https://www.salon.com/2023/03/07/maga-sinks-trolling-to-genocidal-lows/
'There are two intended audiences for the Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC), the semi-annual right-wing conference that has made itself
the center of the MAGA movement: the people in the crowd and the liberals
watching from afar. Now more than ever, the latter audience is more important.
Sure, speakers at CPAC want to make the crowd cheer. But more crucially, they
want the liberals watching from afar to get outraged because that's where the
real money is. Competition is heavy to garner attention by saying the vilest
thing on stage. The winner of the Biggest Trigger of Liberals trophy gets
awarded with a fawning reception — complete with clicks, donations and website
purchases — from the MAGA crowd. Donald Trump tried, of course, to win the
Biggest Troll award this year with his violently fascistic speech. But truth
told, the s**tbag crown this year went to a D-list right-wing celebrity named
Michael Knowles, a
Daily Wire contributor whose car crash of a haircut seems
designed to reassure the audience he never lets a queer person touch him.
"For the good of society, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life
entirely," Knowles declared during his speech over the weekend, echoing
language he's long espoused on his platform.
As many people were quick to point out, the rhetoric was clearly genocidal. But
Knowles, seizing the CPAC limelight, threw a disingenuous tantrum, insisting
that he never specifically mentioned killing people because his goal could
theoretically be achieved by simply forcing everyone who identifies as trans to
live as their birth-assigned gender.
"I don't know how you could have a genocide of transgender people because
genocide refers to genes," Knowles went on to argue, which, as many noted, is a
definition of genocide that would exclude the Holocaust.'
Via Janet Logan.
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