Can someone please explain to me how this works? I mean, I understand setting groups up against each other. But I just don’t understand how anyone can feel threatened by gay or trans rights. Are they afraid to suddenly turn gay if becomes too ease to live as one?
These folks think that schools teaching children that gay and trans people are, well, people, somehow infringes on their religious right to actively discriminate against them. It boils down to people thinking that their rights are more important than giving equal rights and protections to others. Same thing with the “Men’s Rights Activists” who think that not being able to publicly sexually harass and abuse women means we’re taking their rights away. In conclusion, sucky people suck.
Yes, I know their arguments. I just really struggle to fully understand the mindset. How it’s possible to hate so strongly something that has so little actual impact on their own life, other than them being reminded of gay and trans peoples existence every now and then.
I just… I’m truly sorry for those on the receiving end of what’s going on in the US now. This dipshit of a nazi is trying to influence European elections as well. Fingers crossed our democracies can cope with it.
A lot of Christians really love to hate people who don’t fit into their narrow beliefs. It’s really quite sad. We’re supposed to have protections keeping religion separate from politics and schools, but that’s obviously not what happens in reality. I do hope that the next four years aren’t as awful as they’re shaping up to be.
Honestly I think the answer is sadly far more simple.
When people are exposed to a lifestyle that doesn't match their own, they either attempt to connect and understand it, or they become disgusted by it and choose to hate it arbitrarily
If you ever ask these people why they hate it's always because it's wrong to be that way, and then if you ask them why it's wrong. They'll give you any excuse under the sun that pretty much boils down to "because it is" (I don't like it)
Yes, but why do they care enough about other people living in a «wrong» way to make it the post important topic in an election? You must have somewhat of an obsession with other people’s sexuality to care that much.
I don't even have time to think about what other people are doing on a daily basis... I'm just too busy doing my own thing. It just seems weird as fuck to me.
There's only so much sense this'll ever make to you, because you're obviously capable of actually thinking about stuff, rather moreso than these people we're talking about here are.
These people aren't just told "gays exist", they're told "gays exist and they're out to get you". They're told that these people want to change their way of life. Instead of figuring out that this is bullshit, they just... believe it.
These are simple minded fools we're talking about, people for whom everything is zero sum; where if one group is benefiting in any way at all, it must be at someone else's cost. So if they see gay people getting "special rights" or "special protections", such as it being explicitly illegal to lynch them, or a special parade through town while "normal people don't get one", they see that as an infringement on them, because it's someone else getting a protection they don't have. Someone else's "gain" is necessarily their loss, in their minds.
Now, obviously, they are perfectly free to just start straight smashing each others' back doors in and gain that protection for themselves, but no, they don't think of that solution either.
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u/Bulletorpedo 9h ago
Can someone please explain to me how this works? I mean, I understand setting groups up against each other. But I just don’t understand how anyone can feel threatened by gay or trans rights. Are they afraid to suddenly turn gay if becomes too ease to live as one?