Lone Star hate: A new wave of right-wing bigotry sweeps across Texas
Welp, it's not Reagan's GOP anymore...
The Texas branch of the GOP is taking some positions that are so far in Right Field as to be out of the park. The further right they push the pendulum, the further left it may swing back. With some of the subject matter here, I guess one could say that the pendulum is "cocked hard to the Right."
At the state's biennial GOP convention, delegates officially declared Joe Biden an illegitimate president, proposed repealing the 1965 Voting Rights Act and voted for a platform calling on schools to teach that life begins at conception and to avoid all discussion of gender identity or sexuality. Additional planks attacked trans rights, cast gender-affirming medical care as actionable malpractice and declared homosexuality "an abnormal lifestyle choice."
Also, it looks like the Buc-ee's beaver is now the mascot of the "Proud Boys".
A number of men in the group had covered their faces with hats, sunglasses and red neck gaiters bearing the buck-toothed grin of a cartoon beaver — the mascot of rest stop franchise Buc-ee's — which has become part of the unofficial uniform of local Proud Boys.
Steph Gardella, a local candidate for justice of the peace, was seated in front of the group with her husband. She says she heard them call the LGBTQ community "disgusting" "pedophiles" and suggest that parents who brought their children to the event should be taken outside and beaten up.
And in the same DFW suburb where several of the arrested Patriot Front members live, a local fundamentalist church preaches that "all homosexuals are pedophiles" who should be "shot in the back of the head."
The area has also become a hive of activity around book bans. State Rep. Matt Krause of Fort Worth made a list of 850 books he considers suspect
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WTF? x 1
Last edited: Jun 30, 2022