It’s been a while since we last checked in on the Media Research Center’s hatred of drag performers — and while the volume appears to have decrease, the hate hasn’t. In a June 2023 post, Clay Waters followed up on an earlier freakout over a “drag laureate”:
The left-wing push for LGBTQ awareness has dissolved whatever traces of journalistic objectivity that still remained at National Public Radio. Witness reporter Chloe Veltman’s profile on the June 12 edition of the public radio network’s flagship news program All Things Considered: “Nation’s first ‘drag laureate’ kicks off Pride in San Francisco.”
The text version of the radio report was 100% taxpayer-funded counter-culture indulgence, with next-to-zero journalistic content, a liberal network pretending a “drag laureate” is a real thing.
[…]San Francisco has apparently given up trying to solve its massive on-the-street problems of crime and aggressive homelessness and feels free to indulge its queer emphasis.
Chief transphobe Teirin-Rose Mandelburg argued that colleges should be forbidden from acknowledging the existence of drag in an Oct. 30 post:
In just a few days, the Catholic university, Notre Dame, will host a drag show. The show is supposedly accepted as a move of “academic freedom” and will conclude the half-a-semester course on all things Drag.
The “Irish Rover,” the school’s newspaper, broke the story a few weeks ago and on Sunday, and The American Spectator added it to the outlet’s “Education Gone Wild” column.
[…]Administrators are allowing it to pass under the guise of “academic freedom.” Another senior, in collaboration with Stout said the following about that decision: Three male artists are being paid to parade around in provocative women’s clothing under the guise of self-expression and bodily autonomy. If this is academic freedom, then the phrase is meaningless.”
You can say that again girls! “Freedom cannot be divorced from truth; the two are bound up together,” “The American Spectator” noted which couldn’t be closer to accurate. Men parading around, mocking women is not only unnecessary and disturbing but a disgrace to real women, to what Notre Dame claims to root itself in and what Christ teaches.
This is just another example of a school bowing to the woke mob and choosing progressivism and the leftist agenda over actual academics and morals.
Mandelburg cheered that threats shut down a planned drag show in a Jan. 3 post:
What better way to start off the new year than with a drag show? That’s apparently the question Oregon’s Lake Ridge High School asked when it decided to organize a ‘family friendly” drag fest! The show was set for Sunday, January 7th. But as of the Wednesday, the 3rd, due to “threats,” the school has decided to postpone the event…for now.
[…]The event was set to be free but suggested a $15 donation. In part, the proceeds would go to the Trevor Project, which prides itself on mutilating kids. What a great organization to donate to…NOT!
The event was going to feature a drag queen named “Poison Waters,” who is a gay man that enjoys dressing in women’s clothing and dancing in fishnets in front of kids.
CREEP!
Supposedly, the school received backlash from parents and groups who found it inappropriate to host such an outwardly provocative event and advertise it to people of “all ages.” As a result, the school decided to postpone the event.
“With a heavy heart and deep concern for the safety of our students, teachers, and staff, we must regretfully announce the postponement of the DragFest event scheduled for January 7,” the Instagram post noted. The group added that the decision “has been driven by the alarming threats made by known violent and hate-driven organizations.”
Unironically, as noted by the Daily Mail, the group couldn’t identify what groups sent any threatening messages nor the “violent” nature of said groups.
Libs of TikTok shared the news that the event was canceled on X, and many users were thrilled. Perhaps those were the “violent” groups? We’ll never know, I guess.
Mandelburg didn’t mention the record of Libs of TikTok in inspiring violent threats against its targets. Perhaps in an effort to temper her apparent endorsement of violence against drag performers, Mandelburg added a disclaimer of sorts at the end of her post:
Ultimately, if there were legitimate threats against the school, that’s no bueno and absolutely unnecessary. But, the event shouldn’t have ever been scheduled in the first place and merely voicing that opinion isn’t a threat.
All I can say is that I hope the postponement lasts indefinitely.
She also undoubtedly hopes drag performers meets with the violence she so clearly craves for them, lame disclaimer aside.
Mandelburg smeared people who don’t hate drag queen story hours as “groomers” in a Jan. 4 post:
New year, same grooming goals.
The Vermont Community Fund just gathered four thousand dollars in funds to help expand Drag Story Hour events to rural libraries in the state. According to local Vermont News Channel 3, two drag queens are helping extend the opportunity to groom kids through books and storytelling at local libraries.
