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Bill banning Pride flag would make showing support for LGBTQ a ‘political viewpoint'
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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They won't ban the nazi flags that DeSantis' supporters carry.
I’m in canada. I have protesters outside of my work window every week protesting LGBT education in school. I put up a pride flag in my office window. They told me to take it down, citing our code of conduct but no specific clause.
The way they talked about it made it sound like I was expressing some kind of extreme political opinion that I should be having on my own time.
I was… surprised. And disappointed.
Hang a Trump flag and see what happens.
Wanna bet what they'd say to a nazi flag?
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Sexual orientation is not political in itself. Discrimination of it is.
Even if it was a, "political viewpoint" it couldn't be banned.
So Human rights are now a political viewpoint?!?
Always have been for republicans
Lol, I guess this moron doesn't understand what freedom of speech means. This bill won't make it. Just another GOP idiot wasting tax dollars. Even if it does become a law, there will be a lawsuit submitted within minutes of it being signed.
he knows the law, and he knows this'll end up in the trash on top of a pile of drag bans. it's about pushing the overton window, making the existence of people you don't like "political" to separate it from the "normal" people you do actually like, and showing out for your openly fascist terrorist party.
Honestly I'm not sure at this point. I think some of them are high on their own supply and legitimately think this'll work.
Then wouldn't being anti LGBT be political too?
As with all things regressive, their whole truck is to treat their own viewpoint as a default state, and then try to force everyone else to argue around it, which allows them to steer the discussion and eventual outcome.
When they're headed off on one avenue they pivot, but this is the consistent direction of almost all regressive talking points.
They're never consistent. If they were, they would demonize overtly sexual content regardless of who it was targeted at. But as it stands they're fine with books involving straight couples and places like Hooters still exist.
yeah. just like the cross or christmass decorations.
If supporting pride is a 'political viewpoint', being against it is one too
Gay existence is not an offense against anyone, it's the folks trying to ban gay existence that are playing offense. LGBTQ folk resisting their own erasure and persecution (and for their allies to support them) is a straightforward matter of human rights these cretins want to deny
Existence is futile
if there was a party called the "fuck america in the ass" party, there's a large segment of the population who wouldn't have any choice but to vote for it. And the thing that would most effectively fuck America in the ass would be a real health care system, real gun laws, and a real education.
Am I the only one wondering how often Borrero meets his gay lover?
Hate is a strong word that has lost a lot of meaning from misuse... I hate the willfully ignorant.