The "groomer" talk is just warmed-over 1970s homophobia returned, there's not much more to it. Nothing about it is particularly new.
https://t.co/Fq8bDHFYVq
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 5, 2022
Posted on 04/06/2022 5:40:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After months of asserting that Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law is actually a “Don’t Say Gay” law, liberals have decided they are really offended at the pushback they’ve received.
You see, instead of standing idly by as Republicans have been prone to do, many have responded by asking exactly why the left is so obsessed with teaching sexuality and ridiculous gender ideology to small children? As I said in a past piece, I don’t want to call those lying about the Parental Rights in Education law “groomers,” but what else am I supposed to think at this point?
(see LEAKED: Meeting of Disney Leadership Exposes Insanely Woke Agenda Targeted Directly at Children)
Do you know what I’ve never thought about doing? Injecting sexuality into children’s programming in order to reinforce my adult views on the topic. I’ve never thought about that because I’m not a groomer, and I don’t use that word lightly, but really, what else would you call this? “Adding queerness” into shows that small kids watch is the kind of activism that should shock and appall everyone. Children are not pawns to be used in the pushing of adult sexual ideology. Yet, Disney employees like Latoya Raveneau are consumed by the practice.
Remember, it is the left that has spent the last several months telling blatant lies about the bill, which never even mentions the word “gay” in it. It is the left who has accused Ron DeSantis of killing small children because a teacher can’t teach them about being pansexual. It is the left that has used cultural power to promote the sexualization of kids.
But saying those who propagate that kind of behavior are supporting “grooming” is a bridge too far? Apparently so, and the memo went out over the past week.
Question for people who are now calling their political opponents “groomers” or “pro-pedophile.”
What are your thoughts on this? https://t.co/0cuk8BNy1z
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 5, 2022
The "groomer" talk is just warmed-over 1970s homophobia returned, there's not much more to it. Nothing about it is particularly new.
https://t.co/Fq8bDHFYVq— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 5, 2022
The memo went out. https://t.co/Np3Rq8YhlJ
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 6, 2022
To say that I find such pearl-clutching rich is an understatement. Liberals have been calling Republicans literal Nazis for the last five years. They’ve claimed that Republicans are destroying democracy simply by winning elections. If anyone has raised the temperature regarding political rhetoric, it is the left.
Yet, now that the right has stumbled upon a very apt counter to the “Don’t Say Gay” smear, we are supposed to disengage because it’s “indecent and dangerous” to call the sexualization and indoctrination of children into harmful ideologies grooming? That’s just way too convenient, and it’s not a call most Republicans are going to heed.
Megan Basham put out a post Tuesday that perfectly encompasses my thoughts on the matter.
…so much truth in one word because it’s not nice or sounds “unhinged” seems like something someone who does not really want to see conservatives win this fight would say.
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) April 6, 2022
The right did not ask for this fight. Rather, we are finally engaging in a war of self-defense that has actually been raging for decades. And that’s what truly drives the left insane — they hate it when we fight back.
So no, we aren’t going to stop using the term groomer because it is not only highly effective in exposing their depravity, but it is accurate. Grooming does not just apply to the physical abuse of children, and teaching kindergarteners about sex and gender theory is grooming them into a particular ideology. And yes, though some are loath to hear it, it can lead to physical abuse as well.
In short, Republicans have learned to fight back, and that genie isn’t going back in the bottle, no matter how much it hurts the sensibilities of some, including the surrender caucus on the right.
Good. Keep calling them that.
or, Grooming American Youth
or, Groom Another Youth
or, ...... ??
They need to be called convicts. That means they’re in prison. That’s what they deserve.
Child Rapists too harsh?
Bless their hearts!
There’s a blindingly simple solution for all the snowflakes. If you want to sexualize your 5-year-old, have at it. No one is stopping you. Well, maybe DCF if snowflake jr. tries to act upon his new-found carnal knowledge. But why should you have the right to sexualize MY kid? Answer, you want to groom them.
The right has been losing at the word semantics game for too long. Time we step it up and hit them as hard as they’ve been hitting us. I’m sick and tired of being called a breeder, a Bible thumper ...a religious fanatic, a gun nut. They coin words .. .we can coin words.
Whatever makes them feel bad, guilty, embarrassed and ashamed is a good thing. And we need to do more of it.
Why do they want to do any of this? Pretend they’re another sex? Mutilate their genitals? Murder children in the womb. Ask everyone to call them by five different pronouns. It’s time we develop new trade names for all their ridiculous depravity.
“The “groomer” talk is just warmed-over 1970s homophobia returned,”
Wait a minute Frank Lunz. We were only discussing sexualizing kindergarten to 3rd grade age kids. Is that something you would associate with homosexuality?
FRANK LUNTZ: “Question for people who are now calling their political opponents “groomers” or “pro-pedophile.” What are your thoughts on this (the mis-reported Tennessee Law on marriage)?”
Mr. Luntz seems to be PERSONALLY upset with our side calling Groomers, well ‘Groomers’.
Why? Is he hiding something?
Either way, he is a HUGE PART of the reason that the GOP is so disconnected from its voting base. He says “Immigration is divisive”, “Social Issues are divisive”, etc. You’ll be attacked in the press (LOL). He then tells Republicans that they should instead on cutting the Corporate Tax Rate, and that’s it.
And what this freak calls for wouldn’t be a problem, except that the Republican elected officials and candidate BELIEVE HIM - and simply ignore the base as a small bunch of loud-mouths. Thankfully, we now have 2 people who stand up to him, Trump and DeSantis, with others in the wings slowly getting their nerve.
Get ready for California to pass a “Don’t Say Groomer” law.
They are groomers and all democrat party voters are to blame by allowing these groomers to hurt children.
They don’t like “convict,” either. I think it’s “incarcerated person,” now.
Keep calling them GROOMERS because that’s exactly what they are. No TEACHER should ever speak to a kindergarten through HS senior about sex, sexual orientation or ANYTHING related. They need to stay in their lane. Period. These are not friends, family or otherwise. They’re strangers at best. If they insist, they are GROOMERS. PERIOD
Epic!
And add New York, Oregon and Washington state to the mix as well.
Groomers it is.
On a very serious note, I was unfortunately a sexually abused child. (Lots of therapy and I can talk about it now). And it started by “talking to me” about sex. Showing pictures. In fact, it was usually always worked into a conversation somehow. Talking about it is how they start.
I can attest to this very personally. This whole issue just makes me LIVID and sick to my stomach.
I think it’s time to tell these perverted lefties to stop obsessing with what’s inside our children’s pants. There is something seriously wrong with them.
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