 The right wing's response to the Club Q massacre has been downright disturbing, but some responses have been far worse than others. But the worst one came from Tucker Carlson unsurprisingly, where one of his guests effectively justified the violence against queer people. And the rhetoric isn't just getting increasingly genocidal. I think that we've crossed that line to where this is explicitly genocidal rhetoric. Now, I'm gonna play a very short clip from Tucker Carlson's program, but before we do that I want to read an article that gives us a little bit of context about what him and his guest were talking about. This is courtesy of HuffPost. The Fox News host opened his segment by ticking off a list of his tropes characterizing gender-affirming care for trans youth as child abuse and suggesting that teaching children about the existence of gay and trans people equated to sexual exploitation, all while arguing he had nothing at all against gay people. Then he introduced his guest, Jamie Mitchell, the founder of an anti-trans coalition of gays called Gays Against Groomers, which pushes the demonizing narrative that having conversations with children about gender identity is somehow grooming, sexualizing, and indoctrinating them. So now that you have the context, we're gonna watch a short clip from this conversation. And what she says is genuinely shocking, and she says this on national television with no pushback just days after a massacre at a queer space. Right. I mean, it shouldn't have to be said. But what is anti-LGBTQ that these people need to understand, and what is putting our community in great danger is, you know, claiming that all of us support this and just associating all of us with this. You know, saying that Groomer is an anti-LGBTQ slur. That is doing irreparable damage to us as a whole and is putting a really large target on our backs. And unfortunately, you know, the tragedy that happened in Colorado Springs the other night, you know, it was expected and predictable. We all within Gays Against Groomers saw this coming from a mile away. And sadly, I don't think it's going to stop until we end this evil agenda that is attacking children. They're just saying the quiet part loud now. They are literally on national television justifying violence against queer people based on lies that they've been pushing. Now, before we get to the crux of her comments there, she says that saying that Groomer is an anti-LGBTQ slur that is doing irreparable damage to us. She's referring to pushback from people who don't like that Republicans effectively call anyone who disagrees with them groomers. And it has become a slur because that's the way that you all are using it. If you look at some of the videos that I've produced where I talk about LGBTQ plus issues, right wing commenters call me a groomer simply because they disagree with me. Queer people on Twitter have been called groomers. Jamie Mitchell herself called actor Ron Perlman a groomer for speaking out against Ron DeSantis is don't say gay law. So the reason why groomer is now being treated as a slur is because you and your right wing friends have bastardized that term. Grooming is a real thing that happens to children in this country. Priests, for example, groom and molest children. It is a thing that is bad and dangerous. But what you say is grooming isn't actually grooming. Their standards is well, you know, a drag queen was around a kid. Therefore, that's grooming. That's sexualizing children. Gender affirming care is tantamount to sexual exploitation. This is what they say. So your lies have made it so that way the term grooming has lost all meaning. And grooming to be clear is bad. The overwhelming majority of people in the LGBTQ plus community everywhere are against grooming. But what you say is grooming is not grooming. But you say that to justify violence against your own community, Jamie. Now, she says here that the violence isn't going to stop until we end this evil agenda that is attacking children. Now, she's referring to a number of things, presumably gender affirming care for trans youth, family friendly pride events, drag drag queen story hour things of that nature. She views that as attacking children and sexualizing children. Therefore, if that doesn't stop, then the violence is going to continue because what they're doing is evil. Now, the reason why that statement from her should frighten everyone is because that is the same logic that Nazis used to justify the Holocaust. In an article published in the Journal History and the Making, author Tracey Martin describes the propaganda campaign that Nazis used to demonize Jewish people in an effort to get non-Jewish Germans to think that the Holocaust was an acceptable solution to the so-called Jewish problem. Jewish people were portrayed as criminals, parasites, plagues and serpents. And it was suggested that genocide against them was justified because if you didn't destroy them, then they destroy you first. And now we're seeing the same exact tactic being used against members of the LGBTQ plus community to justify violence against them. And this rhetoric is not relegated to fringe areas of the internet. It has gone mainstream. Tim Poole, with a platform of millions of people, said we shouldn't tolerate pedophiles grooming kids. Club Q had a grooming event. How do we prevent the violence and stop the grooming? Now, there's zero evidence that any grooming or sexual exploitation or molestation went on at Club Q. But he's saying here, since they were doing something evil, they were grooming kids, presumably to molest them. Therefore, the violence is justifiable. That's the subtext there. That's someone like Tim Poole, mainstreaming, fascist rhetoric, essentially justifying genocide against an entire community. And Lance from the Serves points out how the rights response to mass shootings has changed with time. They went from offering thoughts and prayers to downplaying the role that guns have to just straight up justifying it because queer spaces have become grooming zones for children, according to right-wingers. Their language has become explicitly genocidal to where they are justifying violence and genocide