I once ran up against a guy who claimed trans people had their minds rotten by the porn industry. Motherfucker, there are really well documented non-cishet-normative social classes in Norse Scandinavia, in pre-Modern Albania, in pre-Muslim Arabia, in several places of Indonesia - what porn industry did exist there!? He couldn't come up with anything, but wouldn't budge either. Some people get stuck in a prejudice and will behave like raving conspiracy theorists the moment they're offered some bullshit explanation that makes no sense but agrees with them.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

bigots' "reasons" to be bigots aren't really reasons, they're smoke screens. Against my better judgment I argued with many in the past, with one particular person I managed to take the conversation to a logical conclusion, after hours of disassembling their baseless arguments there was just one left - "i don't like them they disgust me". Facts over feelings my ass. I believe this is at the core of all bigoted ideas - fear that then transforms into resentment and disgust, that then gets dressed up in all manner of reasons and arguments so they can feel justified in feeling that way

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

a guy who claimed trans people had their minds rotten by the porn industry.

Holy shit that projection, and how they can't disentangle their kinks from human beings with human experience.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Other people claim trans people were invented by John Money, except he's only being pushed by bigots due to his name could invoke some antisemitic tropes in people's heads.