Podbit · The Megyn Kelly Show
National Review's Rich Lowry explains why pro-Palestinian activists see supporting Israel as a betrayal of queerness: they conceive of queerness as revolt against oppression, and view Israel as Western, white, and settler-colonialist — making it as bad as the gender binary in their framework. It's race theory, not Gaza policy.
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Kelly and Burguiere dig deeper into the Scott Wiener confrontation, with Kelly reading Rich Lowry's NR essay positing that Wiener's tormentors conceive of queerness as revolt against all oppressive orders — and of Israel as Western, white, and settler-colonialist, making Zionism as threatening to their worldview as the gender binary. This is not, Lowry argues, fundamentally about Gaza — it's about race. Burguiere notes that the word 'queer' has been repurposed to mean 'ideologically correct' rather than anything about sexual orientation. A second clip shows Wiener being confronted at a San Francisco bar and chased out of his neighborhood by a man demanding he say 'Free Palestine' on camera. Wiener stays silent throughout, his response limited to 'sad puppy dog eyes,' as Lowry characterizes it. Kelly reads Wiener's public statement — 22 years of Trans March attendance, 'trans siblings,' 'right-wing extremists,' et cetera — as a failed attempt to remind his tormentors of his progressive credentials. She and Burguiere agree: the mob cannot be appeased, and Wiener built that mob. [1] — Megyn Kelly "National Review's Rich Lowry explains why pro-Palestinian activists see supporting Israel as a betrayal of queerness: they conceive of quee…" 1:18:13
San Francisco politician Scott Wiener stated he has attended the Trans March every year for the past 22 years since the first march in 2004.
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