LGBTQ+ friendly alcohol hate had its moment with the Bud Light backlash 5⅝—now homophobes are coming for your flair.
In a wonderfully failed documented tantrum at a LEGO store, conservative personality John K. Amanchukwu, Sr. caused a scene and berated innocent employees because they were wearing gay Pride pins on their aprons.
While the man-child's behavior towards the employees was awful in itself, he didn't stop at belligerence.
Amanchukwu continued to yell and use inappropriate language in a public store full of children.
He shouted at employees:
“Do you think children care about what man sucks d*cks at home, and what girl eats vaginas at home?”
We're sorry, what?
The employee calmly countered:
“I don’t think they think about that, personally."
His tantrum continued:
"Right. They think about it when they see your pin."
Ummm, sounds like Amanchukwu think about it.
Security was called, but Amanchukwu continued to argue, trying to garner a form of agreement from anyone.
Spoiler: they weren't having it, either.Amanchukwu
The conservative provocateur 4eventually left, but not before accusing the employees of "pedophilia," "grooming" and "child abuse."
For a pin.
Amanchukwu's post was removed for violating Twitter's rules, but conservative TV host Charlie Kirk also tweeted the video with the caption:
"WATCH: This father confronts LEGO for promoting LGBTQ agenda to children, then gets thrown out by store security."
"Why is LEGO doing this when its products are designed for children?"
WARNING: NSFW language
\u201cWATCH: This father confronts LEGO for promoting LGBTQ agenda to children, then gets thrown out by store security. \n\nWhy is LEGO doing this when its products are designed for children?\n\n\ud83e\udd14\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
Unfortunately for the homophobes—but fortunately for all of mankind—the tweet completely backfired.
Viewers put the bigots in their rightful place.
\u201c@charliekirk11 Seeing this made me wanna spend all my money on LEGOs. Thanks dude! \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83d\udc95\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 Imagine thinking this isn\u2019t embarrassing and fragile and pathetic\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 Ohhh big powerful man. Confronting a sales associate. That will show Lego. Meanwhile, he\u2019s the one literally describing sex acts. You\u2019re pathetic.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 Totally normal behavior. That mininum wage worker controls everything the company does, for example. He's the exact right person to scream your weird sexual hang-ups at.\n\nYou people are deranged and you're telling on yourselves every day.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 The most ridiculous thing is this guy filmed and shared it thinking he was the hero here, when his obscene language and aggressive behaviour is what's threatening children. Yet more ridiculous is that you now share it under the assumption that's a good thing\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 So let me get this straight, a dude walks into a Lego store, starts shouting at workers because they're wearing pride pins, and then starts yelling about sex acts in detail inside a store *for children*, and you're annoyed he was kicked out?\n\nCharlie Kirk are you a pedophile?\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
Many gave props to the employees for remaining calm in the face of a hate-filled homophobe's rant.
\u201c@charliekirk11 Mad respect for anyone who has ever suffered the indignity of working retail and has had to deal with rude and unruly customers.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 Totally normal behavior. That mininum wage worker controls everything the company does, for example. He's the exact right person to scream your weird sexual hang-ups at.\n\nYou people are deranged and you're telling on yourselves every day.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 yes if you harass an employee at a store you're going to get kicked out. that's how society works. nobody wants to experience a temper tantrum.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
The majority called out the man, not only for his use of vulgar language around children, but also for equating a Progress Pride flag to sexual acts.
\u201c@charliekirk11 Surprise, being LGBTQ does not simply boil down to sex.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 It\u2019s very simple. A man and a woman can say they are married and that is not inappropriate. If they talk explicitly about their sex acts in front of kids that is bad. It works exactly the same way when two ladies are married or two men. It is so incredibly easy to understand,\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
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\u201c@charliekirk11 He probably got kicked out of the LEGO store for foul and vulgar language. The worker didn't need to hear that. Were their kids close by? The man should have handled this with more dignity and contacted corporate...not the assistant manager making 15/hour.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
\u201c@charliekirk11 The only person sexualizing the situation is the straight guy. Y\u2019all are gross.\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
But we think LEGO already made it pretty clear:
"Everyone is awesome!"
\u201c@charliekirk11 Just remember: everyone is awesome!\u201d— Charlie Kirk (@Charlie Kirk) 1681327460
*with some exceptions*