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submitted 9 months ago by Jaysyn@kbin.social to c/politics@lemmy.world

A Florida Republican lawmaker's bill declares showing support for LGBTQ people is a "political viewpoint," despite the existence of LGBTQ Democrats, Republicans, independents, and entirely unaffiliated and non-political LGBTQ people.The goal of GOP State Rep. David Borrero's legislation is to ban al...

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[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 134 points 9 months ago

Wow. So, so many things wrong here.

  • This would be a blatant first amendment violation, along with a violation of several other rights centered around non-discrimination.
  • The GOP really don't give a flying shit any more about the Constitution, do they?
  • Apparently, "censoring conservative viewpoints" (known to normal people as "not being racist and bigoted) is bad, but literally trying to express liberal viewpoints is somehow "indoctrination" and should be a criminal offense. Yeah, I know. They wear the hypocrisy as a badge of honor and campaign on it.
[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 18 points 9 months ago

On the bright side, it's causing all the people who want to move to a Conservative dystopia to move to Florida instead of Texas, which means that if Texans turned out to vote, we might finally see that purple state everyone talks about.

Apparently, there's a lot of people who like performative politics instead of actual policy that helps them.

[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Sorry friend. I gave up and moved out of Texas this year.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 17 points 9 months ago

I don't blame you. Making it a terrible place to live is kind of the end goal of Republicans.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

It's cool, the rest of us will keep trying to vote out these assholes the best we can.

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