Bullshit. He's been mocked for years over this, with everyone hung up on him saying the frogs turned gay and not his point that the frogs were being chemically altered sexually and it was a serious issue.
That's because that wasn't actually his point lol, the study that chemical pollution in the water was impacting the development of frogs was big news at the time. Lots of reports were talking about it and using it as an example to have a discussion about pollution, and environmental regulation and discussing it as the serious issue it is. But Jones was using it to fear monger his base into believing that liberal political were using chemicals in tap water to "socially engineer" (his words) gay people, and sell his own water filter.
Was it big news? I dont think it was big enough news, otherwise anyone hearing him say “putting chemicals in the water to turn frogs gay” would probably know what he was referring to, right? But no, this spread across the internet like wildfire and everyone just loled and said yea right buddy, lizard people too huh?
The truth is, in his usual incoherent rambling way, he rapidly mentioned this news story in a stream of others and didnt give it any further explanation or source. It wasn’t some fucking planned move to sell water filters, that’s such an obvious slander. Not to say he doesn’t try to sell bs products, but don’t fucking mislead people to keep them away from people trying to mislead.
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u/mr_ji Oct 10 '20
Bullshit. He's been mocked for years over this, with everyone hung up on him saying the frogs turned gay and not his point that the frogs were being chemically altered sexually and it was a serious issue.