 are you proud to have a conversation ladies would you like to have a conversation today why can't we talk about sterilizing kids he's got nothing the Salem church in Doyle's town Pennsylvania hosted a rainbow room event which is something that Planned Parenthood puts on for LGBTQ plus youth where they typically offer arts and crafts games events and education specifically to queer teens and preteens who don't otherwise have a space to be themselves and just have fun and learn but the event got on the radar of notorious Canadian troll Chris Elston aka billboard Chris who announced that he'd be protesting the event with Moms for Liberty saying quote I'm going to plan parenthoods rainbow room youth indoctrination event in Doyle's town Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening some lovely Moms for Liberty will be joining me along with a journalist or two come join our party outside he then adds the rainbow room brings together 14 year olds with 21 year olds to teach all sorts of queer inclusive sex groomer central now what he's referring to here is sex education now when it's taught in public schools people think of it as sort of this awkward albeit necessary feature of public education to prevent unplanned pregnancies and reduce the transmission of diseases it is necessary but when queer youth are taught sex education it's all of a sudden grooming according to billboard Chris but that's just not true a meta analysis published in the Journal of adolescent health found that a comprehensive sex education that is LGBTQ plus inclusive actually helps to prevent child sexual abuse and offers a plethora of other benefits as well but I mean he knows that and even if this event didn't offer sex education he'd still call it grooming right if this was a drag queen story hour he'd still say that it's grooming because we know that to these types of people anytime a queer person is in the presence of children they call that grooming or if LGBTQ plus youth gather for a space to have a queer prom or just get to know each other because maybe they don't fit in or they're bullied they'll still call it grooming so it doesn't matter what the situation is it's always by default grooming to them so me explaining this is really not necessary it's effectively superfluous information but to any viewers who don't know why sex education for youth including LGBTQ plus youth is good now you know either way he showed up because he wanted to make a scene and as LGBTQ nation reports Elston showed up wearing a sandwich board that proclaimed that children cannot consent to puberty blockers he also recorded his presence with a selfie stick asking others can anybody tell me why we should be cutting off the body parts of children so on one hand he's worried that this is a grooming event because they're teaching sex education to queer youth but on another hand he's going up and asking them why they're chopping off children's body parts seems like a very very good faith actor I'm obviously being sarcastic but I mean the goal I think it's evident he's there to antagonize people he's there to antagonize event goers he wants to intimidate them but fortunately his attempt to gin up outrage did not work in fact it backfired tremendously because when he showed up to the event he was met with a surprise newsbreak reports Chris was met by a crowd of about 200 parents of LGBTQ youth church parishioners and members of the community the counter protesters were standing on the lawn in front of the church in the driveway and on the sidewalk some were holding handmade signs of their own with messages like we love you more than you hate us in other words the community was not going to tolerate this bigot showing up to intimidate queer youth who they realize need a space to be themselves to learn to you know be in community with other queer youth because maybe they don't feel as welcomed by their sis and straight peers they need this so the community to the tune of hundreds of people showed up and said we're not going to tolerate your intimidation and you love to see it because this dude he showed up with a couple of moms for liberty momsies so they were very much outnumbered it was like maybe 12 at maximum of their protesters and then you had hundreds of counter protesters and that is really encouraging to see but him and his moms for liberty cronies getting ratioed by counter protesters it's not even the best part of the story because from Chris's perspective hundreds of counter protesters showing up isn't necessarily the worst thing ever considering the types of tactics that he uses to demonize and troll LGBTQ plus people and their allies so he is essentially a real life troll and debate me bro who provokes people into giving him a reaction to which he can then broadcast to his audience on Twitter and say look at how unhinged these LGBTQ plus people and their supporters are so let me give you a couple of examples so you know who we're dealing with here this man paid for a billboard in Vancouver Canada declaring his love for notorious transphobe and Harry Potter author JK Rowling he then wore that same slogan on a shirt to a Nicholas Spurling rally who was a pro LGBTQ plus politician in Canada and he did this specifically to provoke the attendees and it worked and on top of that he uploaded a video of himself following a woman who cursed at him after he asked her an outrageous transphobic question and he does this because the goal isn't necessarily to change minds it's not to have a conversation or debate people it's to get a reaction and then broadcast that reaction to people for views and clicks that's the goal so the prospect of 200 counter protesters showing up on its face isn't necessarily a bad thing for this type of a troll because he now has hundreds of people he can antagonize for propaganda purposes and odds are at least a couple of them are going to be so outraged by the ridiculous things that he's saying that they're going to give him the propaganda fodder that he needs but unfortunately for him it did