Nigerian Immigrant Ayoola Ajayi Now Charged in Another Sex Crime
Posted on | September 8, 2019 | Comments Off on Nigerian Immigrant Ayoola Ajayi Now Charged in Another Sex Crime
Ayoola Ajayi (left) is accused of murdering Mackenzie Lueck (right).
When last we updated you on the Mackenzie Lueck case on Aug. 14, her accused killer, 31-year-old Nigerian immigrant Ayoola Ajayi, had been charged with 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after police say they found child pornography on his computer.
Lueck, a 23-year-old member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at the University of Utah, had apparently been meeting men through “sugar baby” sites and dating apps. Police say she met up with Ajayi on June 17; her charred remains were found in a canyon July 3, and Ajayi was charged with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a human body, and obstruction of justice. Since then, another woman has come forward claiming that she was sexually assaulted by Ajayi more than a year before Lueck was murdered:
A woman told investigators that she began communicating with Ajayi through a dating app in March of 2018. The woman went to Ajayi’s house, 547 N. 1000 West, where he cooked her dinner. But then he started to “intensely” kiss her and touch her, according to the new charges.
The woman attempted to get away, but Ajayi “pinned her down on the couch against her will,” charging documents state. Ajayi continued to sexually assault the woman, leaving bruising and bite marks on her, according to the charges.
On Aug. 20, Ajayi was charged with aggravated kidnapping and three counts of forcible sexual abuse in that case.
Atheist Vegan YouTuber ‘Onision’ Accused of Being a Creepy Sexual Predator
Posted on | September 7, 2019 | Comments Off on Atheist Vegan YouTuber ‘Onision’ Accused of Being a Creepy Sexual Predator
“Let me ask you something: If you murder animals on a regular basis, do you really think I give a f–k about your opinion?”
— Onision, April 2009
Gregory Daniel Jackson, a/k/a “Onision,” is a YouTube personality with about 2 million subscribers who was originally famous for a silly performance called “I’m a Banana.” Now 33 years old, Onision has been called “YouTube’s most troubled star” because of his “bizarre and disturbing” content and his habit of provoking controversy. He is militant about veganism, for example, calling meat-eaters “murderers,” and despises Christianity, calling the Bible “a book of hate.”
Left to right: Onision, “Laineybot” and Sarah in 2017.
What has generated the most controversy about Onision in recent months, however, is a sort of #MeToo scandal involving a former fan named Sarah. When she was 14, Sarah says, she began communicating with Onision and his wife, then known as “Laineybot.” When she was 16, Sarah moved in with the couple, who referred to her as their foster child. Of course, Onision’s critics (“haters,” who are numerous) suspected that this was a ménage à trois, especially considering Onision’s history of sexual behavior toward teenage girls. Sarah would occasionally appear in videos with Onision and his wife, who is implicated in this scandal as an alleged perpetrator, and also is possibly a victim.
From what can be determined by a few hours of online research (I never heard of any of these people before Friday), about the time Onision’s first marriage ended in divorce in 2010, he cultivated a relationship with Laineybot, who was then 17. The couple married in 2011, and now have two children, born in 2014 and 2016. It was in 2017 that Sarah moved in with them, supposedly at Laineybot’s request. There are a lot more dimensions to the Onision scandal than this brief summary, however. For example, at one point there was a controversy about an online fan forum group where Onision’s underage fans were encouraged to post photos of themselves in their underwear so that Onision could “rate” them. Also, Onision’s wife has recently started calling herself “Kai” and claiming to identify as male, so that many accounts of the Onision scandal refer to her as “him” and call her Onision’s “husband.”
Popular transgender YouTube personalty Blaire White recently uploaded a video about this scandal that includes an interview with Sarah and, as Blaire emphasizes in the video, the word “allegedly” is necessary to any reporting about these accusations. No criminal charges have been filed against Onision or his wife/“husband,” but rather this situation has been described as “grooming” — they developed a relationship with Sarah as a minor, and then had sex with her after she turned 18, allegedly.
