Due to recent events, I’m not feeling very hopeful 😭. How’s everyone doing?

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        What I still don’t get, why trans people? Like why are people mad at them, did they get beat up by a trans person? Do they even know or interact with a trans person? Like what the actual fuck! And also 10 years ago it seems no one cared and now it’s all you hear, honestly why the fuck did they pick trans people as the scapegoat?

        • For those in power, I’d imagine having some minority to target is generally just a way to deflect. The reason those without power buy into it is probably mostly misogyny. Basically comes down to men who feel like being a (often specifically white) man needs to be special or else they have nothing because they are losers and they know it. Trans people directly challenge the notion, especially trans fems by willingly transitioning away from being a man.

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          Because they’re an extremely small minority that don’t really have any voice at all in society, they’ve been under pressure for far longer than you think in the western world, and it’s easy for pigs to correlate the care they need to transition with something bad

          For any chuds who have even a semblance of critical thinking, it’s actually super easy to get them think about it. You can tell them that even if they’re right about the issue (which they’re not) why are they prioritizing an issue that is literally a rounding error in society and not the greater economic/social issues at hand? They don’t expect you to, at least hypothetically, agree with them, and they can’t really argue against the priority issue. It absolutely stunlocks them because for a moment they have to consider, and I being misdirected?