XPost: rec.outdoors.rv-travel, alt.lifestyle.furry, alt.personals.furry   
   XPost: alt.sex.furry   
   From: coyo@spammers-belong-in.hell   
      
   On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 06:57:11 -0000 (UTC)   
   "Let's Pretend You're Dead!"  wrote:   
      
   > Technobarbarian  wrote in   
   > news:t1vch2$fbu$1@gioia.aioe.org:    
   >    
   > >    
   > > False Reports Lead State Senator to Call for Investigation Into   
   > > 'Furries' BY THOMAS KIKA ON 3/28/22 AT 7:51 PM EDT   
   > >    
   > > "A state senator claimed false reports lead him to express concerns   
   > > over "furries" being catered to in schools.   
   > >    
   > > Nebraska State Senator Bruce Bostelman, a Republican, took to the   
   > > state Senate floor on Monday and addressed his concerns that some   
   > > schools were allegedly providing litter boxes for the use of   
   > > students that self-identify as cats or dogs, who he referred to as   
   > > "furries." Bostelman said that such a practice would be "very   
   > > disruptive to the school system."   
   > >    
   > > "I'm a little shocked," Bostelman said. "It's something called   
   > > furries. If you don't know what furries are it's where school   
   > > children dress up as animals—cats or dogs—during the school day.   
   > > They meow and they bark and they interact with their school, with   
   > > their teachers in this fashion. And now schools are wanting to put   
   > > litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this   
   > > sanitary?""   
   > >    
   > > "Bostelman continued with an alleged anecdote about a student who    
   > > defecated on the floor after their school refused to provide a   
   > > litter box for them to use.   
   > >    
   > > "What is going on?" he added. "Some kids can't wear an American flag   
   > > and walk through the school in their shirt. And you keep them out of   
   > > school?"    
   > >    
   > > Later on Monday, Omaha-based journalist Jon Kipper reported that    
   > > Bostelman and another Nebraska state senator, Lynne Walz, reached   
   > > out to the school districts named in the rumors and were "assured   
   > > none of that happened." School districts across the country   
   > > subjected to similar rumors have also denied them outright."   
   > > [snip]   
   > >    
   > >       You would think that the correct time to do a little fact   
   > >       checking    
   > > would be _before_ you've made a public ass of yourself and not   
   > > after. I've met a few furries. I don't think any of them use a   
   > > litter box or defecate in public.     
   >    
   > The operative words were "I don't think." Isn't that so?   
   >    
   > Schools are not the correct forums for the absence of personal   
   > restraint. Keep your quirks where they belong.    
   >    
      
   I've seen worse from certain conventions. Thankfully, most of those   
   incidents were just self-hating furries trolling, but not all were   
   fabricated.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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