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"I do not want any kind of rainbow display especially in this month." Imagine hating the idea of diversity so much that any kind of rainbow offends you. These people won't stop until the entire world is gray.
Man, these people are gonna be unhinged once they find out a rainbow is our visible light spectrum and that we technically see it everywhere. The kicker is that "God" put it there.
Oh boy are they unhinged.
"Give it back". Apparently god isn't powerful enough to take it back himself. Weirdest game of keep away ever.
When your political project is 'make everyone as miserable as I am', whining about every goddamn thing is actually a kind of praxis.
You should see the comments on instagram reels whenever a teacher posts something and there's a rainbow in the background, like just a rainbow on the wall in a kindergarten class or something, so many people absolutely fucking lose their minds and spew the most vile shit at these teachers, it's bizarre.
These people won't stop until the entire world is ~~gray~~ white.
FTFY.
They won't stop until all the LGBTQ people (and Jews, people of color, etc) are dead.
“I do not want any kind of rainbow display especially in this month. We have a conservative town and as a library do not need to make political statements (see Target and Budlight as negative examples). I certainly do not want the library to promote LGBTQ agendas.”
Ah, and removing them is not a political statement?
Well yeah, there are only two sexualities: straight and political ^/s
To the quoted hate-filled fuck: Existing without being persecuted isn't a goddamn agenda you piece of shit. The only agenda I see here is your fascist one. Try keeping your shit to yourself and learn to let people be instead of trying to stamp them out, ignorant fuckstick.
Tell them it's to celebrate the receding flood waters and God's promise to never do it again.
That should shut them up.
No, then they’ll just blame it on
[takes deep breath]
“THE JOOOOOOOOOOOZ!!!!1!1!!”
I'm sure they would also happily attempt elimination of neurodivergent people.
Maybe but they also might just do away with all psychiatric treatments, who needs “happy pills” for depression when you can just praise the Lord?
Well that's the next step.
Indeed. No question about that at all.
I don't understand how having a rainbow nearby isn't protected by 1st amendment rights.
I am old enough to remember the rainbow colors being a secret way for the community to find each other. We'd put a small rainbow on our cars, or other places and people of our community knew what that meant.
Now that we are more out of the closet, hateful bigots know what the rainbow flag means too. This is an expected downside to our communities progress. But we will never go back in the closet.
I'm a straight biological male and love rainbows. Colours are pretty! Not sure why anyone would get upset about rainbows. You know, the NATURALLY occurring thing?
Imagine being so afraid of The Big Gay that you fire two people for being part of another community that uses boldly colored stripes in their logo, a community that literally has a documented statistical preference for bold primary colors and patterns. Imagine your hate being so enormous that it can't hit just one group of vulnerable minority children.
EDIT: Imagine posting before your caffeine kicks in and having to fix three different typos.
It's not hate. It's fear. Fear of the confusing thoughts in their heads.
EDIT: Imagine posting before your caffeine kicks in and having to fix three different typos.
I don't have to imagine anything at all to know what this is. Imagine having this experience most days!
When you accidentally discriminate against the “wrong” minority
No, no, they disciminate against them as well. 2 birds, 1 stone.
They're suing.
I hope they win. If the basis for their firing was the presumption that they were gay (hint: being gay is a protected class, you can't fire someone for being gay), this would be an open-and-shut case of employment discrimination.
But if it's all a big dumb misunderstanding and they're not gay (and not part of that particular protected class) but they're still fired over it, let me remind you that being autistic is a never-ending ordeal of being misunderstood, often mixed with a sense of justice that could be characterized as white-hot.
...or at least, my sense of justice about this might be in the range of over-wrought, or just blazing.
These fucking morons don't even know what they're banning... Really teaching everyone how important education really is, and why they don't want people educated.
It's so weird to be outraged about this stuff enough to fire 2 of your neighbors in a small town.
It is deeply weird. These people's brains have been beaten into a froth of hate.
LGBTQ people existing is not political, it is a fact. And I am sure even in that conservative town there are LGBTQ people who would want to read books about them or books to help them. Yea, helping other LGBTQ people is the gay agenda.
On June 22, Splitter, a temporary summer library employee, complained about the display to Lancaster, saying she found the “gay Pride” symbol offensive and going into “an anti-LGBT diatribe” even though Lancaster explained that the infinity symbol represented neurodiversity and autism.
I have to wonder if this person saw the rainbow and applied for a temp position just to complain.
Where are all the people who say "if you don't like it just get another job" when this happens. Especially if you're a temp and you could literally walk across the street and get another job.
Even if the symbol was a Pride display, they should be suing.
So much for not wanting to have negative press, now some random guy in Ohio even hates the place
So this is the Sterling Free Public Library that did this? The library at this website here?
https://sterling.scklslibrary.info/
I wonder what would happen if these ignorant bigots faced a proverbial shit storm of backlash from across the country every time they tried to pull hateful shit like this?
They’d close the library as a fuck you.
"Look at all this hate mail the library is receiving! Proof that no one likes books."
