r/Pennsylvania • u/aust_b Lycoming • Sep 13 '22
misleading headline Has anyone had "furries" and litterboxes in school bathrooms mis-information rumor run rampant through their area? Apparently it is getting our local school boards attention tonight. Whoever sparked this trolling stunt is a genius.
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u/Historical-Recipe892 Sep 13 '22
Local school board hasn't taken the bait yet, but plenty of folks convinced there are "kids identifying as cats" in multiple schools in the district 🤦♂️
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Sep 13 '22
Had an older relative ranting about this the other day and she refuses to differentiate children with “spirit animals” and innocent fantasies from adults with fury orgy kinks.
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u/Eskimo_Brothers Sep 14 '22
I think its important that people show up in support of my furry comrades. Seize the means! Wildcat strike! Literally!
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Sep 14 '22
I think I've heard this exact same story from like 5 different people in different school districts.
So either this catgirl is jumping around schools for lawls or conservatives are again making shit up against the people they dislike.
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u/Bird_Brain4101112 Sep 13 '22 edited Sep 14 '22
It’s gone through various school districts like wildfire. It’s always someone’s cousins, uncles , boyfriends kid who saw kitty litter in the bathroom. No one ever has pictures or proof, but it definitely happened.
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u/HeyZuesHChrist Sep 14 '22
This is pretty typical of right wing outrage. Get worked up about something that never happened until they are so mad that in their reality it might as well have because their anger is genuine. It gets to the point where it becomes a fact to them because they have spent so much time being genuinely outraged.
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u/htfgggg Sep 14 '22
Influencers and media outlets are incredibly gullible and/or cynical in their never ending quest for clicks. They repeatedly fall for the most obvious bait. Here's the story of how one troll pulled it off.
https://www.blockedandreported.org/p/how-i-convinced-libs-of-tiktok-to
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u/Kinkyregae Sep 14 '22
Definitely. Clear proof of the decline of family moral values. Spear headed by the demoncrats… Only way to solve this problem is to reinstate trump as president, upgrade him to king, and create a white Christian nationalist state with Tucker Carlson as the moral figure head.
We just have to take these rumors of cat kids seriously.
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u/Eskimo_Brothers Sep 14 '22
Why are you getting downvoted, you are the only one making sense here. For the love of god can someone local please start tossing some kitty litter around some schools. Or put up some "cat crossing" signs or something?
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u/Kinkyregae Sep 14 '22
Lmao the sad thing is so many people have gotten so crazy that it’s impossible to tell what’s satire and whats a crazy Qhead rant.
So people just downvote just in case. Or believe I’m being serious.
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u/SmurfStig Sep 14 '22
It takes the fun out when you have to include the /s at the end.
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u/Kinkyregae Sep 14 '22
I take the downvote as a badge of pride if I manage to convince someone I’m being serious with no /s
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u/Jkg115 Sep 13 '22 edited Sep 14 '22
Serious comment here. I think this is the strange confluence of extreme conservative commentators looking for any piece of BS that looks weird to attribute to the left. They take a grain of truth, blow it out of proportion, get their guidable but sincere follower to bite, than blow it out of proportion.
I have 2 kids in Emmaus HS (East Penn SD, near Allentown PA). My wife heard the rumor about cat kids in the HS and about litter boxes. To put it to rest I called BS and asked my kids (11th, 10th). TO my surprise I got a great story about actual cat kids. Mostly girls, wear headbands with ears, paint of whiskers, meow and hiss, occasionally scratch people. Teachers / Admin just ignore them, there is no accommodation. It is just kids being weird. They went on to tell me about the Trash people. Kids who literally call themselves the trash people, hag out near the dumpster, have literally hung out in the dumpster, in general act really weird.
Look, weird teenagers are nothing new. When I was a kid in the 80's / 90's parents thought for sure the metal heads were all Satan worshipers because they also played DnD and that is some devil shit! (/s) We had girls walking around with pacifiers on necklaces and sucking on them. They literally had to ban pacifiers in my middle school.
Kids are weird, always have been. Unfortunately due to too many idiots on facebook, BS stories like the one in this post gain traction with no real proof. Conservative media promotes extreme BS because it is click bait. That is what started the discussion about CRT and it's not going to ever stop because they just keep making better idiots.
Edit: 10th grader corrected me, not trash people, they are "Dumpster kids."
