Police Arrest An Autistic Teenager For ‘Homophobia’
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Police Arrest An Autistic Teenager For ‘Homophobia’

Matt Walsh

There’s not a lot of humor to be found in wokeism, or “safeteyism,” or whatever you want to call modern Left-wing ideology. But since it’s Friday, it’s worth acknowledging something everyone knows deep down, which is that there are a few things about it that are, if we’re being honest, pretty funny.

Here’s one of them. Most jurisdictions in this country used to consider it a serious offense to lie and call someone “gay.” If someone was straight, and you started spreading rumors that they’re secretly gay, then until very recently, New York courts would punish you for that without a second thought. They’d call it “defamation per se.”

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