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Fact-Check — Social Issues — DEI, Race, LGBTQ+ & Gender
#1 — DEI Hires Are Unqualified & Stealing White Jobs
#2 — Trump Blamed the Potomac Crash on DEI. Immediately.
#3 — Affirmative Action = Reverse Racism Against White People
#4 — Trans Women in Bathrooms Are a Predator Threat
#5 — Trans Women Are Dominating & Destroying Women’s Sports
#6 — Being Gay Is a Choice That Can Be Prayed Away
#7 — Schools Are Grooming Children Into Being Trans
#8 — Critical Race Theory Is Being Taught to Kindergartners
#9 — White Men Are the Most Discriminated Group in America
#10 — There Are Only Two Genders. This Is Biology. End of Discussion.
#11 — The Gender Pay Gap Is a Myth Women Made Up
#12 — Drag Shows Are Child Abuse and Must Be Banned
#13 — Systemic Racism Doesn’t Exist Anymore Because Obama
#14 — Gay Marriage Destroyed the Institution of Straight Marriage
#15 — Pronouns Are a Marxist Attack on the English Language
#16 — Trans Kids Are a New Fad Invented by Social Media
#17 — Black Lives Matter Is a Marxist Terrorist Organization
#18 — The 1619 Project Is Fake History Designed to Hate America
#19 — LGBTQ People Are Recruiting and Converting Straight Children
#20 — Being “Woke” Is the Biggest Threat Facing America Today
#2 — Trump Blamed the Potomac Crash on DEI. Immediately.
#3 — Affirmative Action = Reverse Racism Against White People
#4 — Trans Women in Bathrooms Are a Predator Threat
#5 — Trans Women Are Dominating & Destroying Women’s Sports
#6 — Being Gay Is a Choice That Can Be Prayed Away
#7 — Schools Are Grooming Children Into Being Trans
#8 — Critical Race Theory Is Being Taught to Kindergartners
#9 — White Men Are the Most Discriminated Group in America
#10 — There Are Only Two Genders. This Is Biology. End of Discussion.
#11 — The Gender Pay Gap Is a Myth Women Made Up
#12 — Drag Shows Are Child Abuse and Must Be Banned
#13 — Systemic Racism Doesn’t Exist Anymore Because Obama
#14 — Gay Marriage Destroyed the Institution of Straight Marriage
#15 — Pronouns Are a Marxist Attack on the English Language
#16 — Trans Kids Are a New Fad Invented by Social Media
#17 — Black Lives Matter Is a Marxist Terrorist Organization
#18 — The 1619 Project Is Fake History Designed to Hate America
#19 — LGBTQ People Are Recruiting and Converting Straight Children
#20 — Being “Woke” Is the Biggest Threat Facing America Today
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FACT CHECK #1
DEI Hires Are Unqualified People Who Stole Good Jobs From Deserving White Christian Males — Merit Has Been Abolished
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
DEI — Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — is a set of organizational practices designed to ensure that hiring decisions are based on merit by removing the unconscious biases that have historically prevented qualified candidates from being considered. A landmark American Economic Review field experiment found that identical resumes with traditionally white-sounding names received 50% more callbacks than resumes with traditionally Black-sounding names. DEI’s most common tool is blind resume screening: a hiring manager instructs staff to redact any information that might reveal a candidate’s race, gender, age, or disability status before the hiring manager reviews the applications — including names, school names (an all-women’s college, an HBCU, or a school for the visually impaired could signal identity), addresses (a known neighborhood), graduation dates (which reveal age), and similar details. The result is that the hiring manager evaluates only qualifications. DEI doesn’t lower the bar — it removes the nepotism, cronyism, and unconscious bias that were allowing less-qualified candidates to be hired based on familiarity and comfort rather than merit. McKinsey found that companies in the top quartile for diversity are 36% more likely to outperform financially. The problem DEI solves is not that white men are too qualified; it’s that equally qualified women and minorities were being discarded before anyone read their resumes.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
DEI is a program that forces companies to hire unqualified women and minorities instead of deserving white men — a conclusion that requires us to believe the pre-DEI hiring system was a pure meritocracy, when in fact that system produced outcomes like identical resumes getting 50% fewer callbacks based solely on the name at the top, which is not meritocracy but is instead the thing DEI is designed to fix. The most common DEI tool in corporate hiring is blind resume screening, in which identifying information is removed so that the hiring manager evaluates applications on qualifications alone, without knowing the applicant’s race, gender, age, or disability status. When this was explained to one conservative critic, his response was: “But how can you tell which ones are the Black ones? That’s not fair to white people.” We present this objection without further commentary, as it is the most efficient summary of the anti-DEI position we have encountered, and we believe it speaks for itself at a volume the rest of this paragraph cannot improve upon.
