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[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

.I felt the tone was arrogant, narcissistic, and baiting.

I believe that was their point in the first place, to be provocative, to cross boundaries, to be quee.. oh wait!

In their response, they predictably blamed the far-right conservative media for taking it out of context.

I will play devil's advocate here and say that there's some merit to this assessment, as the ones who threw a fit about this were the usual culture war obsessed, outrage machine clickbait garbage media.

The framing of this as some kind of big conspiracy with 'the gays' trying to convert children is pure bs.

[–]ThrowMeAway2879 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

the ones who threw a fit about this were the usual culture war obsessed, outrage machine clickbait garbage media.

Facebook/online gay-bashers will get years of memes and fake news out of this one stupid video. Christmas came early for those people this year.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Christmas

But don't say 'Happy Homophobic Holidays' (which is nicely alliterative) because they hate that too. Also something something red cups?

[–]SerpensInferna 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

While I do agree that the homophobic crowd took this and ran with it, I'm also seeing it questioned and criticized in places on the internet that are far more centrist or even left-leaning. Outside of the extremes, the normies appear overwhelmingly not pleased.

Unfortunately, I think several years of trans-insanity has really upset a lot of the regular population and people have been pushed a bit further to the edge of not being quite as accepting as they have been. And also, it was a terrible, terrible idea to target the children in this song, even...jokingly. People that might not care much or even be supportive otherwise are having a hard time with that.

[–]Neo_Shadow_LurkerPronouns: I/Don't/Care 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

While I do agree that the homophobic crowd took this and ran with it, I'm also seeing it questioned and criticized in places on the internet that are far more centrist or even left-leaning

I would argue this is actually a good thing, as it prevents the criticism of shit like this to become the monopoly of anti-gay grifters.

[–]chazzstrong[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The framing of this as some kind of big conspiracy with 'the gays' trying to convert children is pure bs.

For me, the biggest absurdity is that nowadays the LGB is unfortunately always paired with the TQ+ crap...and they ARE trying to fuck ( with ) kids. That's the thing. Trans-kids, MAPs, there's a disturbing rise of pro-pedo narrative bandying around the internet and the alphabet people and something like this, regardless of the tongue-in-cheek nature, had no chance not to implode and catch everyone in the blast radius regardless of their connections to it.

It's like they woke up and said 'how can we shit all over the last few decades of LGB acceptance today?'
If their intent was to mock the "we're coming for your kids" bit then they failed spectacularly. They only reinforced it.