Not quite. The main groups who push this crap, IIRC, tend to be the same groups of far-right evangelicals who insist on homeschooling their children because “public schools are liberal indoctrination” and totally not because they’re trying to isolate their child so it’s easier to abuse them. ~Strawberry

I’m guessing all we can do about it right now is beg the assholes to stop being assholes, wait several years and hope enough other people don’t like this enough to maybe vote out the politicians doing it and maybe overcome all of the gerrymandering, or just watch in horror? ~Strawberry

Any info on how this applies to trans people? ~Strawberry

But like… Why do they believe that? Why do they want this as their purpose in life? Why do they believe the “one of the good ones” crap? Why do they prioritize maintaining their worldview over human lives??? ~Cherri

Why do they want this? What’s the appeal of it? And before someone says something about control or cruelty or something, why do they want that? ~Strawberry

Why do they want this though? Why do they want to roll back women’s rights and freedoms? What’s the appeal of that? Just… Why??? ~Strawberry

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I guess that makes sense? Maybe? I don’t quite get how someone could purposely hit children with anything and think it’s okay. I don’t get the thought process there. It’s certainly not “well my parents did it so it must be fine”. It seems so obvious and yet… I don’t know. I don’t get how it could take a lot of effort to not hit children. It’s an active choice, not a passive one, and it doesn’t seem like a difficult conclusion to come to. I’m confused more than anything. ~Strawberry

I would think not hitting children would be a pretty good offer, among many other things. ~Strawberry

the children who will be subjected to this will not be the ones with parents who are able to deal with conflict in healthy ways

I’m not sure framing this in terms of ability is particularly accurate. Nothing is forcing those parents to abuse their children. Absolutely nothing. They are choosing that. They are perfectly able to choose not to and to try to find a way that actually works and isn’t incredibly cruel. ~Strawberry

Kinder kirche küche.

I feel like that just leads to more questions about why they want that and prioritize that over all else… ~Strawberry

But that still leaves a major question: What’s the point of the cruelty? ~Strawberry

Because I guess only mediocre games end up not becoming influential? Besides, even the shovelware crap can be important to researchers. ~Strawberry

I mean some of them claim that if they don’t do that they’ll lose the copyright, but I looked it up a bit ago and there doesn’t appear to be any evidence that that is the case, so make of that what you will. ~Strawberry

How exactly do you propose we get people who want to force all trans people to detransition or face persecution to stop wanting that?

The whole “it must be because you disagree with them!” narrative only makes sense if you ignore any and all context surrounding what’s being disagreed upon. Of course, those people are a vocal minority within the population, but a vocal minority who cause a disporportionate number of problems. ~Strawberry

A lack of an immediately presented opposing viewpoint doesn’t automatically force someone to become a genocidal fascist. They could look for something else. They could come up with something else. They could tell the fascist to fuck off while they wait. Not knowing what to do doesn’t magically turn someone into a fascist just because a fascist scumbag happened to grace their Facebook timeline first. ~Strawberry

Of course, but we also need to convince people to stop defaulting to horrible bullshit that has nothing to do with solving the root causes of the ongoing crises in response to said crises just because some fascist scumbag happened to end up on their TV or Faceboom timeline first. And also do something about the fascist scumbags. ~Strawberry

So uh… What do we do? The best ideas we’ve seen basically boil down to gambling on being able to make small parts of symptoms of the root problems slightly better in local areas… ~Strawberry

How do we set one up? And how do we get people to stop responding to crises by rushing over to the first dipshit that says genocide is the best response? Why was that the response for many people??? ~Strawberry

We also need to figure out how to get people to stop choosing the worst possible reponses to crises all the fucking time. “Oh wages are stagnating? I want to commit genocide against trans people now! THIS MAKES PERFECT SENSE AND I AM A GOOD FACTS AND LOGIC BOY!!1!” ~Strawberry