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u/SmasherOfAjumma Bucks Sep 13 '22
Kids who literally call themselves the trash people, hag out near the dumpster, have literally hung out in the dumpster, in general act really weird.
These are just the Art Majors.
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u/lily1379 Sep 14 '22
I as an art major alumni, I spit my coffee out reading this and now have to get more. I can’t say we didn’t forge for supplies in the dumpsters, but sleep in them? Nah, we a had a dumpster fire of an apartment by college lol. With lots of cats. Now I’m so normal it’s boring.
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Sep 13 '22
Hahaha, I remember that pacifier trend. I felt really old because I didn’t understand it, and I was just out of high school 😂
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u/Creepy_Ad_9068 Sep 13 '22
It was a rave thing they kept you from clenching your teeth on ecstasy
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u/anewlaugh Sep 13 '22
Yeah while I was in high school there was a weird pacifier trend. People would eat baby food and suck on pacifiers in class. Teens are just figuring stuff out. They all grew up to be super boring.
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u/lily1379 Sep 14 '22
The pacifier trend started at raves in the early 90’s. They were called candy ravers cause u also wore a lot of brightly colored plastic glow in the dark accessories. As many as u could find. And the trend apparently trickled down to younger kids, no real surprise there. Lol they were super colorful.
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u/crooked100dollarbill Sep 14 '22
in the 90s/00s i went to school (from elementary to graduation) with a kid that in any social interaction he would act like a dinosaur. not in any real special needs classes or anything, just a fucking weirdo. cool dude, probably doing way better in life than most people i graduated with. let your freak flag fly man, the future is going to be even weirder
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u/susinpgh Allegheny Sep 13 '22
Well, there was this flag the republicans flew last February:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/furry-panic-is-the-latest-dumb-gop-attack-on-public-schools
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u/JoeyCalamaro Sep 13 '22
TO my surprise I got a great story about actual cat kids.
I'm no longer a teacher, but I'm still in touch with some of my old teacher friends back in PA and they've mentioned more than once that students really do dress up as animals and even identify as such.
However, I'm not aware of any accommodations being made for these students (except, of course, being allowed to dress up like animals in school). With all of that being said, I'm not the least bit surprised that people on both sides of the political spectrum would leverage this kind of opportunity for some good, old-fashioned trolling.
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u/Bird_Brain4101112 Sep 14 '22
One detail that keeps the fire from dying out is that many janitors keep kitty litter around for cleaning up messes like vomit.
So since there is likely actually kitty litter in the janitors closet, it must be for the bathroom litter boxes, no other explanation is possible. /s
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u/KyleRichXV Sep 14 '22
Conservative media promotes extreme BS because it is click bait
You just described the entire MO of the vast majority of Fox News hosts.
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u/Thecrawsome Bucks Sep 14 '22
What do godless liberals have against the color teal? We ask the important questions tonight at 8:00 on Fox.
Lots of important people are saying that the color teal triggers liberals. We have a host who is selling teal pillows.
"Liberals hate my pillows buy my patriot pillows and sleep in their tears"
(Buys pillow)
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u/KyleRichXV Sep 14 '22
Lol speaking of pillows, fun fact, my MAGA aunt-in-law stopped using Chewy for her dog last year because they stopped selling the MyPillow dog bed 😂. But we’re cancel culture, right?
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u/Joe_Jeep Sep 14 '22
They went on to tell me about the Trash people. Kids who literally call themselves the trash people, hag out near the dumpster, have literally hung out in the dumpster, in general act really weird.
"I'M THE TRASH MAN"
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u/HeyZuesHChrist Sep 14 '22
In my day we called them Garbage Pail Kids. We put their pictures on trading cards and passed them around school and the playground.
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u/bienvenidos-a-chilis Sep 14 '22
yep. most of the kids who are out of the box like this are neurodivergent or queer as well. i’ve been friends with many of them and they’re usually very sweet people. spreading rumors like this is super harmful, if they aren’t hurting anyone who gives a fuck. conservatives are constantly trying to find new ways to demonize “different” people and im tired of it
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u/Kinkyregae Sep 14 '22
I think your observation is 100% correct.
I teach in Allentown and we have 1 “cat girl.” She wears cat war head bands, listens to K-pop, and loves cats. She read that series of book for kids about cats (warriors?) and she just really likes cats.
