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Educators under fire: Teachers targeted by Libs of TikTok (www.lgbtqnation.com)

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[–] stembolts 73 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm glad she's doing this, but for reasons opposite her agenda.

I grew up long enough ago to remember the vitriolic hatred people had at even a suggestion that they might be gay. Kids would violently attack other kids to assert their straightness. And hearing the f-word was a regular occurrence. Literally any disagreement? F-word came out.

I could be wrong about this, I'm not a kid today, but I assume kids today don't understand how bad it was. I'm glad she's doing this because the majority of kids are fine with gay and queer lifestyles in a way that would have bent my tiny brain when I was a kid. So they might have a hard time imagining how strong the hate for those things once was.

This woman serves as a villain, to show kids that hate is still out there and that being an ally to the queer community matters. I think that her plan will eventually backfire, because the way to combat folks like her is to normalize being gay even more than it is now.

She will go down in history as a relic of hate. A woman to be pitied and nothing more.

How awful that she ruins peoples' lives as a game. What a horrid husk of a person.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I'd like that to be true, but my daughter (who is queer) told me that kids used the F-word all the time in her middle school. She didn't care that they knew she was into girls, but other kids kept their mouths shut about it and we had to take her out of that school due to the bullying anyway.

She also has a trans friend and he does everything from cut himself to smoke weed because he's so bullied and he's only 13. If I could, I'd take him out of that school and put him in online school with my daughter.

This is Indiana, which doesn't help, but I don't think it's at as a progressive a point with kids that it should be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Well put. I am also not young. I remember the hate and the use of that word as well. It really does weird me out at times that the queer community is as accepted as it has become. I hope it will one day be a normalized part of society. Many of my old friends and family would welcome that.

As for that woman you wrote of, I agree with you except for her being pitied. She deserves nothing other than to be remembered for her actions so they will hopefully not be allowed to happen again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was in middle school in around 2010 in ohio, the longer-F-bomb was definitely used (excessively) but more as a generic swear word than actually targeting gay people, as was just the word "gay". The south park episode wasn't entirely wrong about its meaning(? Or Intent?) changing over time.

I was kinda oblivious/stupid (more than typical of a middle school age boy) till high school so I might have been unaware, but even the asshole kids were kinda understanding/accepting of others

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Conservatism and education are natural enemies. It seems the more educated, intelligent and worldly a person is, the less likely they are to be a conservative.

It's almost like there is some direct correlation between being uneducated and being a conservative.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Conservatism is a populist anti-intellectual ideology that tells closed-mined and overconfident people that their intuition is better than stuffy expert book-learning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Their overlords want their constituents to remain uneducated and without critical thinking abilities. That's what allows them to be so easily manipulated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

There's a reason religion flourishes among conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Shitbag person stirs shit for good people yet again.