I was driving up to a friend’s for the weekend on Friday and nearly broke down in tears because I saw a billboard on the side of a southern highway. It had the same yellow background with red text that those awful, ubiquitous “Jesus Saves!” billboards have. I nearly missed it.
It said:
“Rejoice! God loves trans kids!”
I have a photo of it! From a tweet I saw about this lovely sign the other day.
[Image descriptions: 1. Tweet by AJ+ @AJPlus [gold check verified] that says: Spain became the 1st country in Europe to offer paid menstrual leave, for 3-5 days. It also gave final approval to laws that: [bullet point] enshrine rights to abortion for people over 16 [bullet point] let trans people over 16 self-identify gender by simple declaration, one of the only places to do so [Attached to the Tweet is a photo of a group of people with trans flags gathered on the steps of a building with large stone columns.]
2. A headline from DW that says: “Spain passes laws on trans rights, abortion, menstrual leave – DW.” The visible part of the article says, “The new laws expand transgender rights and abortion access, as well as give workers paid menstrual leave. The approval comes ahead of…” \End descriptions]
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) • JIMMY STEWART as George Bailey andLIONEL BARRYMORE as Mr. Potter
wait WHAT 😳 i mean that feels accurate but still…. WHAT.
here’s the official fbi memo about it! you can view the whole document here
the fbi presented these “findings” to mccarthy’s house unamerican activities committee (huac) in an attempt to get it’s a wonderful life pulled from theaters but huac decided not to take any action
Boy oh boy oh boy.
Homework time, kids: if you’ve never heard the word “McCarthyism” before, I need you to go look it up. You can read the Wikipedia page, that’s fine. I just want you to understand how absolutely off the wall rabid insane Joseph McCarthy was about Communists. This ties into a much bigger thing re: the Cold War, but let’s start with this part.
If you’ve ever seen or read The Crucible, it was written in direct response to, and criticism of, Joseph McCarthy and HUAC. That should tell you a lot.
