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    I’m yet to see a z chromosome interact with a x and y, till then the category stays at 2 regardless of how you feel.

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    It is ridicoulous that these days event as blant and obvious statements like that one can be controversive and offend anyone. Next up: Water is wet

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    Why the hate? Did something happen other than the banner and they get so much hate in the comment section?

    I think it’s cool seeing people using their voices in public events to express themselves.

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    Being anti trans is so weird to me

    Congrats mate u have kids killing them selves because you can’t understand their mind……just like how no one can understand anyone’s mind cause we are all fucking different people

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      Bayer Leverkusen is seen in Germany as a plastic club by a lot of fans, mostly because they have distanced themselves from their working class roots. They have a family friendly atmosphere and stadium. As a result a part of the ultra fanbase is trying to distance themselves from that clean image by being edgy and coming up with shocking statements.

      They have a cult mascot, “der Zitronenmann”, they use as a “spokesperson to” say controversial shit trying to get attention and stay relevant. They have provoked and picked fights with rivals as well, mainly Bremen and Koln.

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        that clean image by being edgy and coming up with shocking statements.

        You mean by voicing their real opinions and then going “just a joke bro”?

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        LOL everybody in Bremen laughs about that every season, Werder is NOT A RIVAL of Leverkusen, it’s just that their ultras try desperately to start a quarrel with the mainly leftist leaning ultra groups with tame provocations like this one.

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          Hertha Fans try the same with us in Schalke and other Schalke Fans are always super confused because nobody cares about Hertha Berlin.

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            Setting aside the fact that I find club friendships and rivalries in general super random and mostly ridiculous, this one has some history. Old Hertha fans remember Schalke using lawyer power to strip Hertha of a crushing 3:0 win in the 71/72 DFB Pokal, after which Schalke went on to win the Pokal that season.

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              It’s fascinating how we don’t care at all about that story whereas Hertha sees us as their biggest rival or whatever

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          1. There are leftist ultras?
          2. This is not a tame provocation, it’s an attack on trans people.
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          Leverkusen sees Bremen as rivals, rivalries arent necessarily a two way street. That is why they tried to start shit though, to make it more heated and serious. When they did it with Koln they got chased around the city. Their Ultras are a bunch of useless cunts, they also caused problems in Portugal. Not by fighting with opposing fans, but by harassing locals and businesses.

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        Bayer Leverkusen is seen in Germany as a plastic club by a lot of fans, mostly because they have distanced themselves from their working class roots.

        This is not the reason though. Leverkusen is s smallish city, right next to Colone and they allways had a limited draw and were a “smaller club”, that never had any major success and whose biggest accomplishment it was to win a match here and there against 1.FC Köln.

        When Leverkusen rached the 1st division, in the 80s, FC && Gladbach were two of the biggest clubs in the country and scraped up the fans of the region, pretty much all the Leverkusen fans I know are from the city. From what I know and thats not really, really deep Leverkusen upped their investment, after they survived the fist few years in the league, Bayer invested 2 million deutsche Mark into new players, wich was a lot back then and established themselves as one of the better/top third teams in the league. Fans of other teams then slowly grew to dislike the club, that only had an attendence of around 10k, in a time, where most of the cash clubs made came from selling tickets, being bankrolled by a company, it then became a lot worse, when they were contending in the late 90s, early 2000s.

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        Bayer Leverkusen is seen in Germany as a plastic club by a lot of fans, mostly because they have distanced themselves from their working class roots.

        No, they are seen as bad for the Bundesliga because they undermine 50+1 by being a works team for Bayer.

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            So what? It’s still a special exemption from the law, being grandfathered in doesn’t change that. “Technically, it’s legal” won’t win you any sympathy points.

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              They didnt take over the club.

              The clubs history begins in February 1903 when 170 workers of Bayer signed a letter to the head of the company asking to found a company athletics team. In July 1904 they officially created Turn- und Spielverein 1904 der Farbenfabrik vormals Friedrich Bayer Co. Leverkusen.

              Bayer owned the club from the very beginning and half a century before people even thought you could make money off of professional football. There is nothing plastic about that, just a traditional workers team with deep bonds to its “mother” Bayer. The first time they wore the iconic Bayer Cross on their jerseys was in 1936.

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            And? It doesn’t matter how they were founded 100 years ago. Nowadays they are part of the Bayer AG and are one of three (soon to be two) clubs who are exempt from the 50+1 rule.

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                Hoffenheim, Leverkusen, Wolfsburg.

                RB is just shady. They are no works team. They are RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V., e.V. meaning “eigetragener Verein” - registered association. A “normal” club on paper.

