*Please stop pointing out obvious bad faith actors and their bigotry. It makes me feel cognitive dissonance about the fact that I agree with them about a lot of things.
1.) In general, this is a reactionary movement from the elite class of society(straight, white, cis people) to keep a death grip on the social and systemic power they see being taken from them in the form of diversity, equality, feminism, etc. This has been happening for a long time now, but it got real, real bad after...
2.) ...Trump was elected. Him winning the election was a shot of weapons-grade steroids into the ass of these regressive movements. He validated and emboldened them. He made them feel not only okay about being bigoted, but morally good for it.
>since it works just fine across plenty of other species (see dogs, cows, chickens, pigs, etc.).
Oh, this again.
https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...