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It does seem like a good diversion tactic to blame a completely unrelated minority for a completely unrelated problem when you really want to protect billionaires from raised taxes.
I mean just move the discussion as far away as possible from them.
They want people to punch down, blame the person scraping by on welfare or the person who's identity is maligned for what is actually caused by massive wealth disparity. MLK Jr didn't advocate fighting a vague notion of racism, he convinced black and white unions they were stronger together and that economic equality as a class program was the mechanism to combat the issue, with specific laws and legislation and job action as the tools available. In a certain context, the biggest advocacy group for the rights of gender non-conforming individuals in the world right now is the AFL-CIO.
I don't even think this is even that complicated.
The TEXTBOOK playbook for bringing people together to find peace, is to start by finding some common ground. On LITERALLY anything. Then you build on that. "Maybe, given enough time, we can grow to understand to have enough the same that we can work together"
Culture war is the simple inversion: find something, ANYTHING that you can disagree about. Then you build on that. "Maybe, given enough time, we can grow to understand others to be different enough that working together is impossible"
That's a nice thought, but what comes across is "Your current problems aren't important, now support my fringe political view"
What would be a better way to frame it?
I think I meant to reply to the OP, sorry. Your comment is great, and I like it much more.