Raynard Jackson is a wingnut political consultant with some
influence, having been involved in every Republican presidential campaign from
H to W, in addition to plenty of Congress and Senate races. He’s done multiple
TV appearances, enjoys – apparently –some popularity as a talkshow host, and
has penned a number of columns for the Texas Taliban newsletter Charisma often concerning … yeah, it’s gay marriage again.
Jackson doesn’t like gay people. He has argued that the Boy Scouts have “sold their souls to
the devil” for having “decided to
make 97 percent of its troop members uncomfortable in order to satisfy the
perverted needs of 3 percent.” They ended up there after “radical homosexuals” targeted them as
part of their scheme to turn kids into “pawns in an adult game
perpetrated by immoral homosexual activists,” and insisted that “there will be hell to pay as a result of
that bonehead decision.” Nebulous threats are a common argument strategy
for people like Jackson when they encounter developments, policies or claims
they don’t like.
Later he called on social services to take MSNBC host Krystal Ball’s daughter away from her for
“indoctrinat[ing] her daughter about
homosexual marriage.” Apparently, telling kids that homosexual marriage is
OK makes you “without question an unfit
parent;” even though it “may not be
child abuse legally, but morally it is definitely abuse, and I am amazed that
even liberals of goodwill have not criticized [Ball] for such abuse.” Then he kicked it up a notch,
and claimed that progressives want to “take
another person’s child and brainwash them into believing that homosexual
marriage is OK” and “brainwash
innocent children to perpetuate their radical liberalism.” Is it “OK for Ball’s 5-year-old to begin
experimenting with kissing boys and girls or touching her classmates in
intimate places?” asked Jackson rhetorically. I don’t think that’s part of
telling kids that gay marriage is OK, but leads one to wonder how Jackson would
talk about (heterosexual) marriage with his own kids. After calling for the
government to take Ball’s daughter away, Jackson concluded that: “This is why we need to keep the government
out of our lives to the greatest extent possible.”
In 2014 he warned that homosexuality and immigration are hurting African American men, and that only
white female right-wing commentators like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham can save the black community by fighting President Obama. No, really. He said that.
There is high rates of unemployment, high incarceration rates, and
homosexuality occurring among black men, and “[t]his is why black men need more white women like Ann Coulter and
Laura Ingraham.” The argument is apparently enthymematic, but we still have
to puzzle out the tacit assumption; it should be interesting.
Diagnosis: Asshole and idiot. There are plenty of those to
go around, but as opposed to most Jackson seems to enjoy a modicum of
influence.
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