Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Let's go Brandon! Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:15:04 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:15:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="119cbd5afeea25dc3a76f52a03eb62b7"; logging-data="1017414"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iZck81lbBQY6XFqBD9ftreQcZmJzcfxk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZUVsD0IvTwWghNl2kew/aleG6ZY= Bytes: 2715 On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:54:07 -0700, The Horny Goat wrote: >On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 07:04:57 -0400, FPP wrote: > >>> While Biden did officially acknowledge March 31 to be TDoV, he also did so in 2021 when Easter fell on April 4 that year. >>> >>> The day was set by a Michigan-based advocate to raise awareness of the plight of transgender people and to celebrate their achievements. >>> >>> The first TDoV was celebrated in 2009 when Easter occurred on April 12. Since then, the two dates coincided only twice: in 2013 and in 2024. >>> >>> Biden did not invent TDoV, nor set the date to deliberately clash with Easter, which is on a different date every year. >> >>What do you disagree with in that? > >No one has suggested Biden invented TDoV nor the date - the comment >was based on which event he CHOSE to promote. Nobody would have raised >eyebrows had Biden promoted the White House Easter Egg hunt which has >gone on for years and is at least tangentially related to Easter. > >Promoting TDoV the way he did is equivalent to promoting "National >Fireworks Day" as the main event going on on July 4th - though TDoV >isn't JUST what you suggest ('to celebrate their achievements') but to >promote their status at the event of THE major religious date of the >year. He promoted the day on the day that was chosen by members of that group as their day of recognition over a decade ago. To suggest that Biden (a long term Christian) chose to recognize TDoV as some sort of slap at Christianity is... I just don't see how anyone can even suggest it.