One thing I’ve been thinking a lot about recently, the two groups that Republicans have singled out to demonize and defame this cycle, immigrants (legal or not) and trans people, are two groups who, for many valid reasons, do not have many in-group, well-known advocates to counter the heinous things being said about them. The public-faci…
One thing I’ve been thinking a lot about recently, the two groups that Republicans have singled out to demonize and defame this cycle, immigrants (legal or not) and trans people, are two groups who, for many valid reasons, do not have many in-group, well-known advocates to counter the heinous things being said about them. The public-facing onus to defend these people often ends up falling to people who are not part of those groups, and who frankly are not always equipped for the job.
Big picture, it’s really sort of astonishing how much is said about those two groups in the media compared to how little media gets traction emanating from within those groups themselves. Both are filled with people who are fearful for their own safety and don’t want the spotlight, which is completely understandable. But the consequence of that is it’s created a disinformation vacuum filled by everybody *but* them.
They always scapegoat small, powerless minorities. Also their hostility is directed entirely at trans women. They never mention trans men, probably because they don't view them as a threat.
It’s all toxic masculinity. Most gay panic politics is directed at gay men rather than lesbian women, despite more women identifying as bisexual, lesbian or queer. It’s just about attacking what they see as men who threaten their narrow definition of wha tit is to be a man.
Which is an irony in and of itself since in countries with less toxic culture war politics high income gays are often a comfortable constituency in center-right/liberal-conservative parties
I thought there were more Americans who identified as gay men than lesbians. Bisexuality in women is more widely socially accepted than in men in the U.S., though.
Well, I can think of a few well-known immigrants: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Melania Trump, Friedrich Trump and his poisoned-blood offspring... The first three are definitely immigrants that I would like to see deport, Friedrich’s descendants as well.
Oh, snap! I guess that’s "not the kind of immigrant" the MAGA Alt-Reich crowd is upset about.
One thing I’ve been thinking a lot about recently, the two groups that Republicans have singled out to demonize and defame this cycle, immigrants (legal or not) and trans people, are two groups who, for many valid reasons, do not have many in-group, well-known advocates to counter the heinous things being said about them. The public-facing onus to defend these people often ends up falling to people who are not part of those groups, and who frankly are not always equipped for the job.
Big picture, it’s really sort of astonishing how much is said about those two groups in the media compared to how little media gets traction emanating from within those groups themselves. Both are filled with people who are fearful for their own safety and don’t want the spotlight, which is completely understandable. But the consequence of that is it’s created a disinformation vacuum filled by everybody *but* them.
They always scapegoat small, powerless minorities. Also their hostility is directed entirely at trans women. They never mention trans men, probably because they don't view them as a threat.
It’s all toxic masculinity. Most gay panic politics is directed at gay men rather than lesbian women, despite more women identifying as bisexual, lesbian or queer. It’s just about attacking what they see as men who threaten their narrow definition of wha tit is to be a man.
Which is an irony in and of itself since in countries with less toxic culture war politics high income gays are often a comfortable constituency in center-right/liberal-conservative parties
I thought there were more Americans who identified as gay men than lesbians. Bisexuality in women is more widely socially accepted than in men in the U.S., though.
Well, I can think of a few well-known immigrants: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Melania Trump, Friedrich Trump and his poisoned-blood offspring... The first three are definitely immigrants that I would like to see deport, Friedrich’s descendants as well.
Oh, snap! I guess that’s "not the kind of immigrant" the MAGA Alt-Reich crowd is upset about.