[sterlind]

I'm an American, and our politicians are starting to discuss forcibly institutionalizing all trans people. living my days out in a padded cell is not my idea of liberty, thank you. I'm getting out of here.

[_carbyau_]

They start with minority groups and most people don't think it will affect them. Until one day, one of their associates are taken away.

Then they are faced with the cognitive dissonance that either:

1. the authorities are good and correct

2. or the authorities have been evil and horribly wrong the whole time with your support which makes you complicit.

And no one wants to think of themselves as being complicit in evil. So mental effort is expended to convince themselves it must be 1.

Most people have heard of this quote: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".

But I prefer it stated this way:

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept"

[_carbyau_]

Huh. Clearly this comment itself has been rugpulled. Wonder why. Didn't meet someone's standard I guess...

[wkat4242]

I'm so sorry this is happening to you and the rest of the community. And I don't get why they pick on the trans community so much. Apart from not aligning with their personal religious views, what else has a trans person ever done to a cis one? Most trans people I know are super respectful especially because they know what it's like to deal with bigotry every day.

I mean when they go after drug gangs, at least there's some reason. Because they're a source of violence and misery. Even though it seems to be a thinly veiled excuse to go after brown skinned people instead.

[incompatible]

They are just doing what bullies always do, attacking people who they think won't be defended.

[Kverml]

I think the fact that it's such an insignificant group makes fueling resentment towards them a better bandwagon for less popular goals from their sponsors. Minorities have less influence to push back and there's less people defending groups they have no contact with in their daily life. Targeting people based on ethnicity also doesn't have to be a goal in itself. Both sides of the spectrum benefit from escalating racial tensions when it helps them get the momentum to fulfill the fiduciary duty to their backers.

[totetsu]

I think the targeting of these minority communities is just to build up political capital to spend on distracting people from existential threat of climate change?

[sterlind]

we're viewed as a social contagion. trans kids see that trans people exist, and realize they can transition too. their parents see their sweet little angel becoming something they don't understand, something that viscerally disgusts them, and the mama bear instincts activate. they steel themselves to purge our degeneracy in the name of protecting their children.

at least that's my take.

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

Give me your passport. I want in.

[sterlind]

what passport are you trading?