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Explain Like I'm Five

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Are good. And accepting the weird or different was the way to go.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I think that att the core its the "ew!" factor combined with "i would love this but I'm too closeted and if I cannot have fun, nobody can" which is then used and abused by savvy politicians who need a scape goat for people to trample to death while they secretly steal the people blind.

I could be mistaken , though

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People need something to hate, decided to pick trans since they probably did zero research, decided "BoYs iN GiRls LocKeR RooM BaYuD!" And let the hate roll. Anything to make a bigot feel better about themselves, and misery is good company for a group of shitty people.

What they should focus on is all the hatred and rape and child molestation within the church

[–] NameTaken@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I think it's really just as simple as they are different and people just don't like things that are different. Compounding the fact is a lot of people don't have any first hand experience interacting with a trans person and so believe what theyre told through their favorite media source.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I want to know this too. Also why I was raised to believe that British Asians would come up the hill and storm our white middle class village, even though this somehow still hasn’t happened over thirty years on.

[–] Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

Actually I don't know anybody who hates trans people. Tbf it's a pretty dull subject.

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