"Freedom is the first five minutes in which I was born crying naked, without a name, without sin, without orientation and without human hatred." #IRLWriterAlexeiPeshkovAKAMaximGorky "Five minutes after your birth, they will decide your name, nationality, religion and sect, and you will spend your life fighting and stupidly defending things you have not chosen." #IRLComposerZiadRahbani #BeliefTheismChristianityBibleIchthysJesusFish ^[Wikipedia] #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence

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Addendum This perspective seems to embody #TheoryIndividualismHeroic i.e. the romantic notion of the individual who isn't the product of shared understanding and belief i.e. who isn't #EpistemologySociallyConstructed - essentially, the #TheoryRomanticismExistingOutsideOfCulture

#ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues ? #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence

#MetaphorDiseaseMindVirus #OtheringDiscriminationRacism

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Context the clip is of #VlogBrianWright's #PhenomnReactionVideo of #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSACharlieKirk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6gNdlqDZM whose original #BrandTechSocialMediaYouTubeShorts version was entitled "Race Baiter Destroys His Own Argument in Under a Minute" seemingly includes a question posed by a #EDUUSUniversityOfNorthCarolinaAtCharlotte student (as per the sweatshirt logo) about Kirk's responsibility in terms of #OtheringDiscriminationRacism, which alludes to the problem of #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional which in his answer Kirk betrays a #TheoryIndividualismSelfActualisation understanding - using a #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim argument to deflect responsibility e.g. #NarrativeTruthFabricationBlackOnBlackCrime #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNorthCarolinaCharlotte In doing so, Wright charges the student of #TheoryAffectiveResponseIncitementOfInsurrectionRaceBaiting

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Supplementary #IRLDeceasedIrynaZarutska ^[Wikipedia] #HandleFacebookAussieStuffForAussiesASfAChrisoAken ^[forum] #BeliefTheismDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence

#NarrativeValuesFamily versus #IRLPerformerLeoLorenAKABagaChipz

#MetaphorDeceitImpostureWolfInSheepsClothing i.e. #IdentityLGBTQIACodingHypersexualizationGrooming in a #IdentityLGBTQIATrans disguise. #MetaphorPredator

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Addendum #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic post, which uses the same meme to frame its #ReasoningFallacyArgumentumAdPopulum i.e. "The event took place as planned and images and video quickly circulated across social media showing children looking at male-groomers dressed as clowns, along with armed Antifa guarding the whole event. Roanoke is a small town on the edge of the DFW Metroplex known for quality restaurants and trying to be normal. Many people say these types of events attract pedophiles. Protect TX Kids has a video of a leftist woman whipping out her breasts in public, right in front of her children." https://www.currentrevolt.com/p/small-town-tx-armed-antifa-guard

in context with the above, the mention of #IdentityDragQueen #IRLEntertainerDesmondNapolesAKADesmondIsAmazing is posed as a 'morality tale' about the consequences of straying from #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues

#PhenomnDragQueenStoryHourDQSH

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Addendum this images projects the poster's #MetaphorThreatExistential, which the #CharacterisationEmasculationAmbiguityAndrogyny of seeing #IdentityLGBTQIATrans people reading to (and therefore interacting in a natural way with) children. Their #TheoryAffectiveResponseBewilderment seems to stem from an assumed framing where the actions of so-called #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDeviant are assumed to be #IdentityLGBTQIACodingHypersexualization and therefore present a paradox - contrasting 'deviance' with 'childhood innocence' i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence. Of course, the obvious alternative, interpretation is that queer ≠ assume hyper-sexuality. Ironically, a family, by definition necessitates sexual intercourse (or at least, some sort of exchange of genetic material) - and so, if the above logic is followed, it would be #PhenomnSexualityHeterosexuality couples who pose the greatest threat not trans people. But then, these things aren't about logic, they're about (among other things) a #MetaphorThreatExistential felt through the perceived #CharacterisationEmasculationAmbiguityAndrogyny of contemporary social change. #_Focal i.e. this tweet represents a persistent theme, which sets trans against notions of the 'traditional family'. #MetaphorWarfareHeroGuardianOfChildhoodInnocence

#ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues, #PleaNostalgia, #IdentityWhite, #SymbolEmblemFlagUSOldGlory, #BeliefTheismChristianityChurch, #NarrativeValuesFamilyNuclear #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence

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Context #IRLIllustratorHaroldAnderson, 'Family at Church' https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/harold-anderson-american-1894-1973-family-at-churchoil-on-canvas29-x-23-insigned-lower/a/5066-78114.s #TheoryExnominationWhiteness

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Supplementary #IRLCommentatorRashadRichey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUish5Glb-0 #AdvocacyUSCitizensForSanityCFS #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #PleaLawAndOrder #PowerControlViolencePhysicalBrutality

#ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues #PoliticsCommunism #PleaGetGoWokeGoBroke #2006_Idiocracy #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #ConditionDysphoriaGender ? #ConspiracyTheory_CulturalMarxism #TheorySociologyIntersectionalityFeminism

