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Man documents his own homophobic temper tantrum inside LEGO store & the internet responds accordingly

What are conservatives mad about today? LEGO store employees’ choice of pins, apparently. The outrage began when conservative personality John K. Amanchukwu Sr. went into a LEGO store at his local shopping mall and spotted employees wearing pins showing the Progress Pride flag. He pulled out his camera and started arguing with them. “Do you […]

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Apr 13, 2023 - 20:00

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Man documents his own homophobic temper tantrum inside LEGO store & the internet responds accordingly

What are conservatives mad about today? LEGO store employees’ choice of pins, apparently.

The outrage began when conservative personality John K. Amanchukwu Sr. went into a LEGO store at his local shopping mall and spotted employees wearing pins showing the Progress Pride flag. He pulled out his camera and started arguing with them.

THE TRESPASSES OF DEI

My six year old son goes into @LEGO_Group to find a LEGO set for me to purchase. While being in the store, we notice that 4 store clerks are marketing PRIDE FLAGS on their aprons, in a store that caters to KIDS! That's disgusting ?.

This is another form… pic.twitter.com/AIoF2OeNwG— John K. Amanchukwu Sr. (@REVWUTRUTH) April 12, 2023

“Do you think children care about what man sucks dicks at home, and what girl eats vaginas at home?” he asks.

The employees start asking him to leave, but Amanchukwu doubles down. “Do you think they care?” he asks.

“I don’t think they think about that, personally,” the employee says.

“Right. They think about it when they see your pin,” Amanchukwu replies. Soon, security gets involved, but Amanchukwu doesn’t get kicked out before dropping all his favorite buzzwords, including “pedophilia,” “grooming,” and “child abuse.”

Amanchukwu posted the video to his Twitter page, writing, “This is another form of indoctrination. What does your sexual preference have to do with cheap plastic toys made for kids?”

Again, literally all that happened was some employees were wearing rainbow flag pins — but sure, let’s call it “indoctrination.”

The video was reposted by conservative media mogul and talk show host Charlie Kirk, who captioned it, “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?”

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?

? pic.twitter.com/7AygMEdhRF— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 12, 2023

Luckily, you can always count on Twitter to put bigots in their place in hilarious fashion. Plenty of folks pointed out the obvious: the employees weren’t being inappropriate in a toy store, but Amanchukwu, who immediately starting yelling about genitalia and sex acts, definitely was.

Watch: this father has a problem where he enters the LEGO store to yell sucking cocks— Luc Bernard (@LucBernard) April 13, 2023

The person yelling “sucking cocks” and “eating vaginas” in a toy store is the person being inappropriate in front of kids. This is simple. The dad is the danger to kids here. I would not want my child (who has two moms) to hear that trash.— Amanda Deibert (@amandadeibert) April 13, 2023

Surprise, being LGBTQ does not simply boil down to sex.— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) April 13, 2023

Then there’s the matter of basic decency. Retail workers have to deal with enough without people making a scene over some innocent pins — and if Amanchukwu’s problem is with LEGO, he needs to take that to the company’s leadership, not to some random employees.

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.

You people are deranged and you’re telling on yourselves every day.— DrewMcWeeny (@DrewMcWeeny) April 12, 2023

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.— Mango (@Neoncaffeine) April 13, 2023

Mad respect for anyone who has ever suffered the indignity of working retail and has had to deal with rude and unruly customers.— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) April 13, 2023

But of course, LEGO is LGBTQ+-inclusive, so Amanchukwu wouldn’t have much luck there, either. The company released its LGBTQ+ set, titled “Everyone Is Awesome,” in 2021, along with a set based on Queer Eye later that year.

Wait till they find out about this…i fully expect they will shut down discourse for a full month to talk about the most important issue on the planet, not income inequality but plastic figures with the wrong color pic.twitter.com/4uQFtR6MJQ— Benjamin Gilbert-Lif (@benjmakesmovies) April 12, 2023

Meanwhile, back in Amanchukwu’s comment section, users were forcing him to face his greatest fear: pretty colors arranged in rainbow order. Truly horrifying!