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Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by rayiner on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:25AM (#35629348)
Dude, if you want to "connect the dots" between the death penalty for actual child rape and anything to do with LGBTQ people, that says more about you than the voters in Florida. Apart from being utter paranoia, your position is complete political blackmail. You're using LGBTQ rights as political cover to force Florida parents to accept drag shows for children.
Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by ModernMech on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:45AM (#35629634)
It's not paranoid to listen to a guy dehumanize and label LGBTQ people as child abusers every chance he gets, and then wonder what he has in mind when he signs a law lowering the threshold for the death penalty the same week they approve the death penalty for child abusers.

Yeah sure, let's put child rapists to death, who could disagree with that? Until all of a sudden what you do in your private or with your friends or with your family is considered "child abuse". Until your lifestyle is considered "child abuse". Until your existence is considered "child abuse". The way fascists work your religion will be considered "child abuse" eventually. You've heard of the 9 most terrifying words, well the 4 most terrifying words in English are "think of the children!" There's no limit to the atrocities people will commit in the name of God and in the name of protecting children.

Do you ever wonder how a society can go from civil to erecting industrial scale human-death factories. It's little steps like these, and people rationalizing them along the way. We can make our children safe from rape and abuse without putting anyone to death. 0 people have to be put to death to keep children safe. And yet, here we are, the state is making it easier to put human beings to death as a matter of law. There should be no higher red flag raised than that.

Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by fknorangesite on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:46AM (#35629653)
The American right has spent the last couple of years intentionally and systematicallly conflating LGBTQ people with child sexual assault by starting to call them "groomers". That's who's doing this dot-connecting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_grooming_conspiracy_theor...

Surely you've noticed?

> drag shows for children.

God forbid someone in a dress read a storybook. Try not to engage in this ridiculous moral panic.

Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:58AM (#35629800)
If parents don't want their kids attending drag shows it's pretty easy for them to simply not take their kids, but that's not what's happening.

What's happening is that those parents are making a fuss about what other parents are deciding to do.

Telling other kids and parents what to do is a consistent position. Like forced identity disclosures in schools. It isn't enough that they would like to get notified, but every kid who asks to be called something different has to be disclosed, or if they don't want their kid playing sports with a trans kid, they would rather kick out the trans kid out than make choices about their own participation.

Re:Why Some Researchers Think I’m Wrong About Social Media a... by freejazz on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:24PM (#35630117)
> your position is complete political blackmail

This is nonsense and you aren't seriously engaging in any conversation by typing crap like this

There are no state-mandated drag shows. Liberals do not have the power to compel you to attend drag shows or to take your children there. Full stop. Get a grip.