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[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My job for years was to pay attention to what was happening globally and try to connect the dots.

Whenever I hear "conspiracy theory" it makes me want to dig deeper, because a lot of what were called "conspiracy theories" were called that as a calculated attempt to stop further investigation of events or issues that those called "conspiracy theorists" were actually at least a tiny bit correct about.

The lies about the Gulf of Tonkin and Iraq's phantom WMDs spring immediately to mind. The public were sold big lies, lies that in these cases led to the deaths, maimings and displacement of millions of innocent people, and multiple countries torn apart, with the effects still being felt today.

Transgenders make up a tiny percentage of the population, and even the money to be made off of the bodies of people sucked into the fad might be a market of a few hundred billion $. That's not enough motive to reorder the law and language, to rewrite the basic tenents of biology, to stifle free speech and criminalize dissent ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Nah, in my opinion, something else is up. And it's one of the most sinister things I've ever witnessed, and I've witnessed a lot.

[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Whenever I hear "conspiracy theory" it makes me want to dig deeper, because a lot of what were called "conspiracy theories" were called that as a calculated attempt to stop further investigation of events or issues that those called "conspiracy theorists" were actually at least a tiny bit correct about

Look, I won't deny that there are things like that sometimes, e.g. the Iran-Contra affair.

However-- please let's not paint our DropTheT movement as a conspiracy theory, it is not one. People already don't take us as seriously because we are on Saidit where there are a bunch of subsaidits for conspiracy theories.

I'm not disagreeing with you about the magnitude of harm done by transgender ideology.

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I do get where you're coming from.

I don't think DroptheT comes across at all as a conspiracy theory: it's primarily a very sane response to legislation being passed globally under the banner of LGBT+ rights that not only harms gays, but also confused children, women, parents' rights, biology and free speech.

I actually think that the existence of DroptheT, and the impeccably sane posters here, give real credibility to the notion that gender ideology itself, with its crazy suspensions of logic and rationality, is the real conspiracy theory.