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Initech

(100,103 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:01 PM Jun 2018

Josh Bernstein: Drag Queen Story Hour Is 'Borderline Pedophilia'

Drag Queen Story Hour involves exactly what its name suggests—drag queens reading stories to children—and right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein wants the federal government to outlaw it on the grounds that it is “borderline pedophilia.”

“This is child abuse,” Bernstein declared in a video posted on Friday. “This is child endangerment and, among other things, I think that this should be illegal. I believe in freedom of speech and freedom of expression, but I don’t believe in indoctrinating and confusing and abusing, mentally and emotionally, little children to think that they don’t even know what sex they are. Think of the damage that this will have on these children as they grow up and get older. Many of them will commit suicide because they don’t know which gender that they identify with.”

“This is a crime against children,” he added. “This is borderline pedophilia, in a lot of ways. Now, they may not be touching or caressing these children, but they are mentally abusing these children. They are confusing these children. This should be shut down. I think that there should be an investigation in many of these states; maybe even the federal government ought to get involved by shutting this down. This is child abuse, child endangerment.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/josh-bernstein-drag-queen-story-hour-is-borderline-pedophilia/


Yeah dipshit, you know what is a real crime against children? Drugging them and separating them from their parents! You can stop pretending you care about kids asshole.
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Josh Bernstein: Drag Queen Story Hour Is 'Borderline Pedophilia' (Original Post) Initech Jun 2018 OP
Bernstein's rigid gender norms are the problem, not the liberation from them ck4829 Jun 2018 #1
Religious suppression of gender norms is the problem. Initech Jun 2018 #5
Look in the mirror, don a wig, add a little makeup and lighten up MagickMuffin Jun 2018 #2
He'd better not come to Britain and see a traditional pantomime then BritVic Jun 2018 #3
As opposed to the baby pageants the unservatives love so much superpatriotman Jun 2018 #4

ck4829

(35,091 posts)
1. Bernstein's rigid gender norms are the problem, not the liberation from them
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:05 PM
Jun 2018

The damage is being caused by him and his ilk. Period.

Initech

(100,103 posts)
5. Religious suppression of gender norms is the problem.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 02:58 PM
Jun 2018

And this really names them no better than the Taliban. Ugh I can't stand these people.

MagickMuffin

(15,952 posts)
2. Look in the mirror, don a wig, add a little makeup and lighten up
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 01:20 PM
Jun 2018

Men have been dressing as women for centuries. This Josh Bernstein needs a go fund me page so he can afford to purchase a bag of clues because he is definitely clueless.

BritVic

(262 posts)
3. He'd better not come to Britain and see a traditional pantomime then
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 02:22 PM
Jun 2018

All the usual gender roles go out of the window,princess and prince in love with her usually both played by women, the dame is a guy in a frock plus there's a healthy dose of double entendres that go over the children's heads but entertain the parents who have to endure a very noisy, enthusiastic audience !

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