“There’s no reason to give a platform to someone who spews dehumanizing rhetoric against the LGBTQ+ community,” Bitz said, “especially the transgender community who frequently experience violence. Kate Bitz, program manager of the Western States Center, says that while Sears may have initially gained attention with comedy videos, today she believes he’s clearly “more of an agitator.” “I know how dog whistles work this was like taking a layer off of that,” Tonasket Hoyt said, “Trans people get hate-crimed all the time in this country. After dealing with Sears and his audiences, though, she instead decided to walk away for good. She had already given her two weeks’ notice, but intended to return occasionally to help with sold-out shows. She told me Sears’ shows were supposed to be her final shifts at the club. Tonasket Hoyt contacted Range in December, and I met with her at a cafe.
The audience cheered in approval one person requested “Portland!” too. Sears suggested that Seattle be first to go, presumably due to its left-leaning reputation. Tonasket Hoyt documented Sears joking about Biden using his presidential power to nuke U.S. She also contacted Eoin Higgins, who had previously written about Sears’ severe “rightward turn” in his Substack newsletter The Flashpoint. Soon after Sears’ weekend residency, she called in to The Majority Report with Sam Seder to sound the alarm about the content of Sears’ shows. What no one realized is that Tonasket Hoyt had taken out her phone and pressed record.
Sears segued to his Big Lie material: “I’m curious, make a little noise if you think there was any election fraud.” The audience cheered. Look at that very diverse-looking group of them/theirs that I’m about to easily kill. One side has actual military training the other side has ‘woke’ military training. In another set, he said: “One side has guns, the other side has pronouns.
Don’t you wanna be on the side with all the guns?,” he asked his audience during one set. JP Sears’ sets were different, and his audiences were responding differently.īehind a microphone, Sears - the red-headed creator of that viral 2015 YouTube video “How to Be Gluten Intolerant", who has since re-invented (or revealed) himself to be a Trumpy embodiment of conspirituality - discussed the possible combatants in a modern civil war: “But this, for me, crossed a line,” she said. “I’ve heard all of the offensive jokes,” she said, and “all kinds of styles of offense.” She has watched comics “punch down” - a term for when anyone ridicules groups of people who are already marginalized or oppressed. In the three years she worked at the club - and in a lifetime of enjoying comedy - Tonasket Hoyt said she’s heard plenty of edgy content.
When JP Sears performed a string of nine sold-out shows at Spokane Comedy Club from November 26th to 28th, 2021, Alexis G Tonasket Hoyt - a club employee at the time - grew disturbed by what she heard and saw on stage, as well as what she observed from the combined crowd of what she estimated to be 2700. Far-right Comic and “Holistic Coach” JP Sears Left a Wake of Concerns After His November Shows at Spokane Comedy Club.
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