The problem with pointing out contradictory points of view to the right wing is that they largely don’t care. These arguments are ultimately just dog whistles and plausible deniability towards their real ends.
They’ll argue parent’s right when the parents agree with them, then trample those same rights when they don’t - and won’t even blink because parent’s rights wasn’t the goal, it was the elimination of Trans kids, which both points are consistent with.
And their ultimate goal is hypernormalcy, not child protection. Hungarian here, our cHiLd pRoTecTiOn laws are liked for protecting children from “deviancy”, so that they will try harder to be “normal”.
They just say stuff for results. They have an emotion and they’ll say whatever supports it, even if they said something contradictory earlier. They are, frankly, stupid and dishonest people.
In their heads what they’re actually saying is ‘moral rights.’ As in “I have a moral obligation to destroy trans kids.” Everything else is, as you said, a dog whistle. But if it’s a MORAL right, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing because they are wrong and an enemy.
Pointing it out is for the unaware/oblivious part of the population who haven’t caught on that conservatived are hypocritical assholes. With enough repetition of examples it might sink in.
The problem with pointing out contradictory points of view to the right wing is that they largely don’t care. These arguments are ultimately just dog whistles and plausible deniability towards their real ends.
They’ll argue parent’s right when the parents agree with them, then trample those same rights when they don’t - and won’t even blink because parent’s rights wasn’t the goal, it was the elimination of Trans kids, which both points are consistent with.
And their ultimate goal is hypernormalcy, not child protection. Hungarian here, our cHiLd pRoTecTiOn laws are liked for protecting children from “deviancy”, so that they will try harder to be “normal”.
They just say stuff for results. They have an emotion and they’ll say whatever supports it, even if they said something contradictory earlier. They are, frankly, stupid and dishonest people.
In their heads what they’re actually saying is ‘moral rights.’ As in “I have a moral obligation to destroy trans kids.” Everything else is, as you said, a dog whistle. But if it’s a MORAL right, then it doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing because they are wrong and an enemy.
Pointing it out is for the unaware/oblivious part of the population who haven’t caught on that conservatived are hypocritical assholes. With enough repetition of examples it might sink in.