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RNC Resolution On Hate Groups Has Nothing To Do With 'Rejecting Hate Groups'
They want people to stop recognizing SPLC-designated hate groups.
August 24, 2020 02:07 PM
One might think that given the past four years, given Charlottesville, given the increase in far-right hate groups not seen since before the Oklahoma City bombing, hate crimes hitting a 16-year-high, that — simply for the sake of keeping up appearances — any RNC resolution having to do with hate groups would be something along the lines of "hate groups are bad."
But we're not living in dogwhistle times. Those days are over. There is no reason to keep up appearances or to do the plausible deniability shuffle, because they know they can get elected without them.
So rather than denouncing hate groups, the resolution approved by the RNC is about opposing the Southern Poverty Law Center's identification of hate groups, due to SPLC's insistence upon designating right-wing hate groups as hate groups.
<blockquote>WHEREAS, The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a far-left organization with an obvious bias; <br><br>WHEREAS, The SPLC makes a practice of incorrectly labeling persons and organizations as "hate groups"; <br><br>WHEREAS, The actions of the SPLC have served to mobilize persons to act in hate and violence towards those on its "hate group" list; <br><br>WHEREAS, The Family Research Council suffered a violent attack due to its support of the traditional family, which the SPLC has deemed as hateful;<br><br> WHEREAS, The Obama Administration legitimized the SPLC and acted upon their request that the federal government formally identify individuals and organizations as "hate groups;"; <br><br>WHEREAS, The SPLC was further legitimized when the Obama-Biden Administration gave them the ability to provide input to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and <br><br>WHEREAS, Legitimizing the SPLC puts conservative groups or voices at risk of attack; therefore, be it <br><br>RESOLVED, That the SPLC is a radical organization, and that the federal government should not view this organization as a legitimate foundation equipped to provide actionable information to DHS or any other government agency. </blockquote><p>Let's unpack this, shall we? </p><p>Not to excuse the actions of Floyd Corkins — which perhaps could have been prevented with stricter gun control laws — but no one really <em>needed</em> the Southern Poverty Law Center to tell them the Family Research Council was an anti-gay hate group. Surely, the fact that they have spent decades saying horrible things about LGBTQ people all of the time and opposing equal rights for LGBTQ people would have tipped <em>someone</em> off. They weren't even officially designated as an anti-gay hate group by the SPLC until 2012, well after they were widely known as an organization opposing rights for LGBTQ people. </p><p>If one goes to the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-research-council" target="_blank">Family Research Center page</a> on the Southern Poverty Law Center site, one does not see an explanation along the lines of "because we say so." One will simply see a variety of quotes from FRC President Tony Perkins and other members of the organization, in which they insist LGBTQ people are evil pedophiles who want to take their religion away, take their marriages away and also ruin the United States military. You will see a collection of hateful statements. </p><blockquote>"One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order." — FRC publication, "Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia," Robert Knight and Frank York, 1999<br><br>"[W]elcoming open homosexuality in the military would clearly damage the readiness and effectiveness of the force – in part because it would increase the already serious problem of homosexual assault in the military." — Peter Sprigg, "Homosexual Assault in the Military," 2010<br><br>"Those who understand the homosexual community — the activists — they're very aggressive, they're — everything they accuse us of they are in triplicate. They're intolerant, they're hateful, vile, they're spiteful. .... To me, that is the height of hatred, to be silent when we know there are individuals that are engaged in activity, behavior, and an agenda that will destroy them and our nation." — Tony Perkins, speaking to the Oak Initiative Summit, April 2011</blockquote><p>Oh yeah, who could possibly have figured out that this is a group that hates gay people without the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center!