A Texas bill, known as the FURRIES Act, would ban non-human behaviors in public schools, including the use of litter boxes and wearing animal accessories.
Rep. Stan Gerdes, the bill’s author, claimed schools were providing litter boxes for students acting as “furries.”
When pressed, Gerdes could not find an example. The bill was left pending in committee.
To be clear, cat litter buckets in classrooms is a real thing in some schools but only to use in active shooter lockdowns if needed. When a classroom of kids is trapped for hours, someone will need to poop, and they’re going to want to cover up it and not smell it the whole time. So unfortunately there’s a perfectly valid reason for kids to poop in litter buckets at schools that these conspiracists, who are probably the same nutjobs who think school shootings are fake, are twisting into furry accommodation.
Hey, America, what the fuck?
We’re pretty stupid over here right now. Sorry, world.
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Uh… citation needed 🤦🏼♂️
“The only known official instance of cat litter being placed in school classrooms for potential use by students was in the late 2010s by the Jefferson County Public School District in Colorado, where the 1999 Columbine High School massacre took place. Some teachers were given “go buckets” that contained cat litter to be used as a toilet in an emergency lockdown situation, such as during a school shooting.[4][43][44]” — Note: official instance. I’ve been told it was popular enough for someone to sell premade “go buckets”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax
Exactly. Fuckin’ FUD getting slathered around, and I’m the bad guy for hinting it’s bullshit?
Whee, the internet. 🤦🏼♂️
Slight misinfo here.
I was not able to find anyone selling or providing kitty litter buckets for active shooter response kits. I think kitty litter would not be an idea lchoice because it relies on absorbing moisture, swelling, and covering the feces via the cat’s natural scraping behavior.
However, their are a number of classroom lockdown kits that do include a 5 gallon bucket to shit in, and a deodorizer tablet/solution.
It was a DIY solution, not a kit, but great to know the idea was monetized.
Yup.
And they’ll do this dumbass shit before addressing gun violence or police who hang out scrolling on their phones during school shootings instead of stopping them, every single time.
Need a new Texas bill banning Rep. Stan Gerdes from being 10 miles near any school because dude is a fucking creep.
The litter box in schools thing happened in all of my dad’s WhatsApp friends schools, but there’s no pictures of it 🤔
It started because of school shootings, ironically enough. If you’re in a lockdown for hours while the cops take their sweet time, (coughUvaldecough), there’s a near 100% chance that at least one of the children in your class is going to need to use the restroom during that time.
Luckily, camp toilets are a thing:
They’re basically a 5 gallon bucket with a snap-on toilet seat lid. You use a trash bag to line it, then sprinkle an alginate powder in, (the same powder used in diapers) and it turns into a gel when it gets wet. This helps avoid the smell and splashing, and a single small sachet of alginate powder is enough for the entire bucket.As an added bonus, you can use the bucket to store other things that might be needed in a shooting or extended lockdown. Tourniquets, gauze, protein bars, etc… It’s all there in a single grab-and-go location. Lockdown starts, you pull the bucket out of the closet, dump all the supplies out, and set it in the corner for kids to use if they need to pee.
But this very quickly got flipped around, because conservatives didn’t want the left to start using “schools need toilets in the classrooms because school shootings are so frequent” campaigns. So they flipped it around, and said schools were providing litter boxes to furries. There’s also a heavy anti-trans lean on the litter boxes messaging, which just plays into the conservative fear mongering even more.
The U.S. needs stricter gun laws, imo. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country
Blasphemy!
Well yeah, I doubt you’ll find many disagreements here. The biggest disagreements are probably going to be the “if you go far enough left, you get your guns back” crowd. AKA the “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” version. Conservatives aren’t exactly popular around these parts.
I read a very different thing. Classes were putting medical supplies in them and other emergency gear, but again, for mass shootings.
I had an idiot teenager working for me who insisted it was happening at his school, but couldn’t tell me which classroom or teacher was allowing it.
