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[โ€“] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because hating black people became a losing strategy, so they switched to hating gays. But hating gays became a losing strategy, so they switched to trans people. If you look at what the extremists say about trans people, you'll find the exact same things being about gay people before them, and black people before them.

[โ€“] billiam0202@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The one comforting fact about that is that each of those groups are smaller than the one previous: there are more Black Americans than gay Americans, and there are more gay Americans than trans Americans. As each group gains wider cultural acceptance, the fascists have to target smaller and smaller groups to keep the hate that unites them going.

Eventually we'll see this same bigotry directed towards left-handed Thursday sock-knitters.