My oldest friend is gay. We met in kindergarten I think. I don't remember meeting him, he's just always been there. Cut to last year when my parents were saying they "don't approve of that lifestyle" and I asked them "Well, what about [this friend]?" They know he's gay, but since he doesn't have an accent or a limp wrist they don't seem to care. He lives down the street. We both went into the tech field. We hike. We're each married to our own spouses. We have pets. I pointed all this out and told them "if you disapproved of his lifestyle, you'd also disapprove of mine. It's not the LIFESTYLE, it's the IDENTITY you don't approve of." I haven't talked to my parents since. I'm ashamed to be related to them.
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Kelly Pottiger is from the hate group Moms for "Liberty."
For anyone who doesn't know, Moms for Liberty are honest to god Nazis. They made the news a while back for coughing loudly during a moment of silence for the Holocaust and they've repeatedly quoted Hitler.
damn I grew up like 20 mins away from this school. sadly between Philly and Pittsburgh it's just a red, anti-LGBTQ wasteland.
People keep fleeing to the cities for some crazy reason.
But then its time to redraw the districts and you still end up with a State Senate Seat represented by the five angriest racist grandpas a computer can draw a line around.
I wonder why the article doesn't mention the religion of the school board members. Especially Bud Shaffner.
I think I’m misinterpreting this comment, can you explain it?
The religion informs the decision so it should be mentioned.
God I fuckin... Like dude the fucking right gets upset when the fucking left wants to increase gun laws when there's a school shooting, but the fucking right is too stupid to fucking realize that if they stop being literal facists than maybe, just fucking maybe, kids won't be as depressed. Maybe if these kids could actually fucking see that its okay to be different, they'd be fine. And it fucking sucks because anti bullying shit like literally never features LGBT scenarios. Like actually fuckin run it back in your mind, cause I know damn well I never saw ANY anti bullying thing for gays. Hell, I fucking got suspended from highschool because a kid called ME a [that one really mean word for gay people D:]. If I wasn't such a narcissist I legitimately would not have made it out of highschool.
if they stop being literal facists than maybe, just fucking maybe, kids won’t be as depressed
A lot of these school shootings involve a kid from a very conservative family getting utterly blackpilled on some QAnon conspiracy bullshit and going off to do an adventurism against the PoC in school who have been bullying him merely by existing. And I can't help but feel that conservative adults are quietly thinking to themselves "Good, I wish more people would behave like this" as they publicly shake their heads in disapproval.
Whether its Dylann Roof or Patrick Wood Crusius or Kyle Rittenhouse or Daniel Perry, this is just a Kristallnacht by drips and drabs.
he is proud of his lifestyle
The bastard!
Also, he was great on 30 Rock.
Wasn't he also on Weeds as Nancy Botwins sole bakery employee?
I don't remember. I couldn't get into that show. She was too awful.
It was pretty good until they left the suburbs (Nancy was still pretty awful, though, so your point stands). After that, it was like they tried to re-tool the show into a narconovella and failed hard.
I just have a lot of trouble with shows where everyone is irredeemable.
So we're back to this eh.
We never really left. The bigots just got quieter for a little while, or were louder about other targets (like trans folks). Remember that gathering storm ad scaremongering about fay marriage? Those beliefs don’t just disappear.
Its why we need to pass laws.
The school:
“We’re all trying to find the guys who bully”
