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NBC News provides excuse for “We’re coming for your children”
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:05 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:05 pm
NBC News
Of course it’s all a joke and they’re the real victims. This all goes back to the anti-gay stuff. Didn’t you know that?
“We’re not going shopping” is the new “Let’s go Brandon.”
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‘We’re Coming For Your Children’ chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it’s taken out of context
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Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
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Over the weekend, a short video circulated widely on social media of an unidentified person at a New York City march during Pride festivities saying, “We’re coming for your children.”
In the 21-second clip, circulated by a right-wing web streamer channel, dozens of people march in the streets and are clearly heard chanting, ”We’re here, we’re queer, we’re not going shopping.” But one voice that is louder than the crowd — it’s not clear whose, or whether the speaker was a member of the LGBTQ community — is heard saying at least twice, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”
To conservative pundits, activists and lawmakers, the video confirmed the allegations they’ve levied in recent years that the LGBTQ community is “grooming” children.
But to Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, if that’s the worst they heard, it’s only because he wasn’t there this year.
Griffin said he chanted obscene things in the past, like “Kill, kill, kill, we’re coming to kill the mayor,” and joked about pubic hair and sex toys during marches. People at the Drag March regularly sing “God is a lesbian.”
“It’s all just words,” Griffin said. “It’s all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.”
The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists, who said it’s one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people. And in this case, they said, right-wing activists are jumping on a single video to weaponize an out-of-context remark to further stigmatize the queer community.
Conservative politicians and pundits have increasingly referred to advocates for LGBTQ rights as “groomers,” associating people who oppose laws that restrict drag performances or classroom discussions of gender identity with pedophiles. The charge is an echo of a decades-old trope anti-gay activists have used to paint the community as a threat to the country’s youths, an allegation that some advocates say endangers LGBTQ people. And the intense reaction to the video has scared some attendees, who insist the quip has been taken out of context.
“It’s really scary to us,” said Fussy Lo Mein, a drag performer and activist who was at this year’s march and declined to give their real name because of safety concerns. “It doesn’t represent everybody — it represents that individual. I thought it was a dumb idea, and I started chanting on top of it with alternate verses.”
The video elicited outrage from right-wing pundits, who called the marchers “demonic” and “evil.” GOP members of Congress tweeted that it showed legislation to outlaw gender-affirming care is warranted, and the Florida Republican Party claimed, “This is what the @FlaDems want in Florida.”
An organizer for this year’s Drag March known as Hucklefaery Ken, who also performs in drag as Sister-Lotti Da, declined an interview request, similarly citing fears for his safety in light of the backlash over the video clip. But he said in an email that the “coming for your children” chant was a “bad joke that is being used to serve the interests of parasitic, predatory political propaganda and policy.”
Of course it’s all a joke and they’re the real victims. This all goes back to the anti-gay stuff. Didn’t you know that?
“We’re not going shopping” is the new “Let’s go Brandon.”
This post was edited on 6/27/23 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:09 pm to TerryDawg03
Targeting children is LGBTQ culture.
They're asking us to respect their pedophile culture.
No thanks.
They're asking us to respect their pedophile culture.
No thanks.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:11 pm to TerryDawg03
I remember when NBC News took the same steps to explain things said by Trump.
I remember them often excusing his statements as being in jest and how it was always important to take them in the broadest of contexts.
I remember them often excusing his statements as being in jest and how it was always important to take them in the broadest of contexts.
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:21 pm to Numberwang
You can’t be civil with uncivil ppl.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 12:49 am to hwyman108
The light is turned on. Moth should show up soon.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 1:28 am to TerryDawg03
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“It’s all just words,” Griffin said
Don't they claim that words are weapons?
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:16 am to TerryDawg03
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But he said in an email that the “coming for your children” chant was a “bad joke that is being used to serve the interests of parasitic, predatory political propaganda and policy.”
War is peace
Slavery is freedom
Ignorance is strength
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:26 am to TerryDawg03
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poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment
Yeah...that'll work.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:26 am to TerryDawg03
Too late.
The fact has been revealed that homosexuals are pedophiles. One and the same.
The fact has been revealed that homosexuals are pedophiles. One and the same.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:30 am to TerryDawg03
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But one voice that is louder than the crowd — it’s not clear whose, or whether the speaker was a member of the LGBTQ community — is heard saying at least twice, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.”
It wasn't us who said it.
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Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
Even if we said it, it wasn't bad
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The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists,
This isn't new, don't be upset by it.
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But to Brian Griffin, the original organizer of the NYC Drag March, if that’s the worst they heard, it’s only because he wasn’t there this year
It could be worse, so you have no right to complain.
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one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people.
This is empowerment. If you complain, you're wrong.
Yep, looks like all the boxes have been checked. Effective work.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:40 am to TerryDawg03
I'm pretty sure that article went through the entire left process.
it was all just a bad joke you homophobes.
so predictable.
quote:(no one said it. you didn't hear what you thought you heard and it definitely doesnt represent us)
But one voice that is louder than the crowd
quote:(yeah we might have said it why are you so sensitive?)
It’s all just words,
quote:(fine, we said it you bigots. we say it all the time)
The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events,
quote:(why did you notice what we said and start persecuting us?)
And the intense reaction to the video has scared some attendees,
it was all just a bad joke you homophobes.
so predictable.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:47 am to TerryDawg03
Come on guys I am sure it is nothing…. They just want us to accept their mental illness as normal….
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:51 am to 2020_reVISION
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Don't they claim that words are weapons?
If I chanted "kill the queers" I would be imprisoned for a hate crime.
But this is fine:
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Griffin said he chanted obscene things in the past, like “Kill, kill, kill, we’re coming to kill the mayor
This post was edited on 6/28/23 at 5:53 am
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:00 am to TerryDawg03
They are demonic people.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:13 am to TerryDawg03
Whenever the term “lacks context” is used by a regime approved “fact checker” in the Mockingbird Media, it invariably indicates the disputed claim is 100% true.


This post was edited on 6/28/23 at 6:15 am
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:22 am to TerryDawg03
quote:Yeah, like the time that gay singing group sang the song about coming for your children, and then numerous members were found to be convicted pedos.
Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
That was wacky.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:31 am to 2020_reVISION
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Don't they claim that words are weapons?
"Literal violence", they say.
Just "misgender" them, or God forbid you use their "dead name" once they've succumbed to the delusion that a biological male is an actual woman. You'll hear all about it.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:33 am to TerryDawg03
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“It’s all just words,”
So words aren't violence?
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:49 am to TerryDawg03
This fight is going to be a nasty one if both sides can't come to terms on something as basic as leaving children out of it.
There is no middle ground and one side is going to have to be squashed completely.
There is no middle ground and one side is going to have to be squashed completely.
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:56 am to 2020_reVISION
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Don't they claim that words are weapons?
That and, 'Silence is violence.'
You can only be a promoter to make them happy.
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