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Why are people so quick to hate what they don't understand? It's infuriating and exhausting. I really hope they will move on from this after the US election, but I worry that it will only continue to get worse.
It's because the extreme-right campaigns are fuelled by hate and discontent. And it helps them by chanelling it towards minority groups by blaming them for everything (obviously a majority won't work because they would alienate too much of their own userbase). So the narrative is 'the brown people' cause all the problems, the LGBT community etc etc. Hate unites people more easily than love ๐ข
What worries me the most is that formerly normal sane 'friends' actually buy into this BS and have become rabiate trans-haters practically overnight. ๐ข
The trans minority specifically seems to be the ultimate scapegoat for them, since it's such a tiny minority. I'm really not liking the "First they came for..." vibes. Actually terrifying.
I'm sorry about your 'friends' and hope you're safe from them. Sending you love โค๏ธ
It's happening in so many places, at the same time as actual fascism is on the rise globally. Those "first they came for..." vibes are not an exaggeration.