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[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 136 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

If teachers could brainwash kids to the point of changing their sexual orientation, wouldn't all schoolchildren become well-read, polite and clean well before they turn trans or gay?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No. Turning gay is very easy. All it takes is seeing two dudes kissing and you're done. Maintaining your straightness requires constant vigilance.

[–] lingh0e 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Of COURSE gay is a choice. I CHOOSE to be heterosexual. It's not an easy choice, but it's a choice I make every single morning. I don't understand how the rest of the world doesn't understand this. They're just waking up every day allowing teh ghey to overtake their spirit? How can ANYONE choose to live like that?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Stay strong brother! Just remember: if you fail, you will be butt raped by beefcake demons for all eternity. Nobody could possibly want that, right?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I chose to be straight so I'm going to heaven. Unlike my husband whose gay and is going straight to hell.

[–] Setarkus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

May his straight way be reason enough to earn redemption

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Very true. I learned I could become a girl and suddenly I was trans if I ever stopped re insisting I was a boy.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

also by that logic there should be no gay or trans schoolchildren as homophobia and transphobia were in the curriculum way before queer people began to be accepted-ish in the society

[–] lingh0e 11 points 10 months ago

Fucking seriously. The goons most likely to respond to this kind of propaganda are also usually the parents of the kids who aren't listening to a damn thing the teachers say anyways.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese 11 points 10 months ago

We can't take that risk

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We’re gonna have an entire generation where all the republicans are barely educated morons and all the democrats are normal people. Oh wait…

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And they're going to populate. Sounds like a movie I saw.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago

Invader zim was a good show for an alternative view on that future.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They want to indoctrinate kids (religion) so they assume everyone else wants to too. It's always projection.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Um, I'm no expert, but I don't think they allow transgender surgery in schools. 🤷‍♂️

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You don't have to have surgery to be trans

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

True, and I totally get that as well.

I'm sure you get my drastically oversimplified point though. School is supposed to be for learning reading, writing and arithmetic, and of course more advanced subjects later on.

I'm sure that no teacher worth their weight in salt is trying to convert anyone's gender identity.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Tell that to the Republican demagogues (but I repeat myself)

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago

Even more Insidious than surgery.. ideas! But I have no ideas to combat all of their evidence, psychologists, and medical experts.. Damn, guess I better ban their ideas. All in a days work.

[–] Kyrrrr@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

That's fair. Gay frogs and Al Gore turned me anti fascist. Just think what children could do