Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/07/trans-people-are-a-menace-to-god-fearing-toilets

* 2016: UK mainstream press carried story re: trans people/political correctness
* Oxford University bans the words "he, she"
* story not true ...

[thread] Weaponization of language
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110781650540586495

Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth
https://persagen.com/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html

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Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets

As with any narrative of ‘political correctness gone mad’, this specific example provides us with a surreal and topsy-turvy inversion.  It relocates a marginalized group – in this case trans people – in a position of great power and influence, and thereby helps disguise the vulnerability of the group and the social oppression and discrimination it is subject to.   In the US, for instance, trans women are more than four times more likely to be murdered than cisgender women.  Black trans women are seven times more likely to be murdered than the average member of the general population.

CounterPunch.org

Trump’s Divide & Conquer Scheme for Black America
Twisted political agenda behind smearing Kamala Harris a political/racial chameleon
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-harris-nabj-interview-racism

Tried/true wedge strategy/tactic, pioneered by Discovery Institute (intell. design)

* separate the T from the LGB ... etc. etc. etc.
* weaponization of language: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110991163168574161
* eradication of public education: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110472330674568410

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Donald Trump’s Divide-and-Conquer Scheme for Black America

The twisted political agenda behind smearing Kamala Harris as a political and racial chameleon.

The Nation

Addendum 7 cont'd

DeSantis Slammed By ‘Peaky Blinders’ Team For Using Clips In Unhinged Anti-Pride Ad
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/desantis-slammed-by-peaky-blinders-team-for-using-clips-in-unhinged-anti-pride-ad

Comment: while technically anti-LGBT it was specifically horrifically transphobic (wedge tactic, in part: split T from LGB)

#WedgeStrategy #WedgeTactic #DeSantis #transphobia #CultureWars #populism #2024USelections #2024PresidentialCandidates #TransLivesMatter #GOP #GOPmenace #neofascism #CultureWars #hate #lgbt #FarRight #capitalism #neoliberalism #ignorance

DeSantis Slammed By ‘Peaky Blinders’ Team For Using Clips In Unhinged Anti-Pride Ad

The production team behind the popular TV series “Peaky Blinders” denounced the bizarre, anti-LGBTQ+ campaign ad Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his presidential campaign put out last week…

TPM – Talking Points Memo