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                Leverkusen, Wolfsburg and Hoffenheim. RB is not exempt from 50+1. They found a workaround

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              That makes no sense. The reason why they are exempt from the rule is because the club literally has the roots in the company that founded it ages ago. It absolutely does matter when and how they were founded. Otherwise they wouldnt be exempt.

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            I am not German so maybe I am missing something but I can’t really see the equivalence between Wolfsburg and Leverkusen against Hoffenheim and Leipzig. The former were initiated as clubs for the workers of the companies about 100 years ago, the latter two were bought by SAP and RB, respectively. I don’t think it makes sense to see Wolfsburg and Leverkusen in the same light given that their history is deeply intertwined with the corporations that own them, the people of those corporations and the cities they are in.

            It’s absolutely normal to me that Wolfsburg and Bayer are owned by their respective Groups, even with the German rule of ownership.

            Edit: obviously this ultra message from OP is horrendous and i’m not defending it all btw

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              I see what you’re saying, but intuitively it strikes me as a form of recency bias. One has a hundred-odd years of history, the other doesn’t.

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              No youre not missing anything, youre spot on. They are in no way comparable. Both wolfburg and leverkusen are simply clubs situated in a city that is heavily influenced by a single company and naturally created football and other sports clubs. As you said, they are just worker clubs that have existed for a long time. In comparison redbull is a new brand that isnt even german.

              There absolutely is a big difference between the two and people who call wolfburg or leverkusen plastic clubs are just clueless haters.

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              I am not German so maybe I am missing something but I can’t really see the equivalence between Wolfsburg and Leverkusen against Hoffenheim and Leipzig

              in general the two broad categories of german clubs are “tradtionsclub”(tradition club) and “Kommerzclub” (commercial club, the plastics).

              we do make further distinctions within that second category (Leipzig is seen as by far the worst, then hoffenheim and then wolfsburg and leverkusen) but what they all share is that they are controlled privately and undermine 50+1, so they are grouped together as plastic

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                I see, that’s interesting. Thanks for the cultural context, makes sense.

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                  They still have a big financial advantage for not being owned by the fans but by Bayer AG a ethicly dubious company at the least. Fans just don’t like that, they take away a spot in the bundesliga from Fan-Owned Clubs, they take away International campaings from Clubs who would actually fill their stadium in these international games, who could actually use the money. All 4 clubs make the leage worse.

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        Bremen and Koln

        of course lol

        Every right-wing ultras group hates those clubs. Respectively, they’re seen as the “woke club” and “gay club” by the far-right ultras.

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          Köln is actually due to the proximity. Bremen however doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, their fans can’t really be generalised as leaning towards any political affiliation.

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            Not sure what your source is but Bremen Ultras are very, very left leaning.
            The club itself is also a bit more left leaning just look at the AFD statements.

            In 2007 there was an attack on the antirascist Ultra Group Racaille by far right Hooligans at a party inside the stadiums east curve hall. Back at that time most fans were like you said trying to be unpolitical and to avoid any conflicts but there was also the first root of leftist fan groups and anti-rascist, anti-homophobic etc. fan groups coming up.

            This attack lead to a change in our fan scene but since then the majority of our ultra scene has been very far left leaning and the Hooligan Groups have been driven out of the stadium.

            Of course there is no generalisation of normal fans. I do know someone with very right wing views whos St. Pauli fan but in general our fan scene right now and especially the ultras are left leaning.

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              Damn, I live in Germany and consume a lot of football and adjacent content, but I’ve never heard of that. Might just be down to me not actively seeking news on Werder though.

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        As a result a part of the ultra fanbase is trying to distance themselves from that clean image by being edgy and coming up with shocking statements.

        Where are the shocking statements?

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        Just want to show my flair here to confirm your answer. It’s embarrassing as fuck.

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    What is it about anti-trans people that they are so fucking obsessed with trans people? Like, they make hating trans people a core tenant of their entire character.

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      The two groups that disproportionately shout louder than their ‘opposition’ are anti-trans people and anti-vegan people.

      There are two genders and you’ve just eaten two steaks - I could not give less of a shit about your attention seeking bullshit.

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        What blows my mind is that this is the sort of shit I found funny when I was 12, and there are grown adults wetting themselves with laughter over it.

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        Hmmm Vegans definitely have certain groups that are pretty damn insufferable and authoritarian

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          Nah, I know a bunch of vegans and they’re really just normal people.

          Vegetarianism is a common practice in Asian culture. I ate vegetarian for a month as part of mourning my deceased grandmother. It’s really not a big deal.

