Canceled Right-Wing Event at the Cleveland Park Library

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just amazing. If a drag queen story hour were cancelled, these dopes would be marching in the streets. This kind of stunt is so instructive.

You realize those meeting at the library are exactly the folks who try to get drag queen story hours cancelled, right?

You realize that there is a bright line between someone having political opinions you don’t agree with and someone hosting an event for children that is by it’s nature sexually transgressive, right? It’s the same reason I’d have no problem with Che Guevara for Kids Story Hour but wouldn’t be okay with Stripper Story Hour. I personally find it gross when people try to overly politicize children and use them as political pawns in general but YMMV.

I guess this is a difference between you and me. You think that men dressed as women reading books presents a danger. I don't. I think that people who spread conspiracy theories that result in local restaurants being shot up and set on fire present a danger. You don't. We will just have to agree to disagree.

By your rationale everyone who spread fake news about what happened to Jacob Blake and Michael Brown presents a danger and shouldn’t be allowed to speak in public spaces because it their spread of disinformation (like “Hand Up Don’t Shoot” that was discredited by Eric Holder’s DOJ) led to violence and looting.

And drag is a fetish. Full stop. Would you be this cavalier about people in bondage outfits reading to kids if it angered the opposing political team? At a certain point you need to draw a line in the sand about what’s appropriate for little kids, especially if it’s held in a public space. I’ve known people whose lives have been ruined because of childhood sexual abuse. I have an extremely low tolerance for anything that even faintly resembles grooming. And I’ve never voted R in my life. This issue is deeper than political posturing.

[Anonymous]

"Full stop" does not magically transform your factually incorrect assertion into a factually correct one.

[Anonymous]

When is this event?

[Anonymous]

The event is back on.

https://twitter.com/haydengise/status/1640516502842486784

[Anonymous]

I don’t know the other presenters but Raichik’s book seems more than fine to me. It’s about how kids should share with their parents so other adults can’t secretly groom them sexually - a good thing. In general no one is being forced to attend this so people shouldn’t try to force it to be censored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the other presenters but Raichik’s book seems more than fine to me. It’s about how kids should share with their parents so other adults can’t secretly groom them sexually - a good thing. In general no one is being forced to attend this so people shouldn’t try to force it to be censored.

As best I can tell, the book is culture war drivel. It warns children that teachers might try to feed them dangerous ideas.

[Anonymous]

Something like five police cruisers outside the CP library. Good on MPD and DCPL for being proactive and cautious. Now here's hoping this garbage gets ignored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something like five police cruisers outside the CP library. Good on MPD and DCPL for being proactive and cautious. Now here's hoping this garbage gets ignored.

They’re there to protect the speakers. No one in the community is at any risk.

[Anonymous]

These pizzagaters don't belong here. Let them troll their own towns.

[Anonymous]

Here is a rundown of the event I found on Twitter https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17/status/1641081794039513090?s=46&t=1LpiiPXJZ0T_R3AE53VPYg

[Anonymous]

I'm so proud of the library staff. They handled this exactly right: they respected free speech, made clear what the community's values are, and kept the day orderly. The event was a total dud and the grifting was totally transparent.

[Anonymous]

It's one thing to host speakers with different viewpoints, and I'm all in favor of that, whether I agree with their viewpoints or not.

But it's another thing to host speakers who are terrorists, who have directly incited acts of violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a rundown of the event I found on Twitter https://twitter.com/noturtlesoup17/status/1641081794039513090?s=46&t=1LpiiPXJZ0T_R3AE53VPYg

Good for her!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just amazing. If a drag queen story hour were cancelled, these dopes would be marching in the streets. This kind of stunt is so instructive.

You realize those meeting at the library are exactly the folks who try to get drag queen story hours cancelled, right?

You realize that there is a bright line between someone having political opinions you don’t agree with and someone hosting an event for children that is by it’s nature sexually transgressive, right? It’s the same reason I’d have no problem with Che Guevara for Kids Story Hour but wouldn’t be okay with Stripper Story Hour. I personally find it gross when people try to overly politicize children and use them as political pawns in general but YMMV.

I guess this is a difference between you and me. You think that men dressed as women reading books presents a danger. I don't. I think that people who spread conspiracy theories that result in local restaurants being shot up and set on fire present a danger. You don't. We will just have to agree to disagree.

By your rationale everyone who spread fake news about what happened to Jacob Blake and Michael Brown presents a danger and shouldn’t be allowed to speak in public spaces because it their spread of disinformation (like “Hand Up Don’t Shoot” that was discredited by Eric Holder’s DOJ) led to violence and looting.

And drag is a fetish. Full stop. Would you be this cavalier about people in bondage outfits reading to kids if it angered the opposing political team? At a certain point you need to draw a line in the sand about what’s appropriate for little kids, especially if it’s held in a public space. I’ve known people whose lives have been ruined because of childhood sexual abuse. I have an extremely low tolerance for anything that even faintly resembles grooming. And I’ve never voted R in my life. This issue is deeper than political posturing.

So Shakespearian plays are fetish?
Maarilyn Monroe movies are a fetish?
Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies is a fetish?

I mean, this goes back millennia, and is even biblical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Full stop" does not magically transform your factually incorrect assertion into a factually correct one.

Outside of a few jokey theatre productions, cross dressing is obviously a sexual fetish. What about this don’t you understand? It couldn’t be clearer and many of these performances aimed at kids are highly sexualized.