against queer people, all based on lies. This is what Jamie Mitchell views as sexual exploitation of children. She gave us one example. No normal adult has any interest in acting this way and dressing this way in front of children. So listen, you can keep calling us bigots until you're blue in the face, but I'm going to just tell you right now that there's nothing that's going to stop us from fighting to protect children from these groomers. And to get them out of our community. That is why I started the coalition Gays Against Groomers. Her example of grooming is literally just a queer person in the presence of a child. That's grooming to them. That to them is the sexual exploitation of kids. Because if a kid learns that gay and trans people exist, well, then they might want to be gay and trans because clearly it's a choice. So that's a danger to them. You're sexually exploiting them. That's the actual logic that they're using. Now, there are things that I find controversial, right? Toddlers and T-eras, these creepy children beauty passions, taking kids to Hooters, taking your kid to a game where there's cheerleaders with skimpy clothing. Like you would think that based on their standards, they would view that also as equally problematic, but they don't. And it's because they have an agenda. They very clearly are narrowly targeting LGBTQ plus people because they don't like LGBTQ plus people. They want to erase LGBTQ plus people from existence. Now, if you're wondering why Tucker Carlson didn't push back, it's because he doesn't care if gay people die. In fact, he probably prefers it. So the editor-in-chief of Populous shared this image from Tucker Carlson's yearbook and you can see that it says he was part of the Dan White Society. Now, he explains, Dan White Society was young Tucker Carlson's joke about how it's funny to murder gay people. Now, for those unaware, Dan White is the individual who assassinated Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in the United States. Tucker Carlson thinks it's funny that he was part of the Dan White Club. This is who we're dealing with here, but it's not just Tucker Carlson, the individual Jamie Mitchell, who tries to speak as an authority figure on gay issues since she is a lesbian herself. Well, here's what she believes gender firming care is comparable to. What's happening now would make, you know, I think Joseph Mengele, I believe that was his name, you know, the Nazi doctor, he, you know, this puts him to shame. They are they are basically using an entire generation of children as lab rats for this sick ideology. And they're full steam ahead with it. And they see us as a definite roadblock and a threat to that. She's comparing medically necessary gender firming care to Nazi experimentation. These people are genuinely sick and they're demanding that you stop giving children with gender dysphoria, gender firming care, which means you use their preferred pronouns, let them dress the way that they want to dress, call them by a new name. She's saying essentially that if you don't stop that, then the violence against the LGBTQ plus community is justified and it will indeed continue. So in other words, if you don't kill yourselves, we're going to kill you because we all know what happens when we deny gender firming care to trans youth. And I'm sorry, but hiding kids away from the existence of queer people is just impossible because queer people exist all throughout the world. I mean, they're your cashiers, they're your bank tellers, they're your friends, they're your family members. So if you believe that a queer person being in the presence of a kid is tantamount to sexual exploitation and that sad sexual exploitation justifies violence against this community, then you're just outright calling for violence against this community. Now, Jamie Mitchell is not a representative of the queer community, even if she is a lesbian herself. This is somebody who is a right-wing propagandist. In a lengthy Twitter thread, user White Rose AFA found out that she follows and promotes open white supremacists. And even though she's Jewish herself, she shared anti-Semitic dog whistles about George Soros. She shared Islamophobic content. And in response to Michael Harriet discussing police brutality against black people, she responded with the racist black crime statistic trope. Justifying their deaths at the hands of police saying despite making up only 13% of the population, blacks commit over 50% of the crime, perhaps that has something to do with it. So basically saying these police are justified in killing unarmed black people. She's called for public executions of public figures and she's even promoted the great replacement of conspiracy theory on Telegram. So that's who we're dealing with here. We're dealing with a person who is deep within that right-wing bubble, who is using her identity as a gay woman to spread homophobia and fear against her own community. It's like Dave Rubin, but much, much more gross and disgusting than Dave Rubin. And she thinks that in the event fascists choose to do a full-on genocide against queer people, not that they're already, you know, not trying that legally. But she thinks that because she's siding with the bigots, they're going to spare her. Nope, you're going into the blender too if they decide to kill assault Jamie. Sorry, fascists don't want queer people to exist, even the ones that are trying to aid and abet the fascists in their own demise. That's just, that's how it's always been throughout history. So this is really, really gross and I need people to understand once again that these people, they want violence against the gay community. They want trans people dead and any way that they can facilitate the deaths of this community, they are going to do that. So if that means working insane people into frenzy so that way they open fire in queer spaces, denying gender-forming care to trans youth so they commit suicide. Any way they can see the bloodshed happen is a victory for them. So that's what we're working with here. I think that it's dark, it's disturbing, but we need to know what we're working with so we can prepare ourselves and protect ourselves.