LGBT rights in the USA today...

[iris lilies]

Perhaps I should just start calling you groomer. After all it seems kind of suspicious that you don’t have kids and that you used to be a librarian. What are you trying to hide groomer? You seem kind of creepy.

Hunh?

[iris lilies]

I don't think a 14 year old's experience means much either, except to her. Even if her parents are indeed horrible to live with, bad parents are found throughout the political spectrum, I have no doubt.

As for silencing though, it goes on on both sides, are we really supposed to believe Fox news (much less Newsmax etc.) gives equal and fair time to Democrats and liberals? I mean really. And that's basically what is being called "silencing conflicting views".

oh no no no. When you say basically what has been called “silencing conflicting views is the fact that Fox News doesn’t bring up a complete in view…” No.

Silence is demonetizing Blair White. Silence is shutting down a comic and pulling him off stage when he makes a joke about gay men even though the joke is sympathetic to gay men. Silencing is removing tweets, posts, threads, IG stories, YouTube videos from social media platforms in the hundreds and perhaps thousands and banning their authors.

[rosarugosa]

What about that pathetic piece of work, Vicky Hartzler?

[iris lilies]

What about that pathetic piece of work, Vicky Hartzler?

I had to look up to see what Vicki did. She’s not my congressional person but she is in the next door district. You mean she was crying about the latest Congressional bill about same-sex marriage?

[ApatheticNoMore]

I don't see social media as fundamentally different than Fox news. If Fox news can present one perspective then social media can if it wants to as well. I'd bet anything that Fox news reaches a MUCH LARGER audience as well, so what are we even talking about, if Fox has greater reach then it's much more important.

[iris lilies]

I don't see social media as fundamentally different than Fox news. If Fox news can present one perspective then social media can if it wants to as well. I'd bet anything that Fox news reaches a MUCH LARGER audience as well, so what are we even talking about, if Fox has greater reach then it's much more important.

hmm, I can see that. If one recognizes that Fox News and MS NBC each have a particular political bias, one needs to take that same realization to social media platforms.

My problem is that I perceive social media forums as the peoples’ town square where every voice may be heard. And there in lies the problem, my initial expectation is just wrong.

[littlebittybobby]

Okay---it would be nice if Ol Joe could fix another pressing issue for demmacrats---the problems encountered in exiting a sinking vehicle. Yup. Hope that helps you some. Thankk Mee.2022-12-09 (3).jpg

[jp1]

Hunh?

Congrats on never having to deal with people baselessly calling you groomer and just being baffled by it. I wish I and other LGBTQ people could be so lucky. But thanks to team red we all don’t have such a luxury.

[iris lilies]

Congrats on never having to deal with people baselessly calling you groomer and just being baffled by it. I wish I and other LGBTQ people could be so lucky. But thanks to team red we all don’t have such a luxury.

Ooooo, ok. You have a point, but just barely.

[LDAHL]

Are we truly in a period of peak LGBT hatred compared to twenty or fifty years ago, or are we just magnifying every marginal wingnut through the internet funhouse mirror? Is the average American of 2022 less tolerant of sexual outliers than the average American of 1972?

Violence against the innocent is wrong, but this whole theory of hatred absorbed from the cultural ether also strikes me as wrong. There is no person or organization I trust to determine what expression is too dangerous to allow.