It’s not new, it’s something bigots say whenever they want to overtly direct their ire towards something that isn’t particularly offensive; they know if they were more open they’d be rightfully hated, so they couch their terminology to make it sound like the minority group is oppressing them.
![[cw: transphobia] i would have been an ally had it not been for those evil hexbears :ooooooooooooooh:](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/48d3b161-61a9-4413-b720-8af8662fd7de.png){kind=link}
It’s not new, it’s something bigots say whenever they want to overtly direct their ire towards something that isn’t particularly offensive; they know if they were more open they’d be rightfully hated, so they couch their terminology to make it sound like the minority group is oppressing them.