Fox News host, Chris Wallace, took the North Carolina governor to task over the weekend regarding his state’s newly implemented HB2 bill. Pat McCrory was backed into a corner, forced to admit that there was no security threat in transgender people entering the bathroom’s they identified with.
The Department of Justice has sent a letter to the North Carolina governor accusing him of violating civil rights laws, giving the state of North Carolina three days to reply. McCrory took issue with this:
“We don’t think three working days is enough to respond to such a threat. It’s the federal government being a bully, it’s making law, and it’s their interpretation.”
McCrory continued, spilling out hypotheticals of massive government overreach that would conclude with the federal government choosing who may enter what bathrooms in every private sector company:
“Now the federal government is going to tell almost every private sector company in the United States who can and who cannot come into their bathrooms, their restrooms, their shower facilities. They are now telling every university that accepts federal funding that boys who may think they’re a girl can go into a girl’s locker room or restroom or shower facility.”
Surprisingly, Wallace offered his own speculations if the government would be overreaching were whites and blacks segregated into different bathrooms. This is an oddly refreshing angle from a news network that tends to portray racism and discrimination as nonexistent.
Wallace continued, pointing out the main flaw in any transgender bathroom bill that has been applied to the public:
“How many cases have you had in North Carolina in the last year where people have been convicted of using transgender protections to commit crimes in bathrooms?”
“Have their been any cases in the last five years? Why not just then let it go if there’s not a case of transgender people going in and molesting little girls?”
McCrory replied by trumpeting tradition and expectation, offering no evidence to the existence of a security threat:
“When you go into a restroom or your wife goes into a restroom you assume the only other people going into that restroom or shower facility is going to be a person of the same gender,” McCrory said. “That’s been an expectation of privacy that all of us have had for years.”
The interview fizzled out with the always predictable finger pointing to the liberal democrats as the cause of conservative problems. McCrory arguing this side lacks sense. Why would that be the framework from which a conservative would work from anyway? It is difficult to watch as McCrory continues to hang on to this, the flimsiest of arguments, against a fictional security threat. Watch the interview below:
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