It at least shows trans people that someone gives a shit about the erosion of their ability to exist in the world without harassment. What would be a more effective response?
Focus on an issue that affects the most people at first. Keep doing that instrad so people stop seeing it as “they only care about them” and start seeing it as “those people care about everyone”.
Whether we like it or not, thats how a lot of people see it. “They care more about a tranny going to the bathroom then me struggling to pay bills”. Its not right, but it is what it is. So lets do things that lift everyone and then we get capital to focus on a few.
The issue is, the discrimination starts small then grows bigger. Calling it out while it’s bathrooms is better than (hypothetically) when trans people are illegal outright.
Civil rights groups work to help the groups they’re for. Harming trans people and immigrants is just a distraction for conservatives, but it still causes real world harm, so people are going to do what they can to help. They can do the wrong thing, which is why i was curious about your opinion. what could this specific group do, to more effectively help trans people? Staying under the radar and using their energy elsewhere? The protest getting media attention at least showed trans people that someone’s willing to risk it for them. But it’s likely there were better ways to help.
Keeping in mind that this group of people is going to be oriented towards helping trans people, what would have been better? Starting a letter campaign about how legislators should get themselves off the toilet and back to work lowering inflation? Do bathroom sit-ins in Odessa, TX, instead? I really don’t have any good ideas, but people will want to do something, and I’d rather their energy accomplish something.
So true bestie, we should just keep throwing women and minorities to the wolves because actually doing anything to stand up for them would be taking “the bait,” which is actually “more” of a waste of time than the obsessed fascists cracking down on their rights in the first place.
Don’t forget to breathe, I can only imagine that remembering to do so is quite the challenge for someone of your intellectual pedigree.
The ban?
The ban, but more the protest. Its just another distraction and people take the bait.
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It at least shows trans people that someone gives a shit about the erosion of their ability to exist in the world without harassment. What would be a more effective response?
Focus on an issue that affects the most people at first. Keep doing that instrad so people stop seeing it as “they only care about them” and start seeing it as “those people care about everyone”.
Whether we like it or not, thats how a lot of people see it. “They care more about a tranny going to the bathroom then me struggling to pay bills”. Its not right, but it is what it is. So lets do things that lift everyone and then we get capital to focus on a few.
The issue is, the discrimination starts small then grows bigger. Calling it out while it’s bathrooms is better than (hypothetically) when trans people are illegal outright.
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Civil rights groups work to help the groups they’re for. Harming trans people and immigrants is just a distraction for conservatives, but it still causes real world harm, so people are going to do what they can to help. They can do the wrong thing, which is why i was curious about your opinion. what could this specific group do, to more effectively help trans people? Staying under the radar and using their energy elsewhere? The protest getting media attention at least showed trans people that someone’s willing to risk it for them. But it’s likely there were better ways to help.
Keeping in mind that this group of people is going to be oriented towards helping trans people, what would have been better? Starting a letter campaign about how legislators should get themselves off the toilet and back to work lowering inflation? Do bathroom sit-ins in Odessa, TX, instead? I really don’t have any good ideas, but people will want to do something, and I’d rather their energy accomplish something.
So true bestie, we should just keep throwing women and minorities to the wolves because actually doing anything to stand up for them would be taking “the bait,” which is actually “more” of a waste of time than the obsessed fascists cracking down on their rights in the first place.
Don’t forget to breathe, I can only imagine that remembering to do so is quite the challenge for someone of your intellectual pedigree.