Originally published at: Cat litter: The GOPs latest social media inspired moral panic | Boing Boing
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Just once, I would love to have them forced to answer the question “Where? Where is this happening? No ‘at my neighbor’s second cousin’s best friend’s dog’s brother’s school’ but an actual location.” They can’t because there are none, but the confusion and bafflement at being challenged would be worth it.
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Please, anyone, call them out on it
“With all due respect,sir, that sounds like bullshit. Can you prove me wrong with some actual evidence?”
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The GQP’ers think that it’s granola, let’em.
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Raisins in your sushi rolls works wonders to deter unwanted guests too.
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I saw a comment where someone said that what would actually be believable is litter boxes in classrooms to allow students to pee in case of an active shooter lockdown.
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With pun intended, the whole “furries provided with litter boxes” concept doesn’t even pass a basic sniff test.
If only conservatives would channel their creative imaginations into fulfilling (for them) but benign (for me) pursuits, like writing Atlas Shrugged fanfic or something.
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The furry literbox thing has been going on for a couple of years now, it’s ludicrous. They’ve even said places like Bath Iron Works in Maine, the shipyard that builds navy destroyers, is providing liter boxes for furry employees, which is such stupid nonsense. It’s all easily debunked, but Facebook is the prime mover of these falsities, because apparently most conservatives are too dumb to realize “I heard it on the internet so it must be true” is a mocking statement, not a truth universal.
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This story again? This has been going around since the earliest days of conservatives learning trans people exist. It comes back around every couple of years.
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Putting litter boxes in schools for furrys is pretty obviously something that started of as joke that someone took seriously and now is a full-blown, evidence-free moral panic. Apparently we’ve reached the post-satire world, where no matter how ridiculous a Onion-type story is, someone will assume it is true and be outraged by it.
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They’re just making up whatever nonsense they think the gullible will believe.
“Mitch McConnell eats sow bugs for breakfast”
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I identify as a dog. Does that mean I get walkies every couple of hours? /s
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One of my coworkers relayed this to me a month ago, immediately upon seeing it on FB.
I looked in the eyes and said “Susan, you are not that stupid.”
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Ask a more specific version of that question. “What is the name of one school that has installed boxes of cat litter for students to use as a bathroom?”
If they dodge, call out that there’s as much evidence for what they’re claiming as there is for the candidate doing something disgusting (but not illegal.) Maybe (if you want to keep with the bathroom theme) ask them what they say about similar “reports” (with as much evidence as the kitty litter story) that the GOP person eats their own poop.
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The problem is, their creative imaginations are centered on harm - either physical (shooting up a location) or socially (being an asshole to everyone around them).
Source: I’m the only non-conservative in a vast, conservative family, and about 60% of my workplace is also conservative. Sure, YMMV, but this is what it looks like from where I’m standing.
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Aren’t they already writing it and getting it made law in Republican run states?
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A bit later in the same twitter thread
The full article on NBC
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Would you settle for fire hydrants in classrooms?
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And they then get a rage boner over “fact checkers” and “biased media/ cancel culture” when they get called out.
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