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[-] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 222 points 1 year ago

"I do not want any kind of rainbow display especially in this month." Imagine hating the idea of diversity so much that any kind of rainbow offends you. These people won't stop until the entire world is gray.

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago

Man, these people are gonna be unhinged once they find out a rainbow is our visible light spectrum and that we technically see it everywhere. The kicker is that "God" put it there.

[-] calebcharles@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 year ago
[-] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

"Give it back". Apparently god isn't powerful enough to take it back himself. Weirdest game of keep away ever.

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[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

When your political project is 'make everyone as miserable as I am', whining about every goddamn thing is actually a kind of praxis.

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago

You should see the comments on instagram reels whenever a teacher posts something and there's a rainbow in the background, like just a rainbow on the wall in a kindergarten class or something, so many people absolutely fucking lose their minds and spew the most vile shit at these teachers, it's bizarre.

[-] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Why are they able to so quickly swarm and find these posts?

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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago

They won't stop until all the LGBTQ people (and Jews, people of color, etc) are dead.

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

These people won't stop until the entire world is ~~gray~~ white.

FTFY.

[-] Treczoks@kbin.social 191 points 1 year ago

“I do not want any kind of rainbow display especially in this month. We have a conservative town and as a library do not need to make political statements (see Target and Budlight as negative examples). I certainly do not want the library to promote LGBTQ agendas.”

Ah, and removing them is not a political statement?

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 142 points 1 year ago

Remember, it’s only “political” when it’s something they don’t like.

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[-] AliLunaCat@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

Well yeah, there are only two sexualities: straight and political ^/s

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[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 44 points 1 year ago

To the quoted hate-filled fuck: Existing without being persecuted isn't a goddamn agenda you piece of shit. The only agenda I see here is your fascist one. Try keeping your shit to yourself and learn to let people be instead of trying to stamp them out, ignorant fuckstick.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Tell them it's to celebrate the receding flood waters and God's promise to never do it again.

That should shut them up.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, then they’ll just blame it on

[takes deep breath]

“THE JOOOOOOOOOOOZ!!!!1!1!!”

[-] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 142 points 1 year ago

I'm sure they would also happily attempt elimination of neurodivergent people.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Maybe but they also might just do away with all psychiatric treatments, who needs “happy pills” for depression when you can just praise the Lord?

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

I think they want to replace psychiatry with exorcism.

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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Well that's the next step.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

Indeed. No question about that at all.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.world 131 points 1 year ago

I don't understand how having a rainbow nearby isn't protected by 1st amendment rights.

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[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 126 points 1 year ago

I am old enough to remember the rainbow colors being a secret way for the community to find each other. We'd put a small rainbow on our cars, or other places and people of our community knew what that meant.

Now that we are more out of the closet, hateful bigots know what the rainbow flag means too. This is an expected downside to our communities progress. But we will never go back in the closet.

[-] Polar@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 year ago

I'm a straight biological male and love rainbows. Colours are pretty! Not sure why anyone would get upset about rainbows. You know, the NATURALLY occurring thing?

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[-] LegionEris@feddit.nl 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine being so afraid of The Big Gay that you fire two people for being part of another community that uses boldly colored stripes in their logo, a community that literally has a documented statistical preference for bold primary colors and patterns. Imagine your hate being so enormous that it can't hit just one group of vulnerable minority children.

EDIT: Imagine posting before your caffeine kicks in and having to fix three different typos.

[-] frazw@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

It's not hate. It's fear. Fear of the confusing thoughts in their heads.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

EDIT: Imagine posting before your caffeine kicks in and having to fix three different typos.

I don't have to imagine anything at all to know what this is. Imagine having this experience most days!

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[-] matchphoenix@feddit.uk 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When you accidentally discriminate against the “wrong” minority

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, no, they disciminate against them as well. 2 birds, 1 stone.

[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

They're suing.

I hope they win. If the basis for their firing was the presumption that they were gay (hint: being gay is a protected class, you can't fire someone for being gay), this would be an open-and-shut case of employment discrimination.

But if it's all a big dumb misunderstanding and they're not gay (and not part of that particular protected class) but they're still fired over it, let me remind you that being autistic is a never-ending ordeal of being misunderstood, often mixed with a sense of justice that could be characterized as white-hot.

...or at least, my sense of justice about this might be in the range of over-wrought, or just blazing.

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[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 62 points 1 year ago

These fucking morons don't even know what they're banning... Really teaching everyone how important education really is, and why they don't want people educated.

[-] Ibex0@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

It's so weird to be outraged about this stuff enough to fire 2 of your neighbors in a small town.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

It is deeply weird. These people's brains have been beaten into a froth of hate.

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[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago

LGBTQ people existing is not political, it is a fact. And I am sure even in that conservative town there are LGBTQ people who would want to read books about them or books to help them. Yea, helping other LGBTQ people is the gay agenda.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 year ago

On June 22, Splitter, a temporary summer library employee, complained about the display to Lancaster, saying she found the “gay Pride” symbol offensive and going into “an anti-LGBT diatribe” even though Lancaster explained that the infinity symbol represented neurodiversity and autism.

I have to wonder if this person saw the rainbow and applied for a temp position just to complain.

[-] llama@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago

Where are all the people who say "if you don't like it just get another job" when this happens. Especially if you're a temp and you could literally walk across the street and get another job.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 27 points 1 year ago

Even if the symbol was a Pride display, they should be suing.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago

So this is the Sterling Free Public Library that did this? The library at this website here?

https://sterling.scklslibrary.info/

I wonder what would happen if these ignorant bigots faced a proverbial shit storm of backlash from across the country every time they tried to pull hateful shit like this?

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

They’d close the library as a fuck you.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

"Look at all this hate mail the library is receiving! Proof that no one likes books."

[-] Denvil@lemmy.one 26 points 1 year ago

So much for not wanting to have negative press, now some random guy in Ohio even hates the place

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