In a few years, this guy will probably get picked up for human trafficking, CSAM, soliciting sex from minors or some other degenerate activity.
Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?
In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking[a] and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had not engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.[2]
Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?
Mostly just his child victims.
Based on all recorded political history and conservatives love of projection, I’m guessing he is one of the more extreme kinky types of furry himself. Nothing illegal, but really disgusting to other people.
So, no school mascots?
You can’t even meow, so no learning about the noises animals make
The bill makes exceptions for mascots, school plays and Halloween.
Or starting on page 4 of the bill
Edit: Don’t get me wrong, the bill is still a terrible idea, but it appears that a miniscule amount of thought went into it.
Almost every school mascot today is some sort of non offensive animal. Puma, panther, golden eagles, a few others. Probably setting up the magas who want to go back to some real non woke “American hero” names. Gen Lee Slavemasters, red injun killers, white supremists, things like that. lol.
We truly live in the dumbest timeline. Seems like ~50% of the population has no “bullshit filter”.
They have an “actively seek out bullshit that props up my radical beliefs and hatreds” filter.
Nothing is more pathetic than a politician who believes their own propaganda.
Do they really believe it or do they know how fucking gullible a large swath of their electorate is?
The Conservative Propaganda Machine has been recruiting and indoctrinating consrvatives since Rush Lbaugh hit the airwaves in the mid-80s. We are now 2-3 generations removed from that, and people who were raised on hearing conservative propganda at the dinner table, and conservative “values,” have grown up and run for office.
Some of them recognize that its all a long con, but quite a few of them believe the propaganda as well. Then there are those who believe the propaganda, and and also see conservatism as a life hack to get what you want by immoral, unethical, and illegal behavior.
Of course not. Like most of their “anti-woke” ideas, they are based on lofty ideas.
They do this to misdirect you from the real problems, those that they usually caused all by themselves.
Yup…and the democrats are worse. Such controlled opposition
I prefer controlled opposition to uncontrolled fascism.
At no point I do I think bullying should be allowed in schools but the reality is that if a kid was demanding a litter box in which to relieve themselves, they would get ostracized, bullied into oblivion, and that behavior would stop right away. No legislation required. Humans have a way of self correcting themselves in group environments. It’s an evolutionary trait from our days as tribes.
Again, bullying is a huge problem that needs to be taken far more seriously in our school systems… Buuuut, humans will act like humans, especially human children, when it comes down to things way outside the norm. Its just the way we are at this stage in evolution.
bullying is a huge problem that needs to be taken far more seriously in our school systems
I fear the reason bullying isn’t taken seriously in schools is because those in positions of power frequently use bully tactics to get there. Fascists and bullies are one and the same, and on some level, corrupt school administrators know that. School bullies provide useful extensions of fascist behavior, applied by peers to encourage conformity in environments where adults are absent. Why would fascists in charge ever want to stop that?
He is probably a furry in secret, very effective way to make these things happen.
It takes real dedication to make a career in politics as republican with a single plan to turn kids into furries by goading them into protesting anti furry bill
Furries are notoriously stealthy, it’s not like they walk around in bright furry colours or anything
litter boxes in school would have been an upgrade over the basement level bathrooms
There are probably hundreds of actual issues to dedicate time to, yet this is what he chooses to focus on?
The great part of tackling problems that aren’t real is that nobody can see you haven’t solved anything.
He’s a Republican. All the real problems are literally beyond his comprehension.
“The evil queers are coming after your kids!” goes next to “the migrants are gang members” as a way to keep the base in perpetual fear all of the time. Shrieking about something that doesn’t actually happen wastes the lefts time - because people who care about the truth have to take the time to debunk. Then the fuckers turn around and say - “look at you protecting pedophiles” when you debunk their insane shit.
The “big lie.”
I wonder if this topic needs to be x-posted to !furry@lemmy.world
So countdown to Republicans planting furries in schools
