LGBTQIA+ UNDER ATTACK at Target (and Matt Walsh’s INSANELY CREEPY and HYPOCRITICAL Baby Plush)

Target pulls some LGBTQ+ Pride products from shelves due to violent threats towards staff

This is terrorism, causing fear and harm for a political gain.  This is 1930s German brownshirts attacking Jewish people and establishments along with anyone who did not support Hitlers goals / bigotry.  These people attacking trans people / drag queens and business supporters of the LGBTQ+ are the US fundamentalist Christian maga conservative Nazi gang thugs Taliban pushing their bigotry on to the entire public that doesn’t agree with them.   I keep asking who will be targeted next?   The Texas Chaplin bill that pushes unqualified religious leaders in public school as councilors to the children specifies Christian leaders, and they wouldn’t allow amendments to let other religions be included.  So tell me who the group to be targeted when they force3 the LGBTQ+ into hiding and out of public view?   Hugs 

 
Target has released its Pride Month 2023 collection and the internet has some thoughts.

US retailer Target has pulled some of its LGBTQ+ Pride collection and displays from stores across the country after members of staff faced threats of violence.

 

The company confirmed on Tuesday (22 May) that it will be making changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise ahead of Pride month, which starts next week.

One of the changes includes moving the Pride collection to the back of some of its shops in southern states, following a backlash from shoppers. 

The New York Post quoted a Target source as saying there were “emergency” meetings on Friday (19 May) to address right-wing customers’ outrage over the collections.

The 15-minute meeting included advice about keeping sales staff safe and what Pride-related items and signage to remove.

“We call our customers ‘guests,’ there is outrage on their part. This year it is just exponentially more than any other year,” the source said.

The company is “terrified of a Bud Light situation”, the insider added. 

“Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” Target said in a statement.

“Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the centre of the most significant confrontational behaviour.”

Daily Beast journalist Matt Young shared an extract of the Target statement on Twitter.

Target has not yet confirmed which specific items or brands will be removed, but it is thought that its “tuck-friendly” swimsuits will no longer be on display.

The swimsuit prompted right-wing Americans to call for a boycott of the store, which sells thousands of products for heterosexual, cisgender people. Republican lawmaker Lauren Boebert was among those fuelling the outrage on social media.

Target chief executive Brian Cornell recently defended the retailer’s commitment to inclusion and LGBTQ+ representation while speaking to Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast.

“It’s helping us drive sales, it’s building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests, and those are just the right things for our business today,” he said.

He told the Associated Press that the swimsuits, which provide wearers with extra crotch coverage, are only available in adult sizes. 

Despite Target’s insistence that its change in policy is to protect staff, it has faced criticism online, with people accusing the retailer of “caving in” to right-wing threats.

Some have said that its stance puts LGBTQ+ people in more danger.

One person tweeted: “These people were making death and bomb threats against children’s hospitals, schools and LGBTQ venues.

“Every single time, it got the results they wanted. Why would they stop with Target? Anti-LGBTQ terrorism is continuing to work as intended.”

Bud Light faced a customer boycott over its collaboration with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney last month.

In a bid to regain its formerly loyal customer base, its parent company, Anheuser-Busch, is now said to said to be temporarily redesigning some of its packaging in camouflage print.

PinkNews has contacted Target for comment.

 

Not your church and some other things I wish to share

AyJayDee2 21 hours ago edited
These aren’t conservatives – they’re theocratic fascist arsonists trying to burn the country down so they can rebuild it as a white Christian supremacist authoritarian regime.
 It explicitly encourages local law officers such as the sheriff and county prosecutor to not enforce state and federal laws they deem unconstitutional.

Posthumously NZArtist2 days ago edited

Yes. He’s saying that straight white men are entitled to one hundred percent of everything.

Nic Peterson2 days ago

Who wakes up and decides to call businesses that operate 2000 miles away and threaten them with violence? Well a very devout christian might do something like that. Tim McVeigh was a VERY DEVOUT christian.

Decent, ordinary Americans don’t terrorize retail establishments.

Yves R. Mektin Bruno2 days ago

It’s all part of her master plan to make the Palin family seem functional in comparison. Three-dimensional chess.

Brian Curtis2 days ago

Wait for it: soon domestic terrorists and their media apologists will start calling them ‘freedom fighters.’

