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    23 days ago

    Transgender health care goes back much further than 35 years. It’s just propagandists love to make it seem like John Money invented “transgenderism”. You know why? Look at his name. You were supposed to tie it to Judaism (even if he wasn’t Jewish himself), and then move on to antisemitism as well, not stop at “reasonable demands of trying to treat rapid onset gender dysphoria, with proper science” (the “proper science” is done by “secular wings” of church organizations, who want more believers), and “protecting women’s rights from men” (if you thought gender segregation was to protect women from sexual predators, then I have a bridge to sell you).




  • They’re starting to adapt. They often claim,

    • that DEI is an Orwellian term and is not really meaning what it means,
    • that since discrimination is already illegal, such programs are not needed, we just need to “push harder on meritocracy” (which is funny once you realize where the term “meritocracy” comes from),
    • or that these programs have “gone too far”, because they watched too much Brian Lunduke or some other people like him, who “overreport” the (supposed) overreaches of DEI programs.

    “Overreporting” means that you purposefully overinflate supposed problems by bringing up the same story over and over again, which makes the problems seem way bigger than what they actually are, and at worst the people reading or watching half attended might actually think the problem occured another time. I’m from Hungary, and not only this method made people believe that “Roma crimes” and “disability benefit cheats” were way more widespread than they actually were, ultimately handing over the first landside victory to Fidesz (ironically, many of the sites doing these kinds of tactics claimed Viktor Orbán was both too far-left and Roma - Hungary has its own birther movement that makes critique of Fidesz extremely hard), and making the life harder for those groups much harder once Fidesz enacted its programs. Also thanks to overreporting, some of my relatives thought the knife attacker of Blaha Lujza square made yearly attacks for MP3 players up until MP3 players fell out of fashion in favor of smartphones, with some still warning me against bringing an MP3 player to Budapest, because the far-right “news” site kuruc info likes to post the anniversaries of said tragedies caused by Roma criminals, which was even worse in the very first years after the attack (TL;DR: They brought it up on a yearly basis).