We missed this a couple of days ago, but it’s certainly worth noting. As Twitchy reported, after the mass shooting in Buffalo, disgraced fact-checker Talia Lavin — the expert on right-wing extremism who smeared a disabled veteran as a Nazi — published a piece in Rolling Stone titled, “The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf.’ He’s a Mainstream Republican.”
Most people blamed Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and called it a day, but Lavin took it much further. If you read into her piece far enough (if you can stand it), Lavin eventually points the finger of blame for the shooting on Abigail Shrier, author of “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.” Lavin writes:
Other aspects are more veiled, but no less vitriolic. Years of fearmongering about transgender rights, and in particular their influence on youth, are linked to fears of waning fertility: anti-trans demagogues like Abigail Shrier describe trans bodies as “maimed and sterile,” and, as such, a chief motivation for the legion of anti-trans laws passed by state legislatures is the future fertility of trans children born female. The violent antifeminism of a far-right movement that sees women principally as vessels for breeding a new white generation expresses itself in a fixation on a return to “traditional” gender roles.
“More veiled” is a good way of putting it. So Shrier is worried about girls being put on puberty blockers and hormones because they’re needed to produce more white babies.
This piece is an embarrassment, even for Rolling Stone.
Disgraced fact-checker, Talia Lavin – who blew up her career by falsely accusing innocent people of "white supremacy" – now accuses me.
This is the best Rolling Stone can do to gain clicks?
— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) May 16, 2022
Lavin's sorry history speaks for itself:https://t.co/spBzBnxIpD
/2
— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) May 16, 2022
We’ve written a lot of her sorry history, and yet she keeps getting published, although Rolling Stone is probably pretty desperate.
Here's the truth – I exposed an epidemic of self-harm among teen girls for the most obvious reason: I care about the health and well-being of teen girls.
Same is true of every feminist who fights alongside me.
/3— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) May 16, 2022
Rolling Stone is not going to succeed in linking feminists to the White Replacement thing because there's absolutely no link.
It's desperate and it's a lie.
/4
— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) May 16, 2022
This isn't journalism; it's garbage
— Vincent Ryan (@vincerCFO) May 16, 2022
I really thought she would have learned to code by now… oh well
— hipcheck10 (@hipcheck10) May 17, 2022
Sue.
— Me (@MWVAB) May 17, 2022
Rolling Stone knows all about getting sued.
— Ben Dover (@bendovercent) May 17, 2022
What an amateurish and ignorant false equivalence. The author, editor, and publisher should all be embarrassed, but they’re probably too ideologically blinded to understand why.
— Miguel T (@uber_miguel) May 16, 2022
So her thesis is that you're concerned about girls being recklessly and needlessly sterilized through "gender medicine".. because you're a misogynistic white supremacist? 🤣🙄 That's quite a stretch.
— 🦋🌸🇺🇸Everything Woke Turns To.. (@LSmom9) May 16, 2022
You should sue her ass.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 17, 2022
Definitely … Rolling Stone exists to be sued at this point.
Related:
ACLU lawyer: The arguments over allowing trans women to compete in girls’ sports are rooted in ‘misogyny and white supremacy’ https://t.co/52RuumP1Y4
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 15, 2021
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