America's Most Influential Conspiracy Theorists Are Going All-In On Transphobia

[Nevilledog]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ky48/americas-most-influential-conspiracy-theorists-are-going-all-in-on-transphobia

In 2014, JP Sears, then a New Age comedian known for poking gentle fun at the pieties of people in the yoga and natural-health worlds, made an unusually serious video. In it, facing the camera and speaking softly, he expressed his unqualified support for gay marriage.

“If there’s anything that I think should be banned, it would probably be heterosexual marriage,” he said, jokingly referring to how often straight marriages fail. All kidding aside, he added, he thought society would look back in the future, ashamed. “We’ll look back,” he said, “and question, ‘Wow, how could we ever take away people’s rights?’”

Sears has taken a hard-right and conspiratorial turn in recent years, becoming a relatively well-known figure in the anti-vaccine world. (Among other things, he emceed a large anti-vaccine mandates march in D.C. last year, and he’s appeared on a podcast with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the biggest name in the anti-vaccine world and now a longshot presidential candidate.)

His new views on gender and sexuality reflect that shift. In more recent videos, all made in the last few months, Sears has squeezed into women’s bathing suits and sports bras to mock transgender athletes; squeezed himself into a red mini-dress to make a mock ad for a chocolate “based on gender ideology”; and squeezed himself into a ripped tank top and clownish makeup to make a faux advocacy video calling for “banning women in women’s sports.” (Sears did not respond to a request for comment on, among other topics, why he finds so many pretexts to wear women’s clothes.)

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. The christofascists are purposely working up this country into another hysteria...

like the day care abuse hysteria back in the 80s

[Initech]

3. That's why I said we have to assume they'll commit crimes against humanity

If given another term. Their revenge and execution fetish, enabled by the social media conspiracy theory sphere, is getting worse. It's seriously scary to think what they could be capable of if they had all of the branches of government to do their every evil bidding.

[Matthew28]

6. We must vote them out

or face another nazi germany and genocide. These people are sick.

[Initech]

10. Yes, we must make assumptions that they'll commit genocide in the next 10 years.

All they need is a willing Congress and someone in the White House. Fox News will cheer on their every evil move. The gas chambers weren't built in a day. And what we're witnessing with the GOP now is every bit out of the Nazi playbook.

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Absolutely. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Yup, moral panic to enhance political sheeple herding. . . nt

[Initech]

2. God these people are absolutely insane.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. What a smug douchebag face. Needs immediate sustained slapping.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. No violence. They are closeted. They need another ten years to figure their sexuality out

They should admit they're non-binary. (They, singular, of course)

[Matthew28]

5. Fascist control freaks

They're all about butting into peoples lives and forcing stone aged crap down your throat.