Battling those supposed transgender demons
Folks on the right are spending lots of their time (and our patience) battling the unseen demons of transgender men and women.
Republicans are rallying around a call to 无毛视频減rotect our kids无毛视频� from learning there are people out there who aren无毛视频檛 exactly like them.
That无毛视频檚 a call that无毛视频檚 illustrative of the lack of any desire to govern.
There are far more compelling issues confronting Americans in 2023.
A 26-year-old transgender influencer isn无毛视频檛 among them.
All it took for there to be a right-wing transgender hubbub was for Anheuser-Busch to feature transgender spokesperson Dylan Mulvaney in a Bud Light commercial on Instagram on April 1.
According to the Washington Post, that无毛视频檚 when folks on Fox News referred to Mulvaney with 无毛视频渄isparaging and often transphobic terms nearly a dozen times over the next three days.无毛视频�
That, in turn, helped to unleash a torrent of rhetoric against Anheuser-Busch and other national commercial brands (Target, North Face), and the LA Dodgers, for featuring transgender people and clothing as part of their marketing.
I don无毛视频檛 drink Bud Light. Probably because I don无毛视频檛 drink. If I did, I无毛视频檇 throw down a couple of them in protest of their protests.
In the meantime, I无毛视频檓 taking a measure of all of the right-wing conniptions that have become the equivalent of 6-year-olds stomping their itty-bitty feet.
Gone are the days when Republicans groused about 无毛视频渄eath panels,无毛视频� 无毛视频淏enghazi,无毛视频� or 无毛视频淗illary无毛视频檚 emails.无毛视频�
They无毛视频檙e now attacking people and the pronouns they use to describe themselves.
There are fewer than 100 trans athletes in a country of over 300 million people. But these days, trans athletes are now under governmental scrutiny.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, there have been 525 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduced this year. And 220 of them target transgender community members.
In 2020, dismantling Black history became a battle cry for candidates around the country.
Next year, you can bet there无毛视频檒l be campaign speeches dripping with anti-trans rhetoric 无毛视频� to lure votes from parents hoping to protect their children from people who select their own pronouns.
Eric Bolling has his own program on that upstart Newsmax station.
He got so worked up on the air recently that he just blurted out, 无毛视频淚无毛视频檒l tell you point blank无毛视频ξ廾悠禎 (Note: When somebody starts to tell you something 无毛视频減oint blank,无毛视频� look out!) 无毛视频溛廾悠郸 I would not be seen holding a Bud Light.无毛视频�
In one of Bolling无毛视频檚 previous diatribes, he expanded his kill shots to include more companies.
无毛视频淚f you无毛视频檙e gonna barbecue, don无毛视频檛 drink Bud Light. If you无毛视频檙e thinking about Target, go to Walmart instead. I don无毛视频檛 know, if you无毛视频檙e going to go to North Face, I无毛视频檇 go to REI,无毛视频� he said.
Bolling certainly isn无毛视频檛 alone in wishing companies ill because they recognize there are Americans of all stripes who buy their products.
There无毛视频檚 Kari Lake, who should probably be enjoying her obscurity as a failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate. Instead, she无毛视频檚 free to grandstand (for no apparent reason, I might add).
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WE无毛视频橰E TALKING ABOUT BEER!
Not life or death. Not the prospects of war. Or not world hunger.
Beer.
I无毛视频檇 like to take Lake up on her bold proclamation.
I无毛视频檇 like to find somebody who is staging a Bud Light boycott. I无毛视频檇 like to take them out in the desert near Phoenix. I无毛视频檇 leave them with nothing to drink, besides a can of Bud Light. I无毛视频檇 like to see them无毛视频� well, maybe I won无毛视频檛. But you catch my drift, don无毛视频檛 you?
But now to the crux of this.
There are right-wingers who无毛视频檙e feverishly fighting to shield their children from learning they live in a world where not everybody is like them.
The real problem is those same people have no desire to go to battle against the biggest killer of America无毛视频檚 children 无毛视频� guns.
For that, they remain silent.
Maybe they should boycott gunmakers.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 50-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.