Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-texas-bill-could-make-incredibly-popular-anime-video-games-illegal.1136022/

Dude, I hope this shit happens as it'll be a nice wake up call to what these idiots voted for.

We knew it was coming but I did not expect it so soon.

Texas writes a bill that's designed explicitly to allow Republican attorney generals to hunt LGBT+ youth and their parents, libraries and bookstores carrying LGBT+ books, and social media educating youth on LGBT+ topics, and Dexerto asks, "Wow, could this impact my anime and video games?"

I feel like copying this title word for word in this case is a grave injustice to how this is actually just gonna be used in the evil way of eroding lgbtq+ everything in media.

Muck like the book bans, it'll only be enforced on LGBTQ material.

All the gooner material will be fine until someone brave tries to apply the law equally (same thing happened with the bible)

I know it's awful not to focus on those issues, and I don't say this to be dismissive at all, but we are ultimately a video game forum, and this is the sort of stuff that might actually resonate with the folks who enabled these systems. We can, and hopefully will, have threads on the other aspects of this bill. And just to be clear, I have no problem with anything that bans the sexualization of younger characters, but that's not what this is all about.

edit: I actually misread your post, I apologize, but i'll leave this up as I think it's a good point still.

Texas does what Texas always does and has already had laws on the books about, somehow the fault of G*mer chuds and also part of the genocide.

Reasonable person dares enter the conversation:

for what it's worth, I think the argument in the article is... not very good. like, it basically entirely hinges on the notion that "obscene" means "literally whatever anyone wants it to mean" rather than it having a defined meaning in the penal code

you can say "they could ban persona!!!!!" because like... nobody can stop you. technically, they "could". but if we're applying the same "well, technically" standards, prior to this they could have banned like... any live-action movie with sex in it. this, uh, has not happened.

Thankfully, a prominent member is on it:

I think a lot of the concern regarding stuff like this is that being wider than it would normally be meant to be applied means that it might be targeted at particularly groups.

The presence of "sodomy" jumps out at me here as an example, if you don't know the history of that. To my knowledge, homosexuality has never been actually illegal in the UK or England as such. But sodomy was illegal - that is, anal sex - and that's the route that they'd use to target gay men.

This is an incredibly stupid argument because the UK, like most everywhere else, didn't just ban "sodomy" in a generic sense and left it at that, they rather explicitly outlawed "gross indecency between males" which isn't outlawing "homosexuality" just making the main thing associated with being homosexual illegal. In other words, L Thammy is  .