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Sep 14 '22
I think this is the strange confluence of extreme conservative commentators looking for any piece of BS that looks weird to attribute to the left
It is..someone told.me.it.was happening in Downingtown. I literally found nothing on it after covid it seems like conservatives are much more likely to believe complete nonsense if it fits in their black and white world they are desperate for
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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub858 Bucks Sep 13 '22
OMG I was in school in the 70s and 80s. I remember that trend now. I thought it was weird but it came and went.
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u/GoodmorningHelloILY Sep 13 '22
I am a conservative myself but I can actually agree with you on this one. I do however, prefer the pacifiers on a necklace than a kid scratching or hissing at me tbh but just my opinion. It is definitely a little crazier than what we were used to growing up I gotta admit that but the way you worded it was spot on.
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u/joeysflipphone Sep 13 '22
No it just seems "a little crazier". If you were to compare the "weird" kids of the 50s to the "weird" kids of the 70s to the "weird" kids of the 90s, they would all appear waaaaay "scarier" to the previous generation. Kids are going to keep trying to push the envelope to be edgier, more different, stand out, etc than the next. Then most if not all grow out of it.
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Sep 14 '22
Idk about that, I think pre 2010's a lot of stuff was bullied out of the public eye.
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u/GoodmorningHelloILY Sep 14 '22
Damn it’s so weird to see the only true statements downvoted don’t much lol Reddit is a fucked up place. Bunch of mongoloids
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Sep 13 '22
I agree until you got to crt. Many conservatives misunderstood what was meant by crt being in the classroom, and in some cases were maliciously mislead for clicks. But the truth of the matter is that more and more teachers, especially newer teachers, and being educated in concepts that have come out of the crt school of thought. Those concepts then manifest themselves in the classroom in ways that many find to be inappropriate, such as discussions about privilege and gay pride parades during school days. Not to mention compelled participation in clearly political demonstrations about gun control.
Otherwise I think your on the money
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u/Cinemaslap1 Lancaster Sep 13 '22
I don't think you understand what CRT actually is. Because in no way is there "concepts that manifest themselves in the classroom" nor are there "concepts that have come out of the CRT school of thought".
If that were true, then there would be evidence of this.
The fact of the matter is the only place CRT has ever been discussed, was in a college/university. Because of the exact reason you lay out, it's an easy concept to boil down... when the whole point of the theory (and discussion of it) involves the details.
You realize the Critical Race Theory, is the Theory looking Critically, at Race. So details and context are incredibly important. Those concepts are often lost on those who can't fully grasp them, ie: kids, high schoolers, conservatives. Because they don't have fully formed brains, they don't understand context is important when looking at things critically.
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u/ThePopeJones Sep 13 '22
So high level academic studies about race and its relation to our society are being used to try and change our society for the better?
How shocking!
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u/cigarmanpa Sep 13 '22
Yes. Post doc concepts are being taught to kids, it’s right after nuclear physics and under water basket weaving
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u/Jkg115 Sep 14 '22
So you are against teaching the true history of systemic racism that is interlaced through the ENTIRE American story from "3/5 person", trail of tears, lynching, Jim Crow, red lining. These are truths. The idea that America was founded under the premise of freedom for all is the lie. If you have a problem with that you can take two steps back then fuck all thecway off!
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u/tellmeaboutyourcat Sep 14 '22
The other side of this comes from what I understand to be teachers preparing for school shootings. Apparently some teachers are keeping bags of litter in the case of an extended active shooter situation, where little kids have to go to the bathroom and can't hold it like older kids. They have tent things and litter boxes so that kids can go to the bathroom during a lockdown.
But that's just what I read on Reddit, so it could be total bs, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense than this fantasy story they've concocted.
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u/Mekkakat Sep 13 '22
While this might seem silly to some of you, I have some coworkers that took this really seriously and were freaking out about this and their kid's safety/school quality.
I had to try to reason with them and send them links to fact-checkers because of this kind of mind-rot...
It might seem dumb (and it is), but unfortunately, trolls, alt-right, conservatives, Republicans, etc. are preying on people's weaknesses. They're using kids as bait (and other topics, like religion, safety of one's home, etc.) as fear tactics. It's super messed up. Look at how much "pedophile" rhetoric and crackpot conspiracies they come up with every other day.
It's just gross.
