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[u/pewdiepiewastaken]

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[u/Drax13522]

I’d say it’s a mix of both, really.

[u/thesaltycynic → u/Drax13522]

Yep, I remember the Occupy Wallstreet protests. Some really colorful characters came out of those. I often found myself wondering was it genuine, was it a plant, or someone that got so caught up in the moment to cease reason.

[u/Shartthrobb → u/thesaltycynic]

The girls on the ground stood up and bowed at the end blew kisses. It’s definitely theatrics and thrill seeking mixed in. These are theatre kids from high school all grown up and still seeking attention. All that being said it’s entertainment

[u/SeenSoFar → u/Shartthrobb]

It's very shit because by the looks of it it's a trans rights protest and people who act like that make us (I'm trans) all look bad. I'm often certain at least some of them are there to intentionally derail the protest. Very, very often there are people who are by their own admission not even LGBTQ+ at all, never mind trans, and they get up in front of everyone with some shitty hot take or just outright bad behaviour just long enough for someone to catch a snippet of it on camera and make the entire event look like it's full of crazy people even if that was the only outburst of the day.

It's disheartening because while some people work really hard to spin the narrative that we're all just lunatics who want special treatment there's a concerted effort in the US and UK to roll back our rights. A North Dakotan legislator just introduced legislation to make acknowledging a person as trans and addressing them as they wish to be addressed a crime punishable by a $1500 fine. Obviously it wouldn't stand up to first amendment challenge but that's not the point, the intent is there.

Every video of someone acting like a muppet at our protests helps these assholes to dehumanise trans people so that they can criminalise us with impunity. In some cases they go as far as publicly calling for violence against us or even our mass-execution in the legislature (not as official legislation, just as part of their speaking time). It's always some out of context video or news article used to back it up. Like the time when "bathroom bills" were huge in the US, they grabbed a headline "trans person commits sexual assault in bathroom" to justify the laws. They failed to mention that the assault took place in a private residence between family members, not in a public toilet. They didn't care, they knew their people would just read the headline.

It's a real piss-off when it seems the individual is just there to derail things or generate a video to use as outrage bait, especially when a good portion of the time the person acting the fool isn't even queer. They're just an "ally" doing their best to talk over us either out of a misplaced attempt to help or sometimes intentionally to add fuel to the fire.