In an attempt to make a point in the ongoing political fight over what should be taught in the classroom, Rep. Eric Swalwell has likened parental involvement in children’s education to medical patients being put in charge of their own surgical procedures.
The California Democrat took to Twitter on Wednesday to respond to a comment from Republican Sen. Tim Scott saying that “we are putting parents back in charge of their kids’ education.”
“Please tell me what I’m missing here,” Swalwell wrote. “What are we doing next? Putting patients in charge of their own surgeries? Clients in charge of their own trials? When did we stop trusting experts. This is so stupid.”
Many prominent Republicans have been arguing for parents to have more of a say in how and what their children learn. The GOP Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, made this a central part of his winning gubernatorial campaign last year.
The Twitter backlash ensued. Some commenters were quick to point out that patients do in fact have control over their medical treatment.
“As a point, patients are generally in control of their own surgery,” said one Twitter user. “There is no surgeon or doctor that can force you to have surgery. Clients direct their lawyers in all sorts of things. Yes the lawyer is the expert but the client gets to decide.”
Some tweets were more to the point.
“They think they own your kids,” wrote school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis.
The discourse over whether to listen to “experts: on a given topic has been up for debate in recent years, with arguments that in some cases the experts may be swayed one way or another by financial or political incentives. The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly exacerbated these disagreements. An epidemiologist will have one expert opinion, whereas an economist or a social psychologist will have their own, potentially incompatible, expert opinion.
Author and Human Events Contributor Adam B. Coleman pointed this out in a response to Swalwell’s, saying that “experts disagree with each other all the time. That should tell you something.”
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And well-swallowing socially indoctrinated Democrat Congressmen Supporting and sharing with Fang Fang, huge shaggy dog stories of Large national secrets told to (The Spy that shagged ME) Chinese spies,,, is as stupid as giving your son over to Joe Biden for moral instruction on how to do corrupt political influenced business overseas and not get caught with your pants down. Parents teach children HOW to think, politicians like Swalwell and Biden just tell children WHAT to think. Children Historically are owned by the state only in Communist or Fascist run countries
We stopped trusting their “Experts” the minute Fauci opened his piehole and started speaking. In case the Dems haven’t noticed, Psychiatry is NOT an exact science, like where various individual forms of Trump derangement can be applied as “one Freudian Marxist cure works for all” to every person in their party, whose people manage to develop various new forms now being discovered daily.
One wonders, WHAT STUPIDITY runs amock in the state WHERE THIS DOLT was elected??
Only in California would someone like this stooge be elected to public office. If he has any kids one can only wonder how he treats them.
This Democrat Eric Swalwell is a socialist Fool.
This treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, demonic, socialist Democrat Party wants to be your master and god!
** If We the People allow it –
The reign of the Socialist Democrat Party State Dictatorship is just getting started.
The “Socialist Democrat Party State” political officers, Gestapo, Woke and Cancel Culture are just getting started.
You will obey, be loyal and support the policies of the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as “Enemies of the State” and “Domestic Terrorists”.
As far as I am concerned, parent s need to know who is brain washing their kids and putting a stop to it. I also think that patients should be in charge of their own surgeries and medications. To many teachers and doctors have no idea what they are doing!
moron!
When did we stop trusting experts????? When SLO JOE Biden was elected and Fraudci forced our kids to mask up and stay at home.
Take your grooming, WOKE agenda, gender confusion, abortions and crt krap and F-off, Swallowell.
For capricorn1. MORON for sure. And colossal one too. Right up there with Perloser and Waters (the worst of the worse). And Eric, we are already in charge of our surgeries. We can say yes or no.
Part of me wants to PITY the voters of his state, but that they ELECTED THIS CRETIN, and have re-elected him FIVE TIMES now, shows there’s NO REASON TO pity them, as they are TOO demented to ever deserve pity..
BUT that’s commiefornia for ya.
You are correct Ituser, I do not pity any of the mental midgets who voted for this cretin ! They deserve what they get. Same thing with Hobbs in Arizona,
If you voted for her, you deserve what you will get. Did you not see how bad she was as Sec of State?
