• Someonelemmy@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 months ago

    Yeah, and the sexual content in network TV shows is totally fine, but content trying to help adolescents understand their body, and how being different is also normal, must be obscene…

    I’ve never been able to wrap my brain around how these moral crusaders make decisions. Hetero sex and graphic violence is ok? But a biography about growing up gay or trans, with depictions of natural processes and organs, is not?

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      They want kids to be obvious to those facts, while also wanting the general public to believe “if kids don’t know about sex, they won’t have sex”. In Hungary, we’re already seeing a pretty steep increase in teen pregnancies and abortions, and our “sovereign” overlords likely did it after Republican command.

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        “If kids don’t know about sex, they won’t have sex.” That’s the first verse of the mantra, but it goes on:

        If kids don’t know about gays, they won’t be gay.

        If kids don’t know about trans, they won’t be trans.

        If kids don’t know about science, they won’t be anything but Christians.

        If kids don’t know about history, they won’t be anything but Republicans…

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        10 months ago

        Yeah funny thing about comprehensive sex Ed. It doesn’t just lower teen pregnancy rates, it lowers rates of teen sexual activity as a whole

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      10 months ago

      Many of these people are strongly against sexual content on TV. It’s the deeply ingrained puratinism.

      But, they are cool with letting their kids see movies full of graphic violence.

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        10 months ago

        They’re also cool with electing a sexual predator with 3 hooker wives and bangs porn stars. As puritans do.

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      10 months ago

      It’s about control. What they really want is rich white Christo-Catholic men on the top, and everybody else subservient to them

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        10 months ago

        This right here. If you try to treat them like they have a specific better world in mind, you’ll only get confused at the contradictions. When you realize there is no right-wing utopia, and they only promise an indefinite system of control, it makes more sense.

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          10 months ago

          No, they have an ideal world. They want to go back to the 20s where brown people, poor people, and women were second class citizens.

          They will contradict themselves trying to avoid saying this.

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            10 months ago

            The 20s were more complicated than that. For example, a huge chunk of priests either identified as socialist outright or leaned that way. It took decades of effort to switch Christian religious leaders in America over to the Prosperity Gospel, and the early attempts were laughably transparent and self serving.

            And that’s all kinda what I mean. They don’t want that, not as it actually existed. The constant struggle against some kind of Other is what they want.

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      10 months ago

      It’s simple, they don’t believe being different is normal or ok. The conservatives want everyone to be cis, straight, and Christian, preferably white as well but if you can’t be that at least be the first three.