A right-wing gay writer claimed that he's more discriminated against as conservative than as a gay man in a Tuesday editorial -- and immediately felt Twitter's wrath.
"Everything I was told to fear about being openly gay has become a reality in being openly conservative," pundit Chad Felix Greene wrote for the right-wing Federalist website.
Greene noted that after he came out, he used to fantasize about "breaking through the walls of prejudice and somehow speaking to the heart of someone who did not yet realize I was just a person like them."
He then used the "born this way" argument about his sexuality to describe being conservative.
"Today I look out across the turbulent sea of political discourse and ask, 'Why would anyone choose to be a conservative?'" Green wrote. "To be a conservative means to openly invite others’ hatred into your life and to lose your humanity in the eyes of strangers who view you exclusively through stereotypes and prejudices."
Unsurprisingly, lots of folks on Twitter took issue with that argument.
"Remember in the 1980s and early 90s when thousands and thousands of conservatives were dying and pleading for help from a government that treated their lives as completely disposable?" producer and Sally Field progeny Sam Greisman wrote. "Good point, good point."
"Y’all forever wanting to play the victim as you victimize & marginalize others," Democratic gun control advocate Khary Penebaker tweeted.
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