We stopped trusting experts when they began being political and following the socialist doctrine!
Swalwell needs to move to a socialist country where he is welcomed!
Yep, that’s how much dem’s care about parents’ rights. But you voted for them, anyway, hope your happy!
I hope in Swalwell’s case he never has any children.
-but he’d probably have them aborted anyway.
Well Rep. Eric Swalwell, you see I don’t want moral values taught by people like you as they are not my values. As for teachers let them stick to reading, writing (and yes writing), arithmetic. Then for history spend equal amount of time on different civilizations and if certain topics arise as part of the history fine. But if you just focus on LGBTQ and my children under 18 having the right to choose there sex. Well, isn’t that like your “Putting patients in charge of their own surgeries.” statement?
As bugs said, Don’t be a maroon, you moron….
Experts lost their credibility when science aligned itself with political causes involving government regulations and the widespread suppression of any evidence to the contrary even from the most qualified scientists in the field. this was first noted during the early days of climate cooling befor eclimate warming before climate changing which it had done for billions of years prior. COVID put the real cap on it medical experts were suppressed for politcal convience. he total distancing the family from educatio is necessary for the progressive agenda to be a success!
I’ve seen and heard the drivel the so called experts are teaching kids. I’ll stick to home educating our kids so that they can know Truth, learn how to think not simply regurgitate facts or opinions, and stand up for what they know to be the truth. I can’t imagine how much reeducation a conservative parent with kids in public schools must need to do.
According to this ignoramus, sending your kids to school is like agreeing to an appendectomy. The only problem these days is, both have an unexpected conclusion. Your kids get ultra-leftist indoctrination, and a person wakes up from surgery missing their appendix and also missing genitalia! Both items never agreed to.
Think I would take any advice from an idiot like swalwell, Not a chance.
More and more, seeing how total buttheads like him, KEEP WINNING elections, goes to show me, that we shoudl have NEVER OPEN THE VOTING UP TO EVERY BODY IN The nation,and its high bloody time we started installing IQ Tests to register to vote…
He went to the private school of fang fang!
Gee, you’d think Eric Swalwell would spend his time and energy more productively. Like, oh say, shtupping another female Chinese spy.
So SWILLwel’s parents are stupid too, and all previous generations going way, way back?? THEY’RE ALL STUPID??
Makes a hell of a lot more sense than voting you into office.
Swalwell
It’s a good thing you are only a congressman and not someone who matters.
Obviously this is something that rolling around naked with Fang Fang taught him. Squeezed her legs too tight and cut off the oxygen to his brain
It is unnecessary to debate the merits of Swally’s statements . Simply stated he is a jerk, but a dangerous one. Why is Сongress becoming of depository of *****?
California is owned by the democrat party in the most important issues at hand, A few republicans are elected to prevent the reality of a dictorship being seen as the ruling party there.
Some times i DO wonder, do the dems out there, LET A republican or two win, JUST TO KEEP the illusion that those in CA< are 'still in a democracy'??
We in California have just reaffirmed this class of leadership. We have just come out of an election that passed more tax bills and spending. We are underserved, while in the midst of decay, have record budget surpluses. This is now a kingdom with princes and princesses. Mickey Mouse rules.
And folks wonder why i CHEER for the day, the big quake comes, and SENDS the entire bloody state, into the sea.
Must be owned and ran by Disney!
There is no validity to the ridiculous comparison from Eric Calicommie. Unknown to this idiot, the majority of said pre-surgery patients do have a say in whether or not they go through surgery and also who might perform their surgery! So he has no idea about parental rights in regards to their child’s public education! Just because the public education system is managed by government, which is a total failure at best, they do not have full ownership over educational curriculum without the majority of parental consent. Those employed by the government public education system are in fact employees of millions of taxpayers who have every right to affirm or object to educational criteria and curriculum! Swalwell might as well move to China where he would be better suited with the CCP!