Reactionary ideology is about loss and blame.

The current reactionary stripe in the US is focused on White Evangelical Supremacy, so everyone who is not in that group is a prime target.

White Evangelicalism has lost a heap of prestige in the last 30 years, while LGBTQ+ rights have been ascendant. This is the reason why trans people have long been taegeted by the reactionary right: they want to roll back all of the gains made to sexual minorities, and trans people make the easiest targets.

They also target immigrants for largely the same reason: they're a highly visible population who doesn't conform to their ideal White Evangelical model, so they use terror tactics to oppress them.

The goal is to make life intolerable for the people they hate so that they don't have to compete against ideas that make the world a more equitable place. It's no coincidence that the reactionary right rallied around fighting diversity, equity and inclusion: they are an evangelical white supremacist coalition.

because they think people are good or evil.

and evil ones must be punished and killed.

it's that simple.

lots of people think this way. it's far more common than not.

the question is what your criteria for good and evil are.

Tbh I don't really care much about trans people, in the same way I don't give a fuck about the person living 3 streets away that I don't know. I don't understand why people give a shit what someone else wants to be called, or wether they want a dick, vagina, tits or a funky mix. It doesn't negatively affect anyone's life in any way, so I see no reason to negatively affect theirs.

Religious nutjobs and authoritarian cunts are the people negatively affecting other people's lives. And so their lives needs to be equally negatively affected for true balance in the world.

I guess like a kind of karma, only I don't believe any force of nature will take care of it, so people must do it instead.

Christian Fundamentalism.

There's your answer.

Ya'll Qaeda.

We are really going to have to confront the fact that about a third of the country are hardcore religious extremist theocrats who want a brutal theocracy and do not give a single fuck about ideas like democracy, human rights, and an impartial legal system, beyond cosplaying like they care about them for the sake of appealing to normies.

You don't understand how people can think this way because you weren't raised, indoctrinated, in this way of thinking.

I was, and I am telling you at least 1/3rd of the population of the country is like this.

They are an extremely small amount of people, so it's very easy to target them for hate messaging.

Why do Muslim fundamentalists throw acid into children's faces?

Same reason Christians want to kill gays and trans people.

God's love ♥️

I may not fully understand what it is to be trans, but my reaction to that is curiosity, a desire to learn. To understand.

I had it explained to me once by a really really good friend, so I'll try to pass it on as best I can. The way I had it explained to me was:

Imagine the thing you will leave behind that will last the longest.

Is it a photo?

No. Photographs fade and decay.

Is it a scientific discovery?

Probably not

Is it an achievement?

Not really unless you're up there like Neil Armstrong.

Is it the memory others have of you?

No because eventually they'll pass on too.

After a few generations, all reference and remembrance of you will have faded into the background but for one thing: your tomb stone. Not much of anything, but it'll stand the test of time better than anything else really. I mean the Egyptians built the pyramids, and they're the oldest thing we have. What are they made of? Stone.

Now, imagine that your tomb stone had the wrong gender marker and someone else's name. It's a pretty crappy thing isn't it? The only thing that will be left to proclaim that you, [so-and-so-and-so], were here as a male/female between these dates is wrong.

Now, imagine you could, if just for a moment, come back to fix it and set it right. Not much of anything, but it'll set right the mark that you [whatever your name is] were here as male/female/whatever.

That's basically a gender transition, but while you're alive.

Maybe they'll dead name you on your marker anyway. Maybe they'll have the wrong gender marker on that stone anyway too. It's not like you'll notice. But at least you'll have tried, and maybe that'll have to do. After all, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, and transitioning while you're alive is the best shot you can take to get that tombstone set right. Also, maybe have a shot at a happier life along the way.

And, that's pretty much how it was explained to me. Kinda sad, but it really made it clear and understandable to me. Hope it helps you like it did me.

They have a fixed mindset, while you described a growth mindset. They’re afraid of anyone different from them because it disrupts their hierarchy and their belief system. They’re afraid to question their beliefs too.

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