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On April 21 2023 21:06 BlackJack wrote:


People should also be allowed to object if any tax dollars are going to fund religious themed story hours for children, don’t you agree?

Also I suspect the bigger objection to drag queen story hour has less to do with fearing the drag queen will throw down the book and start fondling all the children and more to do with being against exposing small children to different ideas about gender. At least that would be my concern as someone that believes there’s a social contagion aspect to the explosion in the youth that identify as nonbinary, trans or gender fluid.

On April 22 2023 23:24 Artisreal wrote:

Of course I agree.
Though the objection being what exactly in this case? It cant be exposing children to gender as there's fuck all outrage about blue pants and pink dresses - unless the boy wears the dress. Gender stereotypes are no problem but being out of the norm is? Fuck no thats no basis for objection.
There is no evidence that anything harmful is taking place.
Should public policy follow data or feelings?

On April 23 2023 11:50 JimmiC wrote:
Also, the point is being missed. It is that the people making all the noise do not "care about the children" if they did they would go after the already proven ones. It is a justification that lets thrm pretend they are not hateful. Its about hiding their intent by changing the conversation to something they think they feel they can argue.

On April 23 2023 21:56 Ryzel wrote:
The secret to why conservatives throw a hissy fit about drag storytime and not Sunday school/beauty pageants lies in their name; conservative. I imagine overall they care less about the gay part (although I’m sure a bunch do), and more about the “changing what it means to be normal” part. In my life I’ve observed tolerance boiled down to three forms…

1. Complete intolerance: Even in your own private thoughts you despise the existence of a particular thing.

2. Personal tolerance: In your head you think “If someone is X/wants to be X in the privacy of their own home, that’s fine. I got no problems with that. Just keep it to yourself.”

3. Societal tolerance: Accept the normalization of X into everyday society and allow it to become a part of “how things are”.

It took the civil rights movement from the ‘60’s onwards to get most conservatives from 1 to 2 on a lot of things, and to this day when you ask them to define “acceptance”/“not being racist”/etc. their definitions will align with 2. They think that’s enough, all that needs to happen. Of course it’s much easier to go from 1 to 2 than 2 to 3, and that’s what all the culture wars are about.

The good news is that we’ve figured out that over time we can make 3 happen by saying “screw you” to conservatives and make things the new normal by living it normally. The kids of these conservatives will be exposed to it more often in society, along with others who have accepted it as normal, and are way more likely than their predecessors to get to 3.

Haters gonna’ hate.

On April 23 2023 08:44 BlackJack wrote:


I suspect there’s a lot of things that we don’t consider appropriate for children that we don’t have data that quantifies harm. Is your position by default what you have offered here which is “show me evidence of emotional scarring to children, otherwise if you don’t like it you can leave the country.” If you want to spend the tax dollars on the drag queens shouldn’t you be the one to show the data of some benefit of having drag queens read to children?

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