One more

[minoanmiss]

This has been bothering me all damn-blasted day. I've been trying to forget it and I just can't.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/gop-operative-wants-lgbtq-community-put-isolation-camps-protection/

I cannot be glad of this. I just can't. To say I were would choke me.

"“Kari Lake and I are going to round up all the folks in the LGBT community, and bring them to quarantine camps, it’s for their own safety #stopthespread”, Schmidt-Crockett posted."

And it's just -- between the third to a half of the country who agrees with him, and all the people who say that the most important part of this situation is that he can say what he wants because everyone is somehow equally equipped to challenge the right hand of a future governor, who will help the lgbtq+ residents of Arizona (and beyond) fight back against getting rounded up by this murderous bigot?

Comments

[amaebi]

We live amid horrors.

Holding my thumbs for you and for other extra-vulnerable people.

[minoanmiss]

hugs you Thank you. I just... augh. flails inchoately

[ex_flameandsong751]

Yeah, "it's for their own safety" sounds like those camps are for the very opposite of protection.

[minoanmiss]

Can we ever learn from freaking history omg

[lemonsharks]

I wish I could say i was surprised

[minoanmiss]

Aren't any of Arizona's voters insulted to be made such a rancid offer? I've been looking for some organized pushback to this malarkey. I'll keep looking.

[sovay]

I've been looking for some organized pushback to this malarkey. I'll keep looking.

I have contacted family in Arizona about whether he has any traction within the state or whether he is still trying to push the Overton window.

[minoanmiss]

Thank you and ugh I send them strength

[sovay]

I've been trying to forget it and I just can't.

Well, it's awful, that's why.

*hugs*

[lavendertook]

Of course they are. Stupid MAGA-brained dufuses. They’re going to round up their most powerful honorary GOP senator who is an out bisexual? I don’t think so? And watch most people down in Tucson and up in Sedona and Flagstaff laugh and laugh at them. Wait until the bunch of them are outed. I’m not worried about this one.

[minoanmiss]

I can’t help but be. The idea that this is mainstream discourse that this man knows will get his candidate hundreds of thousands of votes is really really disturbing.

[cmcmck]

Remind me not to visit your country any time soon, won't you?

Perhaps you could come and see us instead!

[lilysea]

*horrified face*

quite apart from the evokes-the-treatment-of-queer-people-under-Nazi-Germany aspect of it

getting a whole bunch of strangers together in close quarters during a COVID pandemic is a TERRIBLE idea from a public health standpoint

[cmcmck]

And you think that wouldn't be deliberate? Disease ran rampant through the Nazi Kz's and that was no accident.

[gingicat]

Honey, why should you be?

[minoanmiss]

If I really supported free speech I would be glad he can say what he thinks. Or something. I just can’t be.

[gingicat]

This is hate speech, as I said in person, and he should be prosecuted for it if Arizona has hate speech laws.

[minoanmiss]

Unfortunately the US doesn't have any hate speech laws as such. I was researching. :(

and that\s the thing. So many people would so vehemently disagree with me on that "unfortunately".

[lunabee34]

Wtf did I just read? What vile people.

[sabotabby]

Jesus fucking christ

[julian]

I hadn't heard about this one. Yikes.

Irrelevant Side-Issue: THIS is the kind of thing I worried about when the CDC botched its messaging so badly and implied monkeypox was an AIDS-like thing only affecting queerfolk.

[minoanmiss]

Not irrelevant at all. I worried about the same dang thing.

[contrarywise]

There's no reason you or anyone should be glad of it or tolerate it, because it's hateful and horrifying. I'm with you, and worried for so many people if this bullshit continues without meaningful opposition.