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Drag Queen Event For Kids Canceled After ‘Feedback From Citizens’
The Daily Caller ^ | 06.07.2022 | Reagan Reese

Posted on 06/08/2022 6:08:08 AM PDT by Macky Cracklins

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To: skeeter; Macky Cracklins

Sleeves said:

>>>The same goes for straight teachers who condone this crap. What is most disconcerting to me is the link between these activists and elements of the education establishment.<<<

Most teachers tend to be very liberal (as are their school administrators, union leaders, etc.). Conservative teachers don’t seem to have it quite as bad as conservative college professors, but it may getting there. And they, too, are subject to the Tyranny of Cool (see below).

Macky Cracklins said:

>>>Why would any parent take their kids to these events? In the photos of the story hours, the proudly beaming leftist parents are always in evidence.<<<

These lib parents are just trying to virtue signal? Show they are teaching their kids to be “tolerant and accepting”?

Remember how as a teen it was *so important* to be cool. Gotta be cool. You had to act cool, dress cool, talk cool. Teens were terrified of not being cool. (I call it the Tyranny of Cool.) For many adults that never really goes away.

The Tyranny of Cool is fairly benign when it only applies to fashion, slang, mannerisms, cars, possesions, etc. But when it comes to attitudes, opionions, behaviors, beliefs, actions, etc., it’s not so benign, because now it’s not just the Fashion Police involved, it’s the Thought Police. And they are part of a package deal.

Instead of reasoning out for themselves, the Tyrants of Cool (whoever “they” may be) provide readymade opinions, beliefs, etc., prescribe certain behaviors and proscribe others. Wanna be in the favored and admired “in crowd”? Then you gotta toe the line. “They” use pretty words like “acceptance” and “inclusion” and “tolerance” while labelling those who disagree with them ugly words like “bigots” and “racists” and “knuckledraggers”. It works. At least it works on too many people.

Sorry, but tolerating LGBTQ people, wishing them no harm, being polite to them etc., is one thing. Allowing them to frighten and confuse young children by injecting adult sexual issues into their innocent little worlds is another. And they have no innate interest or curiosity in such matters, anyway, other than wanting to know where babies come from.

Well, nowadays in some areas, the kid might ask “Daddy, why is that man wearing lipstick and and a dress?” To which “Gee, I don’t know, son — he looks pretty silly doesn’t he?” is a fine answer.


41 posted on 06/08/2022 8:32:23 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably <p>never participated in either.)
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To: Macky Cracklins

This Drag Queen show isn’t about Ashley and Brittany Force? That’s the only Drag Queens I want to see. 🤓


42 posted on 06/08/2022 9:20:32 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: Macky Cracklins

Feedback, or threats? Sponsors of perversity like that deserve to feel in physical danger.


43 posted on 06/08/2022 10:17:47 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: j.havenfarm

...societal norms

Norms = normal...a new “N” word because it triggers those who are NOT.


44 posted on 06/08/2022 10:20:21 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: EastTexasTraveler

Ugh. The OP was just an excerpt. There’s more:


Hundreds of comments were made on the Facebook post, with one parent commenting that “[t]his was THE Pride event I was planning to attend with my toddler. Very disappointed in the event organizers who were swayed by hateful, misguided comments,” WRAL.com reported.

Town council member Audra Killingsworth commented on Gilbert’s Facebook post claiming complaints about the event had escalated into violent threats, leading to the cancellation, Newsweek reported.


This is followed by the mayor condemning “hate speech” and disabling comments. The mayor said he had to “pull the Drag Queen Story Hour from the kids zone,” but there would still be drag queen shows onstage. In the adult zone, I presume. (One wonders what is in the “kids’ zone”.)

I so wish people would object, yes, “forcefully” as you say, but without violent threats. It makes it harder to get across our very good reasons for objecting and just makes us look bad.

When they got gay marriage, we hoped we could stop hearing about LGBTQ all the time. Now it’s trans-trans-trans all the time and drag queen story hour at the library. What next? Play with the Furries Day at the Park?


45 posted on 06/08/2022 11:17:01 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably <p>never participated in either.)
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To: Noumenon

Actually, I think that is what they want. That’s why they are pushing so hard, because they really want someone to snap and do something like that.

The trannies are envious of the success the gays had, so they want to emulate them by provoking their own “Matthew Sheppard” moment.


46 posted on 06/08/2022 11:28:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Oh, it’s what they want, to be sure. But what they are going to get won’t be anything like what they think they want. Once that dam breaks, it will not be contained.


47 posted on 06/08/2022 11:40:43 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: Sans-Culotte

“Why would any parent take their kids to these events?”

Because they are people who believe that good is evil and evil is good.


48 posted on 06/08/2022 11:43:05 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Noumenon

I like the way you think.


49 posted on 06/08/2022 12:03:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: JoJo354
Agree with you. My gay friend (great guy, great businessman) hates these Pride, drag queen shows. The news makes it seem like 99% of gays are the morons at pride events, but most of gays who owns businesses are worried about what Americans are worried about - the economy, taxes, fuel prices not being an idiot dancing in a thong in a parade.

Even they hate guys competing against girls.

50 posted on 06/08/2022 12:17:57 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one tryqing to savetf American Democracy...Donald Trumprrtaza 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: JimRed

I couldn’t agree more. There’s a war in the very notion that soMe behaviors are normal behaviors, and some are not


51 posted on 06/08/2022 3:30:24 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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