</p><p><span></span>Describing "calling gay people pedophiles" as "supporting the traditional family" is <em>quite</em> a stretch. Surely, one can go and have a "traditional family" without needing to go and do that. </p><p>It is also quite a stretch to use one casualty-free incident in the entire 50-year history of the Southern Poverty Law Center to attempt to link the SPLC to extremism and terrorism or claim that it is a "radical organization." We would be here all day were I to start listing the number of acts of terrorism linked to mainstream right-wing ideology. Acts of terrorism that did, in fact, result in people dying. </p><p>That the "The SPLC is illegitimate because it is biased against conservatives" talking point made it into an RNC resolution is not particularly surprising. It's become pervasive over the last few years, most recently culminating in outrage over Chick-fil-A having donated to the organization.</p><div id="a5a95" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="81a72d3d56ee60907ab6dd9c608518f0"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1199877212767506432" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">If true, @ChickfilA has badly lost its way. Millions of Christians have been proud of ChickFilA’s courageous stands… https://t.co/jxL37vw0kB</div> — Ted Cruz (@Ted Cruz)<a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/statuses/1199877212767506432">1574907994.0</a></blockquote></div><p>If you'll notice, they've done the same thing with <a href="https://www.snopes.com/" target="_blank">Snopes</a>. It doesn't matter what the actual facts are, but they will repeatedly say "The SPLC is illegitimate" or "Snopes is illegitimate," pretty much until people give up and stop using them as resources. </p><p>The SPLC has <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-responds-rnc-resolution" target="_blank">issued a statement</a> responding to the resolution, noting that its obvious purpose was to protect Trump and other Republicans from being criticized for hanging out with hate groups. </p><blockquote>This Republican National Committee's resolution is an attack on the SPLC's definition of hate groups in order to excuse the Trump administration's history of working with individuals and organizations that malign entire groups of people — such as Black Lives Matter advocates, immigrants, Muslims and the LGBTQ community — with dehumanizing rhetoric.<br><br>While the Republican Party approved this resolution, notably, it did not denounce organizations that promote antisemitism, Islamophobia, neo-Nazis, anti-LGBT sentiment or racism. It only criticized the SPLC for challenging hate groups that have found a place in the Republican Party.</blockquote><p>But again, it's not like people would not notice that Trump and Republicans were hanging out with bigots if the SPLC did not officially designate them as bigots. That's not how anything works.</p><blockquote>From the moment that Donald Trump ran for president, he welcomed the support of hate groups like the Family Research Council and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Once in office, Trump actively hired and consulted alumni and allies from FAIR, an anti-immigrant hate group that has ties to white supremacist groups and eugenicists. They include Julie Kirchner, Kris Kobach, Jeff Sessions, and most notably Stephen Miller.</blockquote><p>This is not a chicken-and-the-egg situation. These people and groups were hateful before being designated as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and they would be hateful without such a designation. The problem isn't that they've been "designated" as hateful, but that they are, in fact, hateful. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-responds-rnc-resolution" target="_blank">SPLC</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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A Big Win For Trans Students In The 11th Circuit!
Court reminds schools that sex discrimination is illegal.
August 08, 2020 03:00 PM
On Friday, the 11th Circuit issued an excellent decision in Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida, finding that schools violate students' civil and constitutional rights when they don't allow trans students to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
Because of this decision, trans students in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia will be able to use the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth. It is a HUGE win for trans kids!
As the court held,
A public school may not punish its students for gender nonconformity. Neither may a public school harm transgender students by establishing arbitrary, separate rules for their restroom use. The evidence at trial confirms that Mr. Adams suffered both these indignities. The record developed in the District Court shows that the School Board failed to honor Mr. Adams's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX.
Fuck yeah!
