I came across a post requesting to remove Nutomic from the Lemmy devs due to a comment he made here. In it, he suggests that the ruling class promotes both LGBTQ+ rights and transphobia as a means to create division among the working class. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on this perspective. Do you agree or disagree with his viewpoint? What other topics do you believe are used to divide the working class? Let’s discuss!
I don’t think it’s a conscious or intentional plot (a la Hanlon’s razor, never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity), or even specifically caused or furthered by the upper class. People would talk about these things anyway, as society progresses. But it does benefit them, to split the left like that, so that we’re so busy fighting amongst ourselves that we don’t fight against those who really matter.