Friday, November 25, 2022

I Didn't Say It

Shangela, the first drag queen to appear on Dancing with the Stars, speaking out about the mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado on the show’s finale:

“The emotions have been heavy because there’s a lot going on in our world and in our country. There was a mass shooting, a horrible tragedy that happened in Colorado Springs. And baby let me tell you something, an attack on the LGBTQ community cannot be supported. This moment right here is about sharing more love and less hate, and hopefully we can start celebrating each other’s differences and not being divided. My heart and condolences go out to everyone whose lives were lost, who was affected. But just know, there is hope, baby.”

We must have hope, no matter how hard it seems to be hopeful, that the bigots and haters will be stopped. And we can do that ... look how much we've done up until now.

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Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, condemned Lauren Boebert for her tone-deaf statement about the Club Q shooting:

“You encourage this type of hatred. Get off Twitter and start looking inward. Republicans continue to run on and spread anti-LGBTQ ideology and hatred while refusing to lift a finger on gun violence. This is preventable, but only if they start seeing LGBTQ people as equals, and themselves as leaders.”

The GOP has the blood of Daniel Aston, Raymond Green Vance, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh and Derrick Rump on their hands. As I said on FB:

Just a note to the GOP, though I know they aren't listening because they never seem to listen:

When you denigrate the LGBTQ+ community as "groomers" of children and when you shriek that Drag Queens reading books at a library to children is somehow predatory, you feed the hate that cost the world five beautiful souls this weekend.

So, please, shut your fucking mouths, stop with the "thoughts and prayers" bull shit because you don't care as long as the gunman is killing all the "right" people.

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Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, rips FIFA over their ban on Rainbow armbands:

“It’s always concerning … when we see any restrictions on freedom of expression. It’s especially so when the expression is for diversity and for inclusion, and in my judgment, at least no one on a football pitch should be forced to choose between supporting these values and playing for their team.”

FIFA should have never let the games be played in a country rooted in anti-LGBTQ+ hatred. It's the "little" things like telling athletes they can't wear an LGBTQ+ ally patch that spurs on bigots with guns to shoot us dead; the hatred starts somewhere and this ruling by FIFA is partially to blame.

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Ben Collins, NBC News’ senior reporter, calling for media outlets to have a “come to Jesus moment” in the wake of the mass shooting at Club Q:

“Here are some headlines that I wrote the last six months … ‘Fueled by parents far right machine anti-LGBTQ threats shut down trans rights and drag events' ... Remember, there was a drag event happening [at Club Q that night] … ‘Anti-trans stalkers at Kiwi Farms are chasing one victim around the world. Their list of targets is growing' ... that was a couple months ago … ‘Doctors under threat from far-right activists for providing trans care' ... ‘Boston Children’s Hospital faces bomb threat after right-wing harassment campaign’ ... there were three of those bomb threats … ‘FBI charges Massachusetts woman with Boston Children’s Hospital bomb threats’ ... so they found one of the people … ‘At least 20 Republican politicians have claimed that schools are making accommodations for students who identify as cats' ... That was before the midterms. Here are three more from my colleagues in the last three weeks … ‘As election nears some conservative groups have ramped up anti-trans campaign ads’‘Far right figures appear to be testing Twitter’s boundaries for anti-LGBTQ speech’‘GOP senator targets Tiktok influencer with anti-transgender taunt.' And I’m just wondering, what could I have done different? Seriously, as reporters what can we do different? Because there are five dead people in a strip mall—because that was the only place they felt safe, as gay or trans people in … Colorado Springs. And I am trying to thread this needle here. I’m trying to say that this is happening. This targeted stuff has real life impacts.”

The media needs to cover this for what it is: mass murder. And they need to call out those who perpetuate hate which leads to mass murder. And they need to call out every single Republican who, after any other mass shooting, offers “thoughts and prayers” to the victims, but after the murder of LGBTQ+ Americans, they stay silent.

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22 comments:

  1. The World Cup has horrific problems because it's in Qatar, and it's in Qatar because of $$$, and no other reason. The media's problem is that it's looking for headlines, and sensationalists like Boebert, Greene, and Cruz shriek hate in order to hold onto their steadily shrinking base.

