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Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon. Her new book, "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself," is out now. She's on Twitter @AmandaMarcotte

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I went through your Salon Article this is what I found:

" War on sex ed heats up: Right-wing activists in California weaponize fake news

A supposed “grassroots” rebellion against sex ed in California is fueled by a right-wing propaganda campaign"

Those are their claims.

It starts with " After George W. Bush left the White House, many people believed that his failed sex education policies — which forced states to teach kids abstinence until marriage and rejected contraception education — were over and done with. The sad reality is that in the decade since then, undoing the damage has been a slow and incomplete process. "

That is a strawman. They're attempting to compare the parents who are upset to an abstinence campaign . That isn't went they want, they want a choice in sexual education and when as parents.

" Conservatives have turned to the same tactics to undermine California's law that right-wing forces and Russian propagandists used to distort the 2016 election: Disseminating fake news and lies through social media. "

Buzz word to compare Christians, Muslims, Jewish, and other religious people (because the coalition is multiple belief systems to Russians in order to disqualify their views. It has nothing to do with Russia or Russians. An attempt to manipulate the reader by comparing two unlike things.

On one of the articles listed:

" The California Healthy Youth Act went into effect in 2016 and requires that middle and high schools teach unbiased and medically accurate sex education, including lessons on birth control and abortion. But there is concern about how much support the curriculum is getting in the politically conservative central San Joaquin Valley, which has a history of pushback against such lessons.

Read more here: r/https://www.fresnobee.com/news/special-reports/too-young/article165478887.html#storylink=cpy"

Some business owners don't want to sell condoms to young people. That is up to the store and their policy. It seems Salon, and some various groups concerned with sex ed, not only want to take away a parent's right to raise their child (going against multiple religious and cultural groups) They want to expand enforcement to the private sector.

" Using titillating but false accusations, <strong>such as the claim that kids are being taught how to have anal sex in school</strong>, conservatives are sowing panic in local communities, spreading fear that a curriculum meant to keep kids safe is hurting them instead. "

Salon never disproved that kids were not being informed about anal sex, the proof they list is some mother complaining about it. They proved that some parents don't want it talked about.

One of the sources Salon gives, which is a broad racial makeup of those protesting and gives examples is here.

" In reality, the lessons for high school students simply acknowledge that things like oral and anal sex exist, something teenagers are already talking about and many experiment with.

Here's a screenshot from a handout for ninth-graders, which shows how the mentions of oral and anal sex are framed:"

Salon admits that what parent's are complaining about does exist, in fact that is seen multiple times in the resources and the article itself. The argument salon has against it is "So what".

It's an opinion piece that did prove any of it's claims, in fact the evidence provided actually disproves their claim. It is no surprise that this opinion piece is written by " Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon. Her new book, "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself," is out now. She's on Twitter @AmandaMarcotte "

You think a book like that from Amanada Marcotte is going to be unbiased? No. It is just more evidence, along with this article, to show her narrowed minded and blind when it comes to other's beliefs and cultures.

Let's go over her original claims:

" War on sex ed heats up: Right-wing activists in California weaponize fake news:

Never proven, and a sensationalist title. While there are some christian groups behind it, there are other groups against it as well. The thing they have in common seems to be they are all parents who do not like the sexual ed program for their child.

A supposed “grassroots” rebellion against sex ed in California is fueled by a right-wing propaganda campaign"

The articles listed and evidence given show that this isn't the case. The article actually disproved this. It is also not a "war on sex education", but parents who don't like what is being taught and when.

Throughout the piece, and we can go over more examples, the writer showed all the claims they said in at least some ways were fulfilled. Now in some cases it was exaggerated. However, throughout the article it is obvious that the writer is tone deaf to the cultural beliefs of many in California who do not want this for their child. That is what is happening. Should parents have a say in what their child is taught regarding sex education, or should the government's power supersede that of a parent, and in some cases, private businesses?

She doesn't understand this, and she won't. I don't believe it's some vast conspiracy, and in fact in most articles the parents didn't think the same. Most were not against any form of sex education, they wanted a say in what was taught and when. I think that is a reasonable request.

You've got to give Amanda Marcotte's Troll Nation a read-through. She writes like a box of chocolates.

There is nothing to compromise on.