# Freakouts of the Right

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2022-04-28T22:36:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/35 "2022-04-29T03:53:50Z")

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> [@ekedolphin](#):
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> What’s this about suicide prevention hotlines (grooming pedophiles)?

Maybe you haven’t seen it yet? It was just in the news today (first mention of it that I’ve seen).

> [@The Republican Party is the Party of Evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-party-is-the-party-of-evil/937187/1097):
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> Right wing commentators are calling suicide prevention hotlines for LGBT youth “grooming hotlines.” These people are monsters. Literal monsters.

> **[Conservatives declare war on LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline & call it...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/conservatives-declare-war-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-call-pedophilia/)**
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> They'd rather have a dead child than a gay child...

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