A Traverse City hair salon is receiving backlash after announcing that their business will no longer serve transgender and queer people.
Worst bit is, they’ve gotten to that spot in their devolving where the community at large telling them this is wrong makes them think they must be right. Us-vs-them taken to wild extremes.
Despite only a few examples of this sort of inanity, they also still believe themselves to be in an overwhelming majority. Bubble life.
The Internet is very, very good at connecting people with similar life experiences across vast differences and giving them a sense of community.
This is great if you’re a kid in a small town who’s never seen another queer person and just wants to feel normal.
This is not great when it’s connecting the paranoid and the hateful and those with victim complexes, as bred into them by (usually) evangelical upbringings. One might even call it bad.
I try to be an empathetic person but it’s hard to imagine being so stuck in that kind of bubble. I know people are more apt to fall into it than they realize (myself included)… but still.
