They're not. It's a dishonest argument.
osarusan
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I don't see it that way. What I see is the author giving a platform to bigots under the disguise of what should have been a story focused on what the club actually does.
The club is being protested because of ignorance and bigotry. A responsible journalist would help to banish the ignorance by exposing the truth that fear and hatred is unnecessary. Instead, they provided a platform for bigots to spew more their hatred, even quoted two of them, and promoted a Christian club that has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of the article.
That's not neutral reporting.
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.
I love threads like this because they're basically just roll-calls for trolls to add my block list.
"The opposite." So... China has moved 800 million people into extreme poverty?
Thank you! I'll give that a try.
I'm using Cloudfare for DNS. I'll check out what they have available.
Those people are beyond saving. But hopefully it will convince some of the "I don't like Biden so I'm gonna protest vote for some joke candidate" crowd to actually take the election seriously.
'Most of us don't have wealth'
God damn it, he's so close.
Ah. Well, good news then!
Filthy, injured, and in Florida. It hardly gets any worse than that.
Exactly. These clubs are not being put into schools by some outside corporation. They are made by students, with faculty support, like all clubs. The Satanic Temple provides support to these groups, because without an organization like them to back them up, clubs like this would all get shut down by bigoted principals and PTA groups.