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  • 2021-07-08 (xsd:date)
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  • SF Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Convert Your Children’ Song – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • SF Gay Men’s Chorus ‘Convert Your Children’ Song Claim San Francisco's (SF) Gay Men's chorus literally sang they'll convert your children or are coming for your children. Rating Decontextualized Like this fact check? Reporting On July 8 2021, Dinesh D’Souza tweeted and published a Rumble.com video with SF Gay Men’s Chorus Literally Sings ‘We’re Coming for Your Children': SF Gay Men's Chorus Literally Sings We're Coming for Your Children https://t.co/GygracdsNb — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 8, 2021 As previously indicated, Rumble.com videos are pre-packaged with an un-skippable advertisement, discouraging viewers from examining content before sharing it. Based on Trendolizer.com’s top posts forJuly 8 2021, viewers engaged with and shared D’Souza’s post. D’Souza — in keeping with his general pattern of pushing disinformation — barely bothered to contextualize the video on that site, writing: Yes, they literally sang this. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die In this context, D’Souza referenced the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Other social media users repeated the claim and expressed the same panicked sentiment: The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus have now made this sick video private, where they boast about converting the children of conservatives. We're coming for your children! (Split into two parts due to Twitter's video limit) pic.twitter.com/1XpUG0fEja — Jack Hadfield 👍🇬🇧 (@JackHadders) July 8, 2021 D’Souza’s titular claim was that the SF Gay Men’s Chorus sang about coming for your children, and the tweet above referenced ‘converting’ the children of conservatives. (This appears to be an attempt to link QAnon’s Save Our Children to current far right attempts to ignite broader culture wars.) A July 7 2021 item on ThePostMillennial.com, ‘We’re coming for your children’: San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus pushes woke agenda, claimed: In honor of Pride Month this past June, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus released a song outlining how they’ll convert your children. The song, titled A Message From the Gay Community, mocks parents that fear the push of the LGBTQ agenda in today’s media, with the song claiming that parents wouldn’t be able to protect their kids from the advances and ideas of the group, Not The Bee reported. At the time of publishing, the video has now been made unavailable on YouTube. [...] One person wrote in the YouTube comment section ... And just like that, victim status is revoked. That piece made reference to the lyrics for the song, A Message From the Gay Community. Genius.com provided all lyrics , and they began: You think we’re sinful You fight against our rights You say we all lead live you can’t respect But you’re just frightened You think that we’ll corrupt your kids If our agenda goes unchecked Funny, just this once, you’re correct We’ll convert your children Happens bit by bit Quietly and subtlely And you will barely notice it You can keep them from disco Warn about San Francisco Make ’em wear pleated pants We don’t care... We’ll convert your children... We’ll make them tolerant and fair Subsequent lines from the song made the manner in which it was leveraged to misrepresent its actual content even more clear: We’ll convert your children Reaching one and all There’s really no escaping it ’cause even grandma likes Rupaul And the world’s getting kinder Gen Z’s gayer than Grindr Learn to love Learn to vogue Face your fate! We’ll convert your children Someone’s gotta teach them not to hate After that, the chorus sang: We’re coming for them We’re coming for your children We’re coming for them We’re coming for them We’re coming for your children For your children [Your] children will care about Fairness and justice for others Your children will work to convert All their sisters and brothers Then, soon, we’re almost certain You’re kids will start convertin’ you! The gay agenda is coming home The gay agenda is here! But you don’t have to worry ’cause there’s nothing wrong with Standing by our side Get on board in a hurry Because the world always needs A bit more pride It concluded with lines about making allies of anti-gay people: Come on, try a little pride! We’ll convert your children Then we’ll turn to you Giving up the fear inside Is freeing like you never knew! Go and see San Francisco! Go and turn up that disco! You’ll forget you were ever upset We’ll convert your children And make an ally of you yet! We’ll make an ally of you yet! We’ll make an ally of you yet! Predictably, repeat disinformation purveyors like Dinesh D’Souza presented the SF Gay Men’s Chorus song out of context, highlighting we’re coming for your children and we’ll convert your children without transcribing the totality of lyrics. Someone’s gotta teach them not to hate and your children will care about fairness and justice for others were impossible-to-miss aspects of the convert and coming for lines, the clear and present punchline to a joke about the gay agenda. In this instance, it was impossible not to hear the meaning of the song — deceptively (and clearly deliberately) subverted by hyperpartisan social media personalities in support of a broader, exclusionary agenda. Article Sources + SF Gay Men's Chorus Literally Sings We're Coming for Your Children SF Gay Men's Chorus Literally Sings We're Coming for Your Children 'We're coming for your children': San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus pushes woke agenda A Message From the Gay Community Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged basically an outright lie , dinesh d'souza , rumble.com , sf gay mens chorus , sf gay mens chorus coming for your children , viral tweets (en)
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