Miriam BooshThe KKK is legally allowed to meet and do their thing in the US, cause first amendment.
But drag queens aren't?
How do your laws work? Seriously, not rhetorical can someone explain?
Daniel Keys Moran@Miriamm he's an outright Nazi. Which includes "racist."
SSFC KDT (MOVED)@Miriamm The short answer: political sectarianism
The other short answer: federalism. It tends to be slow.
Also, that federalism is also subject to the above political sectarianism.
States pass laws, they take effect unless someone sues to stop them, then the law goes to court. The courts hopefully will do the right thing, but because of political sectarianism, sometimes they don't. So then either the federal congress or supreme court step in. Hopefully one of those will do the right thing.
@ssfckdt Thank you!
Vivek Mittal@Miriamm Likely the drag queen law in TN will be challenged in court under the theory that it abridges the 1st amendment. But since SCOTUS is very conservative, the prospects are very bad.
Michael McCormick“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
— Frank Wilhoit, composer, CrookedTimber blog
Alexander Portnoy 🌊 🏳️🌈@Miriamm Being an asshole is considered a virtue in the Christian right.
Angelo'@Miriamm i'll tell you why. Straight white men, are too precious over their bumholes. However, as much as they want us off the map, they come to us anyway.
Brian Jopek@Miriamm It doesn’t
3wombats@Miriamm I can remember a time America was looked on as a progressive country. It’s going backwards before our eyes
*((char *)NULL) = '\0';@Miriamm They don't. Work that is... They don't work. We're fucked.
John Lusk@Miriamm
Something something obscenity, pornography. We've always preferred violence over sex.
Something something obscenity, pornography. We've always preferred violence over sex.
stevenray
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️"How do your laws work? Seriously, not rhetorical can someone explain?"
Well, nominally, all of these obvious constitutionally violating laws can be sued, up to the Supreme Court of the US. But there are 6 fascists on SCOTUS (out of 9 total members), and they'll most likely judge in favor of the bad laws.
Bruce Mirken@Miriamm Making America make sense is something that probably won't be accomplished in my lifetime.
CP93@Miriamm
America, where a history book is considered more dangerous than carrying a rifle. Come to think of it, they’re right: it is.
America, where a history book is considered more dangerous than carrying a rifle. Come to think of it, they’re right: it is.
Bishop Whitewind@Miriamm
Our highest court usually kept the country in check.
The republican party held up the process to seat judges. When it was "their turn" they picked 20 years worth of lifetime positions, and gave them to insane racist white people. For life.
tl:dr neo-Nazis (actually the KKK) have taken over the entire court system for life
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 
@Miriamm hate speech in Canada is illegal because your rights end where mine begin.
K. N. Brindle (they/them)@Miriamm alas, it’s actually pretty straight-forward: America was initially settled by Puritans, and their “moral” foundations still underly our culture:
Hating people who aren’t like you and denying their humanity is perfectly reasonable and acceptable.
Being happy and enjoying yourself is ungodly and sinful.
William@Miriamm Simples. The KKK write the laws and sit on the supreme court, so as to not overturn the laws.
scunneen (he/him) 🚋@Miriamm Just did some quick googling. The Supreme Court ruled in 1964 and 1973 that "obscenity" or "patently offensive hard core sexual conduct" is not protected by the first ammendment, so if this law is challenged in court, the bigots who passed it will argue that drag constitutes obscenity. They can point to a long tradition of bigoted laws banning cross-dressing, and the current far-right supreme court will probably agree with them.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1004/obscenity-and-pornography
Niels Nielsen, geographer
Michael
Andrew Feeney@Miriamm They even wear dresses!
Eleanor Saitta@Miriamm
The core tenant of conservatism is that there must be ingroups who the law protects but does not bind, and outgroups who the law binds but does not protect.
The core tenant of conservatism is that there must be ingroups who the law protects but does not bind, and outgroups who the law binds but does not protect.
mpmaddog@Miriamm The GOP SELECTIVE FIRST AMENDMENT.. right.. im guessing.
Shawn@Miriamm the puritans in the US don’t think racial discrimination is necessarily a bad thing. They will claim to be against racist violence but then blame Black people when they get shot or choked to death by police.
They also worship “maleness” so men choosing to “debase themselves” by dressing in drag and acting effeminate is deeply offensive. So offensive that they don’t want it to exist in their community, which they view as being tainted by its acceptance.
They also worship “maleness” so men choosing to “debase themselves” by dressing in drag and acting effeminate is deeply offensive. So offensive that they don’t want it to exist in their community, which they view as being tainted by its acceptance.
EarthlingLaws do not work, people work or do not work when a law requires action.
The crucial term is "impunity"!
Never before it was so easy to get away with violating laws. Its an increasing problem worldwide. The US, especially in red states, "tries to keep up"! Leaves citizens with a terrible feeling of powerlessness. People are losing faith in democracy.
Jennifer
FirefighterGeek 
The anti-drag law has yet to be tested and likely would fail to hold up before any sane court.
The way the court system works, the law has to be enforced, then fought in court before it can be struck down.
The most unfortunate part is that there's no penalty for the people who made the unjust law other than the law being struck down, so all the damage done between the new law being made and struck down is just collateral damage.
SirDiesALotHe* who has the money, gets the laws & enforcement they want.
*For all middle-aged, white, landowning, wealthy males.
T.Wllms
Urban Hermit@Miriamm bad laws get passed to virtue signal to a political base, then courts, including state courts, can rule them unconstitutional (there are state as well as the national constitution). Constitutional rules are supposed to determine what kind of laws are legal. There are no consequences for traumatizing people and wasting everyone's' time, unless it is political clout lost, which is why they only pick on persecuted minorities. Some states are becoming shit holes, though.