You’d think California state Sen. Scott Wiener would be celebrated as a hero on the Left. After all, Wiener has spent his entire career in politics advocating every extreme, absurd, and at times creepy policies that his radical base demanded.
Highlights include
- Co-authoring Senate Bill 239, which reduced the crime of exposing someone to HIV without their knowledge or consent from a felony to a misdemeanor;
- Co-authoring Senate Bill 179, which created a non-binary gender option for government documents;
- Introducing Senate Bill 145, which weakened protections against adults convicted of statuatory rape with minors;
- And authoring Senate Bill 107 to provide “refuge” for out-of-state “trans kids and their families” who travel to California to receive “gender-affirming care.”
Given these examples alone, and the Left’s obsession with all things transgender, surely Wiener is the Democratic Party’s next pick for president?
Apparently not. And that’s because the radical Left has a new obsession. Transgenderism is out, and hating Jews is in. Greta Thunberg has moved on from climate change and is now ranting about Israel, as is gun control advocate Cameron Kasky, who has dropped the gun thing and now proudly displays a Palestinian flag in his social media bio. Even candidates running for local office in New York were elected because of their Islamo-Marxist opposition to Israel.
Unfortunately for Scott Wiener, who is now running for Congress, he is not only Jewish but has failed to sufficiently bend the knee to the mob in the strength of his condemnation of Israel. While walking from San Fraciscio’s Trans March to a Pride Shabbat — yes, really — Wiener was accosted by protesters who declared that because of his views on Israel, he “stopped being queer.” Yes, you can only be “queer” if you cheer for Hamas, who are notorious fans of all things “queer.”
“Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It’s sad because while he’s written some good legislation for queers, he’s ultimately a genocidal-supporting center-right shill,” posted one of the attackers, whose social media history happens to include reposting claims of the “debunked Hamas rape narrative.”
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Of course, it goes without saying that no person should be harassed, intimidated, or assaulted because of their identity group, be they Jewish, Christian, Muslim, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or whatever the other letters in the acronym mean. But while we defend Wiener as the latest example of the radical Left’s open embrace of anti-Semitism, let’s not pretend that this also isn’t the inevitable result of the very ideology Wiener helped promote.
The people who attacked Wiener in San Francisco would have been cheering for him just a few years ago. But today, Wiener is finding out what it feels like to live outside their walls with the rest of us.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Ian Haworth is a syndicated columnist. You can find his work on Substack.