Increasingly, authoritarians are likening ‘genderism’ to ‘communism’ and ‘totalitarianism’

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I think it’s worse than that. I think it’s a combination of intentional ignorance and plain old bigotry.

    Of course a lot of this is intentionally stirred up by very rich people who would love for the proles to be fighting against each other. This is particularly obvious if you consider the paranoia about transgender folks in US college sports. The actual number of athletes in question is incredibly small and in no way disruptive to anything, but if you watch Fox News you’d think there’s some massive threat to the stability of these sporting organizations.

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      23 minutes ago

      It’s helpful to note that originally sports were not gender segregated until women started to win.

      The only people who think transgenderism is a bad thing are those who sincerely believe that one gender is better than the other and crossing over that line is ‘cheating’, so if you hear someone talking shit about transgender issues you can safely assume they’re sexist as hell.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      This is why I refuse to hate the bigots in the same way that I hate the rich. They’re just rubes too weak and pathetic to stand up to power. I have more hatred for wealthy elites who financially support democrats than the average Trump voter.

      Fighting poor racists is an endless struggle of self defense, but going after those who let fascism win can have an unpredicted effect. They expect to remain above it all, but they’re the ones who fucked around, and they’re the ones who need to find out. They introduced violence and destroyed the rule of law, so now they need to hire guards if they want security. Feeding a class war will not stop the race war, but it will encourage those with capital to want the old times back, and while that is not ideal, it does give more wiggle room to not get sent to deathcamps