They believe what they believe, and say whatever feels right in the moment to support their hate, and don’t care in the slightest if it contradicts another of their beliefs somewhere else.
It sure makes them look like absolute idiots, though. It also discredits their arguments when their claims fail under the smallest bit of critical thinking. Musk’s idiotic and ignorant statements like this shine like a giant beacon of how brain dead his mindset is. Anyone that might have been swayed, when examining his argument, can see how stupid he is with this statement, and carry that over to seeing the stupidity in his hate.
The thing is though, no one actually changes their opinion because Musk spouts contradictory bullshit. His fellow transphobes just see him pushing transphobia, and don’t care what he’s actually saying. For them as well, the point is the hate. The words are just as meaningless, whether it’s their words or someone elses. The only thing that matters, is that it pushes hate.
For people that are already trans allies, his words don’t change anything.
And for people who are on the fence, who don’t know how to feel about trans folk and their rights, musks words won’t change anything either. The thing that turns fences sitters in to supporters is seeing the human face of trans people. It’s the experience of trans people shifting from a hypothetical talking point in to real people, who are impacted by the hate. And again, that has very little to do with the words people use.
It’s true, and you see it all the time. If you concede any point they just move the goalposts. The point is hate. They hate trans people, so no matter what they will hate them. If there was a magic pill that would make a trans person 100% indistinguishable from any other people they would claim that real women don’t take medicine or something insane.
It sure makes them look like absolute idiots, though. It also discredits their arguments when their claims fail under the smallest bit of critical thinking. Musk’s idiotic and ignorant statements like this shine like a giant beacon of how brain dead his mindset is. Anyone that might have been swayed, when examining his argument, can see how stupid he is with this statement, and carry that over to seeing the stupidity in his hate.
The thing is though, no one actually changes their opinion because Musk spouts contradictory bullshit. His fellow transphobes just see him pushing transphobia, and don’t care what he’s actually saying. For them as well, the point is the hate. The words are just as meaningless, whether it’s their words or someone elses. The only thing that matters, is that it pushes hate.
For people that are already trans allies, his words don’t change anything.
And for people who are on the fence, who don’t know how to feel about trans folk and their rights, musks words won’t change anything either. The thing that turns fences sitters in to supporters is seeing the human face of trans people. It’s the experience of trans people shifting from a hypothetical talking point in to real people, who are impacted by the hate. And again, that has very little to do with the words people use.
It’s true, and you see it all the time. If you concede any point they just move the goalposts. The point is hate. They hate trans people, so no matter what they will hate them. If there was a magic pill that would make a trans person 100% indistinguishable from any other people they would claim that real women don’t take medicine or something insane.
I mean, they basically already do this with everything else regarding trans healthcare so of course they will.
It doesn’t matter that they look like idiots if they’re looking like idiots while running circles around their opposition