Mar-A-Lago Staff Moved Docs Ahead Of FBI Arrival

juanjo54 Eliot2 days ago

It is also a second charge for obstruction. Then there is the report he was showing the documents to people not authorized to see them. Remember Jack Teixeira, the kid who was arrested a few weeks ago for posting documents online? Unauthorized retention and dissemination of classified material is what Jackie-boy is facing and if these media reports are accurate then Trump is going to be facing them soon as well.

Kirk Calls On Cult To Use “Force” And Destroy Target: “I Want Skull And Bones, Pain, And Bankruptcy” [VIDEO]

watchthewingnuts2 days ago

GOP wingnut logic in a nutshell: Cancel Culture is only bad when its used against right wing interests.

Uncle Mark’s IML Cosplaying watchthewingnuts2 days ago

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April Smith2 days ago edited

You pulling items and moving them to the back into the closet (sorry, store) didn’t placate the haters.

You should have kept things in place up in the front of the store where security could deal with any problems.

Don’t negotiate or cave in to bullies.

crewman2 days ago

“We need to go after Target in a very serious way.”
This from the guy who has complained umpteen million times about how horrible cancel culture is. It turns out, like everything else, that was a lie. He just can’t stand when he (or the white christian nationalists) don’t have power in any aspect of life.

watchthewingnuts crewman2 days ago

It is always, ALWAYS about power. Never about the children, never about god/jeebus/Christianity… it is ALWAYS about more power for them… and no rights for anyone else they deem as “other.” That is the only endgame for these people.

licuado de platano2 days ago

sounds like terrorism to me

billbear1961 licuado de platano2 days ago

Because it IS!

Imagine what the MEDIA would have to say if the LEFT were calling for ANY kind of violence! THIS, because it comes from the RIGHT, gets a PASS from the corporate sellout FRAUDS! (Electoral-Vote recently said Republicans inclined to speak out are afraid to speak out against Trump because they KNOW it will place their LIVES at risk, theirs and their children’s, that THAT is the purpose of the violent rhetoric, the stochastic terrorism, coming from Trump and his followers, to silence any criticism from Republicans who are alarmed by the FASCISM that has taken control of their party! WHERE are the MEDIA, the “Guardians of Democracy,” to call out and DENOUNCE this fascist rhetoric, these fascist tactics which are an ASSAULT on the democracy it is their journalistic DUTY to DEFEND from just such attacks?! They do NOTHING to call it out–they have instead infamously NORMALIZED it, something they NEVER would have done if ANY Democrat had EVER called for his opponents to be “taught a lesson”! Imagine if OBAMA had EVER adopted such an attitude! The media would have exploded in a RAGE and demanded his resignation! But such rhetoric from the right gets a PASS–they are in no way held accountable!)

WHERE is the DOJ? Where is GARLAND, that goddamned WEAKLING? What a pathetic FARCE!

DmR licuado de platano2 days ago

Oh, the thing is, the Wingers have no problem using violence and threats of violence to get their ways. Since they do not have a majority on the social issues, that is one way they know to get what they want.

J.Martindale2 days ago edited

“I will not allow my kid to be corrupted by this trans agenda.” First, the only agenda I know of is that trans people want the right to live as a man or woman depending on their perceived gender identification. That has nothing to do with your children or you. And if you don’t want your children in Target, keep them home. Some people may want the merchandise they are selling, and it is none of your business whether Target sells it or not. You right wingers are just busybodies with too fucking much interest in stuff that is none of your damned business. (He reminds me of Gladys Kravitz.)

Uncle Mark’s IML Cosplaying2 days ago edited

Couldn’t help, but notice that Walmart sells gay pride apparel as well, yet Target becomes the focus of their manufactured ire.

Then again, Target was among the large retailers that encouraged transgender customers to use the bathroom of their choice, several years ago.

mythictom2 days ago

Two things…

1/ stochastic terrorism?

2/ if Target had a spine, they should set their lawyers loose to bankrupt him.

weshlovrcm2 days ago

Target is already caving. Fascism is winning, folks, I’m sorry to say. And no one is doing a thing to stop it.

House Democrats offered amendments to bar proselytizing or attempts to convert students from one religion to another; to require chaplains to receive consent from the parents of school children; and to make schools provide chaplains from any faith or denomination requested by students. All of those amendments failed. Rep. Cole Hefner, who authored the House version of the bill, said in debates that local school boards will be allowed to set requirements for chaplains.

