Online right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric during Pride Month

[RandySF]

Jon Lewis, a George Washington University researcher who specializes in homegrown violent extremism, said outrage directed at LGBTQ people had been growing for months online, often in chat rooms frequented by members of groups like the Patriot Front.

In the same way that it mobilized against Black Lives Matter in the nation’s capital in December, the Patriot Front harnesses what’s in the news cycle — in this case, drag queen story hours, disputes about transgender people in schools, and LGBTQ visibility more broadly.

A “massive right-wing media ecosystem” has been promoting the notion that “there are people who are trying to take your kids to drag shows, there are trans people trying to ‘groom’ your children,” Lewis said.

The rhetoric has been amplified by right-wing social media accounts that use photos and videos of LGBTQ individuals to drive outrage among their followers.

Several posts have falsely sought to label teachers and librarians who accept the LGBTQ community as abusers or groomers of children. Others have lambasted pride events or drag performances as “depraved.”




https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/online-right-wing-extremists-amp-up-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-during-pride-month

[vercetti2021]

1. Projecting their own fantasies

Why are the GQP okay with underage marriage? Ask Gaetz and all his ilk why he loves underage girls. Most incels, especially these freaks have advocated for cretins like them to have privileges for underage girls, mostly 12 and under. Yes I'm talking some trafficking type shit where a young prepubescent girl is ready for them at their willing. I've seen it on incel forums a shit ton and on reddit.

They have to project it onto us to feel justified when they indulge in those fantasies.

[RandySF]

2. I apologize for posting these upsetting articles.

They upset me as a sis straight male, but everybody needs to know what’s happening.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

4. No need to apologize

They're upsetting but it's not your fault. What's upsetting is the sick actions of these so-called "patriots" and how they are terrorizing this country. And you're right. As much as I wish I could stick my head in the sand, we do need to know what is happening here in 2022.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

5. One of my ex-friends who inflicted the most abuse upon me for coming out..

Has a fetish for teenage girls. Which, okay. That's fine when you're 16 yourself. He's now about to turn 43 and still wants to date/have sex with teenage girls. We're not talking "barely legal." We're talking he's slipped up and made it clear that he absolutely wishes he could be with a 15-16 year old girl, despite the fact he'd now be old enough to be her father.

And yet I'm the one that's so wrong, such a threat to children, etc...

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. The Divided States of Stochastic Terrorism

The QOP and reich-wing media have worked so hard in 2022 to make the LGBTQ community the ultimate enemies. So of course the mindless drones with more guns than brains now think it's okay to terrorize and kill us.

This is what happens when these fuckers "other" people they don't like. And in my time I've never seen a group "othered" the way LGBTQ's have been this year. Hundreds of bills. Nonstop hate from "leaders" and the media. "Groomers." It just never fucking stops.

I'm so tired of waking up with dread, worrying I'll check here and see a Pride event shot up or blown up with multiple fatalities... While the QOP laughs, the reich-wing media says "You deserved it" and the "mainstream" media like CNN tries to "both sides" it.

This has gone beyond a joke (not that it was ever a joke). This has gone beyond a "culture war" (not that it was ever a culture war). This is rapidly spinning toward violence and murder - all because a pack of stupid whiny incels can't handle the fact not everyone is cishet.