The incident occurred during a parade in Seattle, Washington, where nude LGBTQ activists were documented riding bicycles.
Some photographs showed children among the spectators. Critics on the right used the incident to criticize the LGBTQ agenda, while some on the left defended the behavior to show support for the movement.
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Takei was among those who defended the nude bicyclists, tweeting, "Even if there were no naked guys on bikes this year, they would find picture or generate them and push the same agenda anyway. There’s no 'fixing' this by calling for self-censoring."
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Takei's tweet received only 1,456 "likes" but more than twice as many comments, with many replies lambasting him.
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Jordan Peterson responded, "Ask yourself a simple question Mr. Takei How far are you willing to take this?" Ben Shapiro paraphrased the tweet as, "Yes, sure, gay dudes naked on bikes in front of children is happening.
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But if it weren't, the Right would just AI it into existence. So we shouldn't stop doing it." One popular response read, "Can you just call a spade a spade and point out that being naked around children is not okay, or is that too much to ask?"
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Another response read, "Ya know, you could just not wag your genitals at children for its own sake. Wild idea, I know."
This is not the first time that Takei's liberal statements have been used to undermine the far-left agenda. In 2022, Takei faced similar backlash and mockery over a statement about AR-15s and Ukraine that accidentally supported the conservative argument for Second Amendment rights.
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