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Lil Nas X Hilariously Trolls Rabbi Who Says COVID Vaccine Makes You Gay


 

If you’ve been mysteriously craving iced coffee, walking really fast, and sitting in chairs incorrectly, Lil Nas X thinks he knows why: The COVID-19 vaccine turned you gay.

On Sunday, the record-shattering rap artist perfectly trolled an Orthodox rabbi who claimed that inoculations for the novel coronavirus are spreading homosexuality around the world. According to the Jerusalem Post, the ultra-conservative Israeli leader Rabbi Daniel Asor claimed that vaccines “made using an embryonic substrate, and we have evidence of this, causes opposite tendencies.”

“Vaccines are taken from an embryonic substrate, and they did that here, too, so … it can cause opposite tendencies,” he said, referring obliquely to same-sex attraction.

Among the other false and outlandish claims made to followers, Asor alleged that vaccination efforts are an attempt to “establish a new world order” on the part of a “global malicious government.” He also called the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech “criminal organizations” because of their work in stopping the spread of coronavirus, which has claimed two million lives worldwide.

Lil Nas X, whose chart-topping “Old Town Road” recently became the highest-certified song in RIAA history, clowned on Asor on Twitter by jokingly illustrating the effects of the COVID-19 effects himself. He tweeted a photo of himself before and after the vaccine,” and in the second picture, the musician sports a limp wrist.

“He’s not lying,” the 21-year-old said, adding with a wink: “Not enough people are speaking up about this.”

Others further illustrated how ridiculous Asor’s claims are. Professional Taylor Swift enthusiast and them. contributor Jill Gutowitz noted that there’s no way a vaccine partially funded by queer icon Dolly Parton could be anything but a gay conversion tool, while journalist Bobby Box tweeted that the COVID-19 cure not only made you gay but gave you the lip synching skills of a RuPaul’s Drag Race queen.

While the vast majority of Israeli leaders have come out in support of vaccinations as the country sets its sights on inoculating over half its citizens by mid-March, Asor isn’t the only notable figure to have spread such absurd claims about the vaccine. Last year, Brazil’s anti-gay president, Jair Bolsonaro, suggested that people would turn into alligators if they received a COVID-19 shot.

Bolsonaro had previously claimed that wearing a mask to prevent spreading coronavirus is “for fairies” before personally contracting the disease in July. Brazil has the third-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world, behind just the United States and India.

While Lil Nas X did not respond to Bolsonaro’s gator-themed remarks on Twitter, we can only hope that the coming rollout of his debut album will correct that oversight. Sure, he has two Grammys and spent an unprecedented 19 weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, but has he made all of Come to Brazil Twitter lose its collective minds with new track “Alli-gay-tor?” We’ll be waiting for the single to drop.

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