They sent a legal threat to Target for selling "obscene matter" because, in part, the store sold a T-shirt with a drag queen on it...

They sent a legal threat to Target for selling “obscene matter” because, in part, the store sold a T-shirt with a drag queen on it.

  • HipHoboHarold@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you find the idea that queer people have the right to exist to be too much of an echo chamber for you, then that’s a bit telling.

    “But the bias!”

    Maybe it’s just me, but if I wanted to know what was going on in the queer communtiy, I would say queer people are the best people to listen to. Just like how if I wanted to learn about the struggles of bring black or a woman, I would consider them the go to source. I wouldn’t go to the people causing the problems. Like I wouldn’t go to David Duke to learn about what black people go through. Or Andew Tate on how to treat women.

    In those case, the article calls out the lies from the sources you say we wouldn’t take, so of course I’m not gonna listen to them. Because they’re not just biased. They’re lies. In this case, it’s things such as tuck swimwear being sold to kids. That was heavily reported on, despite being false.

    To help explain what a bias actually is, think of it this way:

    One article says Bill punched Jim. Billy is a bully. We have someone saying they saw it.

    The other article says Bill did not punch Jim. He is fine. We have the video to prove it.

    Now, both do have a bias. Yes. One says he’s a bully, the other says he’s not.

    But one of them makes a claim, says they have someone who saw it, but it turns out it was a lie.

    So one of these is a bias, one of these is a lie. It’s slander.

    Should we find articles without a bias? Arguably. But for starters, if the non-biased articles agree with the biased article and all the facts, and they do show with the same video that Bill did in fact not punch Jim, then I would argue the bias isn’t the issue. If Bill didn’t punch Jim, then there’s no real reason to say he’s a bully.

    Similarly, it is a fact that right wing news sources lied about the swimwear. And they have an anti-LGBTQ+ bias. But we know it was a lie.

    So when an article calls it out and has a bias that trans people are fine, there’s no reason to beleive its not. And the bias that the right are being bigoted ans trying to take away the rights from trans people then becomes less of a bias and more of just facts.

    So we can find another source for this, but when they simply just list the facts, it will only back up this article.

    • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
      01·
      1 year ago

      If you find the idea that queer people have the right to exist

      The left wing echo chamber is always so consisten with their strawman arguments.

      Nobody here has questioned if queer people have the right to exist. My girlfriends queer and who knows, I might be.

      I’ve read a few threads on this politics community, and when you have people spouting off about how construction workers are too stupid to drink water when they’re thirsty, then you have the source ‘lgbtqnation’ being on the top of the community, yeah those two put together makes me roll my eyes and wonder, where are the communities that talk about real issues.

      Where are the communities that talk about the cost of living

      Of the availability of homes

      Of the legalization of drugs and releasing inmates that have non violent drug offenses.

      Where are the discussions about how terrible single parent households are for a thriving society?

      Where are people on this website that talk about issues that the majority of people face, rather than hot topic social issues that impact less than 1% of people?