I think perhaps the pattern of escalation is getting lost on some folks.
For that, I think the conservative side takes a good chunk of the blame for "crying wolf" too early. (which caused everyone to rush their battle stations, "pick a side", and dig in)
The original event that started the whole drag show debate was an isolated event at a library with a drag queen reading cat in the hat. I even said at that point that conservatives were making a mountain out of a mole hill. Which is why, if you look at my postings on this subject pre-2020, they were very different and I was on the side of the drag performers
Examples:
I don't see how reading about real issues would be scary. And is you don't want kids to be scared. Then we better slip allowing them to read the bible. Or learn about the world. Did you read my posts and what i was responding to here in this post? What has what you just posted got to do with...
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You'll have to give a little more detail as to what you're referring to? When you say "media platform" you mean radio/TV/movies? If so, those are 100% optional and nobody is being forced to consume any of those media platforms if they don't want to. Stopping someone else from doing what they...
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Been banging my head on that wall for years. Trump's morals or supposed lack thereof has absolutely nothing to do about the issues we elected him to enact. Stormy Daniels has nothing to do with a wall. Stupid comments have nothing to do with immigration reform and so on. Ordinarily I would...
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I was still even on that side when the book selections shifted from "Cat in the hat" to some books promoting tolerance. I was still okay with innocent enough book selections like "hey, another kid in class may have a mom who's married to another woman instead of a man, and that's no reason to treat them badly, they're people like you and me"
However, by that point time, the debate had already been framed in the context of
Support of the drag performances = "LGBT inclusion"
Any objection to it = "Conservative pearl clutching, nothing to it, just dismiss it as them overreacting"
The framing of the debate has stayed the same, despite the fact that the content and circumstances have changed, so the aforementioned pattern of escalation has been ignored or swept under the rug
It went
1) Drag performers reading common staple children's books to kids
2) Drag performers reading newer books that promote tolerance
3) Drag performers reading activism books that encourage 10 year olds to "explore their gender fluidity"
4)
Screwdolph The Red Nippled Man-Deer with oiled dudes grinding up on another guy wearing a busty reindeer costume in a tax payer funded venue.
Some folks are still referring to it as if we're talking about #1, when #4 is something very different. People being uncomfortable #4 shouldn't be viewed as the same kind of "pearl clutching" that was happening with #1.
And the advocacy side of this debate isn't necessarily winning any new converts by basically making (what was originally thought of) "the other side's slippery slope fallacy" become a reality.