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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

School officials in Metro Atlanta’s Forsyth County canceled two talks by a children's book author last week after he used the word “gay” in a presentation to elementary school students about the history of the superhero character Batman.

The author, Marc Tyler Nobleman, has spoken to students of all ages all over the country hundreds of times about the superhero franchise’s co-creator without incident.

He calls it a suspenseful and inspirational talk that uses the word “gay” once because it’s a pivotal fact in research that led DC Entertainment to acknowledge Batman's true origins.

“I did not come in to talk about sexual orientation,” he said. “The fear in that district of the parental backlash is so severe that one three-letter word overrode 57 minutes worth of other valuable content that I came to deliver.”

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[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago

And they said that "don't say gay" was inaccurate.

[-] darq@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago

The sheer brazenness with which they will lie to your face when they say stuff like this is stunning.

But what is kind of terrifying is that I personally think that, in the moment that they are saying it, they genuinely fool themselves into believing it. They simultaneously know their true intentions and that the argument they are making is complete nonsense, but in the moment that they are making it, they convince themselves of it fully. That is a dangerous thing to get into the habit of.

[-] flipht@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Their entire ecosystem is set up to encourage wink-wink-nudge-nudge plausible deniability.

The veneer of conformity is what they want. It gives Xerxes in 300, "The [left] demands that you stand but all I ask is that you kneel."

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

Conservatives are a plague of hatred and oppression. There is no such thing as a "good conservative".

Do your part to combat this plague in your daily life. Teach your children why we do not do business or keep relationships with conservatives. Marginalize the hate group to marginalize the hate.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They aren't Conservative anymore, they're just regressive.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Just disgusting. These cowards need to stop controlling schools.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 8 points 10 months ago

More lefties need to get onto the school boards, frankly.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

This just in: Schools no longer allowed to play "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" because of the line "gay happy meetings"

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Sometimes when you're fighting the War on Christmas, casualties happen 🎄🎁

[-] wth@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

Is this the cancel culture that we keep hearing is coming for the MAGA crowd??

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

These people have lost their damn minds.

[-] Juujian@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The mental gymnastics...

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago
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