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ElectronNumberSeven [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

New Bill introduced in Oklahoma: students "...who engage in anthropomorphic behavior commonly referred to as furries at school shall not be allowed to participate in school curriculum or activities"

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New Bill introduced in Oklahoma: students "...who engage in anthropomorphic behavior commonly referred to as furries at school shall not be allowed to participate in school curriculum or activities"

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ElectronNumberSeven [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Man, that made up news story about a school in Wisconsin providing litter boxes to furry students really did a number on chuds brains huh.

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      And they’ve been hyper fixated on it ever since. A little weird if you ask me.

    • GeorgeZBush [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Has that actually happened anywhere because I still have people I know telling me it’s happening in my area.

      • BovineUniversity [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        The story I heard is that it’s real, but the buckets of cat litter are actually there for kids to go in during school shooter lockdowns.

        • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          Cat litter is also a staple for spill cleanup, particularly when it involves vomit

        • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          I’ve heard that same thing but have never seen any sort of confirmation of that being the case.

      • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        My sister’s boyfriend told me that it was happening in Scotland, according to his uncle or something. That one lie has spread so far and nobody has bothered to check if it is false

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    this guy’s like 50 and he’s submitting facebook-tier The One Joke posts to a state legislature

    remind me why I’m supposed to respect this dumbfuck country again?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netBanned
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      You don’t have to respect it, but you’ve got to admit they have an enormous number of armed chids with genocidal intent

      • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Heavily armed (for a civilian population not involved in a civil war), incredibly stupid and extremely angry about their collapsing standards of living.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      i’m starting to believe that i’ve been overestimating the intelligence of the enemy for a long time

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      cedar-rapids

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    When you don’t know what “anthropomorphic” means.

    Getting the dog catcher to arrest my principal because he was acting human-shaped.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It’s not shaped (not exclusively) but refers broadly to human traits.

      But yeah the principal acting human is grounds for arrest

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    deleted by creator

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Me running from the dog catcher while my fellow class mates cheer me on

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      omg what is this from, this sparks some deep childhood something, I think I was scared of this but I have no idea what it is

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        • SuperZutsuki [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          I saw that movie when I was like 5 and have no recollection of it other than the song lol

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    Literal fursecution

    Also how many tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars were wasted on the labor and materials required for this bill to go through legislature I wonder

    • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      For context, aren’t there parts of Oklahoma that had to institute a 4-day school week because they literally couldn’t afford to pay their teachers for 5 days of work per week? Which is only making their teacher drain worse, since a lot of teachers in Oklahoma move to Texas since the pay is much higher and Costs of Living are similar.

      • PauliExcluded [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Not quite. Teachers get paid the same, but they supposedly save money on transportation, heating/cooling, and support staff.

        Based on responses from a sample of 342 districts nationwide, the most common reason cited as a main rationale for adoption (65.1% of districts) was financial savings; districts argue they are saving money by reducing costs such as transportation, heating, and support staff salaries (Thompson et al., in press). Districts acknowledge that reducing the school week by 1 day, or 20%, would not reduce spending by 20%, as teachers technically work the same number of hours, so their contracts, which comprise the greatest cost for the district, are not affected.

        But the brain drain is completely real. Oklahoma pays teachers around $10-20k per year less than all of its bordering states on average. A first year teacher in Tulsa makes $43k per year. For comparison, in Dallas, a first year teacher at minimum makes $56,000. And Tulsa’s not that much cheaper to live in.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      it’s not like they were gonna be working on anything important instead

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        They need to send local police stations more money to defend against HAMAS

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    The Republican party respects 4chan more than the Democratic party respects the left.

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    Idea for a bit: accusing anyone who votes “nay” of being a horse furry.

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      McCarthyism but for furrys

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Specifically accuse them of having horse fursonas and being into hyper and muscle stuff, maybe cock vore

      Statistically the horse furries gravitate towards these fetishes in higher numbers

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        My lawyer has advised me to say that I have no idea what any of those terms mean.

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          My lawyer has advised me to stop contacting him with long explanations detailing precisely what these terms mean, with linked examples and diagrams

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        Homestuck particle emission !!critical!!

  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    literal government anti-furry oppression was not on my bingo card

    • raven [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Thought I would get put away for being a commie way before I got put away for non-threatening animal larping.

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    This could mean that the right is realising they can’t win the battle for trans rights. The right wing will try to find an “acceptable target” to spread hate about, in order to get their foot in the door and spread more hatred and prejudice for other groups. The fact that they’re increasingly focusing on furries means that they realise they’re slowly but surely losing their battle against trans rights and are trying to pivot to another target. I expect to see all their usual claims soon, talking about how furries are sexual predators, weird stuff about bathrooms (they already had that litterbox bullshit) accusations of grooming children, accusations of people being “secret furries” or something. It’ll be rough for them.

