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Last week, I posted about how Republicans were fighting efforts to insure that LGBTQ foster kids aren’t abused, stating in very clear terms that the fundamentalist authoritarians (and Republicans, by extension, since they control the party) actively want queer children abused, for a variety of reasons and also just because they find it fun. They always say it’s not about that, it’s about “religious liberty,” and that’s always a lie, because that “liberty” is always the right to abuse queer kids.
I got pushback on this. I was dismissed. I was accused of gaslighting. I have decades of studying these folks and have documented it for about as long, and yet.
So.
Here are a group of MAGAts on video in one of their own podcasts saying everything I said about what they want, in their own words, about themselves, now, in 2024. Saying that they enjoyed beating up queer kids – and straight kids with LGBTQ parents – because it was fun. Because nobody stopped them, because it forced queer kids into the closet, because queer kids deserved it, and because it enforced the idea that queer equals bad and is worthy of violence and contempt. And they miss it and want to bring it back and be able to do it all again.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY MORE FUCKING QUESTIONS?
BECAUSE THIS IS THEY THEMSELVES SAYING EXACTLY WHAT I SAID ABOUT THEM IN EVERY WAY. THIS IS WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY WANT.
Is that enough evidence, or do I still sound like I’m gaslighting?
Look, this is who they’ve always been. Yet again, this isn’t me saying this stuff about them; this is them saying things about themselves. What they say here was what they believed when I got into this, when they said exactly all these same things; it’s still so now, in 2024. They’ve said all of this and more amongst themselves, in their discussion groups, on their Christian radio stations nobody else listened to – well, except for me – for longer than I’ve been around. The only difference between the guys in this podcast and the rank-and-file is that the rank-and-file have learned that it’s bad optics to say it in public, and mostly stopped.
Mostly.
That’s not the only reason I know it, but it’s one of the reasons I know it.
So I am telling you, stop making excuses and accept it: abuse of queer children is the goal. Remember this every time you see another round of anti-LGBTQ legislation, particularly legislation aimed at queer kids, because they don’t want to protect queer kids, they want to hurt queer kids – and the straight kids of queer parents.
The damage they cause is intentional. The abuse is always the goal.
And that absolutely includes their anti-trans laws. Every single one of them. No exceptions.
Just listen to them and let them tell you, because sooner or later, as soon as they think it’s safe, they always absolutely will.
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