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LGBT laws and talks are pulled out by the right/far-right when there are shitstorms incoming. It’s literally a giant “Press in case of emergency” button, alongside immigration, etc
This is completely false, going after trans people was literally one of the first thing the Nazis did.
LGBTQ+ people aren't a "distraction" from "more important issues", they are real human beings with real lives who fascists love to fuck with for no other reason than they're bullies.
Dude, LGBT isn’t just “trans people”. nobody is arguing that LGBT ppl aren’t human beings with feelings, but they are easy scapegoats (alongside immigrants etc) to distract people from real problems… unless you consider LGBT people or immigrants or whatever to be problems at all, which are not hence the “distraction”; I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin personally didn’t give a fuck about lgbt people
Nazi germany is a very poor example for your point since Jews, LGBT etc were easy scapegoats for the terrible situations they were in after WW1. You don’t even have to go that far either, look at US, Italy etc that have gone (far-)right and the discussion is always about immigration, LGBT people and other stuff that makes no sense and is either a very small problem or not a problem at all
tldr: governments use easy answer to redirect people’s anger towards made-up problems, so that they don’t really think how fucked they are
Scapegoating isn't the "oh shit" emergency tactic of the right tho, it's the first move they play.
Agreed completely. How is it possible people still don't realize that with fascists, the cruelty is the point? Torturing minorities isn't a "distraction", it's the goal. They will happily destroy their own economic standing for the chance to oppress The Other.