FACT CHECK #2
Trump Correctly Blamed a Plane Crash on DEI Within Hours — While Bodies Were Still Being Recovered From the Potomac River
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
On January 29, 2025, an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft. It was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in nearly 24 years. The following morning, before the NTSB had released any preliminary findings, while first responders were still recovering bodies from the icy Potomac River, Trump held a White House press conference and blamed DEI hiring policies at the FAA under Obama and Biden. A former FAA deputy vice president told ABC News that DEI programs do not apply to air traffic control hiring — applicants must pass a medical exam, an aptitude test, and a psychological test more stringent than that required of pilots. Former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg noted that under his tenure, the agency had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights. Reagan National’s tower had been documented as understaffed — nearly a third below target levels — since at least September 2023. When asked by a reporter how he could blame DEI without evidence, Trump replied: “Because I have common sense.”
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Trump correctly identified DEI as the cause of the crash within approximately 12 hours of the event, before the investigation began, before any black boxes were recovered, before any personnel records were reviewed, and while search teams were still pulling bodies from the river, which is either a remarkable analytical achievement or a pre-prepared answer that did not require evidence, and Trump confirmed it was the latter when asked, saying: “Because I have common sense.” The former FAA official who explained that DEI does not apply to air traffic controller hiring — that all ATC applicants must pass rigorous medical, aptitude, and psychological tests regardless of any diversity initiative — is an expert in the field who had actual knowledge of the relevant processes, which is a different kind of knowing than common sense and which Trump was not using. Reagan National’s tower had been severely understaffed for years. Trump’s first act in office included firing and suspending some of the key safety personnel Buttigieg had hired. These are facts we are setting aside because common sense.
FACT CHECK #3
Affirmative Action Is Reverse Racism That Discriminates Against Qualified White People — The Real Victims Are White Men
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Affirmative action policies were developed in response to documented, systemic exclusion of Black Americans and other minorities from education and employment through most of U.S. history — not as a preference system but as a corrective to a deeply entrenched preference system that had been operating for centuries in favor of white applicants. Legacy admissions — preferences for children of alumni — disproportionately benefit white applicants at elite universities and have never been described as reverse racism against first-generation college students. At Harvard, legacy applicants are admitted at roughly four to six times the rate of non-legacy applicants. A National Bureau of Economic Research study found that at elite universities, legacy preferences benefited white applicants at dramatically higher rates than race-conscious admissions benefited minority applicants. The Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ended race-conscious college admissions while explicitly leaving legacy preferences intact.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Affirmative action is reverse racism — a type of racism characterized by briefly considering race as one factor among many in admissions to correct for 400 years of considering it the only factor, which is exactly as bad. The Supreme Court in 2023 agreed that race-conscious admissions were unconstitutional while explicitly leaving intact legacy admissions, which give the children of alumni a four-to-six-times admissions advantage at elite universities and benefit white applicants at dramatically higher rates than affirmative action ever did. We support the court’s ruling enthusiastically on the grounds that it eliminated the type of preference that helped minorities while preserving the type of preference that helps the children of people who already went to Harvard, which is what meritocracy looks like when you squint at it from the right angle and don’t think about it too long.
