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Eugene

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Thu May 2, 2019, 03:51 PM May 2019

Spanish far-right party's anti-LGBT tweet makes star of tiny gay ghost

Source: The Guardian

Spanish far-right party’s anti-LGBT tweet makes star of tiny gay ghost

Vox’s tweet shows Lord of the Rings’ Aragorn as party tackling LGBT symbol

Sam Jones in Madrid
Thu 2 May 2019 14.37 BST Last modified on Thu 2 May 2019 20.00 BST

Aragorn, son of Arathorn, pal of hobbits, scourge of orcs and wielder of a legendary sword, appears to have met his match in a tiny gay ghost.

A few hours after the polls opened in Spain’s general election last Sunday, the far-right Vox party attempted to recruit author JRR Tolkien’s fighter to its cause, tweeting an image of the character Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King with the caption, “Let the battle begin!”


Having slapped the party’s logo on the warrior’s cloak, Vox lined Aragorn up against the jumbled ranks of its own many and varied enemies: communists; anarchists; Catalan pro-independence campaigners; the liberal media; women’s groups and, last but by no means least, a small, rainbow-hued ghost intended to represent LGBTQ people.

The bellicose tweet, topped off by an incorrect accent, soon did its job on social media, eliciting groans, mockery and the odd proprietary response.

As well as despairing of the party’s graphic design skills, Twitter users pointed out that Viggo Mortensen, who starred as Aragorn, is a member of the pro-independence Catalan group Òmnium Cultural, and that Gandalf was played by Sir Ian McKellen, one of the founding members of Stonewall, Britain’s biggest LGBT charity.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/vox-partys-anti-lgbt-lord-of-the-rings-aragorn-tweet-slain-by-tiny-gay-ghost
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Spanish far-right party's anti-LGBT tweet makes star of tiny gay ghost (Original Post) Eugene May 2019 OP
Heaven forbid this far-right nutjobbery spreads even further. lambchopp59 May 2019 #1

lambchopp59

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1. Heaven forbid this far-right nutjobbery spreads even further.
Thu May 2, 2019, 10:29 PM
May 2019

Spain certainly need not join Russia, Turkey, India, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Brazil and the United States in the right-wing populism craze.

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