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[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think it's most people. I (choose to) believe that's a loud minority.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Most of the culture wars bullshit is originating from a tiny but disproportionately noisy number of people.

But then, because their claims are so outrageous, the media picks up on it and runs with it, without bothering to be proportional to the number of people causing the problem in the first place.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 18 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

They're a convenient political target because it makes insecure men not want to be associated with them. Believe it or not, a similar thing happened last time Republicans won the popular vote in 2004 - back then the issue was gay marriage. Bush went hard on opposing that and it helped him win.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever.

First off, one must be very careful of generalizing to an entire group from the actions of a small sample [1]. Using the metric of whether there have been trans people who have engaged in mass shootings is quite reductionist, and is a faulty generalization — if I am to interpret what you said to mean that "conservatives" are "against" all trans people because they think that they are all responsible for "shooting up" schools and churches. Second, to address your belief, to my knowledge, there has been at least one instance of a school shooter being trans [2].

References

  1. "Faulty Generalization". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-03-25T17:50Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T02:49Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
  2. "2023 Nashville school shooting". Wikipedia. Published: 2024-10-28T23:08Z. Accessed: 2024-11-23T02:51Z. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting.
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[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

It seems like it's always projection with these fascists.

They are the ones whose "party" is full of violent sexual predators. They will never bring up the monsters (including their "president") on their own "team".

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This video explains it better than me, but mostly a combination of religion being against trans people and bad science.

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Because conservatives are smooth brained and small minded. They need someone to hate in order to make themselves feel superior so they don't feel like complete losers

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