White Nationalist Threats Against Transgender People Are Escalating

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Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.

A Hatewatch review of internet chatter, social media posts and recent news events shows hate groups ramping up their efforts to demonize the transgender community, going as far as calling for the deaths of trans people.

It’s not just white nationalists who have become more vocally transphobic.

Many on the far right argue that the transgender rights movement is a sign of out-of-control political correctness, not as a fight for equality. It’s an opinion shared with members of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web, a collective of academics and commentators joined in their opposition to progressive politics.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/06/26/white-nationalist-threats-against-transgender-people-are-escalating

More white nationalist terrorism.

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1. Recommended.

The right needs scary "others" that "good people" must fear and hate.

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2. Putin encouraged this in Russia the last decade.

It has been open season on LGBTQ in Russia and one of the big reasons that Republicans are so accepting of Putin’s control over our country. He’s a hero to the anti-gay crowd, since before he stole the election for them.

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3. They Require Someone to Hate

It’s a pathology.