Yep. As is the “it’s just a tiny minority, so we shouldn’t worry too much” mindset. Plus, the whole “it’s depressing, so can we ignore it” argument. It betrays a willingness to go along to get along, in the case of the rise of this kind of extremism… But…
It really fucking sucks, and we should not ignore this if we’re not trans or non-binary. It never just stops at one group. People DeSantis are literally running on genocidal policies… that it’s a tiny minority people our fellow humans should not matter. What we DO know is that they don’t stop at the tiny minority. They always find new groups to target, because they stay in power via grievances against those minorities. And there is always going to be some subset of the population that embrace that targeting because it helps them to feel important and connected to something larger than themselves - they are “saving” the majority group from infiltration by an “other”… We know that feeling part of a larger group that is doing important work can motivate people to do awful things that they normally would not do. It’s a weird interaction between our individual psychology and mass mediated political movements.
