Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
Americans in cities all over the nation came out to represent during the No Kings rallies. My city of Columbia, SC was no different. Though I did not stay as long as I would have liked to (It was hot and I'm old. Sue me already), we had quite a number at the State House downtown. It was very empowering but folks, please keep that energy when we get to the midterm elections next year. "Batman" may have shown up at the rally, but when it comes to Trump and where our government is at the present moment, only we can save ourselves.
Recently, a group chat of leaders of Young Republican groups across the country was leaked to Politico magazine, and it is a doozy:
The messages published by Politico on Tuesday span seven months (between January and August) and include chats from Young Republican leaders in New York, Arizona, and Vermont. According to the outlet, William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used racial slurs, and Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the organization, said people who did not vote for him to become chair of the Young Republican National Federation needed to “go to the gas chamber.”
“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno, general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, wrote.
“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, added.
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According to the outlet, epithets like “f****t,” “retarded” and “n**ga” appeared more than 250 times in the chat logs.
Luke Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, asked in one chat whether others were watching an NBA game, and Giunta responded that he’d “go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.”
So, while everyone else are denouncing this and the folks involved have lost their jobs and opportunities for advancement in the Republican party, JD Vance, our "beloved" vice president decided to defend them.
Aside from playing the "what about this Democrat who did blah blah blah" game, Vance also attempted to minimize the fact that these were adults who said those awful things (which you can see in the above graphic.)
First, according to Mediaite, Vance claimed that it was a "college group chat. Then:
On Wednesday’s edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, Vance addressed the controversy and again characterized the group chat’s members as “kids” and “young boys”:
. . the reality is that kids do stupid things. Especially young boys, they tell edgy, offensive jokes, like that’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause to ruin their live. And at some point we’re all all gonna have to say enough of this BS we’re not going to allow the worst moment in a 21-year-old’s group chat to ruin a kid’s life for the rest of time. That’s just not okay. Like, we live in a digital world, this stuff is now etched in stone online. We’re all going to have to say, you know what? No, no, no. We’re not doing this. We’re not canceling kids because they do something stupid in the group chat. And if I have to be the person who carries that message forward, I’m fine with it."
Again, these were not kids. These are grown-ass men and women making Holocaust jokes, calling Black people monkeys, and slurring LGBTQ folks with the "f" word. But either way, to minimize what they said is not exactly the best course of action Vance should have undertaken. Seems to me that maybe Vance should have made a quick condemnation and then shut his mouth. He only made things worse for himself and his party. But I doubt he cares.
From this incident, we can get a full understanding why Trump chose Vance to be his VP during his second term. As seen by his actions on January 6, Trump's last vice president, Mike Pence, actually had a conscience and knew when it was time to break from Trump. I'm sure that Vance knows when to break from Trump too, but the question is would he?
Probably not.
He's no doubt driven by his desire to replace Trump as president (either by election or Trump doing everyone a favor by dropping dead), that he's willing to act like as a rabid dog in his defense of Trump and the GOP. And apparently, he doesn't care what lie he has to tell or how far he has to twist himself to justify their actions.
But sooner or later he is going to have to pivot because no one wants a rabid dog in the White House. Have you ever seen what they do to the furniture?
The fact that so many MAGA nuts actually believed this fake list of performers for Turning Point's Halftime show is typical and funny. But the list also makes reference to a genuine measles outbreak in schools thanks to Trump Administration policies (see news brief below). That makes entire situation also sadly ironic.
Editor's note - Bear with me because a LOT of things are going on. So much that I felt news briefs were in order instead a post about one thing.
MAGA Falls For Fake Turning Point Halftime Show List - The poster above, mind you. The last item talking about a guest appearance from "Measles" is both funny and sadly ironic. As seen by the next news briefs, there is a measles outbreak in this country, which can be laid on the feet of Trump Administration's Secretary of Health and Human Services (and anti-vaccine nuthead) Robert Kennedy, Jr.
