TLDR: Conservative pastor hurts himself in his confusion. Blames communism.
So I'm a bit of a masochist. I listen to conservative radio. Something about Sean Hannity and Glen Beck complaining about minorities makes me feel nostalgic. But holy shit, today was something else.
Local pastor is talking on the radio - he's applauding the Rocklin Unified School District's decision to oust trans students to their parents. They are adopting a growing policy that makes it mandatory for school staff to inform parents if their child is transgender or gender non-conforming in any way.
He reads off some of Attorney General Rob Bonta's arguments against this policy and begins mocking the idea that this will bring “mental emotional, psychological, and potential physical harm.” The pastor calls this a straight up lie. He believes that this policy will actually reduce harm (doesn't elaborate whatsoever, but I have some guesses)..
The pastor then starts playing a sound clip of someone saying "There is no right to privacy between a parent and their child". He plays it over and over again - shouting "EXCUSE ME, WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" between each repeat.
The pastor begins his rant. "THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT! THERE IS NO PRIVACY! THEY CONTROL WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK!".
This brainworm infested pastor doesn't understand that "no privacy between a parent and a child" is an argument in favor of ousting trans children. He should agree with that. But he doesn't need to know that. He can still confidently rant about "communism bad" even though he is incapable of thinking through this one argument.
He concludes this whole segment by preaching "Can you imagine us being here, 10 years ago? This isn't because of us conservatives. No, we don't go out there looking for problems. We don't go out there looking to interfere with other people's lives".
Conservative media is a wild ride. I watched Fox News at a motel I was at for funsies and I tried to count how many times they said "socialism" or "bolshevik bernie" with no other context. It had to have been like 10-15 times in 5 minutes. Like they weren't even really talking about anything that they could have called socialism? It was pure nonsense.
Also weird how most commercials on conservative radio are for home security systems...really driving the xenophobia into the ol' noggin
CNN and MSNBC play commercials for home security systems too, so it's not just fox news on the muh high crime train.
Not surprising to be honest. I guess the idea of tuning in to those networks never sounded thrilling enough for me lol
Our local radio stations have commercials for school security systems. Like a key card to access all the doors and the police are given key cards. Whenever a school shooting happens they come up in frequency again.
That is so bizarre, I don't think I've ever heard anything like that. So I understand, are they advertisements for schools to buy the entire system? Or just advertisements for cards to get into the schools?
For schools to buy the entire system. And its advertised right after stories of school shootings. Its really fucked up.
Well that's the most dystopian thing I've heard all day