    • WaterBear [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netBanned
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      It is thinkable, but to be honest the right does attack multiple targets at once, often without easing the general pressure onto other targets. This is true for the NSDAP before and after 1933, it is true for conservative evangelicals in Germany after the 70s, 90s or 2010s and the right extreme ethno nationalist identitary movement in German speaking countries.

      In terms of campaign pressure it might be that there will be a relative weakening of agitation in campaigns against our trans comrades, I doubt it though. Not only cause quite a few of furry friend do identify as somewhat trans (often more politicized people or those longer in the community).

      I do think the targeting is more aligned in trying to bind beastiality, lack of consent and conservative nightmare fantasies and homophobia, transphobia and perversion together as they did with anti gay action in the 60s and 70s in central Europe and the USA.

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        I’m with you on this one. It’s beyond optimistic to hope that the fash are gonna run out of hate and have to start rationing it out.

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      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        Yeah, exactly.

    • TheDialectic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      I thought the litterbox was discovered to be camping toilets in case if a mass shooting and q people starting blaming furries to distract from the actual issue

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    I’m out of the loop, are many children wearing fursuits to school these days? In Oklahoma?

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      I suspect it will be a higher number after this.

      But since it was never an actual problem, doing something about it was never the point of a bill like this either.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netBanned
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      No. But this might result in an officer involved incident in which a kid wearing cat ears to class gets ventilated with extreme prejudice.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netBanned
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      some schools were putting cat litter in classrooms in case kids had to piss during an active shooter situation and somebody told republicans about furries

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        who the fuck cares if you piss yourself during an active shooter situation

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          Me. So called active shooter situations are often without active shooters, take hours and it is ableism to ignore the divinity and bodily functions of us people, who rather piss only people and ourselves in consensual settings. In any case schools don’t really care about facilitating good urination experiences.

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            The problem isn’t pissing on (actual) active shooter situations then, it’s having these situations for no reason. If they’re drills, then you should be able to excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. I can’t think of any other reason a school would specifically go to “active shooter situation” for hours without an actual shooter.

            Whatever it is, if it’s a real risk then it’s still better to wet yourself than risk your life to go to the litter box. If it’s not then the protocol needs working on: why is it taking so long? why can’t you go to the bathroom when there’s no danger?

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              Happened to me once when I was in school cause a different school a few miles away had a false report issued and they locked down the whole area generally and everyone thought one was happening

              It wasn’t tho

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    I was going to post this but I got so tired and bored trying to come up with something snappy about how saying things like

    “We’re there to educate. We’re not there to teach sexual habits.”

    regarding little kids meowing or playing at being a puppy dog is so incredibly perverse. And this joke has been ongoing for years now. Don’t these people have any self awareness at all? It’s like not even fun to point it out.

    Eventually we will all be subjected to leaks of this guy’s weird patreon subscriptions or something… He’s the one introducing sex nobody else is.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netBanned
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      what part is the “joke”?

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        the joke is that he’s the one who has children playing = sex on the brain. him and the people like him. they see a child meowing and they immediately start thinking of all kinds of weird sex things. so the joke is that they are telling on themselves, telling how they really think, but trying to project it onto others. but they are the ones being weird pervs.

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    looking desperately for more people to fuck with after passing the trans laws, i see

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      I mean, its motivated by the same animus, since its about the “kids identifying as animals” panic which is conflated with trans stuff.

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    they’re planning to call animal control on the furries

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      I feel like county level animal control may not be pleased with random schoolkids suddenly becoming their problem because some representative thought he was really funny

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      Okay so this is an onion article then

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      I got into public service dreaming that one day, a grateful constituent would come up to me and say, “that was le epic troll, representative gentlesir”

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    Love how they’re like frothingfash the kids think they’re animals, this is insane!!! and then the bill literally provisions for the kids to be taken by animal services LOL

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      “We will bully all transfem students by making them wear frilly dresses and making them use the girls’ bathroom” energy

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    “…who engage in anthropomorphic behavior commonly referred to as furries at school shall not be allowed to participate in school curriculum or activities”

    I’ve a feeling it’s not only furries being attacked…

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      anthropomorphic

      The funny thing is this word literally means “having the form of a human” and abstractly it could cover a lot more than just furries.

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        crackers stumped by their own language example #998734563727857869505836254131525167354749

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Hmmm, now the more that’d I think about it, I think the Oklahoma boys are playing game of Among us, and instead of ejection, they’re using execution against any suspected ‘imposters’ ! How quaint of them…

        among-drip

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        Mfw the brave little toaster and the little engine that could get caught up in book bans sadness

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      My thought too. It’s a gender affirmation bully bill hidden in a fur suit bill.

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        And another hit towards kids of neurodivergence.

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          Shit wasn’t even considering this and I’m currently doing a ND dive as my next obsession…

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