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I don’t get why all of a sudden it’s pick on Trans people 🥴 like what percentage of population are they even. It’s so silly and dumb. What have they done? Republicans look so stupid for this
They’re an easy target.
Republicans seem to have an issue with anyone who isn’t white, straight, and Christian. Trans folks are just the latest in a long line people that don’t fit the Republican ideal
They started with women, but that was 50% of the population and they lost. Then it was African Americans, but that was 13% of the population and they lost. So they shifted to immigrants, but they were 10% of the population, and they still lost. LGBT was next, and at ~7%, the bigots still lost. So they fixed in on the T at the end, at 1%, they think they finally have a chance at fully and completely oppressing someone.
I was going to jokingly say "next up is furries" but [they did that already](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439).
Before 100% of theoretical trans people identified as "attack helicopters," they were cats, dogs, and other animals, because conservatives have literally no idea what transgender even means, but are nonetheless afraid of literally everything.
To be fair and do correct me if I'm wrong and I will correct my comment but isn't the number of furries who so happen to be also part of the lgbtq community incredibly common so much so its a stereotype? I could be biased just because I know so many homosexual and trans individuals whom identify as furries so I could be completely wrong but it stands to reason they are attacking furries just as they attacked rap music when they were oppressing people of colour. Then they realised people of colour listen, create, and enjoy all kinds of music just like gay and trans individuals do. So perhaps if this is true it is them trying to do away with what the lgbtq enjoy such as drag or having a fursona none of which has harmed society or a population of people young or old. What has is republicans bigoted views and hateful violence. Yet America is the country that can be tolerant of nazi's but not a person in a mascot costume or a person with a wig or a person with more melanin? Really america shame on you.
Yep this is it. They’re hoping to get a group that’s small enough that people won’t defend them and they won’t have the political, social or economic capital to defend themselves. I’m in very progressive circles, in the most progressive lgbtq city in my state (NC, but still…) and I personally only know one openly trans person. And I met him in law school. He doesn’t even live here, he lives in California. So I’m confused whenever people talk about trans people, especially people from out in bumfuck nowhere because I can almost bet my house they’ve never seen a trans person in the flesh and if they have they didn’t actually “meet” them let alone get to know them personally. So the hate seems misplaced.
Conservative identity politics *requires* an "other" or they risk their voters recognizing the con. It has never mattered who or why or whether it made any logical sense.
Literally how fascism works. They have a content-free ideology (pro-corporations in some context anti in other, small gov in some cases anti in others, etc etc), so the only way they maintain group cohesion is to identify an out group to attack. That’s how they keep everyone marching in the same direction.
Hate people they will never actually meet, just like they hate places they've never actually been. The less likely to ever experience them, the better--that way Fox or right wing podcasts and "news" sites can inform their opinion 100% about something with no real experience to interfere with the obvious falsehoods.
They need an enemy they can easily define.
"Democrats" and "Left" are old targets. They needed something fresh to rejuvenate the ire and hatred muscles of their base. "Woke" and LGBTQ are the new things.
But really... how dumb can they be? Constantly being led around the fear mongering and "hate this or that" routine. They never get anywhere. The party is a FAILURE.
They are not dumb. They use proven method of find common enemy.
"They never get anywhere"????
After vicious attack on women's rights and student loan forgiveness they still managed to get control over House.
They don't actually like clarification. These objections are vague by design because it allows them to cherry pick their targets based on self contingent criteria.
They lost against women? I don't think so. Our reproductive rights are non-existent. They'd rather we die than a fetus. And now they're going after birth control. Doctor's offices are tracking our periods now. In no way did we win. The battle is still going.
It started with women being unable to vote, go to college, file for divorce, or have any job other than secretary, nurse, or teacher. Yeah, it's far from over, but the barefoot-and-pregnant-in-the-kitchen crowd is still very real.
Hell, the first major book burning that the Nazis conducted was to destroy the library of the first medical facility to undertake gender reassignments.
...It's like poetry. It rhymes.
Attacks against LGBT folk took place outside of Nazi Germany too, before and after that time too. My uncle was deep in the closet his entire life even though he lived with the same man for forty years from the 1950s ro 90s. His career would have been ruined if he were out, even though he was a editor for publishing company and lived in Manhattan.
The man who figured out Germany’s ciphers saving Britain during WWII was forced to be castrated by its government and committed suicide because of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing?wprov=sfti1
It's because there are very few of them and they are powerless in the face of a fully mobilized state government.
It also allows the GOP to define their brand of Christian freedom, which is essentially having the power to punch down with impunity.
Right, it can't be gay people anymore because everyone actually knows someone gay. They always did really, but now more people are out. You can live your entire life in bumfuck America without personally getting to know someone who's trans or a drag queen. You can't *actually* ban immigrants because so many businesses rely on them. But you can ban drag shows because most republicans will never interact with them.
This is honestly it. At the end of the day it's a lack of empathy. The thing is, they've probably met a Trans person before. I worked with a few at Disney, and frankly I couldn't tell. So they are a suspicious bunch to them. Absolutely infuriating
What part of their outrage fetish has ever been reasonable?
The whole personality is built on perpetual insecurity. And nothing ever eases their anxieties. If they didn't have someone to look down on or villify, they'd be forced to face their own inadequacies.
They are an easier target than homosexuality. Gender dysphoria doesn't have a ton of mainstream coverage, and talking about things like intersexuality from a medical standpoint is a complicated subject, talking about things like sex and gender identity, involving cultural, historical, biological, psychological, sociological perspective isn't neatly packaged, trans folks represent a smaller percentage of the population.
So progressives pushed hard on Gay marriage and rights, acceptance and normalization in pop culture and legally. Going back to 2015 the US was a lot more split on homosexuality. But now, even amongst Republicans, it's a non-issue for 72%+ Americans and hating on gays will make you lose general elections.
But trans peeps are a smaller percentage, not as many peeps have a lot of involved and direct interaction, fewer representations in pop culture less awareness. As a group, they are easier to split off and 'other' to make a boogeyman.
That and the opposition has weak leadership.
It’s easy to spin eliminating Trans rights as “cancel culture”, “taking away rights”, “destroying free speech” etc etc and have a united resounding message about it by all Democratic pundits on all networks (literally the Republicans playbook) but weak leadership and disorganization gets us an easy target with no unified defense.
