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Anti-LGBTQ hate thrives online, spurs fears of more violence
AP via NBC ^ | Dec. 18, 2022 | Associated Press staff writers

Posted on 12/20/2022 6:12:37 AM PST by Salman

In the days after a gunman killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado last month, much of social media lit up with the now familiar expressions of grief, mourning and disbelief.

But on some online message boards and platforms, the tone was celebratory. “I love waking up to great news,” wrote one user on Gab, a platform popular with far-right groups. Other users on the site called for more violence.

On Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, researchers and LGBTQ advocates have tracked an increase in hate speech and threats of violence directed at LGBTQ people, groups and events, with much of it directed at transgender people.

The hate isn’t limited to fringe sites.

On Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, researchers and LGBTQ advocates have tracked an increase in hate speech and threats of violence directed at LGBTQ people, groups and events, with much of it directed at transgender people.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: fakenews; homofascism; homosexualagenda
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Presented as news, I have tagged it "editorial".

Executive summary: Whipping up anti-free-speech hysteria.

1 posted on 12/20/2022 6:12:37 AM PST by Salman
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2 posted on 12/20/2022 6:15:21 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

What is especially sickening in that first photo are all the parents and adults in the background smiling approvingly like this is just the best thing ever.


3 posted on 12/20/2022 6:19:17 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Travis McGee

LGBTQ is a Cult


4 posted on 12/20/2022 6:20:15 AM PST by butlerweave
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One can only hope


5 posted on 12/20/2022 6:20:24 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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LGBTQ+ fear being “othered”? From the Greek hetero.
6 posted on 12/20/2022 6:20:58 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Headline should read “Response To Forced Acceptance Of Sexual Perverse Lifestyles Is Mostly Peaceful”


7 posted on 12/20/2022 6:23:32 AM PST by robel
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When the hateful nuts on the right reach the level of hate toward us from the left, that is allowed BTW, I might give a ****.


8 posted on 12/20/2022 6:25:33 AM PST by Tennessee Conservative (Shegens on Truth Social 🐝)
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A conclusion in search of evidence


9 posted on 12/20/2022 6:26:21 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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The extreme element of LBGTQ has awakened the extreme element of the anti-LGBTQ.

As usual, nature abhors a vacuum.

10 posted on 12/20/2022 6:28:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Christian hate thrives online too. But we’ll never hear about that from the news media.


11 posted on 12/20/2022 6:29:05 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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Well you can have a great laugh watching this movie ...... puts the silliness of it all in prospective. Just viewed it again last night. If these creeps wern't trying to shove their sick lifestyle down our throats we'd still laugh and make jokes about it as we use to.....this movie certainly reflects that humor.


12 posted on 12/20/2022 6:30:53 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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Great movie.

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13 posted on 12/20/2022 6:36:39 AM PST by Mears (.)
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Most, if not all, of the LuggButt “community’s” cries of hateful threats stems from their defense of groomers amongst them. It is one thing to entertain your own delusions, it is quite another to actively use it to give cover to the monsters wanting to hurt children.


14 posted on 12/20/2022 6:45:20 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Mears

Laughed like crazy watching it!


15 posted on 12/20/2022 6:46:00 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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If these people had just gone quietly about their lives, nobody would be commenting on them. They wanted certain legal protections, and they got them. But no. That wasn’t enough. They now have a full-blown campaign of attacking traditional people/religious people and trying to cause them as much damage as possible.

If there is any anti-homosexual backlash, it is only because they keep pushing this crap down our throats. We’re sick to friggin’ death of it. Now that they’re pushing it onto our kids (and we’re PAYING them to do it) in the schools, that’s just way too much.

Shut up. Live the way you want. Quit trying to paint ME as hateful because I choose to believe what God tells me. As I have said in the past, their argument is with God.


16 posted on 12/20/2022 6:48:42 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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This is according to whom? The alphabets?

Consider the source.. These people thrive on yellow journalism. it is their bread and butter. If there is not a fire, let’s start one and blame the Bible Thumpers.

They haven’t seen Anti-anything until they are hauled out into the street, and lynched from the nearest telephone pole. That is not going to happen here, in the USA. If there is anything like that I would be looking for the False Flag operation trying to start something.

Quoting Scripture, annd telling them that GOD tells them they are wrong is not hate, it is love. Just like praying every day that they be changed is love.

Satan is crafty, uses every tool in his belt, works 29 hours a day.

Prayer is the best defense against these people. Protect your children, know what goes on in the schools, visit the children’s section of the public library,
Ask GOD for help, especially when you are like me and start to think about how I could fix the situation, rather than leaving it in God’s hands.

God is faithful to His followers, and He does give gifts of patience and strength.

We know how this story ends, God will win, pray for peace, strength, and endurance.

Shalom Aleichem


17 posted on 12/20/2022 6:53:17 AM PST by North Coast Conservative (MAGA…….BEWARE OF FEDS IN THE THREADS. Don’t bite no matter how juicy the worm looks)
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To: Mears

It was very funny!


18 posted on 12/20/2022 6:54:47 AM PST by Ex-Episcopalian
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To: Travis McGee

Romans 1: 18-32 ESV

God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 

19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 

20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world,[g] in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 

21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 

22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 

29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 

32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.


19 posted on 12/20/2022 6:54:48 AM PST by Bratch
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Perverts; “Boo hoo. We want to rape your kids and you won’t let us!!!”


20 posted on 12/20/2022 6:57:38 AM PST by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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