Did you see this story? The Biden admin is reopening holding facilities for children (and others) illegally crossing the southern border.
I’m going to make a prediction (don’t be impressed when it comes true, though, this one’s easy money). Journalists are, even now, on their way to these facilities to take pictures… not for today’s paper, or even tomorrow’s, but for the papers that will be published during the next Republican Presidential Administration, so that they can once again revive the “Republicans put kids in cages” canard.
Remember, it’s been done before… which doesn’t make it any less evil.
UPDATE: One other thing that occurs to me along these same lines has to do with the COVID school closings and how those closings are affecting student achievement. Obviously these shutdowns are anti-science since the CDC has said re-opening schools is safe, even without full vaccination. But the teachers’ unions are denying the science for their own reasons and kids are suffering, including my own.
That said, a river of ink has been spilled suggesting that these closings are affecting poor and minority students the most and that there is a widening achievement gap as a result.
Well… I think it’s worth getting it on record that the science says open now, parents and kids say open now, and yet the teachers are resisting. So… when that achievement gap does present itself five or ten years down the road, don’t fall for the big lie when they try to tell you that the gap is the result of “systemic racism.”
It was teacher selfishness that killed the beast.