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Right-wing influencers and media double down on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in wake of Colorado shooting
NBC News / Comcast ^ | November 23, 2022 | By Ben Goggin and Kat Tenbarge

Posted on 11/23/2022 6:18:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Tucker Carlson was among the conservative media figures that continued attacking LGBTQ people in the wake of the Club Q shooting.

Some right-wing media figures and influencers have doubled down on the use of inflammatory rhetoric against the LGBTQ community in the wake of Saturday night’s shooting at a Colorado gay club that killed five.

The rhetoric mirrors what LGBTQ advocates have warned about for months, most notably false claims that children are being sexualized or “groomed” by LGBTQ people and events. The Colorado shooter’s motive is unknown, but the primary suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich is facing five counts of first-degree murder and five counts of bias-motivated crime-causing bodily injury, more commonly known as hate crimes. Aldrich's first court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.

On Monday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson condemned the shooting, focusing on the suspect’s reported history of making a bomb threat in 2021. Three minutes into his nearly 15-minute monologue, however, Carlson’s show displayed a graphic reading “STOP SEXUALIZING KIDS.” On Tuesday evening, Carlson hosted a guest who said shootings would continue to happen "until we end this evil agenda that is attacking children."

Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, said that the repetitive messaging from Carlson and others has opened the door for violence against LGBTQ people.

“The way they soften up the support for this kind of violence is essentially by making it seem morally justified in the minds of people who believe this,” Caraballo said. “The way they do this is by constantly painting LGBT people as pedophiles and groomers, and so people feel morally justified in carrying out this violence.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andersonleealdrich; colorado; coloradosprings; culturewar; democrats; faggotsarefilth; homosexualagenda; journalism; lgbtq; media; nonbinary; perverts; press; woke
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1 posted on 11/23/2022 6:18:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where a jilted homo shot up his own nightspot? Got it


2 posted on 11/23/2022 6:21:49 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The murderer has come out as “non-binary”....Which means he’s a fruitcake who shot up other fruitcakes. It’s sad, but “right wing influencers” have nothing to do with this except saying, “Mentally ill gonna mentally ill.”


3 posted on 11/23/2022 6:24:09 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

if you disagree or criticize the LEFT you are a terrorist

they call it stochastic terrorism

and it is tyranny


4 posted on 11/23/2022 6:25:07 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Further proof that a journalist is even dumber than a “studies” grad. Guess the “journalists” will have to bury the latest about the perp being non-binery and saying all the standard idiocies that that crowd loves to upchuck.


5 posted on 11/23/2022 6:25:57 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: DesertRhino

I called it early on. I have had gay neighbors and they were violently jealous.

As soon as I heard the news, I figured it was a jealous or affronted gay male.................


6 posted on 11/23/2022 6:30:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tucker Carlson was among the conservative media figures that continued attacking LGBTQ people in the wake of the Club Q shooting.

By this definition, I can say that virtually the entire MSM, education establishment, the President of the United States, the Congress, and numerous other institutions "continue attacking" conservative Americans every day, and have done so for at least the last thirty years without letup.

7 posted on 11/23/2022 6:31:29 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger
I called it early on. I have had gay neighbors and they were violently jealous.

As soon as I heard the news, I figured it was a jealous or affronted gay male.................

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8 posted on 11/23/2022 6:36:29 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: joshua c

“if you disagree or criticize the LEFT you are a terrorist
they call it stochastic terrorism
and it is tyranny”

You misspelled tranny.


9 posted on 11/23/2022 6:38:04 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Steely Tom

When they first moved in, they were quiet and no problem.

Then one morning I noticed that one of their vehicles had all the lights, front and back, were smashed.

Then another gay ‘couple’ moved in next door to them and it was fireworks every day...............


10 posted on 11/23/2022 6:40:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic..

Well, there is a resource we should all trust and respect. /s

The Elites have utter contempt and disgust for the normal, conservative base of this country.

Commercials that edify homosexual relationships? Don't believe your lying eyes.

Drag queen reading hour for grade schoolers? Don't believe your lying eyes.

Grooming graphic, aberrant and subtle sex education for grade schoolers? Don't believe your lying eyes.

Yep, pay no attention to the ogre behind the curtain.

11 posted on 11/23/2022 6:44:21 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: Steely Tom

“. . . continued attacking LGBTQ people . . ..”

Tucker should be jailed for his first physical battery of LGBTQ! Don’t let him walk the streets and continue hitting people. Oh, he didn’t hit anyone? Never mind. s/

“Attacking” Weird how the left and commies misuse words.


12 posted on 11/23/2022 6:44:23 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: Red Badger
There was a FReeper (sorry I don't remember screen name) who said that his father was a cop, and that he once said "you can always tell a murder was gay-on-gay by the blood on the ceiling."

My memory is hazy as to the exact wording; this remark was made maybe 15 years ago. Instead of the expression "gay-on-gay," another less PC way was used in description.

13 posted on 11/23/2022 6:46:59 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

And it doesn’t matter if it’s male or female, they react the same. The Lesbians maybe even more violent.................


14 posted on 11/23/2022 6:49:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Journalism is dead.

I remember when, claims were just... claims. I might claim something, you might assert something. But since the Age of Trump, journalists are now able to take sides and decide that my claims, which they hate, are definitely false claims.

In Their Humble Opinion.


15 posted on 11/23/2022 6:52:10 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
false claims that children are being sexualized or “groomed” by LGBTQ people and events.

Stopped reading right there. The press is still not truth driven. See Tagline.

16 posted on 11/23/2022 6:57:24 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC News is not journalism. It is leftist propaganda that promotes globalism and the destruction of American culture and the American nation. Promoting homosexuality and its derivative perversions such as child mutilation is what they do. It is owned by Comcast which is controlled by the Roberts family. Know your enemy, their masquerade and their evil intent.


17 posted on 11/23/2022 6:57:51 AM PST by allendale
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"The rhetoric mirrors what LGBTQ advocates have warned about for months, most notably false claims that children are being sexualized or “groomed” by LGBTQ people and events."

Yeah, false claims. Similar to the "false claims" of election fraud.

18 posted on 11/23/2022 7:14:14 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“... most notably false claims that children are being sexualized or “groomed” by LGBTQ people and events”

You know, just like those “debunked” claims about fraud in the 2020 election.

Same song, latest verse.


19 posted on 11/23/2022 7:15:54 AM PST by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well look at NBC go... fomenting hatred for conservatives day and night. Your boys James Hodgkinson and Rene Boucher can attest to that! It was most .ikely you and you vile ilk’s constant negative even violent rhetoric agasint conservatives that drove them to do what they did!


20 posted on 11/23/2022 7:30:44 AM PST by Bob434 (question)
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