"Sarah Kate Ellis, president and chief executive of LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD, sees a great risk if companies back down in the face of growing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and see stores come under threats of violence.
"One of those is Matt Walsh, an anti-LGBTQ commentator for the right-wing Daily Wire, who tweeted in April that conservatives should “pick a victim, gang up on it, and make an example of it.”
"Sarah Kate Ellis, president and chief executive of LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD, sees a great risk if companies back down in the face of growing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community...
"Not that more evidence was really needed, but the mask has fully slipped in the reactions to the killing of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway. We are staring at the contemporary American Right’s true face, at the essence of what defines the reactionary political project. It is a terrifying sight."
It’s really hard to overstate how acutely dangerous this is: All strands of the Right - leading Republicans, the media machine, the reactionary intellectual sphere, the conservative base - are openly and aggressively embracing rightwing vigilante violence.
Law enforcement identify suspect in deadly #Texas mall mass #shooting a 33 year old come on why are the shooters getting younger in age why are children deciding to commit these horrific acts. We have a major problem and I fucking hate it here https://breaking.iavian.net/article/336112
Honestly, I feel powerless against all this hate and violence. And right wing extremists keep saying we need more and more guns, and that trans people, women who have abortions, and black lives are the real existential threats to this great white nation.
At the heart of the strangling of Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, on a New York F-train in full view of other passengers, Elie Mystal says, is this:
"We leave people struggling with mental illness or addiction to fend for themselves on the streets, but then carry out entire administrative campaigns to keep them from being seen in our public spaces."