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Anti-LGTBQ “Million March For Children” outnumbered by “Billion March For Not Being Bigots”
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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If you're ever at an anti-LGBTQ march "for the children", ask these bigots why they aren't marching against the sexual exploitation of children in local parishes.
They will stutter on their words, I guarantee. Seeing this strategy in action is hilarious and highly effective!
I've asked this question several times.
Name one drag queen who has ever been convicted of grooming and sexually abusing children.
I said to someone once, "There are branches of several international organizations in town that have a centuries old well documented history of grooming and sexually abusing millions of children worldwide then hiding the abuse and moving the abusers to other locations so that they can continue to groom and sexually abuse children. These are the same organizations that are telling you that drag queens are the problem. Why aren't you protesting them? "
That's a bold but risky move, I wouldn't bet the argument on someone having dug up some obscure examples. The set of people in drag has to contain at least one, and using a 'gotcha' like that could backfire.
But you're right, they do seem exceedingly rare. Like, weirdly rare compared to the general population, even.
I'll give them a list of 1,000 clergy who have been convicted and ask them for the name of another drag queen who had been. They will run out of drag queens long before I run out of thousands of clergy.
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This is because interest in expressing one's fabulousness and interest in abusing kids are radically different things. People become drag queens because they are too fabulous to be contained by a single gender and they have to hold it in with Spanx. People become religious leaders because they are trusted positions of power which can provide an opportunity for them to abuse kids and other vulnerable groups with little risk of consequences.
I'd like to see SOGI education advocates more explicitly frame their efforts as anti suicide initiatives.
These were primarily Muslim. But I get your point
Absolutely no difference if we're talking about sexual abuse (including children). There are victims within every religion community, so don't let their deflection deter you.
Hmm, loads in a webapp for me (no download). Firefox on Android.
You know that's what links on the web do, right? If you see a link to a cat pic, it's auto-downloading that pic when you click it.
If you want to say "This link is a pdf that autodownloads", you can say "PDF on the web"; it's faster, just as sound a phrase, and just as complete.
What you could have easily said was nothing.
Add another edgy loser to the block list.
Letting the kids be who they are, and letting them know that certain minorities exist is not grooming them.
However, acting like parents own their kids is.
Bigots really want to pretend that some teenager discovering that they are gay or trans is a result of some massive conspiracy rather than, you know, they just being gay or trans.
They call it "grooming" when LGBT people simple exist in society where people might notice them, and they want to make such a scandal that people don't even think what is the opposite of that which they want.
It's so vile. I detest that so many people are so willingly and freely hateful of complete and utter strangers, over things that don't effect anyone else.
This is slowly turning into everything history lessons warned me of, and it's insane. We are in 2023, we have the damned WORLD at our fingertips, yet people happily choose blind hatred, even if it means they also get harmed in the process themselves.
I hate all of this. I used to believe that way more people were actually caring and intelligent, but it seems like many are very eager to prove that as wrong as possible.
If you ask me, it's fuckin' ironic that "facts over feelings" is a point that they try to make. Science supports transitioning, so that doesn't even make sense. Many animals change their full bio sex in nature. It really shouldn't be rocket science that humans change genders. It's not a new thing either, historically speaking. We've been transitioning for a pretty long time, throughout many years and cultures.
Also teens are learning who it is they are and are going to try out all kinds of identities and activities til they find ones that fit. For some that includes their sexuality. No one is forcing kids to try being gay or trans, just not judging them for the curiosity. Some of those kids will find out that they are more comfortable that way, some will find out it is not really for them. C'est la vie.
Seek medical help I think you're having a stroke with that comment.
Unless there is a missing /s there somewhere.
Oh cool someone else who has no idea what they're talking about! I'm in the education industry and work closely with 7 schools in my local district. No one is grooming or indoctrinating children, those are conservative buzz words. They're simply teaching the kids that if they don't feel like they fit the gender norms that it's okay.
Only the rabid right would say batshit crazy crap like that.
Where’s the block button on this thing…
Which App? on Jeroba, 3 dot menu at the bottom right of the post > Block [user]
And this right here is hate speech. The same comments were being done by the protestors