‘Groomer’ rhetoric can be traced back to 10 far-right influencers

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho's annual Pride in the Park event (Photo: David Neiwert)

The entire point of eliminationist rhetoric like the right’s ongoing smear of the LGBTQ community as pedophilic “groomers” is never simply to “own the libs”—it’s to create permission: permission to direct violence freely at the targeted minority group…