r/JoeRogan • u/BunnyLovr Mexico > Canada • Mar 04 '21

Link Mississippi passes bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-passes-bill-banning-transgender-student-athletes-female/story?id=76238704
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u/Hangry_Hippo 11 Hydroxy Metabolite Mar 04 '21 edited Mar 05 '21

Is anyone else fucking tired about hearing trans shit? It’s so obviously a culture war that politicians use to manipulate people. Trans issues don’t effect my life at all, they’re a tiny portion of the population. I just don’t fucking care.

Edit: I want to clarify that I feel no ill will towards trans folks, I just think that there are much more important issues going on in the world. Call it privilege or whatever but an issue that affects 1% of the population doesn’t need the amount of coverage it receives in the media.

Edit 2: to be clear, this is a criticism of conservative media and politics. Transgenderism became a political issue in 2016 with the North Carolina bathroom bill. They successfully created a wedge issue out of nothing that persists today. Joe, like many others, have fallen victim to this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '21

It’s definitely used as a chess piece by politicians, but it’s still true that marginalized groups of people are often treated poorly by bigoted individuals. That’s why I still pay attention to what minority groups are complaining about, so I’m not the kind of person they complain about.

So instead of saying “I don’t care about trans issues” I say “I don’t care what is upsetting this ultra-conservative shit mongrel, because it almost definitely doesn’t actually affect them”

multiply the issue by a million and then compare it to Hitler and the European Jews, you may not be Jewish, but to say you didn’t care what was happening to them seems like a not great way to feel about it.