As I reported on Monday, the bill is the work of a Texas evangelist who falsely testified to the Texas House that the chaplains will not be “working to convert people to religion.”
In fact, his organization has been open about their desire to proselytize to public school students.
Paul  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad3 days ago
require chaplains to receive consent from the parents of school children

That jumped out at me too. So their long-standing argument that parents should have a voice in their children’s education has been bullshit all along? Got it.

Target Pulls Some Pride Items After MAGA Violence

And so the Christian Taliban maga brownshirts win.  I have seen one of the videos of these extremists telling other shoppers that a rainbow shirt was from the devil and it was supporting child sex, question workers and other shoppers if they were Satanist or believed in god, talking of grooming kids, all this hyper anti-gay religious stuff.  That video is below in the comments.  These people have learned to be violent, like the maga that went into stores and threw beer out of the shelves and coolers.  Instead of standing up to these domestic terrorist, these chain stores are giving in to them.   Shades of 1930s Germany.  Hugs

The Associated Press reports:

Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. “Since introducing this year’s collection, we’ve experienced threats impacting our team members’ sense of safety and well-being while at work,” Target said in a statement Tuesday.

”Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.” Target confirmed that it has moved its Pride merchandise from the front of the stores to the back in some Southern stores after confrontations and backlash from shoppers in those areas.

Target’s Pride month collection has also been the subject of several misleading videos in recent weeks, with social media users falsely claiming the retailer is selling “tuck-friendly” bathing suits designed for kids or in kids’ sizes.

Read the full article.

 

I get so sick and tired of this shit! I understand Target wanting to protect its employees but caving in to terrorist demands only emboldens these cretans.
“Don’t have a Pride parade or we’ll kill ya!”
Result: Pride parade canceled.
“Don’t have Drag Queen story hour or we’ll kill ya!”
Result: Drag Queen story hour canceled.
“Don’t sell gay merchandise or we’ll kill ya!”
Result: Gay merch banned.
Seriously, when does this end? What’s next? “Don’t be gay in public or we’ll kill ya!” So all gay people have to act straight? This is nonsense! I am tired of Bible thumping bigots trying to rule our lives.

 

Great idea. It is a known fact that if you do what terrorists want, they will go away and never bother you again.

On the other hand, this Target employee is not backing down.

“Do you support the satanic pride agenda?”

“Mmhmm, both. Satan and Pride.”

This video is a year old. Not complaining, mind you because it shows the mindset of the Christian nut jobs who go around preaching hate. But it is not a recent event from this year.

That said there has been some hateful woman going around filming herself in Target screaming about LGBT merchandise. I saw one of her videos yesterday, can’t remember if it was here or on Reddit.

What a little weenie with his little agenda. What an wrongly righteous creep. I hope I don’t run into these kind of people anywhere. What idiocy for Christian grooming and Christian nationalist terrorism.

Hiding the Pride merchandise in the back of the store sure doesn’t scream PRIDE to me.

Yes and moving the merchandise will not placate the extremists. They won’t be satisfied until it’s been completely removed.

They are letting the domestic terrorists win.

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If the store staff was being threatened, call the police and have the terrorist arrested! If the local yocals, county clowns, or staties won’t prosecute, call the FBI. After all, they are the ones who are supposed to deal with domestic terrorism. Turn over the store security videos to the FBI and make examples of a few NAZIs.

Most Target stores I’ve been to have security already. They are usually up by the front doors (not far from where Pride items are/were). Now that Target is hiding the Pride merchandise it will be more vulnerable to vandalism.

Target might as well get rid of all the Pride stuff. They’re shown they really don’t have our backs like they’ve pretended to.

It is definitely different this year in a few of the Tucson stores. Not only is there NOT as much stuff, it is hidden in the very back of the store. The display is inconspicuous. There is only but a few items of clothing, translucent cups, plates, and … yep, that’s about it. A couple of years ago, in that same store, there were three (maybe FOUR!) displays, including one dedicated to music by itself. What in the hell is wrong with Target? As you mentioned, they are capitulating to the whims of the bigots. Something has to change…for the better.

Correction: What the hell is wrong with SOCIETY that Target has to actually protect its employees and its customers from this shit? I wholeheartedly agree with posters (in different threads) here that Target still deserves our support. Unlike other corporate chains, Target has been — and hopefully, will continue to be — supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. I sure as hell would not expect to even find any pride merchandise in, say, Hobby Lobby to start with. So, the mere fact that Target employees have to HIDE merchandise in the first place speaks volumes about the supportive environment of the store and the corporation.

