Every day I wake up and am reminded of the fact biggotry exists, something shorts out in my brain… Like, I just can’t comprehend how anyone - much less a large group of organized people like the GOP - can possibly care so much about people’s choices that could have zero impact on them.
They must just want to be angry. They want to play victims while they punish others, ironically creating actual victims. These types of people are so fucking sick and depraved, whether they acknowledge it, or not.
Maybe if they had real problems, they’d develop a minutiae of empathy.
Until then, these same people call all of us normal people mentally unstable… Because we care, and we are willing to fight their sociopathy with integrity and honesty.
One of the reasons the GOP is so invested in bigotry, is because it’s useful to their goals. They need a boogeyman. Not only does it act as a distraction as they steal from their base, it also acts as a justification for why they need so much power: to protect you from the boogeyman. They choose minorities because those groups have less power to fight back.
That’s exactly the reason why trans bigotry as a “feminist” movement has had so much effort put into stoking it. There’s a ton of dark money from Evangelicals being funnelled into astroterfing to divide progressives by forcing wide wedge issues. They don’t care about trans people, they care about turning non-conservatives against each other so that they can scoop up the disaffected to their cause.
Ten short years ago the average person in the street didn’t care either way about trans people. Sure, they didn’t get much recognition or support from government bodies, but neither did they have this army of self-proclaimed feminists trying to persuade them to kill themselves.
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Every day I wake up and am reminded of the fact biggotry exists, something shorts out in my brain… Like, I just can’t comprehend how anyone - much less a large group of organized people like the GOP - can possibly care so much about people’s choices that could have zero impact on them.
They must just want to be angry. They want to play victims while they punish others, ironically creating actual victims. These types of people are so fucking sick and depraved, whether they acknowledge it, or not.
Maybe if they had real problems, they’d develop a minutiae of empathy.
Until then, these same people call all of us normal people mentally unstable… Because we care, and we are willing to fight their sociopathy with integrity and honesty.
One of the reasons the GOP is so invested in bigotry, is because it’s useful to their goals. They need a boogeyman. Not only does it act as a distraction as they steal from their base, it also acts as a justification for why they need so much power: to protect you from the boogeyman. They choose minorities because those groups have less power to fight back.
Only if we’re not unified 😉
That’s exactly the reason why trans bigotry as a “feminist” movement has had so much effort put into stoking it. There’s a ton of dark money from Evangelicals being funnelled into astroterfing to divide progressives by forcing wide wedge issues. They don’t care about trans people, they care about turning non-conservatives against each other so that they can scoop up the disaffected to their cause.
Ten short years ago the average person in the street didn’t care either way about trans people. Sure, they didn’t get much recognition or support from government bodies, but neither did they have this army of self-proclaimed feminists trying to persuade them to kill themselves.