04-29-2023, 06:53 PM
sekker wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
[quote=anonymouse1]
In addition to all the good points made previously, I see a couple of things (which overlap with the previous points):
1. There are some people/groups who are very susceptible to out-group hatred. It's a group-bonding experience for them.
2. Some people are anxious/scared. This gives them something concrete to be scared about, which is paradoxically calming--it's no longer free-floating anxiety/fear.
3. There are entrepreneurs of fear, like DeSantis, who want to take advantage of 1 and 2.
4. If you haven't been exposed to that type of stuff until you're and adult, you may have some unconscious prejudices.
That is a pretty good list. I would add that "fundamentalist" religion plays a big role in 1. and 2. and also that religion gives those "in- groups" a moral pretext to ignore science. For example, it gives a moral pretext to say that g-ender d-ysphoria is wrong because it isn't "natural" even though the scientific evidence is that people with g-ender d-ysphoria come by it naturally, not by nurture or choice.
Edit: I wish there was a way to get the forum filter to quit treating "g-ender d-sysphora" as though it was a "bad" phrase. It kind of pisses me off.
My wife is a Catholic and religious ed teacher. She does NOT subscribe to these anti rights movements. She actually calls them anti-Christian.
Yeah, lots of Christians don't subscribe to those views. That is why I tried to qualify it with "fundamentalists" (in quotes). Granted "fundamentalist" is a vague term, but it seemed like a way to communicate my point since I think most people do recognize that a LOT of those who are anti-trans come from a background that can roughly be called fundamentalist. As in - though it may be the case that not all fundamentalist Christians are necessarily anti-trans, a noticeably disproportionate number of them are.
It's a bit like when I used to teach about evolution in my classes. I never had a Catholic parent complain about it. When I got complaints it was always from what I would call fundamentalist Christian parents.