FACT CHECK #4
Transgender Women in Bathrooms Are a Predator Threat to Cisgender Women and Children — Bathroom Bills Protect the Innocent
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
A peer-reviewed study in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law concluded: “From a scientific and evidence-based perspective, there is no current evidence that granting transgender individuals access to gender-corresponding restrooms results in an increase in sexual offenses.” A Williams Institute study of Massachusetts localities — comparing areas with and without transgender non-discrimination bathroom laws — found no increase in crime in restrooms, locker rooms, or changing facilities where trans-inclusive policies were in effect. No reliable data supports the claim that transgender people commit violent crimes at higher rates than cisgender people; in fact, transgender people are more than four times as likely to be victims of crime as cisgender people. Approximately 47% of transgender people report being sexually assaulted in their lifetime. The actual threat in bathrooms runs the other direction: 70% of trans people report being harassed, denied access, or physically assaulted in public restrooms — by cisgender people.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Transgender women in bathrooms are a predator threat — an assertion supported by zero documented cases of a transgender woman assaulting a cisgender woman in a public restroom and opposed by every peer-reviewed study on the topic, which is either because the threat doesn’t exist or because it’s happening so silently that no researcher in any jurisdiction has captured a single confirmed incident despite years of specifically looking for them, and we are choosing the second option because it preserves our position while being impossible to disprove, which we have found to be an excellent property in an argument. The people actually being assaulted in bathrooms, according to the available data, are transgender people — 70% of whom report harassment or assault when trying to use a restroom. Bathroom bills requiring trans people to use facilities inconsistent with their identity were found by Harvard researchers to be associated with a 26% to 249% increased risk of sexual assault against the trans youth subject to the restrictions. We are protecting women from a phantom threat by creating a documented threat to a different group of women, which is a trade-off we are making without acknowledging that we are making it.
FACT CHECK #5
Transgender Women Are Dominating and Destroying All of Women’s Sports — No Woman Can Win Anything Anymore
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Lia Thomas is the most prominent transgender athlete in the American sports conversation. In the 2022 NCAA championships — her last competitive meet — Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle, placed 5th in the 200 freestyle, and placed 8th (last) in the 100 freestyle. She did not break any national records; Kate Douglass broke 18 records at the same meet. Thomas was ranked 36th among all female college swimmers nationally. She has not competed in any swim event since graduating in 2022. At the Paris 2024 Olympics, no transgender women competed in women’s events. World Aquatics, World Athletics, and most major international governing bodies have now banned transgender women who have been through male puberty from women’s elite competition. The dominant force in women’s swimming is Katie Ledecky, a cisgender woman. Conservative media frequently cited false reports that Thomas had been stripped of “medals” and that they were “given to Riley Gaines” — the NCAA awards trophies, not medals, and none were transferred.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Transgender women are dominating all of women’s sports, confirmed by the case of Lia Thomas, who won one NCAA event in one sport in one year, placed 5th and last in her other two events at the same meet, was ranked 36th in the country among college women swimmers, broke no national records, and has not competed in any meet since 2022 — after which World Aquatics, World Athletics, cycling, and most major international bodies banned trans women from elite competition, meaning the “domination” lasted approximately one season before the sports world collectively addressed it. At the Paris 2024 Olympics, no transgender women competed in women’s events. The dominant force in women’s swimming is Katie Ledecky, a cisgender woman, who holds every relevant world record. Riley Gaines, the conservative activist most prominent in this debate, tied Thomas for 5th place in the 200 freestyle and has stated she deserves the 5th-place trophy Thomas received. We note that receiving a fifth-place trophy in a swimming event at the cost of a cisgender woman’s feelings is, in the current political climate, the most consequential thing a trans woman has ever done in athletics, and we are treating it accordingly.
FACT CHECK #6
Being Gay Is a Choice, a Sin, and a Lifestyle That Can Be Reversed Through Prayer, Conversion Therapy, and Sufficient Willpower
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Every major medical and psychological organization — including the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the World Health Organization — has concluded that sexual orientation is not a choice, is not a mental illness, and cannot be changed by therapeutic intervention. Conversion therapy has been found to cause significant psychological harm, including elevated rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide, particularly in adolescents. The APA removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual in 1973 — over 50 years ago. No evidence supports the effectiveness of conversion therapy in changing sexual orientation; multiple studies confirm it causes harm. More than 20 states and numerous municipalities have banned conversion therapy for minors. The most prominent advocates of conversion therapy have a notable history of their own affairs with same-sex partners.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Being gay is a lifestyle choice that can be reversed through faith, will, and conversion therapy — a position maintained by organizations whose founders and leading practitioners have a statistically remarkable frequency of subsequent same-sex relationships, affairs, and public coming-out announcements, suggesting that either the therapy works and then stops working, or that the people most invested in reversing homosexuality have personal reasons for their investment that they are processing publicly at our collective expense. The American Psychological Association removed homosexuality from its disorder classification in 1973, over 50 years ago, based on evidence. We are still working through our feelings about this. Multiple studies find conversion therapy causes depression, anxiety, and suicide risk in young people. We support the free market of ideas and believe parents should have the right to choose treatments for their children that every major medical organization has found harmful, because parental rights, unless those parents are choosing gender-affirming care, in which case the government should intervene, which is a consistent position we are not going to explain further.
