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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 by TerryDawg03
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Member since Dec 2012
17196 posts
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:05 pm
NBC News

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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 by Numberwang
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Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:09 pm to
Targeting children is LGBTQ culture.

They're asking us to respect their pedophile culture.

No thanks.
Posted by LuckyTiger
Someone's Alter
Member since Dec 2008
49769 posts
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:11 pm to
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.
Posted by hwyman108
Member since Nov 2016
2114 posts
Posted on 6/27/23 at 11:21 pm to
You can’t be civil with uncivil ppl.
Posted by AquaAg84
Member since May 2013
2869 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 12:49 am to
The light is turned on. Moth should show up soon.
Posted by 2020_reVISION
Richmond,VA
Member since Dec 2020
3275 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 1:28 am to
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“It’s all just words,” Griffin said


Don't they claim that words are weapons?
Posted by lsufan1971
Zachary
Member since Nov 2003
21709 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:16 am to
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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 by DMAN1968
Member since Apr 2019
11847 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:26 am to
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poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment

Yeah...that'll work.
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
14083 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:26 am to
Too late.

The fact has been revealed that homosexuals are pedophiles. One and the same.
Posted by TittleMeThis
Member since Jun 2023
127 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:30 am to
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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 by tgerb8
Huntsvegas
Member since Aug 2007
6381 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:40 am to
I'm pretty sure that article went through the entire left process.

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But one voice that is louder than the crowd
(no one said it. you didn't hear what you thought you heard and it definitely doesnt represent us)

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It’s all just words,
(yeah we might have said it why are you so sensitive?)

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The “coming for your children” chant has been used for years at Pride events,
(fine, we said it you bigots. we say it all the time)

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And the intense reaction to the video has scared some attendees,
(why did you notice what we said and start persecuting us?)

it was all just a bad joke you homophobes.


so predictable.

Posted by The Maj
Member since Sep 2016
29592 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:47 am to
Come on guys I am sure it is nothing…. They just want us to accept their mental illness as normal….
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
69722 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 5:51 am to
quote:

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 by LoneStar23
USA
Member since Aug 2019
5706 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:00 am to
They are demonic people.
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
Team Bitter Clinger
Member since May 2020
21412 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:13 am to
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 by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
60511 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:22 am to
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Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
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.

That was wacky.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
70505 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:31 am to
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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 by Azkiger
Member since Nov 2016
25474 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:33 am to
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“It’s all just words,”


So words aren't violence?
Posted by KAGTASTIC
Member since Feb 2022
7989 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:49 am to
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.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
76878 posts
Posted on 6/28/23 at 6:56 am to
quote:

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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