Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Näituse tn 2, 50409, Tartu, Estonia.
Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Sep;56(3):573-589. doi: 10.1007/s12124-021-09670-4. Epub 2022 Jan 6.
The past decade has seen a shift in the way that minorities exert their influence in society. Where in previous decades the emphasis was on winning the hearts and minds of the population at large, a recent strategy has been to ignore general public discourse and only to target specific influential bodies. In this paper we use the example of transgender issues to analyse the socio-psychological dimensions of this approach. We show how some groups promoting these issues eschew a wider social discourse and debate in the mass media, and how their strategy rests on a self-construction as victims of the hetero-normative society, with a concomitant appeal to moral rather than factual argumentation. This is combined with a programme of aggressive challenge to opponents through social media, and sometimes direct action, which effectively closes discussion on the topic. We conclude that these methods have much in common with the oppressive politics of fascist rule.
过去十年见证了少数族裔在社会中发挥影响力的方式发生了转变。在前几十年，重点是赢得广大民众的支持，而最近的策略是忽视公众话语，只针对特定的有影响力的机构。在本文中，我们以跨性别问题为例，分析了这种方法的社会心理维度。我们展示了一些推动这些问题的团体如何回避大众媒体更广泛的社会话语和辩论，以及他们的策略如何基于将自己构建为异性规范社会的受害者，同时诉诸道德而不是事实论证。这与通过社交媒体对反对者进行激进挑战的策略相结合，有时甚至是直接行动，有效地关闭了对该主题的讨论。我们得出的结论是，这些方法与法西斯统治的压迫性政治有很多共同之处。