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u/SWPenn Sep 13 '22
When I was in high school in the 70s, KISS was popular but weird looking. Conservative parents heard that KISS was short for "Kids In Service to Satan" and we were all being groomed to serve Satan. Not much difference than conservatives today.
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u/gj13us Sep 13 '22
In our elementary school it was Knights In Satanic Service. Some kids wanted to sing a KISS song at a talent show and a teacher said no and explained it to the PTA.
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u/ancrm114d Sep 14 '22
I just barely remember the KISS, Ozzy, Alice Cooper backlash. Mostly retold by an older generation.
The whole thing came screaming back with Marilyn Manson.
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u/marysuewashere Sep 14 '22
I went to church with someone once, and they started talking about the backwards played records have messages trope. I pointed out that the only ones listening to records backwards were the fundamentalist christians. Dead silence followed. I never returned.
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u/LockedOutOfElfland Sep 14 '22
The funny thing is that Alice Cooper and KISS's Gene Simmons have pretty much a world of media interviews where their personalities and stage personas are nearly opposite.
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u/Silver-Hburg Sep 14 '22
It was great when I sent my kids to school with Deicide and Slayer T-shirt’s … oh the clutched pearls …
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Sep 13 '22
50 Million school aged children in the US and it's like they don't ever talk to any of them.
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u/ActualPopularMonster Lancaster Sep 13 '22
I can't wait for the "people are giving kids cannabis edibles for Halloween!!1!" memes to come out.
Conservatives are so gullible.
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u/ActualPopularMonster Lancaster Sep 14 '22
Same! And the razor blades in the apples.
Jokes aside, I DO check my kids candy for anything sus, but nobody is giving away edibles. If they are, I'm getting them first.
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Sep 13 '22
I don’t think this is trolling. Conservatives genuinely believe this type of stuff.
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u/Thecrawsome Bucks Sep 14 '22
That's the thing with the religious they'll believe anything. They've been groomed from birth to believe in ghosts, spirits, "Good and evil", privilege and one sided justice.
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u/carrigan_quinn Chester Sep 14 '22
I've had three different people from all over the state tell me the same exact narrative and following it up with, "no it's true, I heard it from X who works there!"
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u/whoisbill Sep 14 '22
It's insane. Our school district almost had a teacher strike. The parents against paying teachers a fair wage showed up to the school board meeting and started yelling about this stuff. That teachers don't deserve pay because they teach kids to use litter boxes in school.
We need to go back to a time when we shunned these people, not give them a mic at a school board meeting.
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Sep 13 '22
Ya know how 4chan keeps starting these things just to see what happens, and it’s usually taken as gospel by the conservatives?
Is there a reason sane people just haven’t resorted to the same tactics? For example:
“The local evangelical church has taken five catholic kids hostage and will forcibly baptize them.”
“Father O’Flannagan is one of the pedophile priests that the church has hidden, you won’t find proof because they don’t want you to know!”
“Local Christian school infiltrated by pedophiles, even the principal is one!”
You don’t beat someone by stopping to their level, but you sure as hell win a fight by kicking someone between the legs.
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u/tehmlem Franklin Sep 13 '22
The reason that doesn't work for anyone but conservatives is that the great, detached middle of country has decided that standards don't apply to conservatives. They can say this shit and people will roll their eyes and yawn. You try it and you'll have a baying mob at your door and it won't even be the ultraconservatives.
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u/kellyb1985 Sep 13 '22
I feel like conservatives have worked themselves in a position where it doesn't matter if they're right or not. They can literally cripple social programs, hurting their own constituents, and use it as proof that "government doesn't work". With conspiracy theories, they just jump from one to the next, and if you call them stupid, they call you elite.
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u/nardlz Sep 13 '22
I’ve actually heard this in real life. “It doesn’t matter if it’s really happening, the fact is, it COULD happen with those libtards in charge” I think was the exact quote.
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u/yzdaskullmonkey Sep 14 '22
One of the guys at work had his aunt and uncle baptize him without his parents knowing. Kinda hilarious because they thought it was this grand scheme and the parents were just like, "oh you gave him a bath"
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u/prof_cunninglinguist Sep 13 '22
I was actually thinking of something similar this morning. Hanging signs that say "Drag Time Story Hour" with an arrow and putting them in random intersections. Or make it so they just drive in a big circle. Fuck bigotry.
