Suggested Republican talking points regarding drag shows—you’re welcome.
Conservatives and other decent people stand on the correct side of many issues. Issues which can unite people from every demographic and all walks of life. These opportunities are wasted, though, because the Republican leadership is terrible at messaging. Really terrible. This is unfortunate because our chance of success is greatly improved if Republican leadership embraced effective communication and reached out to people across the political spectrum, and this includes reasonable gays, transgender people, and, yes, drag queens, on issues which aren’t nearly as partisan as partisan hacks, the media, and our other betters would have us believe. The Woke insist that everyone must hold beliefs invariably consistent with their assigned “identity.” Identity politics is a weapon of distraction and divisiveness—and, ultimately, destruction.
A message regarding any issue must effectively articulate one’s position and the reasons for it. A Ph.D. thesis-level delivery is not required, but clear, direct language is essential, and which is intended for everyone, not just those already in agreement. Language which also includes a rebuttal to specious or spurious counterarguments and deliberate mischaracterizations.
Banning kids at drag shows is a reasonable position. Not wanting one’s child at such a show, irrespective of any ban, is a reasonable position. It’s not bigoted, transphobic, or homophobic. This is about inappropriate adult content and children. It’s the Woke who are hellbent on exposing children to these shows. Really hellbent. And their hellbentedness has nothing to do with tolerance or enlightenment.
We must arm ourselves with good messaging. This must be done with the intention of moving beyond the tribalism that our betters use to keep us divided. We have positions on many issues that, once properly explained and defended, can garner broad support. We must unite like-minded, reasonable people on a host issues, including this one, regardless of what we may personally think of one another.
Allow me to offer the GOP leadership suggested talking points about drag queens and drag shows:
- This is not a partisan issue. It is not Republican vs. Democrat. It is not rich vs. poor. It is not heterosexual vs. homosexual. It is not Conservative vs. drag queen. It is concerned adults vs. those who expose children to inappropriate content and then disparage as bigots the reasonable people who oppose this behavior.
- Drag shows are a longstanding form of adult entertainment—adult performers and adult customers. These are not the shows that we suggest be regulated or banned. The media knows this, but deliberately mischaracterize the concerns of reasonable people as a ban on all drag shows or as an attack on drag queens in general. They do this to foment divisiveness amongst us. Do not let them divide us.
- The media also lie that it’s an attack on homosexuals or transgender people. It isn’t. We recognize that reasonable homosexuals and transgender people and drag queens agree that adult entertainment is inappropriate for children and has no place in our K-12 schools.
- A drag show is inappropriate for children. Likewise, it would inappropriate to take a child to a strip club, X-rated movie, or a comedy club. PG-13, R, and NC-17 rated movies, certain video games, music with explicit lyrics, and other materials for mature audiences are not appropriate for younger children. This is why responsible parents monitor the things to which their children are exposed—that’s called being a good parent.
- Adult entertainment is inappropriate to stage in K-12 schools, libraries, and many other public places frequented by children.
- There are different opinions regarding drag queens and drag shows—and that’s okay. It’s okay to disapprove of it or think it’s weird. Perhaps you believe such entertainment conflicts with your religion or believe it’s okay for adults if they want to watch a drag show or believe it’s the greatest form of entertainment ever—and convey these notions to your own children. The important thing is how you treat people despite what you may think of them personally. (Note to drag queens: the people who overtly support and are hellbent on exposing children to drag shows are the people most likely to strip you of your rights. God help you if you’re a drag queen who supports the right to bear arms or the enforcement of our immigration laws. We have no doubt that the drag queens who support our position will be called transphobes or worse.)
- Drag performers (aka, drag queens) are entitled to the same rights and responsibilities as everyone else. They are not entitled to special ones. We’re not trying to deprive drag queens of their right to vote if they’re United State citizens, their right to own firearms, their right to fair taxation, their right to due process if they find themselves involved in a court case, or their right to free speech and expression in front of an adult audience.
- The media and certain politicians lie about our position on “grooming.” We are not calling someone a groomer just because the person happens to be a drag queen, transgender, or homosexual. We are against groomers, whoever or whatever they are. We are against Democrat groomers. We are against Republican groomers. A groomer is anyone who attempts to sexualize children, expose them to age-inappropriate sexualized content (or contact), or expose them to gender ideology, particularly if it deliberately subverts the wishes of parents. There are drag queens, transgender people, and homosexuals who are against groomers. There are drag queens, transgender people, and homosexuals who are parents and do not want their children exposed to this. They are crucial allies, and we welcome them to join us in this fight.
- Children performing in drag in front of adults is inappropriate and creepy. So is allowing children to watch drag performances and then letting them put money in the performer’s G-strings or throw money at the performers—as if these kids are rowdy adults at a strip club. There have been instances of drag queens giving minors lap dances or teaching them how to twerk or behave otherwise suggestively. The people exposing children to drag shows are using children for their own narcissistic virtue-signaling. They are groomers or the enablers of groomers.
Bonus: Drag queen story hours
I understand why many parents get riled up about drag queen story hours. These are deliberately done by the Woke to provoke parents who don’t want their children exposed to adult males dressed up as women, especially in the overly dramatic fashion characteristic of drag performers—and especially in a school or library setting! I suggest taking a step back and considering the following: A person dressed in drag is not so far removed from a circus clown that we can’t make a case that absent the Woke’s bullshit, a person in drag reading a book to children is not inherently evil if the person is well-intentioned and not doing it as part of the Woke’s scorched-earth policy against societal norms. Perhaps the following message might work:
- A person dressed in non-sexualized drag reading age-appropriate material to kids is not in and of itself harmful. With no offense to the art of drag performance, one might consider this equivalent to a circus clown or Disney character doing the same. Parents can take their kids to non-sexualized readings held on private property. Parents can refuse to do so. Parents can think it’s wonderful. Parents can think it’s weird and/or inappropriate. Taking your kid to these readings does not prove you a virtuous person. Declining to take your kid to these does not make you a bigoted rube. Please note that volunteers who are around kids—in a public or private setting—are typically vetted ahead of time, and this should be the case with those doing these readings, whether dressed in drag or not.
We must improve our messaging. We must be tough and willing to endure the opprobrium the Woke and our other betters shall heap upon us. We must be smart. We must have a clear, forceful voice. And most importantly, we must have the courage to challenge the Woke, the mainstream media, and our other betters. We must unite and do this together, whether dressed in drag or in our street clothes. In this fight, as in so many others, we are one or we are none.
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