XPost: alt.activism.children.molesters, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, a   
   t.politics.homosexuality   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: gay_nigger_oreos@splcenter.org   
      
   Viktor Tandofsky  wrote in   
   news:subr4q$195ge$60@news.freedyn.de:   
      
   > Lee wrote   
   >   
   >> All queers belong in jails or mental health insitutions for life.   
      
   Anew two-minute short film about coming out, collaboratively produced by   
   Oreo and PFLAG, has predictably gotten under the skin of conservatives.   
   Already, Greg Kelly and Ben Shapiro are among the right-wing talking heads   
   vowing to boycott "gay cookies" following Oreo's public display of LGBTQ   
   allyship.   
      
   "The Note," which was directed by Alice Wu ("Saving Face" and "The Half of   
   It"), depicts a young Chinese-American man practicing a coming-out speech   
   before a few close family members. Before the young man shares his truth   
   with his grandmother, his mom slips him a note. "She might be my mother,"   
   it reads, "but you are my son."   
      
   The video ends with a message for viewers to pay it forward. "Coming out   
   doesn't happen just once," it says. "Be a lifelong ally."   
      
   Related: "For the morning gays": The importance of LGBTQ-owned cafes as   
   sober, queer spaces   
      
   "The Note" is, for sure, a tearjerker. Despite my admitted initial   
   cynicism about "rainbow capitalism" and whether a multi-billion dollar   
   corporation can assert itself as an ally, Oreo is doing all the right   
   things here. According to Fast Company, the film — which was refreshingly   
   not released as part of a Pride Month campaign — was accompanied by a   
   $500,000 donation to PFLAG.   
      
   What's more, there's history here. "The Note" follows the 2020 short film   
   "OREO Proud Parent," which was also released in conjunction with PFLAG. In   
   it, a woman brings her girlfriend home to meet her family.   
      
   Initially, the dad is chilly towards the same-sex couple, but everything   
   changes after he witnesses a neighbor look disparagingly at them. The   
   video ends with the dad painting his white picket fence the colors of the   
   rainbow.   
      
   Is it a little on the nose? Sure, but the film's message that "a loving   
   world starts with a loving home" is a poignant one — especially amid   
   current events. In addition to Florida's controversial "Don't Say Gay"   
   law, transgender students are facing increased discrimination and   
   violence.   
      
   "'The' Note is not Oreo's story," Oreo senior brand manager Olympia   
   Portale said in an interview with Fast Company. "Oreo is there to lend our   
   megaphone to the community we want to support, to illustrate the message   
   we, as a brand, want to stand behind is a great place to start."   
      
   Instead of engaging with the message of allyship, several conservatives   
   pundits responded by vowing to boycott "gay cookies."   
      
   "COOKIE!" Newsmax host Greg Kelly wrote on Twitter above a photo of Sesame   
   Street's Cookie Monster. "I love COOKIES. C is for COOKIE. COOKIE IS FOR   
   ME.  I do NOT like GAY COOKIES.  'Sexuality' has NOTHING TO DO with the   
   Cookie experience.  Cookies are for ALL!  Basically Cookies are 'asexual'-   
   --why is the WOKE LEFT messing around with OREOS?!?!  STOP THE INSANITY."   
      
   In a more concise tweet, Lila Rose, the founder of a movement dedicated to   
   ending abortion, told Oreo to "stop sexualizing children."   
      
   With the passage of the controversial "Don't Say Gay" law, Florida   
   Republicans revived the deadly "queers recruit" myth. While Oreo is newly   
   feeling the heat, Disney has thus far been a more prominent recipient of   
   conservative wrath.   
      
   As Salon's Amanda Marcotte recently wrote, "Fox News has run a dizzying   
   number of segments accusing the company of 'sexualizing children' and   
   creating 'propaganda for grooming.' This is unhinged QAnon stuff, designed   
   to give credence to the conspiracy theories of the growing right-wing cult   
   that believes Democrats run a secret conspiracy of blood-drinking   
   pedophiles."   
      
   Kelly followed up his tirade about the sexualization of the Oreo with a   
   tweet comparing the taste of the creme-filled chocolate cookies to   
   "driveway gravel."   
      
   "Not MOIST. Even Nabisco knows the truth--the cookies are too DRY," Kelly   
   wrote in his review of the more than 100-year-old sandwich cookies. "Milk   
   Reliant, not a stand alone cookie. Go with the FIG NEWTON. We don't care   
   about Mr Fig's orientation!"   
      
   Ben Shapiro, who infamously weighed in on a different moist-to-dry   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)