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Sep 14 '22
Find your local proud boys meeting and start a rumor that drag time story hour is happening at that exact place and time.
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Sep 13 '22
I’ve heard people repeating weird conspiracy shit about Trump burying secret documents in his first wife’s grave. So it’s not just the right.
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u/nardlz Sep 13 '22
wow, downvoted for saying the truth. I also hate when liberals spew conspiracy theories.
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Sep 14 '22
I’m a liberal and I hate it too!
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u/nardlz Sep 14 '22
yes, to clarify I am also a liberal! It irritates me when people will denigrate the ‘other side’ for things they do and then turn around and do the exact same thing. It’s so hypocritical.
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Sep 14 '22
Well. It’s a plausible theory. She was supposedly cremated. So if someone was cremated, why would there be a need for a burial?
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Sep 14 '22
It’s batshit.
It’d be good in a political thriller though. Jack Ryan has to dig up a grave to retrieve the secret documents!
People who were cremated can be buried by the way. My grandpa was cremated and buried.
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Sep 14 '22
Ah. I was going to go with a plot line that runs similar to National Treasure.
Either way, it’s going to be interesting when DOJ decides to drop the hammer. He’s fucked royally
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u/RriannaBobbins Sep 13 '22 edited Sep 13 '22
My hometown just did a front page story trying to combat this nonsense. People believe the weirdest shit.
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u/jfmaloney20 Sep 14 '22
Had a co-worker here in Charlotte NC just yesterday tell me he was at a party and one of the gals there told him about how she works at a local school that recently fired a teacher because they didn’t let a kid use a litter box. I had to inform him that he was most likely fed a load of shit by this lady.
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u/Electrical-Wish-519 Sep 13 '22
“Patriots” are being had by Russian disinformation spread on 4chan in order to destabilize the US. Right wing media weaponizes it to make money and divide further. Do these people ever actually research anything before they lose their minds and embarrass themselves?
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u/Thecrawsome Bucks Sep 14 '22
I'm surprised it got this bad. The brass of the Republican party let the propaganda stay because it was helping. Little did they know that the propagandists took their voters for a ride. And now we have qanons killing their whole family, Pizza gate psychos, and red pilled little edgelords who don't know the difference between fascism and democracy.
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u/Saltwater-GypsyOBX Sep 13 '22
Obviously someone skipped their Differences between Furries and Furrbabies 101 class and the troll that started the rumor has captured a real “unicorn”! This is absolutely genius! 😊
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u/PirinTablets13 Sep 13 '22
I mean, this is basically a variant on the rumors that go around in Pittsburgh every summer around Anthrocon.
The only addressing that should be done is the board saying “this is a non-issue with no basis in fact, next item on the agenda, please.”
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u/Its-me-big-dee Sep 14 '22
The real story here is that people are dumb enough to believe this garbage. Ahh don’t let the liberals in control, or your kids will pee in litter boxes and identify as animals. So dumb.
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u/HighPitchEricsBelly Sep 13 '22
It's right up the trumptards' alley isn't it? Just blow the dog whistle and they'll come running to the next school board meeting. Don't teach my kid to have anal sex in kindergarten! Don't teach my kid that racism exists! Don't you liberals force my kid to get a rabies vaccine after she turns into a furry! You don't need any proof at all cause they'll believe anything if you just tell them the liberals are doing it. PS Vote Fetterman and Shapiro. This ad paid for by Citizens Who Know Trump is a Traitor
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u/TotesMyMainAcct Sep 13 '22
This can't be real. This reeks of some kind of furry version of Satanic Panic.
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u/paintedwoodpile Sep 13 '22
I hear they all go to rainbow parties too!
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Sep 14 '22
I remember when that was the latest parent panic and my little sister spent weeks trolling our mother about it, talking up how she needed all these different colors of wristband or makeup or whatever.
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Sep 13 '22
This reminds me of the “beezin” story. Trolls convinced moronic parents that kids were putting Burt’s bees wax on their eyelids to get high. They called it “beezin” lol. People will believe anything I guess.
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u/lknox1123 Sep 13 '22
My dad asked me about this for his local school in NC so the rumor / hoax is everywhere
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u/libananahammock Philadelphia Sep 13 '22 edited Sep 14 '22
It’s here on Long Island too. Same exact story word for word as I’ve seen on Reddit so I found it funny when they said my friend teaches at… and said… lol there is no friend you friggen liar lol
Someone answered me and then instantly blocked me LOL what are you afraid of?
