CARLOS SANTANA PAUSES OWN CONCERT TO GO ON TRANSPHOBIC RANT
Holy crap... This is a guy who’s been in showbiz, in the entertainment industry for decades. He's probably been around gay people, trans people and every other kind of person you can imagine throughout all of that and he starts this shit. It’s just unbelievable to me.
Mastodon is wild, y'all really got white folks on this site calling Black and Indigenous people colonizers, yet wonder why this place can't keep Black folks.
And The Lesson Today Is How To Hate - Equality was contingent upon LGBTQ+ individuals staying out of sight in their (gender-appropriate) closet. The anti-gay protest was outside an LA elementary school. @ChangeTheLAUSDhttps://link.medium.com/GgilYSR6HAb#bigot
Pat Robertson dedicated his long life to dehumanizing queer people. His words influenced my parents and the Christian community I was raised in. I do not celebrate his death, but I welcome the slow, incremental quieting of hate speech from one loud voice no longer speaking.
The caca sanitizing NYT obit categorised the concerns you raise as coming from "detractors" of Robinson.
No, don't touch it, only the surface is desanitised.
It is indeed possible to look at the very negative effects of Pat Robinson on the nation, on communities, on individuals and provide accounts of what flowed from his speech, how his hate filled speech harmed folk.
PANIC: Florida takes huge economic hit as conventions reject anti-woke agenda (washingtonpress.com)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has scared off millions of dollars worth of business from his state with his extremist, bigoted agenda.