A 2019 tweet from former Daily Caller writer Scott Greer resurfaced on Reddit recently, where users continue to thrill in the knowledge that that his apparent attempt at transphobia backfired.
“God is dead and been replaced by trans people,” Greer’s ungrammatical tweet reads.
A Reddit user posted a screenshot of the tweet in the r/lgbt subreddit last month, where commenters said the message “sounds metal as f*ck” and indicates a “big victory moment.”
“Transgender? Nah, trans-godlike,” another Twitter user wrote.
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“This isn’t even my final form,” someone else commented.
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Greer appears to have deleted the tweet, but the Internet Archive has it saved for posterity.
And the archived version of the tweet shows that Greer was reacting to news coverage of Jonah Welch’s “Trans People Are Sacred” billboard in Detroit.
Greer’s tweet has been living on in the minds of Twitter users, too.
https://twitter.com/CMDR_Nova/status/1177820009105674240
https://twitter.com/anarcho_gender/status/1449085239914024980
Just saw a tweet that said “God is dead and been replaced by trans people” and honestly I don’t have too much experience as god yet but so far it’s pretty cool
— Now.Im.Olivia (@EmilyLgbt2) February 13, 2021
remembering when some dude on here got salty and tweeted "God is dead and been replaced by trans people" and how that's a supremely metal as hell compliment
— Christopher Sebela (@xtophersebela) August 30, 2019
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Anyway, if the name Scott Greer sounds familiar, you might be remembering that he left Daily Caller in 2018 after The Atlantic reported that he had previously expressed anti-Black views and anti-Semitic views under a pseudonym for Radix, an online publication founded by Richard Spencer.
LumpyPillows
God never existed, whereas trans people do exist. Here. Now. You may not understand them. You may not like them. But you cannot deny them or deny them their rights as citizens. As for god, if I am wrong, he doesn’t need your help.
LeBlevsez
Hear, hear!
Coffee’s on me.
LumpyPillows
Sweet with milk 🙂
missvamp
hail satan & amen!
Tallskin
God is dead but cross-dressing sexual kinksters, autogynephiles to a man, do exist.
No reporting here on Queerty of course but veteran gay rights campaigner fred sergeant, was attacked and hospitalised by trans rights activists just the other day.
“Gay rights legend & pioneer Fred Sargeant (74), one of the co-founders of the Gay Pride march in NYC and participant in Stonewall in 1969, was violently assaulted by trans rights activists at Burlington Pride this weekend.”
Now i await the usual suspects to 1) deny it happened, and then 2) say the violence was justified.
One of the placards carried by a cross dressing sexual kinkster says: If you don’t stand for trans rights you won’t be standing much longer”
Why is violence committed by tranz.ies acceptable to so many on here?
DarkZephyr
Nobody can take you seriously when your post is laced with blatant transphobia.
abfab
Sir Foreskin must enjoy getting scolded after he posts the same old crap. That is one kinky fetish.
Cam
Sweetie, let’s talk. You OBSESSIVELY run around to EVERY SINGLE INTERNET site to cry and scream about trans people.
You are just like those evangelicals who spend ALL of their time attacking gay men, only to get caught paying for male sex workers with church funds.
Your complete obsession with trans people leads me to think you yourself have trans feelings you don’t want and so hate the trans people who are out and comfortable about who they are.
In other words, you aren’t fooling anyone.
Tallskin
Cam, if tranzies are so happy in their skins why the threats and violence directed constantly at women, men and indeed anyone who questions their sexual kink?
Mister P
Shortskin, you already posted that lie and were called out for it. Your transphobia is sad and pathetic.
Tallskin
What lie is that Mister Piss?
Cam
The right wing is fighting a losing battle. They were doing the same thing to gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals a few years ago, mostly lost that battle and now think they can terrify their voters by continually bringing up trans people since crying about Gay/Lesbian?Bisexuals lost it’s punch.
They’ll lose this battle too.
LumpyPillows
There is a real difference between LGB people and trans people. Trans people are not upending sex, as we did, they are upending gender. Wouldn’t be a real problem except they demand that trans women are women and they just aren’t. So, in many ways this becomes gender appropriation with trans women invading female spaces where they don’t fit in. LGB people can do what they want and it affects no one else. Trans people actually do affect other people when they co-opt their spaces. It’s just not the same.
Trans people do exist. We have not figured out how to integrate them into existing social structures without bullying. Bludgeoning people who disagree does not help. I do believe trans people will be integrated into society in a positive way in the future, but not right now with everyone being so nasty about it…like I predict you are about to be,
LeBlevsez
LumpyPillows –
Allow me to remind you of a couple of things.
The ‘co-opt’ argument is a familiar refrain. Remember “I don’t want to f*aggot staring at my dick in the shower”? It still pops up on oldie stations now and then, but it was all the rage back in the day. How about “I can’t even go to Denny’s anymore ‘cuz of those people. I don’t want my kids to see that”? Hum a few bars. It’ll come back to you.
Then there was Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an existentially vital organization founded by Larry Kramer (among others). They used unrelenting pressure to get needed resources for PWAs. But….
African-Americans in the organization wanted to support everyone with AIDS while most of the leadership of GMHC wanted to use resources for Gay men exclusively. No support for straight people. No support for women. No support for IV drug users unless they were Gay men. Extra scrutiny for Black men, lest someone only pretend to be Gay. People who had worked in the Civil Rights movement understood something that most young white Gay men did not: It’s wrong to leave Anyone behind.
Where would you have Trans people wait while we “figure out how to integrate them into existing social structures”? The same place the bigots would have had us wait: in an unauthentic life that causes pain and distress, from which there is no integration into existing social structures.
Memory jogged?
You’re welcome from the loony left.
Coffee’s on you next time. And I’m bringing a friend.
LumpyPillows
LeB, I see your point, but you did not read my comment fully. It’s a problem where people trigger on one thing and then close their minds, like you just did. Women do have and issue with their spaces being co-opted. It is a reality. They see a man who has decided he is now a woman, after living a life of male privilege, declaring she is now their equal. They bristle. I may not like their reaction, but I cannot deny it. You shouldn’t either. How do we address it? Clearly not by calling them transphobes.
The issue is about how to normalize trans people into social structures. There was clear homophobia when some people wanted to exclude gay men from locker rooms. Wasn’t a big deal then either, I do remember. Nothing happened, no one cared. Why? Because it was boys and boys. Resulted in nothing. It wasn’t trans girls with penises with girls in showers. This is a reality and we need to figure it out, but it is not the same thing, if we’re being honest, which many people are not.
The AIDS comment…not sure what your point is with that.
Where would I have trans people wait? No idea. It isn’t an easy issue. I’m guessing each situation should be handled specifically based on the situation and needs. But, if you really think parents shouldn’t have concerns, then you are not being honest and that destroys the discussion. Which is why we are where we are.
Prax07
Just look at Reddit to see plenty examples of trans militants taking over gay subreddits. They’re free to create their own, but they came in and co-opted so many. They go in to gay subs not taken over yet and constantly post baited questions like Do you view trans men as men, and if you respond No they cry prejudice and try getting you banned. This is an example of why a lot of us do not stand with or support trans whackos. Lgb needs to drop the t.
LumpyPillows
You do speak truth about the trans trolls. They are bullies. However, they are all, with rare exception, not actually trans people. They are lunatics attempting to destroy social structures with no regard for reality. They first popped up when they poisoned the women’s liberation movement. They had decades to hone their venomous skills.. We should not abandone trans people over this. Most trans people are kind, generous people who understand they are different. I’ll stand with them.
johncp56
Religions go figure, every time religions judge with hate let us tax them!!