I saw this story. I tried to post it from the newspaper but it was impossible. Then I see that Joe My God posted it. So here it is.
The author of the bill is a fundamentalist Christian and graduated from a Christian college. On democrat claims the bill is written too vague by mistake and would basically keep young people from any website that even mentions gay couples / LGBTQ+ information. Dude that is not a mistake it is what they want to use the law for. The goal is to remove any and all positive mentions from anyone under 18 in society. The further goal is to wipe the LGBTQ+ from society totally. The people behind these bills hate that LGBTQ+ people are treated with respect, affection, and equality. They hate that kids accept and like their LGBTQ+ fellow students. The right wants those kids to hate and target any other kid who is different for harassment and harm. Beat and scare those kids straight and cis. Hugs. Scottie
The Kansas City Star reports:
A Kansas bill could consider a photo of a same-sex couple holding hands pornographic, some Democratic lawmakers warn. They say a bill aimed at barring children from accessing online material considered harmful to minors could carry serious unintended consequences for LGBTQ+ communities.
The bill would require users to verify they are over 18 years old to enter any website where more than 25% of its content is deemed “harmful to minors.” It aims to restrict children’s access to pornography. However, homosexuality is listed in the statute alongside overtly sexual acts as harmful to minors.
The statute has raised questions about whether the law could be applied to censor LGBTQ+ content in books, chat rooms, and non-explicit photographs of same-sex couples. Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, would be in charge of determining what is considered obscene.
Read the full article. The bill has the backing of the “Christ-centered” anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Kansas Family Voice. Its author is GOP Rep. Susan Humphries, whose bio notes that she is a graduate of Texas Christian University.
For these fascist Rethugs, the “consequences” of LGBTQ erasure and eventual genocide are in no way “unintended.”
Feature not a bug.
Theoretically, JMG could be banned in Kansas without an age verification feature.
I was thinking that as soon as I saw this.
Funny thing is that we didn’t have access to any websites yet still turned out gay.
I would have loved to have had access to a site like JMG when I was a kid, it would have been so nice to have a supportive community like we have here on JMG
The fascists will go as far as they possibly can, implementing countless anti-LGBTQ laws, before they are pushed back. We still have time before we hit the iceberg but it’s a huge ship to turn around.
OMG…how much happier a struggling, self-tormented teen Mark would have been if there was a site like this, with so many wonderful, intelligent, funny & awesome people to let me know I wasn’t alone and that I would be alright.
It’s hard enough being 2LBGTQIA+ today, with access to information and support, but without it would be a nightmare.
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Basically, there’s gonna have to be an underground railroad for all this stuff they want to call pornography, just like is being developed for medical care, actual religious freedom (meaning people discriminated against because they’re not overtly Christian,) and so on. Boyohboy, I hope we don’t have another Republican majority for a long damned time now, so the courts can get straightened out and start actually adjudicating according to actual law (yes, I used actual 2x there, on purpose because grrr.) Anytime Republicans get a chance they work fast and do a lot of damage. I wish people’d quit forgetting that every time Dems get some of the messes cleaned up!
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Hi Ali. The damage has already been done. Attacks on LGBTQ+ kids in schools are up massively because teachers and staff are afraid to intervene. Movie studios and TV stations, along with book writers are seeing what is happening and changing the content of what they show or write.
The goal is to go back to a time when LGBTQ+ kids were not accepted and were actively threatened with the support of teachers. I wrote of my own experience with that as an 8th grader. A much larger boy waited for me after a science class, the teacher would today be called a fundamentalist maga, the boy hit me as I went to walk out of the room, I had no chance to even defend my self. He hit me repeatedly while the teacher watched, re-breaking my nose and when I was on the floor kicking me several times. I was a small malnourished kid. After everyone left the teacher leaned over me and said … That is what you get for being a fagot and I hope he does it again.
I was not out, I was just struggling to deal with my abuse at home and my own issues, so I may have appeared different.
But that is the world these fundamentalist religious right wants to return to. There were no anti-bulling programs then or pro LGBTQ+ programs. Had there been maybe I might not been so viciously attacked.
If we want to save the kids, return to sanity, to fix the damage they did over the last 4 years, we have to vote the radical right out, we have to replace the Lib’s of TikTok as the monitors of society, we have to change the take over of school boards. And we must stop the anti-woke, anti-gay, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-anything past 1950 agenda of the right fundamentalist Christian wing of the Republican Party.
By the way, I learned today where the saying be woke came from. It was in warnings from black leaders to their people about where they needed to be extra watchful of attack or harm from hateful whites. That is what the right of today is making the boogieman.
Thank you for being a wonderful supporter. We need a lot more of you. Hugs. Scottie
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What you say about woke: I learned that years ago, and it was repeated when it came into wide use after the Ferguson MO murder. Next thing we know, it became a codeword not just for being personal-safety-aware, but for being aware of general social problems. It sort of got taken away from those who needed it ever since their ancestors were placed here. Ah, well. The joys of being a word nerd.
I understand we need to change the lawmaking structure into an actual law-abiding and rule of law-believing structure. It’s going to take a lot of time to undo what’s been done in the states over time. That’s why I think an Underground Railroad should get organized quickly, so that people who need help can get it safely from people who can safely offer it. Definitely we still need to vote.
I also still think it’d be a fine thing if we the people of the world went on a week-long general strike for a better society.
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Hi Ali. I love that you know about the history of woke. Do you like to write? If you want to write up the history of the word and what it has been used for I will post it with credit to you as the author. Like I do for Randy when he wants to make a post. Please think about it. I simply don’t know enough about the word and it’s history, but we must take it back from the right. They did to woke what they did to CRT, they made it into something crazy and almost a slur. Hugs. Scottie
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It would be even better to have a reader of color do that, to me. I do like to write, I think I am good at it right up until it’s time to publish. 😄 I’ll see what I can do this week, though.
I don’t think anybody’s getting it back from the right, though; the problem being that good people took the use of woke to mean aware of social justice issues before the right did. I watched it happen on Google +, way back. There were people of color telling each other to remain aware of their personal safety, and it wasn’t long before many friends of mine, not people of color but good people, started using it as an adjective for people who learn about, know, and work for progress in social justice issues, and referred to themselves as woke. And in my sight, the dilution of woke was off to the races!
By George, I may have a rough draft right there…
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Hi Ali. I love it. I look forward to what you may write. Hugs. Scottie
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