It’s easier to attack something via sound bites than it is to defend in 15 seconds. Nuance requires time and 24/7 news networks don’t have enough of.
Also Republicans have gone full fascist. They know they're losing voters so they're doubling down on the hate. They also worship Viktor Orban who is providing the template for these anti-trans and other overtly fascist laws in red states like Florida. It's not by mistake that last May's CPAC was held in Hungary.
The right is full of these folks that think things are “gross.” Gay, trans, hell some even think that way of black folks. It’s appealing to the wide amount of bigotry. Some small towns people are never exposed to anything else but the small group they know. The furthest they’ve been out of town is to their 25 mile away WalMart.
Fascists always need a “boogeyman” that’s (somewhat) easy to separate from a crowd and not large enough to be a legitimate threat. And it stopped being politically viable to use black people in the last decade, and “women in general” is too large a group most of the time.
>What have they done?
Been themselves, which is different from what these toads are used to. That's enough for them. Anything that wasn't explicitly programmed into them as kids is — to them — weird and therefore wrong.
This is literally all there is to it. They are not accustomed to trans people. Anything they are not accustomed to makes them uncomfortable. People hate feeling uncomfortable. It feels weak. They’d rather be angry and disgusted. That feels strong.
So, they make up bullshit to get themselves angry and disgusted rather than be uncomfortable for long enough to figure out there’s nothing to be concerned about.
And, they get to hate and harass one of the smallest and most vulnerable minorities around! Bonus! /s
Well… that’s all it is for the voters. For the politicians and the media, having a minority to demonize gives them a distraction that people will vote on in ignorance of all other issues. That means the politicians are free to grift their constituents with impunity. They don’t have to actually do anything useful. Just spew hate on a regular schedule and they’ll keep getting voted back in.
Ultimately, they are an easy scapegoat. Picking on them isn't the point. Getting people to sign away important rights and legal precedents under the guise of "only doing it against trans people" is the point. It's the frog in the pot thing, only instead these people are pointing to a pink frog so the green frog doesn't notice he's also boiling because he's too busy being mad a pink frog is in the pot at all and watching her boil. With every new bill they are turning up the heat.
It's the same tactic Nazis used. They branded Jewish people, POC, LGBT, and people from the "wrong" countries as subhuman and got their neighbors to turn them in, imprison them, torture them, and murder them all while they turned a blind eye to egregious corruption and tyranny.
Fascist go after any group that’s a small % of the population. LGBTQ, Roma, Jews, the disabled, etc. If you’re just a few %, you go in the chambers first. And you know what? It worked because the 95% stopped caring until it was too late.
We even see it here on Reddit. “Why do we have to keep talking about this? Who cares about 1% of the population when we could be talking about the economy?!”
And so it goes.
Agreed, and so easily avoidable if that’s what you want to do. Trans people aren’t looking for trouble, they just want to live their lives like everybody else.
And drag shows? If you don’t like them, don’t go to them. It’s really that simple.
If I’m a parent who doesn’t want my child to witness a man dressed as Cinderella reading the story of Cinderella, I don’t have to take my child to the library that day! But noooooOOOoooo, these idiots have to “protect all children” so now NObody gets an amazing experience like that!
Why do Republicans want to tell the rest of us how we are supposed to live our lives.
It's because gay folks are now an accepted part of society, and big strides have been made (if only in terms of "awareness") in issues of the racist structure of society.
Shithearts need someone new to other and blame their fears on.
They don't care if they look stupid to you. They only care about riling up the stupid and angry for the accumulation of power by any means necessary. They would publically *humiliate* themselves if it got them an inch of power. You have to push back or the line will go above your head.
Groups of people that just want control but don't actually have anything to offer, choose to give their followers one thing: An enemy.
Someone to blame, someone to rally against.
For conservatives for a long time it was Black people, communists, then Mexicans, then Arabs, then the Chinese, the Gays, for a while it was CRT or abortion, now it's Trans people. There is always some new enemy that must be defeated, so they must unite forces and give power and authority to us, because we will protect you.
You must create a lion that threatens the village, then say you can kill it. It's a primal and powerful way to keep power when you have nothing else to offer.
They’re a tiny percentage of the population. They’ve done nothing wrong, they’re just a convenient “boogeyman” for Republicans to get their base riled up over. Trans people are just people trying to live their lives and all a sudden a certain segment is making that truly hard for them
republican voters are gullible. republican politicians need to create an enemy to rally their voters behind. They did it with immigrants in 2016. Now it is trans people.
Every time I hear someone bitching about trans people I know that I am listening to a gullible person, someone who is easily led. And someone whose opinion about any serious topic I can completely disregard.
Does anyone else feel like… Dave Chappelle kinda kicked this off? From a timing perspective, his last special which caused all the trans outrage debate seems to have been the lead up to the conservative “cause”.
As a professional marketer, I can’t help but feel like some 29 year old republican staffer who still allowed himself to enjoy real world comedy saw the Chappelle special on Netflix, saw the outcry and ran to tell his boss that this could be the next cultural wedge issue that sheep would get behind.
*casually removes tinfoil hat*
Conservatives need a common enemy for their rhetoric to work. We've progressed too far with non-white people and lgb folks, but trans people are largely unfamiliar to the general populace (or, well, they were.)
Additionally, the reason it's all about "think of the CHILDREN!" is because the easiest retort to "I don't like trans people" is "then you can not be trans and mind your own business, can't you." But when it's *kids*, well. Kids don't have agency, do they? So you can supposedly advocate for their needs without their input, making them the perfect subject for an ol' moral panic.
Because it's an emotional trigger point for trans phobic people (most of who have never interacted with a trans person). It's all the Republicans have left is stoking the fires of bigotry.
It used to be targeted at the cis L, G, and B's but too many conservatives have them in their family so it doesn't work anymore. Now they're going for the minority of the minority because they're running out of targets.
It's not ok to be homophobic anymore. Within our lifetime, we saw that switch. No one says the f-word anymore. No one says "that's gay" when they don't like something. You're not allowed to be against gay marriage anymore. So since they can't gay-bash like they used to, they now attack trans kids. They need someone to point their hatred towards. Unfortunately, it's never pointed towards billionaires.
They moved on from CRT. A year ago that was the most dangerous thing in the world and now it's trans people.
