5mo ago

Nancy Mace repeatedly shouts anti-trans slur in House hearing: 'I don't really care‘

www.independent.co.uk

Summary

During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) repeatedly shouted an anti-trans slur despite objections from Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly.

She defended her remarks by attacking transgender rights and dismissing criticism.

The outburst drew condemnation from LGBTQ+ advocates and political figures, highlighting her shift from previously supporting LGBTQ+ rights to embracing anti-trans rhetoric.

Mace has used the slur in past statements and introduced legislation restricting transgender rights.

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This is a government of the absolute worst people.
- For the absolute worst. The votes were not rigged.
  
  We're not going to take this lying down
  The votes were not rigged, more reason for us to be ready.
  
  Read this and tell me what you think please. I was convinced everything was mostly legit until I read that. Author provides their credentials at the end if you want to check that out before wasting your time.
  
  With the presence of russian tails and donald telling people not to vote he has plenty, doubt.
- There's actually a word for it:
  Kakistocracy
  
  It manages at once to be a kakistocracy, an oligopoly, a plutocracy and a kleptocracy - which makes sense since the very worst people are the few ultra-rich guys who scrambled to the top by stealing from everyone else.
T**nny today
F**got tomorrow
N****r next week
This is escalation to test the waters
- They are not testing the waters, there isn't a plan. They are just bigots doing hateful things
  You are right in that there may be escalation because sooner than later these assholes will realize Trans people are so few as to be invisible to them, they'll once again see their own lives are pitiful and move onto hate someone else just to feel good about themselves for a hot minute
  
  They are not testing the waters, there isn't a plan.
  This is the plan
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
  
  Just because someone is a bigot doesn't mean they aren't following a plan. Testing the waters and normalizing bigoted thinking are things bigots do on purpose.
- Toonny
  Forgot
  Nibbler
Bigoted bitch
I hope she chokes on her vomit in her sleep.
- Realistically, I'd be happy for her to choke on pretty much anyone's vomit. Extra points for creativity.
  
  I volunteer. I'll eat some weird shit
- While she's awake would be better.
  
  That's tough. If she's awake, chances of survival sky rocket. I don't like those odds.
Methinks this Caitlyn Jenner doppelgänger doth protest too much.
Following the 1932 Prussian coup d'état and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, transgender movements, gathering places and institutions, such as the first homosexual movement, the Eldorado nightclubs, and the Institute for Sexual Science were dissolved, often by force. Both trans men and trans women were targeted under renewed enforcement of Paragraphs 175 and 183, and their transvestite passes were revoked or simply ignored. Books and texts relating to transgender experiences or medicine were destroyed as "un-German".
Notice a similar pattern? Nazis went after trans folks first. Don't let them dehumanize trans and non binary.
These fascist bastards are going to learn something about some of the rights we have as Americans to protect ourselves from tyranny if they keep going down this road.
- Yep. Something that I never learned in school, including university. LGBTQ people were among the very first targeted in Nazi Germany.
- Against rando MAGAts, sure, but against the government? It's going to take more than commercial-grade weaponry to take on the military.
  
  The US government has lost all wars against gorilla warfare since i have been alive. And that is with an untouchable economy, uninterrupted logistics, and numbers.
  None of that would be a thing in a revolt of the US. US Civilian weaponry is some of the finest in the world. And a 22. Will kill a man just as dead as a .50 BMG
How come the reporting is censoring the word?
- Hate speech is censored to avoid normalizing language intended to encourage violence against the disempowered.
  
  Oooh, nicely put.
  Before your comment, I was thinking, "why not show the word? What word could it be? I'm a big boy and it won't hurt me," but ... after your comment I think I get it.
  I may have to take this away and think on it, and thank you for the catalyst.
  
  It makes no sense. How people know the word that should not be normalized? I’m non-native speaker and after all blah blah in this thread I still have no idea what is the word. So if someone says it, I won’t even know I should call out that person. Don’t we normalize using slurs by softening reporting? If slur censored why would bigots stop using it if they are not properly shamed? All it does is just hiding issue from media with no effect IRL. IRL, US elected bigot
  
  Yeah but you could report without reporting the word if that is the case. You could keep the fact “the slur has been used” yet they go the extra mile to put it and censored it it. The reporting should just say the fact that a representative used a discriminatory language. I agree with you that we are on for 4 years of hyper normalization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
- It's pretty funny. The whole article is about her using a specific slur but it won't even mention what the slur was. Well done good reporting.
- Right, I mean what the fuck is a trans slur?
  
