I've been to a marvelous party...

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

give cover to people who haven't been caught yet by allowing them to use their humanity as "proof" of their innocence

silence any criticism of societal structures and institutions that facilitate those horrible things by putting the focus on individuals who are assumed to be so uniquely monstrous that the ways it was made easy for them are irrelevant

provide a shortcut to dehumanize anyone you feel like killing: simply accuse them of doing a horrible thing

3.a. if you've already established that only an inhuman monster could kill a child, then all you have to do to get people to burn down the jewish quarter is say that jews kidnap christian children to bathe in their blood

3.b. if you've already established that only an inhuman monster could commit rape, then all you have to do to get people to string up a black man you don't like is find a white woman who's willing to point at him while she cries and babbles

3.c. if you've already established that only an inhuman monster could molest a child, then all you have to do to get people to drag gay people behind their trucks is say that since gay people can't have babies, the only way they can make more gay people is by following a nefarious Agenda to "convert" children by molesting them

3.c.a. meanwhile if you try to address the rampant sexual assault of catholic altar boys, you're met with "don't be ridiculous, he's a priest!" (see #1) and with assertions that even if it does happen sometimes, those priests are just infiltrators who don't represent the church and there's no reason to make sure priests and altar boys are never alone together (see #2)

Pedojacketing / Disgust Mongering is always a cudgel used to justify violence against the most marginalized

Black, Jewish, Queer, Trans.....

It shouldn't just be 'offshore oil rig' and 'Antarctic research station,' type communities where kids not being welcome is because it's dangerous. An artist colony with a whole bunch of glassblowers, potters and welders who work in the open air, a resort for K-12 teachers on their limited breaks who need time off from kids, an ecological preserve for some species or another that finds smaller-than-typical humans delicious? That's where you keep the non-offender pedophiles.

And the offender ones, well...if there are K-12 teachers, exciting arts n' crafts and dangerous wildlife, there are very, very good reasons for them to stay put, behave themselves and make no attempt to offend again. After all, it would be very unfortunate if someone made a terrible mistake and a horrible accident happened...but if no children were harmed, some interesting art resulted, certain rare animals were fed and some overworked, underpaid professionals got to experience some enrichment, that would be less bad than, say, judicial murder.

And if everyone understood that as a social contract, then the same former offenders could simply participate in mystery-solver night at the resort monthly, thus helping train the K-12 teachers to 'hunt' others like they used to be, enjoying some improv community roleplaying and having a nice, restorative-justice way to help reduce the amount of overall harm in the world.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Here's the r/piracy megathread if you need it. & you can pair that viewing with this article on the real-life history of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners; they don't make it explicit in the film, but every founding member was a socialist / communist, and that article goes more in depth about the movement.

Notably: LGSM did not wait for the mining communities to be openly supportive of queers and anti-homophobia before showing solidarity. They saw the connection between oppression of Welsh miners and the oppression of queers, and chose solidarity first. It was this choice to materially support other oppressed people, and see the queer community and mining communities are inherently connected through their experiences of oppression and resistance, that allowed the relationship seen above to exist at all.

This is what's so fucked up about "nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right".

The labor is already being done under capitalism. The laborers are already being underpaid under capitalism.

When you propose removing the greedy profiteers and paying the workers a reasonable wage, people call that "slavery" while they have no problem with the current system.

and so Grace ends up implementing an “Opposite Day” routine with his first classes of young Eridian students, where he periodically assigns a group of his kids to create and deliver to him an in-class presentation, human-style, on any topic of “Eridian common knowledge” of their choosing

Side note: polonium-210 is a very dangerous isotope, however it "does not pose a radiation hazard when kept outside the body", as the alpha particle it emits have very little penetration power and cannot pierce even the outer layers of dead skin. It has still killed countless people, though, not because of children's rings, but because of tobacco. Polonium latches onto and concentrates in tobacco leaves, leading to heavy smokers being exposed to more radiation than survivors of the Chernobyl disaster.

My students taught me this recipe. Many have experienced homelessness, food insecurity, eviction and worse.

I teach middle school.

This recipe, incidentally, frickin' slaps. They particularly recommend ginger ale with a yellow cake mix, then Sprite for the icing, and another one "it's very rich, so make it in slices about this big [holds hands like so] for lots of teachers, you do Dr. Pepper with chocolate cake mix. It tastes SO good, ma'am. You can taste the canela under the chocolate and it's just [says something very positive, but I'm still learning kiddo's first two languages.] That one, you don't even need frosting. It's just great." His cousin pipes up: "Remember the time we put nuts in it?" "Aw, yeah! They weren't real nuts, ma'am. You know how [gym teacher] has [packets of unshelled sunflower] seeds for snacks, you can win 'em? We got those and cut some up, then mixed them in so it was like coffee cake." "Protein for gains." "Mama said we did great and she actually ate breakfast."

Yeah, so, the soda crackdown is attacking birthdays and Mother's Day for the kids who will do extra pushups or clean the classroom to win a packet of sunflower seeds so their mom can have protein for gains and a coffee cake that looks like the ones at church.

I'm not saying the people behind it are evil in choosing to treat people like things and prioritize their own big feelings-driven wants over fellow humans' needs, including emotional and mental health -but I will consider the possibility, out of Christian and humanist charity, that they may instead simply be deeply and profoundly stupid on a level normally regarded as unfortunare when noticed in dogs.