return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoCalifornia governor Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing costapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1650
arrow-up1650external-linkCalifornia governor Newsom vetoes bill to make free condoms available for high school students, citing costapnews.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square148fedilink
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year 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-up7·1 year 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-up9·1 year 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-up3·1 year agoCaste discrimination is already illegal.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoWhat harm will explicitly codifying it do, then?
minus-squarejimbo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago“What harm will it do” is a shit argument. Tell me what good it will do.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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.