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Besides them being stupid as hell to conduct this ridiculous culture war, I take issue with another thing, the name:
Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education
It's not unlawful until you forbid it. So the title makes no sense. You're not forbidding the unlawful. You're forbidding the previously lawful, making it unlawful.
Stupid assholes.
Plus the acronym rules are inconsistent. It should be FURRE or FURRORIE
Why on earth are they pursuing this. We all know this is not a real problem.
If it was a scare crow to attack trans rights, they have achieved that. They have pulverized trans rights in many places, especially bathroom access.
Who stands to gain from this? It is not a real problem!
i cannot begin to describe how utterly fucking stupid this is.
I genuinely thought i died and went to hell when i first read this, this bill doesn't even make any fucking sense. Child exhibiting "non human behaviors" could be considered "child abuse" according to this bill.
How the fuck do you even enforce this?
Man they keep coming back to the litterbox thing, it really freaks them tf out. Even though its been debunked dozens of time, my conservative friends all swear they know a guy that knows a guy that swears he saw one for real!
Oh, the litter boxes are real...
It's just that their purpose is to be used during a school shooting lockdown.
The litterbox thing is so outrageous that it gives their tyrannical proposals the vineer of addressing a real problem.
But the litterbox story was fabricated, and the only grain of truth of it is that some classrooms did keep kitty litter as a mitigation against being trapped by an active shooter - another conservative-created problem.
They will continue to glom onto outrageous stories, to justify their outrageously oppressive proposals.
Maybe the constitution of the United States of America says something about this? Maybe like the first thing in the bill of rights? Nah I must be mistaken.
Fascists are so stupid, they start to believe their own propaganda. Can't even remember, or at least be bothered to remember, that they made this up to scare normies.
I always tell people, that they won't stop at LGBTQ+ people, and will eventually go into persecuting other subcultures.
The law defines "non-human" behavior "any type of behavior... [not typically] displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,"
NATHON!! STOP ACTING LIKE A HOMO ERECTUS YOU NEANDERTHAL!
also im pretty sure "human" means 'under the homo genus' not 'homo sapien' but its not like it matters to them
Sooooo much freeedommmm.... By limiting self expression.
So a furry suit made from human hair is ok? Asking for a friend
What is it with them and this absolute conviction that kids are pretending to be cats, it's literally not happening and yet they're upset about it.
If they are going to make things up and then be upset about those made up things can they not come up with something less weird than kids being cats? Why not be upset about all the Dark Lords in schools, or the uptake in alien abductions?
If you're complaining about gay people, you're not complaining about us denying you a living wage.
If you're complaining about transgender people, you're not complaining about us denying you medical care.
If you're complaining about furries, you're not complaining about us denying you education.
I guess we really want you to complain about those things.
What world do these people live in? I just can't imagine this is a issue and i imagine that passing a law like this will just lead to kids definitely shitting in litter boxes because breaking the law is fun, imagine the court case of a kid dressed like a cat and pissed in a box.. straight to jail
Surgical means‽
Also why are they legislating about this. Texas schools have real problems like gun violence and illiteracy. Furries and animal role play are just things some people have always done that don't really harm anyone and given how they persist across so many cultures and times could actually be considered a natural behavior of homo sapiens like parrots' mimicry
Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development
Does that forbid earrings as well? They're non-biological extensions/modifications of the human body.
technically all clothing is illegal now?
Better yet. Simply wearing glasses?
Rent free.
Fuck how the heck they find double entendre.acronyms for any shit they pull. Coincidentally eat shit assholes what the fuck did those poor people do to you? I don't consider myself a furry but have friends that does.
"Backronym" is the term I've always heard- starting with the acronym then coming up with what it stands for
It would be so funny if schools start "dressup weeks/months" with rotating theme in protest
Ironic really, given how right here the cuntservatives are just chasing their own tail.
Furries are the ultimate dorks. I know I am very furry affiliated and most of my friends are furries... but this makes being a furry badass nyao.
'non-human'
this could go much darker than anti-furry biotry, which already isn't great, real fast. is your nose too big? in a non-human way? does a man have tits that are too large? in a non-human way?
Oh boy, the fascists have really done it now: they're going after the beastpeople! Beware its poisonous spittle!
Republicans are fucking weirdos.
Kinda like this one I know the litter shit is bullshit. Though we all knew those annoying ass kids in school.
These idiot boomers fell for the facebook propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax
Yeah some kids are annoying, but they're young and learning how to behave in a society. They shouldn't be handcuffed in school and sent to jail. Nor should other kids live in fear of having what they witnessed happen to them (although that's probably the whole point of this).
Is the hacker known as 4Chan at it again?
You could think that reality has no more pressing problems.
I bark at them using my very human vocal cords (I don't even have any other). Prove me on court that I was not using human vocal cords to bark. Or maybe I was using totally non-human made recording-speaker device?
Or maybe my 1.7m tall fursuit was designed to be weared by my cat? No way even lololong house cat could be that big. (lie, I don't own a fursuit, in any size, but point still apply).
Oh I know! Some tailed buttplugs were totally designed for pets and it is all about being pet care!
tailed buttplugs
The whole comment aside, just for those unaware, if you see someone with a tail in public, or just anywhere outside of sex-centered environment, it's almost surely a belt.