Last month we were among the first to report on the Twitter meme, “to my unborn child,” or, #tomyunbornchild in Twitter speak. Literally at least one hundred tweets from people promising to kill their unborn children if they were born gay were posted. While the majority of the thousands of tweets were not vile, disgusting, homophobic, sick, violent, unimaginable, twisted, evil, and despicable posted by sub-humans, far too many were. The owner of the Twitter account @homophobes put together a Storify list of the tweets, which we included in our reporting.
READ: 100 Shocking Tweets From People Who Say They Will Murder Their Gay Child
Some of the tweets?
#ToMyUnbornChild if you so much as think about being a homosexual I’ll put a bullet in your damn skull
#ToMyUnbornChild I Will Put A Bullet Through Your Skull If You Become Gay…
#tomyunbornchild the first time you experience your gay moment I’m stepping on your throat #fuckwitme
One enterprising and supportive Raleigh, North Carolina woman, Charlotte Moore — who is @cavaticat Twitter – decided to take a few of those tweets and film actors playing expectant parents saying them. The script was ready made. Your response will not be as easy.
“Reading their bile, the only thing I could think was: how would we feel if we heard actual parents saying this to actual children?,” Moore writes on the YouTube page, and adds:
I got the idea on a Thursday. By Sunday, we — me, my boyfriend, and whatever friends we could find to help us — had it filmed.
It’s easy to dehumanize hate speech online because we’ve gotten so used to seeing it. We tell ourselves that it’s the product of trolls, of random, anonymous strangers.
Except they’re not. They’re real people. Many of them will be parents. And some of their children will be gay.
But what can we DO about it? I don’t think there are any easy answers.
Whenever you believe life begins, I hope we can all agree: life is essential, and rare, and precious. We can’t stop anyone from having kids. But we can resolve to stop this toxic cycle. We can wish better for our own children. And we can support the kids who weren’t so lucky.
Hate speech is hate speech, but when it’s audible rather than written, it has far greater impact.
By the way, coincidentally, North Carolina is enmeshed in its own #tomyunbornchild battle. Voters in that state next month will decide whether they want to tell their born and unborn LGBT children not that they will kill them, but whether or not they will kill their dreams to be married.
To be honest, I imagined the people who tweeted the anti-gay #tomyunbornchild tweets to be far less nice than the actors portraying them.
Hat tip: Equalitopia
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Some people shouldn't be allowed to have children…
Unfortunately, they are the same ones that don't believe in birth control, keep their beaten wives in the kitchen and pregnant, listen to Rush and vote republican. All in the name of their christian god
Yes it is pure hate, but don't lump them into the birth control crap, republican crap. That’s just propaganda from your lefty socialist views. This movie was made to generate a response, just like the twitter account @ToMyUnbornChild was created to get some dumb suckers to tweet something stupid. The scum that tweets this stuff are predominantly all dumb kids / collage kids that sip the kool-aid and believe all your left wing crap. But here is the truth…
here are there twitter links as shown on the website. for the people who posted the hate. hardly the right wing group that listens to rush. http://twitter.com/#!/_KidCodie_ http://twitter.com/#!/kp225br http://twitter.com/#!/bibilm http://twitter.com/#!/FredrickGoGetem http://twitter.com/#!/Mr_Derosa_32 http://twitter.com/#!/StormBeast50 http://twitter.com/#!/tobytalbot21 http://twitter.com/#!/HoeImYungDre http://twitter.com/#!/CamrynHart http://twitter.com/#!/TheNewwGuy http://twitter.com/#!/malekahmad06 http://twitter.com/#!/TuckerBriley http://twitter.com/#!/SHIGUY224 http://twitter.com/#!/Based_Mac45 http://twitter.com/#!/RobGrant55 http://twitter.com/#!/Mr_DirtySnachez http://twitter.com/#!/xWhoIsAyeJayex http://twitter.com/#!/AlexGoodvin6
This was the 1st 18 listed on the new civil right movement website http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/100-shocking… there were about 5 dead links due to people removing there accounts due to the fallout of there posts
I don't even know what to say…
And you need a licence to own a dog!
Look at the language skills of most of the tweeters; the majority seem to come from poorly educated backgrounds. I wonder if there's a correlation there?
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