This whole issue is pure theater. Just look at Texas. Last year, a state representative filed a bill to ban drag shows that a bar listed as "family-friendly". I have no idea what that means or if it was indeed "safe for families"... but of course this guy, Bryan Slaton, had his popularity skyrocket.
Fast forward to last month, when the same guy was forced to resign after getting an intern drunk and having sex with her. Note the headlines... he was expelled by the God-fearing Texas house the day after he resigned. They really put their foot down on that one!
Of note in that story above, he stopped at a drug store to get his victim some "morning after" drugs to make sure this "family man" didn't start another family outside of his marriage. Of course, he's the guy in 2021 that introduced legislation to make abortion a capital offense in Texas. As quoted, the honorable Mr. Slayton said: âThe bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small". I guess his innocent children don't count?
So it's not the drag queens you need to stay away from, it's the folks crusading against them who are truly dangerous.
I don't know about the particulars in Florida, but risque/adult-themed things are one thing. I get the point of restricting "adult" entertainment to adults, but banning all drag shows is another thing. I don't have time to keep up with the theater either.
This whole issue is pure theater. Just look at Texas. Last year, a state representative filed a bill to ban drag shows that a bar listed as "family-friendly". I have no idea what that means or if it was indeed "safe for families"... but of course this guy, Bryan Slaton, had his popularity skyrocket.
Fast forward to last month, when the same guy was forced to resign after getting an intern drunk and having sex with her. Note the headlines... he was expelled by the God-fearing Texas house the day after he resigned. They really put their foot down on that one!
Of note in that story above, he stopped at a drug store to get his victim some "morning after" drugs to make sure this "family man" didn't start another family outside of his marriage. Of course, he's the guy in 2021 that introduced legislation to make abortion a capital offense in Texas. As quoted, the honorable Mr. Slayton said: âThe bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small". I guess his innocent children don't count?
So it's not the drag queens you need to stay away from, it's the folks crusading against them who are truly dangerous.
florida has had drag shows for eons
see miami beach, if i recall tampa too
i could be wrong, i don't have time to keep up with all of the political theater
but i think the objection is getting children/kids/minors involved
most of these shows are adult themed, maybe like stripper type performances
maybe a bit risque no?
I don't know about the particulars in Florida, but risque/adult-themed things are one thing. I get the point of restricting "adult" entertainment to adults, but banning all drag shows is another thing. I don't have time to keep up with the theater either.
"Cancel culture" is a term constantly lauded by the right, initially to describe responses to their actions or words. Yes, it can get absurd very often, but to use it as a factor for defining "fascism" is a stretch. If you want a clear example of a power which seeks to "silence any opposition or debate regarding disagreeable thoughts or ideas rather than engage in a debate and discuss the differences in view points" look no further than the governor of Florida, as well as the legislatures of several other states. If they don't like drag shows (jeez, what would Milton Berle have to say about that?), or people who are not like they are, just ignore them like they do school shootings.
The Constitution said we should all have access to guns. It said nothing about allowing seductive indoctrination/grooming dances performed by those who reject their God-given plumbing. That's not free speech...it's dangerous (remember...guns are for the militia to protect us).
PS - You can also ignore the 14th Amendment about paying our bills... it helps to reduce the number of IRS agents who might recover what's owed by those who don't like to pay taxes (another Constitutional power they'd rather ignore... that "promote the general Welfare" crap was before there were so many counting on social security and medicare).
"Cancel culture" is a term constantly lauded by the right, initially to describe responses to their actions or words. Yes, it can get absurd very often, but to use it as a factor for defining "fascism" is a stretch. If you want a clear example of a power which seeks to "silence any opposition or debate regarding disagreeable thoughts or ideas rather than engage in a debate and discuss the differences in view points" look no further than the governor of Florida, as well as the legislatures of several other states. If they don't like drag shows (jeez, what would Milton Berle have to say about that?), or people who are not like they are, just ignore them like they do school shootings.
florida has had drag shows for eons
see miami beach, if i recall tampa too
i could be wrong, i don't have time to keep up with all of the political theater
but i think the objection is getting children/kids/minors involved
most of these shows are adult themed, maybe like stripper type performances
maybe a bit risque no?
I'll go with Orwell. A noted anti fascist. He's been pretty much more right than wrong with his observations as we have come to see.
While it has definitions, these days it seems to be used against anything or anyone you disagree with and find a need to use a label to dismiss rather than discuss the item or actions in question. Which is a fascist characteristic. Silence any opposition or debate regarding disagreeable thoughts or ideas rather than engage in a debate and discuss the differences in view points. ie, cancel culture. And which side of the aisle is the chief proponent of cancel culture ?
"Cancel culture" is a term constantly lauded by the right, initially to describe responses to their actions or words. Yes, it can get absurd very often, but to use it as a factor for defining "fascism" is a stretch. If you want a clear example of a power which seeks to "silence any opposition or debate regarding disagreeable thoughts or ideas rather than engage in a debate and discuss the differences in view points" look no further than the governor of Florida, as well as the legislatures of several other states. If they don't like drag shows (jeez, what would Milton Berle have to say about that?), or people who are not like they are, just ignore them like they do school shootings.
When Republican lawmakers and talking heads speak these days, this is what I hear:
âI HATE liberal cancel culture and believe in absolute free speech! I would also like to ban, do away with or silence Disney, NPR, Bud Light,
the FBI and CIA, this big pile of books over here, M&Ms, Mr.
Potatohead, college professors, any Democratic lawmaker I donât want to
hear speak, âwokeness,â any mention of diversity, drag shows,
people who defend drag shows, people who defend people who defend drag
shows, any mention whatsoever of the existence of LGBTQ people, this other big pile of books over here, the entire Department of Education, PBS and Oreos.â
I'll go with Orwell. A noted anti fascist. He's been pretty much more right than wrong with his observations as we have come to see.
While it has definitions, these days it seems to be used against anything or anyone you disagree with and find a need to use a label to dismiss rather than discuss the item or actions in question. Which is a fascist characteristic. Silence any opposition or debate regarding disagreeable thoughts or ideas rather than engage in a debate and discuss the differences in view points. ie, cancel culture. And which side of the aisle is the chief proponent of cancel culture ?
...the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else ... Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathisers, almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.<51>
I don't know ,it's got a definition and all:
noun
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
...the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else ... Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathisers, almost any English person would accept 'bully' as a synonym for 'Fascist'. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come.[51]
In these times, I find it hard to distinguish - since in a duo-partisan (American) government, one is defining it in just one way, to discredit the other half (in my view, not only Americans love doing that, but "all their vassals")..
Meanwhile.. (if one would read into it)..
..all the public media are being "cleared" towards a unified definition. - What a hoot.
Freedoms taken from the people are abundant. Especially in this digital age, me thinks.
Anyway, just a thought, not intending to (nor believing to) trigger any "earthquake-like-reaction" here on this get-together of well-indoctrinated folks.
