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Tennessee after-school Satan club holds first meeting despite protests
(www.theguardian.com)
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What infuriates me about articles like this is that it really should just say that the school Satanic Club had its first meeting, the kids had a great time, here's everything they did and what they plan to do for the year, and here are some kids' reactions and quotes about the club.
Instead, it says the kids had "a great time" and then moves on to the protesters, offering them several paragraphs to spew their vile hate speech, repeating the garbage that their hate-filled signs say, and then even quoting two people. And then it follows that with basically an advertisement for "the Good News club, a Christian evangelical Bible club that meets before school hours."
It's a sign of how biased society is towards religion that an article about a non-theistic after school club gives half of the article to a handful of religious bigots to let them spew their hate speech and then promotes their own Christian school club.
Lol Wtf is this?
The story is about the controversy surrounding the club. "New club starts after school, kids have fun" is a story that would only run in the schools newspaper. Outside of that it's a complete non story.
So of course they are going to report about what the people who are protesting this are saying about it.
Additionally, the "advertisment" was really just a clarification on the point by ASSC that they only go to schools where there is another religious club.
This is a very neutral article just reporting the facts, you had to try very hard to be offended by it.
Except this is not what I said at all.
Nice try at a dishonest post though. Read what I actually wrote and try again.
Nah, I didn't have to try very hard at all. But clearly you put a lot of thought into being a troll. Hopefully you didn't hurt yourself.
And you're trying to argue that
Is some gross misrepresentation of what you said? And you're claiming I'm dishonest? Is this a joke?
It was a completely inoffensive article that you blatantly misrepresented so you could offended. Sorry, but you clearly tried hard to do so.
And I notice that you didn't actually challenge any of my claims. I suspect this is because you know I'm right, but your ego is too fragile to admit it.
Yes. Because that's not what I said at all. Go read what I actually fucking said.
It wasn't.
I didn't.
Because it was a dishonest troll comment that misrepresented what I said. Just like this one is too. There's nothing to challenge when all that you wrote was dishonest. And there's no reason to treat you seriously when you're just trolling.
I literally cut and paste what you said and you're trying to deny it. Lol this is bat shit crazy.
Literally cut and paste it and you're still pretending you didn't say it. Lol you're fucking nuts denying reality. It's like when I argue with climate change deniers and trump cultists.
I also addressed your other point about giving a platform, by pointing out that the only story here is the controversy.
It's not that I don't understand your point, it's that we both understand at least part of your point is absolutely ridiculous, you're just too fragile to admit it. So gaslight and and attack.