RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/February 2023

February 2023

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Michael Knowles doubles down: "there can't be a genocide" of trans people because "It's not a legitimate category of being. They're laboring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion."

37

Andrew Tate says he fought a ghost in his prison cell.

22

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles: "You have to ban transgenderism entirely. You can't just ban it for the kids. It's got to be entirely."

32

A bunch of transphobic assholes are calling for the "execution" of teachers and doctors for providing gender-affirming care.

35

Scott Adams goes full-racist, urging white people to "Just get the fuck away" from Black people.

26

Jordan Peterson is passionately angry at a sign asking people to use fewer paper towels.

36

Marjorie Taylor Greene openly advocates for seccession

42

What you already knew: Fox News hosts don't actually believe anything they say behind the scenes.

20

Charlie Kirk: "If you are boarding a United Airlines flight and you see a black pilot, they are conditioning you to think 'I don't know if he's there because he's a wonderful pilot' – that will be a rational thought."

24

Candace Owens says she would beat her trans grandchild with a cane.

19

Ben Shapiro says there are “some actual upsides” to climate change.

16

Charlie Kirk calls for the lynching of trans people: "I blame the decline of American men. This never should've been— Someone should've just took care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s or 60s."

33

Joe Rogan: "the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza".

39

Personal texts of Alex Jones were leaked to the SPLC — which they are covering in a series of continuing articles. Contents include insights to his relations with other pundits as well as the apparent wreck that is his personal life. Despite public anti-LGBT commentary by Jones, the SPLC's report suggests he is perhaps bisexual himself.

30

The most hateful anti-trans rhetoric yet from Candace Owens: "I have such great contempt for trans individuals and everything that they are doing right now in our society. I've yet to meet a trans person that I thought was a good individual... They are hateful, narcissistic human beings... These people are demonic, ok? The trans agenda is demonic. Any actor, actress, individual that supports this is supporting something that is demonic. These are demons in our society, without question."