Conservative pundit freaks out at RuPaul’s teddy bear: “They’re coming after the kids!”

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Anti-LGBTQ+ commentator Ben Shapiro is outraged that Build-A-Bear Workshop is selling a bear modeled after the world’s most famous drag queen, RuPaul.

“When they say that they’re not coming after the kids that’s a lie. They’re coming after the kids,” Shapiro said in a recent podcast, sarcastically saying that the product makes “perfect sense because you definitely need to teach your kids about boys who dress up as girls.” The toy is a bear in a dress and heels and was made for fans of RuPaul and collectors.

Shapiro then said that the bear “immediately caused outrage online” because his transphobic colleague at The Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, published a tweet claiming that the bear is part of an “agenda to groom your kids” for sexual abuse.

Right-wingers like Walsh mention grooming to vilify LGBTQ+ people and drag performers as dangerous child sexual predators. Such rhetoric has led to death threats against…

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