The next two items come from one of my favorite sites, Erin in the Morning. It is the go-to site for news about the trans community; something mainstream media has been completely derelict about in light of the targeting of the trans community by the Trump Administration:
New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation” - Remember how the fraudulent Cass Review took hold of Britian while America's medical professionals and members of the trans community beat back the outcome it could have had in this country? Not surprisingly, it's getting panned by The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 is considered by many to be a very subversively gay horror movie. Of course when I watched it, I was surprised and pleasantly pleased by the amount of male nudity it showed. Now, as our community has moved out of the closet and into the warm glow of sunshine, it turns out that the undercurrent of homosexuality in this movie was in fact intentional.
Or let my friend, Matt Baume tell you more:
Or if you don't want to hear all of that talking, check out these scenes from A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 and judge for yourself. (Violence and Nudity alert)
Editor's note - 17 Horror Films Only LGBT People Understand was not a part of the original post I pulled from the archives. It is an addition from another post.
The group fighting to protect so-called conversion therapy in the U.S. Supreme Court case Chiles v. Salazar has been accused of misrepresenting its evidence by the very researchers it cites.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group that has played a pivotal role in several court cases involving abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights, will argue before the nation's high court Tuesday that justices should strike down state laws banning conversion therapy for minors.
The group cites a 2016 study by Lisa Diamond and Clifford Rosky, who have since condemned the ADF for “profoundly” misrepresenting their findings.
“It’s deceptive,” Rosky recently told The Guardian. “Lawyers owe a duty of candor to the court. You cannot offer false evidence, and if you do so accidentally and find out, you have to correct that. ... They claim our work supports conversion therapy when our work clearly and specifically condemns conversion therapy on the same page they’re citing.”
Distorting science to demonize the LGBTQ community is an old anti-LGBTQ industry tactic. And the Alliance Defending Freedom isn't the first group to do it. However, it may not even matter because of the news brief below.
Conservative Supreme Court justices show skepticism of conversion therapy ban - This is becoming an unfortunately regular occurrence with this particular Supreme Court. Almost every time our community comes in front of them, we lose. I doubt it's a matter of basic legality. It's my belief that there are members of the court who have a personal bias against LGBTQ people and will contort decisions to reflect that bias.
LGBTQ rights on the line: What to watch as Supreme Court’s new term begins- And conversion therapy is not the only case in front of SCOTUS. I'm sorry but I do not believe that the number of losses the LGBTQ community has had in front of SCOTUS lately comes from legitimate looks at the law and the Constitution. Members of this court have a personal bias, which they aren't afraid to voice. We need not dance around it.
Famously Hot SC Pride, returned Saturday for its 36th year in my state of South Carolina. As always, it was a fun time had by all. And it was definitely needed when one takes into account this year's political climate. The festival was another reminder that LGBTQ people, our allies, our kids, and families aren't going to be made invisible.
Former SC legislator (and Moms for Liberty's 2023 'Legislator of the Year') RJ May recently pled guilty to child porn charges. May in the past has accused drag queens and trans people of harming kids.
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. He just pled guilty to child porn charges. - And the nominees for the category of "I haven't been this shocked since Clay Aiken and Jim Nabors came out of the closet," former South Carolina state legislator RJ May. And the kicker? Moms for Liberty awarded him their 2023 Legislator of the Year award. NONE of this is funny and it's not my intention to make it sound funny. Children have been harmed, terribly. A Republican accusing LGBTQ people of harming children while actually being the predator is happening so often lately that it's no longer an irony. It could be considered a GOP requirement for public office.
Roger Severino, a vice president at the Heritage Foundation, defended the claim on X/Twitter by providing information from a dataset of only eight shootings, cherry-picked from Gun Violence Archive, an online archive on gun violence which draws data from law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources. The Gun Violence Archive has data for 4,147 mass shootings that took place in the United States between 2018 and 2025. Severino said that he only picked eight of the shootings because they’re “major shootings,” a term that has no strict definition.
