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Yes, elites talking to other elites over semi-public channels about how the general public can't be trusted to parent their own children without 35 hours/week of state-mandated remolding is indeed of zero interest to *checks notes* Vox

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Jane Coaston

@janecoaston

Apr 22, 2020

A thing I want more people to contemplate is how the Twitter outrage sausage is made. For example, why is an article on homeschooling — an article featured in the alumni magazine for a school most people did not attend — getting a lot of attention?

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Basil Marte

@BasilMarte

Apr 23, 2020

Careful with inferring causality! Parent IQ is an immediately obvious confounder.

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Basil Marte

@BasilMarte

Apr 23, 2020

"Look, I'm bound by impartiality. I can't allow only you to withdraw your kid from school, without also allowing fundies to withdraw their kids just as easily. And then they won't be taught how their ways are stupid and evil."

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as a general side note i was homeschooled because of the fundie thing and I *still* consider it a better deal than having been regular-schooled without the fundie thing.

12:00 AM · Apr 24, 2020

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I wasn't endorsing, only explaining (or trying to). My hypothesis is that "the intellectual elites" who prevent homeschooling are knowingly throwing the children of the "respectable" middle class under the bus in an attempt to eradicate fundie culture. Draft for the culture war.