not go according to plan because the counter protesters all agree to a really interesting albeit genius strategy newsbreak continues in a brief interview conducted on the street before he arrived at the church Chris said his goal in traveling to Doylestown was to have conversations with members of the community but as he approached the church Chris was met with a wall of silence as nearly everyone in the crowd ignored him even when Chris got close to people and tried to start a conversation he was largely ignored most people in the crowd treated Chris as if he wasn't there Chris walked up and down the sidewalk holding a phone on a selfie stick to record his interactions he loudly asked if anyone wanted to talk about the science of transgenderism but there were no takers quote can anybody tell me why we should be cutting off the body parts of children Chris asked a lot of you probably don't believe that's even happening right for the most part the protester encountered a wall of silence and an occasional angry glare from the counter protesters at previous appearances around the country Chris has posted videos of people screaming at him and occasionally assaulting him that may make for good video on the web for a provocateur but the Doylestown crowd refused to engage so they decided to not be the troll and that strategy was a massive success and I'll tell you why the protesters themselves are saying that that strategy was successful in a moment but first I want to share their reasoning for this particular strategy so one of the attendees was state senator Steve Santasario who represents Doylestown and he also showed up with solid in solidarity with queer youth and he was asked by a journalist about this particular strategy and what he said was brilliant he said there was really no point in engaging with someone whose mind is already closed and furthermore he suggested that the community was already familiar with the tactics and the antics of moms for liberty so engaging with any of these people was pointless because their goal of being there was not to argue with bigots and trans folks the goal was to stand in solidarity with queer youth and it worked now I'll show you why it worked so you're looking at a TikTok video uploaded by a Doylestown local and they noted here that moms for liberty showed up to terrorize them and as you can see there's billboard Chris right in the front wearing the light blue jacket and one of the local moms is Megan Brock is also there but then they cut to all of the counter protesters that showed up and they talk about their strategy of just ignoring him as he walked around with a selfie stick trying to provoke a response from anyone but nobody would give him what he wanted at one point he even tried to talk to a dog since no humans would engage with him but even the dog apparently wasn't interested either and him being ignored resulted in him and his moms he friends going home since nobody would take the bait nobody so that right there is why they say don't feed the trolls because depriving them of the attention that they crave makes them go away they win when you acknowledge their existence but by not acknowledging them by ignoring them you are depriving them of the thing that they want the most your attention again they don't care about dialogue or debate their minds are closed they just want to make you look silly and it's impossible for them to do that if you simply ignore them now I want to show you a longer video that he posted to Twitter himself because you're going to see how disciplined all of these counter protesters really were because he basically talks to them sometimes for minutes at a time but they ignore him and they just keep talking to each other and you can tell that they were just having a good time like one of the attendees said that they wanted to feel like a festival on the street and you kind of get that vibe because people were having a good time despite his presence let's watch are you proud to have a conversation you're not wow it's incredible whether you believe in god or evolution and i'm sure everyone here being such a science crowd i'm sure they all believe in evolution but whether you believe in god or evolution this makes no sense if you believe in god this ideology teaches that god made us wrong if you believe in evolution this ideology is teaching that for the first time in human history for the first time in 200 000 years we need a pharmaceutical company to help our children be who they really are totally insane did y'all see the wheels turning their heads just now the brain started to break they'll come around who wants to talk about the science here today it was the medical bodies after looking at the evidence found that there was no evidence to support transitioning children but none of you care about this do you you're totally fine with sterilizing autistic kids kids who would grow up to be gay cutting off their body parts my gosh we got a true we got a true cult going on here what about you sir why do you think it's okay to sterilize kids yeah you got nothing ladies would you like to have a conversation today literally never literally why why can't we talk about things we can't talk about things what's up with that my gosh senator santa cerio why don't you want to have a conversation about the greatest child abuse scandal in modern medicine history why can't we talk about sterilizing kids he's got nothing amazing now towards the beginning of the clip those two ladies that uh he was talking to they endured his diatribe for it's gotta be more than a minute right and i had to cut it down because it was so long but if you watch the full clip which i'll link to down below they just sat there and they denied him the attention that he wanted and it was brilliant the willpower that these people have really needs to be commended because if somebody is up in your face with a camera for me personally it would be very difficult for me to not tell them to fuck off right but these people they didn't bite i mean a couple of