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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought this wasn’t real but I looked it up. It’s real

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How does that work? You can’t insure yourself against perpetrating a crime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

AFAIK its some kind of insurance to prevent bankruptcy of finantial doom after having a legal case for child abuse.

Its one of the most fucked up distopian shit ever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is for churches, not specific ministers. Businesses are allowed to insure themselves against their employees committing crimes.

But the fact that abuse and molestation in the church is so common that this is something remotely entertained is absurd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

you can probably insure a church in case of civil suit, it probably has a really high premium

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That the mainstream is hand-wringing about drag queens reading books in libraries when holy fucking shit clergy and cops are real huge problems on a daily basis everywhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

? I mean what's the caption referring to? "Drag queens don't have to deal with sex abuse insurance?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. Are you not aware of the current situation where governments are trying to ban drag and trans people to "protect the kids" when in fact what kids demonstrably need protection from is priests and cops?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i missed the "MinistryInsured" thx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There are so many other words in that image though.... Jfc my guy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Drag queens are seen by the conservative right in the USA as a problem regarding sexual assault of children.

Meanwhile not only does a pastor/priest go down for molestation on like a weekly basis but it's so bad that churches actually have the ability to buy insurance to cover them selves when it turns out their pastor likes 'em young.

Drag shows don't need molestation insurance because they're not fucking kids like republicans love to pretend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And let's be clear: the biggest risk for abuse is when a trusted individual has private ongoing access to a vulnerable person, and thinks they can get away with it.

Random performers in public are not trusted, parents are present and supervising. Priests, summer camp councilors, cops, politicians, and other family members are "trusted."

Random performers do not have ongoing access: they hardly know anyone's first names let alone their last name or where they live. They have an anonymous audience. The people mentioned above can and do have ongoing access.

People in positions of power can often find ways to get away with crimes. A performer in public, especially in the LGBT+ community, knows they'd be the scapegoat of anything going wrong especially in this climate and would be foolish to try anything.

Worry about the documented and ongoing abuses from powerful people (like, say, everyone who's ever met Epstein) and maybe look into whoever's wearing the Chuck E Cheese outfit (can't see their face, don't trust em) before worrying about well known marginalized people doing fun outreach story time in public with parents present.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Priests, summer camp councilors, cops, politicians, and other family members are “trusted.”

Exactly. In most cases, the molestor of a child is their family member, teacher, priest or such. Not some guy in a dress and makeup reading fairytales.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The joke is OP’s assessment of what a meme is.

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