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Fast Take
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs supply a “Delight Assortment” of merchandise for the staff’s LGBTQ+ followers. However social media posts are making the unsupported declare that the staff “Refuses to Take part in Delight Month” this 12 months. The declare apparently originated in a satirical article, and we might discover no announcement from the staff relating to this 12 months’s Delight Month.
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Delight Month commemorates the Stonewall Rebellion for homosexual rights in Manhattan on June 28, 1969, and celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ+ folks with parades and different occasions all through June.
However this 12 months’s observance of Delight Month has been met within the U.S. with rising anti-gay hostility, following passage final 12 months of what ABC Information stated have been a record number of state laws negatively affecting the LGBTQ+ group. The anti-gay sentiment has additionally been mirrored in misinformation on social media, as we’ve written before.
The textual content on a June 8 Facebook post falsely claimed, “NFL Group Kansas Metropolis Chiefs Refuses To Take part In Delight Month, ‘It’s Extraordinarily Woke.’” The put up obtained greater than 34,000 likes. A put up with the identical photographs of a Delight parade juxtaposed with uniformed Chiefs gamers was shared on Threads, additionally claiming the staff refused to take part in Delight Month, and carried the caption, “KANSAS CITY CHIEFS STANDING FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND TRUTH WITH THE WORD OF GOD IN JESUS CHRIST NAME.”
The kicker for the Tremendous Bowl champion staff, Harrison Butker, criticized the celebration of Delight Month — amongst different controversial remarks he made about girls and cultural values — throughout his graduation handle at a personal Kansas faculty on Could 11, as we wrote. In that speech, Butker referred in passing to Delight Month as “the lethal sin form of delight that has a whole month devoted to it.”
However we might discover no assertion issued by the Chiefs staff concerning the celebration of Delight Month on the Chiefs’ website, X account or other social media. Actually, the Chiefs’ web site contains what it calls a “Pride Collection” of merchandise for followers. Most of the gadgets incorporate the staff emblem with the symbolic Delight rainbow, together with hats, flags, indicators and T-shirts that say, “LOVE WINS.”
A headline similar to the wording on the social media posts appeared June 6 on the web site SpaceXMania. The article included a “SATIRE” label above the headline. The web site features a “Disclaimer” that states, partly, “All the knowledge on this web site – SpaceXMania.com – is printed in good religion and for basic info functions solely. SpaceXMania doesn’t make any warranties concerning the completeness, reliability, and accuracy of this info.”
The social media posts don’t embody a “satire” label, nevertheless.
The June 8 Fb put up features a hyperlink to an online article printed on an internet site referred to as Information In the present day as proof of its declare concerning the staff’s stance on Delight Month. The headline on the article reads, “Breaking: The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, an NFL franchise, declines involvement in Delight Month festivities, citing them as overly ‘woke.’” The article is an almost word-for-word reprint of the satirical story that appeared on the SpaceXMania web site.
We reached out to the Chiefs for a response to the declare, however we didn’t obtain a response.
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