Transcript: This is going to be shocking to anyone born in the past decade, but back in the 2010s, one of the rightwing’s favorite things to complain about was “trigger warnings”–simple state…

But Trump’s FCC has decided that this system is no longer working for them. Last month, they released a public notice announcing that they would like to force the TVOMB to change their ratings. Why?

“Recently, parents have raised concerns that controversial gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children’s programs without providing any disclosure or transparency to parents. Specifically, the industry guidelines that parents rely on are rating shows with transgender and gender non-binary programming as appropriate for children and young children, and doing so without providing this information to parents, thereby undermining the ability of parents to make informed choices for their families.”

That’s right: parents somewhere are scared of their children simply seeing TV shows with transgender and nonbinary people or characters, and so now the federal government is stepping in to protect them by forcing the industry to adopt trigger warnings.

    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      20 days ago

      For trying to use my political persecution as a cudgel to silence dissent and coerce people into supporting the fucking democrats, who are owned by the same billionaires as the rest of our government and voluntarily betray working class & minority interests every chance they get. It’s a good cop/bad cop routine, dems aren’t better they’re just more polite, just as bloodthirsty and corrupt as the republicans. I’m sick of spineless fucking liberals trying to make me feel bad for accurately criticizing the status quo and their complicity in it, especially knowing most of them won’t experience anything worse from the Trump administration than expensive groceries.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Call me crazy, but my political views mean that I believe that nobody deserves this. Even if they did something that makes me mad.

        I find it strange that your ideals are so conditional

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            19 days ago

            Because I don’t want people who agree with me 99% of the time, but fail some bullshit purity test to suffer unnecessarily?

            Ok buddy.

            • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              19 days ago

              99%? Sounds like you deserve the same. Purity testing is a good thing, it keeps shit out of our milk and scumbags out of our organizations, the only people upset about it know they’re not gonna pass the test.