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Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us. (www.queermajority.com)
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When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way.

Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away.

I fell for obvious right-wing propaganda and rationalized the hate with reason and logic. Now the hate machine is coming for me and that's not fair!

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago

Nope, this is natural.

Like, straight up default human behavior, and conservativesare actually really good at manipulating people using basic human psychology.

An absolute shit ton of people who grew up as "outsiders" really just want to be with the majority "in group" and are willing to side with them against smaller minorities.

Like, that's the whole TERF thing in a nutshell.

Women who were treated poorly for being women, and trying to side with their abusers against a weaker target.

It's literally the reason most mothers abuse their children. Same psychology, just different target.

Hell, it's the same reason weak men target women and children in the first place

An innate desire for a "human pecking order" that displays at varying rates due to normal human variation.

Racism too, LBJ described it generations ago after seeing firsthand what Republicans were doing in the South:

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/

We need to understand why this keeps working to fight it...