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      trans ppl are one of most marginalized groups who also have barely any representation in the public media, its a prime target for bullying when youre a horrible bigot, online spaces turn more and more into violent echo chambers so ppl get radicalized harder and faster than like 10 years ago.

      Those ppl spend a lot of time online and Twitter’s new boss is openly pushig and supporting anti-trans voices for example. German Twitter is especially hateful and barely moderated.
      Not to mention that a *lot* of Germans are still/again not rly socially progressive

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          really?

          the vast majority of trans debates in the english media sphere don’t even have trans people in the debate about them lol.

          Otherwise it’s like, some fringe netflix shows and a small part of the indie gaming space are the only places, the chances of being exposed to trans representation in media without specifically searching it out is minimal.

          Like, I’m very much in the online media spaces that are most welcoming of trans people and I still see very little unless I would specifically search for LBTQ+ media.

          I did a quick google to get a frame of reference, and within video games since 2020, there are 17 trans characters, of which only 4 games would be considered mainstream (Last of Us 2, Cyberpunk, Baldurs Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy)… That’s not many, and I don’t think we can really consider many of the games Super Lesbian Animal RPG to really be representative of regular media?

          For films it’s 23 films since 2020 of which I have heard of only 1 film, the rest are all indie art-house… Again not really representative of what people will see unless they search it out.

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          Male to female trans may be visble in media , but not really in a meaningful way on tv which is still king in the voter base that have a majority in this aging country. Unfunnily enough the vast majority of trans people are female to male and they barely have any representation

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          I mean, highly depends on where you’re from. If you take “public media” as “American media and fictional stories by Netflix/Hollywood” then maybe you’re right. But it’s a pretty different reality if you’re from say Ecuador, and media representation is also a matter of proximity.

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        barely any representation in the public media? bro are you crazy? they’re grossly overrepresented. considering how much you hear about them in in on social media and media in general you would think they would make up way more than tops 0.5% of the population, but they don’t. Come on man.

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      In 30+ years in a Western country I never met any transgender people in my entire life, but on this website it seems like 1 in fourth people are (and 75% people claim to be neurodivergent).

      Never had a problem with them online, never threaten my way of life or wish my kids or myself any harm.

      It’s seem like a US politics theatrical bullshit, once again, exported to Europe.

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        I’ve met at least once in France, and working as a intern in public administration.

        That’s the only I’ve met and she was at the reception in the prefecture.

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          I just said this to someone else, but how do you know you haven’t met other trans people? I had a friend for years before I found out he was trans because he wrote a song about it. He was out, and lots of people knew, but it never came up. We had other things to talk about.

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        You don’t think you’ve met any trans people. Odds are, you probably have.

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        I’ve met several trans and non-cis-gendered people in the USA. And America’s biggest export has always been culture, so when bigots over here shout, other bigots across the world amplify it.

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        It’s seem like a US politics theatrical bullshit, once again, exported to Europe

        Right wingers need to create an enemy. As you said, they are no threat to our way of life, but people like Trump, Putin or that Florida clown made hating them a part of their political campaigns. And now the far-right in Europe are picking up on the same rhetoric.

        I’m not trying to pretend everything is great here. Plenty of countries have extremely backwards laws regarding transgender individuals. But it’s very clear where this anti-trans statements come from

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        It seems like that cause it is just that, American zoomer culture bleeding over the rest of the world

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        It’s so fucking annoying on reddit. You can’t even start an argument with them on completely unrelated subjects, it’s just “transphobic” and boom, downvotes

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          You sound like people saying “Oh we can’t say anything nowadays, everybody calls you racist” but you have to know that the majority of people have never been called transphobic or racist in their entire life.

          It’s ok to ask question, to be curious, but there is a culture war on social media and it’s the last place to learn shit, and it’s better to just shut the fuck up if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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          You can’t even start an argument with them

          Who is them? The transgender hivemind?

          Your post tries to say a lot, while not saying anything at all. I have arguments with other trans people a lot, never been called transphobic in my life.

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            The transgender hivemind?

            I would say that they are mostly fake. Just looking to dilute the subjects.

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        I encountered the first trans man in transition when my co-worker started the treatment. Dude got the thickest beard in my team like within a year and his buzz cut started balding. As a man with thin whiskers and nothing more I can tell you i got a bit envious. It really opened my eyes on how it’s impossible to point out LGBT people in your day to day life.

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        I really dislike this line of thinking.Think it’s more that it has been shown to be dangerous for trans people to just exist as they are in public, whereas online they prob feel safer expressing their true self.

