Right-Winger Calls for LGBTQ+ People to Be Put in Camps Over Monkeypox

[Eugene]

Source: The Advocate

Right-Winger Calls for LGBTQ+ People to Be Put in Camps Over Monkeypox

BY TRUDY RING
AUGUST 06 2022 10:30 AM EDT

A supporter of Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, has called for LGBTQ+ people to be put into camps to stop the spread of monkeypox.

“We need to quarantine and isolate all the folks of the LGBT community,” Ethan Schmidt-Crockett said in a video posted to social media. “We need to find all of them. We need to hunt them down and put them into isolation camps for their own protection.” He asked why the U.S. government isn’t speaking out against “reprobate fornication.”

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Monkeypox, or MPV, is spread largely through skin-to-skin contact, such as that which occurs during sex, but it is not a sexually transmitted disease. The majority of cases in the current outbreak have occurred in men who have sex with men; however, there are cases in other populations as well. The federal government has declared MPV a public health emergency, as has the World Health Organization, and they have recommended that people reduce their number of sexual partners. There is a vaccine against MPV, although supplies have been insufficient, and there is treatment for the virus.

Schmidt-Crockett’s remarks echo those made early in the AIDS epidemic. In the 1980s, right-wing extremists such as minor-party presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche pushed the idea of isolating people with HIV.

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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/06/right-winger-calls-lgbtq-people-be-put-camps-over-monkeypox

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[NCDem47]

1. Buckle up folks.

These midterms, LGBTQ+ will become public enemy #1 for GOP. It has seaped into ALL corners of their fever swamp. I guess America grew tired of their illegal immigrats and BLM BS. Although, LOTS of anti-"woke" going on to.

[enough]

2. Of course he did -- here we go again

[vercetti2021]

3. Mean if they wanna get shot

Hunt me down. Better expect to be blasted with holes

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. You got that right!

Right-wing rednecks are not the only people who were raised hunting, camping, and shooting in the rural south. Hope their aim is better than mine. (Spoiler: I wouldn't bet on it, Cletus.)

[vercetti2021]

7. Been shooting since I was 12

Taken a lot of self defense classes and shooting classes. They better know how to aim correctly because I do.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Yep. I was hunting and shooting my dad's 16 gauge since I was 10-11.

Remind me to tell you about the first time I fired my granddaddy's double barrel. Suffice to say, you don't pull both triggers at the same time.

[Chainfire]

4. Fascist bastards like that are a far bigger threat to the country than Monkeypox.

[ShazzieB]

6. No, let's put the RWNJs in isolation camps.

They should feel safe and happy there, protected from all contact with those who don't look, live, love, think, believe, or hate like them. They can build their own little christofascist utopias in there and leave the rest of us alone.

What do you mean it won't work? Oh well, I had fun thinking about it for a few minutes there.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. Ironically, they have several groups that want to do just that.

Yet, they now want us to do it. Well, that ain't gonna happen. But, I am all for them finding their own little slice of fascist heaven. Maybe somewhere in Siberia?

[ShazzieB]

10. Siberia sounds good to me!