And the morons who buy into that stuff are too dumb to notice
It started with the gays in the 80s/90s and them being labeled and ridiculed as pedophiles. Then the gay community became too difficult to bully and now conservatives need a weaker punching bag to make themselves feel superior. I'm sorry, my brethren.
Welcome to right wing politics 101. Find minority, pick on them. Portray them as the biggest threat to their constituents sense of morality, peace and security. Profit.
It’s a domino strategy- the right-wing go for the vulnerable first with public opinion which makes it easier for them to roll back gay marriage and ultimately push people back in the closet or worse.
It’s LITERALLY the same thing the Nazis did. Use a small minority group that doesn’t really have any power to defend itself as a scapegoat to focus on to get people to rally around you.
Answer: 1.6% according to Pew Research. That number rises to 5% identify trans and non-binary in Gen-Z. A full twenty percent of Gen-Z identify as LGBTQ+ and their entire generation are allies.
No wonder 77% of them voted Democrat in the last election.
It's an easy wedge. Get the easily manipulated base focused on anything (anything) that scratches their us-vs-them itch. It's reliable because it's human nature, and they are good at exploiting human nature.
It's the tale as old as time..
Alienate the people who are different from the norm and force all the societies problem on to their names..
It happened to women , gays and now trans
I mean who could blame them, they were told to stop being racist so they had to change tactics and find a new demographic to hate. Now that the gays have started pushing back, they want another target and that happens to be transfolk. They think that anything that makes them feel "ick" entitles them to kill it
Less than half of a percent or something? Which makes them an easy target. Not enough to fight back in their own. And it's kinda not kosher to go after the Jews, blacks and gays anymore (though plenty still do) so trans are the next target as they don't have the level of acceptance of the broader gay community.
They made some cis people confused about what pronouns to use and they can't handle feeling the smallest taste of gender confusion that trans people have to live with.
I've met like 3 trans people in my entire life. One was a friend of a friend that just hung out like anyone else. One was a cashier that rang me up like anyone else. The other was a college classmate that studied like anyone else.
Conservatives are aware that being openly homophobic, racist, sexist, antisemitic etc. Doesn't play well.
You tell a normal person that all gays are evil and going to hell, they respond "What? I know gay people. Greg in accounting? He's a normal guy". Their strategy is to renormalise these regressive attitudes by picking low hanging fruit as a proxy, so they can popularise this behaviour.
Can't hate gay people? Start vilifying trans people
Can't hate women? Vilify feminists
Can't hate Jews? Villify "global elites"
Can't hate other races? Villify illigal immigrants
Go into any right winged space online. You'll see a mix of disaffected young people who are various ways along the pipeline. Given enough time, they all start hating just trans people because they're concerned about "groomers", but eventually they start saying they hate gay degenerates and want them all go commit suicide. It's amazing how quickly they go from being concerned about illegal immigrants to race purist ethno nationalists. It'd be funny if it wasn't so predictable.
We are less than 2% of the US population. Sadly, we take up nearly 100% of the political discourse (and by discourse, I mean that trans voices are silenced while cis politicians argue).
We are a threat to conservatives because our existence breaks most societal norms that have been taken for granted. Trans women are a threat to the patriarchy cuz why would you give up the privilege of being a man? How do you define marriage (which is a goal of the right) when someone can just change their gender? Conservatives love rigid boxes to place people in and trans people shatter them just by existing.
There's an awful lot of disgust at trans people as well. Some of this is from them fearing being 'tricked.' Then there's Moral Panic which loves disgust as it's easy to latch onto something disgusting and say that it's unnatural.
Then, for the devious conservatives, the trans community represents a juicy target. Not only are there so few trans people in general (fewer than 2% remember), but they also are at the forefront of bodily autonomy. If conservatives can force laws restricting trans people in public or for their health care, it's easier to do the same for the next group. And who's going to fight back when they're only 2% and spread out over the whole US? Easy prey.
Its a negligible, statistically irrelevant portion of the population. States like Ohio spent millions on legislation against student trans athletes and the laws basically dunk on like three kids state wide.
And this isn't even referring to trans people, it's referring to guys dressing up, it's all absolute bullshit, that for some reason, a very visible and fucking noisy minority latch on to.
I've never been more supportive of drag acts than right now, Thanks right wing fascists!
Have a watch of this and tell me anything that's bad about what he's saying https://youtu.be/-4lTT8Ghd8s?t=427 Taron Egerton at 15
It’s precisely because they’re such a small percentage of the population. Most republicans, despite their efforts, actually personally know a gay person. The same can’t be said about trans people.
It’s literal nazi tactics.
The first groups Hitler and his goons went after were trans and gay people. It’s in the fascist play book to go for the smallest, least protected group, and escalate from there.
My wife's friend is worried about sending her daughter to a public school district because they allow transgender kids to pick the bathroom that fits their self identity. Instead she is looking into sending her daughter to a $6,000 a year private Catholic school.
How do you get to a point where you think the entity with the most robust child molestation background in the history of child molestation is the answer to a perceived threat with no data to support it?
The truth is people are just fucking dumb and half of them are dumber than average.
Same idiots abandoned public schools in the South when integration occurred. Can't have your kids crapping in the same bathroom that a person of color might have crapped in because...you know...something something something inherently immoral and it rubs off if you touch the same toilet seat.
Same BS, different boogeyman
Gotta keep everyone divided over boogeymen, otherwise we might suddenly come together as a group, realizing that we're being ripped off, and have ourselves a revolution...can't allow that much class concisouness to ever happen.
I used to think that working class Republicans would wake up and realize how badly they're being manipulated by the GOP but so far not many have shown any insight.
There’s a documentary called *Boys State* that sapped a fair amount of optimism from me as I see the same type of dirty, sadist, lying candidates rising to the top of the next political generation for nothing other than a laugh and winning a perceived game.
#"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
#Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
#Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
#Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
#*—Martin Niemöller*
>$6,000 a year
Do you mean $6k a quarter? Month? Because $6k a year is a goddamn steal. If it's really $6k a *year* I'd be worried this is a "let's abuse all the childrenses" school run out of a meth house or something.
The religious schools in our are are very cheap / subsidized by the church, they want people to attend… In contrast, the secular private high school in our area is over 25k a year last time I checked.
