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Yeah I hate the Newsom hype. So many people just forgot or don’t care that he invite people like Charlie Kirk onto his podcast and agreed with them on transphobic talking points. Even if he’s just trying to do it to appeal to republican voter it’s really stupid. Their voters don’t want a fascist-lite when a full on fascist is right there. All he does is drag the democrats further right and normalize transphobic talking points. Which leads to violence and more deaths like what happened with Nex Benedict.
I decided to check the actual podcast with Kirk and see what's the transphobic statement he made.
Here's the video, 22:20 onwards, it goes on for a while.
We can discuss the details, neither do I like his response overall, but you're massively overblowing and demonizing his position. Anyone can check for themselves. If this is how you think a transphobic fascist-lite sounds, if you think he would actually appeal to any republican voters thanks to this response, you must have a very caricatural understanding of politics and society.
Also his talking points on Palestine are wild. Dude is exactly why the democrats didn’t get in last election. Doing all the same shit.
It’s really sad how many people are just perfectly okay with letting me and other trans peoples rights be taken away because Newsom said a few funni things. It’s really upsetting how people in general on the left are transphobic but claim to be supportive. It’s incredibly frustrating watching people tell me I should support Newsom even though he is vocally against my rights. Sorry I don’t want to have to choose between a fascist who wants to blame and attack my people and a fascist-life who wants to blame and attack my people.
It fucking sucks. He has the veneer of a slightly progressive Democrat, then pulls shit like platforming flat out nazis like Charlie Kirk. And playing into anti-trans fear mongering. Well and being blase about homeless erasure and other crap.