Parker MolloyMay 24, 2023
What kind of message does this send? Caving is deranged and only encourages more of this crap. https://apnews.com/article/target-pride-lgbtq-4bc9de6339f86748bcb8a453d7b9acf0
Target becomes latest company to suffer backlash for LGBTQ+ support, pulls some Pride month clothing

Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month, after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. Target declined to confirm which items it was removing but among the ones that garnered the most attention were “tuck friendly” adult women’s swimsuits that allow trans women who have not had gender-affirming operations to conceal their private parts. Designs by Abprallen, a London-based company which designs and sells occult- and satanic-themed LGBTQ+ clothing and accessories, have also sparked a backlash.

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Show threadParker Molloy
The right has gotten increasingly aggressive, using the threat of violence to get what they want. People showing up with guns to protest against pride events, bomb threats called into hospitals, etc. This is terrorism. But no one will ever describe it that way?
May 24, 2023 at 1:15amWeb
Show threadParker MolloyMay 24, 2023
The reporting has been abysmal, as well.
This treats this as just some conflict about what additional legal protections trans people should have, but it's about taking *away* protections, trying to make it as difficult as possible for trans people to just live. Yes, adults, too!
Show threadsolientMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy AP trying to frame fascist hatred of all queers as the fault of trans people? Miss me with that shit.
Show threadAriadneMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy love that my very existence is a “divisive issue”
Show threadPeterMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy and still my 13yo and her friends don't understand why I won't drop them off at pride events.

(For clarity: I absolutely drive them - I just insist on hanging around.)

Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Because it's not (we all know it actually is, but bear with me). It's what the people in power want - ergo, not considered terrorism.
Show threadIkeMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy Right?! We can read a news headline about religious extremists in a middle eastern country terrorising their women, strangling their kids education, assaulting their minority sects, and subverting their government by assaulting their politicians, but in the USA this is somehow just part of democracy?!
Show threadFirstName BunchOfNumbersMay 24, 2023

@ike @parkermolloy It's pretty amazing, how much the Right will rail on about "Sharia Law" coming here, and yet will see zero comparison when they're attempting to indoctrinate everyone around them into their religious zealotry.

And it pretty much comes down to hubris. Because they think, rather BELIEVE, they're correct over every, and anyone else.

Fanaticism is fucking dangerous, no matter what it's for.

Show threadStaid WinnowMay 24, 2023

@bizzacore @ike @parkermolloy

Hear me out, but it is not amazing.

They are relying on their opponent to lose their shit over sheer hypocrisy.

Gaslighting. That's what they are doing and it is working. People are being suckered into focusing on their hypocrisy rather than the damage caused by the implementation of their Sharia Law.

It's like proclaiming to be non-violent but slapping you hard while you are stunned by the contradiction, instead of by the slap.

Show threadFirstName BunchOfNumbersMay 24, 2023

@staidwinnow @ike @parkermolloy I get your point, but I think the collective can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time.

People who are paying attention (and not compromised by the brain rot, of course) can see that both their ideology and the gaslighting are equally harmful.

The Right is always lurking in the shadows. That's where they operate. Classically, they play the long game

Show threadJerameeMay 24, 2023
@bizzacore @ike @parkermolloy
Here's another irony. The shariah law that horrifies us is there bc of the US. Iran replaced their king (Shah) with an elected a moderate communist govt that worked to improve people's lives by reclaiming their oil fields, etc. The US didn't like it & organized a coup. The people hated the new cup govt, but the moderates were dead, so the only people who could organize were the religious zealots.
Thanks America!
Show threadFirstName BunchOfNumbersMay 24, 2023
@Jeramee @ike @parkermolloy sheesh. That would friggin' figure
Show threadJerameeMay 24, 2023
@bizzacore @ike @parkermolloy
If you think that's bad, have you heard about the banana wars?
Show threadMxhradMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy

This is what the brown shirts did in Germany in the 1930's. No one stopped them and they just kept on getting worse.

Show threadGraydonMay 24, 2023

@parkermolloy Modern police do not accept civil control. (E.g., the Toronto police response to not getting a raise was to stop enforcing traffic laws.) This was a deliberate generational effort from the right.

As a result, there's no reliable mechanism of enforcement of laws against political violence; the police are generally white supremacist and generally in favour of right wing policies. Calling it terrorism requires an alternative capacity for force available to the civil power.

Show threadAn Average AmericanMay 24, 2023
@parkermolloy It is domestic terrorism in plain sight