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    Brilyn Hollyhand is supposed to be the replacement Charlie Kirk. The same billionaires are sponsoring him, but he’s just not catching on. Face is too big.

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      Wait, not to be a total asshole about someone’s name but I thought the -lyn suffix was pretty feminine? This man was set up to fail by his parents.

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        One of the big fads about 20 years ago or so was portmanteaus of parent’s names. So, for instance, Ashley and Richard would give birth to Richley. I have no idea how old this person is but maybe something like that happened here?

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            I thought about that response, then remembered that Caitlin Jenner exists. So it is at least possible for a trans person to be a hateful MAGA bigot, even if it’s unlikely.

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              Trans people can be hateful all on their own, but there is a troubling tendency I’ve noticed to paint all loathsome political figures as secretly queer. By contrast it’s rare to see a queer person’s misbehavior used to insinuate they’re actually cis and straight. I think it’s important to consider the way that attitude steers people towards thinking of queer people as deceptive or more prone to criminal behavior, consciously or not.

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                there is a troubling tendency I’ve noticed to paint all loathsome political figures as secretly queer. By contrast it’s rare to see a queer person’s misbehavior used to insinuate they’re actually cis and straight.

                I think you’re taking this differently than it’s usual intention.

                Talking about how hateful conservatives are secretly queer isn’t actually about the queerness at all. It’s about them hiding that fact, often because of religious indoctrination and their specific social circle of hatred to anything non-cis. So they in turn hate themselves and feel the need to hide that and take the hatred out on others because they’re not “allowed” to be themselves, so no one else should either.

                The fact that there are so many examples of this just helps reinforce the assumption that these shitty people do have an underlying social pressure causing their behavior. Sort of the exact opposite of what you describe.

                At least that’s always been the way I’ve taken those discussions. Because the alternative is just they are a shitty excuse for a human being.

                The people seeing queers as something like deceptive are those same pieces of shit that are hiding in the first place, the same projection they use for everything else in their life.