Batshit Breitbart: “Democrats Embrace Child Mutilation, Morbid Obesity to Replace Working Class”

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Sometimes it’s useful to remind ourselves just how batshit Breitbart is. Take yesterday’s column by John Nolte, which argues that the “Democrats are embracing permanent child mutilation and morbid obesity” as a way “[t]o replace working-class, black, and Hispanic voters” they’ve been losing in recent elections.

What does that even mean? Even aside from the fact that Democrats AREN’T “embracing” either “child mutilation” or “morbid obesity,” how exactly do you replace voters with things that are not voters?

Well, as Nolte sees it, the Dems are all about identity politics. And so what they’re really doing, in his eyes, is embracing people who make “child mutilation” and “morbid obesity” their “identities.”

Given that there are zero people in that first category and very few in the latter, this argument makes no sense. Though no trans people I know of are calling for surgery for children, and no hospitals perform surgery until the children are no longer children, Nolte evidently sees “child mutiliation” as the core of trans identity — or at least wants his readers to see it that way.

Want to be cool and trendy? Want to belong to a marginalized interest group that offers all kinds of special privileges and unearned moral authority? Tired of being judged as a white person? Lop off your breasts! Have your penis turned inside out! Take these puberty blockers!

Does Nolte think puberty blockers are some sort of irreversible surgical procedure, a kind of “mutilation?” They’re injections, mostly, and they stop blocking puberty as soon as you decide to stop getting them. The point is to make sure trans kids can hold off the actually irreversible changes of puberty until they are old enough to decide if they want to transition.

But Nolte either doesn’t understand. Or doesn’t want his readers to understand. His rhetoric turning almost apocalyptic, he goes on to declare these alleged “mutilations”

monstrous, but it’s all about Democrats increasing their coalitions. They don’t care how many lives are ruined. Democrats don’t care how many children they twist into neurotic, unhappy, suicidal freaks. Democrats would mutilate every child in the country if it meant just one more vote.

Again, this alleged “child mutilation” is not a thing. It’s a reactionary anti-trans myth.

Meanwhile, while some people call themselves fat — myself included — very few people who are fat (and that’s most people, in the United States) see that as their primary identity. Nor do those who are “morbidly obese,” though I think it’s fair to say they generally would like it if people were less shitty to them. And while the Dems are relatively less hostile to fat people than the Republicans, this is hardly the same as “embracing” the small number of people who see their so-called “morbid” obesity as an identity.

But, as Nolte sees it, the Dems, by not actively demonizing fat people all the time, are therefore creating more fat people, and thus misery and death. (Never mind that demonizing fat people and telling them constantly to lose weight is more likely to cause them to GAIN weight.) Nolte uses Lizzo, a talented musician who has become a popular figure of fun for white reactionaries, as his example of what not to do:

Turning Lizzo into a role model for her disgusting and disgustingly unhealthy fat rolls is morally criminal. But Democrats don’t care who gets hurt. Democrats don’t care that they are sentencing countless women to a miserable life and early grave. All Democrats care about is power.

This is about as advanced as Nolte’s “logic” gets.

So why do the Dems need to embrace these new “identities” anyway, to replace the “working-class, black, and Hispanic voters” they’ve been losing? According to Nolte, it’s because they like and respect women too much.

Well, that’s not exactly how Nolte phrases it.

As Democrats seek to appeal more and more to women, most especially shrill, unhappy, bossy single women, they are turning off everyday Americans, including those who happen to be black and Hispanic. To appeal to left-leaning women, Democrats have to hate what left-leaning women hate: God, tradition, masculinity, the innocence of children, fun, America, jokes, and the nuclear family.

Unfortunately for Democrats, a whole lot of black and Hispanic Americans believe in those things.

Evidently no black or Hispanic Americans are women?

And so, Democrats are now the party of the elites, smugs, the wealthy, big business, the privileged, the NPR crowd, the fascist gay and green lobby, and all the smug supremacists who watch Morning Joe and need ten minutes to explain their coffee.

It’s kind of pathetically sweet that Nolte sees Joe Scarborough as the epitome of leftist “elitism.” Or that, in the age of Trump and the Proud Boys, it’s the greens and the gays who are the fascists.

I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, that he apparently thinks the Dems are now the party of the rich. No, while there are some wealthy Democrats, including a handful of the super-rich, the average income of the Republican voter is still higher than that of the Democratic voter. The Dems “have a huge advantage (63 percent) with voters earning less than $15,000 per year,” notes Debt.org, while “just 36 percent of individuals earning more than $200,000 per year supporting Democrats.”

I find it a little hard to believe that Nolte actually believes all the ignorant things he says. He seems above all to be a demagogue who will say anything for the clicks. I mean, this is the guy who once said that Greta Thunberg needed to be spanked. I think it’s fair to say that he actively makes the world a worse place for everyone except the shill bigots like him.

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