Kit Malone
In #trans people, right-wing extremists have finally found the perfect minority threat. An insular, minuscule group about which the general public knows little. They're primed to believe any ridiculous made-up nonsense.
The rhetoric is getting more extreme literally by the day. Academics can debate gender theory and feminist critiques, but out here in reality-land we can see very well where this is leading.
That should concern anyone with a conscience.
Kit Malone
All the cis people who insisted that they had a right to be "skeptical" and that they "weren't hateful" and would "speak out if we were really being threatened" are curiously silent these days.
Kit Malone
Like you don't have to have any particular position on gender to know that isolating a group of people and purposefully ginning up public resentment against them with misinformation and propaganda is going to lead to something terrible.
N_RON_Evolved
@WhiteCatTamer @thekitmalone One is reminded of https://xkcd.com/258/
Jay
@thekitmalone It’s also a great (terrible) gateway into reactionary conspiracy theories.
A vanishingly small group whose practices are unknown or weird, must propagate themselves by “devouring” children, will hide in plain sight and pretend to be weak while really wielding so much power that they can direct the movements of nations?
Seriously, how thin is the line between transphobic conspiracies and antisemitic ones? And if you finally fall for one, it’s easier to keep falling.
Karmic Resonance
@thekitmalone I’ve added this to my list of things to send to my reps in the category of “if you haven’t at least read this, please shut the hell up”
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