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    1. FIFA should not allow the games to be played in any country with horrible human rights violations. They can make their coins not on blood somewhere else.

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  2. Point: Murder is defined as "the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another." This is so what has happened again and again. To LGBTQ+ folks and to inocent children and mall shoppers and people attending parades and event and so on and so on. These are not just "shootings" they are premeditated events that are triggered by hate speach, people being raised to hate anyone who is not the same as them, religious bigots and polaticians that see another vote in the coddling of hate. Not only should the perps be sharged with premediated murder in the first degree but those persons that spread this sort of hate should at least be charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.

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    1. Add Hate Crimes into it, too.

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  3. I don't know what Boebert said, but I know without being told that it was stupid. Has that election in Colorado been decided? It looked as if her opponent would win at first and then it became too close to call. I need to look it up again. I wish drag queen story hour would have been available when my kids were little. It's so kind and generous when anyone takes the time to read to children.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. I looked it up. With 99% of the vote in, she's ahead by about 600 votes.

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    2. Boebert tried to make it seemed like she g=cared that LGBTQ+ people were murdered even though she says very bigoted and homophobic things about our community.
      Her newest statement she actually said SHE is also a victim of the Q shooting.

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  4. Hope all is well.
    xoxo :-)

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  5. Oh, the FIFA is one of the most corrupt institutions in the world. No doubt they went to Qatar for the money. Whores.
    And Chasten is right. I liked that everybody and their aunt called on BoBo for her stupid, disingenuous 'thoughts and prayers' after she stoked the flames of hatred. Ugh. Repugs.

    XOXO

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    1. I have a lot to say about, and to, Bobo on Monday.
      xoxo

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  6. FIFA and IOC are as corrupt as one another along with the GP crowd. Corruption is rife in the world and it brings in its trail hatred of people "not like us!" Wrong; we're all the same under the skin; it's just that our minds work differently. Some people learn to hate and take that as permission to kill or mutilate others. And then there's the circa 6,500 construction workers killed in Qatar; what price human life?

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  7. Don't get me started on FIFA. Let's look at the Olympics next. But this not the reason for my rant.

    I was thinking the other day about what our adversaries say about our LBTQ community/family. That we are groomers. That drag story time is harming our children and we must put a stop to it. Watch out for those gays they will convert your children. The gay uncle will seduce your child. Be vigilant.

    I have been around long enough to know that those on the right have always had to have a boogie-man to stoke the fear, the hate. LGBTQ people have always been an easy target and we have gotten better in standing up for ourselves but still they persist.

    Why is LGBTQ hate, fear equated with CHILDREN? Yes, the question may be rhetorical but it deserves to be addressed. Don't want to get all technical BUT most pedophiles and child molesters are heterosexuals/cisgender.

    The facts many times clouds their hatred. It stokes fear and that in turn makes people react. The tragic event in Colorado Springs will continue to happen until those in leadership take action for their membership that cultivate such haltered. Stay diligent my friends. Speak truth to power! Vote!

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    1. Think of groomers as the rightwingnut and ReTHUGlican politicians who pose with their families, kids and all, holding assault weapons and then we can talk grooming.

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  8. There's hope, just not for those who have been killed. But so many exceptional people here today. I’m grateful to them.

    FIFA is a disgrace. I find I have no interest in the games this year even though there are some exceptional (and enlightened) players.

    I do still hold out hope that this year will see some return to justice and decency around the world.

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    1. It was nice to see the German team take a stand about the Pride ban.
      I, too, still hold out for hope.

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  9. It's unfortunate, but no matter how many deaths, mass shootings, and gun shootings in schools and public places, the GOP could care less about blood spill and lives lost.

    And I love that Chasten cold out Lauren bobert. She has the nerve too. She literally won by a hair her election.

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    1. The GOP cares more about guns than human lives.
      Bobo is a POS.

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  10. Another mass shooting :(
    so disheartening :(

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  11. I'm surprised that people aren't packing up and leaving the country en-masse. I won't even visit there.

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  12. A stunning week, the United States has a Gun problem, and Congress does nothing.

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