August Ames

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Gay Twitter pounced on Ames with the ferocity of a pink hurricane that just so happens to have a low T-cell count. A certain gay porn star who calls himself “Sir Jaxton Wheeler” instructed Ames to either apologize for her homophobia or kill herself:

@AugustAmesXXX the world is awaiting your apology or for you to swallow a cyanide pill. Either or we’ll take it.

Ames attempted to defend herself against the unforgivable accusations of homophobia by protesting that she was bisexual and only wanted to protect herself from acquiring a fatal illness:

How am I homophobic if I myself am attracted to women? Not wanting to have sex with gay men is not homophobic; they don’t want to have sex with me either so byeeeee

Yet the gay mob was ruthless. Bruce Beckham, another gay porn star, chided Ames for whining about her well-deserved digital tongue-lashing:

Turns out being an uneducated homophobe DIDN’T get you a pat on the head? Maybe think next time before you word vomit for attention.

By Tuesday, Ames was found dead “due to asphyxia by hanging.” It was ruled a suicide. Sir Jaxton Wheeler expressed no remorse:

I’m going to sleep just fine, I stood up for the Gay and Bisexual community, or I say nothing and let more people mislable [sic] and judge millions, because of one misinformed mouth? No one told her to do anything harmful to herself.

Mind you, this is the same person who told her to swallow a cyanide pill.

Bruce Beckham offered a flaccid half-apology that persisted in framing the global gay community as the victims in all this:

On Monday I called out a homophobic performer for her ignorance and uneducated bias.
She allegedly chose to end her own life when she was exposed to the same vitriol that gay people have been exposed to globally for decades.

An anonymous Twitter account called “Love Yourself” that features a rainbow flag as its icon appears to believe that in the sad case of August Ames, justice had been served:

She deserved to die. Say shit against the lgtbq+ community and pay the price

In other words: Get AIDS or kill yourself. If you don’t submit to our warped ideas of compassion, we will show you no mercy. Since we were bullied in our childhoods, we will bully anyone who questions our sanctity/sanity until they kill themselves, at which point we will rejoice.

I believe that no one can be driven to kill themselves who wasn’t already severely messed-up and didn’t want, even just a little bit, to die. But the grim demise of August Ames is one in a long line of cases that suggest behind the Screaming Left’s endlessly vacant rhetoric about tolerance and love lurk quite a few demented and shame-ridden souls who endlessly lament that the world is full of “hate” because they’re too weak to confront the ugliness within themselves.