<p>This case is about a boy named Drew Adams. Drew and his family realized he was trans when he was in the eighth grade. He had already transitioned before he began attending Nease High School in St. Johns County, Florida. </p><blockquote>Drew Adams was born in 2000. At birth, doctors examined Mr. Adams and recorded his sex as female. That female designation has vexed Mr. Adams throughout his young life. As Mr. Adams entered puberty, he suffered significant anxiety and depression about his developing body, and he sought the help of a therapist and a psychiatrist. In the eighth grade, after introspection and with the help of therapy, Mr. Adams came to realize he was transgender. He revealed to his parents that he was a boy, not a girl. Together, Mr. Adams and his family met with mental health professionals, who confirmed Adams was transgender. In time, Mr. Adams's psychiatrist diagnosed him with gender dysphoria, a condition of "debilitating distress and anxiety resulting from the incongruence between an individual's gender identity and birth-assigned sex." Mr. Adams's "gender identity"—his consistent, internal sense of gender—is male, but the sex assigned to him at birth was female.</blockquote><p>As described by the court,</p><blockquote>Drew Adams is a young man and recent graduate of Nease High School in Florida's St. Johns County School District. Mr. Adams is transgender, meaning when he was born, doctors assessed his sex and wrote "female" on his birth certificate, but today Mr. Adams knows "with every fiber of [his] being" that he is a boy. </blockquote><p>For trans people, transitioning and living as who they really are is incredibly important.</p><blockquote>Mr. Adams said transitioning led to "the happiest moments of my life," "finally figuring out who I was," and being "able to live with myself again."</blockquote><p>For his first six weeks of ninth grade, Drew used the boys' bathroom. Then two anonymous girls who saw him enter the boys' room complained, because apparently they just really wanted to use the same bathroom as him. None of the boys Drew shared the bathroom with complained, but nonetheless, the school ordered him to stop using the boys' room.<br></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 20px;">While Mr. Adams attended Nease High School, school officials considered him a boy in all respects but one: he was forbidden to use the boys' restroom. Instead, Mr. Adams had the option of using the multi-stall girls' restrooms, which he found profoundly "insult[ing]." Or he could use a single-stall gender-neutral bathroom, which he found "isolati[ng]," "depress[ing]," "humiliating," and burdensome.</blockquote><p>This made him feel</p><blockquote>"alienated and humiliated" every time he "walk[ed] past the boys' restroom on his way to a gender-neutral bathroom, knowing every other boy is permitted to use it but him." Mr. Adams believed the bathroom policy sent "a message to other students who [saw Adams] use a 'special bathroom' that he is different." </blockquote><p>It's important to remember just how vulnerable trans kids are. Studies have found that <a href="https://www.hrc.org/blog/new-study-reveals-shocking-rates-of-attempted-suicide-among-trans-adolescen" target="_blank">more than half</a> of transgender adolescents have attempted suicide at least once. Trans kids routinely suffer from anxiety and depression, even without being ostracized by their schools. Transitioning and living fully in tune with their gender identity is an incredibly important step for transgender people.</p><blockquote>Socially transitioning to using the men's restroom, Mr. Adams explained at trial, is "a statement to everyone around me that I am a boy. It's confirming my identity and confirming who I am, that I'm a boy. And it means a lot to me to be able to express who I am with such a simple action because . . . I'm just like every other boy."</blockquote><p><br>The ultimate question in this case was whether the 14th Amendment and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The Fourteenth Amendment, of course, requires "equal protection under the law. And Title IX states that no student</p><blockquote>shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance</blockquote><p>And<br></p><blockquote>the Constitution does not tolerate any form of gender stereotyping on the basis of one's birth sex and sexual organs</blockquote><p>The court found that the school and school board "demonstrated no substantial relationship between excluding Mr. Adams from the communal boys' restrooms and protecting student privacy." This, the judges found, led to three "constitutional infirmities" with the policy.</p><blockquote>First, the policy is administered arbitrarily. The policy relies upon a student's enrollment documents to determine sex assigned at birth. This targets some transgender students for bathroom restrictions but not others. Second, the School Board's privacy concerns about Mr. Adams's use of the boys' bathroom are merely hypothesized, with no support in the factual record. Third, the School District's bathroom policy subjects Mr. Adams to unfavorable treatment simply because he defies gender stereotypes as a transgender person. </blockquote><p>The opinion also noted that</p><blockquote>The School Board's bathroom policy singles out transgender students for differential treatment <u>because</u> they are transgener: "Transgender students will be given access to a gender-neutral restroom and will not be required to use the restroom corresponding to their biological sex." The policy emphasized the School Board's position that no law required it to "allow a <u>transgender</u> student access to the restroom corresponding to their consistently asserted gender identity."