For those who don't know, Roger Severino has a long history of denigrating the LGBTQ community. And with his appointment in the first Trump Administration, he took it to the extreme. As Trump's director of the Office of Civil Rights at Health and Human Services, he attempted to push policies which endangered LGBTQ health. Severino's actions didn't simply border on animus. One could say that his policies were deliberate attempts to undermine the health of LGBTQ people while hiding behind the veneer of "religious freedom"
In 2018, The Advocate claimed that he was attempting to "erase trans people out of existence" by pushing a memo which would say that gender identity doesn't exist and that gender is set at birth and defined by genitalia.
Severino was also responsible for an attempt to create a rule which would roll back protections for the trans community against discrimination through Obamacare, and a "conscience rule" which said any healthcare worker could deny services to LGBTQ people based on "moral or religious" reasons. In November 2019, three different federal courts struck down the rule and one court found that HHS exaggerated a justification for the rule. Severino was pointed out in an NPR article to have contributed to that exaggeration.
Pentagon Pete’s ‘Manic’ Meltdowns Exposed by Aides - From The Daily Mail by way of The Daily Beast, so take it as you can. But is even a small portion of this is true, it says a lot of Hegseth's in claiming that trans troops would hurt the military when he is obviously the actual danger.
Two Charlie Kirk wannabes got laughed off of an HBCU campus when they tried that "debate me, bro" nonsense.
As we move further away from the awful situation of Charlie Kirk's assassination, I am glad to see that more people are coming to a basic revelation. And that revelation is the fact that Charlie Kirk was a two-bit hustling grifter and a homophobic racist to boot. Some folks have been steadily trying manufacture a narrative that Kirk was someone who wanted to debate and let both sides of an argument make their points. That's a damn lie.
Kirk's debates were anything but. During his "debates," Kirk bullied younger college students who had less public speaking experience than him. He would talk over them, insult them and then rely on carefully edited videos and tweets to present a ludicrous claim that he "destroyed" them. The only reason why pundits such as Ezra Klein and Brian Stelter gave Kirk undeserved praise after his passing was because he gave them something to write about and kissed their asses in face-to-face meetings. Of course he did. They were useful to him. He needed their influence to spread his nonsense. One wonders what he said about them behind their backs.
Bear in mind that none of what I have just said justifies Charlie Kirk's murder. Even as we criticize the way Kirk died, we cannot allow him to become a martyr. Charlie Kirk was no martyr. Far from it.
All of my above comments are leading up to something which happened Wednesday.
A bunch of Kirk wannabes got a much-needed reception when they tried that "debate me" junk at a Tennessee State University, a historically Black campus. There was no violence but a lot of mockery. It's what one should expect when a group of people don't want their humanity to be the subject of a "debate." Or don't want to be dragged into a situation (in this case, Kirk's murder) which had nothing to do with them.
🚨 BREAKING: The party of tolerance strikes again - left-wing rioters KICK OUT young patriots who tried to set up a table and civilly debate about DEI at an HBCU, Tennessee State University. pic.twitter.com/wypLonkm54
They apparently could not even go 10 minutes until chaos…
1. No one told them to come. No one asked them to come. According to university officials, the Charlie Kirk wannabes didn't even follow correct protocol, so they shouldn't have been there in the first place:
2. And frankly - if I can speak plainly and in general - "ain't nobody got time for the bullshit." No one owes anyone a debate or discussion, particularly on issues which personally affect them. I'm personally sick and tired of the gaslighting when white and heterosexual pundits and wannabe social media influencers scream "debate me" at people of color and LGBTQ people as if we need to justify our lives and issues for the benefit of their egos and inflated sense of entitlement.
That's the big loophole about "debates" when it comes to Black and LGBTQ issues on news channels and social media. They like to TALK about us but don't want us to talk. To them, we are "identity politics," a term which they never seem to use when talking about MAGA voters or white evangelical voters.
An added delight to the situation at hand is the attempt by MAGA social media influencers portray the wannabes as victims (as seen by one of the above tweets). As you can read below, that didn't exactly work in their favor.