NEW VIDEO: Exposing Onision: Child Grooming Allegations
+ I interview his alleged victim. This is INSANE.RT please!https://t.co/6TNijUqb89 pic.twitter.com/gDCoqLAYBD
— Blaire White (@MsBlaireWhite) September 5, 2019
Well, you might ask, why pay attention to this bit of YouTube drama? First of all, recall that since Trump’s election in 2016, YouTube has been engaged in efforts to de-monetize, de-platform and otherwise suppress content from conservatives. Last year, conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager filed a federal lawsuit accusing YouTube of illegal behavior toward his popular “Prager University” video channel.
Another reason to pay attention to this scandal, however, is what it says about 21st-century youth culture. A guy who first gained notoriety for dancing around in a video wearing a banana costume somehow became an influential “celebrity” with more YouTube subscribers than CNN has primetime viewers on an average night. Most of Onision’s fans are teenagers, or young adults who first subscribed to his channel when they were teenagers, so that his bizarre worldview — where Christianity is “hate” and eating a cheeseburger is “murder” — reflects an increasingly common attitude among American youth.
Twenty or 30 years ago, it was common for conservatives to speak of the cultural Left as endorsing “moral relativism,” but we see now that what the Left actually does is a sort of moral reversal, substituting new quasi-religious beliefs (e.g., pro-LGBT or anti-fossil fuels) as the basis of morality, while stigmatizing traditional beliefs.
A third point, closely related to the second, is the way celebrity culture is based on idolatry of superficially attractive people. This was a growing trend throughout the 20th century, before the Internet existed. When John Lennon said The Beatles had become “bigger than Jesus” in 1966, he was merely acknowledging the reality of their influence. Before the Beatles, teenage boys were wearing crewcuts and dreaming of becoming astronauts or whatever; by 1966, many thousands of those boys had hair down to their shoulders and were doing LSD, protesting the Vietnam War and exploring Eastern mystical religions. This sudden shift in youth culture had many influences, but there can be no doubt that the decisive moment was that February night in 1964 when Ed Sullivan said, “Ladies and gentlemen — The Beatles!” Once those four lovable moptops from Liverpool were established as objects of idolatrous adoration, whatever they said or did was sure to be emulated by many of their fans.
The effect of television’s influence on popular culture was critically examined in Neil Postman’s 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. Quite simply, TV elevates image over substance. Television’s pervasive influence produced a culture devoted to adoration of visual imagery, in which the Beautiful People can persuade their audience of almost anything — which is why TV advertising is so lucrative.
Once a person becomes addicted to this kind of visual imagery (think about people who “binge watch” certain TV series and then become part of online “fandom” communities devoted to the series), they tend to lose interest in the written word. Endless hours absorbed in YouTube videos are hours not spent in reading books, and also, these are hours not spent interacting in real life with actual human beings. The fantasy world of visual imagery — TV, movies, YouTube videos — means more to such addicts than do their real-life relationships with their parents, siblings, classmates or other acquaintances. And in this culture of visual imagery, the Beautiful People hold the reins. Whatever else you might say about Onision, he is remarkably good-looking, with his mop of dark hair and big blue eyes, which is no doubt a major factor in his YouTube success.
He's much more terrible than you can possibly know yet. But start with this. He's had 6 public romantic partners on YouTube.
5 of them were 17 or younger when he started dating them.
6 have accused him of abuse.
3 deleted their online accounts because of his harassment.— Lady Pineapple Straws ? (@PineappleStraws) September 7, 2019
Unfortunately for Onision, however, time is running out on his Dorian Gray gig. When he first became a YouTube sensation, he was in his mid-20s and could function as a sort of “peer mentor” to teen viewers, but now that he’s approaching his mid-30s, he is increasingly implausible in such a role. Also, there is now more competition in the “YouTube celebrity” game, with younger up-and-coming personalities. Furthermore, the adjustments of YouTube algorithms and his own self-created scandals have reduced Onision’s revenue stream, so that in 2018 he and his wife/“husband” reportedly had to downsize their housing situation, moving to a smaller residence.
