収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

I dove into the @StateFarm hatefest tonight, looking at the books rightists are ranting about, as _they_ - the outraged - portray them.

The samples _they_ post say queer kids exist, and talk in very simple terms about how these kids discovered that, and how they feel about that.

To the rightists, acknowledging this reality is an outrage, indoctrination, and grooming.

The crime is not of salaciousness, though they want it to appear so. The crime is not of sexual writing, though they also want that to appear true.

The crime is that we exist.

To them, the _mere existence_ of LGBTQ people is sexual, the _mere existence_ of LGBTQ people is perverted, and _acknowledging_ the mere existence of LGBTQ people, particularly kids, makes you a "pedo" who is "grooming children."

Just like always.

And @StateFarm bowed to that.

I mean, sure, National Review set it up, teeing up a hit piece that promoted all of this bullshit. Of course they did, that's what they do, that's who they are; the GOP tell you who they are every day, and you need to start believing them.

But State Farm is the one who bowed.

None of this is surprising, or _should be_ surprising. When they were running anti-trans bathroom-ban ads, they were literally shot-per-shot remakes of anti-gay ads I saw in the 90s, only instead of the scary faggot following a little boy into the bathroom, it was a little girl.

None of this is new, @StateFarm - not one word, not one shot, not one argument, not one lie, it is _all the same_ as it has ever been.

Is there no memory? Is there no recall? This isn't even 100 years ago, it's 20, during the lifetimes of EVERY PERSON WORKING FOR YOU.

And yet.

And yet, here we are. Another cowardly flinch away from the hate machine, this time State Farm, giving the rightists an unearned and undeserved and unjust victory against... who?

Queer kids.

The ones they like the most to bully.

And now, @StateFarm, they know you'll fold like the cheapest of accordions at the first howling of the monkey collective. And, being who they are, they'll come at you again.

Who will you bail on next? Figure it out now, because they'll come asking.

Probably soon.

(And by "asking," of course, I mean howling for your blood.)

I mean, @StateFarm, I can't threaten to take away my business - you lost it years ago when your agents bald-faced lied to me repeatedly about a claim.

But I know other people who are your customers.

For now, anyway.