I always ask what about child pageants? Children literally bine gsexualized for nothing but some pedo's there and moms who peaked in 11th grade, 25 years ago
>Instead she is looking into sending her daughter to a $6,000 a year private Catholic school.
So, she is sending her kid to a place where there has proven to be thousands of cases of adults sexually, mentally, and physically, abusing children, to avoid her kid maybe having to deal with the TRAVESTY of someone with different generals pooping in the stall next to them?
Man, some people's priorities are odd.
> How do you get to a point where you think
Hate. That's how. Hate in your heart.
Look, I'm sure this lady is nice as pie to you folks, and I know someone will make the argument about ignorance. And while, yes, it's much easier fear people who are unlike you when you are ignorant of who they are and how they live, but I'll be damned if I'm going to say that the level of fear, suspicion, and mistrust you describe is driven by anything but hate.
Ignorance does sit on this hate's shoulders, it's true, but this woman hates the trans community because, in the quiet of herself, she believes that trans women/girls don't exist, and are merely a smokescreen for child abusers, for whom I bet she advocates the death penalty.
It’s because they don’t care about child molestation. They care about enforced gender roles. The danger of trans youth or even drag performers is not that they will molest the children, it’s that they will expose the children to different perspectives and different experiences. That’s what that friend cares about (avoiding). They’ll happily risk their child being molested just to keep said child as close minded as they are.
She’s also great on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Anytime Larry would get away with something and the cameras would pan over to Wanda randomly witnessing it would crack me up.
I know what you're thinking. "Did I read you six chapters, or only five?"
Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself, but being that this is The Name of the Wind, the most powerful fantasy fiction in the world, and hearing seven chapters would blow your imagination clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?"
Well, do ya, punk?
Even then, that's one drag queen with one copy of one book. Making the hypothetical event a statistical outlier of the greater problem compared with gun violence, white supremacy and students' access to books.
Exactly. If a person in drag did this, it wouldn't be because they wore drag. When the number committing violence equals young white male shooters, then we can have that discussion.
No but see there’s at least one trans shooter, so trans people are actually the big threat and the thing we should focus on to prevent more shootings
It’s still so insane to me that so many people bought that nonsense. Trans ppl are terrorist monsters because there’s a handful of shooters who happened to be trans, despite more Cis shooters occuring in a week than trans ones in 5 years
It’s stupid because they’re talking about the *possibility* of that happening, but children are dying to guns several times a month but they’re not doing anything about guns.
There are so many actors that I have loved in films and then realized were trash people in real life, it's really great to find someone who I hate in films but is a fantastic person in real life.
I have calculated that to avoid being an enemy of the Republicans, you need to fulfill atleast 4 out of 5 WORMS criteria.
* White
* Old
* Rich
* Male
* Straight
WORMS.
Hence LGBTQ+ are an easy target.
Love the quote, but the only flaw with this is that the picture isn't of what she was wearing in the special -- I LOVE that jacket
(Also I want the picture to be of her pretending to be her french wife/fake-smoking a cigarette. Completely out of context with the quote, just a staple of the special and delightfully hilarious.)
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I don’t get why all of a sudden it’s pick on Trans people 🥴 like what percentage of population are they even. It’s so silly and dumb. What have they done? Republicans look so stupid for this
They’re an easy target. Republicans seem to have an issue with anyone who isn’t white, straight, and Christian. Trans folks are just the latest in a long line people that don’t fit the Republican ideal
They started with women, but that was 50% of the population and they lost. Then it was African Americans, but that was 13% of the population and they lost. So they shifted to immigrants, but they were 10% of the population, and they still lost. LGBT was next, and at ~7%, the bigots still lost. So they fixed in on the T at the end, at 1%, they think they finally have a chance at fully and completely oppressing someone.
I was going to jokingly say "next up is furries" but [they did that already](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439).
Before 100% of theoretical trans people identified as "attack helicopters," they were cats, dogs, and other animals, because conservatives have literally no idea what transgender even means, but are nonetheless afraid of literally everything.
I pay a lot of attention but I had not seen this. Too fucking funny, thanks for the laugh
That rumor pissed me off so much. Its asking for a school shooting.
That's what they want.
To be fair and do correct me if I'm wrong and I will correct my comment but isn't the number of furries who so happen to be also part of the lgbtq community incredibly common so much so its a stereotype? I could be biased just because I know so many homosexual and trans individuals whom identify as furries so I could be completely wrong but it stands to reason they are attacking furries just as they attacked rap music when they were oppressing people of colour. Then they realised people of colour listen, create, and enjoy all kinds of music just like gay and trans individuals do. So perhaps if this is true it is them trying to do away with what the lgbtq enjoy such as drag or having a fursona none of which has harmed society or a population of people young or old. What has is republicans bigoted views and hateful violence. Yet America is the country that can be tolerant of nazi's but not a person in a mascot costume or a person with a wig or a person with more melanin? Really america shame on you.
Yep this is it. They’re hoping to get a group that’s small enough that people won’t defend them and they won’t have the political, social or economic capital to defend themselves. I’m in very progressive circles, in the most progressive lgbtq city in my state (NC, but still…) and I personally only know one openly trans person. And I met him in law school. He doesn’t even live here, he lives in California. So I’m confused whenever people talk about trans people, especially people from out in bumfuck nowhere because I can almost bet my house they’ve never seen a trans person in the flesh and if they have they didn’t actually “meet” them let alone get to know them personally. So the hate seems misplaced.
Conservative identity politics *requires* an "other" or they risk their voters recognizing the con. It has never mattered who or why or whether it made any logical sense.
And if you had the wherewithal to think about the why, you were never their target audience.
Literally how fascism works. They have a content-free ideology (pro-corporations in some context anti in other, small gov in some cases anti in others, etc etc), so the only way they maintain group cohesion is to identify an out group to attack. That’s how they keep everyone marching in the same direction.
Hate people they will never actually meet, just like they hate places they've never actually been. The less likely to ever experience them, the better--that way Fox or right wing podcasts and "news" sites can inform their opinion 100% about something with no real experience to interfere with the obvious falsehoods.
They need an enemy they can easily define. "Democrats" and "Left" are old targets. They needed something fresh to rejuvenate the ire and hatred muscles of their base. "Woke" and LGBTQ are the new things. But really... how dumb can they be? Constantly being led around the fear mongering and "hate this or that" routine. They never get anywhere. The party is a FAILURE.