Eventually, and perhaps sooner than later, the downward trajectory of Onision’s career will reach a crisis point, as it becomes apparent that he has no sustainable future as a YouTube performer. But I’m just a meat-murdering “hater,” why should I expect him to care about my opinion?
In The Mailbox: 09.06.19
Posted on | September 7, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Ransomware Attacks On Cities, Schools, & Dentists
EBL: Only The Good Die Young – Robert Mugabe Dies At 95
Twitchy: Candace Owens Calls Down The Thunder On Jemele Hill For Supporting Segregation
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Spanks Whiny, Insulting SJW Commenter
According To Hoyt: Culture & Its Effects
Monster Hunter Nation: I’ll Be At Salt Lake FanX This Weekend
Vox Popoli: A Fake Conservative’s Fake History Of #Gamergate
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: A Bedtime Story – Doug McMillion, The Walmart Jabberwock
American Power: Democrats Go Off The Rails
American Thinker: American Jews Are In Total Denial About The Democratic Party
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Cause Analysis Friday
Babalu Blog: Miami Dade College Severs Ties With Chicom Confucious Institute After Months Of Pressure
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For September 6
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Writers Block Blog Update/Move Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Coming Out Gay is Easier Than Coming Out MAGA
The Geller Report: NASA Admits Climate Change Caused By Changes In Earth’s Orbit, also, American Airlines Muslim Mechanic Charged With Sabotage Of Plane With 150 Passengers Aboard
Hogewash: Exoplanets In The Beehive Cluster, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: IT Chapter Two Has Just One True Highlight, also, Sound Of My Voice Nails Ronstadt’s Voice & Grit
Joe For America: Biden Declares He Would Appoint Obama To SCOTUS
JustOneMinute: Make America Think Harder
Legal Insurrection: ICE Confirms Six Of Seven Arrested In Maryland Murder Belong To MS-13, also, Media Beclowns Itself In Stupid “Sharpiegate” Feud With Trump
Power Line: Where’s The Hot Spot? also, CNN’s Insane Town Hall Posse
Shot In The Dark: Cold, also, Hagiography
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Is The World Funny?
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, FBI – Fake Swabbie Fleeced Females For $2.1 MIllion
Victory Girls: The Obamas Go Low In Trademark Dispute
Volokh Conspiracy: Salt Lake City MLS Team Bans Betsy Ross Flag
Weasel Zippers: CNN To Host LGBTQWTFBBQ Town Hall, also, Prog Website Think Progress Shutting Down Because Nobody Wants To Buy It
Megan McArdle: What’s Making Tech Unicorns Lose Their Magic?
Mark Steyn: A Mockery Of Justice
Democrats 2020: ‘Ban All the Things!’
Posted on | September 6, 2019 | 1 Comment
No burgers. No plastic straws. No coal. No cars. No offshore drilling. Babies? No, you can’t have babies! Babies cause global warming!
Dems 2020: Ban all the things!pic.twitter.com/fgzW5oXoCk
— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) September 5, 2019
Professor William Jacobson summarizes:
The presidential ambitions of the leading Democrat candidates may not survive CNN’s 7-Hour ‘Climate Change’ Townhall.
It was a man-made disaster, created in the fevered swamps of CNN and fueled by pledges of allegiance to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.
The candidates came across as not-serious-people. Worse, they came across as nanny-state monsters who really do want to take away your plastic straws and cheeseburgers to save the planet. It was a self-parody of what woke totalitarianism sounds like, with an abnormal focus on meat.
Republican attack-ad makers have hours of footage that can be sliced and diced to make any of the candidates who appeared at the Townhall look insane.
(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)
As for banning babies, it was a fanatical vegan who prompted Bernie Sanders to endorse global population control:
A member of the audience, Martha Readyoff of New Milford, Conn., said to Sanders, “Human population growth has more than doubled in the past 50 years. The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a poisonous topic for politicians, but it is crucial to face. Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?”
