Are good. And accepting the weird or different was the way to go.
A lot of people don’t personally know any trans people. A lot of right wing media says that trans people are bad and that they want to make a lot of changes to society that might effect you too. So it’s easy to hate people when you don’t actually know them, and your “news” is telling you that they are bad.
Rich people want you to focus on people who can’t defend themselves well, so you’re looking away while the rich people are stealing money from you.
nailed it
In terms of immigration hatred:
Same exact concept. There should be no culture war, there is only class war.
Well got to keep these peasants busy.
☝🏼 Topic can be closed.
This is the only correct answer.
It should furthermore be added that the neoliberal world order is collapsing. Liberal Democracy has proven itself corrupt and incapable of providing true change while capitalism strips the workers of their dignity. In this environment many workers are embracing true liberation so in order to stop the rising tide of class consciousness the capitalist blames the workers woes on minorities. The more desperate the capitalists get the harsher they get and the more they peddle their bigoted lies, this does not show strength but rather that they are deeply afraid.
Death to reaction, death to deceit, death to capital
Its a trick to focus your attention away from your real enemy
Used to gay people, before that it was black people, before that it was women, before that it was Irish people, before that - you get the idea.
Yes I know I probably missed way to many bit it’s the general idea
Rich people haven’t figured out how to profit from their existence so it’s not allowed.
A few bad people who hate others because they think putting others down means they win picked a fight on the playground. They got other people on the playground to join them because they yelled the loudest and some kids thought that the louder you yelled, the more right you were. The people they were yelling about just wanted to be on the playground too, but the yelling people didn’t want them on the playground, so despite the fact that the didn’t want to, the people being yelled at played a competitive game against the people who were yelling.
After a long long long time (LOTS of sleeps) the yelling bad people won against the people they were yelling at.
The yelling people didn’t know what to do then. They only knew how to be angry and they couldn’t find anything else or anyone else to yell at and people were starting to leave their team because all the excitement was gone and there wasn’t a competitive game to play anymore.
So the bad yelling people panicked and started randomly picking other, smaller groups of people on the playground to yell about. They made up things about them and told lies.
It didn’t work at first, and they tried telling lies about lots of different groups of people one after another, and eventually they started picking on some people who were JUST different enough that some of their old yelling teammates who got bored and left believed those lies and joined the yelling again. There was SO much yelling and it was so much louder that it was impossible for anyone near the yelling people to hear the truth.
And that’s how we got from “abortion as an issue” to “trans people as an issue”.
Fascism cannot function without scapegoats, and trans people are the smallest minority group. Once they normalize persecuting the smallest group, they move up to the next group which is slightly larger than the previous. It’s the Nazi playbook.
It looks like autistic people are next, based on RFK’s bullshit.
What I wanna know here is what kind of 5 year olds you talk to in your everyday life
Ironically, I think it’s actually rooted in the same cause of what makes trans people exist in the first place. Identity, who you are, is core to… well, who you are. It’s important. And gender is important to who you are. Not being who you are hurts, a lot. It can hurt so much that it can drive someone to suicide. We know this— this is the whole reason that accepting trans people is important, right? Not doing so can literally kill them in this way.
So is it so strange that non-trans people hold the same depth of conviction about keeping their same gender? “Oh, but why can’t they just accept that other people need to align their mental gender with their biological sex?” Because they don’t understand or believe that this is what is happening. Really. You know the thing where not having these thing aligned can KILL you? Well, they view being trans as actively CAUSING this state, deliberately inflicting it on someone. And that social pressure and acceptance of trans people is encouraging and/or driving more people to this horrible state of affairs. It’s killing more people!
It doesn’t help that it’s been hijacked by the culture wars to distract you from the class war and authoritarianism. But it being hijacked doesn’t mean there’s not a core misunderstanding, and it’s not a misunderstanding that can really be corrected or educated by simply saying “trans people exist”. Identity runs too deep, and threats to it are too scary— they can kill you, and kill you in a way far more terrifying than a bullet. Mere words and slogans are not going to cut through that fear. You need a foundational framework of understanding the world.
And that’s where the hijacking and red vs blue political nonsense comes into play. The culture wars doesn’t create the visceral fear of trans people— but it sure as heck makes it harder or even impossible to fix.
Homophobes lost the culture war around gay folks so now they’ve moved on to the next group they can abuse.
Envy.
Rowling is upset that she’s had to endure a lifetime of misogyny, and envious of men. When she sees trans women, she assumes they have it better than her because they got to be male, and gets mad at them for not enjoying having what she wants.
Steven Crowder isn’t trans, but he does have a crossdressing fetish, and he’s mad trans women get to do his fetish all day long. He wants that, but he can’t have it because he’d eventually feel dysphoric.
Andrew Tate is furious that nobody thinks he’s pretty. He has to traffick women in order to get them to have sex with him. He wishes he had the attention that women get, and he’s mad that trans women are “males” who get to be pretty. He doesn’t want to be a woman, but he wants someone to find him attractive.
Donald Trump just wants to be the center of attention. He doesn’t hate trans people, but he knows attacking them gets him attention. He wants to be in the news.
Envy.
Spite. The dirty bomb of emotions.
He doesn’t hate trans people, any more than he hates anyone else
FTFY. Trump hates everyone who isn’t himself.
Donald Trump is a bully. Bullies like hurting people. They find someone different who can’t fight back, and attack them first. They try to get other people to hate those who are different and can’t fight back. Donald Trump is a bully who has decided trans people are different from others and can’t fight back. He manipulates other people by getting them to attack trans people too
Trans women look like women, men want to fuck women and they usually arent picky. Men wanting to fuck the leggy blonde with huge tits and a penis just made them gay. How dare she make them gay!.
The Patriarchy is weakened when gender is not absolute.
When the Patriarch is threatened hatred is the response
People need something to hate, decided to pick trans since they probably did zero research, decided “BoYs iN GiRls LocKeR RooM BaYuD!” And let the hate roll. Anything to make a bigot feel better about themselves, and misery is good company for a group of shitty people.
What they should focus on is all the hatred and rape and child molestation within the church
Actually I don’t know anybody who hates trans people. Tbf it’s a pretty dull subject.
The problem with trying to explain it is that bigotted hatred isn’t logical. Try to get any actual bigot to explain it and you’ll get many (often contradictory) reasons.
The reality is both more boring and more sinister than what you probably expect if you’re looking for sensible reasons.
People who hate are easier to control. The powers that be choose a minority that can be bullied without consequences, create bullshit reasons for it, and encourage people to be afraid of and hateful to that minority. Those fearful and hateful people raised kids to be fearful and hateful. Those kids grew up to make their own fearful and hateful offspring. Some of these kids grew up to join the ranks of the powers that be, and brought their fear and hate to the decision making process. Combine this with the systematic destruction of public education, and you have current events in the us.
