Anti-trans figures are once again taking advantage of a tragedy to push for more restrictions on trans people. With every claim of a ‘trans shooter,’ their rhetoric grows more hateful.
That's because what we're seeing here is classic, definitional, bigot behavior, whether the bigotry is racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-trans, antisemitism, anti-Muslim, whatever.
If you are someone who is in some way "othered," you are every person othered in the same way. If you do wrong or behave badly in any way or context, the bigot will say "That's what those people do, that's who they are." But if you are not othered, the bigot will say "That's what that one individual does, that's who that one person is."
So of course they don't say the same about white men. White men are not "the other." That's why a trans shooter generates talk of "trans people are violent and dangerous" while every white male shooter generates talk of "one lone wacko." It's what bigots do. (And yes, I am aware of the irony there. But I will stand by my othering of bigots.)
All 3 men pictured (Johnson, Musk, Walsh) are pathetic CLOSETED losers!! They are so afraid of their own sexual desires and so wildly insecure in their weak masculinity, that they attack the LGBT community like it’s personal to them - because it is. Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Look, it’s not just the Guardian reporting this. Lots of others have; the Guardian was just one that did si quickly while writing. Also, there’s a big difference between the North American Guardian and the British Guardian staff.
My thoughts are with the victims :( This is horrible and I'm frustrated that this continues to fan the flames of vitriol against transgender people
Yet conservatives don't use the same rhetoric against white men, who are responsible for over half of mass shootings in America since 1966.
Link to source of perpetrator details on mass shootings: https://rockinst.org/gun-violence/mass-shooting-factsheet/
and to add, trans people make up less than one percent of them in the first place.
That's because what we're seeing here is classic, definitional, bigot behavior, whether the bigotry is racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-trans, antisemitism, anti-Muslim, whatever.
If you are someone who is in some way "othered," you are every person othered in the same way. If you do wrong or behave badly in any way or context, the bigot will say "That's what those people do, that's who they are." But if you are not othered, the bigot will say "That's what that one individual does, that's who that one person is."
So of course they don't say the same about white men. White men are not "the other." That's why a trans shooter generates talk of "trans people are violent and dangerous" while every white male shooter generates talk of "one lone wacko." It's what bigots do. (And yes, I am aware of the irony there. But I will stand by my othering of bigots.)
Yes, the transgender people are dangerous and unstable and not sexual predator pedophile president.
I just want to live my best life. Whatever happened to the “pursuit of happiness”?
Has the POH become applicable only if you are cisgender, heterosexual? 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
All 3 men pictured (Johnson, Musk, Walsh) are pathetic CLOSETED losers!! They are so afraid of their own sexual desires and so wildly insecure in their weak masculinity, that they attack the LGBT community like it’s personal to them - because it is. Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
This regime is ALL led by sociopaths and psychopaths. The most mentally ill and should be locked away from society.
They are ruining peoples lives and bloods without a care in the world.
They are truly sick. Please ask the whiteboards to come.
Look, it’s not just the Guardian reporting this. Lots of others have; the Guardian was just one that did si quickly while writing. Also, there’s a big difference between the North American Guardian and the British Guardian staff.