        If you’ve gone 30+ years without ever meeting a trans person, maybe it’s cuz trans people have never felt safe being open about it with you?

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          Lmao of course, immediately blame someone because they never knowingly met a trans person.

          Trans people still make up a pretty small percentage of the population

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          Maybe they don’t feel safe around me, but I’ve always been open minded and a curious person. I don’t think I give those kind of vibes.

          And I agree that it is dangerous to just exist for trans people,and I understand, like for neurodivergent people, reddit is a much safer place than real life.

          No animosity here.

          But like someone said in this thread, maybe I met some and didn’t even notice. Those conversations never came up.

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        It may be an age thing, I’m in my early 30’s, but I’ve met quite a few at varying stages of transition and in some cases I’ve not found out until way after the fact that their gender didn’t match up with their sex. Unlike what the anti-trans lot like to claim, they don’t shove it down people’s throats or make anywhere near as big a deal of it as the tabloids and Twitter like to believe.

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          The bigots will have you believe that trans people wear shirts that say “I’m teams and you must love me!” and are just itching to sign your kids up to HRT. In truth, they, like everyone else, just want to live their lives in peace.

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            The bigots will have you believe that trans people wear shirts that say “I’m teams and you must love me!”

            honestly, Microsoft do make people feel like this sometimes. Especially New Teams, all my homies hate New Teams

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          Yeah that’s for sure, but seing that some people crying about “The Trans Pedophile agenda” and never ever once it came up in my life, seems weird. And I grew Up in the Paris banlieue and now in the Lyon area, so no small villages either.

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            There IS no trans pedophile agenda, it’s right wingers inventing something to be mad about. They USED to be mad about “the blacks” or “the gays” but lost those battles in the court of public opinion.

            Have to hate SOMEONE, and people were getting tired of Muslim hate, I guess.

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              Yeah we’re basically on the same page,I was mocking people saying that kind of stuff.

              Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

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            For that matter there’s a pretty good chance you’ve been around someone who didn’t know that THEY were typical gender non-conforming because of things like androgen insensitivity syndrome and the like.

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        It’s seem like a US politics theatrical bullshit

        What makes you think this is a mindset that began in the US? Where do you think the US got most of its cultural values?

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          Oh yeah I just remembered the EU talking non-stop about this before the 2016 US election, my fault.

          The soft power the USA got politically affect every countries in the whole wide fucking world, and especially culturally in Western countries.

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            You might want to read up on the trans issues and political debate in the UK.

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        Eh, it’s likely you haven’t noticed tbh. A lot of trans people just look like any regular cisgendered person, it’s not always visually noticeable.

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          Yeah I’m sure that’s the case, and I haven’t notice and they didn’t talk about it if they’re weren’t comfortable to bring it up. All is good, never had a problem.

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          It’s hilarious how they’re like “WE ALWAYS CAN TELL” and then they’ll call a fully cisgender female with a square jaw a man.

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        It’s seem like a US politics theatrical bullshit, once again, exported to Europe.

        this current wave of transphobia is a specifically British creation

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          What make you say that? We’re neighbours and I still heard this bullshit rhetoric more from across the Atlantic.

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        That’s exactly what it is. A political wedge issue. For example the issue of trans women “dominating” sports because they were born male is now a super hot button topic, even though the NCAA actually dealt with this issue in 2011 and laid out a very reasonable policy which functioned fine for many years and did not result in any level of trans women “dominance” of women’s sports.

        Surprise surprise, it’s because in the U.S. the liberals won gay marriage and the conservatives “won” abortion, and now the conservative outrage factory needs a new angle to keep single-issue voters in line. It’s hilarious how the right always accuses the left of playing identity politics when they’re the ones that conjure up issues out of nothing.

        What I find confounding is how Europe continues to import our political issues. These countries, especially the right wing, are always so derisive of American politics, but always seem to end up fighting the same stupid fights we do here. The rise of fascism seemed to also get kicked into high gear after Trump. Aren’t y’all supposed to be proud to be better than us? Stop copying the worst of us.

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          About your last point, it’s because of the overwhelming presence of US Media everywhere. The American soft power is truly a master class of how to dominate the majority of the world.

          And Koch bros. and countless other conservative billionaires keep pumping money in every countries.

          But we do have real historical leftist in the Majority of European countries.

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        You probably have, you just may not know it.

        Fully transitioned people, many of them “pass” well enough in the sea of infinite variety of people of the sex they’ve transitioned to. Which is a polite way of saying that the variety of how born-as-men and born-as-women appear is quite wide.

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      I feel like it’s human nature to find an enemy by picking something that makes them different.

