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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

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I can’t begin to wonder how we elected a progressive government and they’ve turned out to be as transphobic as the Tories. If not more… And you make a great point, the way we treat each other as human beings isn’t great. It’s as if one half of the population gets it, and the other is prejudiced.

And even that was a retread of white conservatives who fetishized the bodies of people of color, stereotyping people of color as uniformly sexually predatory. Conservatives truly only have one script.

The hypocrisy is rarely worth pointing out because they don't care. But my GOD is the hypocrisy ever infuriating every single time. They'll get on a stage, smugly point at people and call them out for doing all the things the smug guy wants to, or is actively, doing. I feel like shaking the planet

have you read Naomi Klein's "Doppelganger"? She talks about exactly this phenomenon - the denial and coverup of something awful and true creating a projected shadow version of that awful thing in the form of a conspiracy theory that's removed from reality (and inevitably blames scapegoats)

yep, she talks about that in the book QAnon, Pizzagate, antivaxx conspiracies, antisemitic narratives about "secret canals" of shady powerful elite figures conspiring to control everything, Chemtrails, terfery and the bullshit about LGBTQ child grooming...

...they're all grotesque shadow puppet projections of the awful crap that is actually truly happening but that isn't being acknowledged or dealt with by "mainstream" power

And now that this is coming to light for those same people to start moving on to "well maybe it isn't such a big deal that these men have engaged grooming and pedophilia?" is going to make me vomit up my entire skeleton in inchoate rage.

I wish I could give you a hug and also wave a magic wand to make you fall asleep in a soft bed and then wake up well rested in a version of this world that allows you to thrive it's so so upsetting

I don't think it counts as psychological projection when it's this well planned. This was an intentional hit job to deliberately confuse and maliciously misinform the public, specifically to protect actual, powerful pedophiles, and heads need to roll for it.

“Upsetting” is not the word I’d choose. I spend every day fighting against overwhelming rage. My (trans!) daughter stops me whenever she sees me reading news, particularly news about Trump. Rage. I feel absolute rage.