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If you've not been following the developments swirling around the formerly anonymous Twitter user @LibsofTikTok over the last week, it's worth a news search and reading about it. This woman has drawn the ire of the progressive left (and even of The Washington Post, but I repeat myself) for doing nothing more than curating social media posts of school teachers and university professors steeped in trans ideology. She shines a light on these educators own public social media posts as a way of highlighting what they advocate, both in public policy and in the classroom.

Here are two examples:





And for this she's vilified.
 

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MAP. Oh shit. We're doomed.

Vilified. Poor girl. Such a victim.

5th grade is when puberty kicks in for many. Real life. Kids are sexual. Society is sexual.

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Should we take up a collection for a pallet of tissues?

Society has a way of marginalizing the assholes. This is one example.

I do find the characterization of what is happening to her being vilification. Isn’t that EXACTLY what she is attempting to do?
 

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If you've not been following the developments swirling around the formerly anonymous Twitter user @LibsofTikTok over the last week, it's worth a news search and reading about it. This woman has drawn the ire of the progressive left (and even of The Washington Post, but I repeat myself) for doing nothing more than curating social media posts of school teachers and university professors steeped in trans ideology. She shines a light on these educators own public social media posts as a way of highlighting what they advocate, both in public policy and in the classroom.

Here are two examples:



Ugh. Anyone who normalizes pedophilia is disgusting.
 

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Should we take up a collection for a pallet of tissues?

Society has a way of marginalizing the assholes. This is one example.

I do find the characterization of what is happening to her being vilification. Isn’t that EXACTLY what she is attempting to do?
I think you should care about the quality of education in our public school system, yes. I also think you should worry about people who do not see a problem with sexually assaulting children.

Am I asking too much of you?
 

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Yep. Good thing the asst. prof. wasn't normalizing pedophilia. Listen to it again.
Are you attempting to defend the good professor's opinion that sexual relationships with children need to be destigmatized or are you just gainsaying?
 

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I think you should care about the quality of education in our public school system, yes. I also think you should worry about people who do not see a problem with sexually assaulting children.

Am I asking too much of you?

I am very involved in my local schools and don’t need some failed NY realtor chiming in… She wanted to be a big star with the alt-right and she got what she wanted. Despite what many in MAGA world might think, being an asshole is not that popular.


If you are relying on a Twitter account to “keep you informed” you are part of the problem. Put away your keyboard and march your ass down to the local school. They are ALWAYS looking for volunteers.
 
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No.

Here ya go. You're gonna need it.
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I'm not building a straw-men as I'm making no assertion about you or your opinions (yet). I'm simply asking you questions.

Back to the point, when the professor argues that we should not use a stigmatizing word like "pedophile" for an adult who is sexually attracted to children, why do you think he/she was making that argument? Please be specific.
 

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Yep. Good thing the asst. prof. wasn't normalizing pedophilia. Listen to it again.

Of course he was. He wants to use a different term because "pedophile" is a negative one.
 

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That's not even close to what he said. Just the opposite, actually. Take off the biased glasses.

That's exactly what he said.

He said he uses the term because pedophiles would rather be called that because it's less stigmatizing.
 

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I am very involved in my local schools and don’t need some failed NY realfor chiming in… She wanted to be a big star with the alt-right and she got what she wanted. Despite what many in MAGA world might think, being an asshole is not that popular.


If you are relying on a Twitter account to “keep you informed” you are part of the problem. Put away your keyboard and march your ass down to the local school. They are ALWAYS looking for volunteers.
Clearly you think she's wrong for highlighting these social media posts, but do you think that? Speaking to the two cites in the OP, do you think it's bad that parents who send their children to that 5th grade teacher's school know about her gender identity lesson plan? Is one an "asshole" if one argues for the stigmatization of pedophilia?
 

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That's exactly what he said.

He said he uses the term because pedophiles would rather be called that because it's less stigmatizing.
Let's give 'Cole a chance to say that stigmatizing pedophilia isn't a bad thing. I'm sure he wants to.
 

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I think you should care about the quality of education in our public school system, yes. I also think you should worry about people who do not see a problem with sexually assaulting children.

Am I asking too much of you?

Where are children getting sexually assaulted in school?
 

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Clearly you think she's wrong for highlighting these social media posts, but do you think that? Speaking to the two cites in the OP, do you think it's bad that parents who send their children to that 5th grade teacher's school know about her gender identity lesson plan? Is one an "asshole" if one argues for the stigmatization of pedophilia?


What should happen to the professor?
 

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Clearly you think she's wrong for highlighting these social media posts, but do you think that? Speaking to the two cites in the OP, do you think it's bad that parents who send their children to that 5th grade teacher's school know about her gender identity lesson plan? Is one an "asshole" if one argues for the stigmatization of pedophilia?

I think she is a coward for bitching about being identified.
 
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