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Texas’ ban on certain drag shows is unconstitutional, federal judge says
(www.texastribune.org)
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If I were to present an example of sexually explicit stuff going down at a children's drag queen story hour would you change your mind?
No, because that's anecdotal. My wife is a librarian. I can give you plenty of anecdotes to counter it.
The answer is I'm not under the impression that every drag show is like that, but some definitely are and it seems like you people don't bat an eye or self police in any way.
Oh, well if some of them are, we better ban all of them.
It's not banning drag shows though. Read the bill. It's banning certain actions at a drag show.
Ok, link me to the bill. Because every outlet I have seen says the opposite.
You are being misled by sensationalized media. Bills are not hard to track down.
Then feel free to track it down and show it to me. You made the claim. It's not my job to research it for you.
read the fucking article that's being linked lol
The article that doesn't link to the actual text of the bill? I did. I clicked on the link in the article. It doesn't show the bill's text. I'm starting to think you didn't actually read it yourself or you would link to it.
Doesn't ban drag shows.
That's not the text of the bill. Please show the text of the bill. You said it was easy to find.
Go on google, type Senate Bill 12 texas, and click the first link
If it's that easy, you can paste the URL. Again, it's not my job to do your research for you.
But then it's pretty obvious you haven't actually read the bill yourself despite telling me to.
You got something wrong with you. Don't spend so much time on the internet being annoying like this, it's not good for you.
Insulting me doesn't change the fact that you clearly didn't read it yourself despite telling me to.
I did read it. You can easily prove me wrong right now but you refuse to. Whatever man, just stop responding if you don't want to engage honestly.
If you read it, give me the link. I don't believe you.
When you calm down and look back at this later you'll realize how petty you are being.
That was the second insult. You get three before I block you. I have no interest in Reddit behavior.
stop responding lol
I guess you've given up on all pretense of having read the bill at this point.
How does me linking the bill in any way prove I read it?
At this point, it doesn't. It's clear you didn't. Too late to try to prove you did. You've had many, many opportunities, all of which you refused to take up. And it's obvious why.
I'm serious, take a 10 hours break and come back and ask yourself if you are being reasonable.
I think it's very reasonable to disbelieve you read the bill. You've given me every reason to not believe that.
Ok you're fucking crazy. That's strike 3 can you block me
Okay then.
Go ahead, present to us a video of a drag queen demonstrating: “sexually explicit conduct” meaning actual or simulated— (i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; (ii) bestiality; (iii) masturbation; (iv) sadistic or masochistic abuse; or (v) lascivious exhibition of the anus, genitals, or pubic area of any person.
In front of 5 year olds, not adults.
You're not gonna.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1681092876313214976 Here's a video of a drag queen simulating jerking off with children present. Not sure there's five year olds but there's definitely children present. One young girl seems to be clinging on to her mother facing away from it, showing discomfort.
https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1619507742926077952 "I know theres little babies here, but... close your ears. This is just a tradition that all shows normally do. Cheers to you, cheers to me, cheers to those who lick us where we pee"
I expect you to come back downplaying it. But I think most people can agree this stuff is not appropriate for children.
Lol do you know babies don't understand words? Also the like three 10 year old kids were literally given money by their parents to tip the drag queens in the second video so apparently they thought it was fine. Regardless of what I or you think is appropriate for kids their parents thought it was or they would have left and certainly not given their kids money to tip.
You found two with 99% adults in the audience who were with their parents that made their own decision to not leave and take their kids away.
How many cases have there been in the past year of children getting shot at school or raped by priests though? Spoiler a lot more than 2, and guess what those kids are dead or have ruined lives, not just being grossed out for a few seconds. Most kids see worse on YouTube.
You asked me for examples, I gave you examples, and now you're going off about priests raping kids and kids getting shot at school. Exactly how I expected the response to be tbh.
Doesn't care about kids dying and being raped, only cares about a couple parents deciding it's fine if their kids see something a little racy.
Exactly how I expected the response to be tbh.
Go back to reddit
don't know what you are trying to say