#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean ^[dictionary] #MetaphorVersusUsThem / #MetaphorVersusPureVitiated #IRLPersonalityInternetEmilyYoucisAKAPistachioGirl #TauntLiberalCauses #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych ^[commentary]

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Supplementary https://www.phillyvoice.com/pistachio-girl-confronts-anti-fascism-protesters-earns-praise-white-nationalists/

#TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence #IdentityLGBTQIAPrideRainbow #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues #CaricaturistGaryVarvel https://www.creators.com/read/gary-varvel/03/22/322945

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Supplementary #IRLScholarHenryGiroux "Within the myth of innocence, children are often portrayed as inhabiting a world that is untainted, magical, and utterly protected from the harshness of adult life. Innocence in this scenario not only erases the complexities of childhood and the range of experiences different children encounter, but it also offers an excuse for adults to evade responsibility for how children are firmly connected to and shaped by the social and cultural institutions run largely by adults. Innocence in this instance makes children invisible except as projections of adult fantasies-fantasies that allow adults to believe that children do not suffer from their greed, recklessness, perversions of will and spirit, and that they are, in the final analysis, unaccountable." Giroux, Henry A. 'Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence." Social Text, no. 57, 1998, pp. 31-53. JSTOR, ^{[academic source]}. Accessed 20 Sept. 2023. #MetaphorSpatialTabulaRasa ^[Wikipedia]

#CharacterisationOversimplification #ReasoningFallacyFalseEquivalence #EpistemologySociallyConstructed #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionValues / #MetaphorVersusPureVitiated #PleaOrderStableSocial #TheoryPoliticsOfEternity #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDeviant / #MetaphorTransformationBeforeAndAfter #PowerControlRegulationObjectification ^[TikTok] #CharacterisationEmasculationIndeterminacyEpicene #MetaphorTransformationRetrogression #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych #TheoryHauntology

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Context ^[dictionary]

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Supplementary #IRLScholarGeorgeLakoff + #TheoryLinguisticsConceptualMetaphorCMT "Moral Bounds: Here action is seen as motion, and moral action is seen as motion within prescribed bounds or on a prescribed path. Immoral people are those who transgress the bounds or deviate from the path. The logic of this metaphor is that transgressors and deviants are dangerous to society not only because they can lead others astray, but because they create new paths to traverse, thus blurring the clear, prescribed, socially accepted boundaries between right and wrong." http://www.wwcd.org/issues/Lakoff.html #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDegenerate

#MetaphorWarfarePsychologicalOperationsPSYOP #IdentityLGBTQIACodingHypersexualization #IdentityLGBTQIACodingHypersexualizationGrooming

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Supplementary "Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals". ^[Wikipedia]

#IRLEntertainerDesmondNapolesAKADesmondIsAmazing

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Addendum I would be curious to know if this poster feels the same about child beauty pageants/contests (given their often over-sexualised nature). For example, this is how #IRLScholarHenryGiroux understands them: "I will argue that the beauty pageant is an exemplary site for examining critically how the discourse of innocence mystifies the appropriation of children's bodies in a society that increasingly sexualizes and commodifies them. In pursuing this argument, I will examine how the culture of child beauty pageants functions as a pedagogical site where children learn about pleasure, desire, and the roles they might assume in an adult society. I also will examine how such pageants are rationalized, how they are upheld by commercial and ideological structures within the broader society, and how they are reproduced, reinforced, and sustained in related spheres such as advertising and fashion photography-spheres that also play an important role in marketing children as objects of pleasure, desire, and sexuality. Underlying this project is the attempt to challenge such rituals as innocent, to reconsider the role they play as part of a broader cultural practice in which children are reified and objectified. This is not meant to suggest that all child beauty pageants engage in a form of child abuse. Pageants vary in both the way they are constructed and how they interact with local and national audiences. Moreover, their outcomes are variable and contingent. But as sites of representation, identity formation, consumption, and regulation, the dominant and assigned meanings attached to these events have to be understood in terms of how they articulate and resonate with other cultural sites engaged in the production and regulation of youth, the packaging of desire, and the sexualized body. (p.36) ... All of these critiques raise valid concerns about the role of child beauty pageants and how they produce particular notions of beauty, pleasure, and femininity that are as culturally gender-specific as they are degrading; such criticisms also prompt a debate about the nature of adult needs and desires that push kids into pageants, and how such pageants correspond with other social practices that 'silently' reproduce roles for children that undermine the notion of child innocence and reinforce particular forms of child abuse" (p.39). Giroux, Henry A. 'Nymphet Fantasies: Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence.' #JournalSocialText, no. 57, 1998, pp. 31-53. JSTOR, ^{[academic source]}. Accessed 20 Sept. 2023. #TheoryPoliticsOfInnocence #PhenomnShowPageantBeautyChild #PhenomnSexualityHypersexualization #PoliticsCapitalismCommodification