“Well, Martha, the answer is yes,” Sanders said. “And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own bodies and make reproductive decisions.”
The CNN town hall audience whooped and clapped at this line, having apparently missed all that Readyoff’s position entails.
“And the Mexico City agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that are — that allow women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control to me is totally absurd,” Sanders continued.
This is not true — Mexico City only excludes abortion advocacy groups from family-planning funding, in line with federal laws that ban the funding of abortion as a method of family planning. In plainer terms, the Mexico City policy does not prevent funds from going to birth control and other non-abortion means of family planning. So I am not sure what Sanders is on about, unless he is calling specifically for more terminated pregnancies as a means to regulate world populations.
The senator concluded: “So I think, especially in poor countries around the world where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies, and where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the number of kids they have, it’s something I very, very strongly support.”
Martha Readyoff, who apparently teaches young children at a charter school in Connecticut, is an animal-rights activist who promotes veganism as an “important social justice movement . . . for the planet.”
The Myth That Our Planet Faces an Overpopulation Crisis | Barry Brownstein https://t.co/9CXZg0yuqE via @feeonline
— Curtis Scoville (@CurtisScoville) September 5, 2019
The Left has been promoting the “overpopulation” myth for decades. The belief that babies are the cause of a “climate catastrophe” is so easily disproven — it’s been debunked so often by so many qualified researchers — that it seems redundant to do so again, merely because a vegan idiot got hold of the microphone at a CNN town hall. And yet, as with the case of the Connecticut teacher, America’s children are being indoctrinated with this bogus mythology, as John Hayward remarks:
If you’re wondering why so many young people are mired in despair, futility, and occasionally violent nihilism, try listening to the Democrat presidential field babbling for 7 hours about how humanity is a virus that must be culled to save the Earth.
Remember, the Left controls education with an iron grip. Today’s young people are subjected to years of indoctrination in the insane anti-human ideology you heard the Democrats vomit at the CNN town hall. They are constantly told the Earth is suffering from human overpopulation.
It’s a perspective hammered into the heads of young people by the Left with many tools, from worshiping abortion as a pseudo-religious sacrament to radical environmentalism. Every aspect of the Left’s ideology views humans as a problem to be controlled and reduced.
The most baffling thing is that so many people are baffled that young people are depressed, fearful of the future, and reluctant to marry or have children. This garbage is pumped into their skulls as soon as Democrats get hold of them in schools.
Anti-humanism is deeply entwined with anti-capitalism. A core belief of the Left is that human freedom is dangerous and only the elites can be trusted to make important decisions. You can’t believe the junk pushed by a Warren or Sanders without a very dim view of the common man. . . .
You can read the rest of that on Twitter.
Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani
Posted on | September 6, 2019 | Comments Off on Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani
An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer.
The reason, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court: Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, a veteran employee, was upset over stalled union contract negotiations.
None of the passengers and crew on the flight to Nassau were injured because the tampering with the so-called air data module caused an error alert as the pilots powered up the plane’s engines on the runway July 17, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed in Miami federal court.
As a result, flight No. 2834 was aborted and taken out of service for routine maintenance at America’s hangar at MIA, which is when the tampering with the ADM system was discovered during an inspection. An AA mechanic found a loosely connected tube in front of the nose gear underneath the cockpit that had been deliberately obstructed with some sort of hard foam material.
Alani is charged with “willfully damaging, destroying or disabling an aircraft” and is expected to have his first appearance in Miami federal court on Friday.
After his arrest Thursday, the affidavit says that Alani told federal air marshals assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force that “his intention was not to cause harm to the aircraft or its passengers.”
He said that his motive in tampering with the navigational system was because he was “upset” over stalled contract negotiations between the mechanics’ union and American Airlines that has raged for months — that “the dispute had affected him financially.”
So, AFL-CIO terrorism, not radical Islamic terrorism.
