I'm wrong that nobody molests more kids than the clergy? Kinda don't think so.
Sorry man. I respect the hell out of you in spite of occasional shortsightedness but I ain't wrong on that one. You and others are worried about kids being "groomed" by "teachers and pink-hairs", when you ought'a be MUCH more afraid of the people carrying Bibles. For two reasons:
1. Conservatives always talk about "If it only happens One in a Million times, don't even bring it up, it's a non-issue." Well, LIVE that, don't just SAY that. Nobody's kids are being molested or "groomed" by "teachers and pink hairs". For one thing, almost every instance of a student being "groomed" by a teacher happens in high school, AND it's usually a hot female teacher doing the "grooming". We've had those conversations, we both know that's less "predatory" and a lot more "Wow, what a lucky kid, where were these teachers when I had Algebra?" It ALMOST never happens with Actual Children. FAR less often than a raped woman needing an abortion. So again, "If it 'never' happens, don't even mention it." Conservatives' words. Live 'em, don't just speak 'em.
2. In the rare case a kid is "groomed" by a teacher or likewise, at least the offending adult gets arrested and goes to jail. When someone in the CHURCH f*cks a kid, they just get sent somewhere else to f*ck more kids elsewhere, they
never get punished. Sh*t even happened in the town I grew up in - not to me, I was smart enough to stop going to church WAY before anything like that could happen to me.
But if you're going to say I'm "wrong on all fronts", that's an emotional reaction, not one based on facts. Facts support my position that peoples' kids are way LESS safer with a priest than a "pink hair". "Pink hairs" have existed for less than 20 years; the Bible was literally written by people who f*cked their own kids and then wrote glowingly about it in said book.
Never, EVER trust people who are older than 5 and still have imaginary friends, my dude. They are
very f*cking dangerous, and they've had a lifetime of practice justifying bad behavior by saying "GOD says it's okay!"
I appreciate you refraining from taking cheap shots at my lousy marriage, but mostly because... what does that have to do with the conversation, specifically? All I am saying is, if I were a parent, I'd worry less about the people who might "teach my kid that gay people exist", and more about the people who 1. Might actually rape them, and 2. Would rather see them
die than get their rapists' baby removed.
If I had a kid, especially a daughter, I would literally want her to have as many rights, on all fronts, as humanly possible. I would not stand beside people who would say to her face "Your suffering is All Your Fault." I think that's just plain shortsighted, and also cruel.
I believe your intentions are always good. I do. I don't think you're a bad person. I think you're paranoid about certain things to a point where it's perhaps led you to develop some blind spots. And that the things you are worried about are small fries next to things you should care a lot MORE about. That's all I'm saying.
- On Earth-2, hopefully Dad Me knows better than to punch holes in the sheet rock and throw bottles at people when they're angry. Earth-1 Rikki still has a real f*cking problem with that. Therefore, I appreciate the support, but it wasn't meant to be in This reality.
Instead I'll just settle for being Uncle to a niece who was indoctrinated by a religious cult and so brainwashed even her own Mom thinks she's nuts.
- I've seen "the facts" about what books are allegedly being pulled, it's still small potatoes. Here's Why:
1. Y'all mu'fukkas think kids read books anymore. Newp! They only know those books even exist because of the hysteria. If you guys weren't screeching, they'd be sitting on those shelves untouched as they'd been before.
2. Stuff like Maus and Diary of Anne Frank are
also being pulled, for daring to illustrate the horrors of the Holocaust. As if kids shouldn't know that sh*t happened. Yes They Should. My school did a whole month on the Holocaust and the reality is FAR worse than most people grow up knowing about. If people are trying to censor that information, they need to be corrected. In any case, "It's only the books about sex being pulled" is provably false. Conservatives are acting to remove ANY information they disagree with.
I'm aware of how the left has used this same tactic in the past. As mentioned, I Am Focused On Right Now, not 15-20-40 years ago. RIGHT NOW it's the Republicans pushing censorship as a strategy, and I am always against whichever side is promoting censorship. You are right they've both done it. And I've yelled at either side for doing it EVERY time and always will. Today, it's those on The Right pushing it hardest, so I'm more mad at them. Does that make sense?
3. Kids know about sex already, they know gay people exist, and Who Cares? This is nothing new. There were two kinds of kids when I was young: Those whose parents left "The Joy of Sex" laying around so their kids would poke through it on their own - so their shy-ass parents would never need to have "the talk" with them, since no parent EVER wants to have that talk and when they do they just say "Wait until marriage" - and the
other kids, the ones who graduated high school thinking a woman can't get pregnant if you f*ck her standing up.
4. Do parents not know that their kids have seen more porn on their cell phones by age 10 than they will ever see in those books they're trying to get pulled? C'mon. That's like putting a barrier on the sidewalk while ignoring that you're standing next to a wide-open highway.
Once more, I am simply asking for people to truly look at the Bigger Picture with regard to these things. It is very clear to me that a lot of people don't really think on these things past their initial emotional reaction to see what actually matters and what is just a distraction. The Trees are not the Forest.