{"id":1959061,"date":"2023-06-28T10:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interesting-propaganda-nbc-roasted-over-article-explaining-away-were-coming-for-your-children-chant\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:37:27","slug":"interesting-propaganda-nbc-roasted-over-article-explaining-away-were-coming-for-your-children-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interesting-propaganda-nbc-roasted-over-article-explaining-away-were-coming-for-your-children-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC under fire for article downplaying controversial chant &#8216;We&#8217;re Coming For Your Children&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finteresting-propaganda-nbc-roasted-over-article-explaining-away-were-coming-for-your-children-chant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>NBC News Faces Backlash Over Controversial Pride Event Chant<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBC News found itself in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-gaetz-defends-his-decision-to-criticize-rep-cheney\/\" title=\"Rep. Gaetz defends his decision to criticize Rep. Cheney\">hot water<\/a> after publishing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/nbc-out-proud\/re-coming-children-chant-nyc-drag-march-elicits-outrage-activists-say-rcna91341?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&#038;taid=649b7b94f8ccd40001c2880a&#038;utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> that attempted to explain a controversial chant at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> Pride event. Participants were heard reciting, \u201cWe\u2019re here! We\u2019re queer! We\u2019re coming for your children!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/interesting-propaganda-nbc-roasted-over-article-explaining-away-were-coming-for-your-children-chant\/\" title=\"NBC under fire for article downplaying controversial chant 'We're Coming For Your Children'\">article cited \u201clongtime march attendees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activist-loses-gay-marriage-cake-discrimination-case-involving-christian-baker\/\" title=\"Activist Loses 'Gay Marriage' Cake Discrimination Case Involving Christian Baker\">gay rights activists<\/a>\u201d who claimed the chant had been used at Pride events for several years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to organizers interviewed by NBC, the chant was \u201cmeant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.\u201d NYC Drag March organizer Brian Griffin told the outlet that it was relatively mild compared to previous ones, saying he joked about sex toys and pubic hair at previous Pride events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s all just words,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cIt\u2019s all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Activists told NBC the chant is \u201cone of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people. And in this case, they said, right<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-condemns-d-c-demonstrators-despite-past-encouragement-of-violent-blm-mobs\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris condemns D.C. demonstrators despite past encouragement of violent BLM mobs\">-wing activists<\/a> are jumping on a single video to weaponize an out-of-context remark to further stigmatize the queer community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \u201ccoming for your children\u201d chant has been used for years at Pride events, according to longtime march attendees and gay rights activists, who said it\u2019s one of many provocative expressions used to regain control of slurs against LGBTQ people.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vrcbuxCEkf\">https:\/\/t.co\/vrcbuxCEkf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1673847515114815494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Previous chants at Pride events in New York have included other allusions to targeting children, including \u201cTen percent is not enough: Groom! Groom! Groom!\u201d and violent chants, \u201cKill, kill, kill, we\u2019re coming to kill the mayor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NYC Drag March, launched in 1994 as a protest when Pride March officials exiled drag queens from their event out of fear it would deter corporate sponsorship, has been known for its problematic politics and flashy costuming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The controversial chanting came as Pride festivities across the U.S. and Canada this past week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/naked-men-in-front-of-children-pride-parades-in-u-s-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured rampant nudity<\/a>, including a parade in Seattle where naked men rode bikes in front of children (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1673057359911075840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">video here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; warning full frontal nudity).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBC faced criticism from conservative commentators who mocked the article and claimed that the \u201ccoming for your children\u201d chant was commonplace at Pride events. A community note was added below the article on Twitter that claimed the chant actually originated from the San Francisco Gay Men\u2019s choir in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGuys it\u2019s totally fine that they chanted \u2018we\u2019re coming for your children\u2019 because they do it every year and they also chant about sex toys and pubic hair and killing people,\u201d Libs of TikTok tweeted. \u201c\u2018It\u2019s all just words\u2019 say the people who force preferred pronouns on us and constantly change our language.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2019These guys haven\u2019t suddenly become groomers \u2014 they\u2019ve been groomers for years!\u2019\u201d Daily Wire host Michael Knowles said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c\u2018We\u2019ve been saying this for years\u2019\u00a0 makes it worse, not better. But, uh, interesting propaganda spin here, NBC,\u201d Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemmingway said. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News faced backlash for an article that seemingly justified a chant at a NYC Pride event, where participants chanted, &#8220;We&#8217;re here! We&#8217;re queer! We&#8217;re coming for your children!&#8221; The article relied on &#8220;longtime march attendees and gay rights activists&#8221; who defended the chant&#8217;s use at Pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1959062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}