The Pushback against Leftism

Exactly. The moral panic over it is ridiculous and the harassment of attendees and the bookshop disturbing. Panti was right to tell the screaming protester to go **** himself.

This is really ridiculous. It was a book reading not a twerking performance. There's nobody twerking. No hyper sexualised environment with sexual exploitation. Its a book reading. Thats it.

Apologies in that case. My impression was you were talking about the Westport book reading and @[Deleted User] and @ArthurDayne must have got that impresion too. I still think all the protesting about the Westport book reading are ridiculous.

Yeah, there probably is a good reason, the reason being that they are books in a children’s book store that are readily available and I’m sure you can pop into the store and see for yourself. Or possibly just zoom in on the picture.

But yes, from now on the books which are read in book-reading sessions should be published online for national scrutiny and the security of all citizens. . . .

It's ridiculous because people like you have no idea what you're talking about, or you're playing dumb.

What is a Drag Queen? A Drag Queen is basically a transvestite (a term the Left seek to irradiate and rebrand). The fact they are usually homosexual is irrelevant thus @ArthurDayne's points about the objections being about the gays is nonsense, as 'a man just dressing as a woman whats you're problem' is also nonsense.

I'm getting to that point now.

When the intention as stated above is to 'promote diversity' exactly what diversity? Homosexuality? No. A man simply dressing up as a woman, like Dame Edna Everage? No. A person performing on stage dressed as a woman? No.

It is about promoting people who dress up as women for more than just dressing up for the 'craic' as Rory put it. Isn't it? Surely y'all have some cop on and know this, and you also know that homosexuals don't usually dress up as women in their spare time. It's masculinity we're interested in, not femininity.

https://teni.ie/resources/transvestite-and-crossdressing/#:~:text=A%20transvestite%20is%20a%20person,to%20live%20“dual%20role”.

So the question is, do we need to tentatively via book readings educate kids that some men have a 'predilection' to dress up as women for 'erotic enjoyment'? Well?

Clearly the uber Left are running out of minorities to champion as gay become passee. Now they are 'platforming' drag queen transvestites, bringing them out of the shadows into the mainstream, because you know there's such a stigma being a DQ so what we need to do is change social attitudes about them and cast them in Eastenders. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/eastenders-drag-queen-bbc-b2113901.html so we can all live in a better world.

So the fact there was no Beyonce like bum shaking in Westport is completely irrelevant to the objection of Left Wing NGO's 'platforming' Drag Queen transvestites especially to young children. Get it now?

And btw, Rory knows full well there's been objections to these story hours, and imo he's only too delighted there was a protest to give him an opportunity to call out the far right fascists in the far West and he also knows that most people don't have a clue what a Drag Queen really is, as is evident here going by the last few contributions.

But why like? What's the reasoning for it? What is the reasoning for drag queens to be reading books to infants and children?

And what has any of that got to do with drag queens, I mean, when did drag queens suddenly become some sort of arbiters towards reading? Last I looked drag queens were flamboyant adult comedic characters, not english teachers. I may as well be asking Freddie Gibbs to teach my child about thermodynamic engineering.

It doesn’t sound like they’re supposed to be a replacement for actual English Literature classes mate, so I’d probably calm down on concerns about the qualifications of Panti Bliss to teach English.....

I'm not too familiar with Gibbs, but why would you have an issue with him reading some books on engineering to your kid for a hour of a random Saturday?

He's a rap artist from Gary in Indiana and former cocaine dealer, that's what his whole shtick is about. Like drag queens, he is a flamboyant performance artist that uses his previous persona to create comedic and also artistic shock effects to a Adult audience. An adult audience. I enjoy him immensely, just like I enjoy certain talented drag queens that utilise the exact same sort of showcase performance towards an adult audience, but I will never ever allow any of Gibb's tracks to be heard by my 3 year old, because his work, his performance is not the realm of children, let alone infant ones. It is for adults.

Apologies, i thought in this scenario he was reading about Thermodynamics, not performing tunes about cocaine to 3 year olds in a bookshop.

It's difficult to keep up with you :)