The 'don't say gay' messages backfires on the left

 Jim Thompson:

A new contagion has infected the left. It spread faster than an STD at Studio 54. The new sickness has attached to the left’s messaging like a determined COVID spike protein.

The “Don’t Say Gay” message has gone coast to coast at the speed of the internet. Like most leftist messaging, it passed over “flyover country” and attached almost entirely in enclaves of leftist groupthink. It has a near 100 percent infection rate with rich white coastal elitists and hard leftists of all colors and all but two of the 221 genders. Somewhere, someone (I’m thinking it was someone working for Disney) came up with the “Don’t Say Gay” message. It’s easy to repeat and can be distilled into one word – Gay. Catchy, but still a lie.

The left spread it on social media and the media willingly helped. They all repeated the “Don’t Say Gay” lie. Hollywood thought it would be a brilliant opening bit for the Oscars so the hosts repeated “Gay, Gay, Gay,” and all the trained seals in the audience repeated it too. “Gay, Gay Gay.”

The left has repeated it ad nauseam. Americans heard it, and asked: “What does the bill really say and do?” They didn’t have to read the Federal Tax Code or an Omnibus Budget bill – all they needed to was read a few pages. And many did. Those on the right and a growing number of gays and sane liberals simply answered with “Read the bill.”

The polling has been consistently ruinous for Democrats and the left. Once people read what was in the bill, the vast majority supported it. The word “gay” never appears in the bill. Not Once. The bill stops teachers from sexualizing children K through 3rd grade. Not a hard sell to the sane, but the left wouldn’t let go. They repeat: “Gay Gay Gay,” or “Don’t Say Gay.” And sane Americans ask: “Why do you want to sexualize 5-year-olds?”

The left doubled and tripled down. They’ve consistently lied about the contents of the bill. But more people read it and realized that they were lying. Biden has jumped in, claiming that it will “harm trans kids.” But Americans who read the bill know that’s a lie. Jen Psaki wants to avoid it now. She knows it’s a dagger in the heart. They know that it doesn’t do any of those things. The “Don’t Say Gay” crowd kept repeating the lie. Quietly, America said, “Why do you want sexualize children?”
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I am a little surprised that Disney is not facing a derivative action for alienating the parents who make the decision about attending their theme parks and movies.  It is one of the more questionable business decisions I have seen in recent years.