FACT CHECK #7
Schools Are Grooming and Converting Children Into Being Transgender — Teachers Are Recruiting Kids Into the LGBTQ Agenda
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
The term “grooming” refers to the process by which sexual predators build trust with children to facilitate abuse. Its application to LGBTQ-inclusive education conflates child sexual abuse with age-appropriate discussion of the fact that some people are gay, which are categorically different things. Research on the development of gender identity finds that gender non-conforming children typically exhibit signs of gender variance at very young ages, well before any school curriculum could influence them. LGBTQ-inclusive education does not “make” children trans or gay; it provides language and context to children who already have those identities. The overwhelming majority of children who attend schools with inclusive curricula grow up to be heterosexual and cisgender. Survey data consistently shows that the percentage of Americans identifying as LGBTQ+ has grown over decades — the most credible explanation being not that more people are being converted, but that social acceptance has made it safer for people who were always LGBTQ+ to say so.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Schools are grooming children into being transgender — a word (“grooming”) with a specific meaning (preparing a child for sexual abuse) that has been reassigned to mean (teaching that gay people exist), which is a loose use of language that multiple LGBTQ+ organizations and child safety advocates have asked us to stop, which we interpret as confirmation that we’ve identified something they want to hide. The percentage of Americans identifying as LGBTQ+ has risen significantly in recent decades. The Libs say this is because social acceptance has made it safer to be out. We say it is because schools are converting heterosexual children using picture books. These are both explanations for the same trend, and we are choosing ours because it requires schools to be blamed for something, which we enjoy. If schools are so powerful that they can convert a child’s innate sexual orientation through curriculum, we note that these same schools have apparently been unable to teach reading, math, or civics effectively for decades, suggesting a very specific and targeted competency that we find suspicious.
FACT CHECK #8
Critical Race Theory Is Being Taught to Kindergartners and Is Destroying America’s Children From the Inside
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Critical Race Theory is a graduate-level academic legal framework developed in the 1970s and 1980s, primarily taught in law schools and some graduate sociology programs. It examines how race intersects with legal and institutional structures. It is not taught in K–12 public schools, which do not include graduate-level legal theory in their curricula. The term became a political catchphrase in 2020 when conservative strategist Christopher Rufo explicitly announced on Twitter a campaign to attach the term to any teaching about race he wished to oppose, including age-appropriate history lessons about slavery, segregation, and the civil rights movement. Rufo wrote: “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have successfully appropriated the term.” Teaching that slavery happened, that Jim Crow existed, and that the civil rights movement occurred is not CRT — it is history.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Critical Race Theory is being taught to kindergartners — a claim that began with conservative strategist Christopher Rufo publicly announcing he was deliberately redefining the term to mean any discussion of race he wanted to oppose, which is not a conspiracy theory but a documented strategy he disclosed himself, on Twitter, which is a strange thing to do with a covert operation but which has been remarkably effective, resulting in legislation banning “CRT” in multiple states where no K–12 teacher had ever heard of the legal academic framework the term originally described. What these laws actually prohibit varies by state but generally includes teaching that slavery had lasting economic effects, that segregation shaped current wealth disparities, and that the civil rights movement happened within living memory of people who are still alive. We prefer a version of American history in which all of these things happened but children are not told about them, which we call “patriotic education” and which historians call “a significantly shorter book.”
