Duggar clan - their staggering hypocrisy called out

[Ayla]

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Dan Savage highlights the hypocrisy of reality TV's Duggar clan, who painted LGBT people as child predators while their oldest son was allegedly sexually abusing underage girls.

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Can we all just stop giving these reality star trainwrecks the attention? These are people who were put on TV for their dysfunction to serve as our amusement. No one in their right mind should be taking advice from them in the first place.

[Ayla]

May 25, 2015 9:49:49 GMT 8 @pikachu said:

Can we all just stop giving these reality star trainwrecks the attention? These are people who were put on TV for their dysfunction to serve as our amusement. No one in their right mind should be taking advice from them in the first place.

Stephanie

The news links are as comprehensive as I can find.  There will be articles that some of us will disagree with or don't take seriously, but I don't think that it is appropriate for me to editorialise or to exclude content when it reflects what is being covered in the media.  

In this case I don't find anything redeeming in the Duggar family (not just because it isn't available in Oz) and I agree that they could be accurately described as 'train wrecks'.   However their transphobic comments and sphere of influence are large and damaging to our community.  They are at the forefront of moves to deny trans children protection and recognition, they push back on LGBTI equality and they present themselves as conservative paragons of family values.  When their true nature is revealed by their actions, and their hypocrisy and intellectual bankruptcy is on public view, then I think it needs to be reported and recorded here.

Thoughts welcome

Safe travels

Aisla

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Sorry. I suppose I should have been more clear. I'm not criticising you for linking/reporting on the news article. I'm criticising people writing news articles on these people in the first place.


I do think you're overestimating their influence by a very considerable margin, however. They're not moral paragons that the public look up to. They're trainwreck TV. They're mindless entertainment. But that's just my opinion.

[Ayla]

Actually I agree that they are far from paragons but that isn't how they position themselves Their hypocrisy just really kills me and the fact they are stirring up hate towards our community when they are often guilty of the very thing they think will occur if we are treated fairly