Bill banning Pride flag would make showing support for LGBTQ a ‘political viewpoint'

Jaysyn@kbin.social to politics @lemmy.world – 282 points – Bill banning Pride flag would make showing support for LGBTQ a ‘political viewpoint'
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A Florida Republican lawmaker's bill declares showing support for LGBTQ people is a "political viewpoint," despite the existence of LGBTQ Democrats, Republicans, independents, and entirely unaffiliated and non-political LGBTQ people.The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero's legislation is to ban al...

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Wow. So, so many things wrong here.

  • This would be a blatant first amendment violation, along with a violation of several other rights centered around non-discrimination.
  • The GOP really don't give a flying shit any more about the Constitution, do they?
  • Apparently, "censoring conservative viewpoints" (known to normal people as "not being racist and bigoted) is bad, but literally trying to express liberal viewpoints is somehow "indoctrination" and should be a criminal offense. Yeah, I know. They wear the hypocrisy as a badge of honor and campaign on it.

You have been permanently banned from c/Conservative.

Damn, banned so hard they were banned twice

Lol. Fixed. Thank you. You shall be spared when c/Conservative conquers and enslaves the Lemmy communities around it.

On the bright side, it's causing all the people who want to move to a Conservative dystopia to move to Florida instead of Texas, which means that if Texans turned out to vote, we might finally see that purple state everyone talks about.

Apparently, there's a lot of people who like performative politics instead of actual policy that helps them.

Sorry friend. I gave up and moved out of Texas this year.

I don't blame you. Making it a terrible place to live is kind of the end goal of Republicans.

It's cool, the rest of us will keep trying to vote out these assholes the best we can.

  • yes, shocking no one
  • They never did
  • Racists actually believe that some people are "below" them and so they don't really understand what "racism" or "bigotry" means. They feel they have a right to force others into their "rightful place" below them in their imaginary hierarchy. They believe they have a right to force people to conform. They refuse to empathize with those they loathe and so their actions are borne out of malice and cruelty.

Some days when I am really pessimistic, I fantasize about all these delusional people suffering immensely under a regime they got into power themselves. Then I remember I am not an inhumane dumbass like them and go about my day.

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They won't ban the nazi flags that DeSantis' supporters carry.

I’m in canada. I have protesters outside of my work window every week protesting LGBT education in school. I put up a pride flag in my office window. They told me to take it down, citing our code of conduct but no specific clause.

The way they talked about it made it sound like I was expressing some kind of extreme political opinion that I should be having on my own time.

I was… surprised. And disappointed.

Sexual orientation is not political in itself. Discrimination of it is.

Even if it was a, "political viewpoint" it couldn't be banned.

Lol, I guess this moron doesn't understand what freedom of speech means. This bill won't make it. Just another GOP idiot wasting tax dollars. Even if it does become a law, there will be a lawsuit submitted within minutes of it being signed.

he knows the law, and he knows this'll end up in the trash on top of a pile of drag bans. it's about pushing the overton window, making the existence of people you don't like "political" to separate it from the "normal" people you do actually like, and showing out for your openly fascist terrorist party.

Honestly I'm not sure at this point. I think some of them are high on their own supply and legitimately think this'll work.

Then wouldn't being anti LGBT be political too?

As with all things regressive, their whole truck is to treat their own viewpoint as a default state, and then try to force everyone else to argue around it, which allows them to steer the discussion and eventual outcome.

When they're headed off on one avenue they pivot, but this is the consistent direction of almost all regressive talking points.

They're never consistent. If they were, they would demonize overtly sexual content regardless of who it was targeted at. But as it stands they're fine with books involving straight couples and places like Hooters still exist.

If supporting pride is a 'political viewpoint', being against it is one too

Gay existence is not an offense against anyone, it's the folks trying to ban gay existence that are playing offense. LGBTQ folk resisting their own erasure and persecution (and for their allies to support them) is a straightforward matter of human rights these cretins want to deny

if there was a party called the "fuck america in the ass" party, there's a large segment of the population who wouldn't have any choice but to vote for it. And the thing that would most effectively fuck America in the ass would be a real health care system, real gun laws, and a real education.

Hate is a strong word that has lost a lot of meaning from misuse... I hate the willfully ignorant.

Am I the only one wondering how often Borrero meets his gay lover?