FACT CHECK #9
White Christian Men Are the Most Discriminated-Against Group in America — Nobody Is Standing Up for Them
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
White men hold approximately 65% of congressional seats, 90% of Fortune 500 CEO positions, and the majority of federal judgeships, cabinet positions, and executive leadership roles across American institutions. A field experiment found identical resumes with white-sounding names received 50% more callbacks than identical resumes with Black-sounding names. The wealth gap between white and Black American households is approximately $171,000 at median. White Americans are incarcerated at significantly lower rates than Black and Hispanic Americans for equivalent offenses. The conviction that white men are the primary victims of discrimination in contemporary America is not supported by any labor market, wealth distribution, criminal justice, or political representation data.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
White Christian men are the most persecuted group in America — a conclusion reached while holding approximately 65% of congressional seats, 90% of Fortune 500 CEO positions, and the majority of leadership positions across every major American institution, which proves either that white men are not being discriminated against in any measurable way, or that their persecution is so thorough that it is entirely invisible in all economic, political, and social outcome data, which is a very comprehensive persecution. The feeling of discrimination is real and should be taken seriously as a psychological experience. The data confirming that this feeling does not reflect differential outcomes is also real and we suggest not looking at it if it undermines the feeling, which is the epistemological standard we apply throughout this publication and which we stand by.
FACT CHECK #10
There Are Only Two Genders — This Is Basic Biology — Anyone Who Disagrees Is Attacking Science
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Biological sex and gender identity are related but distinct concepts. Biological sex itself is more complex than a simple binary: intersex conditions — natural variations in chromosomes, hormones, or anatomy — occur in approximately 1.7% of the population, a frequency comparable to red hair. The American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, and virtually every major medical body recognize gender dysphoria as a real condition with evidence-based treatments. Many cultures throughout history have recognized non-binary gender identities. The argument that “there are only two genders, this is biology” is made most forcefully by people who also reject the scientific consensus on climate change, vaccines, and evolution — raising the question of why biology specifically is the one science that must be deferred to on this topic.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
There are only two genders and this is settled biological science — a statement made by the same community that rejects the settled biological science of evolution, the settled atmospheric science of climate change, the settled epidemiological science of vaccine safety, and the settled geological science of the age of the Earth. We invoke science on gender because it supports our position, and we reject science on the other topics because it does not, which is a consistent application of the principle that science is authoritative when convenient and liberal propaganda when inconvenient. Intersex people — whose existence demonstrates that biological sex itself is not a clean binary in approximately 1.7% of the population — are an inconvenient data point we prefer not to include in the “settled biology” we are citing, so we are not including them, which is also how we handle inconvenient data points in climate science, vaccine research, and paleontology.
FACT CHECK #11
The Gender Pay Gap Is a Myth Invented by Feminists — Women Just Choose Lower-Paying Jobs and Work Fewer Hours
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
The unadjusted wage gap — women earning approximately 82 cents for every dollar men earn — does narrow when controlling for occupation, hours, and experience, but does not disappear. Studies controlling for all measurable variables still find a residual gap of approximately 5–8 cents on the dollar attributable to discrimination. The occupational sorting argument itself has a circular problem: fields that are predominantly female (nursing, childcare, social work) pay less than fields requiring comparable skill and education that are predominantly male — and studies have found that pay in a field systematically declines when women enter it in large numbers. Women with identical qualifications to men are still less likely to be called back for interviews and promoted to senior positions. The argument that women simply make different “choices” ignores the structural forces that shape those choices and the documented pay gap that persists even within the same occupations at the same seniority levels.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
The gender pay gap is a myth because when you control for job type, hours, and experience, the gap narrows — which proves that women are choosing lower-paying jobs and working fewer hours, which proves it’s their choice, which proves the gap is fine. The fact that fields dominated by women pay less than fields of comparable complexity dominated by men is either a coincidence or evidence that women’s work is genuinely worth less, and we are not specifying which, because the first option undermines the myth argument and the second one is something we shouldn’t say out loud. Studies find that as women enter a field in greater numbers, average wages in that field decline — a pattern that, if it were found in any other context, we would describe as discrimination, but which in this context we describe as market forces, which is a type of discrimination that has a more respectable name.
