Anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) followed in the president’s footsteps on Monday when he used an anti-trans slur to describe cisgender Democratic South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews.
Scott said during an appearance on Real America’s Voice, “Annie Andrews, as President Donald Trump calls her, tr***y Annie, here’s a person who believes, as a pediatrician, for trans surgery, gender surgery for trans kids. That’s wrong. Period,” Scott said.
Because respectability politics, language-policing and pearl-clutching are sure winners for Dems.
You do know that it’s possible to both call out and condemn a person for their hate speech AND work on legislation, right? It’s not like dem reps are just sitting in their offices all day devoting all their effort to this single issue.
You being so against Dems fighting hate rhetoric really paints a picture of your character.
Sure, thing, buddy. Keep fighting for Political Correctness, I’m sure it will catch on some day.
Better than just accepting it and actively arguing against fighting it.
Do you see what a wasted effort this is? You want to go into a general election arguing about this shit, good fucking luck. Even Sayed knew not to get into defending Hassan Piker on the campaign trail even though he agreed with Piker 100%.
People fucking hate being told how to talk, and that’s all this is. If you want to fight for trans rights, fight for what trans people are allowed to do (sports, employment, bathrooms, housing) instead of policing speech. And, yes, I know a right to live in spaces where abusive slurs aren’t thrown around is also a trans right, but I think it’s counterproductive ground to fight on (outside of workplace harrassment lawsuits, where this is already illegal)–you’re not going to win anything and you’re only going to build resentment.
Or, you know, keep doing your in-group performativity thing if it makes y’all happy.
Dude this is embarrassing behavior for you please stop
There are literal years worth of reasons Tim Scott is a shitbag nobody should ever brag about being willing to work with, this was just the most recent example