Aaron Radney
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- Another #PoliticalLessonPost. Anti-competitive practices inevitably make things worse for consumers all across the board. Case in point! I swear one of the biggest failures we have in education in this country is our failure to teach the gilded age correctly and thoroughly.
- Alright, #PoliticalLessonPost time. Let's talk about the GOP attempt to eradicate porn, why it's a problem, and why even if you're uncomfortable with porn (and I argue you shouldn't be) advocating against this for the ppl involved is important if we want to preserve folks rights.
- Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography. The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards. dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...
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View full threadThis is saying *I* should be forced to register as a sex offender if I recommend a LGBTQ romance novel to a teen who asks for one. Or direct a pregnant teen to books about prenatal care and abortion. These things happen.
- This will also cripple a lot of NSFW artists. Remember, these Heritage folks want those folks jailed. And then they'd come for artistic nudity, or even showing any kind of female skin in art. Do these sound like people you should give anything they want? They don't to me.
- Then from there, there's nothing stopping them from labeling *anything* they don't like as being porn. As Reinout so accurately notes right here:
- Because let me return your attention to this snippet: "Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders." This is how the Heritage foundation thinks library staff should be treated if we give out a book about LGBTQ history. Or sex ed. Or a queer romance.
- This little bit gives the entire game away right here! The goal is another assault on our LGBTQ and especially Trans siblings. And then, once that disfavored group has been thoroughly cemented, to label any enemies or opponents as being connected *to* that disfavored group to make fighting harder.
- The Republicans are using a classic abuser tactic: to cut people off from community and outside aide. It's designed to make it harder to resist their coercion and control. You can fight an evil empire but it's much harder to fight friends nad neighbors turning on you. That's the Republican's goal
- Every Republican accusation is a confession. How many Republicans have we caught turning out to be child diddlers? Anyway, the effort here is create a permission structure for people to throw sex workers under the bus. To make it okay to hate them and let abuse happen to them. Huge problem...
- This kind of thing is always a way to get you to surrender more and more people to the ever widening maw of hatred and injustice. It's the whole "first they came for the..." poem all over again. But let me tell you this is gonna come for *way* more folks than you realize!
- I think they're just saying 'porn is illegal' and then next they'll say 'talking about lgbt+ stuff is porn'.
- You're right. That's the end goal. But I'm laying out a case here. You're just getting a little ahead of the class! lol