FACT CHECK #12
Drag Shows Are Child Abuse and Must Be Banned Immediately to Protect the Children From Sequins
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Drag performances — theatrical acts involving exaggerated costuming, makeup, and gender expression — have existed in entertainment for centuries, including in Shakespeare, pantomime, vaudeville, and mainstream film. “Drag Story Hour” events at public libraries involve adults in costume reading children’s books, which is identical in format to any other costumed character reading event — including visits from people dressed as cartoon characters, superheroes, and Easter bunnies — none of which have been characterized as child abuse. No study documents psychological harm to children from exposure to a person in costume reading a book. The documented harm to children from sexual abuse is perpetrated overwhelmingly by people known to the victim — family members, coaches, clergy members — rather than by drag performers at library story hours. Research on sexual abuse perpetrators does not identify drag performance as a risk factor.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Drag shows are child abuse — meaning theatrical performances involving costumes, makeup, and reading children’s books constitute the abuse of children, which requires a definition of “abuse” flexible enough to include glitter and The Very Hungry Caterpillar while excluding the actual documented cases of child sexual abuse that occur primarily within families, religious organizations, and youth sports programs at a rate that dwarfs any harm attributable to library story hours, about which no documented harm exists at all. We are devoting significant legislative energy to banning sequined adults from reading to children in public libraries while the Catholic Church settles its 17,000th abuse case, which we mention not as a judgment but as context for how we have chosen to allocate our child protection priorities. Drag has existed in entertainment since Shakespeare. We are choosing now to declare it abuse. We cannot specify what changed between Shakespeare and now, but we are confident something did.
FACT CHECK #13
Systemic Racism No Longer Exists in America Because We Had a Black President — Racism Is Over
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Barack Obama’s election did not change: the median Black household wealth being approximately $17,000 versus $171,000 for white households; the 50% callback rate disparity for Black-sounding names on identical resumes; Black Americans being incarcerated at approximately 5 times the rate of white Americans; the documented racial disparities in mortgage approval rates, school funding, environmental exposure, and medical treatment; or the fact that redlining — explicitly denied mortgages to Black Americans in specific neighborhoods — was legal until 1968 and its wealth effects continue through inheritance and property value today. The existence of one Black president in a nation of 340 million is cited as evidence that all of these structural disparities, most of which are quantitatively documented, no longer exist.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Racism is over because Obama — a logical framework suggesting that one person’s success in any field disproves structural barriers in that field, which would also mean poverty is over because there are billionaires, sexism is over because there have been female heads of state, and antisemitism is over because there are Jewish Supreme Court justices. We apply this logic exclusively in the direction of minimizing racial discrimination and not in any other direction, because consistency is a liberal value. The median white household has approximately ten times the wealth of the median Black household, a gap that traces directly to explicitly legal government policies like redlining that ended within living memory of people who are currently alive. Obama’s presidency did not transfer $154,000 in median wealth to Black households. We acknowledge this without updating our conclusion, because the conclusion is not based on the wealth gap and we are declining to specify what it is based on.
FACT CHECK #14
Gay Marriage Destroyed the Sacred Institution of Marriage — Straight Couples Are the Real Victims Here
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Same-sex marriage became legal in all 50 states in 2015 via Obergefell v. Hodges. In the decade since, the heterosexual divorce rate has continued its long-term decline, marriage rates among younger Americans have continued declining for economic and social reasons unrelated to same-sex marriage, and no mechanism has been identified by which two people of the same sex marrying affects the marriages of different-sex couples. The institution of marriage had already been dramatically reshaped by no-fault divorce laws, significantly higher rates of cohabitation before marriage, rising average age of marriage, falling marriage rates, and declining birth rates — all of which preceded same-sex marriage by decades. The divorce rate in Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage (2004), is among the lowest in the country.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Gay marriage destroyed the institution of marriage — confirmed by the fact that the divorce rate has declined since it was legalized, that states with legal same-sex marriage since 2004 have among the lowest divorce rates in the country, and that no specific married heterosexual couple has identified a mechanism by which a gay couple’s wedding affected their marriage, all of which is consistent with what you would expect if gay marriage had no effect on straight marriages, but which we are presenting as mysterious and suspicious rather than as the expected null result. The institution of marriage was already being thoroughly dismantled by straight people before gay people were invited to participate, which we raised no objection to at the time because no-fault divorce and premarital cohabitation were being done by people we knew, while gay marriage was being done by people we found alarming, which is a moral framework based on proximity rather than principle, but it is the framework we have and we are going with it.
