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Grimlyn posted...

Labour is absolutely riddled with outspoken transphobic bigots like Rosie Duffield who is completely drowning in nothing but flagrant anti-trans rhetoric and pushing the likes of party leader Kier Starmer who publicly argued for forcibly outing LGBT youths to abusive parents and has piled on to the beyond f***ing ridiculous cat identity hoax.

There's a lot of hoaxes going around. It's a ridiculous story designed to spark outrage at those too (excuse me for saying it) are too stupid to know it's not true. My former school district banned asking for pronouns because some parent called in saying their child was being bullied being asked for their pronouns. Now I'm willing to bet one of two things happened: #1. The parent made the story up. Probably at the urging of people like Matt Walsh OR #2. The supervisor made the story up at the urging of people like Matt Walsh. And they did this during a time when teacher retention was (and remains) low because they refuse to give teachers raises. I'm so glad that I got out, but I still worry for the students left behind who I can't stand up for anymore. Even the Superintendent called them out on it. (And some members of the community as well). It was just plain ridiculous.

And that's the thing: All these made up stories are easy for people to believe because they want to believe it. It's easier that way to hate people they don't know. It gives them windmills to tilt at. Only the windmills are vulnerable children they're knocking over in their path for 'justice'.

Politicians have spread the harmful rhetoric of the 'litter box' story, without ever verifying it. Imagine if Democrats made up a story about Florida Schools requiring students to pledge an oath to Hitler. And then everyone decided to believe it because hey, it sounds like something the right would do!