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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I agree with all of that, with a couple of addendums... I would say that wilful ignorance about harm is almost as bad as a deliberate intent to harm.
I would also say that anti-LGBT measures have always been, in some measure, implemented by virtue of the complicity of ignorant and frightened people in an effort to "protect children" somehow - which we rightly scoff and roll our eyes at, but a lot of people actually believe that that's what they're doing by fighting against the "trans agenda", as they did against the "gay agenda". That's horrific and obviously misguided, but the reality is that in an actual democracy like this one you can't accomplish evil without convincing well-meaning people to do horrific things, usually by scaring them into it by offering them a bogeyman. So even factoring in intent, it's not straightforwardly just a bunch of people whose intent is purely malicious.
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This is essentially the entirety of the history of bigotry. It's almost always rooted in fear.
Early 20th-century antisemitism, for example, is rooted in the fear of a secret, powerful, cabal that feasts on the blood of gentile babies.