Why the ultrarich come after trans people ?

[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.

[mr_canard@jlai.lu]

Yeah he blames society for taking his son from him basically

[gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de]

I always thought it was about power. Maintaining power structures requires a clear dividing line, somewhere. The line between women and men is artificially upheld, to create the illusion that there's "naturally two categories in everything". If people got the idea that you could "transition", that would overthrow a whole lot of the artificial divides that we have in our society today.

[yggnar@lemmy.world]

So there is definitely more to it as plenty of people have already explained, but when it comes to Elon an Rowling they both have personal reasons to be anti-trans. Rowling was sexually assaulted, and now finds the idea of "men pretending to be women" utterly terrifying due to her PTSD, and is seemingly incapable of seeing trans women any other way. Elon on the other hand went through a bunch of drama bs with his family, he's got at least one trans kid who has disowned him, and he spiralled out from there, eventually finding a place among the far-right Nazis who have only reinforced his preconceptions about trans people and trans kids.

No idea what the fuck Zuck's trans villain origin story is though.

[nexy@lemmy.sdf.org]

Its a thing of domination and power. If there are less people with human rights, you can exercise your power more without restrictions.

first the trans, then the gays, then the "other races", then the women, then the poor. and boom, only the elite have rights.

[bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml]

they're the newest scapegoat, the bourgeoisie always need a scapegoat to redirect the other classes grievances to them.

[papertowels@lemmy.one]

They keep you fighting a culture war so you don't fight a class war.

[papertowels@lemmy.one]

Reality has a left leaning bias. Immigrants have largely become normalized, so they need something else to scrape goat.

[prototype_g2@lemmy.ml]

It is a useful distraction from the surplus value extraction from the proletariat to the bourgeoisie.

The Bourgeoisie hire workers and pay them for their work. But with what money? The money made by selling a product or service. But who did the work to create said product or service? The workers did. So workers do work, which makes money for the company. But do the workers receive all of it? After all, they did all the work. But no, no they don't. If the Bourgeoisie gave all the money the workers to back to the workers, them how could the Bourgeoisie make a profit? It thereby must follow that the Bourgeoisie pay their workers less than the value they produce, thereby stealing that money from the workers.

You might say "but the bourgeoisie own the company! And they also do some work themselves! Some people's work just contributes more than others." Yeah, yeah, but who gets to decide how much of the pie each person gets? How much should be reinvested and what not? Who gets to decide what is done with the money made? The Bourgeoisie! But why them? Why do the workers not have a say in how the money they made is used? Because the Bourgeoisie had enough money to buy the means necessary to make money (the factories, infrastructure or whatever) and the workers did not. How did the Bourgeoisie get all that money you ask? By stealing worker's wages.

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What does this have to do with trans people?

1. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

This whole anti-trans thing is a useful distraction. Bad people will believe it's those dam trans people's fault their country is shit and not investigate any further. Good people will be distracted arguing against the bad people on why being trans isn't evil, all the while the real culprits laugh as we fight each other.

Remember: Desperate people make great workers and distracted citizens. Keep people busy with basic necessities and they won't have time or energy to realize who is really exploiting them.

2. It makes trans folk more exploitable

Racism a misogyny is useful for the Bourgeoisie as it allows them to pay lower wages. The bourgeoisie want to pay their workers a little as possible. Desperate jobless people are more willing to take a bad deal because any job is better than homelessness. That means the more desperate people there are, the lower the wages they can pay, as they can replace workers who demand a higher wage with workers from this reserve.

Racism keeps people of color in poverty allowing them to be more easily exploited. Misogyny justifies paying women half the wage of a man, which is exactly what the Bourgeoisie want.

Likewise, if trans folk are illegalized that will make it hard for them to find a job, adding even more people to the reverse army of labour.