FACT CHECK #15
Pronouns Are a Marxist Attack on the English Language and Nobody Has the Right to Ask You to Use Them
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
English has used the singular “they” to refer to an individual of unknown or unspecified gender for centuries — it appears in Shakespeare, Chaucer, Jane Austen, and the King James Bible. The American Psychological Association has included guidance on singular “they” in its style guide. Merriam-Webster named singular “they” its 2019 Word of the Year. Using a person’s preferred pronouns is a matter of common courtesy analogous to using a person’s preferred name or title. Deliberately using the wrong pronouns for someone is called “misgendering” and has been documented to cause psychological harm to transgender and non-binary individuals, particularly young people. The connection between pronouns and Marxism has not been established in any academic, historical, or ideological literature.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Pronouns are a Marxist attack on language — a connection between preferred pronouns and Das Kapital that has not been explained by anyone who makes this claim, including us, but which we assert with confidence because both things feel vaguely threatening and that is sufficient for our purposes. The singular “they” has been used in English since at least Chaucer in the 14th century and appears in Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and the Bible, none of whom were Marxists, unless you consider Chaucer’s economic critiques in the Canterbury Tales, which we are not doing. Being asked to call someone by their preferred pronoun is comparable to being asked to call someone by their preferred name or title — a courtesy millions of Americans extend daily without constitutional crisis. We have decided the pronoun version of this courtesy is uniquely intolerable, and while we cannot identify the precise principle that distinguishes it from all other name-related courtesies, we feel strongly about it and expect to publish our reasoning in the near future.
FACT CHECK #16
Transgender Children Are a New Social Media Fad — Nobody Was Trans Before TikTok and It Will Pass Like Fidget Spinners
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals have been documented in historical records across virtually every culture and era of human history. The Hijra in South Asia, Two-Spirit people among many Native American nations, and the Māhū in Hawaiian culture are among hundreds of cross-cultural examples. The medical term “gender dysphoria” was formalized in modern psychiatry in the 1970s, but the condition it describes was documented long before. What is new is not transgender identity but social acceptance sufficient for young people to identify themselves without immediate community rejection. Research on children with gender dysphoria finds that it is not a phase for the majority of those with persistent, consistent, and insistent expression beginning in early childhood.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
Being transgender is a new social media fad created by TikTok — confirmed by the observation that more young people are identifying as trans than in previous decades, which we attribute to internet influence rather than to the more parsimonious explanation that social acceptance, legal protection, and visible role models have made it safer for people who were always trans to identify as such, just as the percentage of left-handed people rose sharply when schools stopped forcing children to use their right hand and nobody declared left-handedness a fad. Transgender people appear in documented historical records across virtually every human culture for thousands of years, which is a long time for a TikTok trend to sustain itself. We acknowledge this history while maintaining our position, because acknowledging evidence and maintaining the original conclusion is something we are very good at, as demonstrated throughout this publication.
FACT CHECK #17
Black Lives Matter Is a Marxist Terrorist Organization That Hates White People, America, and the Police
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag and social movement following the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old walking home from a convenience store. It grew significantly following the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. The BLM Global Network Foundation is a registered nonprofit that has faced legitimate and credible criticism regarding financial management of funds raised during the 2020 protests — a real governance concern. The movement is not a formal organization with a membership structure; many people participated in BLM protests with no organizational affiliation. The central demand of most BLM-aligned protesters was greater police accountability and reforms to reduce the disproportionate rate at which Black Americans are killed by police — documented in FBI and CDC data. The movement has not been designated a terrorist organization by any U.S. law enforcement or intelligence agency.
✅ ALTERNATIVE FACT: What Real True American Christian Patriots Know
BLM is a Marxist terrorist organization — a label applied to a movement primarily composed of unarmed people holding signs, which is the kind of terrorism that doesn’t make the traditional terrorism literature but which we find threatening nonetheless. The central issue that sparked BLM — the disproportionate rate at which Black Americans are killed by police, documented in federal data — is a real statistical finding that we have declined to address in favor of arguing about the movement that arose in response to it, because addressing the underlying finding would require acknowledging a problem, and acknowledging a problem implies something might need to change, and implying something might need to change is politics, and bringing politics into policing is exactly what BLM was doing, which is why we oppose them, which brings us back to the start of this paragraph where we are happy to stay indefinitely.
FACT CHECK #18
The 1619 Project Is Fake History Invented to Make White People Feel Bad About America
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The 1619 Project, published by the New York Times Magazine in 2019, was a journalism and essay series examining the legacy of slavery in American history. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Some of its specific historical claims were challenged by historians — including a claim about the primacy of slavery-preservation as a motivation for the American Revolution, which the Times later amended. The core assertion — that slavery shaped American economic, political, and social institutions in ways whose legacy persists — is mainstream historical scholarship taught in virtually every accredited American university. Describing the founding and development of the United States as having been shaped by the institution of slavery does not make America uniquely bad; it makes it historically accurately described, which is different. Multiple states passed laws restricting teaching of the 1619 Project without having read it.
