"Vote to make trans people suffer just for teh lulz." is a popular, reliable GOP policy that guarantees them victory almost all the time (not that the dems being controlled opposition is completely off-limits.) I would make a case that it's culture war.
I know I'm being a doomer here, but it's disturbing how almost universally despised civil rights are in the US. Nor am I trying to be :stupidpol: and say we should be more transphobic/racist so the normies will like us.
I say this because, the very nature of the culture war is for it to serve as a Distraction. It's not that Trans people having their rights stripped from them is just a simple distraction, it's that describing it as just being part of the culture war, only makes it seems as though it's some lighthearted 'pwning the Libs'/the 'other side winning', which, imo, only serves to passify concerns surrounding issues like, ya' know, Trans People having rights.
It's also because we only end up buying into frameworks that reactionaries thrive in, because they know the 'Culture War' is one of the only ways for them to gain any political influence.
How so, if you don't mind me asking?
"Vote to make trans people suffer just for teh lulz." is a popular, reliable GOP policy that guarantees them victory almost all the time (not that the dems being controlled opposition is completely off-limits.) I would make a case that it's culture war.
I know I'm being a doomer here, but it's disturbing how almost universally despised civil rights are in the US. Nor am I trying to be :stupidpol: and say we should be more transphobic/racist so the normies will like us.
I say this because, the very nature of the culture war is for it to serve as a Distraction. It's not that Trans people having their rights stripped from them is just a simple distraction, it's that describing it as just being part of the culture war, only makes it seems as though it's some lighthearted 'pwning the Libs'/the 'other side winning', which, imo, only serves to passify concerns surrounding issues like, ya' know, Trans People having rights.
It's also because we only end up buying into frameworks that reactionaries thrive in, because they know the 'Culture War' is one of the only ways for them to gain any political influence.
Thanks, this clarifies it pretty well. :rat-salute:
Culture war has always been a propaganda facade for genocidal violence.