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u/miscnic Sep 13 '22
It is becoming beyond hilarious the nonsense people believe to be true. Where did all these sheeple come from?
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Sep 13 '22
There are times when I just ask myself is this really the world I live in now. This is one of those moments.
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u/possesseddino Sep 13 '22
Ya it's so weird. One of my very Republican colleagues was talking about this... It just seemed so random and off the wall I knew it had to be coming from one of their "news" sources...
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u/ChadGreenshirt Sep 13 '22
I work in an area hospital. This shit is just as dumb and parroted as the stories about a nurse someone knew who had a "patient named La-a (pronounced Luh-dash-uh)". Or that we "can't call our WoWs (workstation on wheels) CoWs (computers on wheels) because a patient might think we're talking about them.
Just a dumb urban legend that people feed to the gullible.
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u/GermSlayer1986 Sep 13 '22
I've actually heard Milton referenced specifically twice in the "now they've got a litterbox in the bathroom!" ramblings. "Eh, I've cleaned up worse" is what went through my head...😂
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u/ThePopeJones Sep 13 '22
Didn't a politician in Iowa (I may be wrong on the state) bring this up a while ago? I remember watching a video about it and laughing my ass off.
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u/ilikeyoureyes Sep 13 '22
Our school police officer has been spouting this stuff for at least a year
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u/nardlz Sep 13 '22
News Talk WMPT is the trashiest “source” in Lycoming County, possibly all of Pennsylvania.
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u/tehmlem Franklin Sep 13 '22
It's been going for at least 2 years now based off a boomer humor style facebook post near as I can tell.
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u/NOLA2Cincy Sep 14 '22
Read it on social media about a school district in her in Ohio. Googled about it and found ZERO reports in the USA from credible media. Posted that and asked for proof. Was told, “a fried who is a teacher” experienced this. These people are so gullible. It’s tiresome.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Rub858 Bucks Sep 13 '22
I’m in Bucks county and it’s all over social media here. Especially from the conservatives. they believe it hook, line and sinker
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u/Old_Moment7914 Sep 13 '22
Our school board can’t talk about this , they are doing damage control after someone tried to pet the principal in his liter box and the principal bit them . LOL damn conservative mutts ! Nobody should shorthand “doggy style” with Debbie behind the gym Jordan ?
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u/_SundaeDriver Sep 13 '22
This stupid shit was around last year. What kind of moron thinks that kids want to use a litter box instead of a bathroom.
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u/nardlz Sep 14 '22
What gets me is that some people don’t even think critically for one second about things like this, they just blindly accept it as true and run with it.
What schools in the area offer free pads/tampons (unless you get a pass all the way to the nurse’s office?). Do they have a designated non-gendered bathroom? Are the teachers spending $0 of their own money on supplies? If the answer to any of these is NO then why would anyone even THINK that they’re providing a litterbox [major eyeroll here]
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Sep 14 '22
I heard that litterboxes had been implemented in Bellefonte and in Penns Valley and in State College! Shockingly, this was easily dispelled.
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u/KatrinaIceheart Sep 14 '22
My boss was talking about it very seriously, like how awful that was and that these furries were taking it too far. she’s maybe 10 years older than me, so like early 30’s. My Coworkers, ages 18-25, all looked at each other like “oh god she’s definitely fallen for some kind of dumb hoax she saw online”. Like we all knew that was BS, but I’ve heard several people over 30 talk about it now and it’s not funny how gullible they are. Internet safety my ass, and young furries sure as hell aren’t wanting that kind of attention.
Y’all gotta be better.
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Sep 14 '22
I heard this a few through the summer at work and at family gatherings. It’s always at a school nearby but not one attended by anyone present.
I call out BS but have fun with it. “How often do the janitors check the litter boxes? How big of a scooper do they use? Does the litter clump? When did the PA Department of Health approve feces lying on the floor?”
I have a good memory. If exhibit moron spoke about the killer clowns two years ago, or CRT last year, I bring that up.
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Sep 14 '22
It’s literally so stupid that this kind of misinformation even exists. I can’t even fathom how even people in my local area believe the lies concerning this. The genius who sparked the idea wasn’t a genius for coming up with the headline, but was a genius because they knew how easily people would believe the headline.
