Thursday, December 19, 2024

America's Anti-Trans Panic Is a Scam

While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they're also meant to distract from the myriad ways we're all getting fleeced.

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While millions struggle under the weight of medical debt and economic precarity, our political class has masterfully redirected public anger toward a manufactured crisis: the supposed threat of transgender Americans.

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"In the marble halls of the battle dome of American lawfare on December 4, Tennessee's deputy solicitor general performed a brazen act of legal gymnastics:

He argued to the Supreme Court that protecting transgender children requires denying them health care.

That same day, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson"architect of an AI-powered claims denial system with a reported 90 percent error rate"was shot, allegedly by a man driven to desperation by America's predatory and labyrinthine health care system, which causes as many as 66.5 percent of American bankruptcies.

The grim symmetry was impossible to ignore.

The parallel path of these two events perfectly encapsulates the cynical sleight of hand at the heart of the American establishment's current political strategy.

While millions struggle under the weight of medical debt and economic precarity, our political class has masterfully redirected public anger toward a manufactured crisis:

the supposed threat of transgender Americans."

the article isn't long, but worth the full read

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-18 04:22 PM

Duh duh duh ...

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-18 04:27 PM

Don't expect BullBringer, Boaz or the rest of the idiots who survive on Republican lies to ever acknowledge they're willing victims of Republican deception.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-18 04:29 PM

America's Anti-Trans Panic Is a Scam

Is it panic, though? Same problem I had with the term "homophobia." Seems more abject hatred and disgust than panic or fear.

I had a prof from the scenic Island of ------ who told the class how much she disagreed with the term "homophobia." She preferred calling it "heterofascism." As an aside, she did not get tenure.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2024-12-18 06:14 PM

@#4 ... Seems more abject hatred and disgust than panic or fear. ...

In my view, it is a political rallying call that is designed to evoke the negative strong emotions you note.

It seems to be used by MAGA politicians to evoke a fear of the unknown among their MAGA followers.

Of course, that then raises another question ...

Why does MAGA seem to have the need to rely upon the stirring of such strong negative emotions so much?



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-18 06:55 PM

It's ignorance.

What was the statistic? Less than 2% of people are transgender?

I doubt most people have ever met anyone who was transgender.

All transphobia is based on lies they've been told.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-18 07:21 PM

So true - societal issues like this are simply a distraction and something to divide the middle so the wealthy can screw us all. And Democrats keep taking the bait.

#7 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2024-12-18 09:03 PM

- Less than 2% of people are transgender?

It's something like .5 percent of adults and less than 1.5 percent of teens.

It's obviously problematic, it's just not something worth being distracted from our new Fascist Government leaders; from the Oligarchy being put in charge of the Government by rwingers, which is the very definition of Fascism.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-18 09:08 PM

Anything to gin up the rubes while they pick their nearly empty pockets.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-18 09:24 PM

Idiots would allow America be destroyed in order to pacify their rampant phobias.

Republicans have been banking on this.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-18 09:49 PM

all scares that produce Prohibitions are a scam.

#11 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-12-19 04:35 AM

I had a prof from the scenic Island of ------
#4 | Posted by censored

I got bleeped for specifying the name of a Greek Island. I love it!

Lesbos or Lesvos is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an area of 1,633 km2 (631 sq mi), with approximately 400 kilometres (249 miles) of coastline, making it the third largest island in Greece and the eighth largest in the Mediterranean.
en.wikipedia.org
Samuel Clemens, otherwise known as Mark Twain (or TuhWayne to avoid the bleeper) would roll over in his grave.

#12 | Posted by censored at 2024-12-19 08:35 AM

Anything to gin up the rubes while they pick their nearly empty pockets.
#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

Like the welfare queens and flag burning in the 80's, and the gheys in the 90's and 2000's. And now the trans.

#13 | Posted by censored at 2024-12-19 11:09 AM

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