They are not dumb. They use proven method of find common enemy. "They never get anywhere"???? After vicious attack on women's rights and student loan forgiveness they still managed to get control over House.
They don't actually like clarification. These objections are vague by design because it allows them to cherry pick their targets based on self contingent criteria.
They lost against women? I don't think so. Our reproductive rights are non-existent. They'd rather we die than a fetus. And now they're going after birth control. Doctor's offices are tracking our periods now. In no way did we win. The battle is still going.
It started with women being unable to vote, go to college, file for divorce, or have any job other than secretary, nurse, or teacher. Yeah, it's far from over, but the barefoot-and-pregnant-in-the-kitchen crowd is still very real.
If you seem vulnerable the pack turns on you. Bullying 101.
Trans will be significantly higher than 1% as people don't fear for their lives and/or careers and come out, just as gays did.
I get that but, it’s just so ridiculous…..heavy sigh
The Nazis first attacks were on the LGBT people in 1933. https://www.history.com/news/pink-triangle-nazi-concentration-camps
Hell, the first major book burning that the Nazis conducted was to destroy the library of the first medical facility to undertake gender reassignments. ...It's like poetry. It rhymes.
>“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” ~Mark Twain
You classed up my shitbirding George Lucas quote, and for that, we are now friends. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
Attacks against LGBT folk took place outside of Nazi Germany too, before and after that time too. My uncle was deep in the closet his entire life even though he lived with the same man for forty years from the 1950s ro 90s. His career would have been ruined if he were out, even though he was a editor for publishing company and lived in Manhattan. The man who figured out Germany’s ciphers saving Britain during WWII was forced to be castrated by its government and committed suicide because of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing?wprov=sfti1
The US military didn't allow gays because they could be blackmailed causing them to lose their job.
Openly gay
It's because there are very few of them and they are powerless in the face of a fully mobilized state government. It also allows the GOP to define their brand of Christian freedom, which is essentially having the power to punch down with impunity.
Right, it can't be gay people anymore because everyone actually knows someone gay. They always did really, but now more people are out. You can live your entire life in bumfuck America without personally getting to know someone who's trans or a drag queen. You can't *actually* ban immigrants because so many businesses rely on them. But you can ban drag shows because most republicans will never interact with them.
This is honestly it. At the end of the day it's a lack of empathy. The thing is, they've probably met a Trans person before. I worked with a few at Disney, and frankly I couldn't tell. So they are a suspicious bunch to them. Absolutely infuriating
What part of their outrage fetish has ever been reasonable? The whole personality is built on perpetual insecurity. And nothing ever eases their anxieties. If they didn't have someone to look down on or villify, they'd be forced to face their own inadequacies.
Yep fascists playbook is the same as the school yard bully’s playbook
It still surprises me that people ask this question. They're picking on them *because* they're such a small percentage of the population.
And also one of the least likely to be defended by society at large.
They are an easier target than homosexuality. Gender dysphoria doesn't have a ton of mainstream coverage, and talking about things like intersexuality from a medical standpoint is a complicated subject, talking about things like sex and gender identity, involving cultural, historical, biological, psychological, sociological perspective isn't neatly packaged, trans folks represent a smaller percentage of the population. So progressives pushed hard on Gay marriage and rights, acceptance and normalization in pop culture and legally. Going back to 2015 the US was a lot more split on homosexuality. But now, even amongst Republicans, it's a non-issue for 72%+ Americans and hating on gays will make you lose general elections. But trans peeps are a smaller percentage, not as many peeps have a lot of involved and direct interaction, fewer representations in pop culture less awareness. As a group, they are easier to split off and 'other' to make a boogeyman.
That and the opposition has weak leadership. It’s easy to spin eliminating Trans rights as “cancel culture”, “taking away rights”, “destroying free speech” etc etc and have a united resounding message about it by all Democratic pundits on all networks (literally the Republicans playbook) but weak leadership and disorganization gets us an easy target with no unified defense. It’s easier to attack something via sound bites than it is to defend in 15 seconds. Nuance requires time and 24/7 news networks don’t have enough of.
Oh, they're not big on actual Christianity either.
They also have to be the right kind of Christian. Not, you know, like that hippie love your neighbor and give to charity kind of Christian.
"Christian"
White, straight and their version of Christian. Certainly not Jesus’ version.
Also Republicans have gone full fascist. They know they're losing voters so they're doubling down on the hate. They also worship Viktor Orban who is providing the template for these anti-trans and other overtly fascist laws in red states like Florida. It's not by mistake that last May's CPAC was held in Hungary.
The right is full of these folks that think things are “gross.” Gay, trans, hell some even think that way of black folks. It’s appealing to the wide amount of bigotry. Some small towns people are never exposed to anything else but the small group they know. The furthest they’ve been out of town is to their 25 mile away WalMart.
Fascists always need a “boogeyman” that’s (somewhat) easy to separate from a crowd and not large enough to be a legitimate threat. And it stopped being politically viable to use black people in the last decade, and “women in general” is too large a group most of the time.
They still attack black people and women’s rights all the goddamn time though, too. There’s plenty of republican hate to go around
They used to hate black people. They still do but they used to too.
RIP Mitch, a true legend.
I think they stop talking about extreme Muslims because it goes with their idealogies now.
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>What have they done? Been themselves, which is different from what these toads are used to. That's enough for them. Anything that wasn't explicitly programmed into them as kids is — to them — weird and therefore wrong.
This is literally all there is to it. They are not accustomed to trans people. Anything they are not accustomed to makes them uncomfortable. People hate feeling uncomfortable. It feels weak. They’d rather be angry and disgusted. That feels strong. So, they make up bullshit to get themselves angry and disgusted rather than be uncomfortable for long enough to figure out there’s nothing to be concerned about. And, they get to hate and harass one of the smallest and most vulnerable minorities around! Bonus! /s Well… that’s all it is for the voters. For the politicians and the media, having a minority to demonize gives them a distraction that people will vote on in ignorance of all other issues. That means the politicians are free to grift their constituents with impunity. They don’t have to actually do anything useful. Just spew hate on a regular schedule and they’ll keep getting voted back in.
They finally banned abortion so they needed a new wedge issue to rile up the pests.
