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lambchopp59

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1. "By cancelling bigots, we're acting like Westboro Baptists."
Sat Apr 22, 2023, 10:02 PM
Apr 2023

Triggered. Don't even go there.
False equivalency. I must take an intermission break from this to calm down.
The unparalleled weirdest 30 seconds of my youth was being put through a "send my soul to hell" ritual I got tricked into. Fred Phelps still remains as the most vile ghoul I've ever been face to face with for that very brief, torrid experience. Shirley Phelps was shrieking some twisted chant repeatedly along the lines of "go to hell fag" behind me along with her entourage. I was isolated, physically encircled upon walking in the door, utter dehumanizing torment that needless to say I didn't hang around but only long enough to realize they weren't joking, they were actually this insane.
Had it stopped there, water under the bridge. But it didn't. It turned into 2 years of physical and mental torment by a community bamboozled by the Phelp's. It only stopped when I escaped and lived as a teen runaway.
No, you privileged asshole bigots, "cancelling" you does not even come close to that.

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