The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would “prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being.”
The law would allow for exempt days, such as Halloween and other school dress-up days.
The law defines “non-human” behavior as “any type of behavior or accessory displayed by a student in a school district other than behaviors or accessories typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species,” with provided examples being:
Using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine or other human byproducts
A personal or outward display, except during a school play or by a school mascot, through surgical or superficial means of features that are non-human such as using tails, leashes, collars or other accessories designed for pets
Using fur, other than naturally occurring human hair or a wig made to look like human hair
Artificial, animal-like ears
Other physiological features that have not historically been assigned to the human race through a means of natural biological development
Students who bark, meow, hiss or make other animal noises that are not human speech
Licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance.
I wonder how much of this is borne out of the hysteria over kids supposedly using litter boxes.
I had some gomer on the Denver Post forums that kept insisting it was not only a thing, but an epidemic. I kept asking him for the supposed evidence of this claim, all he could say was that he “talks to lots and lots of parents and teachers” and “the media won’t report on it”.
ask him where video footage of it happening is, everyone in school has a phone, everyone in school has a camera, if there ARE litterboxes in bathrooms, there WILL be footage of it, and LOTS of it.
Sadly, DP killed off their forums. DP maybe 20 years ago had a pretty vibrant online comment section. They switched the platforms a few times and the paper itself was getting hollowed out like so many others [1]. I think most corporations don’t really want to be hearing from anyone, least of all their own customers. Seems many, many outlets have closed their comment sections. I’m sure more than a few qons cheered at that fact, because they were regularly made to look QUITE stupid on such forums, if the moderation was even the least bit fair.
Turns out there was at least one magat moderator on there, and you could almost tell when they were on-duty - making a magat commenter look too stupid resulted in your post getting deleted. Oddly, many of the “free speech absolutists” would get a tingle up their leg when that happened, which is so weird because they were crying about how they were being “censored” and “shadow-banned” on other platforms, as well as DP, LOL.
In any case, once it was announced that DP was shutting them down, the usual suspects were positively giddy about it. I know more than a few of the extremists were trying to get them shut down via various means (some of them bragged about this and whether they were lying about it or were not, you get some real insight into the types we are dealing with here). This, from the “free speech absolutists”, naturally.
[1] The idiots on the right think it’s because papers were “too liberal”, lol, and either completely ignorant of, or lying about, how the advertisement model was nuked by things like Craig’s list and so on.
RIP.
it’s the fascist rhetoric rule. Unfortunately it’s so incredibly prevalent these days im not sure society will be able to make a comeback from it. I think we’ve reached a point of no return in terms of “why do people care about this shit” it’s gotten to a point where it justifies caring about itself innately. Rather than any sort of external justification, and people keep falling for it.
Step 1: lie
step 2: gaslight people
step 3: gaslight and legitimize
step 3: you win
It’s trivial to verify. Slap 20 bucks on the table and say “20 bucks you can’t list a location with a litterbox for furries”
Ain’t gonna get you 20 bucks. Need a location. If you get a location, call 'em. They’ll confirm or deny. (They’re gonna deny)
Too late, the DP killed their comment section so who knows where that troll skipped off to.
That’ll get you a claim that they’d deny regardless of veracity