This Week in Barrel Scraping: Conservative Snowflakes
Elon Musk and Chaya Raichik are teaming up to freak out about the existence of trans folks and discrimination against… white people?
Humor by Aly Gibbs
This Week in Barrel Scraping (TWIBS) is Assigned Media’s longest running column! Every Friday, Aly Gibbs digs deep from the well of transphobia and finds the most obnoxious, goofy thing transphobes have said or obsessed over during the week and tears it to shreds.
Tribal warlord of the barren bot-filled wasteland known as X and Most Divorced Man on Earth who was disowned by his cool trans daughter, Elon Musk, is calling on you to boycott Netflix over… remarks about Charlie Kirk from the director of a canceled show!
A canceled man calling on cancelers to cancel their subscription over a canceled show. Can we drill down any deeper, here? Could this onion possibly have any more layers?!
It should come as no surprise that one of the catalysts for Musk’s call to craption was a post by anti-trans activist and stochastic terrorist Chaya Raichik, better known as Libs of TikTok. Raichik on Tuesday posted about Dead End: Paranormal Park, a spooky animated cartoon that premiered on Netflix in 2022 and was canceled in 2023. Providing a short clip of the show in which a trans character merely exists and expresses that they are trans, Raichik said, “Netflix is pushing pro-transgender [sic] on CHILDREN.”
Musk was quick to quote Raichik with a post saying, “This is not ok.”
Raichik then shared a post from the creator of the comic the show was based on, Hamish Steele, in which they criticized UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for publicly mourning the death of Charlie Kirk and rightly called Kirk a Nazi. Musk was quick to get in on that action, too, promoting some dipshit’s recommendation that you cancel your Netflix sub and tell the company that you’re doing it because they employed somebody who “celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk,” which they did not, and “[pushed] pro-trans content,” which they also did not do.
So let me go ahead and ask, purely unironically: What happened to free speech, man? Is it free speech for me but not for thee? These scumbags like to bleat on and on about censorship from the left, but the mere existence of a trans character in a TV show (which, for the record, is not necessarily a children’s show just by virtue of the fact that it is animated; consider the noble Happy Tree Friends) sends them into an apoplectic rage. The accurate description of Charlie Kirk as a fucking Nazi sets them to wailing and moaning about canceling your Netflix subscription. Who’s actually a special snowflake, here?
Never mind that the show hasn’t produced new episodes in years, and was presumably never going to get a revival. These emotional terrorists have to get in their public pearl clutching (dare I say, the true virtue signaling?) so that their audience knows they still hate woke, and DEI, and the transgendered agender. Whatever nonsense they can make up this week to keep afloat.
Continuing the much celebrated and utterly necessary culture war, Raichik took to X on Wednesday to again besiege Netflix by quoting their inclusion and diversity report to claim that they’re… discriminating against white people? By sharing that their percentage of series creators who come from an underrepresented background has been rising year over year, and is higher than the industry average?
Well, okay. Good! I’m not even going to quibble about that one, actually. She’s right: Netflix is discriminating against white people, and I support them in that endeavor. I’m here for it. Let’s start by discriminating against these two jerkoffs, a pasty South African emerald mine owner’s heir and a Jewish woman who’s directing her antisemitic followers to harass a Jewish writer.
Trans representation in media is a good thing. Diversity in hiring practices, especially in fields that are historically and still underhiring marginalized people, is good. Calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi is, actually, good!
To that end, I recommend you check out our Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day Art Contest, the grand prize of which is $500 and the deadline of which is fast approaching!
Aly Gibbs (She/They), formerly Alyssa Steinsiek, is a trans writer who reports on news important to the queer community.
