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"Real talk. Republican parents aren't afraid LGBTQ teachers are 'grooming' their kids.
"They're afraid LGBTQ teachers are out there being totally normal, productive, loving people, no different, better, or worse than anyone else, because it destroys the lies they tell about them.
"They're afraid their kids will get to know Mr. Fletcher and his husband, or Ms. Michelle who used to be Mr. Michael, and see they're just ordinary people doing ordinary things. Because when they go home, or to church and hear all the bullshit their adults spew, they'll know."
-- Patrick S. Tomlinson (stealthygeek), 2022-04-09
"If kids know that safe, loving relationships are equal and affirming of all, the Repugs will have a harder time indoctrinating kids (especially girls) that they have to submit to men's authority at every turn. This is, of course, the main danger of acknowledging differences." -- Name cannot be blank (lastchanceroman), 2022-04-09
"They're not saying 'grooming' because they think that's what's going on. They're saying grooming to try to incite stochastic violence against people with whose views they disagree. They want those people dead. No different than the Taliban." -- Substandard Deviation (SubSDeviation), 2022-04-09
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The trans students in the school need to know that they can grow up happy. And the cis students in the school need to know that a nonbinary teacher is just as kinda dweeby and weird and funny as any of their other teachers.
~Sor
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The whole point of raising a child is to teach them proper behavior — "Grooming" in it's visual and larger context.
In times past it was a high complement to be called "Well Groomed".
Repubs are just displaying their capacity for 'stupid' when they take a clean word and attempt to turn it into a 'red flag' as is being done here and for so many other issues.