Nazis, Patriot Front Converge at a Drag Bingo at Texas Church

[ShazzieB]

6. This was an eye opener, for me, at least (note the bolded portion).

Conservatives have broadly aimed at the LGBTQ+ community and the transgender community in particular out of the false smear that trans people are brainwashing children and encouraging them to mutilate their bodies in an attempt to spread a "woke" liberal ideology that aims at erasing straight people.

Why in the everlasting hell are these people so obsessed with the idea that somebody wants to "erase" straight people...or any particular kind of people? (I'm having flashbacks right now to that "Jews will not erase us" crap in Charlottesville.) Why, I wonder, are they so caught up in these paranoid fantasies of someone trying to "erase" them? I mean, there are lots of us who would love to be able to erase the hate and bigotry they spread wherever they go, but that's a separate thing, (although they obviously don't see it that way).

I just don't understand this kind of twisted thinking or why some people get so swept up in it. And maybe I don't necessarily need to understand it, but I can't help feeling that understanding it might make it easier to combat, while at the same time realizing that's probably an illusion. *sigh*

Sorry for all the rambling and thinking out loud. I'm one of those people who relies on intellectualizing about things as a big part of my approach to figuring out what to do about them, and when that doesn't work, I am...at a loss.