Why the ultrarich come after trans people ?

[ooli2@lemm.ee]

astute observation. Zuckerberg with all his new 'masculine energy" stuff, could still fit in your approach: he dont accept his woman side

[ooli2@lemm.ee]

so 3 different agenda, with the same result. Probably it is as coincidental as that

[funkystuff@hexbear.net]

I wanna add that the way I formulated it is incomplete, or at least too partial to the functional perspective that someone who wishes to preserve the status quo would have. Obviously trans people don't just "choose" their gender, it's much more complicated than that. But I think it's worth looking at things from this lens to understand why the billionaires in particular are recalcitrant about gender.

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

I do wonder what their end game is. History surely will not look on them favourably, so who would want to be the villain on the world stage? Yes history is written by the victors, but only for a short while until the truths come out. I just can't understand why anyone would deliberately want to be on the wrong side of history.

[sl00k@programming.dev]

This smoke screen around LGBTQ+ and anti immigration has been stoked for nearly 30 years in order to veer away from the actual discussion and laws around wealth inequality, healthcare, etc. It's all a guise against minority groups who can't fight back. Sometimes positive sometimes negative, but at the end of the day billionaires stoke the fear around these minority groups and they get to keep growing their billions without restriction.

[hyphlosion@lemm.ee]

J.K. Rowling isn’t going after anyone. She just doubles down on her beliefs on a social media platform. Then bites back in self defense. Kinda silly when you take a step back.

Just because someone has an opinion about something, doesn’t mean they’re after someone.

[ooli2@lemm.ee]

most real-life villain thinks they are doing good. JK Rowling rhetoric is all about "protecting women". She probably is certain she is some sort of martyr trying to save the world

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

I can actually believe that JK thinks she's doing the right thing. She's losing friends, money, reputation for saying what she truly believes, no matter how messed up. She never pretended anything but.

Elon is not like that. Elon knew how to play the progressive part and have a progressive wife, and do/say progressive things to make himself look good when it suited him. The face-mask reveal and the 180 turn as he ditches his old friends (they served their purpose) for new ones, whilst his wealth skyrockets.... this man surely deep down can't believe that he has noble intentions.

[hiddenlayer555@lemmy.ml]

Divide and conquer. A united population is harder to subjugate.

[purplemeowanon@lemmy.ml]

A useful distraction to prevent class warfare and protect their wealth with a convenient and reliable scapegoat designed to ensure a divided working class.

[hobbitfoot@thelemmy.club]

Yep.

To add to that, I've found a lot of people in the working class care a lot about class differentiators and will spend a lot of time trying to profess how they should be viewed at a higher relative ranking since they can't rely on money or heritage to do it for them.

So, if you create an out group for them, a lot of them will latch on to that idea since it raises their relative value in a meaningful way.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

The rhetoric against immigrants serves as a more general purpose blaming scheme. Economy bad because immigrants. You're unemployed because immigrants. Crime because immigrants. Your bad grades are immigrants.

LGBTQ+ rights have always been a contentious point because it has always worked incredibly well for diverting attention on all sides, especially the media. The right always paints them as these depraved monsters that will convert children into gay communist sex on schools, which is a "threat" that's "up close and personal"

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

1. They're a scapegoat
2. People fear what they don't understand. If they actually went out and talked to trans people they may realize they're normal people just like anyone else.

[daggermoon@lemmy.world]

Actually it's because Elon thinks the "woke left" took his child away from him. Even though he was an absent father who was never around. He has a trans daughter who he refers to as his son because he's a sack of shit.

[vga@sopuli.xyz]

I don't want to pretend that this (this being how and why people think how they think about trans rights et al) is a simple issue, which is why what I say on two different comments might be slightly incongruent. I think I was mostly answering your specific question in my second comment without so much trying to address or bolster my first comment.