Presenters at far-right US ‘news’ channel Fox News have gone into meltdown over a surge in use of gay hook-up app ‘Grindr’ in Minneapolis and other cities targeted by Trump’s ICE units.
The coiffed drones are clearly struggling after local people noticed the surge and started asking gay friends to report any ICE thugs they see joining the app in their area. In a vain attempt to get ahead of the story, Fox featured locals talking about it and tried to claim they are somehow being homophobic.
But it doesn’t fly — even the dimmest bulb in the box knows this isn’t about ICE agents being LGBTQ.
During the Algerian struggle against French colonial rule, women navigated the occupier’s obsessive and racialised surveillance by moving through spaces the coloniser failed to read properly — their veil.
Using a dating app to identify ICE presence isn’t “homophobia”. It’s counter-surveillance. It’s community protection. And it follows a long history of people turning the tools of ordinary life into ways of resisting state violence.
As Franz Fannon famously said:
The woman who sees without being seen frustrates the coloniser.
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Lol homophobia!? We don’t hate them because they’re gay. We hate them because they are ICE agents.
they’re also using gay dating apps to find people to deport… there were a lot of reports of them using the “sniffles” app
is that the excuse they’re giving?
“no see - we’re not ACTUALLY gay dudes. we are super straight. what we do is have sex with men so we can question their race when they are at their most vulnerable to us manly men with giant juicy cocks”
i am feeling my cheeks flush after having written that
are you writing gay ice erotica?
write more…
at any rate, i’ve heard of them chatting with men online, running their faces through palantr, and then getting their location from the app….
i’ve just heard of this, but there has been a lot of closet homosexuality associated with the far right and those who persecute gay people… and all of lgbtqia+
ice/dhs/cbp aren’t expressly anti-gay yet, but it seems like the natural progression of the next people to “deport” to concentration camps in other countries and forced labor
🤣🤣🤣
Wanna thank lgbtqia for looking out for everyone!
Reminds me of a friend who was in the closet, who went to meet up with a gentleman who ended up mugging my friend. He felt like he had no recourse, as he didn’t want anyone to know the circumstances of the meetup.
ROFL. Predictable.
e: hey guys, it’s okay to be gay. You don’t have to be mad about it.
They’re using it to find targets. It’s not funny.
Well, the headline is, but not the situation.That’s fair. I shouldn’t make light of it like that, you’re right.
That’s cowardly of them to do, and predictable. All private lists of people have been compromised. Many of us are on many different lists, and they’re sure to be triangulating them now. If you’re on overlapping lists, you’re more vulnerable.