 

 

This and assaults / death is going to happen because of bathroom bills and republican ginned up hate

Some things I wanted to share from the last four days

Uncle Mark3 days ago

It ALWAYS starts out with the Trojan Horse of protecting the young children, before quickly expanding to including all teens/minors, and then the banishing of LGBTQ adults from sight…”for the sake of the children,” and not for the bigoted adults hiding behind them.

Halou3 days ago edited

bans the “instruction, guidance, activities, or programming regarding sexual orientation or gender identity to students enrolled in prekindergarten through 12th grade

Question 1. Are you married?
Question 2. How do you explain that to an 18 year old without alluding to the fact that you’re a man and the person to which you are married is not?

Question 3. Why is that an exception to your rule?

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Ban and pushcoming for your freedomshandmaiden of fascismwoke means

Flora DeMann rednekokie4 days ago

I’ve been dubious of the word “fascism” being thrown around. But it’s the right word. After reading How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley, I am convinced that DeSantis is in fact a fascist.

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“What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.”

Florida School: Teacher’s Pro-Confederacy Video Is OK

If you think racism is dead and doesn’t exist in Florida, you are wrong.  It is being openly taught in Florida schools.   A teacher is facing discipline and may lose her job because she showed a Disney animated movie that included a gay 16-year-old boy.  That movie had no gay sex and very little talk about the boy’s feelings.   But a teacher promoting:   “Every year our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence, he said”, has been found to have done nothing wrong.   Despite many parents complaining.  Many upset parents.    One parent complaint to get a teacher fired for showing just the existence of an openly gay character in a children’s movie, but many parents complaining and they are ignored when a teacher promotes racism.  The entire reason the South started the civil war was they demanded to not only be allowed to keep humans as property, as slaves, but they wanted to expand that country wide.   It was entirely about slavery, their own leaders wrote that themselves.  Think if you are a person of color in that school, a black student maybe, think how that hits knowing a teacher is praising the very people who fought to keep you not only without rights but as their personal property to do with as they wish.  Do you think black students can get fair grades, fair treatment, fair discipline compared to the white kids?   Just as that teacher in Illinois said when she faced criticism for letting students read a book about coming out, she claimed that she figured she had gay students in her classes.   I bet there are kids of color in the classrooms when this racist teacher showed that movie.  Btw, Collier County is the next one below the one I live in.    Hugs

The Daily Beast reports:

A Florida middle-school teacher who had his class watch a self-made, pro-Confederacy video for Confederate History Month has filed a complaint against his school district for launching an investigation into his questionable teaching practices. Collier County Public Schools looked into a video that Manatee Middle School social studies teacher Jonathan Papanikolaou had his students watch during morning announcements on April 12.

Collier County Public Schools told The Daily Beast that its employee review committee met on April 27 and May 11, and went through a 90-page report about Papanikolaou’s Confederacy lesson. Ultimately the committee found that the lesson didn’t go against the school’s curriculum and there was “no just cause for discipline” despite outrage from parents and community members.

From my report posted last month:

The school district wouldn’t identify the teacher but said they are investigating. “If you didn’t know, April is an officially celebrated month here in the State of Florida named Confederate History Month,” the teacher said in the video.

“Every year our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence,” he said.

So not only is the video no cause for discipline, the teacher is filing a complaint because it was even questioned. Collier County is on the southwest coast of Florida.

 

 

“Every year our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Preserve SLAVERY.”

Notice how a single parent can stop a lesson about LBGT history but a formal complaint did not stop a white washed lesson about the Confederacy

 

So being pro racist, a-ok, mention the very existence of LGBTQ+ people not ok at all.

Or that Black people have worth and are an important part of our nation’s story. Or that there were people with rich history and cultures on this land thatE Europeans claimed they “discovered” and that these people still exist.

THIS!

 

“If you didn’t know, April is an officially celebrated month here in the State of Florida named Confederate History Month,”

 

If YOU didn’t know Confedatraitor, JUNE is an officially celebrated month NATIONWIDE named LGBTQ Pride Month!!! 🏳️‍🌈

So Black history lessons can’t be taught in public schools because White children are uncomfortable but parents complaining about pro-slavery lessons must suck it.

Boycotting Florida is something every Black person should do. It’s a completely racist state.

