The part that boggles me is how this takes so much space in the broad conversation when competitive sports are truly an inconsequential part of existence.
It takes so much space because the amount of energy required to ask the question “should trans women compete in women’s sports” requires exponentially less energy than the amount of energy required to defend a particular answer to that same question.
Conservatives know this, so they’ve made a point of incessantly asking it and others questions like it because that steals focus from more important issues, riles up their own base, and causes liberals to fight with each other.
Liberals don’t fight each other. They fight the left. Liberals are in perfect lockstep: they want republican votes so badly that they will throw any minority under the bus and back up over them as many times as they think it will take.
The use of energy in disinformation rhetoric is fundamentally misunderstood by most people. If more people understood this type of asymmetric rhetoric, then we could actually move the important conversations forward.
10% of fascism is just more efficient talking points.
It takes so much space because the amount of energy required to ask the question “should trans women compete in women’s sports” requires exponentially less energy than the amount of energy required to defend a particular answer to that same question.
Conservatives know this, so they’ve made a point of incessantly asking it and others questions like it because that steals focus from more important issues, riles up their own base, and causes liberals to fight with each other.
Liberals don’t fight each other. They fight the left. Liberals are in perfect lockstep: they want republican votes so badly that they will throw any minority under the bus and back up over them as many times as they think it will take.
The use of energy in disinformation rhetoric is fundamentally misunderstood by most people. If more people understood this type of asymmetric rhetoric, then we could actually move the important conversations forward.
10% of fascism is just more efficient talking points.