Hopping to conclusions? No, Easter has not been ‘replaced’ with Transgender Day of Visibility

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/14/tweets/hopping-to-conclusions-no-easter-has-not-been-repl/

37 comments

  1. Let me get this straight. Some people are bothered by a bunny delivering candy and eggs on Transgender Day of Visibility?

  3. There’s a chance every year that Easter can happen on any day from March 22 – April 25. Most of those dates have a 3% chance of being Easter.

    So, I guess nothing else can ever be scheduled to happen during that time period, right?

  4. I think we should claim it has, just to repay the spirit of MAGA spitefulness.

  5. Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or following the spring equinox.

    In 2017 caitlyn jenner made a twitter post celebrating Trans Visibility day on march 31st which she is getting roasted for now. (the point being that this isn’t a change Biden made THIS year)

    The next case of it falling on march 31st will be in the 2070s and 2090s.

  8. Other holidays today include National Farm Worker’s Day, National Crayon Day, and National Tater Day.

  9. Fun fact, research shows that people who believe in COVID conspiracies are more likely to jump to conclusions in other ways.

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    For example, there’s this experiment called the “beads task.” Here’s how it works:

    > Participants were presented with two different jars with different ratios of colorful beads. One jar contained 60 red and 40 blue beads, while the other contained 40 red and 60 blue beads. They were informed that the computer would randomly select one of the two jars, draw a bead, present it to the participant and replace it in the jar before drawing the next. Participants were told that once a jar had been selected, beads would always be drawn from the same jar. Their task would be to decide which jar was selected by the computer.

    People who believed in conspiracy theories pulled fewer beads from the jar before making their conclusions than people who didn’t believe in conspiracy theories.

    https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/63apz

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33061922/

  10. I wish it had been replaced, then I could stop with the candy and plastic eggs. I sound like an idiot explaining why we celebrate Easter to my kids.

  11. Everyone reporting on this is well aware. It’s just more disinformation to keep their captive audience angry. No one in that captive audience has any interest in what the truth is. It’s about continual reinforcement of their confirmation bias.

  12. The faux outrage is getting out of hand. As if Easter bunny and trans visibility can’t coexist. Bring on the logic, folks!

  14. Imagine sincerely believing Easter had been replaced 

  15. Next year, Easter will be on pot smoking day / Hitler’s Birthday.

  16. It’s funny that Christians would get mad about Easter of all holidays being replaced. Have you ever thought about the rules of when Easter is? Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first full day of spring. That sounds like some pagan witch shit to me. And that’s because it is. Easter literally just hijacked a pagan holiday that revolved around the spring equinox. Easter is on a different day every year because of this silly rule. Christians don’t even know how their own holidays work.

  18. It might be worth noting that “outraged” Bible grifter Trump has (again) not graced a church with his presence today.

  19. I thought Jesus loved everyone? He died for everyone sins. I don’t think he cares that the trans community shares a day with him once every few decades. In fact, he would probably find it absurd that his ”resurrection“ is celebrated at all and for some reason has been tied to a chocolate mongering bunny.

  20. ‘Hopping to conclusions’ made me laugh thinking of Office Space lol. The pet rock made millions!

  21. I don’t have the exact words to explain my frustrations, but the Christian mentality of “everybody is worthy of love and respect but there can only be one reason to love and respect someone and thats God”

  22. Ignore these people. It’s the only thing that works. 

  23. Yes it has. Us gay people stole the rainbow from god and now We’re transijg Easter! It’s ours now! Trans people took it from GOD!!!!

  24. what’s really insidious is the framing of this means most people, even those defending TDOV, will come at it with the angle that it would be bad if it wasn’t a coincidence and that it’d be reasonable to be outraged. Like we have to just accept the reality that being trans is this controversial thing that can’t share a day with a Jesus holiday. It’s baked in that being trans is a sin, dangerous, immoral, ect. The problem is the misinformation, not that having a day to acknowledge trans people is totally innocuous.

  25. I’m not going to do any research to confirm but trans visibility day has occurred on more March 31sts than Easter ever since the United States started celebrating Easter in the 1860s.

  26. What was so outrageous was the MSM reporting it as President Biden ‘creating’ this day to be on Easter. This is the same crap they pulled on HRC and Al Gore with distorting stories beyond even a resemblance of fact to ‘level’ the playing field.

  27. I truly feel this latest moral outrage truly sums the MAGA movement up;
    – Ignorance over the inception of Trans Visibility Day.
    – Ignorance over their own professed religious holiday.
    – Angry because their handlers told them to be.

    They are a bunch of clowns who will be the butt of a joke in the history books.

  28. Ahhh we’ve gone into “the war on Easter” mode! What’s next on the outrage docket? I can’t remember but isn’t it pride month ? Or am I missing another small dick whine fest in between there somewhere?

  29. I’m shocked, shocked I say, to hear that right wing news sources are fucking lying…

  30. Christians: you’re making our religion look bad! Pick another day!!!

    Christians when trump sells maga bible: 😀

  31. You know I’d be fine with it though. Ya know not everyone celebrates Easter. Crazy right?

  32. Also this day has been recognized since 2009, and has already fallen on Easter once before in 2013!

  33. I counter with this. If you believe there no consequences and everything happens for a reason and is part of God’s plan, then obviously God wanted these 2 things to coincide today

  34. I’m convinced Republican pundits just look for shit like this and pretend to be outraged by it. Nobody with a brain cares that Easter coincides with a day dedicated Transgender activism. Ironically, transphobes are just giving it more attention by screaming about it so much

  35. You can’t fight Christian hysteria with facts. The religious are immune to them. It’s a system design.

  36. This is the set that thought Taylor Swift rigged the Super Bowl, so this is not fact checking for people in touch with reality in the 1st place

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