The entire Trans panic/Drag queen thing is a construct by a man called Christopher Rufo.
He is also behind the right wing’s panic about Critical Race Theory. Something that was invented in the 80s at Harvard Law School and broadly accepted until a few years ago, when Rufo thought it sounded like something he could use.
He does loads of research into things that can divide people, can be used to fear-monger and whip up right wing conservative outrage in the USA. Then openly says he’s going to turn it into a boiling point and sets about doing it. The reason we always see these videos of a journalist going up to people at a trump rally where they are absolutely certain something is bad, but then can’t explain how or why or what it is…that’s all because none of this has a grounding in reality. It comes from dedicated campaigns where people who are likely to vote conservative are targeted online to receive hateful fear mongering content that tells them it’s bad over and over again until they believe it. Then it gets picked up on OANN, Newsmax and Fox and they reinforce it.
After that there comes a response from the rest of the world, defending this thing that was accepted as normal until 6 months ago, and then a culture war has broken out. Political lines are drawn. Something like Drag Queens which no one gave a shit about 4 years ago has suddenly become an integral part of the left/right divide.
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