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Yeah, I live here (Austin; spent 10 years in Houston, too). I love Texas. But, Texas does have a reputation for being backward, regressive, racist, and willful
by SwellJoe 13y ago
Yeah, I live here (Austin; spent 10 years in Houston, too). I love Texas.
But, Texas does have a reputation for being backward, regressive, racist, and willfully ignorant. It was Texas State Board of Education that led to a decades-long battle over evolution. If that's not embarrassing, I don't know what is.
Texas also just passed a law that will shut down all but 4 (maybe 5) of the health clinics that offer abortion in the entire state. Those clinics are also where a lot of folks get birth control, STD testing, and often where poor women go for gynecological care.
Texans will spend 15% more on healthcare because of the stubbornness of our governor. Whether one agrees with Obamacare or not, it's pretty nasty to intentionally screw over poor people out of nothing more than spite.
Texas definitely has a bad reputation. And, it deserves that bad reputation.
- jonhinson 13y agoAs a native Texan (I've lived in the Houston area for about 26 years), I agree with most of what you say. RE: the clinics, instead of closing, could those clinics continue to offer the other services and simply stop offering abortions? I feel like it's throwing the baby out with the bath water to just shut down altogether. Perhaps I am just misunderstanding the legislation, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
- angersock 13y agoThe hell of it is, we've still got one of the strongest economies in the US, especially if you're looking for more traditional blue-collar labor.
- driverdan 13y agoLuckily some of those things are improving. The SBOE just voted in real science textbooks and our asshole governor isn't running again.