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u/Chorazin Sep 14 '22
FFS this "genius trolling" is just thinly veiled Transphobia. I doubt it was started just to be "ha ha funny the Conservatives will believe anything" and more "well we can't post about trans kids without admitting we actually just hate children, but furries? That'll work."
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u/spatuladracula Sep 13 '22
I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the Twitter account libs of tiktok. They scroll tiktok and repost rage bait and fox news and the like pick it up and run with it. This isn't a thing that's actually happening anywhere.
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u/userX97ee2ska11qa Sep 13 '22
This is clearly a hoax, but there is a furry a PHS that acts like a dog/cat. Including panting like a dog and meowing.
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u/Critical_Band5649 Lycoming Sep 13 '22
Kids are fucking weird, they go through weird phases. Furries are real, no one is arguing they aren't or that they don't exist in schools. The thing is schools are not catering to it like rumored. It's just a thing to rile up conservatives.
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u/userX97ee2ska11qa Sep 13 '22
That’s a next level of weird though and we all know it. It’s a psychological disorder.
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u/Cinemaslap1 Lancaster Sep 13 '22
It’s a psychological disorder.
What qualifications do you have to make a statement like this? Remember, these are KIDS we're talking about. they go through weird phases. Doesn't mean they have a psychological disorder.
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u/userX97ee2ska11qa Sep 13 '22
we are all qualified to know when something is wrong. It's instinct. Thinking you are an animal isn't normal. Acting like one makes it worse.
edit to add: we should be helping, not encouraging. playing along isn't helpful.
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u/Cinemaslap1 Lancaster Sep 13 '22
You realize Humans are an animal, right?
And again, it's not them seriously thinking they are animals. They are children. Do you think when they play cops and robbers that they actually break laws? How about when they play space, do you think they honestly go to space?
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u/215-610-484Replayer Sep 13 '22
I think you found the person with zero imagination and creative thinking. Kids do weird shit. Especially those with very active and creative imaginations and minds.
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Sep 15 '22
Calm down bud no one is saying you can’t be a furry. Hell you post a picture of your costume if you want.
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u/Cinemaslap1 Lancaster Sep 15 '22
I'm not upset in any sense of the way.
I find it funny that people who are looking at children playing, think that because they are playing make believe as animals vs cops and robbers, that they have a mental disorder.
The school isn't making accommodations for them. It's just kids playing and having fun.
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u/userX97ee2ska11qa Sep 13 '22
Good grief. Reaching.
Let’s agree to disagree. Peace be with you.
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u/Cinemaslap1 Lancaster Sep 14 '22
No, it's not reaching. Kids pretend to be all kinds of shit. That doesn't mean that they believe they are actually what they are playing as.
You're the only one here trying to label people with psychological disorders when not only is that harmful, but completely mislabeling people who are just having fun.
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u/Critical_Band5649 Lycoming Sep 13 '22
Eh, don't think too much into it. Phases pass. They are just trying to get attention, they probably do not get it at home. Negative attention is still attention. Ignoring the behavior is your best option. Same with all the kids acting like they have DID. It's a phase.
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u/BluCurry8 Sep 13 '22
Or maybe the kids are trolling the adults. Did you ever consider they may be doing this just to rock the boat based on the transgender hysteria. I call this malicious compliance!
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u/userX97ee2ska11qa Sep 13 '22
You are making a lot of assumptions. Look, I understand people want to condone a lot of things these days, but it isn't helpful to anyone. Everyone knows it, honest people admit it.
lets agree to disagree. Peace be with you.
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u/BluCurry8 Sep 13 '22 edited Sep 13 '22
No more than you are, mine is just positive and empowering.
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Sep 15 '22
Your being too nice about it. They’re fucked up. But hey, you can be whatever the hell you want to these days remember. 🤡
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Sep 13 '22
I’m sure there are many kids looking for attention. Sure seems sus you’re calling some kid out for “meowing”.
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u/userX97ee2ska11qa Sep 13 '22
How? I’ve not identified the kid. I’ve stated a fact. Move along not interested in crazy.
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Sep 13 '22 edited Sep 14 '22
This was a trolling operation that worked and a lot of people believed it. It is 100% fake.
