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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 05:58 PM Feb 2022

What is WRONG with these people? Can someone tell them it is 2022?




BREAKING: The sponsor of the "Don't Say Gay" bill in the Florida House,
@josephbharding
, just introduced an amendment that would REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO OUT LGBTQ STUDENTS even if the school believes THE DISCLOSURE WILL RESULT IN "ABUSE, ABANDONMENT, OR NEGLECT"


If young LGBTQI people do not already have a storm of horror thrown at them by society it they grow up in the wrong red place...
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What is WRONG with these people? Can someone tell them it is 2022? (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2022 OP
so freakin toxic RANDYWILDMAN Feb 2022 #1
Yeah, the cruelty is the point. It has nothing to do with education, Biophilic Feb 2022 #2
cruelty and attracting support from Trump voters Demovictory9 Feb 2022 #32
The cruelty is the point. Especially if they find a vulnerable minority Walleye Feb 2022 #3
It's not just LGBTQ kids that are going to suffer from this. GoCubsGo Feb 2022 #4
It helps to be very clear when messaging certain persons and groups. Tell them abqtommy Feb 2022 #5
Nothing says protect the children vercetti2021 Feb 2022 #6
What vile people. brer cat Feb 2022 #7
These people Rebl2 Feb 2022 #8
This is a disaster waiting to happen Deuxcents Feb 2022 #9
The only way for the evangelical's kids NOT to be outed Runningdawg Feb 2022 #10
Pretty sure that's NOT what it actually says there, Judd Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2022 #11
I read it the way you did leftieNanner Feb 2022 #14
Then we're in consensus ma'am :) (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2022 #16
I think the schools have 6 weeks to decide crud Feb 2022 #22
And what if the educators support this cruelty? AllyCat Feb 2022 #28
It's so terrible leftieNanner Feb 2022 #29
What are you seeing there that I am not? Sympthsical Feb 2022 #23
My take is that it actually only says a plan must be developed ... Hugh_Lebowski Feb 2022 #31
There are not even enough words to describe how evil this is! FM123 Feb 2022 #12
What about kids getting kicked out who's parents are divorced? multigraincracker Feb 2022 #13
Floriduh. Governor DeSatan. SergeStorms Feb 2022 #15
Cruelty by GOP has no end. They are the party of Hate and abuse. Ford_Prefect Feb 2022 #17
Corporate donors Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #18
They want to kill everyone who is not like them. Remember Nazi "racial purity?" CaptainTruth Feb 2022 #19
This is a part of a larger overall recruiting effort by the right using their 'lab' in Florida. Scalded Nun Feb 2022 #20
Replace "even if" with "especially if" and it would be more accurate...nt Wounded Bear Feb 2022 #21
They won't stop 'till they've set up rape camps, throat slashing pens, boxcars, and gas chambers. NBachers Feb 2022 #24
These are sick human beings. ificandream Feb 2022 #25
The cruelty just seems to be never-ending. calimary Feb 2022 #26
It's time to make hateful bigots the minority IronLionZion Feb 2022 #27
Next -girls required to wear a scarlet "V" or "NoV" packman Feb 2022 #30
Yeah, that is who they are. This is why I am furious when I hear some who must be 'excited' Demsrule86 Feb 2022 #33
This is so incredibly horrifying. PittBlue Feb 2022 #34
goddamn these 'people' spanone Feb 2022 #35

Biophilic

(3,650 posts)
2. Yeah, the cruelty is the point. It has nothing to do with education,
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:08 PM
Feb 2022

it has everything to do with just simply being cruel, evil people.

Walleye

(31,017 posts)
3. The cruelty is the point. Especially if they find a vulnerable minority
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:09 PM
Feb 2022

The Republicans are turning into everything we were brought up not to be

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
4. It's not just LGBTQ kids that are going to suffer from this.
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:11 PM
Feb 2022

How many straight kids are going to be "outed" for malicious reasons? This kind of bullshit could easily turn into a modern day version of the Salem witch trials. It's fucking heinous.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
5. It helps to be very clear when messaging certain persons and groups. Tell them
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:15 PM
Feb 2022

"It's 2022 AD, not 2022 BC"!

