Hating On Michelle

THE MORE I THINK about the idiots who spew the racist garbage that Michelle Obama is a man, the more i want to embark on a four state shooting spree. What do they mean, anyway? That she's a transgender woman? If so, she's still a woman, if only through surgical procedures. The first time I heard this racist garbage was in an online discussion group with some of my high school classmates. that was when Obama was president, and the right wingers were all mad about it. I left the group. I recently reconnected with a friend I hadn't seen in twenty years. Surprisingly, she gave me the same garbage. I may wait another twenty years or more before I contact her again, assuming we're both still alive, to give her time to abandon her hateful racist nonsense. I won't hold my breath. What makes this all the more incredible is that the hatemongers who spout this trash invariably swear up and down that not only are they not racists, but that they have nothing personally against the former first lady. These denials are lies, of course. In fact these hateful people do not really believe that Michelle Obama is a man, a former, or anything of the kind, nor do they care; they simply want a vehicle for expressing their hatred of the Obamas, and to justify it, without owning up to either their hatred for their racism, which they carefully conceal to preserve their reputation among their fellow haters and to preserve their sense of self esteem and moral superiority. These people are crazy, their mental processes clouded by hatred and poor judgment. When I became aware that this transgender Michelle meme was widespread among the religious right, I was initially shocked, but probably shouldn't have been at all surprised. Trump and the religious right have, over the past several years, shown a remarkable capacity to lie and to hate, often combining the two. the religious right loves conspiracy theories, hatred, and lies, and through practice is quite well versed in the nefarious employment of each. I've tried to explain that when a man transitions into a woman,she is still a woman, that only Michelle Obama can decide her gender, and not the rest of us, that had she undergone sexual reassignment surgery she would never have able to hide or deny it, and that were she a transgender woman it would have long been obvious to many people, especially to those with whom she grew p and have known her her entire life, and she could only have confirmed it, openly. As you might expect, it didn't do any good. Its, meaning reason, never does any good among the religious right wing hate mongers.