Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online

By REBECCA BOONE
June 13, 2022

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly planning to riot at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pride event, a fundamentalist Idaho pastor told his Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government.

Around the same time, a lawmaker from the northernmost region of the state, Republican Rep. Heather Scott, told an audience that drag queens and other LGBTQ supporters are waging “a war of perversion against our children.”

A toxic brew of hateful rhetoric has been percolating in Idaho and elsewhere around the U.S., well ahead of the arrests of the Patriot Front members at the pride event Saturday in Coeur d’Alene.

Police say dozens of men from the white supremacist group piled into a U-Haul truck wearing balaclavas and bearing riot gear, with plans to instigate a riot at the park where families, children and supporters were gathered to celebrate the LGBTQ community.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/politics-religion-arrests-riots-race-and-ethnicity-c65c1090ed923687716114be371e9fdb


These booking images provided by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office show the 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front who were arrested after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear near an LGBTQ pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Saturday, June 11, 2022. (Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

[brewens]

1. I'd love to see someone look into how many of those guys have wives or girlfriends.

If it's more than half, I'll eat my shorts!

[AllaN01Bear]

2. i wonder how many beat them too?

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. They want blood. They want to kill us or get us killed.

It's been ceaseless attacks upon us all year long. I really do think their goal is nothing short of getting us all killed.

But this is what I've been saying and shouting and screaming and repeating myself about all year. From Abbutt to DeSatan, from Fux to "Groomers", from draconian bills to hate speech, they have had a single-minded obsession with ruining or ending the lives of LGBTQ's - especially the T's - since the year started.

I honestly think they are so fucking obsessed with spilling our blood and eliminating us that if they were given a choice between "Drumpf returns tomorrow" or "All LGBTQ's will be killed," they'd prefer the latter.

I absolutely think they intended to kill LGBTQ's on Saturday in Idaho. Same way I think the Proud Incels wanted to hurt or kill drag queens in California this weekend.

I absolutely think Abbutt and DeSatan want to get LGBTQ's killed or drive them to suicide. Same with Fux and all the reich-wing hate media.

This is not a culture war anymore, if it ever was. It's now on the verge of violence and murder, and many of us feel like we're fighting for our lives.

[vercetti2021]

4. Kill or be killed

I've accepted that now. I'm dying but these people will come to hell with me. Not gonna go down so easily if push comes to shove

[IngridsLittleAngel]

5. I fear it could come to that

We are in very real danger and I sure can't tell or expect someone to just lie down and be a victim and let them do their worse.

What horrible times we live in.

[vercetti2021]

6. Yep

But I'll do my worst before they can

[lambchopp59]

7. Creepy bunch, oh do I know OF the ilk

I remain very mildly curious if some of them are questioning the basis of their hateful crusade. Looking at those mugshots is like looking back in time at the mob I had to take refuge from. Worse yet, knowing the subconscious guilt of many of the sort. Sadistic rapists desperate for absolution. Sugar coated numbskull ETOH fueled rage.
Trump gave them a hate rhetoric messiah.

[Mickju]

8. I thought we were done with this shit.

This is all to do with Trump. I know it was always there, but Trump and his ilk have unleashed them and made it acceptable to too many.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

9. No. It's back and worse than ever

Thanks to Drumpf, reich-wing hate media, the modern day QOP thinking it exists to terrorize LGBTQ's - especially T's.

I wish we were done. If we were the "great", "amazing", "civilized", "intelligent", "sane" nation we claimed to be, we would be done with it. But we're not. And now here we are thanks to 4 years of Comrade Covfefe.

[Oneironaut]

10. I've noticed this trend lately. (Trigger Warning)

Visiting their forums provides a lot of insight. I wouldn't say they're all insane - Just extremely full of hate and resentment.

One thread said how great and fun it would be to murder trans women by dragging them with a truck. Another made fun of the gravesite of a transgender woman who died of suicide.

There really is palpable hatred in the air. Trumpers are like angry teenagers right now, lashing out at anything and everything to relieve their angst. They're dangerous and escalating, and we should be worried.