The Austin independent school district has celebrated Pride Week for
eight years now, but not on Texas AG Ken Paxton's watch.
He has written yet another strongly worded letter a few weeks ago,
he wrote a letter I think directing the Texas agencies that would be responsible.
To look into whether or not parents who seek gender affirming care for
their trans children ak listening to the mental health wishes.
And bodily wishes of their children and
validating them maybe if they should be criminally investigated or not.
Yeah, he's at it again and he wants to put a stop to Pride Week in general.
The texas legislature has made it clear when it comes to sex education parents,
not school districts are in charge.
By hosting Pride Week your district has at best undertaken a weeklong
instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent.
Or worse,
your district is cynically pushing a weeklong indoctrination of your students.
That not only fails to obtain parental consent but
suddenly cuts parents out of the loop.
Either way, you're breaking state law then he doubled down on twitter about this.
Liberal school districts are aggressively pushing LGBTQ views on Texas,
kids all behind parents backs this is immoral and illegal.
I will work with and for parents to hold deceptive sexual propagandists and
predators accountable.
See my letter here, so that language is really important for
people to zero in on sexual propagandists and predators.
One we're witnessing a real coordinated blowback
effort on gay rights in conjunction with trans rights.
Because they feel like they can loop those two together because transgender kids,
it's it's a newer for people they don't understand it as much,
even though trans people.
And non binary people and intersex people have existed throughout history.
But this binary and breaking it is really harder for some people to understand.
So they feel it's a very useful away to launder their bigotry against gay people.
They also see an opportunity with this conservative Supreme Court but
mostly this is a way to connect all these things together.
The CRT panic, the don't say gay bill panic,
your kids are not safe outside the home.
Your kids are being indoctrinated in schools to feel and
think in a way that you might not necessarily approve of.
And it's very, very scary and
when he says sexual propaganda and predators just be clear.
They're basically calling people who might be inclined to teach
your kids about tolerance and LGBTQ issues predators and by proxy.
They mean, yeah, it's basically gay people, they're predators and
they're preying on your kids.
And that's a core conservative perspective that
is just straight up bigotry and really really scary.
It's christian fundamentalism and they're trying to implement it in state houses and
just throughout the country including in Texas.
>> Yeah, we've got the, don't say gay bill in Florida, we've got people
trying to cancel Pride in Texas and it's like, come on Stonewall was 53 years ago.
Why do we have to keep fighting for
the same rights in the United States that we were fighting for 50, 60 years ago?
The Black Lives Matter movement in parallel with the civil rights movement.
And it just kind of suggests that maybe progress in the United States is
not linear and has not been linear.
And it more so swings like a pendulum back and forth and
right now it feels like we're in a really regressive phase.
>> Yeah, that's inarguable and here are other things that are inarguable.
So if you say that, we shouldn't even teach the existence of gay people,
you're obviously not in favor of gay people.
If you call them predators, just for their simple existence,
they didn't do anything wrong.
They just exist as people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc.
And they're predators to you well,
obviously you're against them so please republicans.
Like, just admit it, it's like you're admitting it here, right?
And you like, Ken Paxton, you're gonna vote for him this makes you like him more,
you are in the party of bigots.
Just, look, just own it that's what bigotry is
you're someone that does not belong in my category, right?
I'm straight, you're gay well, by the definition of your existence,
I hate you and I will smear you and call you a predator.
And somebody is so awful that you have to guard Children from,
so you hate gay people just say it.
So it's like guys, the reason why I'm telling you the most obvious thing in
the world is because you'll get in a debate with republicans.
And no, we don't hate guy people that we want them to vote for
us yeah, I know you want them to vote for you but you do hate them.
And if you're in that LGBTQ+ community and you're voting for
republicans, are you betraying your own?
100%, you can cry about it but taxes are more important to me money,
money Peter Thiel, yeah, I'm looking at you Dave Rubin.
Yes, I'm looking at you, you guys are sick and
you're endangering the lives of people in your community.
They're calling you a predator, they're calling you a predator Dave Rubin,
Peter Thiel.
But the money, the money, the money, there is no end to your greed, you disgust me.
What's all this garbage of hate the sinner or hate the sin, but love the sinner.
No, no [LAUGH] you hate the person, you hate a fundamental core identity
about it and like someone like Dave Rubin, you're right Jake.
It's really just about the money and and they work backwards from that and
they do cart wheels trying to defend it.
But I mean I just want to make sure we get this we get this point across because
the school district did stand up for
its students despite this threatening letter by Ken Paxton.
The school superintendent said,
I want all our LGBTQIA+ students to know that we are proud of them.
And that we will protect them against political attacks and
then this is the district spokesperson.
We're going to react to this by doubling down on making sure our kids feel safe and
celebrating Pride.
So the Pride parade had already been under attack by right wingers before,
Ken Paxton just made it a little bit more high profile.
But good on this school district for standing up for
its kids there because, they need it more than ever.
And also the teachers too needed more than ever this is another way for
the right wing to attack teachers unions.
That's another like way that they can make each of their attacks multipronged and
multi tool.
But like, don't get it twisted guys, this is the same,
this is very similar to the satanic panics of the 80s and such.
It's all about indoctrination, especially when they're outside of the home because
the mothers aren't there to take care of them.
And they might be subject to pedophilia and
all these things it's all about christian fundamentalism and theocracy.
And that's what they wanna bring us back to.
>> Yeah, and I don't want to be all doom and gloom and
like say we're entering a regressive phase and we definitely are in one.
But in Florida, the students themselves organized a walkout so it's one thing to
see the superintendent fighting with the parents against the attorney general.
But the students in a high school in Florida all walked out and
protested that don't say gay bill, so I think the kids are all right.
Yeah so Ken Paxton of course sent out these statements because he is calculating
that his Republican voters are vicious bigots.
And that this will help him politically cuz he was hurt politically for
other reasons.
So he's thinking, I'm going to rally my own voters, how am I going to rally them?
They love hatred, they love bigotry so I'm gonna give them more of that and
if you're a Republican, your feelings are hurt.
I don't care you know whose feelings are hurt more people who are born gay and
that you're calling a predator.
And then you're saying should not have equal rights and
by the when I talk about people who betray their own communities.
Let's be honest, look, so I was born muslim, my family's muslim and yeah,
there are muslims who voted for Donald Trump.
After Donald Trump said that he wants a total and complete shutdown of muslims
entering the country by the way we talk about cancel culture.
They wanted to cancel 1.6 billion people and say just because you're muslim,
we hate you and we don't want you in our country.
And if you're a muslim who voted for that,
you're an idiot and a jackass and yes, they're gonna come for you, you moron.
And all the tax cuts in the world aren't going to save you.
And so one more thing finally, if you're a Republican and I have talked to you
through the camera because I no longer have any Republican friends.
I'm not interested in people who say,
what you just don't want to be friends with me because I hate gay people.
Yes, yes, I don't want to be friends with you if you hate gay people and
you're trying to take away their rights.
And just own up to one last thing, you don't believe in equality.
You think there should be different rights for straight people and
different rights for straight for gay people.
That's a fact it's an indisputable fact, go home and sleep on it,
that you hate the core premise of America, equality because it is an inarguable fact