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by\u00a0Joe Eskenazi<\/a><\/strong> June 15, 2026 (MissionLocal.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newspack-missionlocal.s3.amazonaws.com\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2884.jpeg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1\")
Right-wing grievance culture has not yet mounted a case that we should all be watching \u201cSong of the South,\u201d even if the U.S. Supreme Court seems intent that we should all be living <\/em>\u201cSong of the South.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Disney essentially locked away the 1946 animated\/live-action hybrid 40 years ago like the man in the iron mask; even by the mid-1980s, its treacly depictions of Lost Cause plantation stereotypes<\/a> were offensive and archaic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But if the right-wingers calling the nation\u2019s political shots had sat down and watched this film, they might have learned something: It\u2019s true! It\u2019s actual! <\/em>Everything is satisfactual.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the abstract: They might have noticed that Br\u2019er Fox and Br\u2019er Bear, hoping to harm Br\u2019er Rabbit, foolishly threw him into the Briar Patch, which is the biggest favor they could\u2019ve given him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the concrete: Right-wing loons keep throwing Scott Wiener into the Briar Patch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the most recent instance of a high-profile reactionary zealot targeting San Francisco\u2019s state senator and aspirational congressman, the incredibly lifelike Laura Loomer described Wiener on her podcast earlier this month as a \u201cdegenerate \u2026 BDSM-wearing freak\u201d who has worked to \u201clegalize murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The chyron across the screen read \u201cDemocrats Nominate Al-Qaeda Linked Jihadist and Pedophile Protector.\u201d She also tweeted this to her 1.9 million followers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There is danger here. Unhinged individuals preaching unhinged messages to fellow unhinged individuals can lead to dire consequences in both the real and virtual worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wiener\u2019s office affirms that, for years, \u201cnot a week goes by\u201d without the police being notified because of a salient online threat. Multiple people<\/a> have been prosecuted for making threats <\/a>to Wiener\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being Scott Wiener, or even working for him, entails getting your \u201cfair share of abuse<\/a>,\u201d as Mick Jagger might have put it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But there is also a silver lining. You couldn\u2019t procure more effective advertising in San Francisco than being targeted as the b\u00eate noire of increasingly deranged and outlandish right-wing commenters \u2014 who, chillingly, no longer represent a fringe outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cleaner Streets, Stronger Community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After 5 years of working to fix SF’s litter problem, Clean Streets – a Mission-based, community-funded, litter pickup workforce has\u00a0funded 1,236 hours\u00a0<\/strong>of living-wage work and\u00a0cleaned 617 miles\u00a0<\/strong>of neighborhood streets. As little as $5 makes a difference.\u00a0Click here to help us clean the Mission.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wiener, in more ways than one, has always been a big target. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2015, when Fox News sent then-Bill O\u2019Reilly minion Jesse Watters and others to buttonhole city officials and put them on the spot about the killing of Kate Steinle<\/a>, Supervisor Wiener went viral with his monotone brushoff: \u201cFox News<\/a> is not real news, and you\u2019re not a reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He delivered this line, repeatedly, like Marshawn Lynch answering every media question by reciting<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m just here so I won\u2019t get fined.\u201d Except Wiener did it while traipsing down a hallway; you could call it an Aaron Sorkin walk-and-don\u2019t<\/em>-talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After O\u2019Reilly called Wiener a \u201cpinhead<\/a>\u201d on national television, the Castro supervisor subsequently received thousands of threats and a cottage industry was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since that time, Watters has oozed up his corporate ladder and Wiener, the politician who told him to stick it, has advanced up his political ladder.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Image\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.broadstreetads.com\/uploads\/s_800_d6a16bb3-3722-4736-b566-477103299dac.png\")
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