Curtis Ingraham Thinks His Sister Laura is 'A Monster'
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Curtis Ingraham has just a few hundred Twitter followers, barely a fraction of those belonging to his famous younger sister Laura, the Fox News personality and Trump supporter. But he uses his Twitter feed to express his progressive views that are diametrically opposed to hers.
Those thinking that the two put politics aside for civility at Thanksgiving are mistaken. Curtis has no love for Laura, as he expressed in
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He has "encouraged advertisers to boycott Laura's show following her comments about Parkland school-shooting survivor David Hogg, and apologized to LeBron James after his sister mocked the NBA star's criticism of Trump by saying James should 'shut up and dribble,'" The Daily Beast reports.
He has also attempted to shame his sister about what he considers her racist views, tweeting that his "sister's racist comments date back to her freshman days at Dartmouth when she would mock her black roommate by speaking jive with her friends."
And he reminded her that her grandparents were Polish immigrants and feels that her views were influenced by their father's alleged Nazi sympathies.
"We grew up with an abusive, alcoholic father who was a Nazi sympathizer. Like father like daughter?! This was the familial soil that gave bloom to my sister's anger," he tweeted on August 8.
Asked to comment on her brother, Laura Ingraham told the Daily Beast: "My siblings and I are shocked and saddened to learn of these false and hurtful online postings. Although we've been estranged from him for many years, we love our brother and miss him very much."
In a phone interview to the Daily Beast, Curtis, a soft-spoken and out schoolteacher from Northern California, described his sister as "destructive" and "extremely angry."
"She's very smart, she's well spoken, but her emotional heart is just kind of dead," he said. "And you see it in her face when you see her on TV. She's ready to destroy. She does not listen to understand–she listens to respond. And her response is always an attack."
He added that the point of the Twitter account wasn't to express his sibling rivalry, but to express his disappointment with his younger sister.
"The reason I'm sharing these details is because of what is happening in our country," Curtis said. "I feel like a bit of a whistle-blower in trying to unveil hypocrisy."
He added: "Our country has been thrown into this divisive state. So now I feel like I have got to speak out, I've got to speak out for my own sanity."
Their relationship wasn't always adversarial, but they grew distant over the years. He also sees the root of their differences stemming from her views on LGBTQ rights.
"While an editor at the conservative Dartmouth Review in the early 1980s, Laura Ingraham reportedly sent a reporter to secretly tape a Gay Students Association meeting and then published excerpts from the meeting where people were discussing their sexual experiences and sexual identities," NBC News reported on their website.
"The conservative firebrand has also compared same-sex relationships to incest, equated transition-related care to 'child abuse' and suggested people would rather wear 'adult diapers" than share a restroom with a transgender person."
Laura Ingraham's opposition to LGBTQ marriage became a breaking point for her brother.
"That goes against my ethics," Curtis told the Daily Beast. "You're destroying me. It's hideous, it's hideous behavior. That's what I'm trying to unveil here, the hypocrisy. 'Family's first, I know about gay rights, my brother is gay.' It's all a sham."
