The way I read jimothy’s comment is that Republican politicians are using trans people as a distraction from issues they don’t want to address. Conservatives are making problems by claiming trans people are bad in order to deflect attention away from problems their constiuents actually care about.
Conservative voters, if presented with the choice of healthcare or trans athletes, would absolutely prefer their politicians to focus on healthcare. A farmer in Iowa does not actually give a fuck what bathroom a trans person uses, their attention has just been redirected in that direction by grifters.
This is exactly it. They have to keep focusing on more narrower minorities. Can’t do it to women, blacks, or even gay people anymore. They NEED a minority scapegoat to blame all their problems on. There’s like 8 trans athletes in college in the U.S. right now and they passed a bill to ban them from competing. Meanwhile there’s a housing crisis, fuel crisis, climate crisis, etc etc.
I’m not saying the problems trans people face aren’t real or anything like that. Just that there seem to be more pressing issues that are affecting a greater number of people.
The way I read jimothy’s comment is that Republican politicians are using trans people as a distraction from issues they don’t want to address. Conservatives are making problems by claiming trans people are bad in order to deflect attention away from problems their constiuents actually care about.
Conservative voters, if presented with the choice of healthcare or trans athletes, would absolutely prefer their politicians to focus on healthcare. A farmer in Iowa does not actually give a fuck what bathroom a trans person uses, their attention has just been redirected in that direction by grifters.
The confusion is understandable, as it’s worded poorly.
This is exactly it. They have to keep focusing on more narrower minorities. Can’t do it to women, blacks, or even gay people anymore. They NEED a minority scapegoat to blame all their problems on. There’s like 8 trans athletes in college in the U.S. right now and they passed a bill to ban them from competing. Meanwhile there’s a housing crisis, fuel crisis, climate crisis, etc etc.
I’m not saying the problems trans people face aren’t real or anything like that. Just that there seem to be more pressing issues that are affecting a greater number of people.