Justin Marsh, who’s drag name is Emoji Nightmare, said he wished for more drag shows when he was a child.
“I was a queer kid in rural Vermont and this wasn’t available to me,” he said according to the outlet, adding, “I think that’s what’s really important about not only story hour, but organizations like Outright Vermont. They’re really allowing space for youth to arm themselves with the knowledge of gender and sexuality.”
[…]Now, with the funds collected, those groomers’ goals will be met! The Vermont Community Foundation’s Samara Fund will “help us offer eight story hours to small, rural libraries across the state in 2024,” the queens wrote on their webpage about their story hours.
[…]It’s rather disturbing that the state of Vermont cares so much about pushing the leftist agenda and anti-americanism down the throats of its locals, most especially its kids. If you’re looking for a place to settle in the mountains, I’d look somewhere else!
Mandelburg offered no justification for her smear of people who don’t viciously hate drag performers as “anti-american” — and she failed to prove there is any “grooming” going on. And, as usual, Mandelburg stayed silent about right-wing groomers like Andrew Tate and Russell Brand.
Mandelburg spent a March 7 post raging about the revelation that some drag queens are smart — perhaps even smarter than her:
If “what in tarnation?” was a story, this would be it.
On Wednesday, CBS Mornings featured KYNE Santos, a Drag Queen who teaches about mathematics on TikTok. Hosts fawned over “Math Queen” and encouraged viewers to check out Santos’ new book, “Math in Drag,” which talks about the intersection between “mathematical mysteries” and “the art of drag.”
“Yeah. You know, people think that these are two such separate worlds,” Santos told the hosts. “You know, math is all about rules and getting the right answer. Drag is art, and art has no rules. But really the book is about all the ways that they overlap and really, the higher level math is about thinking creatively and, you know, questioning rules and stereotypes.”
Host Gayle King added, “You say math and drag are marvelous, whimsical, controversial, and never boring,” before diving into talking about Santos’ TikTok page where he – decked out in his drag queen attire – talks about math in little video clips online.
Mandelburg raged that people not as extremely right-wing as she is don’t viciously hate drag performers the way she does:
Uh…no thank you.
I think the issue is that schools are focusing more on brainwashing and progressivism than academics. Adding a drag queen to the mix is only going to make that worse in my opinion.
“You embrace yourself and you really celebrate who you are and how you do what you do,” King said energetically.
Santos then admitted that watching shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race helped him open his “mind up to, you know, drag queens just being artists.”
[…]While hosts were in love with Santos’ whole persona and mission, I’m trying to keep kids away from drag queens, not bring them closer to the lunacy. I do not recommend with even a morsel of my being that you get Santos’ book for your kids.
Of course. Mandelburg would rather that kids be inculcated into her brand of obsessive hate.
Mandelburg spent a March 18 post unseemly cackling that drag performer Shangela — who made her hateful head explode as a performer on “Dancing With The Stars” — is facing “numerous sexual assault allegations,” going on to sneer, “I guess this queer may be one to fear!” She dismissed Shangela’s denial of the claims by huffing, “Common denial phrase for a rapist.” She then pretended that she’s not trying to smear every LGBT person as a rapist, even though that’s essentially with the MRC is paying her to do:
Now, am I gonna sit here and say that every drag queen or queer person is a rapist? No, of course not! But, living and believing a delusion certainly gives you the propensity to act in ways that are not morally sound as well as believe that you can be whoever you want and do whatever you want, just like many of the alphabet mob do.
Time will tell if enough evidence finds Shangela guilty of all these alleged assaults. Until then, hide yo kids, hide yo wife and hide yo husband too.
In assuming the claims against Shangela are true despite the lack of a legal conviction or even legal charges, Mandelburg is violating her employer’s standard on such thing as established in its treatment of Russell Brand when similar claims surfaced. MRC writers fretted that Brand’s loss of monetization in the wake of the accusations was “leftist cancel culture” and “disproportionate punishment,” while cheering that right-wing video channel Rumble did not engage on “preemptively silencing” Brand over “as-yet unproven sexual assault allegations.” Mandelburg is clearly never going to give Shangela the same pass, since Shangela not a reliable spouter of right-wing narratives like Brand is.