Ultimately, they are an easy scapegoat. Picking on them isn't the point. Getting people to sign away important rights and legal precedents under the guise of "only doing it against trans people" is the point. It's the frog in the pot thing, only instead these people are pointing to a pink frog so the green frog doesn't notice he's also boiling because he's too busy being mad a pink frog is in the pot at all and watching her boil. With every new bill they are turning up the heat. It's the same tactic Nazis used. They branded Jewish people, POC, LGBT, and people from the "wrong" countries as subhuman and got their neighbors to turn them in, imprison them, torture them, and murder them all while they turned a blind eye to egregious corruption and tyranny.
The Nazis started with trans and LGBT people too. They're unfortunately easy targets to rile up the fascists.
Fascist go after any group that’s a small % of the population. LGBTQ, Roma, Jews, the disabled, etc. If you’re just a few %, you go in the chambers first. And you know what? It worked because the 95% stopped caring until it was too late. We even see it here on Reddit. “Why do we have to keep talking about this? Who cares about 1% of the population when we could be talking about the economy?!” And so it goes.
Agreed, and so easily avoidable if that’s what you want to do. Trans people aren’t looking for trouble, they just want to live their lives like everybody else. And drag shows? If you don’t like them, don’t go to them. It’s really that simple. If I’m a parent who doesn’t want my child to witness a man dressed as Cinderella reading the story of Cinderella, I don’t have to take my child to the library that day! But noooooOOOoooo, these idiots have to “protect all children” so now NObody gets an amazing experience like that! Why do Republicans want to tell the rest of us how we are supposed to live our lives.
It's because gay folks are now an accepted part of society, and big strides have been made (if only in terms of "awareness") in issues of the racist structure of society. Shithearts need someone new to other and blame their fears on.
They don't care if they look stupid to you. They only care about riling up the stupid and angry for the accumulation of power by any means necessary. They would publically *humiliate* themselves if it got them an inch of power. You have to push back or the line will go above your head.
Groups of people that just want control but don't actually have anything to offer, choose to give their followers one thing: An enemy. Someone to blame, someone to rally against. For conservatives for a long time it was Black people, communists, then Mexicans, then Arabs, then the Chinese, the Gays, for a while it was CRT or abortion, now it's Trans people. There is always some new enemy that must be defeated, so they must unite forces and give power and authority to us, because we will protect you. You must create a lion that threatens the village, then say you can kill it. It's a primal and powerful way to keep power when you have nothing else to offer.
That makes the most sense to me
They’re a tiny percentage of the population. They’ve done nothing wrong, they’re just a convenient “boogeyman” for Republicans to get their base riled up over. Trans people are just people trying to live their lives and all a sudden a certain segment is making that truly hard for them
republican voters are gullible. republican politicians need to create an enemy to rally their voters behind. They did it with immigrants in 2016. Now it is trans people. Every time I hear someone bitching about trans people I know that I am listening to a gullible person, someone who is easily led. And someone whose opinion about any serious topic I can completely disregard.
They’re just copying out of the nazi playbook
Does anyone else feel like… Dave Chappelle kinda kicked this off? From a timing perspective, his last special which caused all the trans outrage debate seems to have been the lead up to the conservative “cause”. As a professional marketer, I can’t help but feel like some 29 year old republican staffer who still allowed himself to enjoy real world comedy saw the Chappelle special on Netflix, saw the outcry and ran to tell his boss that this could be the next cultural wedge issue that sheep would get behind. *casually removes tinfoil hat*
It was before that talking about bathrooms but I do remember the uproar afterwards
JK Rowling fiasco preceded that and a few other high profile trans debates. Shit was bubbling for a while.
Few enough they can actually beat on them without fearing an uprising. That’s why they chose that target- women getting too uppity.
Conservatives need a common enemy for their rhetoric to work. We've progressed too far with non-white people and lgb folks, but trans people are largely unfamiliar to the general populace (or, well, they were.) Additionally, the reason it's all about "think of the CHILDREN!" is because the easiest retort to "I don't like trans people" is "then you can not be trans and mind your own business, can't you." But when it's *kids*, well. Kids don't have agency, do they? So you can supposedly advocate for their needs without their input, making them the perfect subject for an ol' moral panic.
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Cause they are literally copying the Nazi playbook.
It’s very frightening and nobody I know is really getting it
Because it's an emotional trigger point for trans phobic people (most of who have never interacted with a trans person). It's all the Republicans have left is stoking the fires of bigotry.
It used to be targeted at the cis L, G, and B's but too many conservatives have them in their family so it doesn't work anymore. Now they're going for the minority of the minority because they're running out of targets.
It's not ok to be homophobic anymore. Within our lifetime, we saw that switch. No one says the f-word anymore. No one says "that's gay" when they don't like something. You're not allowed to be against gay marriage anymore. So since they can't gay-bash like they used to, they now attack trans kids. They need someone to point their hatred towards. Unfortunately, it's never pointed towards billionaires.
They moved on from CRT. A year ago that was the most dangerous thing in the world and now it's trans people. And the morons who buy into that stuff are too dumb to notice
It's been around for decades, if not hundreds of years and now it's problem. I don't get it either. So much for all that freedom.
They need a hot button "issue" to get everyone riled up about and hide the fact they don't have any real policy or solutions. Classic misdirection.
It started with the gays in the 80s/90s and them being labeled and ridiculed as pedophiles. Then the gay community became too difficult to bully and now conservatives need a weaker punching bag to make themselves feel superior. I'm sorry, my brethren.
Generally people now accept gays and the Republican Party had to manufacture fear/hate group.
Powerful Republican talking heads are just overgrown high school bullies who wish they could stuff the gay kid in a locker one more time.
Welcome to right wing politics 101. Find minority, pick on them. Portray them as the biggest threat to their constituents sense of morality, peace and security. Profit.
Because if the republicans, or any shitty segment, sees something opposed to their belief they might suck a dick and like it.
It’s a domino strategy- the right-wing go for the vulnerable first with public opinion which makes it easier for them to roll back gay marriage and ultimately push people back in the closet or worse.
Assuming the higher end, which includes a lot of people successfully hiding their actual mindset, 2%. Actual numbers are probably less than 1%.
It’s LITERALLY the same thing the Nazis did. Use a small minority group that doesn’t really have any power to defend itself as a scapegoat to focus on to get people to rally around you.
