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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (6 children)

For the life of me, I can't understand why they care about someone's sexual orientation or their pronoun.

I ran the numbers on sex changes and it's like .001 of the population. It's a non-issue.

The real issues are homelessness, inequality, Internet privacy, poisons in our food and workers' rights..

Not fucking pronouns.

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Two core reasons:

Demonization. They need someone to demonize, that distracts voters and the general populace away from their own misdeeds, and lack of functional policy. If you're too busy getting angry at the trans people, you won't strike against the Billionaires.
Insecurity. If the world isn't actually as simple as you thought, your entire ideology is based on putting people into given labels and boxes to make your life easier, idealizing a nonexistent past, etc, then the world changing in any non-standard way is seen as something to be extremely afraid of. This is also what drives their concerns over immigrants ("replacing" their community's racial dynamic), homeless people ("not wanting to work" like they did), climate change (this couldn't possibly happen because then the industries and consumption you had your whole life would have to change), progressive education and scientific growth (learning new things about how what we used to think was wrong), etc. It's all rooted in just wanting things to stay the same.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

They need an 'enemy' to rally people against and all the usual suspects are no longer politically expedient

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

They don't care. The tactic is to have a minority that you can blame for all the bad things.

100 years ago it was the jews secretly running the world, today it's the evil trans people and immigrants conspiring to destroy The West™.

[–] __nobodynowhere@startrek.website 3 points 6 hours ago

Trans are a small portion of the US and few people will care if they are rounded up and sent to camps. Doing so then normalizing that kind of behavior.

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 14 hours ago

100 years ago they were also persecuting trans people. Here's a photo of them burning books in 1933, some of which were from the Institute of Sexual Science after it was raided by the Nazis. And it only got worse from there. Here's a whole article about it.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For the life of me, I can’t understand why they care about someone’s sexual orientation or their pronoun.

They don't. It's classic divide and conquer tactics to package up the general population into nice bite-sized chunks that they can destroy individually with minimal resistance from the others. Exact same shit is how the Nazis rose to power.

[–] Aurora_TheFirstLight@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And once again the population isn't ready....

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"wE wOulD nEveR LEt tHAt haPpen hEre!" /headsand

- dipshits in the US who think we're somehow better than the average German citizen in the 1930s

[–] CriticalThought@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Despite people perhaps still believing this, I believe it was largely disproven in the 1960s by the Milgram experiment.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 9 points 21 hours ago

Got to distract from the real issues somehow. Gotta keep that wealth extraction and concentrating system of exploitation alive. Can't have the slave rising up to overthrow their masters again...