</blockquote><p>Drew has updated his driver's license and birth certificate, which now reflect who he really is. In every respect, he is a boy. Legally, he is a boy. But St. Johns County School District decided that it should treat him differently from other boys simply because he's trans. This, the court ruled, is an illegal reliance on sex stereotypes.</p><blockquote>[T]the School District's bathroom policy labels Mr. Adams as a "girl" solely because of the gender assigned to him at birth based on his sexual organs. The policy advances gender stereotypes by deeming Mr. Adams "truly" female, even though he produced legal and medical documentation showing he was male. </blockquote><p>The dissent, unfortunately, is a disgusting spew of bigotry. In it, 11th Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor rants for 28 pages about the "importance" of discriminating against trans students, saying repeatedly that "sex" is based on biology and not gender identity. We're going to refrain from quoting it here. Transphobes already have more than enough places to spew their hatred.<br></p><p>But the decision and the dissent dissent act as a reminder of just how important federal judicial appointments are, even when the Republican nominee isn't the absolute horror show that is Donald Trump. The two judges in the majority, Judges Beverly Martin and Jill Pryor, were Obama appointees. Judge William Pryor is a W. appointee. (And no, the two Pryors are not related.)</p><p>This case could be a preface to a battle in front of the Supreme Court. So far, the 11th Circuit, Sixth Circuit, and Seventh Circuit are the only federal appellate courts to consider this issue. They, and most of the federal district courts who have ruled in similar cases, have found that unequal treatment of trans kids is a constitutional and civil rights violation. </p><p>The court also relies on the recent Supreme Court <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/supreme-court-just-made-everybody-gay-and-transgender-again-thanks-a-lot-neil-gorsuch" target="_self">decision</a> in <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/breaking-down-the-lgbt-decision-its-a-conservative-on-conservative-cage-match-2646174497" target="_self">Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia</a>, which found that discrimination against people because they are transgender is illegal sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In <em>Bostock</em>, Neil Gorsuch joined the court's libs to declare that discrimination against trans people because they are trans is, quite literally, sex discrimination. When a person is treated differently solely because they are transgender, what else can it be but discrimination on the basis of sex?</p><p>So if this does end up before SCOTUS, hopefully Neil Gorsuch, textualist, will stay consistent in his thinking!</p><p>At the end of the day, this is a great decision that will help better the daily lives of trans kids throughout Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, three states where discrimination against trans students is ubiquitous.</p><p>Drew was represented in this case by the <a href="https://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/cases/fl_adams-v-school-board-st-johns-county" target="_blank">Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund</a>. which does amazing work on behalf of LGBTQ people all around the country.<br></p><p>A big congrats to Lambda Legal, Drew Adams, and all trans kids who are fighting this fight!</p><p>Here's the opinion!</p><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="null" data-auto-height="true" data-rm-shortcode-id="f72665a9feb449e6434f280a75745bd7" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/471812196/content?start_page=1&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em>Follow Jamie on <a href="https://twitter.com/jamielynncrofts" target="_blank">Twitter</a>!</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Wow, There Was Actually Someone Too Batsh*t Bigoted For The Trump Administration
Everyone give a hearty bye-bye to Merritt Corrigan!
August 04, 2020 08:55 AM
Merritt Corrigan was once deputy White House liaison to the US Agency for International Development. Now, she's pursuing bigotry in the private sector. Corrigan was fired Monday after tweeting anti-gay, transphobic garbage. You could even say she was “cancelled" if you're the type of entitled, overgrown child who thinks you should never face any negative fallout for your gross words and deeds.
Corrigan peaced out yesterday in a self-indulgent tweetstorm. Bari Weiss would be proud.
A couple weeks ago, 20 Democratic representatives, led by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, suggested to Corrigan's boss, acting USAID Administrator John Barsa, that she might be happier someplace else. The former Republican National Committee staffer had a big ol' crush on Russia, frequently retweeting propaganda outlet Russia Today and praising the country's leadership, which is technically speaking fucked up.