What about parental rights? What about protecting the children? What about grooming and indoctrination by pro-slavery advocates?

 

I would like to remind all the former Ohioans in Collier Country (which there are many), we fought for the Union, were part of the Underground Railroad and Ohio was the birthplace of Grant and Sherman.

Cut this shit out.

Let’s START with the fact that retitling the damn thing (“what is known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence”) shows that you’ve got no grasp of the history behind slavery, therefore shouldn’t be pretending to “teach” it.

 

Look out for the privileged, whiny piece of shit standing beside DeSantis when the latter signs the Don’t Hurt Racists’ Feels act next month.

But showing a Disney film with a gay character will get you investigated.

If one goes back and looks at the various letters and published speeches of the politicians of the time, not to mention the CSA Constitution and the Acts of Secession passed by the different states, they did not try to hide their motivations. A few years ago I read a history of the lead-up to the Civil War and the effects it had on the rebellious states after it was over.

The sort version is that it was essentially 14,000 people in a few hundred families who caused the Civil War. They were the most wealthy families in the United States and up in the top ranks for the world for that matter. But all their money came from slavery – either slaves used to pick cotton or tobacco or breeding slaves as if they were cattle and selling them.

In the Deep South, they essentially ran the entire state. If they did not have a family member in the governor’s mansion or the state/federal legislature, they bought one. Because of their effect on the economy, they not only exploited the slaves they owned but they financially exploited the white population as well. The slave owners used slaves as skilled craftsmen in carpentry and other skilled trades, and this meant that free white craftsmen could not economically compete. This lowered wages for the free workers. There was little cash available for the development of an diverse economy since all the money was tied up in the plantations’ economy and affiliated businesses.

When the Missouri Compromise died and territories were free to choose if they wanted to be free or slave states, they Southern elite knew it was only a matter of time before they were history. Cotton was rough on the soil and after a certain amount of time the fields had to be left fallow for a number of years until they recovered. So. they had to expand or they would die economically.

So, it really didn’t matter what Lincoln said or even if he was sincere in what he said. They knew that there were going to lose everything unless they did something, so they did something. They killed close to a million human beings, destroyed most of the South economically and physically, cemented the budding Northern Capitalist elites firmly in place, and sat back to economically exploit the Southern white and black populations right up to present. It took just over 100 years for the Southern economy to reach the same level it held just prior to the first shots over Ft Sumner.

But, these morons are still teaching the same lies about the Noble Lost Cause. It seems like 163 years is long enough to lies about that treason.

I find the while “heritage not racism’ meme to be very stupid. one of my nephew’s has this sign on the wall of his outdoor kitchen at his river cabin in southeast Missouri. funny thing is, his great great grandfather rode his horse to St Louis to join the Union Army and was a very staunch Union man. sigh…

Yes indeed, nothing like watching a film that idolizes the slave owning confederacy! But hey, at least it’s not “woke!” I’m trying to think of the proper name for it. Oh yeah, “FASCIST!”

tell me again florida, who was rosa parks and why is she an important person in american history?

I assume the answer will be a troublemaker who illustrated the vital importance of Lawn Order to keep her kind in their proper place.

We had a civil war to preserve the Union, the Constitution, the rule of law and they’re celebrating the losers who attempted to overthrow all of that.

A friend of mine who was successfully able to flee the swampland of Louisiana told me growing up in her school, it was routinely referred to as “The War Against Northern Arrogance.”

But what if that makes some students uncomfortable?

Wrong color students.

 

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-confederacy-manatee-teacher-files-counter-complaint-against-school-district?ref=scroll

Pro-Confederacy Teacher Complains About School District’s Probe

The social studies teacher said that an investigation into his self-narrated, pro-Confederate video caused him “emotional turmoil.”

An image of the Confederate flag.

Reuters/Jason Miczek

 
 
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A Florida middle-school teacher who had his class watch a self-made, pro-Confederacy video for Confederate History Month has filed a complaint against his school district for launching an investigation into his questionable teaching practices.

Collier County Public Schools looked into a video that Manatee Middle School social studies teacher Jonathan Papanikolaou had his students watch during morning announcements on April 12, local outlet ABC 7 Southwest Florida reported.

“Every year, our state celebrates and memorializes that valiant, brave fight and the countless sacrifices by our men and women during that known as the Civil War, but may be more correctly titled the War To Prevent Southern Independence,” Papanikolaou reportedly narrated in the video.

