Woah. This is actually a rip off of the logo of an original musical produced in Mount Vernon, WA in 2019 called Pray the Gay Away. https://ptgashow.com/
The show was actually about the trauma that gay conversion therapy causes and how we should be allowed to be ourselves no matter who we love. We sold out almost every show. The music is amazing and the show was very powerful. It's interesting to see people now stealing the graphics from our small local theater! Honored and angry actually. Small world.
Pray the Gay Away® takes place in 1980’s Minnetonka, Minnesota and shows the collision course of two boys being subjected to the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy, the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod that says “homosexual behavior is intrinsically sinful”, a Youth Pride LGBTQ support group fighting for human rights, and the local community caught in the middle.
If the shirt were written in Chinese, maybe you'd have a leg to stand on. But let's not sit here and pretend like an oppressive atheistic regime has ever caused issues in Western, English speaking nations.
Who spearheaded anti-gay marriage movements? Who revoked women's rights to abortion? Who advocates for transphobic laws? Christian fundamentalists. They are a humongous problem in the western world. Atheism is not.
Look, I have many Christian friends. And there are many Christian organizations that do good for the world. But in the US, it's Christian fundamentalism that is a huge threat to human rights....not atheism.
I shouldn't need to qualify myself with this statement but I definitely still do: I am strong in favor of LGBTQ+ rights
Now my actual point: This type of divisive stuff actively contributes to the rising conservatism in our youth. We would be foolish to think the reason for the rise in conservatism is simply that the bad guys are succeeding, it is also because the good guys are actively failing.
The 150 millisecond dopamine hit from dunking on your perceived political opponents is not worth the generations-long division it contributes to.
The cause of the divisive stuff is not jokes like this on a t-shirt. It is the rise of misinformation and disinformation enabled by social media. It actively promotes divisive posts because it is what grabs the attention of people regardless of if it is true or accurate.
And here i thought conservatism was rising because of conservatives pretending to solve problems by either straight up ignoring them, finding scapegoats or distracting us with their „problems“ for which they also offer scapegoats. That and dunking on high-school kids with little media training for Youtube by just talking so much bullshit that debunking it becomes impossible.
Look at their tactics. They point to stuff like this and use it as supporting evidence for their replacement theory bullshit. How about we don't give them more to point at? We gain nothing from this image but we stand to lose so fucking much if Tucker Carlson decides to put this image on screen for 10 seconds.
In this day and age, just saying "I am strong in favor of LGBTQ+ rights" might not be enough. Had a fun Facebook debate with a guy that claims the same support yet also thinks trans people should use the bathroom corresponding to their "biological sex". He is of course a complete fucking dumbass.
That being said, ain't no one gonna be "divided" on this that wasn't already indoctrinated by bullshit.
Haha yeah, you don’t actually support if you go “LGB, drop the T.” Shockingly, gender criticals tend to be racist, misogynist, and homophobic. They just like to present outwardly as though they don’t, but never really succeed in pulling it off.
People forget that a lot of children aren't politicized by their parents. They go on the internet and youtube spoonfeeds them their first political opinions. They are an empty vessel and their head gets filled with shit like "the queers want to replace us normal people" and the grifters telling them that point directly to shit like this as their supporting evidence.
Children are fucking stupid. Obviously it makes no logical sense to rational people, but social conservatism is inherently illogical.
No it's more like not throwing shade on people who haven't thrown shade.
If you just walk up to someone assuming their straight and give them shit for it you're just as bad as a straight person doing the same to someone who's gay.
Now if they were already giving a gay person shit by all means go off. The problem is people act on their emotions before figuring out the full scenario in front of them.
In general people need to stop acting on emotional impulse and wait till they actually know what's going on