If you don’t want to take your kid to a drag show, great news! You don’t have to. Also, drag shows only affect the people who go to them, they’re not mandatory. It’s deeply disturbing and dangerous rhetoric designed to incite fear and anger towards the already vulnerable LGBTQ+ community.Īlso, can someone please explain how a chaperoned drag show is destroying the moral fabric of Texas, whereas stockpiling assault rifles is totally cool and normal? Sure, makes sense. Along with trans sports bans, bathroom bans, and Don’t Say Gay bills, it’s all part of a coordinated conservative attack on the LGBTQ+ community that seeks to punish LGBTQ+ kids and paint queer adults as threats to children. A viral video of the event caused protests and condemnation from republican politicians like (ugh) Marjorie Taylor Greene, who objected to the kids tipping the dancers with cash. One such show was a Pride Month event hosted in Dallas, called “Drag the Kids to Pride Drag Show”, a family-friendly spin-off of the popular drag brunch at Mr. Local libraries have hosted drag queen story-time for kids, and there are occasionally kid-friendly drag shows for all ages. For that matter, the majority of drag shows take place at bars and clubs, which have an adult age limit. The number of deaths and injuries at drag shows in 2022? Zero. To run the numbers, so far in 2022 there have been 96 incidents on gunfire on school grounds, resulting in 40 deaths and 78 injuries. Slaton’s proposed bill is not only deeply homophobic and transphobic, but it addresses a threat that simply does not exist. I will be filing legislation to address this issue in the new #txlege. Cruz.I would never take my children to a drag show and I know Speaker Dade Phelan and my Republican colleagues wouldn’t either. A Washington Post illustration in December, depicting his two daughters as monkeys, drew criticism. Rubio tweeted, drawing later thanks from Mr. This isn’t the first time Cruz’s children have drawn attention during his presidential campaign. The Post saying the kids are ‘fair game’ is even worse,” Mr. “Wash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. Marco Rubio of Florida, was just as harsh in his criticism of the Post. Cruz’s Republican presidential-primary rivals, Sen. Cruz tweeted Tuesday evening, embedding in his post a tweet from Ms. Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Mr. Cruz led a pushback starting early in the evening. The cartoon was on the Post website for about eight hours Tuesday until Mr.
Hiatt said in an editor’s note that now is the sole content on the page that had featured the cartoon. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree,” Mr. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. “ Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” she tweeted.Įditorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt didn’t agree. Telnaes captioned the cartoon as “ Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props” and defended her portrayal of the girls on Twitter, saying that because the Texas senator showed them in a humorous political ad “they are fair game.” Cruz, who is Hispanic, dressed as an organ-grinder. The cartoon by Ann Telnaes showed the two girls as dancing like small simians before Mr. The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon Tuesday night that portrayed the daughters of Ted Cruz - ages 7 and 4 - as monkeys.
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