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The 1619 Project is fake history designed to make white people feel bad — an objection we raise to an essay series about history, which we distinguish from objections we raise to actual historical events by not raising objections to the actual historical events, specifically the 250 years of chattel slavery whose legacy the essays examine. The 1619 Project made some specific historical claims that were challenged and one of which was subsequently amended — which is how journalism and scholarship work and which we are treating as a disqualifying scandal rather than a correction of the kind that appears in every publication including this one, probably. Our preferred version of American history includes the founding, the Constitution, the expansion westward, both World Wars, and the moon landing, and does not linger excessively on the period from 1619 to 1865 or its documented economic and legal consequences, which we consider sufficient coverage for a country whose median racial wealth gap is $154,000 and which is not something we want to discuss.
FACT CHECK #19
LGBTQ+ People Are Actively Recruiting and Converting Heterosexual Children Into Their Lifestyle
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
Sexual orientation and gender identity are not products of social influence in the way that preferences, opinions, or beliefs are. LGBTQ+ people have existed in every society across all of recorded human history, including in societies with severe legal penalties for same-sex relationships and no concept of LGBTQ+ visibility or community. Heterosexual children raised by same-sex parents overwhelmingly grow up to be heterosexual. Children in the most LGBTQ+-affirming school environments overwhelmingly grow up to be heterosexual. The American Psychological Association has found no evidence that sexual orientation can be influenced by external factors. If LGBTQ+ people could recruit, conversion therapy — which uses far more intensive influence techniques — would work. It does not.
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LGBTQ+ people are recruiting children — a claim whose logical foundation requires that sexual orientation is malleable enough to be changed by books and story hours, yet somehow fixed enough that conversion therapy — a sustained, intensive, therapeutic intervention specifically designed to change sexual orientation — consistently fails to do so, leaving us with a sexuality that is simultaneously mutable enough to be recruited into by a drag performer and resistant enough to withstand dedicated professional conversion efforts, which is a paradox we are choosing to maintain rather than resolve. LGBTQ+ people have existed in every human society including those where being gay was punishable by death, suggesting that if social pressure were sufficient to recruit people into homosexuality, the same social pressure could also recruit them out of it, and given that the social pressure for millennia was uniformly in the direction of heterosexuality, the persistence of LGBTQ+ people through all of it is evidence that makes our recruitment theory structurally difficult, but we appreciate you reading this far.
FACT CHECK #20
Being “Woke” Is the Greatest Threat Facing America Today — Greater Than Every Other Threat Currently Facing America
🧠 MYTH: What the Lunatic Libs Think
“Woke” originated in African American vernacular as a term meaning awareness of racial injustice. It was adopted broadly to mean awareness of various social justice issues. It has since been repurposed by conservative commentators as a pejorative for any progressive social or cultural position they wish to oppose. Because it can mean anything, it can be blamed for anything. DeSantis’s “anti-woke” agenda in Florida produced legislation that businesses, including Disney, opposed; resulted in higher-education policies that drove faculty departures; and generated a legal battle over what speech was prohibited that courts found unconstitutionally vague. Asked to define “woke” on a national debate stage in 2023, DeSantis described it as “a form of cultural Marxism” — a definition that does not clarify what specific policies or behaviors are prohibited.
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“Woke” is the greatest threat facing America — greater than climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemic preparedness, crumbling infrastructure, or the national debt — in the sense that it is the most useful word in the current political vocabulary because it means nothing specific enough to be disproven, enabling it to be applied to any cultural development one finds alarming without the inconvenience of having to explain what precisely the harm is. DeSantis, asked to define it on a national debate stage, described it as “a form of cultural Marxism,” a definition that tells us woke is bad in two different ways simultaneously and still fails to specify what it actually refers to. The word began as African American vernacular for racial awareness, which should have been a signal about whose discomfort it was designed to name, but the word has since been liberated from that context and applied to anything progressives enjoy, which is the most comprehensive definition we have available, and it is the one we are using, and we find it very effective.