It's important to understand that the widespread anti-trans hatred you see today isn't organic.
It's the result of a calculated, well-funded campaign that capitalizes on biases to galvanize political supporters to build power and wealth.
People made jokes about us in the 70s, but they didn't run campaigns. That's new. And it's a political strategy.
Every anti-trans talking point you've ever heard - including the sports shit - was dreamt up by messaging experts in a board room somewhere.
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@thekitmalone We really need a recalibrated version of free speech standards whereby this kind of calculated, organized hate is not protected and is handled exactly the same way baser and more direct nazi glorification is handled in Germany.
@dalias I appreciate that sentiment, but those measures didn't really stop the rise of the new far right in Germany.
I'd like to see the end of the Citizens United era, and meaningful reforms to donor reporting requirements for non profits so that the monied interests who are funding and profiting from this nonsense could no longer hide behind a shield of anonymity.
@thekitmalone I'm not an expert on German law or politics, but my understanding is that the failure is largely being too limited to literal 20th century nazi imagery and language rather than broad enough to cover the dehumanization patterns and weaponized hate.
@dalias that's a good rundown of why such restrictions are often unworkable. It's incredibly difficult to craft laws that can't be wormed around without applying a blunt instrument to free speech or else becoming so vague that they are unenforceable.
Do that in the US and watch how fast it gets used to shut down leftist dissent, minority protests, and anyone else corporate America's bought judicial system decides is "hateful."
@thekitmalone The exact same thing comes up in CoCs, and is a solved problem there, except when people are purposefully writing it to be weaponized in reverse by trying to be "impartial".