We saw this during the 2016 election -- conservatives claiming everyone they don't like is a pedophile, and every idea they don't like is "pornography." During the past year, they switched up a little, defining everyone they don't like as a socialist/communist, and every idea they don't like as "critical race theory."
But as someone in the comment stream notes, the end game is to have only one "public culture," which is the white nationalist "Christian" culture, and to define every other way of living and thinking as evil -- pornography, as their current term of choice.
This is why we can't tolerate their intolerance.
‘Ban porn’ has a double meaning here. Conservatives are redefining the term to include various LGBT-related content. Adrian Vermeule wants to prohibit actual porn, but he’s also sending a dogwhistle: a ‘ban on porn’ refers to a larger project aimed at restricting LGBT expression. pic.twitter.com/URahGG3lEN
— Madeline Marsanne (@MadelineOnMars) January 9, 2022
Legislators in Iowa are really outdoing themselves — they’re arguing YA books about growing up on a reservation or books about police violence against black people are also ‘porn,’ since they now take ‘porn’ to mean anything that makes them slightly uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/RM6GHrWpaT
— Madeline Marsanne (@MadelineOnMars) January 9, 2022
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