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Chris Rufo is telegraphing his next move in the culture war. And it will work. (Original Post) Loki Liesmith Jun 2022 OP
except for the fact that he's wrong NJCher Jun 2022 #1
It doesn't matter if he's wrong. Loki Liesmith Jun 2022 #3
If you're on defense and explaining, you're losing Sympthsical Jun 2022 #11
All cross dressers aren't either stripper or trans. Drag queen is. TreasonousBastard Jun 2022 #7
Wouldn't surprise me if he gets busted for soliciting in a public bathroom Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 #2
One can hope. Loki Liesmith Jun 2022 #4
We have plenty of people with strategic and tactical capabilities, problem is, we also have ck4829 Jun 2022 #5
Why doesn't he just come out and say he wants LGBT people sent to the showers? maryellen99 Jun 2022 #6
That's exactly what they want IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #18
But don't drag queens specialize in putting on clothes and parading, not taking them off? keithbvadu2 Jun 2022 #8
Yup. GoCubsGo Jun 2022 #12
I don't think it will work at all. SoonerPride Jun 2022 #9
Such "throwing shit against a wall" can easily be ridiculed. nt usonian Jun 2022 #10
Moronic, sounds like something to refinish furniture JCMach1 Jun 2022 #13
He's DEFINITELY one the FBI needs to arrest Seeking Serenity Jun 2022 #14
Language works, and the GOP loves to exploit that. Midnight Writer Jun 2022 #15
just another republican party insurrection supporter grooming the rubes nt msongs Jun 2022 #16
It's well past the time to start getting louder than these incels IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #17

NJCher

(35,427 posts)
1. except for the fact that he's wrong
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:00 PM
Jun 2022

A trans stripper could be somebody who strips a transmission.

"Drag queen" is way more colorful.

But shhh, don't tell him. Let them waste their time.

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
3. It doesn't matter if he's wrong.
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:14 PM
Jun 2022

He wants the argument. Us explaining things just keeps his ideas in the news.

Sympthsical

(8,935 posts)
11. If you're on defense and explaining, you're losing
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:35 PM
Jun 2022

It's that famous Lyndon Johnson story. Johnson wanted to spread rumors that a political opponent was having sex with animals. An adviser said they couldn't prove that. Johnson replied:

"I know that. I just want to hear him deny it."

It's a neat psychological trick. Oftentimes you can make someone look very guilty when they're in the midst of denying something.

ck4829

(34,977 posts)
5. We have plenty of people with strategic and tactical capabilities, problem is, we also have
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:16 PM
Jun 2022

plenty of people who go out of their way to Eeyore every suggestion ever made by the former.

Rufo's tweet in your OP isn't something a genius mind would make, comparable to an AI that can formulate a billion decisions at once as well as their consequences, he isn't guided by angels, it's him whipping up a moral panic. It will whip up the people susceptible to moral panics, the people who believed there were tunnels under the McMartin school or the people who thought the pizzeria had a sex basement.

Now I can say "Why does he want to sexualize everything" and we can ask that, we can point out this is a moral panic... but it will get shot down.

maryellen99

(3,781 posts)
6. Why doesn't he just come out and say he wants LGBT people sent to the showers?
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:17 PM
Jun 2022

You know he and all the repliers to his tweet do.

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
18. That's exactly what they want
Sun Jun 19, 2022, 07:43 AM
Jun 2022

And I'm imagining it won't be much longer now until they just come right out and say it.

Nazis in 21st century America.

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
8. But don't drag queens specialize in putting on clothes and parading, not taking them off?
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:29 PM
Jun 2022

But don't drag queens specialize in putting on clothes and parading, not taking them off?

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
12. Yup.
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:41 PM
Jun 2022

They also go through a lot to put on those clothes. They're not going to go through all that just to strip them off. I can't imagine there's much of an audience for watching someone strip off their falsies and other padding, either.

Seeking Serenity

(2,838 posts)
14. He's DEFINITELY one the FBI needs to arrest
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 12:51 PM
Jun 2022

The amount and egregiousness of his racist and fascist lies and propaganda has to be criminal in some way. The FBI can be creative in that way when they want to be.

Midnight Writer

(21,546 posts)
15. Language works, and the GOP loves to exploit that.
Fri Jun 17, 2022, 01:18 PM
Jun 2022

I believe the Republican Party took a major turn towards fanaticism when Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz organized the Party around divisive language and trigger words. They sent out memos with lists of words and phrases to use, and the whole Party went permanently "on message".

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
17. It's well past the time to start getting louder than these incels
Sun Jun 19, 2022, 07:42 AM
Jun 2022

That's one way it won't work - if we drown out their stupidity by being louder than them when it comes to standing for human rights, equality, decency, compassion, fairness....

We don't have a culture war anymore, though... if we ever did. It's now turning into a war, and incels like Rufo want blood in the streets. The "party" that loves to whine about "being canceled" are actively trying to get LGBTQ lives canceled. Violently and permanently. They don't want us to go back in the closet... they want us 6 feet under.

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