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Sending a kid to college in a state that is trying to ban abortions
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If the people of a state want to run a state in a particular way, that is their business. What I don't like is when the people who live in a different state want to force their values on them. Would you like Alabama forcing its value on your state?
And for people who choose not to live or go to college or to spend $ or have a business in that state, it's their business, right? Works both ways.
Maybe just the publicity around them. I have certainly heard of conservative people who would not consider certain states/colleges. Example, we had a young Uber driver in Atlanta who was looking at grad school, and vehemently told us he would never consider the UC system because of Californian politics.
Two daughters yet to decide on colleges. They are pro-life, so, no, abortion availability would be about the last thing they'd be looking for in a college.
In my old age I have decided boycotts of geographic areas probably aren't a good way to change minds. It is possible to change the culture from the inside, and not always in a confrontational way.
It is easy to avoid those with whom we disagree. Making them our neighbors, and then friends, and spending enough time with them they don't find our different views as outrageous as they once imagined can be an interesting exercise.. in my personal experience. At the least there is an opportunity to support those with minority views, who don't have the ability to get up and leave a geographic locale.
College students shouldn't be expected to work for social change, but if they choose to do so I certainly support them.
I think they would have been quite unlikely to have wanted to attend a U in states who have passed restrictive abortion laws.
It's not a boycott issue, it's strictly quality of life.
I believe my instructions earlier in the thread were clear, yet I was forced to temporarily close the thread this morning to delete posts and warn users for ToS violations. Having done that, I reopened the thread, and within 10 minutes, every new post had a rules violation. Since it's apparent to me that this thread requires too much time to monitor, it is now closed for good.