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conservative media has the opposite rule: make every story about a trans person into a narrative about trans ideology.

this should be a story about an ideological cult with trans members, but instead it's a story about the cult of trans ideology. it's called "nut picking" - use the worst examples of a group to tarnish the group as a whole.

a good example of this is attacks against Muslim Americans after 9/11.






Is it the same for judging all MAGA as Nazis?

I ask that in all earnestness. I am not a MAGA or a MAGA apologist.


It is much the same thing, yes. The reality that I have experienced is that most Trump voters are decent people who simply disagree with me on the best way to solve the issues facing our country. Not at all a pack of hate-filled Nazis. But humans love to pick on their outgroup, so people simply round "Trump supporter" off to "Nazi bigot" and never bother to reflect that they are simply giving into tribalism.



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