For writer Parker Molloy, Tucker Carlson’s obsession with repeatedly portraying transgender people as eccentrics, or worse, on his show is extremely dangerous.
“Tucker Carlson covered some of the stories of a Canadian teacher a few weeks ago who apparently became transgender and wore these big goofy fake breasts. It’s completely inappropriate to dress for school or anything else, and there’s clearly a way to argue that it shouldn’t be allowed at school based on dress codes or what should be. case in school. Instead, it’s used to say, “Look, this is what these transgender freaks look like and they shouldn’t have non-discriminatory protections,” Molloy said. , author of the Current Times newsletter, says in this supplement of New anomaly audio file.
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“It’s frustrating to watch because that’s the only perspective a lot of people will get. The only transgender they’ll ever hear – well, they won’t even hear from that transgender – they’ll hear from Tucker Carlson screaming about how this leads to the end of society. “
This is particularly troubling for host Andy Levy as he points out that attacks on transgender rights — and LGBTQ rights in general — appear to be increasing and becoming bolder, from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay Bill” hits the gym and sports legislation across the country.
“It’s a discriminatory formula and it’s going to hurt a lot of people. That’s what I’m really worried about, especially since it’s related to attacks on what people can learn in school, because this kind of thing echos the 2013 law that Russia implemented, the law. the gay propaganda they put out. [into law] over there. It has become illegal to publicize things that make children essentially gay or transgender and to promote children in any way. And we saw how that affected them there,” Molloy said. “These things worry me because they come with body numbers. They come with some terrible, terrible things.”
Andy goes on to say that this type of LGBTQ+ discrimination now tends to be very close to Nazism.
“It’s just setting up a class of people and making scapegoats for all these evils, or supposed evils, in society, and basically just doing everything but getting them to wear a star. yellow. You don’t have to be transgender and you don’t have to be gay to look at this and go, ‘This is scary. Like, this is not what this country is supposed to be. ‘ Andy said.
Also in this episode: Molloy and Andy discuss GOP hypocrisy when it comes to anti-transgender legislation, why right-wing outrage with pronouns is “fake” and here’s the latest story in the sentence Elon Musk’s Twitter story.
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