How often do we need to hear news as real as this and simply shrug?
Clinton Austin was meant to be getting out of prison. His family is now mourning after he died in jail, one of more than 500 First Nations people to die in custody since the 1991 royal commission.
Aboriginal man dies in custody, the second in Victoria in just over a month
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The real issue here is not “parents’ rights” but children’s rights. In most cases, the parents’-rights gambit is rhetorical sleight-of-hand meant to distract people from what’s really going on, which is adults depriving vulnerable children of the resources they need to grow into healthy adults. Book bans, “don’t say gay” laws, crackdowns on school newspapers and right-wing takeovers of school boards: It all serves the same purpose. For all the talk about “liberty” and “choice” that anti-education activists engage in, the end goal here is to limit the freedom of thought, and the freedom of life choices, that kids can have as adults.
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