  Most likely tr**ny
We need to speak more regularly about how these people obviously have kompromat on them and are being actively blackmailed - no sympathy as they are garbage humans regardless, but these changes in stance are so swift and violent. These people often have a history of not caring or even supporting these issues, before they become over the top, performative hate mouthpieces - it's so obvious that they were basically told by Republican operatives at some point, "you're gonna do what we say or we are going to fucking end your pleasant life". Again, no sympathy there because the underlying subtext is that these people do shit horrible enough that they can be blackmailed with it. But this is Mace as recently as 2023:
"I'm pro-transgender rights," she told CBS News' The Takeout in May 2023. "I'm pro-LGBTQ." The Republican lawmaker made the comments while saying she opposed gender-affirming care for minors. "Sex change surgery, the hormone blockers that sterilize our children, we shouldn't be doing that," Mace said. "Now, if they want to take on a different pronoun or a different gender identity, or grow their hair out, or wear a dress, or wear pants, or do those things as a minor, those are all things that I think most people would support. Be who you want to be, but don't make those permanent changes when it's a child," she added.
Not a perfect position by any means, but centuries away from what she is today.
And here is after she was first elected in '21:
She was one of the only Republicans to sponsor the Serving Our LGBTQ Veterans Act in 2021, which proposed establishing a Center for LGBTQ Veterans within the Department of Veterans Affairs. That same year, she even called for “transgender equality” while asserting herself as a pro-LGBTQ+ rights lawmaker. “I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,” Mace told the Washington Examiner. “No one should be discriminated against.” “It isn’t a black-and-white issue,” Mace added. “I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I’m also a constitutionalist, and we have to ensure anti-discrimination laws don’t violate First Amendment rights or religious freedom.”
- I don't think kompromat is necessary. These are power-hungry and attention-hungry people. They'll say and do whatever panders to the people who will pay attention to them in the moment. J K Rowling didn't need to be blackmailed to go from saying she supported transgender rights to becoming one of the Internet's worst purveyors of trans-hate. Many other "influencers" have gone the same route, including a few who are trans themselves. (Matt Bernstein has some good videos about these people.) Overt transphobia is a thing you can do to score cheap points with ignorant people and get attention, approval and money. There's enough motivation there for a certain kind of character, with no need for blackmail.
  
  My point with Mace is her transition on public stance - she ran in part on a more tolerant, realistic view than most. I don't remember rowling speaking of any tolerance before she showed herself as a villain - she just went from quiet to loud.
The actual stripping of protections, the laws they are or will pass, those are bad enough already, but sometimes it feels like the worst part is just how brave these bigot shitfuckers have become now that their pet nazi is in power. They don't even have the decency to be afraid to fly their hate flag anymore. They were always shitty people, but at least they used to feel like the country at large would reject them for expressing their true feelings, hence all the pushback against "Cancel Culture." Now, though, they're not even afraid of ostriziation, much less anything more substantial.
The MAGA Cult holy grail is when they can keep their careers intact after shouting the N-word in the capitol and say that they don't care.
They're almost there. Keep sleeping, murica
- Their holy grail is to be able to kill you because they don't like the look of you, and be rewarded for it.
What a vile human.
Shouldn't she be hiding in a bathroom somewhere, faking injuries while trying to inspect other people's genitals?
I actually read the article and clicked on the link to the hearing back and forth and can't find what the anti trans slur was. Honestly I can't think of what an anti trans slur would be so I guess its possible I somehow missed it but I assumed it would be obvious.
- Saying "tranny" is a slur.
  
  ok yeah. I would have picked up on that I think. I did not see it. I mean I get they don't want to say the slur but having to rely on someones basically opinion on what is what is sorta difficult nowadays.
When Sarah Palin came about, surely I thought she was the most craziest dumbest and racist female brunette politician ever.
Why are there more?!
God this bitch is so desperate to cling to her 15 minutes of fame.
Some future documentarian's job just got easier.
- Documenting facts with an intention to educate? That's definitely going to be illegal.
  
  It'll be an important topic for history class in the New California Republic
That's rich, coming from a sandwich-maker that left the kitchen.
Someone deserves to be maced, that much is certain. May you go to hell, Mace.
What a cissy.
Honestly, I didn't know that was a derogatory word, because I hear it used by people within the lgbqt community. Maybe it's like the n-word where only certain people can get away with saying it?
EG, there was a famous SF club with that word in its name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trannyshack
- And most people would just go "hey man, that word is deragatory" and you'd probably go "oh sorry," and everyone moves on and grows.
  But Mace was told directly "hey that's a derogatory term" and then proceeded to spew it repeatedly, because she's a cunt.
- It's very much a "reclaimed word" in the same way the n-word is. Totally cool if one of my queer friends says it, not cool if some rando on the street shouts it at me.
Hey man if I lived in the USA I would probably start planning something incredibly violent as a response
This seems a bit obsessive and more than a little unhinged. I had the unique experience of being interviewed in a state committee and the experience can be overwhelming. The idea that someone would act up this way feels performative, dramatic, and to repeat the word, obsessed.
Can’t she, like, shut the fuck up? I wish our paths were to cross.
What's a woman doing in a position of power in this administration? Oh wait, she is doing her master's bidding - never mind.
N. Mace is really focusing on lowering the price of chicken eggs I see.
This bigot had a trans-rights activist arrested for "Assault" right after shaking hands with them.
Someone should've countered with "attention whore!" on repeat
These people are supposed to be representing their constituents; it isn't supposed to be an episode of Jerry Springer. I'm surprised they aren't literally throwing chairs.
- To be fair, we haven't met their constituents.
I don't even know what the T word is?
- The informal name for a vehicle transmission.
  
  Gearbox?
I read this article just to learn what slur was used, but they only lost it as t*****. I'm just going to assume the hurtful slur is trumpy.
- Toonny haha
damn. i don’t know much about her other than she’s been pretty vocal about UAP transparency. sucks that she’s an asshole too.
- I bet she has a nice cock.

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