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Democrats' 'Don't Say Gay' Gaslighting Is Driving the Middle Class to Republicans
newsweek.com ^ | 4/7/22 | ADAM B. COLEMAN

Posted on 04/07/2022 12:34:14 PM PDT by cotton1706

At the peak of the Critical Race Theory controversy in June of 2021, I was invited to Waukesha, Wisconsin to give a speech in front of a crowd of what was supposed to be a few hundred people about my thoughts on race and CRT in schools. 600 people showed up—double the number the organizers had expected.

This wasn't a Trump rally filled with politically active people; on the contrary, it was a crowd of concerned parents who wanted to learn. They were your middle of the road, working-class Americans who had been witnessing their public-school systems actively work against them, and they wanted to understand why, and what to do about it.

While the event was centered around CRT and the hyper-racialization happening in the surrounding school districts, I quickly found out that their concerns were much bigger than race; they were worried about things they believed their children were being taught about gender and sexual orientation, too. And they were not wrong: Since then, these parents have showed me documentation of school assignments introducing gender ideology and what they see as inappropriate sexual content either given to or made available to their children.

These are normal, middle class parents with reasonable concerns. But to hear the liberal media tell it, upset parents showing up to school districts around the country were simply racists who were there because Fox News created a moral panic about something that isn't happening.

I can tell you first hand how wrong this was, how the media's elitist snobbery overshadowed their journalistic curiosity. Instead of speaking with upset parents, journalists chose to dismiss them again and again—and even worse, they chose to tell them that what they are seeing it isn't really there.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; disney; dontsaygay; elections; groomers; grooming; homosexualagenda
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Interesting article by a black author at Newsweek.
1 posted on 04/07/2022 12:34:14 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Newsweek hitting the early warning panic button for midterms.


2 posted on 04/07/2022 12:39:10 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: cotton1706
Democrats' 'Don't Say Gay' Gaslighting Is Driving the Middle Class idiots that have not been paying attention to the last 50 years of their vile, perversion, immorality, and purposely destructive policies, to Republicans. [Fixed it.]
3 posted on 04/07/2022 12:40:13 PM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: cotton1706

they dont defend it

they pretend it isnt happening

very telling


4 posted on 04/07/2022 12:42:14 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: cotton1706

“Instead of speaking with upset parents, journalists chose to dismiss them again and again—and even worse, they chose to tell them that what they are seeing it isn’t really there.”

Yep.

Textbook gaslighting.

Those who gaslight as naturally as they take their next breath eventually end up with frozen-in-time one-sided relationships.

When they finally get called out on their behavior, if that ever does happen, it’s all: Does . Not . Compute. ... Must . Begin . Raging...


5 posted on 04/07/2022 12:44:45 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: cotton1706

Might actually mean something if any of the elites ever had any second thoughts about what they’re doing. Thing is, the true believers pushing this crap would really be thinking that everyone else has the problem when the mob is about stone them to death for state sponsored grooming.


6 posted on 04/07/2022 12:46:02 PM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: cotton1706

And the entire deep state un-law-enforcement apparatus was set upon these same Parents!


7 posted on 04/07/2022 12:49:37 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: L,TOWM

Biden and company have F-15s and nukes, dontcha know....


8 posted on 04/07/2022 12:49:41 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: one guy in new jersey; joshua c; cotton1706
This guy is great ---


9 posted on 04/07/2022 12:50:54 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Remember when government paved the Roads and trained the Army – instead of lying and oppressing?)
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To: joshua c

“they pretend it isnt happening”

My liberal brother claims there is no such thing as antifa. I guess that’s what you do when your policies have become so radical that normal people can no longer buy into them.


10 posted on 04/07/2022 12:53:55 PM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: cotton1706

Libtard groomers should be locked in prison where they belong 🤪


11 posted on 04/07/2022 1:01:59 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: proust

12 posted on 04/07/2022 1:02:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Napoleon said: when your enemy is destroying itself, don’t interfere.


13 posted on 04/07/2022 1:13:11 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: cotton1706
"Normal, middle-class parents with reasonable concerns," sucking up that middle-class welfare.

If my parents knew, in the mid-70's, that public education was a disaster, enough to remove my sister and me for the rest of our education, surely by the 90's it would be apparent to anyone.

"Middle-class" means you can afford to remove your children. I know, I've done it, and I am nowhere near "Upper middle-class." Sure, I've driven the same car for 20 years, don't take yearly, or semi-yearly beach vacations, don't have a new bass boat. But many of my neighbors do, all while they inflict public education on their children.

But we're in a "good" school district, lol.

14 posted on 04/07/2022 1:17:30 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: cotton1706

Dont say Gay

...ok, are we back to faggots, again?


15 posted on 04/07/2022 1:19:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DarrellZero

You have to hand it to DeSantis and the Republicans in the Florida legislature. This is the most epic baiting operation of any in our lifetime.

This even outdoes Trump holding a press conference with Bill’s victims right before the Presidential debates in 2016.


16 posted on 04/07/2022 1:20:33 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Yeah, it’s simply a choice for most on the Middle Class and up, either protect their kids from these groomers or personal pleasures, and most choose the latter.


17 posted on 04/07/2022 1:23:55 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: 4Liberty

That is excellent. He used all the stupid idiotic pseudo intellectual gobbledegook phrases you hear in CRT and inserted “groomer” in place of racist, very sarcastic and brings the absolute wicked intent home. Except with “groomer” the accusation is actually true instead of the gaslighting CRT statements.


18 posted on 04/07/2022 2:05:32 PM PDT by boxlunch (10th Amendmt: nullification or Texit? PS We're in a hot war: globalists, CCP, media, Dems, RINOs)
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To: proust

mucho other fake stream enemedia outlets are hitting the panic button too, e.g.:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-registrations-surge-in-pennsylvania-in-warning-sign-for-democrats/ar-AAVXr5y


19 posted on 04/07/2022 2:10:16 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: 4Liberty

Ha — very good. Props to that guy for coming up with that angle.


20 posted on 04/07/2022 2:26:31 PM PDT by Yardstick
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