‘Wildly offensive’: Arkansas governor criticised over anti-trans sports advert

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/09/18/sarah-sanders-trans-ad-2026/

Backlash to the ad

One of the most widely shared reactions to the ad on X came from political commentator The Shumater, who wrote: “This wildly offensive ad from Gov. Sanders features anti-trans tropes equivalent to parodying African-Americans with blackface. Hate isn’t funny. Punching down isn’t Christian. And she’s “prevented” nothing; no trans girl has ever tried to play sports in Arkansas.”

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BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 14 pts · 6d (9 replies)

I'm not an expert on the subject at all.

On the Facebook group I admin for my nearby small town, I removed a Trans phobic post. The poster complained that I don't accept free speech.

My reply was that you can challenge people for what they think and do, but not for what they are.

Does that sound reasonable?

alapakala@quokk.au · 4 pts · 6d (5 replies)

Facebook group I admin

Words you don't read in threadiverse often👀.

Try doxing the bigots, so they need to learn a few findings.

ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 4 pts · 6d (1 reply)

If someone is posting their bigotry under their own name on facebook then I dont think theyre worried about being doxxed. Theyre basically doxxing themselves

alapakala@quokk.au · 2 pts · 6d

A face to a location is hard to come by in the ocean. I’m telling an admin to do some volunteering teaching manners.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 6d (2 replies)

Facebook is still very active and useful in small towns and rural areas. I live in Wyoming and Facebook, both Marketplace and several community groups, are how a lot of things get done.

alapakala@quokk.au · 1 pts · 6d (1 reply)

Wyoming

👀, please don't tell me you're a billionaire

I am aware how the yard sold effect works, it just would be more efficient to solidify if say flohmarkt.wyomingpublicmedia.org existed.

I am aware you have a lot of Nazis to bury.🫡

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 6d

I do live in the Jackson Hole area, but please don't believe most of the current Internet narrative. I bought my house (not apartment) in 2017 for $210k. That's far from billionaire territory. After COVID prices exploded, but up until 2019, you could find homes. The problem was finding work that could afford for that home.

The point is that most of those billionaires either don't spend much time here, or live here and blend in with us locals because they don't want to be bothered and just want to have a drink in peace.

As far as Facebook is concerned, I wish we had an alternative. That said, these neighborhood groups and the like is how FB should have been. Just people sharing wildlife sightings, this week's fresh tamales offering, used bikes, free DnD one shots at the library, etc.

PS: Teton county is blue and quite progressive. The rest of the state though...

TRAHR@quokk.au · 3 pts · 6d

That sounds perfect.

Just be careful about them trying to move it to “transgender ideology” and pretend it’s something we think and teach instead of just who we are.

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6d

Hate speech vs free speech is a strange thing to deal with.

But in the end if you are just speaking hate you don't belong in civilized society.

lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d

Also reasonable, just a different kind of reasonable: “get fucked Nazi”

crowcore_explorer@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 6d (5 replies)

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0ndead@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 6d