Is it all just a part of political theater meant to propel Meatball Ron into the spotlight, or are there deeper causes that this legislation is being created in reaction to? The purposeful dismantling of the education system seems like one piece, but what else is going on?
TIL cis hetero patriarchy has no economic basis
(serious)ok then please explain to me how then trying to exterminate trans people helps them economically. im not saying they don't do ANYTHING on an economic basis, i just havent heard an economic argument for the anti-trans bullshit.
Transphobia as newer expression of latent homophobia that pervades all conservative and reactionary thought. These in turn are also linked with misogyny which again is also embedded in that ideology.
Conservative ideology is about maintaining (and expanding?) hierarchies where white cishet men are at the top. It’s not many steps removed from the idea that the family is the elemental unit of that hierarchy and oppression with the patriarch as the elemental oppressor.
These partriachal systems must be upheld in order to make "women's work" something that capital doesn't have to pay for. Trans people fly in the face of the structure which allows capital to profit freely off of social reproduction. So does feminism generally (or at least the good ones)
That's the argument Ive seen
Totally. This is also what I’ve seen.
the superstructure floats above the material base, that's like saying "I don't know why coca cola is hiring Colombian death squads to do Pinkerton shit against unionizing workers, I thought they made soda!"
good non-answer
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You're right; one of the principle contradictions of fascism is the tension between all this irrational, costly reactionary stuff and the rational, profit-maximizing drive of industry. Look at all the strain between MAGA Republicans and neocons.
It's a deflection strategy. When you're getting mad about trans people you're not getting mad at your boss, in fact you might even organise with him because he's also a transphobe.