Why are Republicans so obsessed with drag queens right now?

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I've also made it clear that regardless of partisan politics I think that wokeness is terrible and destructive for the country, so of course I want to see its influence gone.

People here know that I'm fairly anti-woke (within reason), but Republican policies are 100x worse for America than Woke Twitter. It isn't even close.

I know, that's why I'm so disgusted when college-educated people ruin the left's reputation and risk losing elections to Republicans just so they can die on the hill of woke BS.

Define?

15 years ago, equal marriage was seen as 'PC bs'. A vote loser. A distraction.

And yet we still managed to get there, didn't we?

We got there by ignoring your advice to let Republicans control the narrative.

Oh no, not at all. It's possible that we never would've gotten gay marriage if the left and Democrats were doing what they do now.

Sorry Dale but your arguments here are coming off a nostalgia bias as alot of what you are saying the left is doing wrong here to alienate people on trans issues is the exact same arguments people were saying they did wrong 15 years ago on gay rights  

Before that it was civil rights, before that  
Womens right to vote, etc. same arguments regurgitated.

Imagine equating Drag Queen Story Hour in Libraries on the Public Dime to Women's Suffrage.

Imagine equating Drag Queen Story Hour in Libraries on the Public Dime to LGBT rights.

Imagine being such a sensitive snowflake that you are offended by a dude in a dress reading to kids.

"If people question the appropriateness of taxpayer-funded institutions hosting events where men in drag read books to little kids, I'm going to call them names" is definitely a winning strategy. /s

And that's probably the answer to the titular question of this thread. Republicans keep pressing the drag queen button because it's pretty much guaranteed to make Democrats say stuff that makes you wonder if they're off their meds.

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Imagine being such a sensitive snowflake that you are offended by a dude in a dress reading to kids.

There are certain things that are inappropriate and should not be funded through taxpayer money

Explain to me, what the fundamental difference is between a man in a dress reading a book to kids and a woman in a dress reading a book to kids? What specifically makes it inappropriate, other than men usually not wearing dresses?

The fundamental difference is the penis and testicles under the dress.

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Imagine being such a sensitive snowflake that you are offended by a dude in a dress reading to kids.

There are certain things that are inappropriate and should not be funded through taxpayer money

Explain to me, what the fundamental difference is between a man in a dress reading a book to kids and a woman in a dress reading a book to kids? What specifically makes it inappropriate, other than men usually not wearing dresses?

Drag Queen is not the same as a costume

Just so everybody is 100% clear, the reason the Republicans like OSR who aren't blatant bigots hate this is that they genuinely believe that society forcing cisgenderism and brainwashing kids with it is objectively morally good, and anything else is bad. They typically equate "not forcing cisgenderism on kids" with "encouraging kids to become trans". In other words, just treating kids like kids without trying to push them into a certain gender mindset is completely and totally unacceptable for Republicans. You MUST do your part to raise a generation of cisgender kids, or you're an enemy of society.

No, your side encourages kids to become trans and calls it "not forcing cisgenderism on kids," which is an absurd concept since boys generally don't need to be forced to be boys, nor do girls need to be forced to be girls.

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Just so everybody is 100% clear, the reason the Republicans like OSR who aren't blatant bigots hate this is that they genuinely believe that society forcing cisgenderism and brainwashing kids with it is objectively morally good, and anything else is bad. They typically equate "not forcing cisgenderism on kids" with "encouraging kids to become trans". In other words, just treating kids like kids without trying to push them into a certain gender mindset is completely and totally unacceptable for Republicans. You MUST do your part to raise a generation of cisgender kids, or you're an enemy of society.

No, your side encourages kids to become trans and calls it "not forcing cisgenderism on kids," which is an absurd concept since boys generally don't need to be forced to be boys, nor do girls need to be forced to be girls.

You are wrong in 99.99% of cases, and you won't have proof to back up your claims. Telling kids that it's okay to be who they feel are isn't the same as taking kids who aren't questioning these kinds of things and pushing them in a certain direction.

But your side does do that. Or, wants to do that, if they're not able to already. Your side has said in plain English that that is a goal of theirs.

There's never any mechanism for selectively giving attention to the (tiny minority of) kids who are confused. It's just, "drag story hour is for everyone!" and "Pride parades with twigs and berries hanging out are for everyone!"

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But your side does do that. Or, wants to do that, if they're not able to already. Your side has said in plain English that that is a goal of theirs

Where did we say this?

There's one example just two posts before yours.

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But your side does do that. Or, wants to do that, if they're not able to already. Your side has said in plain English that that is a goal of theirs.

Outside of a few extremists on Twitter, and Peebs a few posts above me, 98 or 99% of leftists do not do that or want that done. This is a fringe minority that the right wing is hyper-focused on. Most people just want gay kids to be gay and sraight kids to be straight, same for cis and trans, without schools trying to push them to be any particular way.

Such a fringe minority that I had to travel a whole two posts before finding someone saying exactly what you claim hardly anybody is saying.