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Always has been. Satanic panic. MTF trans athletes dominating in women's leagues. Crossdressers raping women in bathrooms. Metal music. Rap music. Harry potter. Immigrants being criminals. Immigrants being lazy and unskilled workers. Immigrants taking our jobs. Migrant caravans parading through the borders. Drag Queen groomers. Students shutting in litter boxes. All of these things were inconsequential or downright nonexistent but construed as the greatest threat to society each time.
90%+ of illegal immigrants arrived legally, by plane, and have overstayed their visa. The most dramatic and widespread athlete stories are completely inaccurate, like the AZ bikepacking story where the trans woman destroyed the record... in a co-ed event. No evidence exists that any student ever had a litter box or that a cross dresser rapes a woman - regular men bust into the women's room all on their own. Metal music has way deeper, heartfelt lyricism than pop. Rap is always a racist thing. The drag queen thing is a dichotomy with trans athletes. Somehow, the queer community's threat is that they'll sexualize and convert children, which leads to their ban, but the most important detail in sports has to do with bluntly confirming what type of genitals your 12 year old pitcher has. The whole Harry Potter thing was probably a push to blend Christianity into government.