A bill making some drag shows illegal in the state of Tennessee is bringing extremist groups out of the shadows: one hung a swastika banner on a Nashville overpass today. rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

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@RollingStone Y'know, the fact that the worst people in the world think something is bad is not in any sense evidence that it isn't, y'know, bad.

@evilmicrowizard @RollingStone

Well, let's go for some trite, popular signifiers:

Hitler was a vegetarian. Hitler was evil. True or false: "vegetarianism is evil."

@pieist @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone The headline from Rolling Stone was actually just stating a fact - that this bill has emboldened Nazi supporters.

@pieist @RollingStone But I want an explanation about this particular occurrence and your response to it. Though there might be some strained similarities, drag isn't veganism...?

@evilmicrowizard @RollingStone
I want a pie that can make me run a four minute mile. Would that we all had what we want.

@pieist @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone The drag ban is bad for loads of other reasons. Why should there be a law criminalizing ppl wearing clothing outside of strict gender norms? The law threatens trans ppl, ppl in cosplay, theater, costumes for Renn Faire, Halloween. It's ludicrous overreach and violates freedom of expression.

@caffeneko @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone
Can't argue with that.

Still can't get past the whole "need to present my sexual expression to prepubescent children in an apparently innocuous setting" thing. Or the startling number of child sex offenders involved. Or the whole "hanging a dildo in front of my crotch while I gyrate for children in a public library" thing.

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Which I'm sure you'll insist was totally unrepresentative and an isolated event unrelated to anything else.

@pieist @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone

Didn't realize laws in Tennessee extended clear to England.

Please show me proof of drag story hours in the US where the clothing is 'sexual.'

Your other accusations are unfounded, fear-mongering, baseless. Actual sex offenders in enormous numbers are in churches across the US and the churches do nothing to get rid of them instead they distract ppl by funding BS bans like these.

@caffeneko @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone

Where did I say Tennessee laws extended to England?
What accusations did I make?

You're disturbingly invested in this, to the point of making things up. Do you have a police record? Should you?

@caffeneko @pieist @RollingStone Distract AND stoke hate towards the already downtrodden and endangered...

@caffeneko @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone
But I agree that a drag ban is unprincipled. But they do need to exercise some discernment, look into the background of some of these folks and ask... why do they want to do this, why is their kink central to their desire to do this, and what is their established relationship to children?

If some actually pass that sort of scrutiny, hey, let 'em knock themselves out and read a book to kids without involving their penises. If they can.

@pieist @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone

This shows you know nothing about drag. They tuck penises away and dress under multiple layers of clothing and wigs and makeup. They display the same joy and colorful fun as someone in any other costume. They are performers and want to encourage creativity, literacy, empathy. It's a sick mind that thinks there's anything beyond that. Families that have attended these love the events.

@caffeneko @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone

Wow. You have personal knowledge of them "tucking penises away". Which contrasts interestingly with drag queen "story hour" performers doing dramatically the very opposite.

You seem disturbingly invested in this.

@pieist @caffeneko @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone

So... the monkey wasn't a drag queen.

joemygod.com/2023/03/lds-bisho
Third one this month.
87th since Nov. 1st.

You imply all the drag queens are sex offenders, can you produce 3 articles about a drag queen being arrested for molesting a child?

If children were molested at Denny's as often as they are in churches, every Denny's would be burned to the ground.
Why is it you're spending time imagining stuff & doing nothing abt actual child molesters?

@That_AC @pieist @caffeneko @RollingStone Looks like the drag queen misinformation and personal attacks guy blocked me. I guess that tells us all we need to know about his argument and sources. 😏

@evilmicrowizard @pieist @caffeneko @RollingStone

Meh.
I grow weary of them claiming they are doing it to protect the children from imagined bad things while ignoring real actual harm to kids.

But then these people also seem to think "woke education" is a greater threat than gun, drugs, sexual abuse in schools.

Its almost like they just want to have a cover for their personal hatred of those who are different.

@pieist @caffeneko @evilmicrowizard @RollingStone
With this kind of reasoning we don't need not only a ban on drag but a ban on normal men.
At least in Germany the CSAM from the CSAM cases I know of and there have been ~100 convictions where normal looking man, some even married to women.
We often talk about protecting children but from what? See a fake penis or actual harm?
I say this as a normal man and farther, ban me before you ban trans.

@evilmicrowizard @pieist @RollingStone

Rich people convinced bigots that trans people are today's great evil (even though theyve existed for all of human society) so the bigots vote against their own self interests and elect terrible people that will make the rich people richer.

Every right wing outrage of the day comes around to this. #GOPbigots #trans

@pieist @RollingStone For anyone starting this thread here, it appears he could not in fact explain himself. 😏

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