When Samuel Themer was simply “sitting on the train, existing” on his way to work a few weeks ago, he had no idea his perfectly contoured face would soon be plastered on newsfeeds across the world.
The drag performer’s 15-minutes of fame began on Wednesday when a far-right Twitter user shared a photo of him on the New York subway sitting alongside an unnamed commuter, who happened to be wearing a niqab.
The tweet was captioned: “This is the future that liberals want.”
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Neither of them seem to mind sitting next to each other at all. Right wing propaganda backfiring big time.
That pic was gold! How delightful in capturing the diversity of humankind.
Better than a pic of bloated, florid, sweaty, old, wealthy white dudes signing away women's reproductive rights!