      • someone from another tribe
      • someone thinking jesus was a man and not a prophet
      • someone wearing a red hat and not a blue one
      • someone being a woman and not a man
      • someone liking men and not women
      • someone being from the east of a city and someone from the west
      • someone being trans instead of male/female
      • etc.

      Eventually it’ll be someone whose wearing cyber implants vs those who don’t ala Deus Ex. It doesn’t make it right but it just seems that we as a race need an enemy at all times.

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      I think for them it was just a easy way to try to provoke the bremen ultras as some groups in Bremen are openly leftwing and lgbt friendly.

      But doesn’t excuse the banner in any way.

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      Wait, maybe I’m being ignorant, but what do trans issues have to do with the gender binary? If someone transitions, they’re generally MTF or FTM, which could still be understood as binary, right?

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      Saw a stat that right wing people engage with more trans related content on their social media feed than all other political leanings combined, even more than trans people themselves.

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        Reminds me of Seoul Pride. The LGBTQ people are just there to network, socialize, maybe find someone they find cute, enjoy the after party but every years tens of thousands of fundamentalist christians come to protest pride and they got drum lines, and dancing performances, a choir comes out singing, they got mass produced picket signs, they bring out the trucks with speakers and are blaring music…like they’re WAY WAY WAY more into pride than we are LMAO.

        It’s at the point that the first media source to report the location and time for pride is the Christian Times so when it comes around the time they announce pride we start checking the fundy christian news for updates.

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        That’s to be expected, though. People engage more with what annoys or angers them. I bet you’d see that left-leaning people engage more with Trump content.

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        Fuck. It tried to auto correct me to Tennant, cause I was talking about Dr Who recently. Had to fight it for tenant, but felt it could also be wrong 😂

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            so you’re saying the transes are now squatters trying to get free welfare, and disrespecting those of us who pay rent to live in people’s heads?!!

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              I think it’s more that those people with trans people living in their heads invite them in, it’s their choice trans people are living there rent free. So they’re more like guests I suppose. Rather polite of the bigots to host trans people rent free in their heads all year round I think

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          I mean, can’t you be supportive of trans people, while thinking there are only two genders? If you’re trans, you’re either male or female, right?

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          Those people most likely wanted for trans people to be included in the banner’s meaning, but don’t the later want to be a male/female, which are one of those two genders, just the opposite of their sex at birth?

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      Hating gay people isn’t as popular anymore so the right has moved on to the next group they hate.

      30 years ago they made banners like this about gay people instead. 30 years before that it was about feminism. The right will always find some group they hate and claim is destroying society.

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        And before that it was blacks, but they didn’t use signs, they just killed black people and set signal fires.

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        Always the part that drives me crazy. It’s so up front and obvious the history of moving on to the next thing to hate, with all the same bigoted arguments, fearmongering, and faulty logic.

        I get not everybody is going to have the best education in history (unfortunately), but if you’ve lived 20 years on this earth you’ve seen how they shift targets and just use the same tactics, while pretending that they were always fine with what came before (woman/minorities/gays/etc).

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        Yeah im old but 20 years ago this hate was reserved for gay people. And boy was it unhinged. Like getting two guys to marry would end the republic (the us).

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        Seems they have to go for ever smaller groups as well, in a 100 years all that’s left for the right to hate will be some dude named Thomas.

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        Jews, Blacks, women, gays, Trans people

        Trans people will become this generation’s minority scapegoat

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      This. Ain’t no trans person ever done me wrong so why should I hate them?

      Bigoted football ultras on the other hand…

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      they dont hate trans people, they just hate the people supporting trans people

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      I know an older guy who complains non-stop about trans and also complains about how his tik-tok/insta/whatever fucking socials show him a LOT of trans stuff. We haven’t the heart to explain to him how algorithms work and that he clearly seeks this shit out. They like it (or are at least intrigued by it), they hate that they like it, and they get angry about it.

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      What is it about football fans that makes them hate other teams’ fans? Like, they make hating other groups and loving their own group a care tenant of their entire character.

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      They’re not hating trans people they’re just stating a fact to be fair. There’s only two genders, the sky is blue and so on.

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      Partly because they have no other meaning in their lives than to hate on other people.

      And partly because they want to believe that they’re onto the establishment’s sinister plot - they’re pushing LGBT+ on everybody and eventually it will be illegal not to cut off your dick.

      But these brave heroes are awake to this crusade (you could even say they’re woke), and think that by getting on the hate bus early, that they can point with righteous indignation that they tried to warn us but nobody listened.

      Or they were wrong, and they hated a minority for no reason, which for them is a win-win situation.