<div id="5c38c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7b8462b69e3e330679e486ce3c7c0abd"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1290380391682125827" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Last month, @JBarsaUSAID testified in front of the Committee, promising that, "all USAID employees…are held to the… https://t.co/xv3G9ai127</div> — House Foreign Affairs Committee (@House Foreign Affairs Committee)<a href="https://twitter.com/HouseForeign/statuses/1290380391682125827">1596485634.0</a></blockquote></div><p>And she just wouldn't stop with the hateful on Twitter. She wrote that "our homo-empire couldn't tolerate even one commercial enterprise not in full submission to the tyrannical LGBT agenda." First place, we have a "homo-empire"? How is that even possible when boring old baseball is back before Broadway?<br></p><p>Here's another doozy: "Liberal democracy is little more than a front for the war being waged against us by those who fundamentally despise not only our way of life, but life itself." By this point, she should've ended all her tweets with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMxHBfPQgtE" target="_blank">“maniacal laugh." </a></p><p>Corrigan claimed the media was dragging her for her religious beliefs, which she believes are shared by the “majority of Americans." This is untrue but it's probably her variation of a no true Scotsman fallacy: No true American believes same-sex marriage is morally equivalent to heterosexual marriage. But data disagrees with her: A recent Gallup poll showed that 67 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage.</p><p>She's right that “men aren't women." That's self-evident. However, what she grossly means is that trans women aren't women, they're men, which they aren't. They're women. </p><p>I'm not sure “US-funded Tunisian LGBT soap operas" are a thing, and that's a damn shame. They sound awesome.</p><p>According to Politico, Corrigan wrote an op-ed in The Conservative that "called for women to assume traditional gender roles of mother, wife and homemaker." I don't normally give advice to rightwing fundamentalist creeps, but don't get too excited when a conservative woman pushes this regressive crap.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-uh3XbUMfY" target="_blank"> "The Donna Reed Show"</a> is stuck in a permanent loop in her head, but in the real world, she probably can't cook or clean for shit. Even conservative men need to learn to turn on a stove or run a vacuum or they're gonna starve in a dusty shithole. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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<small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit...">Twitter</small></p><p>Sorry, lady, but you can't tell someone's “sex or gender by looking at them." This isn't something they teach at reputable colleges. (She went on like this as if she were a common J.K. Rowling.)</p><p>Corrigan accused the USAID of “rampant anti-Christian sentiment" and announced that on Thursday at 1 p.m. she'll hold a press conference with Project 1599. That's the crackpot organization co-founded by Jacob Wohl, the genius who claimed that Senator Elizabeth Warren was banging a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/jacob-wohl-knows-all-about-liz-warrens-24-year-old-bodybuilder-boy-toy-even-if-she-doesnt?fbclid=IwAR32F6ZwuOD19x88OgzmC-o5CZl-rlmM4XJ4NEF0GTXtGAnpWEe8wX47Uqg" target="_self">24-year-old Marine bodybuilder sexworker.</a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Corrigan believes that Rep. Engel, who's leaving Congress in a few months, and Senator Bob Menendez have “engaged in a corrupt campaign" to remove her from USAID. Her delusions of grandeur aside, it seems more likely that Engel and Menendez simply read her Twitter feed and went “YIKES!"<br></p><p>She also accused Tim Kaine and Cory Booker of persecuting her because she's a Christian. Kaine is a devout Catholic, though I'm sure his political positions would make Corrigan go “no true Christian" on him. She described Cory Booker as a “radical anti-Christian leftist," and while I love the brother, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnTwlD-_rLA" target="_blank">Michael Landon's</a> entire body of work is more “radical" than Booker. </p><p>Corrigan promised to “expose" the Democrats' corruption Thursday at her press conference. I'd watch but I think that's when Netflix drops all the episodes of <em>US-Funded Tunisian LGBT Soap Opera</em>.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/house-democrats-resignation-of-usaid-appointee-homophobic-378641" target="_blank">Politico</a> / <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-usaid-liaison-fired-after-series-anti-lgbtq-tweets-n1235679" target="_blank">NBC News</a>]<br></p><p><em>Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad-free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. That's you! Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Happy Friday! Let's Talk About Mary Trump's Big Gay Interview!
No, not the one with Rachel Maddow, a different one.
July 31, 2020 09:25 AM
Here's a fun one for your Friday, after another week spent in hell!