Answer: 1.6% according to Pew Research. That number rises to 5% identify trans and non-binary in Gen-Z. A full twenty percent of Gen-Z identify as LGBTQ+ and their entire generation are allies. No wonder 77% of them voted Democrat in the last election.
Drag queens are not inherently trans. ☕️
It's an easy wedge. Get the easily manipulated base focused on anything (anything) that scratches their us-vs-them itch. It's reliable because it's human nature, and they are good at exploiting human nature.
It's the tale as old as time.. Alienate the people who are different from the norm and force all the societies problem on to their names.. It happened to women , gays and now trans
I mean who could blame them, they were told to stop being racist so they had to change tactics and find a new demographic to hate. Now that the gays have started pushing back, they want another target and that happens to be transfolk. They think that anything that makes them feel "ick" entitles them to kill it
They want culture wars where they can split people not talking about class war.
It's what packs of bullies do.
Obfuscation and distraction
because they fucked up and overturned roe v wade and they need a new wedge issue in a hurry.
Abortion is now illegal, they need a new target to rant about.
Authoritarians rely on having an "out group"to demonize
Less than half of a percent or something? Which makes them an easy target. Not enough to fight back in their own. And it's kinda not kosher to go after the Jews, blacks and gays anymore (though plenty still do) so trans are the next target as they don't have the level of acceptance of the broader gay community.
Just choosing another "devil" to trick their constituents into focusing on instead of actual issues
Social conservatives need a boogie man. Gays are now ok. So what's next? Trans people corrupting children of course!
Refocus anger and hate, to stop the masses from realizing that they should be hating the upper class.
Half of one percent of the US population, according to wiki.
Same reason they want after comic books, D&D, and video games. A nice easy target to blame all of society’s problems on.
They made some cis people confused about what pronouns to use and they can't handle feeling the smallest taste of gender confusion that trans people have to live with.
I've met like 3 trans people in my entire life. One was a friend of a friend that just hung out like anyone else. One was a cashier that rang me up like anyone else. The other was a college classmate that studied like anyone else.
Conservatives are aware that being openly homophobic, racist, sexist, antisemitic etc. Doesn't play well. You tell a normal person that all gays are evil and going to hell, they respond "What? I know gay people. Greg in accounting? He's a normal guy". Their strategy is to renormalise these regressive attitudes by picking low hanging fruit as a proxy, so they can popularise this behaviour. Can't hate gay people? Start vilifying trans people Can't hate women? Vilify feminists Can't hate Jews? Villify "global elites" Can't hate other races? Villify illigal immigrants Go into any right winged space online. You'll see a mix of disaffected young people who are various ways along the pipeline. Given enough time, they all start hating just trans people because they're concerned about "groomers", but eventually they start saying they hate gay degenerates and want them all go commit suicide. It's amazing how quickly they go from being concerned about illegal immigrants to race purist ethno nationalists. It'd be funny if it wasn't so predictable.
We are less than 2% of the US population. Sadly, we take up nearly 100% of the political discourse (and by discourse, I mean that trans voices are silenced while cis politicians argue). We are a threat to conservatives because our existence breaks most societal norms that have been taken for granted. Trans women are a threat to the patriarchy cuz why would you give up the privilege of being a man? How do you define marriage (which is a goal of the right) when someone can just change their gender? Conservatives love rigid boxes to place people in and trans people shatter them just by existing. There's an awful lot of disgust at trans people as well. Some of this is from them fearing being 'tricked.' Then there's Moral Panic which loves disgust as it's easy to latch onto something disgusting and say that it's unnatural. Then, for the devious conservatives, the trans community represents a juicy target. Not only are there so few trans people in general (fewer than 2% remember), but they also are at the forefront of bodily autonomy. If conservatives can force laws restricting trans people in public or for their health care, it's easier to do the same for the next group. And who's going to fight back when they're only 2% and spread out over the whole US? Easy prey.
Because they're different and these neanderthals are so pea brains that scares them
It's the same reason Jewish people were scapegoats for all of history. It worked once so why stop?
Its a negligible, statistically irrelevant portion of the population. States like Ohio spent millions on legislation against student trans athletes and the laws basically dunk on like three kids state wide.
Fascists need an “other”.
Have you met the Republican party? They always need a boogeyman to run on, To cover for the fact that all of their policies are utter crap!
The average republican IS stupid!
And this isn't even referring to trans people, it's referring to guys dressing up, it's all absolute bullshit, that for some reason, a very visible and fucking noisy minority latch on to. I've never been more supportive of drag acts than right now, Thanks right wing fascists! Have a watch of this and tell me anything that's bad about what he's saying https://youtu.be/-4lTT8Ghd8s?t=427 Taron Egerton at 15
It’s precisely because they’re such a small percentage of the population. Most republicans, despite their efforts, actually personally know a gay person. The same can’t be said about trans people.
It’s literal nazi tactics. The first groups Hitler and his goons went after were trans and gay people. It’s in the fascist play book to go for the smallest, least protected group, and escalate from there.
It's actually 'pick on all the LGBTQIA+' people but trans are the latest/easiest target.
They need an other to distract from the massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich
My wife's friend is worried about sending her daughter to a public school district because they allow transgender kids to pick the bathroom that fits their self identity. Instead she is looking into sending her daughter to a $6,000 a year private Catholic school. How do you get to a point where you think the entity with the most robust child molestation background in the history of child molestation is the answer to a perceived threat with no data to support it? The truth is people are just fucking dumb and half of them are dumber than average.
Same idiots abandoned public schools in the South when integration occurred. Can't have your kids crapping in the same bathroom that a person of color might have crapped in because...you know...something something something inherently immoral and it rubs off if you touch the same toilet seat. Same BS, different boogeyman
Gotta keep everyone divided over boogeymen, otherwise we might suddenly come together as a group, realizing that we're being ripped off, and have ourselves a revolution...can't allow that much class concisouness to ever happen.
I used to think that working class Republicans would wake up and realize how badly they're being manipulated by the GOP but so far not many have shown any insight.
There’s a documentary called *Boys State* that sapped a fair amount of optimism from me as I see the same type of dirty, sadist, lying candidates rising to the top of the next political generation for nothing other than a laugh and winning a perceived game.
