(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
 . . . . . . . . . .



"This is designed by an artist in the United Kingdom who actually identifies as a trans-Satanist" [1]

['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.']

Date: 2023-06-01  

Last night, I watched a segment of the Majority Report with Sam Seder which featured a video of Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow for the Heritage Foundation. For context, a quick search found that the Heritage Foundation two weeks ago published an article by Perry entitled, “The Trans Mind-Virus Is Mutating.”

In the video, Perry is shopping in the LGBTQ+ section of Target and making comments for the camera (so this is a curated video, not someone chancing upon Perry incidentally and capturing what she’s saying). This clearly occurs in the backdrop of the current Target decision to remove or relocate that section of clothing to an obscure part of their stores, a policy move taken in the wake of threats made to their employees. Perry has decided to take a field trip to examine conditions on the ground herself.

At first, she criticizes the creators of the clothing items, then the stitched-on (positive) messages, then critiques the designs of the clothes. She does this as though the clothes are a 1:1 stand-in for a hypothetical transgender person.

The video subtly shifts from warning the audience of secularized danger (for example, Perry points out displays of rainbow-themed gingerbread houses, complaining that it had been her understanding that gingerbread houses were for “celebrating the birth of Christ—what do I know?”) to explicitly snide put-downs.

That’s the gradient; that’s the shift. Perry takes the audience from a feeling of fear and of being scandalized to that of being superior and disdainful. She’s training her audience on how to derogate and to consciously place someone—a generic someone who, incidentally, represents an entire group—beneath themselves. “I have better taste / fashion sense than this imaginary construct of a trans person I just dreamt up, therefore I am inherently better than all trans people who actually exist.” That’s the attitude being packaged and sold here.

This is identity management. It’s also training in social dominance. Talk about “grooming”—this whole video instructs the receptive viewer how to feel socially superior to someone based merely on an arbitrary group characteristic.

Perry and the Heritage Foundation are not just creating snobs, they’re creating supremacists. This is a crash course in classifying The Other.

Read more:

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/1/2172711/--This-is-designed-by-an-artist-in-the-United-Kingdom-who-actually-identifies-as-a-trans-Satanist

Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/