There is nothing civil about what these losers were trying to do. White idiots have already made it clear they put the entire onus of DEI ONTO Black Americans, fraudulently, because we all know they were the last to benefit. No one needs to put up with grifters. Read next time. pic.twitter.com/9KKSNGy2e9
Some clarity needed to be made for this shit. We are NOT leftists, retarded conservatives or liberals. We don't owe anyone attention or debate just to be disrespected by a so-called "High IQ" morons who thinks just because they're pale skin everyone wants to hear their opinion pic.twitter.com/xcpSMG0K3b
Black ppl don’t have to participate in your dumbass fake ass battle of wits. Which is just racism. Take your asses to Utah and leave HBCUs out your bullshit.
Eric…Black America has absolutely no tolerance for white people coming into our spaces in the disguise of “civil debate” to slick tell us we are inferior. RACISM IS NOT AN OPINION NOR IS IT DEBATABLE.
Hey @EricLDaugh you are spreading false information. Those guys snuck on campus, tried to set up shop and start discourse with black students with white Christian nationalist talking points, all while wearing divisive hats. Stop trying to divide the country with your cult.
Beth Bourne, president of the Yolo County Moms for Liberty chapter, launched into a tirade against transgender students in locker rooms and bathrooms before abruptly stripping off her top and pants. The stunt left board members stunned, forced the meeting into recess, and underscored just how unhinged the movement’s tactics have become.
. . . This was hardly Bourne’s first brush with notoriety for outlandish, anti-LGBTQ+ theatrics. Last year she went viral after berating drag queens in a hotel lobby in Hawaii, demanding a refund for the mere act of encountering them. The clip drew a petition to oust her from her staff position at UC Davis. The university held off, but she eventually lost the job anyway—thanks to Trump’s education cuts, which she publicly cheered even as she admitted they cost her own livelihood.
For those who don't remember her hysterical screeching at drag queens in Hawaii, here you go. Enjoy:
Bourne’s crusade against LGBTQ+ rights has also been deeply personal—and cruel. Her own child came out to her as nonbinary, a revelation that, according to them, only hardened her extremism. “I was ready to come out to everybody because I had been holding it in for a really long time,” the now-adult child told the Sacramento Bee. “From my coming out to my moving out, her views that she expressed to me started to get more aggressive and more extreme.”
Now if you are truly pining for a video of her behavior at the school board meeting, here you go (God help you):
In other news
Court Sides With ACLU And Queer Performers Over Federal Trans Funding Restrictions- Wonderful! Aside wanting to tell the good news, another reason for me posting this article is another plea to support the independent LGBTQ press. During the war we are in with the Trump Administration (because it is a war), we need sources of information we can count on. Erin Reed runs an awesome substack which I have cited and complimented on many occasions. I vouch for her and the quality of her work.
On the risk of bragging, I embarrassed a "prominent" white supremacist today. I put the word prominent in quotes because to me, labeling a white supremacist as prominent is akin to pointing out the scuzziest looking rat in a group of rats.
Allow me to give a little background.
On Wednesday, the dumbass who some Americans were stupid enough to put back into the White House (because I sure as hell didn't vote for the sentient brain tumor) announced that he was declaring Antifa to be a "major terrorist organization."
For the benefit of those who don't know, Antifa is
. . . a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. It consists of a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups that use nonviolent direct action, or violence to achieve their aims. Antifa political activism includes non-violent methods such as poster and flyer campaigns, mutual aid, speeches, protest marches, and community organizing. Some who identify as antifa also use tactics involving digital activism, doxing, harassment, physical violence, and property damage. Supporters of the movement aim to combat far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
A lot of folks are asking can Trump declare them to be a domestic terrorist group. Many are saying he can't. My opinion is the devil is always in the vagueness. Since Antifa is technically not a group, Trump's attempted designation would allow his supporters to cast a wide net over a lot of people and groups they don't like, perhaps causing them to be subjected to all sorts of negative consequences.
Some have already started calling out people.
The tweet above is from a white supremacist who calls himself Baked Alaska. He, like so many other dregs, became prominent during Trump's first term by attaching themselves to his coattails. His actual name is Anthime Joseph "Tim" Gionet who, according to Wikipedia, was a rapper and a Internet prankster before he made a turn in 2016 as a far-right influencer.
