That was true in the antebellum period, especially in the 1850s…
Which is why we shouldn’t let it happen… 
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And the way to solve this explosion in crime is to… murder everyone we don’t like. So the theft of a couple of hundred dollars is more of a crime than murder.
The rhetoric coming from these ghastly people is extremely scary.
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It was within the context of “safety” which made me think it was a crime reference (which from what I’ve seen from Fox, has traditionally been about brown people in cities). I’m not up on whether Fox is pushing the idea that queers and feminists are threatening the actual safety of American families (and not just the patriarchal structure) - but it sounds like something they’d stoop to claiming, at this point.
Of course they are… even if it’s not being explicitly stated here… they’re the major conduit for talking about why women should not have bodily autonomy, and why trans people are “grooming” their children… they’ve also been pushing the “great replacement theory”… They’ve radicalized millions of Americans into believing this nonsense.
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I was kinda surprised that he flat-out admitted that Biden is a “moderate”:
Which is true! I thought the fascist talking points were that he’s a raging, radical liberal firebrand who is actively trying to destroy our country and replace it with a communist dictatorship.
But it really speaks to how far the GOP has shifted that calling their political opponents “moderates” will rile up their base.
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Well obviously Fox has long pushed the “threat to the moral fabric”/“threat to American society” narrative forever, but “they will murder you in the streets” would be a new one. Granted, just barely a new wrinkle on the old narrative, but still a new variation.
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The whole “grooming your children” is not far off.
Is it? What do you think caused all those race riots over the last century? It was often about the perception that Black people were committed various acts of violence against white people… And then after the end of Jim Crow, the violence in “urban” areas was flogged as an excuse for police just straight executing Black people in cities.
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As the narrative about queer folk and feminists, yeah. My original point was that he’s clearly tapping into the racist narrative that “brown people are murdering white people in cities” but I’m not aware of Fox extending that narrative to the other aforementioned groups. Certainly “queer people will murder you in your bed” used to be a right-wing narrative, but it’s downright archaic now. The most frothing right-wing accusations about feminists was that they were “witches” who were convincing women to “murder their own children” (not other people’s…).
Yeah, that’s true, and it occurs to me maybe he’s even alluding to the most extreme version of that - the qanon conspiracies about children being murdered (by “elites”) for their glands. I don’t know if that’s where Fox is these days, though it seems like previously they have at least thrown down some breadcrumbs that would have allowed their audience to go down that rabbit hole on their own.
Maybe he didn’t feel like he needed to specify, as various contemporary right-wing fantasies - which may or may not be explicitly talked about on Fox - conjure up blood libels against every marginalized group imaginable, and he could just let the audience fill in the blanks as they would. Crap, that’s where the right is now, isn’t it?
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I wonder what kind of specialist.
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I’d argue that the “child grooming” narrative is about the same… it’s still an attack on white people in their mind, in this case, to “steal” their children and “turn them against them.” It’s most certainly very similar in tone to that, and in some way worse.
it’s very much making a comeback. Just look at all the laws seeking to genocide trans people.
Again, they still argue that shit.
Given the centrality of family and “protecting [white] children” in their narrative, just the “grooming” part is more than enough. They are saying it’s okay to eliminate trans people because they are trying to “steal your children.”
They had people pushing the whole “kids are using litter boxes in schools” narrative, which very much is aimed at othering kids who are trans or queer. They want to eliminate trans people, and their excuse is that they are “grooming” children. I really can’t stress just how much this is based on the idea that LGBQT+ people are harming “their” children by merely existing, and that they see that as an act of violence.
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