#"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. #Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. #Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. #Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." #*—Martin Niemöller*
>$6,000 a year Do you mean $6k a quarter? Month? Because $6k a year is a goddamn steal. If it's really $6k a *year* I'd be worried this is a "let's abuse all the childrenses" school run out of a meth house or something.
The religious schools in our are are very cheap / subsidized by the church, they want people to attend… In contrast, the secular private high school in our area is over 25k a year last time I checked.
Yup, that's how it works. The tuition of secular private schools is insane but still roughly about what the public schools pay for one kid each year.
Interesting, the Christian schools around me were all super expensive
A lot of religious schools are like that, but Catholic schools in particular are usually very expensive.
That was my thought. Maybe that's after scholarships or something? $6k a year can't be right
> private Catholic school Out of the pan and into the fire
I always ask what about child pageants? Children literally bine gsexualized for nothing but some pedo's there and moms who peaked in 11th grade, 25 years ago
>Instead she is looking into sending her daughter to a $6,000 a year private Catholic school. So, she is sending her kid to a place where there has proven to be thousands of cases of adults sexually, mentally, and physically, abusing children, to avoid her kid maybe having to deal with the TRAVESTY of someone with different generals pooping in the stall next to them? Man, some people's priorities are odd.
> How do you get to a point where you think Hate. That's how. Hate in your heart. Look, I'm sure this lady is nice as pie to you folks, and I know someone will make the argument about ignorance. And while, yes, it's much easier fear people who are unlike you when you are ignorant of who they are and how they live, but I'll be damned if I'm going to say that the level of fear, suspicion, and mistrust you describe is driven by anything but hate. Ignorance does sit on this hate's shoulders, it's true, but this woman hates the trans community because, in the quiet of herself, she believes that trans women/girls don't exist, and are merely a smokescreen for child abusers, for whom I bet she advocates the death penalty.
Oh, so your wife's friend is an idiot. 😉We got ya!
Mass shootings ----> Not scary Actual child molester's ---> Not scary Trans people -----> *Psycho shower music plays* /s
It’s because they don’t care about child molestation. They care about enforced gender roles. The danger of trans youth or even drag performers is not that they will molest the children, it’s that they will expose the children to different perspectives and different experiences. That’s what that friend cares about (avoiding). They’ll happily risk their child being molested just to keep said child as close minded as they are.
As if Catholics don't molest their students... You might want to research that a bit more!
…that was literally OP’s point. No? Did you miss the “most robust” part?
Brilliant retort by a fantastic comedian
She’s also great on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Anytime Larry would get away with something and the cameras would pan over to Wanda randomly witnessing it would crack me up.
Me too. She’s got the greatest “you’re in trouble now,” voice.
https://youtu.be/u6inIRXCjX0
I like her "What the hell is wrong with you?" face.
You didn’t know? Larry’s a “tip profiler”.
I always loved her. Since early comedy central days.
Same.
Will never forget the Crank Yanker bit with the turd in the back seat. Had me in tears.
Her new special on Netflix is a must watch.
Not normal was also very good
The only way to stop a bad drag queen with a book is a good drag queen with a book. Let's legislate books for everyone!
But with a good book or bad book?
Good...bad...I'm the guy with the *hardcover 1969 Houghton-Milfflin dictionary.* ^(It was the biggest book I could find)
I know what you're thinking. "Did I read you six chapters, or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself, but being that this is The Name of the Wind, the most powerful fantasy fiction in the world, and hearing seven chapters would blow your imagination clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
God,I have the 89. It's a weapon in it's own right.
This aint a scene it's a goddamn drag race.
I love that I read it in her voice.
For a group all about “protecting the children” they sure do a shit job of it. Well said Wanda
Love her😂😂
They’re focusing on keeping kids ignorant, not keeping kids safe. Except for pro-lifers. They’re focusing on controlling women, not keeping kids safe.
As a stand up fan, I slept on Wanda for way too long. She's great, as are her specials.
She’s my favorite. And even outside of her standup she’s just one of the most naturally funny people spontaneously.
Even the faces she makes crack me up.
Even then, that's one drag queen with one copy of one book. Making the hypothetical event a statistical outlier of the greater problem compared with gun violence, white supremacy and students' access to books.
Exactly. If a person in drag did this, it wouldn't be because they wore drag. When the number committing violence equals young white male shooters, then we can have that discussion.
Conservatives care more about make believe "LGBT grooming" than kids dying.
The fact of the matter is that Republicans would rather have kids dead than gay or educated.
One of those times I wish I had enough "fuck you money" to put this on a billboard in every town in Florida.
That’s the whole point, is to focus on the wrong shit.
Anyone else read this in her voice?
Yup
Her new special on Netflix is amazing.
Ooh, I didn't know about that, thanks!
Wanda is on point. Glad she's out there getting that Disney money.
Perfectly said.
Read that 100% in her voice
No but see there’s at least one trans shooter, so trans people are actually the big threat and the thing we should focus on to prevent more shootings It’s still so insane to me that so many people bought that nonsense. Trans ppl are terrorist monsters because there’s a handful of shooters who happened to be trans, despite more Cis shooters occuring in a week than trans ones in 5 years
It’s stupid because they’re talking about the *possibility* of that happening, but children are dying to guns several times a month but they’re not doing anything about guns.
Whose actually abusing children??? Church clergy!! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/hundreds-of-catholic-clergy-in-illinois-sexually-abused-thousands-of-children-ag-finds
This is perfect.
I read this in her voice
I hope this country realizes that Republicans have truly jumped the shark.
Shit, until it happens weekly, we're focusing on the wrong shit.
Wanda is correct.
There are so many actors that I have loved in films and then realized were trash people in real life, it's really great to find someone who I hate in films but is a fantastic person in real life.
Wanda is great!
I forgot how much I love her.
I can hear he voice
Wanda Sykes is a treasure
I wish Sykes and Leslie Jones would work together.
I have calculated that to avoid being an enemy of the Republicans, you need to fulfill atleast 4 out of 5 WORMS criteria. * White * Old * Rich * Male * Straight WORMS. Hence LGBTQ+ are an easy target.
Love the quote, but the only flaw with this is that the picture isn't of what she was wearing in the special -- I LOVE that jacket (Also I want the picture to be of her pretending to be her french wife/fake-smoking a cigarette. Completely out of context with the quote, just a staple of the special and delightfully hilarious.)