I work a few weekends a year at a manual labor job in a rural-bordering area on the east coast. I have heard at least a dozen different co-workers talking about

I work a few weekends a year at a manual labor job in a rural-bordering area on the east coast. I have heard at least a dozen different co-workers talking about wanting to execute the gays and trans people. And not once or twice, I'm talking just about every single time there's time to talk. There will be days I hear someone bring up "the trans" as the punchline of a joke every single hour of an eight hour day. I'm sure you aren't the one making death threats, but I guarantee you the people living there receive them frequently. These people are consuming Fox News like it's a daily religious rite, and are convinced their troubles are caused by gay or trans people. This lives rent free in their heads, it's sometimes obviously all they think about. I'd guess it's probably 80% of the people I work with. Of course they're also extremely racist, and will make similar comments about anyone not lily white. It's pretty exhausting, I love the work especially because it's so different from my normal jobs, but holy hell being around such toxic rage and hate really makes it not worth it.