It’s so clear that would be the result that it must be the objective
It’s almost like the politicians and the media banding together to deliver constant negative messaging about a small minority group with virtually no representation or means of defending themselves might create a hostile environment in which members of the general public harbour hatred against that small group.
I think a lot of people think ‘they must be doing something wrong, or else there wouldn’t be so much coverage about them’, even though what trans people *as a group* have done wrong is literally nothing.
It also serves to validate and encourage the pre-existing hate that some people had, but felt ashamed to say because *woke culture* means ‘you can’t say anything anymore’. (The thing they wanted to say is that they hate trans people).
It’s all right out of the far-right playbook, and I have no patience anymore for people who say that transphobia is not far-right extremism. I think some people like to give it a free pass, and say ‘well, both sides have problems’, as if being trans is a political position and not just a form of existing.
It’s just disgusting, transphobia is vile, and it is genuinely scary to see this far-right extremism get a free pass in the media and the government. And shame on anyone who tries to justify it.
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It’s so clear that would be the result that it must be the objective
It’s almost like the politicians and the media banding together to deliver constant negative messaging about a small minority group with virtually no representation or means of defending themselves might create a hostile environment in which members of the general public harbour hatred against that small group.
I think a lot of people think ‘they must be doing something wrong, or else there wouldn’t be so much coverage about them’, even though what trans people *as a group* have done wrong is literally nothing.
It also serves to validate and encourage the pre-existing hate that some people had, but felt ashamed to say because *woke culture* means ‘you can’t say anything anymore’. (The thing they wanted to say is that they hate trans people).
It’s all right out of the far-right playbook, and I have no patience anymore for people who say that transphobia is not far-right extremism. I think some people like to give it a free pass, and say ‘well, both sides have problems’, as if being trans is a political position and not just a form of existing.
It’s just disgusting, transphobia is vile, and it is genuinely scary to see this far-right extremism get a free pass in the media and the government. And shame on anyone who tries to justify it.