Right Wing Attack on Juneteenth Says Pride “Stolen”
Chadwick Moore, gay journalist, bolsters reputation for voicing bigoted rhetoric
BY MATT TRACY
In the face of a robust, widespread
uprising against
racial injustice and police
brutality, a gay right-wing
journalist known for making insensitive
remarks struck again
with a racist tweet in the middle of
the night.
“I’m sorry, blacks, but you already
have a month,” Chadwick
Moore, who writes for Spectator
USA, said in a Twitter post at 4:44
a.m. Eastern Time on June 20. In
the following sentence, Moore then
sought to invalidate Juneteenth
festivities — as if it’s a bad or superfl
uous thing to commemorate
the end of slavery in the United
States. He then heartlessly invoked
colonialism at a time of increased
focus on the ruthless way in which
Europeans arrived in America,
took over land occupied by Native
Americans, and used slave labor
from African countries that were,
as well, colonized by Europeans.
“Juneteenth isn’t a thing. Don’t
colonize our month as well,” Moore
continued. “Thanks. Signed, the
gays.”
Moore, who went on to fi re off
dozens more tweets, many of them
laced with insensitive language
about transgender people, pronouns,
Black folks, and more, later
doubled down on his Juneteenth
remarks and continued to push
a narrative that gay people are
separate from Black people — as if
queer Black people don’t exist.
“It’s come to my attention that I
made a statement recently which
many found deeply offensive and
upsetting, so I would like to clarify
my words from an earlier tweet:
Juneteenth isn’t a thing, Blacks
already have a history month and
June has been stolen from the
TWITTER/ CHADWICK MOORE
Right-winger Chadwick Moore.
gays. Thank you,” Moore wrote.
In further tweets on June 20,
Moore was unable to maintain a
consistent argument. On one hand,
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he tweeted that “BLM protests do
not get a pass while we still live
under the systemic and unending
homophobia in America,” but then
in another tweet he seemed to suggest
that LGBTQ people barely face
discrimination in the workplace.
Tweeting about the Supreme
Court’s 6-3 decision ushering in
LGBTQ non-discrimination protections
in the workplace, he wrote,
“I’m very sorry for the two people a
year who get fi red for being gay —
now they can no longer get that $1
million in a GoFundMe after their
story goes viral.”
Moore’s seemingly endless
stream of bigoted tweets continued
throughout the day on June
20, when he even managed to
take issue with the recent change
to the Associated Press Stylebook
stipulating that journalists should
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