Stupid asses.
I forever love my trans comrades btw :07: literally braver than the troops.
It's pretty straightforward. Fascism needs an enemy to rally it's supporters against. A big part of the "fun" of Fascism is destroying, humiliating, and killing a designated enemy. They need an enemy that is unpopular with the majority of society so their entire base can be turned against that enemy.
The way it goes is the Fascists pick and enemy. Doesn't really matter who it is. Could be Jews. Could be Socialists. Could be trans people. Could be redheads (CW: depictions of racialized violence). It literally does not matter who the enemy is, they just need to pick an enemy.
Then the fascists can blame literally every bad thing in society on that enemy. Doesn't matter if it's true or not, that's not the point. The appeal of Fascism is largely in the thrill of being part of the "In" group and enjoying the adrenaline, cortisol, and oxytocin of ganging up to hurt the "Out" group. It's getting a whole bunch of your buddies together and beating to death someone who is ontologically evil. You get the high of engaging in physical violence, in being righteous, in doing something "Good" to protect your "Volk".
Right now the enemy of choice is trans people. Trans people are a small minority. They're socially, economically, and politically marginalized. No one with any power will stand up to defend them. The majority of society views them as deviants at best.
All of that means the fascists can engage in pretty much whatever violence they want against trans people.
The point is the violence, but they justify the violence to themselves and others by accusing Trans people of all the worst things they can think of. Right now they've decided to accuse trans people of hurting children. It's basically the worst thing you can do, so they're accusing their designated enemy of that. It doesn't matter that it's not happening, they don't care. They're just looking for an excuse to commit violence against someone who can't fight back.
That's ultimately all it is. They want to bully someone who can't defend themselves so they can feel righteousness and excitement and a sense of community with their fellow bullies. They picked trans people because trans people can't really defend themselves. And they accuse trans people of hurting children because they think it will justify their violence to anyone who is watching.
I cannot emphasize enough that they do not give a shit about trans people specifically, or the welfare of children, or anything else. It doesn't matter whether any individual fascist actually believes what they're saying or not. What they want is to humiliate and kill someone who can't fight back. Everything else is just window dressing to justify and excuse that act of violence.
Could be redheads (CW: depictions of racialized violence).
what the actual FUCK did i just watch. seriously i don't know. Did a bunch of fascists make a 9 minute genocidal revenge porn film against... redheads? Who the fuck made this "film" and why?
it's the music video for M.I.A's song Born Free. she said it was an analogy for violence against Tamil people in Sri Lanka
A decade or so ago nobody in the mainstream was talking about trans issues and chuds spent their time being homophobic, going on about the sanctity of marriage. It didn't really work out for them and although there's still lots of homophobia around, being gay became more normalised in the mainstream and gay people gained more rights in many places.
So the chuds needed a new class of people to attack and terrorise and trans people were next in line. It was an easy switch in focus for them as the reason they hate trans people is essentially the same that they hate gay people, ie. both groups are seen as giving up their male privilege, thereby undermining patriarchy. And from the fascist point of view trans people were an easier enemy as there are fewer of them than there are gay people and as the mainstream is far less aware, let alone accepting, of them as they were of gay people.
I really hope that the upsurge in transphobia we see is one of those "the night is darkest just before dawn"-type situations. There is a social and cultural current towards normalisation of LGBT people and fascists are fighting to stem the tide. Trans people has become much more visible and confident and younger generations seems to be less weird about LGBT issues in general than they were a couple of decades ago. It is not impossible that ten or twenty years from now being openly transphobic will get you labelled as a cranky old asshole by normies.
The near future seems dangerous however, especially in the US where the fascist regime is using transphobia and legal persecution of trans people to give the hogs some minority to blame for societal ills. It has the potential to get really nasty before it gets better.
I love my trans comrades :cat-trans:
boomers learned a word.
Boomers learned how to say 'triggered' and it lost all meaning.
They learned how to say 'safe space' and it lost all meaning.
Chuds are basically just viscerally angry white people looking for an easy scapegoat who never question anything they actually believe and just run with the crowd, largely because they've lived such a privileged existence that they've never NEEDED to ask themselves anything. If you already hate trans people because you're just a bastard, and 1,000,000 people just start screaming "GROOMER", then of course the only logical conclusion is to become the 1,000,001st voice screaming the same thing. It's the fucking drum beat of a march to war.
Its a retread of the "gay panic" from at least as far back as the 80's. It wasn't uncommon for homophobes to justify their biggotry as, "protecting the children from being predated on by 'the gays'!"
To expand on that, basically all large Christian organizations in the US are rife with sexual abuse scandals. It's tacitly understood on some level by many if not most of the faithful that leadership protects and enables those predators "for the greater good," because mortal suffering vs eternal damnation, equivalence of sin, and so on. The reputation of the church, and even the evangelical success of a particular predator, can and do outweigh the suffering of children for these people.
I'd also argue that purity culture is a form of sexual abuse, and Christians have been under fire for that for decades. Pledging your virginity for your dad to decide when you get to lose it, arranged child marriages (often to an adult), and resolving sexual abuse allegations "in-house" (i.e. a group of old predators who tells the victim to forgive the perpetrator and never speak of this again) are largely Christian problems in the US, and one part of their cognitive dissonance knows it.
Being queer/gay/trans is seen as unnatural to them, going against the 'natural' god-given impulses you're 'supposed' to have. Therefore if you're one of those things, you had to have been tricked or forced into it.
They see whatever they're into as "natural" and good because of Main Character Syndrome, and so their actual grooming is seen as either justified or somehow less harmful than what the gays would supposedly do.
According to Matt Gaetz, having a child sex trafficking ring is not grooming.
And now he's on children-focused social media. Hellworld. :agony-4horsemen:
Gay people having any rights at all was seen as "grooming" decades before that. The assumption was that being gay was synonymous with being a predator.
Because you're "forcing" trans ideology which "mutilates your body" on vulnerable children. Laughably untrue of course, but that's the logic.
Of course, if they were logically consistent then Christianity would also be grooming but :angel-biblical-shh:
Honestly given the amount of grooming that goes on in deeply rightwing states as well as in most mainline Christian or christian descended religions (the weird cult ones as well) this is most likely projection.
I'm a big shooty brave man
Nooo you cant make me wear the pretty dressAlso comphet but for kids is why they call it grooming. deprogramming that bullshit is seen as scheming, manipulative and against society/individual/god lmao
It recycles reactionary narratives around gay people but now about trans people, the most powerful of which is to undermine normalization of gay or trans folks with kids to invent a reality in which it's about talking sex stuff to children. Someone in drag reading books to kids is a way to normalize people that fall outside of cisnormativity. Reactionaries tell each other stories about how it's actually about sex and then with their ignorance happily accept that this also means grooming, it provides a way to avoid dealing directly and solely with the reality that they are opposed to normalizing people who are just wearing different clothes, reading a book, or just existing as an out trans person.
Though reactionaries already have really creepy thinking relating to children and sexuality already and there's a lot to wade through there.
I want to emphasize that this is a universal reactionary behavior - to transfer frustration to made-up bullshit because contending directly with the situation at hand has too much cognitive dissonance with how they view themselves. Self-identified leftists do it all the time, and particularly burgerland leftists, as we fail to actually internalize the idea is criticizing everything that exists, the idea of solidarity, and the relationships we all have to each other, to communities we aren't yet a part of, and our inability to have sufficient impact through deeply ingrained bourgeois mechanisms.
It's in crackers nature to be evil. It's just orcs doing orc shit.
