect that he'd have to say that he'd want them to have the right, as Americans, to move to other states.
Then I'd ask him, "So you want these children to ignore their vows? You don't care about promises?"
It infuriates me. And I'm noticing more and more that right-wingers (as opposed to "conservatives") generally don't care about what they promise, or what they vow, or what they pledge. They just don't care. They don't even THINK that oaths, and vows, and swearing MEANS anything, so they're fine making people pledge things, because they don't really think that those pledges have real effects.
They don't think them through, because they don't care, because they don't think they're real.
And they've just passed a law requiring all Texan children to recite it.
I wish I could ask a question of Senator Jeff Wentworth, who wrote the law. I wish I could ask, "Senator, do you think that these children should have the right to move to another state when they grow up, if they want to? Or would you rather that they be forced to stay in Texas for their entire lives, whether they want to or not?"
I suspect that he'd have to say that he'd want them to have the right, as Americans, to move to other states.
Then I'd ask him, "So you want these children to ignore their vows? You don't care about promises?"
It infuriates me. And I'm noticing more and more that right-wingers (as opposed to "conservatives") generally don't care about what they promise, or what they vow, or what they pledge. They just don't care. They don't even THINK that oaths, and vows, and swearing MEANS anything, so they're fine making people pledge things, because they don't really think that those pledges have real effects.
They don't think them through, because they don't care, because they don't think they're real.
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Confused and mentally abused; it's hard to unlearn
Date: 2003-08-21 09:01 pm (UTC)I understand the technicality of the Mason-Dixon line and its significance... but the skewed view I received in education and at my family's knee (so to speak) left me so confused.
My bio dad was from NYC, but he left before I was walking, and my step-dad was from Ohio, but claimed Texanship more rabidly than any redneck I've ever known.
I guess you could say that the rest of the family, disliking my mother's taste in regional origin of men, way overdid the native pride thang. Bigotry seemed to be a thing of pride to them. When I stood up for someone vs the family bigotry, I dressed down and given the en familia version of being tarred and feathered.
Anyhow, back to the teaching I got growing up.... the general consensus seemed to be that no one north of Mississippi could really be a southerner... and then years later I find out that Texas isn't considered to be 'south' by anyone but a Texan.
And then we get Shrub. And the Texas Dems.
I am so disgusted with the games, bad decisions and ducky-hide politics that's becoming synonymous with Texas that sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't renounce my birthship. Maybe they *would* be better off seceding.