In 2016, Gionet turned to the politics of Donald Trump and the alt-right in what he described as a rejection of "political correctness". By 2017, Gionet's political views had radicalized; that year, he began to use his social media platform and Internet activism to promote racist and antisemitic ideologies, which included sharing neo-Nazi content on social media. He also played a role in the 2017 white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
. . . Originally known as an extremely online personality, Baked Alaska was gradually banned from most mainstream social media platforms. In January 2021, Gionet livestreamed the U.S. Capitol building breach by a pro-Trump mob, which was found to be a violation of his release.
It was later reported that Gionet's footage was used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to identify other trespassers. Gionet was later arrested by federal agents that month in connection with his activities at the Capitol. He was released pending trial and continued livestreaming while facing federal charges. On January 10, 2023, Gionet was sentenced to 60 days in jail. Gionet was pardoned by Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.
As you can see by the tweet above, Gionet is practically in super gleeful mood at the thought of exploiting Trump's stance against Antifa to wreak all sorts of havoc. But he's definitely an expert when it comes to cowering and crying. The following is Gionet when he was pepper sprayed during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
I interrupted his "we are so back" fest to remind him of the infamous moment above:
But while Gionet didn't like it, a lot of other folks do. They were even asking for a copy of the video.
I could use this moment to express the weariness I have with the American public's short memories, but instead I think I'll simply enjoy this.
And hope that you do, too.
Gionet is the perfect example of some of the types Donald Trump attracts and empowers - power hungry, chickenshit cowards who get a charge from jabbing people with their resentments, insecurities, and false senses of entitlement.
Trying again to raise her profile by exploiting Charlie Kirk's death, Rep. Nancy Mace began a war of words against another Congressional representative, Ilhan Omar, after misrepresenting what she said about Kirk's death. She also began a push to censure Omar. As you can see, by the top news brief, even other Republicans aren't buying her bull.
This and other things she has done to exploit Kirk's death proves that Mace is without a doubt, the sleaziest, most disgusting member of Congress. And that is INCLUDING Ted Cruz. She's like Alexis on 'Dynasty' without the beauty, style, intelligence, good fashion sense, taste, culture or basic decency (and that's saying a lot because Alexis had very little decency.) Mace is an attention-desperate, greedy, grasping monstrosity who would roll around in dogshit to get at least give minutes on Fox News.
Instead, it's about those who have taken it upon themselves to avenge his death, so to speak. I'm talking about all of the folks who are issuing violent threat, doxxing people, putting up social media blacklists causing people to get fired for comments which can be construed as celebrating Kirk's death, and targeting groups they claim are celebrating Kirk's death.
Don't get me wrong because I understand the anger. A lot of folks got called out for making fun of George Floyd's murder. And some of those comments about Kirk have been distasteful. There can be an argument made about free speech and an opposite one made about the consequences of speech.
But in truth, this situation with Kirk strikes me as opportunistic. With Floyd, people were angry at the barbaric way he died. People on the right came out with all sort vile claims about Floyd after his death. They claimed he was a woman beater and drug user. They, Charlie Kirk including, claimed that all the rage over his death was exaggerated.
But to a lot of people, how Floyd lived his life wasn't the point. It was the vulgar way he died. The image of the Derek Chauvin with his knee callously on Floyd's neck put an enduring image to accompany claims made by Black Americans about police brutality.
In stark contrast, something incredibly distasteful is peeking out behind all the anger against those who have been accused of celebrating Kirk's murder. The threats of retribution, compiled social media blacklists, name calling and finger pointing seems to not be coming from a place of rage about Kirk's death, but a place of veiled disappointment that none of the groups Kirk targeted with his vitriol can be scapegoated for his murder.
No "transgender mass shooter," no "criminally minded Black person," no "savage illegal." When it came to who murdered Kirk, none of the tropes he exploited to dehumanize could be applied. There was no "Charlie Kirk was right about these people and that's why he was murdered" narrative which could be created. The alleged perpetrator, Tyler Robinson, is a 22-year-old white man from a conservative Republican family.
