I agree that if I were writing a letter to a US Rep or giving a public address arguing for the proposition “Hegseth should be immediately impeached” and at any point stated “he sets off the community’s gaydar like an LA earthquake sets off car alarms”, that would be bad politics even if the argument was effective.
But I’m shitposting on Lemmy, and I don’t want to self-censor about the fact that queer people need to be particularly careful of people like Hegseth, and about pointing out the larger way that the fascist project exploits exactly this kind of psychosexual tension.
I agree that if I were writing a letter to a US Rep or giving a public address arguing for the proposition “Hegseth should be immediately impeached” and at any point stated “he sets off the community’s gaydar like an LA earthquake sets off car alarms”, that would be bad politics even if the argument was effective.
But I’m shitposting on Lemmy, and I don’t want to self-censor about the fact that queer people need to be particularly careful of people like Hegseth, and about pointing out the larger way that the fascist project exploits exactly this kind of psychosexual tension.