I'd wager a lot of those who hate transfolk are a lot less sure of their own gender identity and sexuality and the existence of transfolks scares them because it makes them face that fact.
It's almost always projection of their own insecurities. You're right, you shouldn't have to be strong all the time in the face of all these weak willed assholes.
You may as well just list all of them. Every conservative is basically a "rules for thee, not for me" jagoff. The second it's about comeuppance for their own behavior they think they deserve a break and forgiveness instead of punishment. They all think they're special snowflakes whose circumstances are different than everyone else's. Which is part of why it's hilariously on point that they project that part of themselves onto the left.
You can thank the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for deregulating media ownership. It had overwhelming Democrat support and only 18 voted against it in the Senate (all Democrats), one of them surprisingly being Joe Leiberman, doing the right thing for once.
Joe Biden voted for it, for example, and it was signed into law by Bill Clinton. It was still pushed by majority Republican interests and votes but it's notable how strongly in favor most Democrats were for it.
Critics at the time rightly called that it would end up limiting choice in the telephony market as well as media market through mass corporate consolidation. Those critics have been proven right in every single critism of this law.
I have hated that damn law for 25 years from when I first started working in television and saw how it was helping hollow out the industry and heavily contributed to the loss of real independent voices in the modern media landscape.
“Nihilistic Violent Extremism” as “criminal conduct… in furtherance of political, social, or religious goals that derive primarily from a hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos.”
Are... Are these people capable of not projecting who they are onto everyone else?? Projection is in literally everything they do and say.
The owner of the company can still suspend an on air personality and it's not infringing on free speech because it's not the government forcing that person off the air but rather the network they work for. Also free speech is specifically a congressional issue, the first amendment saying that congress can make no law stifling speech. It actually says nothing about legislative or judicial branches stopping speech. So it would specifically be that congress wrote a bill to kick him off the air. Otherwise it's all fair game.
Like everything else, the same laws and rules they have hidden behind to justify and protect their absolute dogshit behavior will be the first things the regime will get rid of for protecting anyone other than their in-group.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
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JPG-XL crying in the corner.