Not to be outdone, the Republicans reintroduce their own Equality Act!

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[–]reluctant_commenter 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Ugh. Disappointing but not surprising. As per usual, corporate interests win out. Anyone who thinks that it's just Democrats and not Republicans who promote transgender ideology is badly mistaken.

edit: typo

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Republicans will deny it, but they are definitely complicit in this. The Republican dominated state of South Dakota failed to pass a law banning the transing of children, because there were too many cowardly lawmakers. In fact, there are many examples of Republicans grabbing ankles for TRAs despite being opposed to homosexuality:

  1. Military service. Most Republican congressmen voted against repealing don’t ask don’t tell in 2010. In 2011, before the repeal came into effect, there were a lot of Republicans who attempted to delay the repeal and keep DADT in effect for as long as possible, until the Supreme Court struck DADT down as unconstitutional. DADT was repealed and homosexual and bisexual soldiers, sailors, coast guards, airmen and marines could finally come out of the closet and still keep their jobs. But even after that, many Republicans were whinging that DADT was gone and wanted to reinstate it. However, when Trump announced in 2017 that transsexuals were not allowed in the military, most Republican congressmen were shocked and criticised Trump over this.
  2. Pat Robertson has been opposed to homosexuality and called it a choice, but recently declared his support for transsexuality, calling it "natural". What? Being trans is a choice, but being gay is natural. I will never understand people like Pat Robertson.
  3. There are cases of Republican-supporting homophobic parents who want to turn their gay children trans.
  4. I don’t know what Alex Jones' stance on homosexuality, but he was caught looking at T-girl porn.

Now, there are a lot of Republicans who support gay rights. Some Republican congressmen voted for repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in 2010, and a growing number of Republicans now support gay marriage. But it took a lot of Republicans many years or even decades to come around to supporting gay rights, while most of them supported trans rights as soon as they first heard that sex changes can happen. TRAs would tell you that the GOP are transphobic because Trump was less supportive than the average Republican, but Trump is an exception to the rule.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

OMG - Alex Jones looks at transgender porn?!?!? Is this well-known?

I met Jones once, when he was only starting to get famous. What a fatuous corrupt blowhard, even then.

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He poisons the well of every movement he attaches himself to by acting like a nutcase. Him being a nutcase was what made him hilarious at first, until he started to get involved in politics. Now he drags people down. If you have a movement going about, do not let Alex Jones get involved. He will make your movement look bad, like how TRAs, intersectionalists and radical queer activists make the gay community look bad.

What was Alex Jones like when you met him?

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He needed me so he was very accommodating. He was energetic, loud, a hustler - like a carnival barker. He seemed passionate about the cause he was espousing, which I soon realized was a front - he was just goading people who were sincere believers into doing things that would make him money.

That being said, I don't think he was as bad then as he is now. And I would never have guessed that he would become the influential figure he is today - he just seemed like one of many fringe nutcase leaders.

[–]usehername 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Alex Jones bullied someone I know until suicide because he lost his son in the Sandy Hook shooting, which Alex thought was a hoax.

[–]BEB[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am so sorry! My condolences to you and to the family. How absolutely terrible.

I guarantee Alex doesn't think Sandy Hook was a hoax: he's just riling up the stupid and the paranoid in order to make money.

IIRC in a court case Jones himself said that he spouts fake news (I'm paraphrasing). It could have been in his divorce?

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Alex Jones knows that a lot of people don’t trust the legacy media. He takes full advantage of this by telling lies to people and taking advantage of them so he can make money. I don’t trust the legacy media. I don’t trust RTÉ, BBC, CNN, Fox News or the New York Times. I also don’t trust Alex Jones, Steven Crowder or the Rebel Media, because they are scoundrels.

[–]usehername 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed. In the U.S., legacy media often has substantial criticism about the other party (two-party system, so news will be biased toward one party or another), but then throws in a ridiculous non-solution from their side. Example: Fox News is complaining about how instead of improving under-funded public schools in poor areas, Democrats want to implement a "woke" curriculum. This is true and must be addressed. Then, Fox News says the solution is government-funded charter schools. So really, nobody wants to improve the public school situation, but there was a kernel of truth to the criticism of the other party.

This is usually how it goes, but there is also another tactic, perfected by Roger Stone in the Nixon era. Blatant, ridiculous lies about one's opponent ("FBI proves Hillary Clinton is a baby-eating Satanist"), and mockery and hatred towards them ("What has two fat thighs and small breasts?", "Kill Hillary") I'm not mentioning this because I'm a fan of Hillary (I wasn't even old enough to vote in that election), but this is the preferred type of propaganda being dissipated informally (through social media shills and the like), while the more respectable type is used by the news. The news also uses lies and personal attacks, but it's less blatant.

TRAs use both tactics.

[–]BEB[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah- the legacy media has dug its own grave. In the US, the run up to Iraq War II was a turning point for many. I predict the nonstop lies about gender ideology will cause the next huge drop off in faith in media.

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I heard about that. Alex Jones is a wicked human being for doing that to a father who’s lost his son. Yet people still listen to this scoundrel.

Also, I’m sorry to hear about your loss.