As Twitchy readers know, The Daily Beast misrepresented what Michael Knowles said about transgenderism at CPAC. Others have now jumped on the bandwagon of truth torturers, seeing an opening to do damage to Knowles.
Knowles was clearly referring to transgenderism as an ideology, not the people themselves.
Michael Knowles publicly says he wants to “eradicate” transgendered people.
That’s some Hitler Nazi Germany genocide shit
"Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely."
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) March 4, 2023
Toothbrush fascist, David Leavitt, is never one to shy away from spreading a lie. Knowles never said he wants to eradicate transgendered people.
Hey @TwitterSafety Michael Knowles says he wants to “eradicate” transgender people
I’m pretty sure that violates your new safety rules about inciting violence https://t.co/4GqfrQBwBV
— David Leavitt (@David_Leavitt) March 4, 2023
Leavitt went on to double-down on his disingenuous disinformation, even attempting to tattle on Knowles with Twitter Safety.
No he didn’t.
He literally didn’t.
Print out the captions and highlight the words where he said he wants to eradicate transgender people.
— Corbin Sabol (@corbinsabol) March 5, 2023
That doesn’t matter to people like Leavitt. The goal is to spread the lie fast enough via tweets and headlines, understanding that few people in our 4-second attention span culture will bother to dig deeper for the truth.
"Michael Knowles publicly says he wants to “eradicate” transgendered people."
He'd probably sue you for this kind of defamation but what's he gonna take from you in damages? Your tooth brush?
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) March 5, 2023
Right?! It’s only worth a penny. LOL.
Oh look, a far left activist that pretends to be a journalist mangling the facts about a right wing speech!
That NEVER happens!— John Bind (@johnbind2) March 5, 2023
We never thought we’d see the day!
You undermine your credibility when you conflate different things like that and purposely misinterpret what he said
— Test McTesterFace ⬆️ (@dogeth0) March 5, 2023
‘Credibility’. LOLOLOL!
You can advocate to eradicate a behavior while not advocating to eradicate the people preforming the behavior.
ie: “We should eradicate shoplifting in our communities” doesn’t mean we are eradicating the individual who is shoplifting, just the behavior.
— Mandalynnm23 (@mandalynns23) March 5, 2023
‘BREAKING: Twitter user advocates for the mass murder of shoplifters!’
Watch out, Rex Chapman.
Leavitt wasn’t the only one to push the smear.
Michael Knowles has been complaining that media outlets have reported that he said he wanted to “eradicate” trans people; whereas he actually said that the US must eradicate “transgenderism”. But didn’t he anticipate that people would think he called for genocide? https://t.co/RzqjgGH1t7
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) March 5, 2023
We really don’t think Knowles should have anticipated any HONEST person would think he called for a genocide.
Knowles probably should have anticipated that a bunch of dishonest liberal hacks cosplaying as journalists would claim he was calling for genocide.
Seriously, let that sink in for just a minute. ‘Didn’t he realize people would think he was calling for a genocide?’ What a colossally stupid question. Decent and reasonable people don’t assume others just casually call for genocide at public political events. Instead, we assume that’s clearly not what he meant and ask for clarification if we’re confused about what he intended.
‘Benefit of the doubt’, as a general ideology of human decency, has been all but eradicated from public life.
No, I foolishly thought people might understand the meaning of words. https://t.co/vOLSE4Hg0d
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) March 5, 2023
Let’s all be honest here: They understand the words. They’re just hoping if the twist them the right way their audience will believe the fabrication.
The question people clearly have for you is whether your call for the eradication of transgenderism was a dog whistle for the mass murder of trans people.
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) March 5, 2023
It’s hard to even want to respond to a question that is so dishonestly dumb.
This question is so dumb it waits for STOP signs to say GO.
This question is so dumb it thinks Daily Kos is a Bill Cosby tribute site.
This question is so dumb it failed a urine test.
Society treats "transgender" identity as it did before, say, 2015. https://t.co/UR2FiR68Se
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) March 5, 2023
There you go. Stop trying to normalize a clearly abnormal occurrence. Stop trying to push it on children. Leave adults alone to make decisions about such things for themselves.
This headline is libelous, and I demand a retraction. @RollingStone pic.twitter.com/ud8kUPwDwy
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) March 4, 2023
Rolling Stone, a political magazine that used to write about rock music, published a headline that was as defamatory, if not more, than the one from The Daily Beast.
We are demanding full retractions and apologies from @thedailybeast, @HuffPost, and @RollingStone for their false and libelous claims about @michaeljknowles, and have referred these all to our General Counsel. pic.twitter.com/vLc6X8xMH8
— Alyssa Cordova (@lysscordova) March 5, 2023
This is the right way to deal with the constant slander from the Left.
Anyone arguing that this dude was literally talking about killing all the trans-ID'd people is being 169% intentionally disingenuous.
People talk all day about "eradicating whiteness," capitalism, Communism, etc. That doesn't mean, like, camps. https://t.co/LbekPoL854
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) March 5, 2023
We all know. They all know too. They’re just liars.
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