Mary Trump, AKA the only good Trump, who wrote the summer's hottest social distance beach reading book about her gross shitshow crime boss uncle and the rest of her gross shitshow crime family, did an interview with The Advocate, which is the official magazine of the gays. (Didn't know we LGBTQs had an official magazine? We don't, we just said a lie.)
We hate to be excited about this, but as we are personally a card-carrying member of the LGBTQs, we were delighted to find out Mary Trump is a lesbian. We knew we liked her for a reason, besides the whole thing about how she's completely willing to help tell all her gross crime family's secrets, including the kind that might land a couple of 'em in prison one day.
The interview is interesting for a number of reasons, but we really enjoyed the parts where she talked about her own "coming out" — there wasn't much of one — and how icky her family is about LGBTQ people in general.
<blockquote><strong>MARY TRUMP:</strong> Even though homophobia wasn't really explicit in my family, growing up, no one talked about homosexuality one way or another. My family was so anti-everything, anything that was different from them. So, I just assumed they were antigay, and that was something they would not tolerate.</blockquote><p>So she didn't tell them. She says she moved in with somebody in her 30s, and still didn't tell them, because her grandmother was a homophobe. </p><p>Speaking of Grandma The Homophobe, we are talking about this lady:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Uh huh. </p><p>From the interview:</p><blockquote><strong>ADVOCATE: </strong>In your book, you write that your grandmother said, "It was a disgrace they're letting that little faggot Elton John sing at [Princess Diana's] service," and that kept you from coming out. How did that comment make you feel?<br><br><strong>MARY TRUMP:</strong> It made me feel awful, mainly because I loved Elton John. I thought it was disgraceful given the context. The man lost someone he deeply loved in a tragic way, and he thought it was best to honor Diana by singing a tribute to her publicly.<br><br>The comment by my grandmother was so mean and small. It was not a good moment. As usual, I just ignored it and went on my way, but I knew then that I couldn't tell anyone I was gay.</blockquote><p>Such a delightful family, sounds like. </p><p>Mary Trump talks about how the entire Trump family is misogynistic, and how a lot of Uncle Donald's propensity for bullshit happy talk comes from a sort of "toxic positivity" exemplified by Grandpa Fred, where anything that veered from putting on a show that everything is wonderful and successful was Not Allowed.</p><blockquote><strong>MARY TRUMP: </strong>And that's why Donald thinks everything is great all the time because admitting to any kind of pain or failure is a weakness punishable by death.</blockquote><p>Sad. The president of the United States is the most unbelievably broken human being. Oh well, maybe he should resign and go find a therapist, because we don't give a flying fuck about his personal problems, except for how they are destroying this country. </p><p>Here's what Mary Trump thinks her Uncle Donald actually thinks about the gays and the BLTs:</p><blockquote><strong>TRUMP:</strong> I think gay people make him [Trump] uncomfortable with male homosexuality. [He likes] guys with no self-awareness. And trans people make him uncomfortable because he's uncomfortable with anyone that's different. And that includes differently abled, different color of skin, and different beliefs. </blockquote><p>That really makes a hell of a lot of psychological sense. He <em>would</em> be uncomfortable with gay men, because he's so obsessed with promoting this idea of himself as a big tough macho dude, when in reality all you have to do is look at his Twitter feed to see that he's really just a crying, scared, chickenshit overgrown baby.</p><p>Is that better than Mike Pence, who Trump <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-thinks-its-so-funny-how-mike-pence-wants-to-hang-all-the-gays-like-lol" target="_blank">once "joked"</a> wanted to "hang them all"? Meh. Really, it's just more, again, about how broken Trump is. Pence is broken (and evil) in a different way.</p><p>This is what Mary Trump thinks we need to do until the election, and it is PILE THE FUCK ON:</p><blockquote><strong>TRUMP: </strong>The more stress he's under, the more he feels the walls are closing in, which is going to happen. It's unavoidable if we want the November election to go our way. <strong>He needs to be piled on. He will never get better and may get worse.</strong></blockquote><p>Glad to be of service!</p><p>Go read the whole interview, it is nice, the end.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/7/27/mary-l-trump-growing-gay-anti-everything-family" target="_blank">The Advocate</a>]</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING.</strong><br></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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