Don’t Let The Left’s Smears Over The Colorado Club Shooting Derail Efforts To Protect Kids From Gender-Bending
The left is working overtime to exploit Saturday’s Club Q Shooting in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to target efforts across the country to protect minors from the excesses of LGBT policies. Despite having very little information about the shooter, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, or his motivations in opening fire into the gay club, the narrative has been set by politicians and their media allies: Anti-LGBT rhetoric, conservative policies, and “hate” are to blame.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blamed the GOP for multiple mass shootings targeting minorities, “And now after an anti-LGBT+ campaign, Colorado Springs. Connect the dots, @GOP.”
Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., demanded, “Every GOP politician spewing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric bears responsibility for the Colorado Springs shooting. Every GOP politician who says that guns aren’t the problem bears responsibility for the Colorado Springs shooting. Enough.”
Other prominent Democrats argued, “Certain politicians structured their entire campaigns on anti-LGBTQ fearmongering,” while others claimed Republicans “hoped it would win them elections.”
Both Politico and The Washington Post noted in their coverage of the shooting that the club had scheduled an “all ages” brunch on the Sunday after the shooting.
Watch how @washingtonpost does this—we have no idea about the motive for the gay nightclub shooting in Colorado Saturday night. But it adds info about an all-ages drag show scheduled the next day to imply that those who oppose drag shows for kids are to blame for these deaths. pic.twitter.com/8IzDU9VLUb
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) November 21, 2022
The intention is obvious. The goal is to try to intimidate conservatives and parents from continuing to oppose harmful LGBT policies in education, medicine, and girls’ sports. By shifting the narrative to position all opposition to LGBT policies as “hate” and directly responsible for violence, the left believes it can crush what has been a successful campaign nationwide.
As Matt Walsh pointed out, “Leftists are using a mass shooting to try and blackmail us into accepting the castration and sexualization of children. These people are just beyond evil. I have never felt more motivated to oppose everything they stand for, with every fiber of my being. Despicable scumbags.”
The left has spent months targeting the popular Libs of TikTok Twitter account for reposting publicly available media created and shared by LGBT activists themselves, often teachers. Claiming this is dangerous, Twitter has suspended the account multiple times, most recently in September. Around the same time, the account was blamed for a woman calling in a fake bomb threat to Boston Children’s Hospital after Libs of TikTok shared a video from the hospital promoting “gender-affirming hysterectomies.” The hospital sees patients up to age 21 and received criticism for the policy.
Drag performances are about joy and community. And they have been the target of extremists this last year. This weekend’s tragedy is the horrifying reality that LGBTQ+ people are living in.
We must protect these spaces and all LGBTQ+ people. https://t.co/2ioIc1VrF6
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) November 21, 2022
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