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I highly recommend this excellent essay. It works well with the Pew research I spouted a link to this evening.
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Wonder why you can’t argue authoritarians and conspiracy theorists out of demonstratively false beliefs?

I’m tackling that question in a series of essays, starting with this on structural factors: whiteness and pro-Christian bias

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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“This is a lesson that America’s media gatekeepers and almost all nationally elected Democrats desperately need to learn. You do not stop authoritarians by coddling them. They are not going to magically become reasonable if you just ‘compromise’ enough. Enough never comes”
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Wonder why you can’t argue authoritarians and conspiracy theorists out of demonstratively false beliefs?

I’m tackling that question in a series of essays, starting with this on structural factors: whiteness and pro-Christian bias

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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“This is a lesson that America’s media gatekeepers and almost all nationally elected Democrats desperately need to learn. You do not stop authoritarians by coddling them. They are not going to magically become reasonable if you just ‘compromise’ enough. Enough never comes”
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Wonder why you can’t argue authoritarians and conspiracy theorists out of demonstratively false beliefs?

I’m tackling that question in a series of essays, starting with this on structural factors: whiteness and pro-Christian bias

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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Wonder why you can’t argue authoritarians and conspiracy theorists out of demonstratively false beliefs?

I’m tackling that question in a series of essays, starting with this on structural factors: whiteness and pro-Christian bias

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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Democrats adopting Republican "tough on migrants" rhetoric will not win Dems elections.

What it will do is put marginalized people at further risk of violence.

My latest column for openDemocracy:

https://www.opendemocracy....
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“Since 2016, when Trump was elected president (though he lost the popular vote) with the robust backing of white evangelical Protestants, it has felt to me like the US itself is turning into a Christian school.

“That trend continues to accelerate”
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“Right-wingers love to police other people’s bodies... It seems to me that this country’s parade of horrors has only just begun.”

IVF may become the exception that proves the rule.

More here:

https://www.opendemocracy....
08:21 PM - Feb 28, 2024
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“Right-wingers love to police other people’s bodies... It seems to me that this country’s parade of horrors has only just begun.”

IVF may become the exception that proves the rule.

More here:

https://www.opendemocracy....
08:21 PM - Feb 28, 2024
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Tripping over their stupidity
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Our supposedly “moderate” Republicans are a trip, man. And they’ve been tripping all over themselves since that Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that outlawed IVF.

More here:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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The Supreme Court is only deepening its illegitimacy by preventing Trump’s federal insurrection trial
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“Right now, there’s little room at all between attacks on trans rights and attacks on democracy.”
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Proud to see myself quoted and my work for openDemocracy cited in this important analysis for TNR by Melissa Gira Grant

https://newrepublic.com/ar...
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Proud to see myself quoted and my work for openDemocracy cited in this important analysis for TNR by Melissa Gira Grant

https://newrepublic.com/ar...
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Our supposedly “moderate” Republicans are a trip, man. And they’ve been tripping all over themselves since that Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that outlawed IVF.

More here:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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As it turns out, deep fakes are cheap fakes. The low cost of producing and deploying them bodes ill for democracy
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
By now you've probably heard of Paul Carpenter, the magician who made the fake Joe Biden audio used to tell Democratic voters to stay home during the New Hampshire primary.

But did you know he made all of $150 for the job?

That’s concerning

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
08:24 PM - Feb 27, 2024
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By now you've probably heard of Paul Carpenter, the magician who made the fake Joe Biden audio used to tell Democratic voters to stay home during the New Hampshire primary.

But did you know he made all of $150 for the job?

That’s concerning

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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No pity for these fools...they continue to make every wrong step they can to make every hideous goal they have impossible. This is more of the same.
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Our supposedly “moderate” Republicans are a trip, man. And they’ve been tripping all over themselves since that Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that outlawed IVF.

More here:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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Republicans: Yes, we wanted to create a monster to inflict pain on the majority of Americans while winning elections—but not like this!

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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If you value this kind of analysts from me, please subscribe to my newsletter or become a Patreon patron so I can keep doing it full-time!

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Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Republicans: Yes, we wanted to create a monster to inflict pain on the majority of Americans while winning elections—but not like this!

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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Read this!!! Chrissy knows of what she speaks.
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Republicans: Yes, we wanted to create a monster to inflict pain on the majority of Americans while winning elections—but not like this!

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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"This is a real issue for Republicans, since most of them, and most conservative Christians, support IVF. But they made their bed, and now they have to lie about it." 🤣🤣🤣
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Our supposedly “moderate” Republicans are a trip, man. And they’ve been tripping all over themselves since that Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that outlawed IVF.

More here:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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Republicans: Yes, we wanted to create a monster to inflict pain on the majority of Americans while winning elections—but not like this!

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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“I have no reason to doubt Haley’s sincerity when she makes the ignorant and harmful statement that ‘Embryos, to me, are babies.’ But I find it odd and darkly amusing that she would take that position, continue to hold that position, and then later pointedly deny she ever supported the ruling”
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Our supposedly “moderate” Republicans are a trip, man. And they’ve been tripping all over themselves since that Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that outlawed IVF.

More here:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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Our supposedly “moderate” Republicans are a trip, man. And they’ve been tripping all over themselves since that Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that outlawed IVF.

More here:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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“The right’s Satanic Panic has risen to the fore once again in a comically literal and banal way. Iowa and Arizona have moved to ban satanic displays”

More in latest:

https://www.opendemocracy....
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It is, as if, the Spanish Inquisition were resurrected and updated to torture the trans community into "repentance," rather than people of the 21st Century understanding that no amount of acceptance of trans individuals diminishes individual faith to any degree. We fail spectacularly at learning.
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
We need to talk about the systematic silencing of transgender people in America’s elite public sphere.

Even the recent letters to the editor The NY Times did publish criticizing Pamela Paul weren’t by actual trans people

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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“The right’s Satanic Panic has risen to the fore once again in a comically literal and banal way. Iowa and Arizona have moved to ban satanic displays”

More in latest:

https://www.opendemocracy....
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“Along with the direct political attacks on trans people taking place in many parts of America, more insidious, diffuse operations of power are also at work to silence the scapegoats.”

Pay attention to framing and how terms like “activist” are used to delegitimize trans voices in the legacy media
Chrissy Stroop @cstroop
Right now, as transgender Americans are having our rights stripped in state after state, we are also being systematically silenced in the elite public sphere—and even on social media.

More in this NEW piece in The Bugbear Dispatch:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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We need to talk about the systematic silencing of transgender people in America’s elite public sphere.

Even the recent letters to the editor The NY Times did publish criticizing Pamela Paul weren’t by actual trans people

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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They want to control knowledge. Schools and libraries offer unfettered access to all kinds of knowledge and these sanctimonious 12th Century throwbacks want to determine what that information is and ensure no one can see it, lest people realize it's all a SCAM and they shouldn't be trusted.
Tricia G., MLS @PSGreen
“This is part of a larger campaign that we call the ‘ed scare,’ which is a broad effort to heighten intimidation and anxiety around what can and cannot be taught and discussed in public spaces,” said Kasey Meehan, the director of the Freedom to Read project at PEN America."
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Right now, as transgender Americans are having our rights stripped in state after state, we are also being systematically silenced in the elite public sphere—and even on social media.

More in this NEW piece in The Bugbear Dispatch:

https://www.bugbeardispatc...
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