When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way.
Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away.
I fell for obvious right-wing propaganda and rationalized the hate with reason and logic. Now the hate machine is coming for me and that’s not fair!
You’d have to have been asleep for the last 50 years at least to not see this.
Nope, this is natural.
Like, straight up default human behavior, and conservativesare actually really good at manipulating people using basic human psychology.
An absolute shit ton of people who grew up as “outsiders” really just want to be with the majority “in group” and are willing to side with them against smaller minorities.
Like, that’s the whole TERF thing in a nutshell.
Women who were treated poorly for being women, and trying to side with their abusers against a weaker target.
It’s literally the reason most mothers abuse their children. Same psychology, just different target.
Hell, it’s the same reason weak men target women and children in the first place
An innate desire for a “human pecking order” that displays at varying rates due to normal human variation.
Racism too, LBJ described it generations ago after seeing firsthand what Republicans were doing in the South:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/
We need to understand why this keeps working to fight it…
I’m sorry, but most mothers abuse their children? Where did you get this?
I’m reading that as “the reason most mothers who abuse their children do so”
Fair enough, that was probably the intention.
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That’s really how you took that?
Yeah, because that’s literally what it says. And how am I supposed to know you don’t actually believe that? Crazier things have happened! Figured I’d ask, to be sure.
I get what you intended to say though.
I took it that way too honestly. Honestly it made me skip reading the rest of your argument until I saw the comments below it talking about what you actually meant, so yeah, syntax is annoying but necessary for getting the point you want to make across. (I did go back and read the rest of your argument.)
Let’s try again:
Do you think that means:
Most people inject insulin.
Of the people who inject insulin, the most common reason for doing so is they have diabetes
It’s the social trade-off to join the in-group. You get membership, but you’re obligated to conform. So long as conformity is easy and light-weight, the appeal of joining the in-group can override your moral imperatives to others. But then the boundaries of acceptable behavior shift under your feet, and suddenly you can’t be a part of the group without concealing or changing some fundamental part of your life.
Like, Reid Newton thinks gender transition and DEI and Critical Race Theory are all bullshit. Has she considered just… divorcing her wife and becoming straight? But no, that would be asking to much of herself. Suddenly, the cost of being a part of the in-group has grown too high, because it’s a deeply personal cost.
This is a great way to self-reflect on these trade-offs before the leopards eat your face