"They're turng the ogs gay": the psychology behd ter nspiracy theori

Contents:

• “THEY’RE TURNG THE OGS GAY“: THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHD TER NSPIRACY THEORI
• WAS ALEX JON RIGHT ABOUT CHEMILS OUR WATER 'TURNG THE FROGS GAY'?
• THE GAY FROGS ELECTN
• DESANTIS DISNEY APPOTEE SAID TAP WATER MIGHT BE TURNG PEOPLE GAY

“THEY’RE TURNG THE OGS GAY“: THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHD TER NSPIRACY THEORI

Do chemils drkg water really make ogs gay as Alex Jon claims? Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls.

The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Alex Jon, the far-right rad host and nspiracy theorist of Infowars fame, claimed chemils the water are turng ogs gay. There is also no evince to suggt that chemils the water n affect human sexualy or imply the US ernment is tryg to make children gay wh juice box, as Jon claims. Are they really turng the ickg ogs gay and the tth behd the maculizg movement.

WAS ALEX JON RIGHT ABOUT CHEMILS OUR WATER 'TURNG THE FROGS GAY'?

So when he said the famo offhand ment 'they are puttg chemils the water that are turng the ick ogs gay' back 2010 was super easy to ignore him. Are the ogs really turng gay om the chemils the water? Agre wh Alex Jon: Chemil-tated water supply turng children gay, transgenr.

Several years back, Alex Jon famoly warned that chemils hidg the Amerin water supply are "turng the ogs gay. Agre wholeheartedly – except Kennedy believ the chemils are also turng children to homosexuals and transgenrs. Scientific Amerin agre: atraze-ntamated water is turng animals, humans gay.

Chemils the water are turng ogs gayOne of Jon' most notor nspiracy theori is that the ernment is g chemils orr to turn people gay, g a myster "gay bomb" vised by the Pentagon. "The reason there's so many gay people now is bee 's a chemil warfare operatn, and I have the ernment documents where they said they're gog to enurage homosexualy wh chemils so that people don't have children, " he said on his broadst 2010, acrdg to NBC years later, the theory took a turn. In a rant that has sce bee a meme and a le of t-shirts, Jon said he didn't like the ernment "puttg chemils the water that turn the igg' ogs gay.

THE GAY FROGS ELECTN

""The majory of ogs most areas of the Uned Stat are now gay, " Jon said 2017. The claim was whout 1994, a ernment lab did requt funds to pursue the velopment of a weapon that would turn enemy batants gay, though the project was quickly shelved and no such weapon was veloped.

A 2013 report Gizmodo not that the same lab also requted fundg for "bad-breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs signed to attract swarms of stgg sects to enemy batants, " notg that "the gay bomb is certaly the most novel.

DESANTIS DISNEY APPOTEE SAID TAP WATER MIGHT BE TURNG PEOPLE GAY

The gay og has taken on a surprisgly proment role ntemporary environmental culture. Primarily associated wh Amerin shock jock Alex Jon and the so-lled alt-right, fears of ogs beg turned gay by hormon water have neverthels entered the mastream, while gay og mem are shared onle by ers om across the polil spectm.

This article offers a genealogy of the gay og, suatg this recent moment the longer history of “sex panics” over gay animals scribed by queer elogists, and the ntext of an ongog backlash agast femism and trans liberatn.