In a brand new interview with the Hal Sparks radio program, TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider defined why he calls himself neither liberal or conservative however average. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Individuals ask me, ‘In 2023, what’s a average?’ They know what a average was once. However what a average is — in the event you consider that there is room for dialog, negotiation and compromise, you are a average. In case you’re all the way in which over on the appropriate however you are prepared to speak and take into account a compromise, you are a average. And in the event you’re all the way in which over on the left, they’re the identical. Past these traces — and that is a large swath — I’m in there. And that is a large swath. And the bullying minorities on the extremes on both aspect, they’re very loud, they’re very vocal, they’re very in your face, however they are not [part of the majority]. And folks get very confused with me, as a result of one minute I am being lauded and applauded by the left and reviled by the appropriate, and the subsequent minute I am being cheered by the appropriate and hated on by the left.

“I am a average,” Dee continued. “Greatest instance of that — I’ve a Tesla and a Hummer H2. That is a average. I’ve acquired in that closet behind me — my spouse says, ‘You could have too many weapons.’ However there aren’t any AR-15s and I consider in clever gun management. In order that’s a average.

“Individuals [look at and say], ‘What’s your deal, man?’ You are hating on me as a result of I form of leaned proper within the current press that I’ve gotten. At different occasions you are hatin’ on me as a result of I am a leftie and I used to be the man who fought censorship and, ‘How might you wanna put on a masks?’ I am a average. So to attempt to determine it out — you’ll be able to’t. Until you too are a average; then you definately solely get what I am saying. And keep in mind — we’re the bulk. We’re the bulk. We determine, not the crazies on the extremes. They do not determine.”

Greater than two months in the past, Snider sparked backlash when he replied to Paul Stanley‘s April 30 tweet, which many have deemed transphobic. A day later, the San Francisco Pleasure Parade introduced that Snider, who had beforehand been requested to function the Grand Marshal on the occasion, had “mutually agreed to half methods,” including that its members appreciated “Dee seeing this as a teachable second and a reminder that even allies have to be educated to make sure that they don’t seem to be casually selling transphobia.”

Just a few days later, Snider posted an announcement on social media during which he described himself as a “proud average” and argued that “the transgender group wants moderates who assist their decisions, even when we do not agree with each one in all their edicts.”