"'Don't Say Gay' provides the secrecy real groomers need"

[Budi]

https://www.editorialboard.com/dont-say-gay-provides-the-secrecy-real-groomers-need/

‘Don’t Say Gay’ provides the secrecy real groomers need
Florida’s new law is ideal cover.
April 14, 2022
John Stoehr
3 min read

WE'RE told Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law is “anti-grooming.” We’re told it will prevent schoolkids from being victimized by sex predators. That’s false. On its face. To explain, I need to tell a story.

Real grooming requires secrecy
After considering all the facts available to me, I figure Dad began sexually molesting the child, to whom we are related, some time in 2014. I’m told it ended when the child was old enough to say they didn’t want to be touched that way anymore. Evidently, Dad complied.

I discovered my dad’s felony three years later. In the meantime, Dad had been investigated, arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced.
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Real anti-grooming requires transparency

“Don’t Say Gay” forbids certain topics. It permits parents to sue if they don’t like what teachers are teaching. The effect is driving the topics of sex and gender – and related topics – underground where it’s dark.

Real groomers thrive in the dark.

When children and teachers talk about sex and gender – and related topics – they are talking about them in the open, where everyone can see. If parents don’t like what kids learn, they can say something. That they can say something is made possible by the fact that children and teachers are having these discussions in the open for everyone to see.

As it is, “Don’t Say Gay” robs parents of the opportunity to object to what they’re kids are learning. The climate of fear inspired by the law is almost certainly going to push teachers, fearing the ruination of lawsuits, from speaking openly about, well, pretty much anything.

I think most teachers are wonderful, but groomers – real ones like my dad – do live among us.
When children and teachers talk openly and transparently, real groomers have few opportunities.
Under the shadow of “Don’t Say Gay,” they have the cover they need to groom

[Walleye]

1. I hate to think but it sounds like this could be the real motivation behind this legislation

[Budi]

3. As echoed in Stoehr's twitter replies: This reason makes more sense than the one the R's are selling

Replying to
@johnastoehr
Laws made by predators, for predators. The prejudiced and judgmental virulence of conservatives makes them easy dupes for these kinds of laws/arguments. It's more important to be morally right; than not inflict massive harm.

Replying to
@johnastoehr
GJ Florida! I thought you Republicans were all about the kids protection but it's to protect the molesters? Sneaky, sneaky. Evangelical Approved!

Replying to
@johnastoehr
Yep, which is why the pedos of the GOP are pushing it

Link to tweet

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. This is exactly the kind of legislation that can only be written by dunderheads

in search of a cliff to fall off.

Its audience is composed of the ignorant who believe that human sexual behavior can be legislated in the name of God. It re-establishes a legal and moral conflict that subjugates one segment of society over another. The morally righteous can now persecute those who don't follow their prescription for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It sets the stage for more repression, more hatred, more hypocrisy, and more fascism. There SHOULD be shame in those who advocate for laws like these, but there is none. There is only power.

[geardaddy]

4. K & R

They want to keep kids in the dark for their own purposes.

[Jetheels]

5. Okay, so here we have it. This makes quite a bit of sense.

[Budi]

6. And why those defending 'don't say gay' laws are calling everyone who objects, Pedos.

"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.“ — Joseph Goebbels, master of propaganda, 1934

[Jetheels]

10. GQP is The Fourth Reich

https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/goebbels.html

[Budi]

11. Yes they are.

😕

[mopinko]

7. the last stats i saw was that 10% of priests were molesters. remember reading that

around the boston scandal. was mentioned in the movie 'spotlight' iirc, but also read a long article by someone who had documented pedos elsewhere.

when you start doing the math, you hit the puke point pretty quick. but. it is a fact that gives the lie to the panic. that and a tenner will get you a cup of overpriced bad coffee, but it is a hard number.
i feel like we need to point this out.

[2naSalit]

8. ALL of their legislative efforts...

Are designed to remove rights and power of self determination or to legalize their crimes.

Every single one.

[Budi]

9. +1 million. Sad truth isn't it.

How did we lose our protections so swiftly?
Where was the point that it broke?

[Jetheels]

12. Scary but very true.

Becoming much clearer now too.