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One group playing dress up has definitely hurt children
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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The "Letter" of the meme is contradictory to fact. I think the "Spirit" of the meme is funny. You also have to take into account the VAST disparity in numbers regarding this situation too. How many religious people/clergymen, etc are there? As a ratio of drag queens? Of COURSE that number is going to look incredibly lop-sided. It's meant to as optics to further an argument. As I said in my original statement -- not using an absolutist statement as this meme does, would solve my problem altogether. But people are willing to jump out of their seats to dogpile a person who perceivably has a different view than them, even though I don't actually. But because someone would argue that something presented as fact, isn't actually factual...out come the pitchforks.
Mate, I am totally not dog-piling you. I'm trying to be respectful but I would really like to know where the data is that led you to form the opinion that this is a numbers issue. Are you saying that if we had the data we'd see there'd be a roughly equal percentage of pedo priests as pedo drag artists?
I'm also not sure the meme is saying what you think it is. You seem to think it's saying only one group has hurt kids but it doesn't say that. It says that one group definitely have. i.e. that we know that priests definitely and in substantial numbers, hurt kids. It's not saying no drag artist has ever hurt a kid, but that, as a group, we can't say drag artists definitely hurt kids, whereas we clearly can say that about priests.
Oh, don't think I was claiming that you were dog-piling, I was saying that just as a general observation of the platform as a whole. No worries there mate.
You could put any "group" or categorization of people up there and say that they've hurt children. Definitely. So saying "One Group" while knowing full well that this problem probably runs equally through all groups, while relying on the fact that - drag queens are practically non existent when it comes to a percentage of the population -- is disingenuous. It portrays them as being perfect somehow, and they are definitely not. They're not less perfect than anyone else either, but it feels dirty to compare them to the clergy too.
I've only responded to you one other time here and let most of this go but this comment is absolutely heinous. "Runs equally"? That's just disgusting. Drag queens walk around with a target on their back for this kind of thing nowadays partially because of people playing devil's advocate or whatever this is that you're doing here. All three of the people in your stories were charged and fired, if employed. The church protects these clergymen from the consequences of their crimes and they're held in high regard, generally. The worst they have to worry about is kids cracking jokes they probably won't hear anyway. I don't care if you're an engineer or what your deal is but this comment is just problematic and your whole attitude isn't convincing me that you would be much better in a different context.