them were like no i don't want to talk to you but i mean as he continued to try to talk at them they just ignored them now there is i think a variety of ways to deal with anti-lgbtq plus trolls uh we recently talked about fascists who showed up to a pride event to intimidate them and they decided to troll them and they challenged them to a push-up contest and beat them i think humiliation is one strategy but with regard to these particular trolls the counter protesters had the perfect strategy and they handled the situation i think ideally in my opinion now as i stated earlier the community was already familiar with moms for liberty and they already know their ML right but i do want to play a speech from a parent from this community uh and she made this speech a couple of days ago before that protest that we just watched and she basically explains the effect that moms for liberties presence has had on their community and the atmosphere that they've cultivated and how they're finally coming together to push back and this clip is a little bit lengthy it's about three minutes 30 seconds but it is worth every single second moms for liberty on our school boards and in our community have been coming after our children our teachers and our schools for the last two years and while central box had always had a republican majority it wasn't until moms for liberty over through our district that our district began to make national headlines week after week and for nothing good their policies are responsible for over 70 book challenges and two book bans the forced removal of a quote by a holocaust survival elia weizel the wasteful spending of over a million dollars censorship of teachers and an atmosphere of fear and retribution in our schools and classrooms they are the reason central box is hemorrhaging some of the best educators around in addition to their harmful policies moms for liberty on our board have done absolutely nothing to combat real issues affecting our students they have ignored the mental health crisis affecting our youth in fact they have attempted to vilify social emotional learning and empathy as a concept they have done nothing about increased absenteeism and the rise in behavioral issues in our schools in fact they stand firmly against restorative practices because well it's crt according to them they have done nothing about they have done nothing to decrease gun violence bullying and harassment in our schools in fact their policies caused an increase in bullying in our schools specifically and especially from our most vulnerable youth students come to every school board meeting to tell them to express to the school board how their policies have hurt them and the school board majority ignores them every single time they belittle them by insinuating that adults have put them up to this so much so that students now begin their public comment with by saying that their words are their words and no one has forced them to come there to speak they have done absolutely nothing to help our students I've been asked recently how has this divisiveness affected my community and my answer is simple it's not divisiveness the premise is wrong there's no divisiveness in our community there's far-right extremism attempting to rewrite history and erase marginalized groups and that's moms for liberty there's an effort to weaponize parenthood and that's moms for liberty there are those who want christian nationalism in our public schools and that's moms for liberty there's extreme far-right propaganda machine that has infiltrated hearts and minds of moms and they are moms for liberty there's a full battle cry of parental rights that really just means rights for some and only some and that's moms for liberty there's no divisiveness in central box democrats republicans and independents our are working together to push away the fascism breathing down our necks so this community has been terrorized by this fascist group moms for liberty for years and as a result good people are starting to come together to fight back against these fascist momsies who have infiltrated their community and not only that they've brought in outside agitators outside provocateurs like billboard chris to terrorize their own communities as is the case in doilstown but in other communities they've brought in much more nefarious militarized groups like the proud boys to disrupt school board meetings so moms for liberty is organized fascism that has taken over many communities in this country and it's largely gone unchecked up until this point and this community in particular they're demonstrating to other communities that you don't have to just sit back and take it when you all come together you can drive out the fascists and driving them away from events like this it's easier than dismantling the hold that they have on school boards for example but i mean the very first step is for the community as a whole to come together and say enough is enough we're not going to tolerate what they're doing this is fascism and we don't want it in our community they are not welcome here and it looks like this community doilstown is starting to do that maybe they're going to be the first community to permanently remove this fascist tumor that is moms for liberty from their city and if they can do that then i hope that they'll be able to create a blueprint for other communities who are also dealing with the same thing and you know there's going to be a point where moms for liberty is so ubiquitous with school board meetings and and all of this that there's going to be blowback and i think that we're reaching that moment where the blowback is happening because they've kind of just overplayed their hand and they've demonstrated that they don't actually have a concern for the children or the teachers they just want fascism and authoritarian control and i'm thankful that people are finally starting to recognize that this is what they're doing so the faster that other communities wake up and do what doilstown did the better off we'll all be