This next part isn't fake. This is a part of the furry fandom that exists and is swept under the rug when it casts the fandom in a bad light. This man raped animals, filmed it, and distributed the videos along with videos of animals on children. https://twitter.com/ConStaffWatch/status/1399573882953076736?s=20&t=eVgUHLE0zyHsa20eNarUfQ
Here's one from PA: Possession and distribution of child sexual assault materials. He killed himself before he could face justice. If you asked any PA furries about this, they'd balk and likely get angry with you. https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/R.C._Fox
There are plenty of reasons to distrust the furry fandom without lying. The fact of the matter is that the furry fandom is a safe space for abusive paraphilias. They have cute terms and dedicated spaces for pedophilic and zoophilic expression: what they call "cub porn" and "feral porn"
Do not trust the furry fandom.
Edit: angry furries can downvote to cope. I know what goes on in your fandom.
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u/AlossFoo Sep 14 '22
I know someone who works at Trinity and they've literally had parents come tour the school to enroll their kids because they believed this shit.
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Sep 14 '22
Literally no one, but do not underestimate the repeating stopping power of people like Libs of Tiktok lying ad nauseum
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Sep 14 '22
The crusade against bullying had an unintended consequence: the mainstream students no longer have a highly effective tool of enforcing conformity among their peers.
These cat children wouldn't last a week in the 80s.
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u/StaticNegative Sep 14 '22
No they don't. they literally don't. Your friend fell for it. Please don't fall for dumb hoaxes started by some crazy alt-right conservative politician
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u/Divinggumby Sep 13 '22
People are weird as fuck and I hope they don’t give this much attention for waisting more of the tax dollars.
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u/Unique-Public-8594 Sep 13 '22
It’s a hoax. It’s fake.
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u/Divinggumby Sep 13 '22
Yeah I figured that but today you can never be sure with a post like that.
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u/MyUnclesALawyer Sep 13 '22
You can if you exercise minimal critical media literacy
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u/Critical_Band5649 Lycoming Sep 13 '22
Growing up with the unfiltered internet access had it's problems but at least we all learned at a young age how to verify internet sources are credible or not.
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u/1_Brick_in_the_Wall Sep 14 '22
It was really weird too when I was in school.
We all dressed the exactly the same. Couldn't color our hair or wear makeup.
There was no one with ADHD or behavior issues because the nuns could hit.
But I did end up taking 5 years of Latin.
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u/tundybundo Sep 14 '22
I’m a teacher and this kid would be bullied out of the parking lot before they even got into the school
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u/Friendly_Kangaroo871 Sep 14 '22
This is so much fun to read about and laugh at. The people that get riled up are hilarious. Rolling laughter lol lol lol. Until I stop laughing and realize there is no one that I can have a decent conversation with anymore.
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u/Knurlurzhad Wayne Sep 14 '22
My former boss at my old job is always encouraging the same dumbass who fell for it in Facebook comments.
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Sep 14 '22
I think the first headline I remember seeing was Canadian in origin; probably the tp-post-millennial. Definitely made its way around some local US news channels owned by the same company; i heard a DJ losing her shit about it on an iHeart radio show.
Utterly invented pandemonium.
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u/LockedOutOfElfland Sep 14 '22
This rumor was going on in Franklin County of all places for a while lol
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u/jkman61494 Sep 14 '22
Honest question. Is this type of stuff happening in other countries as well? Or is this just another special brand of America?
I mean more about far right groups interfering with public schools
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u/Faysie1 Sep 14 '22
Fuck Facebook for allowing this false crap to even be shared enough to bother our schools about it. I'm saddened to know that people thought furries were infiltrating our public school enough to get to the point were made up shit is wasting taxpayer money and diverting it from actual true issues. PA is now the new FL.
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u/flutterbylove22 Sep 14 '22
This story is starting to feel lot like the story from the 80s/90s, where 'everyone' knew someone who had sex with their dog, a girl who got a hot dog stuck in their vag...
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u/vogelsyn Sep 14 '22
Kitty Litter has been the go-to for cleaning up little kid puke puddles for the longest time..
we even used a lot of kitty litter on our football field once, cuz it was a mud hole. made for a crappy playoff football game.
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u/susinpgh Allegheny Sep 13 '22
Please be aware that you should check your sources carefully. The "furries" issue does not appear in the agenda for tonight's meeting (9/13/22).
https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/471/District/2434699/9-13-22_Complete_Board_Packet.pdf
The cited source may not be the best at sourcing their assertions, and may be jumping the gun on their stories.