Aww. As a transgender woman, I am genuinely afraid of Republicans murdering me if I stop for gas in the wrong part of Virginia.https://twitter.com/michelle_sham/status/842718268280528897 …
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one of those things is "I can't get invited to a party" and the other is "murder rates for folks like me are record highs"
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one of those things is "no one sits with me at lunch" and the other is "it's illegal for you to pee here"
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so no, I don't have sympathy because she chooses to hold views that cause oppression on trans people.
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But if everyone jumps down each other's throats and diminishes others when they have any grievance we'll never get anywhere.
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That's provably false by all of history.
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cf Stonewall, Velvet Revolution, Ceauçescu's downfall, etc. etc. etc.
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Rights are never gained by equivocation.
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You should spend more time standing up to bigots and less time tone policing people's lives you don't understand.
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