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
6. Nothing says protect the children
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:16 PM
Feb 2022

Like making sure that LGBTQ kids are going to be killed or kill themselves

Deuxcents

(16,197 posts)
9. This is a disaster waiting to happen
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:39 PM
Feb 2022

I want to know where the lawyers are. Where are the parents, students, educators and decent people? I’m willing to do my part, too. Why so much hate?

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
10. The only way for the evangelical's kids NOT to be outed
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:41 PM
Feb 2022

is homeschool and to marry and breed very young. Oh wait....

leftieNanner

(15,084 posts)
14. I read it the way you did
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:44 PM
Feb 2022

Educators can withhold the info if it would result in abuse etc

Still a BS law.

leftieNanner

(15,084 posts)
29. It's so terrible
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:58 PM
Feb 2022

I don't even know how to respond to what you said. Because you are 100% correct. We all hope that teachers have their students' best interests at heart, but that is not always the case.

Sympthsical

(9,073 posts)
23. What are you seeing there that I am not?
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:27 PM
Feb 2022

Genuine question.

The text on the left says it can be withheld. But the text on the right appears to say that a disclosure must be made with the parent within six weeks.

If it is not saying there must be disclosure to the parent, then what is that six weeks referring to?

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
31. My take is that it actually only says a plan must be developed ...
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 03:23 AM
Feb 2022

Not actually saying that the information must be disclosed.

Seems like obvious grandstanding to me by this asshat RePuQ, but doesn't actually 'require' any disclosures.

If I have it wrong here, my apologies. Fortunately I doubt this BS amendment will actually be passed, and even if it is, it will be struck down.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
12. There are not even enough words to describe how evil this is!
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 06:59 PM
Feb 2022

I am so sad and scared for these kids.

Ford_Prefect

(7,895 posts)
17. Cruelty by GOP has no end. They are the party of Hate and abuse.
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:56 PM
Feb 2022

The lawsuits out of this amendment will be stunning.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
18. Corporate donors
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:57 PM
Feb 2022



Judd Legum
@JuddLegum
Corporate donors to @josephbharding
, who sponsored the "Don't Say Gay" bill and filed this amendment, since 2020:

@GetSpectrum

@Chevron

@comcast

@NBCUniversal

@CoxComm

@DukeEnergy

@Merck

@TMobile

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CaptainTruth

(6,589 posts)
19. They want to kill everyone who is not like them. Remember Nazi "racial purity?"
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:14 PM
Feb 2022

It's about more than just race, it's about race, sexual orientation, the poor (income), gender, religion, & more.

It's disgusting.

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)
20. This is a part of a larger overall recruiting effort by the right using their 'lab' in Florida.
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:18 PM
Feb 2022

You have 2 streams of applicants flowing:

1. Applicants for leadership positions to assist in formulating and finalizing policy.
2. Applicants that will actually carry out that policy. The 'worker' bees, the camp guards (think Auschwitz).

The right will continue pushing things further and further in efforts to see just where the line is that their followers will not cross. My guess is that they still have a lot of room to work with. This evil we see has not yet revealed its complete self.

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
27. It's time to make hateful bigots the minority
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 08:49 PM
Feb 2022

since if you add up all the various minority groups, there are probably more of us if we stuck together. I don't want to abuse bigots, I just want bigots to fear they might get treated the same way they treat minorities.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
30. Next -girls required to wear a scarlet "V" or "NoV"
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 09:02 PM
Feb 2022

as in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter - Seems like some Fascist European dictator branded people with this sort of thing a few decades back.

Demsrule86

(68,556 posts)
33. Yeah, that is who they are. This is why I am furious when I hear some who must be 'excited'
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 07:51 AM
Feb 2022

in order to vote...we are dealing with monsters here. Get out and vote or reap the consequences...and they will be awful.

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