(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)
In The Mailbox: 09.05.19 (Evening Edition)
Posted on | September 6, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Self Defense Is Legal In Maryland
EBL: Neerja Bhanot, RIP, also, Never Realized That The Horned Lizard Was Joe Biden’s Spirit Animal
Twitchy: Here’s A Super-Hot Take On (Not) Arming Women For Self Defense Against Rapists
Louder With Crowder: Kamala Harris Wants To Regulate Your Meat
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American Greatness: Antifa Gives Progressives A Tin-Pot Dictator High
American Power: Joe Biden’s Eye Fills With Blood
American Thinker: #NeverTrump Nitwits Should Just Go Away
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Black Marketeer News
Babalu Blog: Caught On Video – Castro’s Elite “Black Wasps” Special Forces Hunting Down Cuban Civilians
BattleSwarm: Hong Kong On Hold
Camp of the Saints: On Pax Americana & Pax Britannica
CDR Salamander: Remember How We Laughed At The Russians…
Da Tech Guy: The Critics Vs. Reality, Chappelle/Nerdrotic Edition, also, Labor Unions Do More Harm Than Good
Don Surber: What Triggers MAGA
First Street Journal: What Has Fauxcahontas Been Smoking In Her Peace Pipe?
The Geller Report: Jewish Man & Son badly Hurt In Brooklyn Synagogue Stabbing, also, Well Over 50% Of 2018 Hate Crimes In NYC Were Antisemitic
Hogewash: I’m Not Making This Up, You Know, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Embarrassing Colbert Lets Biden Lie, Deflect, & Spin
Joe For America: Federal Judge Says “Numerous Prominent American Politicians” To Be Implicated By Epstein Files
Legal Insurrection: San Francisco Declares NRA “Domestic Terrorist Organization”, also, Harris Only Three Points Ahead Of Gabbard After Ridiculing Her Poll Numbers A Month Ago
Power Line: The Environmental Fiasco Of Wind Energy, also, Daniel Gade For U.S. Senate
Shark Tank: Rubio & Scott Ask Trump To Suspend Certain Visa Requirements For The Bahamas
Shot In The Dark: Tailgunner Joe Is Alive & Well In Hollywood
This Ain’t Hell: Drunk Marine Tells Homeowners “Go Back To Sleep”, also, Thursdays Are For Cooking
Victory Girls: Bernie Sanders Goes Full Eugenicist
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Europeans Fabricated Stories About Ancient Egyptian, Greek, & Roman Civilizations – All Based On Chinese History”
Weasel Zippers: Watch As Christine Blasey Ford’s Lawyer Admits Her Coming Forward Against Judge Kavanaugh Was Political, also, Julian Castro Says It’s Essential We Use Public Schools To Push Global Warming Propaganda
Megan McArdle: Boris Johnson Is Presiding Over Britain’s Stupidest Hour
Mark Steyn: Johnson Vs. Johnson
In The Mailbox: 09.05.19 (Morning Edition)
Posted on | September 5, 2019 | 1 Comment
— compiled by Wombat-socho
OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Labor Day Weekend In Chicago
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #733
EBL: Ilhan Omar’s Husband Tells All
Twitchy: Blue-Check Climate Change Warrior Live-Tweets CNN’s Climate Town Hall And Even She Thinks It Was Dumb
Louder With Crowder: Socialism Has Killed More Gays Than…
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Barbershops, The Last Male Space
American Greatness: The Two Ticking Time Bombs Of The Coming Election
American Power: Chaos Excitement
American Thinker: When Trump Fights The Left, He Punches Up
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: With The Help Of Cuba & Venezuela, Colombia’s Marxist Narcoterrorist FARC Is Back In Action
BattleSwarm: SD Democratic Party Gives Up
Camp of the Saints: Friend In The Ether @WombatSocho Has Out A New Book
CDR Salamander: Red China – An Autocratic STEMocracy
Da Tech Guy: Dorian Vs. CNN & Global Warming UPDATE
Don Surber: Xi Blinks In Hong Kong
First Street Journal: Womens’ Economic Choices & Salaries
The Geller Report: Texas Muslim Murders Sisters Friend In Honor Killing For Encouraging His Sister To Marry A Christian, also, Paul McCartney Outraged At Sadiq’s Londonistan Violence, Reveals Grandson Mugged At Knifepoint
Hogewash: As Autumn Approaches, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: What If American Skin‘s Nate Parker Is Innocent?
