Posted on 07/02/2023 12:34:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The day of the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Tex., last year, Averie Bishop posted a TikTok video, sobbing. “These things happen all the time and nothing changes,” she said.
After the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights, following her home state’s own restrictions, she posted again: “When you live in Texas and all you wanted was a hot girl summer, but now you have a ‘no reproductive rights’ summer.”
In March, she posted about the need for comprehensive sex education and mourned the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the abortion precedent abandoned by the court. In May, she posted videos touting the need for affordable health and reproductive care.
The fact that Bishop has professed her liberal views on race, abortion, immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, school shootings and comprehensive sex education — which Texas public schools don’t require — may not be surprising considering she’s 26.
Advertisement What is startling is that Bishop has spoken out while competing for, and as, Miss Texas. The perch has normally been occupied by apolitical women, but in Bishop’s case, the pageant queen has used it to push back against the far-right policies supported by Texas’s White male leaders.
Her platform — diversity and inclusion — represents much of what Texas has been outlawing. In June alone, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed laws banning diversity offices and training at state universities, “sexually explicit” books at public schools, drag shows and gender-affirming care for youths.
The first Asian contestant to win the crown in the pageant’s 85 years, Bishop is an avatar for a rapidly diversifying state, one that despite its historic image is now majority minority, a change that is remaking cities, rural areas and political alliances, if not state leadership.
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Take on the GOP? My money is on the little girl
Ugly and dead in the inside.
I think you're right about her vs the Texas state GOPee.
What a dolt.
Guess she doesn’t know how immigration + gun control is working for native Frenchmen, or she has some leftist excuse for what’s happening.
“The day of the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Tex., last year, Averie Bishop posted a TikTok video, sobbing. “These things happen all the time and nothing changes,”
“When you live in Texas and all you wanted was a hot girl summer, but now you have a ‘no reproductive rights’ summer.”
So she’s FOR the killing of innocent human life? Or she’s against it?
Well, bless her heart.
Blah, blah, blah. How about little missy make a few into her platform or is that just way too much time away from her phone. Ok, maybe it’s best she stays on her phone since she’s wackadoodle.
Reminds me of Dylan M.
Who were the judges?
She has the right to reproduce all she wants….just not to kill a baby due to her actions.
Another old tradition that long ago became a socialist platform.
After the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights,
Do we have churches speaking from the pulpit equipping people to explain what is wrong? Are we promoting adopting and giving to the cause?
You don’t just pass a law and then think you are done.
Ever since the 2009 Miss USA was used by it’s owners to promote gay marriage.
Chinese plant?
RE: Ugly and dead inside.
Takes some men hours, days or years to know that.
Like some women who believe con men who just need some money to get past a crisis and then leave town and go back to their real names and wives.
“Provocateur”? Miss Texas is a trannie?
She’s a Megan Markle look alike.
I was going to post something like “Are we supposed to listen to her because she is nice looking and has female anatomy?
Well, she must have gotten the nod from the woke judges because she has female anatomy, is a female, is Asian, AND is woke. Plus, she interned for U.S. representative Sheila Jackson Lee.
Says it all. Brainless, woke, chums around with racists. Big on Tik Tok too. So there’s that.
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