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Uplifting NewsEnglish · 2 years ago

Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’

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Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’

Carighan Maconar to

Uplifting NewsEnglish · 2 years ago

Dusty Farr says “it’s uplifting when you can actually accept the way things are, and you’re not carrying that unfounded hate and unfounded disgust."

Better late than never! 🥳

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100% - it’s not bad that he switched, he should be embraced.
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  Embraced>Embarrassed.
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    To those who downvoted this, obviously there are some hard limits to this idea, paradox of tolerance and all.

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