So Hawkeye, you made an attempt and that's something, but let's take another look:
NBC reporter Ben Collins said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that “Republican politicians” and the “internet’s far-right machine” were targeting transgender people, which resulted in Saturday’s shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO.
That's a lot of blank filling. I want to see Collins statement that actually said that republican politicians who targeted transgender people were the cause of the shooting.
So if you were a parent who didn't want your kindergartner going to drag queen hour (a domestic terrorist according to Merrick Garland's DOJ), you're the reason this (they/them) nonbinary Anderson Lee Aldrich (not even his given name at birth) killed 5 people at the gay bar.
I was a parent who didn't want my kindergartner going to drag queen hour and it was very easy to avoid given San Francisco was several hours away from me, for starters. I actually didn't need right-wing politicians spending millions of dollars on anti-gay ads to accomplish that.
I think we can look on the bright side here though, Hawkeye, given it's thanksgiving. Short of a right-wing police state that shovels tens of billions into arresting and crushing LGBQ out of existence, which is unlikely even if we end up with a right-wing police state, LGBQ is here to stay and will only become more socially acceptable over time. In the long game, your right-wing ads only help the process along. Kids in the south who aren't exposed yet will see those ads and they will now have something in their brain that they didn't have before. You know what they say, bad publicity is better than no publicity. And yes, you can turn this around and say that CNN and all the liberal rubbernecking over all things Trump feeds into Trump's power. What you are doing with these ads and your general media obsession over LGBQ's threat to Christian values, is exposing Christian children earlier in life to a whole lot of stuff they'd never otherwise hear about until later in life, if ever, and in the long run it will have a far, far greater net effect of establishing LGBQ equality than all of the drag queen hours put together. I just smile at the thought of your kids growing up nice and tolerant of people of all types and shrugging off their "crazy dad". See, Hawkeye, it used to be that "these sorts of things" just weren't talked about. Now, right-wingers obsessively talk about sexuality in order to rile themselves up for the next witch hunt. In the short term, it has its costs, but in the long term, it's getting a lot of things out in the open for children at a young age who then will figure it out as they get older.
You know when the first time I heard the AC/DC song "Hells Bells?" It was in seminary, from a video my teacher showed the class meant to expose the Satanism of rock music. It played clips from various songs and showed the lyrics. A couple I'd heard, but that one I hadn't; it was catchy and later I got a copy of just that song because I liked it so much. You laugh that off because you grew up with rock music and it's no big deal, your parents may have been young enough it wasn't a big deal for them either. But for my parents, you have no idea how big of a deal it was. My parents lost that battle just as you will lose this battle.
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