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MSNBC’s Raddow Maddow says the names of right-wing militia groups like “The Proud Boys” and “Oath Keepers” are “inadvertently funny” because they “sound really gay.”
Maddow made the comment while speaking with fellow MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell.
“They both seem like they’re referring to gay stuff—whether it’s the Proud Boys in terms of gay pride, or the Oath Keepers thing around a lot of the gay politics around gay marriage and about being able to say your ‘I dos’ with your beloved—both of those things,” she said.
“They have such a poorly derived sense of camp and understanding about American subcultural text that they both ended up naming themselves something that could have been a 90s affinity group of, like, the lesbian avengers,” she continued.
Maddow suggested that O’Donnell could help to neutralize the right-wing groups by only referring to them as “the lesbian avengers” on air.
“Alright, we’ll try that,” O’Donnell agreed.
Watch the clip:
WATCH: Looking for a different turn of phrase to explain our lead story tonight, @maddow suggests the phrase “Lesbian Avengers” to @Lawrence. #LastWord pic.twitter.com/yHYYQUeKmR
— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) November 24, 2021
