I mean, limiting any group’s rights is a travesty. People cannot push backwards to that.
It’s insane. I don’t know what [Ron] DeSantis hopes to do in Florida, and I can’t believe he can marshal that many people to support him. Because most people know when injustice is being done—they sense it themselves, whether they even accept your point of view or not. At least they would be equivocating. They would just say, “Well, that’s what that group of people wants. You know, they’re not harming anyone.”
I just don’t understand it. I don’t understand this whole plowing backwards that so many people are doing in the country. Thank god it’s not a majority yet, and I’m sure it will not become one.
Lily Tomlin speaking to Yahoo! Entertainment‘s Kevin Polowy about the recent wave of anti-LGBTQ+ state legislatures that are seeking to ban drag and limit the rights of the trans community.
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“… it’s not a majority yet” is likely true BUT it doesn’t take a majority to support something that is bad for it to win. Just look at some of the worst possible candidates that managed to get into office. I just read a New York Times’ article on the changes that are being requested (proposed or demanded?) in text books. One example was about Rosa Parks. The examples given were such that it would be better to just not even include anything in the book about her. An equally disturbing example was about the original people. No reasons even mentioned why they were willing to fight. I recalled getting educated in North Carolina schools without any mentioning of the horrible experiences they suffered as they were disenfranchised and exterminated to near total extinction.
exactly. Trump didn’t win by the majority vote. They created a time machine and we are all being forced to live in the 1950s. I fear they will start censoring things on the internet next. They can ban books and erase entire chapters but they cannot stop the information that is on the internet and that is where most people go for information. Dark times coming
I’d like to know how many gay public school teachers there are in Key West, Miami Beach, FLDale, etc. How are they coping! What are they doing about this mess?
Cyndi Lauper essentially said that these laws are Hitlerian and they are. Just look at the history of Germany and the steady and increasing creep of racist, anti-Semitic laws there after 1933, as the country slumbered while Hitler and the Nazi ran amok, and you’ll see parallels to what’s happening here.
In fact, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel along these lines, It Can’t Happen Here (1935) that more Americans should read, because in some ways, he too predicted what we’re potentially facing. But nothing is going to stop people like DeSantis unless more people start speaking up and out and fewer people vote for monsters like him, Don the Con and the increasingly and openly extremist GOP.
Thank you, Miss Lily! I also just don’t understand how people like DeSatan get away with their wickedness. I live in Europe, so maybe I don’t know, but I don’t see anybody standing up to his attempts to ban books (can burning them be far behind), repress women, ignore science, etc., etc., etc. I cannot understand it.
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“… it’s not a majority yet” is likely true BUT it doesn’t take a majority to support something that is bad for it to win. Just look at some of the worst possible candidates that managed to get into office. I just read a New York Times’ article on the changes that are being requested (proposed or demanded?) in text books. One example was about Rosa Parks. The examples given were such that it would be better to just not even include anything in the book about her. An equally disturbing example was about the original people. No reasons even mentioned why they were willing to fight. I recalled getting educated in North Carolina schools without any mentioning of the horrible experiences they suffered as they were disenfranchised and exterminated to near total extinction.
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exactly. Trump didn’t win by the majority vote. They created a time machine and we are all being forced to live in the 1950s. I fear they will start censoring things on the internet next. They can ban books and erase entire chapters but they cannot stop the information that is on the internet and that is where most people go for information. Dark times coming
abfab
One ringy dingy—-two ringy dingy…….is this the party to whom I am speaking?
Mack
Ms Tomlin better watch it, the Tallahassee Mussolini is a vindictive little bitch and will probably see if he ban her from the State of Florida.
dbmcvey
@Mack,
Banned from Florida? Oh. Please. No.
abfab
I’d like to know how many gay public school teachers there are in Key West, Miami Beach, FLDale, etc. How are they coping! What are they doing about this mess?
abfab
I wonder how Janis Ian and her wife are coping after decades living there. Ya know she ain’t 17 no more…..
James
Ron de satanis is Adolph Hitler.
Davidflys
Yes, finally someone had the balls to say it!!
Kangol2
Cyndi Lauper essentially said that these laws are Hitlerian and they are. Just look at the history of Germany and the steady and increasing creep of racist, anti-Semitic laws there after 1933, as the country slumbered while Hitler and the Nazi ran amok, and you’ll see parallels to what’s happening here.
In fact, Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel along these lines, It Can’t Happen Here (1935) that more Americans should read, because in some ways, he too predicted what we’re potentially facing. But nothing is going to stop people like DeSantis unless more people start speaking up and out and fewer people vote for monsters like him, Don the Con and the increasingly and openly extremist GOP.
BGreen1963
If you know a gay person who doesn’t vote, educate them, kick their lazy vapid butts and take them to the polls!
Karlis
Thank you, Miss Lily! I also just don’t understand how people like DeSatan get away with their wickedness. I live in Europe, so maybe I don’t know, but I don’t see anybody standing up to his attempts to ban books (can burning them be far behind), repress women, ignore science, etc., etc., etc. I cannot understand it.