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  • Now LEGO BLOCKS Can Discriminate Over Their Parts?!

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Feb 9 20:30:45 2025
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti- LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa


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  • From BTR1701@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 02:22:46 2025
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti- LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa

    Do these people have no self-awareness whatsoever?



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  • From the dog from that film you saw@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 02:55:26 2025
    On 09/02/2025 09:30, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti- LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa



    fun story but totally untrue.
    what the guide actually points out is that people refer to bricks as
    male and female, an example of how language reinforces the normality of hetereosexuality (which i agree is the norm)
    it doesnt criticise lego in any way but why spoil a fun story with facts?

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  • From moviePig@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 03:23:08 2025
    On 2/9/2025 10:55 AM, the dog from that film you saw wrote:
    On 09/02/2025 09:30, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are
    anti-
    LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa



    fun story but totally untrue.
    what the guide actually points out is that people refer to bricks as
    male and female, an example of how language reinforces the normality of hetereosexuality (which i agree is the norm)
    it doesnt criticise lego in any way but why spoil a fun story with facts?

    Well, *somebody* has to hang. I've already made the potato salad...



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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 04:40:34 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti- >> LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa

    Do these people have no self-awareness whatsoever?


    I stopped going to our science Museum when they had some sort of exhibit opening party and they dressed a black woman in a Santa Claus wig to greet people at the door as da Vinci. The head of the museum told the local fish
    wrap that the museum felt it was important to teach visitors that science wasn’t done by white men.



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  • From BTR1701@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 04:55:11 2025
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 9:40:34 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti-
    LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa

    Do these people have no self-awareness whatsoever?

    I stopped going to our science Museum when they had some sort of exhibit opening party and they dressed a black woman in a Santa Claus wig to greet people at the door as da Vinci. The head of the museum told the local fish wrap that the museum felt it was important to teach visitors that science wasn’t done by white men.

    LOL! It's important that we lie about who did science.

    I also wonder when it was exactly that Italians (i.e., DaVinci) stopped being considered ethnic minorities in America and started being "white men".



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  • From Your Name@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 08:54:24 2025
    On 2025-02-09 17:40:34 +0000, anim8rfsk said:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>>
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are
    anti-LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’. >>>
    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa

    Do these people have no self-awareness whatsoever?

    I stopped going to our science Museum when they had some sort of exhibit opening party and they dressed a black woman in a Santa Claus wig to greet people at the door as da Vinci. The head of the museum told the local fish wrap that the museum felt it was important to teach visitors that science wasn’t done by white men.

    Typical gender/ethniticy swapping idiocy. :-(

    That idiot "head of museum" should fired.

    A. A lot of "science" was done by white men.
    B. There are black women that have done "science" as well.



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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 08:54:34 2025
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 9:40:34 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 9, 2025 at 1:30:45 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote: >>>
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti-
    LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’. >>>>
    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa

    Do these people have no self-awareness whatsoever?

    I stopped going to our science Museum when they had some sort of exhibit
    opening party and they dressed a black woman in a Santa Claus wig

    Oops, I meant beard, but it was probably both

    to greet
    people at the door as da Vinci. The head of the museum told the local fish >> wrap that the museum felt it was important to teach visitors that science
    wasn’t done by white men.

    LOL! It's important that we lie about who did science.

    I also wonder when it was exactly that Italians (i.e., DaVinci) stopped being considered ethnic minorities in America and started being "white men".


    Excellent point



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  • From Doctor Fill@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 13:11:48 2025
    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are
    anti-
    LGBT because they have ‘male and female parts that mate together’.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa



    It's that negroe DEI thing Trump's been talking about.

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Feb 10 03:34:16 2025
    the dog from that film you saw <dsb@REMOVETHISbtinternet.com> wrote:
    On 09/02/2025 09:30, Ubiquitous wrote:

    Dana Loesch reacts to the London Science Museum saying Lego bricks are anti- >>LGBT because they have 'male and female parts that mate together'.

    https://youtu.be/Bm9KPyHUN8E?si=b92qR8aGBEq3WLqa

    fun story but totally untrue.
    what the guide actually points out is that people refer to bricks as
    male and female, an example of how language reinforces the normality of >hetereosexuality (which i agree is the norm)
    it doesnt criticise lego in any way but why spoil a fun story with facts?

    She's literally reacting to a headline from The Telegraph.

    Here's the article, although it's been updated since Loesch commented on
    it.

    Science Museum in 'bonkers' LGBT Lego warning
    Institution's Seeing Things Queerly tour claims people think the toy
    bricks are 'gendered' and reinforces idea 'heterosexuality is the norm'
    by Craig Simpson
    Arts Editor
    The Telegraph
    06 February 2025 12:20pm GMT https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/06/lego-can-be-anti-lgbt-says- science-museum/

    The first line of the article

    Lego can be anti-LGBT, the Science Museum has said.

    Yeah, that's LITERALLY criticizing Lego.

    Here's paragraph 2.

    A self-guided museum tour on "stories of queer communities,
    experiences and identities" includes a display of Lego bricks
    alongside a guide stating the plastic blocks may reinforce the
    idea that heterosexuality "is the norm".

    That's literally a criticism of how the pieces are designed to fit
    together, therefore normalizing heterosexuality.

    In a later paragraph,

    No source is provided for the alleged view that people consider
    Lego to be gendered, or that sticking bricks together is called
    "mating".

    None of this is about the use of gendered words in language. It's
    literally about the design of the toy and the action of fitting them
    together, and that the curator made shit up.

    You got this very wrong. Your criticism is off base, and you ruined my
    day by making me defend Ubi.


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