deriving "power" from becoming normal in a system (or changing the "normal" in the system to be you), instead of operating *outside* the system, is __________
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Replying to @Alephwyr
uh, trans people want to normalize “trans”, and some wish to enforce that normality so, maybe fascism
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Replying to @averykimball
Equivocation. Hitler both made himself as normal as possible (becoming a conduit for the will of the German people) and pursued policy that killed and coerced abnormal people. Trans people want not to be treated as deviants, which has to do with normativity maybe, not normality.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
wouldn’t even use hitler and normality and normativity ain’t so distinct as to use them like that but also, i’ve been dialing back “fascist/fascism” as a critique because it’s never appropriate today
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Replying to @averykimball
Well I mean, few trans people want a world of just trans people, or a nation of just trans people, or a system of hierarchies that make everyone comprehensively subordinate to trans people. Hitler wanted that for Germans. Some today want that for their own race.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
trans people want a world where their idea of gender displaces other cultural understandings (incompatible with trans theories)- they are *at least* aggressively colonizing cultures and Hegemon I Inc
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Replying to @averykimball
Fair. It is overwhelmingly non violent though. Maybe annoying, like the proselytizing of modern day mormons for instance. I think the belief in at least some cultural hegemony is a necessary outcome of belief in objective or knowable standards of morality of course
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Replying to @Alephwyr
i am interested in “normalizing” (heh) the idea of “ethnostate” insofar as *my* ethnic intuitions are tolerant of trans identities, but having a categorical state that is informed by that ethnicity is less egregious than trying to force other cultures to adopt that ethnicity
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Replying to @averykimball
Like chemistry, there are probably mixes that are more or less volatile. Every chemical by itself is non reactive. That's a bit too easy though. There should be as many dimensions of liberty as are liveable, and also at least some sandboxes to experiment with new mixtures
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I think I am whatever late Malcolm X was. Communities should be strong, but porous. Strong enough to defend themselves and flourish (therefore, to rule out flight for less than ideological or spiritual reasons), open enough to allow exchange and continued pursuit of equilibrium.
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