The whole thing on the pretense of “think of the children. “ is just gross.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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Especially when they support politicians that want to legally marry children and send them to work in the mines on a school night. And it's never been a secret that these politicians are a bunch of kiddie fiddlers. In fact, southern (red) US states have a reputation all the way across the ocean here for being where the products of incest, teen moms and preachers that can't keep their hands to themselves in youth group all live.
It's no secret. And yet masses of people voted for this scum to "protect the children" from drag queens reading books in public libraries. I don't know if these people actually believe the lie that they tell when they say they care about the children but I sure as hell don't. Because it's pretty clear to me with my own eyes and my own brains that these people willingly handed their children over to the most prolific predators and pedos of all.
Now the pro-LGBTQ+ employees are jobless and there's nobody to push for those books being put back on the shelves. They'll be replaced with bigots.
They got fired for refusing to pull the books and you think their boss (who is parroting right wing shit about protecting the children) is going to let them repeatedly bring up that they shouldn’t have been removed? You are writing fanfic.
Headline says they quit, weren't fired. Article says one was "sent home."
While the headline says they all quit, in the story an employee says they were sent home with what is pretty obviously a threat to comply or get fired:
A former employee who wished to remain anonymous told NBC News she cried when she was instructed by O’Connor to remove the LGBTQ+ titles. When she refused, the employee said she was sent home to reflect if she wanted to work at the store.
This is arguably constructive dismissal, which does count as termination on the part of the employer. It would have to go to court to say for sure, but it’s not something I would fuck around with if I was employing people.
Boycott the hell out of that bookstore!
Seconded
First, what a poorly written article. Looks like AI.
Next, fuck that store. They caved and moved books that bigots complained about, because, to them, LGBTQ is immoral and they think they are protecting kids from this immoral influence.
The store should have refused, then shown some balls and have a display at the entrance focusing on LGBTQ stories and history.
review bomb them