Why the ultrarich come after trans people ? (lemm.ee)

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elon musk, mark zuckerberg, J.K rowling! Are the names that come to mind.

3 from different background: a African immigrant benefiting from government spending, an American smart young engineer, and a female English successful writer.

They are no politicians, and cant be accuse of trying to gather some vote. Multi-billions amongst them.

I get they lean to the right to protect their cash, with less tax and regulation. I get they are racist because they fear some poor people will take their cash.

But why the hatred for trans people ? It's 1% of the population, they cant do anything, dont threaten anyone. There is no rational or psychological reason

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[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Most people agree with the ultrarich on this issue (at least initially, before social media insanity), but only the ultrarich can afford making arbitrary people hate them without any good reason. That's why it looks like only the billionaires are doing it.

Then they go to Twitter with these opinions and go insane and the whole thing enters a neverending tailspin.

Elon is slightly different insofar that one of his own kids is trans. So that's not entirely due to Twitter, but there's also some lived experience at the bottom of it all (I assume here that he spent time with said child).

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 hours ago

"Most people agree with the ultrarich on this issue (at least initily, before social media insanity)"

Are you saying most people are anti-trans? And that people who aren't anti-trans are somehow not of sane mind?

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