• Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    What is it with these people like Russia and Florida who think if you ban something it simply won’t exist? Gay people have been around ever since there were people. Just because you pass a law doesn’t mean they’ll vanish.

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      1 year ago

      Such laws make it easier to hurt the target of their hatred. They can actively try to make groups of people not exist.

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      It’s about destroying those who express themselves in ways that authoritarians feel threatened by, and in doing so intimidating others into falling in line.

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        And we should loudly continue to compare them to those with those histories due to similarity of behavior until they change their behavior so that they will never have the chance to quietly add a similar history to their own books.

        If we don’t want a “gulags of Florida” chapter written in history, it’s appropriate to call the behavior that would lead to one out