So aside from trying to whitewash all of the vulgar aspects of Kirk's comments and attempting to make Robinson out to be an innocent victim of "leftist indoctrination" (not to mention hanging on to a story about his alleged transgender roommate/lover/or what have you), self-anointed avengers of Charlie Kirk decided to rally around attacking the only folks they can - those who they claim celebrated his murder.
None of these people, as distasteful some of their comments were - had anything to do with Kirk's death, but they serve a purpose. Charlie Kirk's avengers want to create a nationwide revolution around his murder but the very thing they lack is a suitable scapegoat. Regardless of the way he lived, Floyd's death spurred genuine anger about police brutality. Kirk's death is spurring genuine anger too, but it's not in the direction his so-called avengers can exploit. So, until a more suitable scapegoat comes along, the folks accused of celebrating Kirk's death are suitable distractions to channel the crowd rage.
And if a more suitable scapegoat doesn't come along, don't be surprised if Charlie Kirk's 'avengers' attempt to create one.
Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. However, I am a firm believer of putting things down for "receipt keeping" or memory storage. We cannot become so desensitized to the enemies of our equality that we lose the desire to point out their hypocrisies and morally rotten nature.
This evening, I spotlight Nancy Mace (again.) If there was a prize for duplicitous behavior in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Mace would be a top contender. The tweet below is her statements when there was a claim (now unproven) that the bullets used in the murder has "pro-trans ideology" etched on them.
Nancy Mace today: “It sounds like the shooter was a tranny, or pro-tranny.”
Now that a 22-year-old white male, Tyler Robinson, from a wealthy conservative Republican family has been arrested for the murder, Mace transformed herself from an avenging angel with the flaming sword to St. Bernadette:
We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ.
A little advice, Nancy dear. Perhaps you should worry less about Tyler Robinson finding Jesus and start looking for Him yourself. If someone looked up the phrase "split hell wide open" in the dictionary, they'd find your Congressional photo.
I'd wager that at this point, your soul is so rotten that the devil himself wouldn't claim it.
Can certain people on the so-called left please get off of their soapboxes until all of the facts about Charlie Kirk's assassination come in.
I understand your sentiment and agree with the fact that violence is wrong, and political violence is abominable but over the last few days after that awful event, some of y'all have been getting on my damn nerves with your jockeying for position in terms of who can decry Kirk's murder the best.
Yes, murdering someone simply because you don't agree with their opinion is awful, but this need for so many of y'all to jump on your pedestals and decry the alleged motives behind Kirk's murder before we even KNOW the motive is bordering on parody. It's the same as people auditioning for a musical singing the same song, as if their version would somehow make the song sound different and awe-inspiring.
And I have a more pressing problem with some of you seeking to whitewash Charlie Kirk's legacy. When he was alive, a lot of you condemned his words and his actions and the negative effect they had on our political discourse. Now after his death, you're minimizing his words and actions to so-called differences of opinion. Why are some of you being hypocrites.
People may not like what I say, but I can honestly say that my opinion of Charlie Kirk hasn't changed an iota. He was a lying sleazebag demagogue. He was a bully who targeted people who could NOT fight him back. His "debates" were rigged circuses with the dignity and humanity of the groups he demeaned treated like some trophy for whoever's verbal technique was the best. But he did NOT deserve to be murdered. And I grieve for his wife and children.
Now see, how hard is that? I can decry his murder, show sympathy for his family and STILL call him out for what he was. Why can't some of you?
And let's be really honest here. Some people's desire to whitewash Charlie Kirk's life's is commensurate to how "delusionally white" and/or "straight-acting" they are. They get to pretend that they can be observers of the entire thing and not involved. Those of us who aren't in those categories can't get away with that. We can't feign sitting on a distant perch and observing. We deal with the effects of not only Kirk's demagoguery, but the demagoguery of those like him. We see it every day and feel it every day and unlike many, we can't pretend it doesn't exist or minimize it as a simple difference of opinion.
Just as Charlie Kirk did not deserve his fate, our lives, dignity, and worth as human beings shouldn't be up for debate or treated like a prize. And the attacks on our lives, dignity, and worth as human beings shouldn't be minimized as a simple difference of opinion for any reason. Ever.