In the lesson, Papanikolaou allegedly taught about “slaves and property rights, over taxation and a variety of violations of state’s right and sovereignty,” according to ABC 7.

 

Collier County Public Schools told The Daily Beast that its employee review committee met on April 27 and May 11, and went through a 90-page report about Papanikolaou’s Confederacy lesson. Ultimately the committee found that the lesson didn’t go against the school’s curriculum and there was “no just cause for discipline” despite outrage from parents and community members.

A district spokesperson also told The Daily Beast that morning announcements had been evaluated, and were previewed before they were presented to students.

“The Manatee Middle School principal met with his staff to openly discuss the issues, and he continues to maintain open lines of communication for students, staff, and parents on this and any other school-related issue,” the spokesperson said.

But one Manatee parent, Christina Cooper, told ABC7, “I think there’s just cause for some type of disciplinary action.”

What’s more, Papanikolaou then filed a complaint against the review committee, claiming the investigation caused a “hostile work environment” because colleagues were asking why he’s racist.

In the complaint, Papanikolaou said the ordeal “has caused [him] grief and awkwardness in classroom and school exchanges” and that some students were no longer comfortable taking his class.

“This situation has created emotional turmoil for myself,” he said.

Collier County Public Schools declined to provide the entire contents of Papanikolaou’s video to The Daily Beast or comment on any requests the teacher made in his complaint against the district.

Liberal Redneck – Conservative Cancel Culture Outta Control

The right continues on their cancel culture crusade this week as two more companies have incurred their wrath. Why are they so sensitive?

Ben Shapiro HORRIFIED by Nonbinary Childrens Cartoon Character (Transformer uses THEY/THEM Pronouns)

These people can deny it all they want but kids know both gender and sexuality at a very young age.   Kids understand gender from the time they learn of boy or girl, Mr or Mrs / Miss.   Gender is not a strange thing in human society, it is ingrained in everything we humans do.   Simply think how kids are taught which bathroom to use in public, little kids don’t care until they are forced by adults to use the “proper gendered” bathroom, which forces them to identify their own gender.    As for sexuality, kids also understand who they are attracted to long before they are given words to understand it.   The idea that kids are somehow clueless to their attraction as they grow is not what medical science or personal experience of people asked shows.  Ask yourself when you knew you were attracted to … and you will say well forever.  When did you know you were a boy / girl, well I just knew.  Well so do trans kids.  Also gay / lesbian kids know who they get tingles and attractions to.    Plus the idea that kids are not sensual in knowing what feels good with their own bodies is just stupid.  How often do you hear of little kids being told they shouldn’t touch themselves in public, because even as little kids it feels good and they don’t know to not do what feels good in front of other people.    The problem is some people want to keep society in the 1950s strict gender roles when society and the public has moved beyond that.  We have evolved, and that terrifies those that have invested interests in keeping the country in the past.  Why because in the past they were in charge, their ideas were taken for granted as being the only correct ideas, their god was not really questioned in society.   Think of the history of child abuse in churches, in the time frame these people want you / the country to return to the church leaders doing the abusing were not questioned and kids not believed.   Because of the automatic authority of the church.   That is what these people want to force us all to return too.  

Then we get to the second part of the video.   The videos of the Texas Guard putting up razor wire in front of people seeking asylum and trying to enter the country.   My gods if you think that this huge country couldn’t find a more humane way to handle people fleeing death and destruction to work for a better life I have to ask what is wrong with you.   We have states in this country that are so underpopulated they can not afford to provide for themselves without federal wealth sharing.   This country is huge and needs more people willing to be in it supporting all the infrastructure.    That is a known fact.   Ask what would happen if you let these people come in and establish lives working and paying taxes while being part of the communities they live in?    The only reason this push to keep people out at the southern border is completely racism.   The white ones convinced that the brown ones are going to take over if they are let in the country, that somehow the white ones will lose all the assumed authority and power they once had.  Well guess what, it has already happened and will keep happening.  If you are one of those people, the tipping point was reached long ago, and yes the white majority rule is pretty much over and will be soon.   The thing is that is not such a scare thing as these white supremacist want to make it.  The only difference is whites that don’t want other races will have to accept them, everyone will be equal.   That is all, everyone regardless of race will be equal.   Everyone’s traditions and celebrations will be give equal time.  See the world won’t stop, the destruction won’t happen, just equality and expanded awareness for everyone.   Now to the video.    Hugs