Opposing grooming does not mean you support murder

The victims of the Colorado gay club shooting can both be innocent victims while the club can still be condemned for grooming children

The Associated Press, and numerous other outlets, decided to take advantage of a tragedy to push a false narrative:

Club Q is a gay and lesbian nightclub that features a drag show on Saturdays, according to its website. Club Q’s Facebook page said planned entertainment included a “punk and alternative show” preceding a birthday dance party, with a Sunday all-ages drag brunch.

Drag events have recently become a focus of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and protests as opponents, including politicians, have proposed banning children from them, falsely claiming that they are used to “groom” children.

There is nothing false about stating that it is grooming to have children attend a drag show. Drag is inherently sexual and children should never be exposed (deliberately) to sexual activities. Popular twitter user Libs of TikTok has documented extensive examples of grossly sexual activities performed by drag queens in front of children. If they want to do that in front of consenting adults, fine, but to do it in front of children is clearly grooming.

There are even children now “participating” in drag events, which (predictably) the groomers are using to further sexualize the children. Even if the majority of drag queens are not trying to groom children, why expose them to it anyways? There is no benefit to the child for it, it seems to be solely done by liberal parents to look woke. Don’t use your children for that.

Again, the murder at the club is tragic. It may or may not be hate motivated, but there is absolutely nothing mutually exclusive about being against both murder and child grooming. Not every victim has to be innocent.* If a gang murders a man’s wife and children because he stole drugs from the gang, the fact that stealing the drugs is wrong doesn’t make the wife and children somehow deserving of murder. But the AP and others believe somehow that in order to be against the murder, they must lie about the child grooming.

* The victim in this case being the club. There’s no indication the people shot supported this form of child grooming, and even if they did that is never a justification for violence.