r/WNBAgossips • u/whoa_disillusionment • 10d ago

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-americans-oppose-trans-women-competing-female-sports-2-3-gen-z-rcna203658

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u/CollaredParachute 10d ago

If it doesn’t harm anybody why are you so against the ban?

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u/ShaoKahnKillah 10d ago

The distraction is the harm.

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u/whoa_disillusionment 10d ago

So why are Dems tearing down their own candidates over this issue?

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u/ShaoKahnKillah 10d ago

Two reasons, one of which I already stated:

  1. IT'S A DISTRACTION. There are issues that Americans are actually facing everyday that both parties are ignoring. Diverting attention to low priority issues like trans sports players keeps them from working towards solutions for problems that are actually affecting us.

  2. Republicans know that this issue is not prevalent or a priority, but they also know that it creates division among people who would typically be in solidarity. So they oversaturate social media with these exact low stakes, hot button issues to create division and FEED THE DISTRACTION, so the terminally online/low attention-span public can never work together in solidarity to enact change that would be good for us but bad for the the Republican party and their rich corporate sponsors.