Joe For America: Biden & Obama Were Briefed On Private Trump Meeting BEFORE Comey Reported To FBI
JustOneMinute: Vox Unpopuli
Legal Insurrection: Hong Kong – Category I Insurgency, also, NYC Mayor De Blasio Worked A Whole Seven Hours In The Month He Launched His Presidential Campaign
Michelle Malkin: Stop Mental health Data Mining Of Our Kids, And Deplatform Google From Our Public Schools!
The PanAm Post: Maduro’s Fundamental Role In FARC’s Affluence & Power
Power Line: Tien An Men Square & Hong Kong – The Same Showdown, also, Ilhan Omar – NY Post Remix
Shark Tank: Rubio Defends Trump’s Natural Disaster Leadership
Shot In The Dark: Documents Ex Machina
The Political Hat: College Madness – Obsession With Whiteness, Mandatory Social Justice, and Adversity Scores
This Ain’t Hell: Hurricane News For Wednesday, also, Sadly, VOV Has Run Out Of Amendments To Discuss
Victory Girls: Walmart & Kroger Succumb To Gun Grabber Pressure
Volokh Conspiracy: My Contribution To The Symposium On Jason Brennan’s Book Against Democracy
Weasel Zippers: Video Montage – Dems Hammer Away At The 2nd Amendment, also, Russia Probe Reckoning?
Mark Steyn: Bedbug Journalism
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Fat, Black, Queer and ANGRY!
Posted on | September 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Fat, Black, Queer and ANGRY!
Ashleigh Shackelford (@ashleighthelion on Twitter) has described herself as “a queer, nonbinary Black fat femme writer,” complaining in 2016 she was “always scripted as the angry Black bitch” in her “organizing spaces.”
As a one-woman embodiment of the identity politics that now defines the Democrat Party, Ms. Shackelford has few rivals, which may be why she was paid to contribute to a new series of Teen Vogue articles “celebrating what it means to be fat, from destigmatizing the word to taking stock of the discrimination fat people face.” In case you’re wondering why an angry fat black queer would be considered a proper contributor for a teenage fashion magazine, I’ll remind you: “Condé Nast Is Decadent and Depraved” (March 24). Condé Nast has joined the anti-Trump #Resistance, which means publishing a lot of radical left-wing agitprop, even if this means losing readers and advertisers (Teen Vogue ceased print publication in 2017). One doubts that Ashleigh Shackelford appeals to a demographic coveted by the clothing and cosmetics merchants whose advertising dollars are necessary to the financial success of a fashion magazine, but Trump Derangement Syndrome has so completely seized the minds of the New York-based publishing industry that Teen Vogue editors gave Ms. Shackelford a platform for a genuinely bizarre rant:
For me, fat is a way of saying “f*ck you.” . . .
How fat is weaponized, and the reclamation of the word, goes beyond size. Fat stigma is also tied to anti-blackness, in that being black is the abundance that white supremacy seeks to shrink. . . .
My definition of fat is Black AF, multidimensional, and futuristic. Fat means I exist. Fat means taking up space and demanding more. Fat means black. Fat means f*ck you. Fat means human. Fat means creating a world full of possibility without shame. Fat means saying f*ck you.
You can read the entire thing, but the question is: Who thinks it’s a good idea to celebrate being fat and angry as a source of empowerment? Even if you share the anti-Trump politics of Teen Vogue‘s editors, does it make sense to encourage this attitude? Do they think this will help Democrats in 2020? And why is this kind of stuff — FAT ANGRY BLACK QUEERS! — being published under the masthead of a teen fashion magazine?
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