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   Kit Malone (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 06:04:27 JST 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.

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     Kit Malone (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 08:31:59 JST Kit Malone

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     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.

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     Kit Malone (thekitmalone@hoosier.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 08:32:00 JST Kit Malone

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     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.

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     n_ron_evolved@mastodon.cloud's status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 04:14:47 JST N_RON_Evolved

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     • Jay

     @WhiteCatTamer @thekitmalone One is reminded of https://xkcd.com/258/

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     Jay (whitecattamer@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 04:14:48 JST Jay

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     @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.

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     Karmic Resonance (bbelton@pkm.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 04:14:57 JST Karmic Resonance

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     @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”

     https://interactadvocates.org/faq/