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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 222 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

Because stirring up hate against vulnerable minorities, by positioning them as a threat is a well tested and effective technique for the power hungry to gain and retain power. And it's effective, because it works by pulling people in and making all of the conversation about whether or not it's right to hate on the group they're targeting.

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Spot on. The fucking bathroom issue I keep hearing kills me. They are in there to take a shit Karen not to pass you brownies though the stalls and play a game of peak a boo above the stalls

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago

I still don't understand their claims that bathroom segregation makes anyone "safer"

Do they think there's some kind of law on the books that says "Anyone who matches the gender on the sign can diddle anyone inside they want!" cause that's how they act.....

Personally I find it silly that bathrooms are segregated at all when stalls exist.

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 77 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

The more I read these comments it sound like the USA is entering its Hitler phase.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Hell we used to genocide and enslave the people we looked down on. Talking ill of them on Fox News is a step up, my friend.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 17 hours ago

They very much are...

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 32 points 18 hours ago

A combination of 'scapegoat' and 'them vs us', basically.

[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago

It is also exceedingly important to note that plenty on the Right don't explicitly hate Trans people. That's a rhetoric. They may be worried about some of the news "reports" and """stories""", had to triple quote that one, and yes the radical Right and MAGA do buy in hard and hate due to racial and superiority bullshit. What so many on the Right who are on the fence about these things are truly scared of...

Is having an opinion that deviates from the people around them who they've known probably all their lives. Unlike us on the Left who hiss and spit at one another every time one of us has a family gathering, many on the Right fear alienating their social circles.

If you ever want to change the mind of someone on the Right you really just need to soothe their rabid, horrid, twisted by those around them, frothing soul of an angry jackass and make them feel as if they can actually believe something else could be the truth.

But by GOD can it be tiring.