Why the ultrarich come after trans people ?

[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.