So I’m in the lunchroom today, and my two right-wing coworkers are there too.
These two are collectively a piece of work. So they are going over all the normal right-wing outrages they get off the news and YouTube. OMG, they want to have special BATHROOMS for transgender students in grade schools and high schools. OMG.
Well. I can kinda get on board with a LITTLE of what they were saying. For instance, I don’t know if a CHILD, before puberty, is sexually aware enough to know if they are transgender. And I am definitely not in favor of transgender surgery performed on a minor child before they have reached puberty. But this is a strawman bullshit argument. How often does that happen, after all? And the bathroom crap? OMG. “THEY WANT TO PUT TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS AND SHOWERS IN ALL OUR SCHOOLS”. Bleah. No they don’t. But maybe they should.
So. on to other things. Latest youtube outrages. I brought up my favorite (not favorite) which is those Florida teenage kids watching the developmentally disabled black man drown, and taking videos and posting it to youtube. Ugh. I saw that many places, and wouldn’t look at that if you paid me.
So I brought THAT up. Well. Derp derp derp. They don’t like that one brought up. Oh they did pay lip service, “what were their parents thinking” and all that. But basically they don’t like that one. and they saw it, so they know what I’m talking about.
Then Salesman Mark, he of the soft voice and passive-aggressive right wing talking points, sez, “there was a study done — about moral dilemmas — they asked the kids — if you could save a drowning dog or a drowning stranger, who would you save? Well — according to this “study” which derp — only a third of the kids asked said they would save the stranger — but according to the RELIGIOUS KIDS asked, 89% would. Well. Way to make your not very subtle and ham-handed point, Mark, about religious people being better than the rest of us heathens. Sigh. I get this from these two all the time.
I said “but what if the dog was a heroic police rescue dog and the stranger was a well-known low-life?
Well. Derp derp again. They quit talking about it. Hahahahaha.
Those two better not ever stand between me and my kitties, if both are drowning, I can tell you that.
Happy Friday, Rose