Lauren Boebert posts dumbest ‘groomer’ tweet yet and everyone’s thinking the exact same thing
Rep. Lauren Boebert wants to be number one… at stoking hate speech and violence against LGBTQ Americans.The Colorado Republican vowed this week to tweet “even more” about “groomers” after a report identified her as the third most influential account at promoting “the hateful groomer narrative.”The report was produced by the Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Human Rights Campaign in response to “a growing wave of violence, hate and demonization targeting LGBTQ+ people in the United States.” The authors say “the false and baseless lie that LGBTQ+ people ‘groom’ children” has “driven offline hate crimes.”The report found that between January and July, there was a 406 percent increase in tweets “containing slurs like ‘groomers’ or ‘pedophiles’ in the context of conversations about LGBTQ+ people.”Related: Lauren Boebert says coming out before 21 should be illegalIt added that offline abuse “like the attempted white supremacist attack on a Pride parade in Idaho and incidents involving Neo-Nazis in Florida, did not happen in isolation: extremist rhetoric and attacks against LGBTQ+ people have ramped up online and offline in recent months.”Boebert appeared to wear her shameful contributions as a badge of honor as she promised to ramp things up even more.A screenshot of the list, showing the anti-LGBTQ congresswoman behind only her fellow House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and writer James Lindsay, was posted by the far-right Libs of TikTok account, which also happened to come in fourth on the list.“Cool they made a handy chart for some of the best accounts on Twitter who speak out against child abuse,” the account wrote.Boebert retweeted the post, commenting, “My tweets about groomers are only third?
