LGBTQ teens won a grant for their school. Adults sent the money back.

"Not here it doesn't; not on our watch!"

Idk adults like this are literally the point of the campaign. “As a minor you’re subjected to whatever idiocy the adults around you want to pull. It gets better when you can tell your parents to fuck off and you have money and your own place and can move out of whatever shithole you came from”

I mean I wouldn't expect a town named Lynchburg to be very progressive.

Yeah, there are some parts of this country where as a queer person you’d rather be homeless in D.C. than sleep in a comfy bed in. And I don’t say that lightly, I’ve slept in a car in Ohio winters, and D.C. is that but with summers like the Everglades. But if it’s that or being the [slur] of some rural mountain town, you can find places to live and resources in D.C.

It's the usual "positions of power attract the worst people" kind of deal. It's awful to think that this also applies to the people overseeing children.

Unfortunately many adults like to pick on teenagers because it makes them feel powerful and smart and they can tell themselves it’s for the kids’ good. It’s why even nearing 30 I generally support a form of youth liberation. Tempered from my 16 year old desires to do whatever I wanted, but hardened by my witnessing the sheer idiocy of over sheltered 20 year olds making decisions that would’ve been much less damaging a few years younger.

“Why do younger generations have such hatred for old people??” I wonder grandma, I wonder. I really don’t find it that hard to not do this sort of thing

They aren’t scared, they are just assholes.

It sounds like a lot of projection. They worry about indoctrination but that's a staple of religions and the existing culture. They worry about people dressed in drag molesting kids, but as the article said, more molesters wear a black robe and collar or sweat pants and a whistle than clothing of the opposite gender.

Though the projection goes deeper than that for some of them. They worry about indoctrination because that lifestyle sounds appealing to them but they've already convinced themselves it was wrong and might even be jealous of kids not having to live like that after they did. They worry about people in drag molesting kids because they get uncomfortably turned on when they see that and might even be jealous that kids today might be free to explore that if they want to when they "weren't able" to themselves.

They probably are segregationists, too.

We see them that way now, and they don't see segregationists the same way as everyone else.

Many of us already see them that way.

I just wished we could eliminate bigotry or at least reduce its prevalence by a few orders of magnitude.

It was literally the capital of the Confederacy.

Yes. West Virginia split from the rest of Virginia to join the Union in the Civil War, while the remainder of Virginia joined the Confederacy.

It's below the mason dixon line, so technically yes.

If it was part of the confederacy, I say yes

I mean, Glenn Youngkin is just as much a Republican ratfucker as all the rest, so does it really matter?

The division isn't just North/South anymore, it's Blue/Red.

Reader mode worked for me on the main page.