Linking anything they don’t like to the QAnon conspiracy theory about liberals exploiting children is becoming the right’s go-to move.
For years QAnon has promoted the idea that a group of liberal elites is running an underground child sex trafficking operation across the globe. And now every time an issue like trans rights or sexual orientation makes headlines, conservative media falls back on a wild conspiracy that was dreamed up in the fever swamps of 4chan in 2017.
Disney is just the latest in a long line of targets to be smeared with QAnon-esque conspiracy theories. Whether it’s George Soros, Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden, or even the theory of evolution, it increasingly seems that the right’s favorite play is making accusations vaguely referencing the conspiracies espoused by QAnon.
Conservative anger and frustration at Disney have been building for weeks after its CEO backtracked and came out against the “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida, which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday.
Disney is now seeking to have the law repealed, which has made it a target for the right, who are fully behind the new law.
“Their main, quote, ‘goal’ as a company is now to teach kindergartners in Florida that they can in fact change their gender just by wishing it so,” Carlson said on his top-rated show about Disney’s new stance. “It makes you wonder if kids in Florida can consent to chemical castration with no parental involvement.”
Tucker Carlson claims that Disney supports the "chemical castration" of children for the purposes of human trafficking. There is zero gap between what he says on Fox News every night and QAnon and it is going to end badly. pic.twitter.com/8Ixba6kEym
— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) March 30, 2022
The right conflating gayness with predatory behavior is nothing new, but it now comes with added QAnon.